Angel's Keep: A 40K Dark Angels Blog

  Greetings honored battle brethren! We're fully in the new Codex Space Marine meta now! It was a big weekend with a lot if events, some quite large, but there were numerous smaller events as well. The floodgates are fully open with players trying all manner of detachment combinations. Some community favorites are starting to emerge, but our brethren are experimenting with and finding success with a wide variety of combinations. I'll only be able to touch on a few here, but don't make the mistake of thinking they are the only ways to play. There were three event winning lists over the weekend. The largest event topped by a Dark Angels list was  Beast Coast Gaming Fall Brawl 2026 , where Keegan Watters brought his Assault Brethren+Wrath of the Rock (T&H) list to go 4-0-1 and rise to the top of a pack of 41 players. Let's check that out! Only shmucks put a bounty on the Lion Lion Dad - Warlord Azrael Ancient: Imperium's Sword     Attached: Inner Circle Companion...

  Greetings esteemed batttle brethren! This past weekend I had the privilege of attending my first-ever super-major: Battle For Salvation , held in the Palisades Center in West Nyack, NY. It's kind of-sort of local to me, as I live in northeastern Connecticut. I have a friend who was also interested in going, so we carpooled and shared a hotel room. I thought I'd share my experience with you, my brethren. I hope you find my recounting both amusing and informative.  Friday morning I got up at 3:30. Leaving the house at 4:30, I drove to pick up my friend Brian who was attending with me, and we then drove about an additional two and a half hours to get there a little before 9 am. This was not ideal, but it did get us there on time. As you all know, Codex: Space Marines dropped just the weekend before, just before list cutoff for the event, so I was obliged to write a whole new list. I did not have time for any practice games before the event, as I was painting a couple models to ...

Greetings honored battle brethren, and welcome to the new meta! This was the weekend of throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. The results were not what we've been accustomed to in the most recent months passed, but there were a few lists that rose above the pack for us to check out.  The most successful list of the weekend belongs to Josh Swank, who went 4-1 and took 2nd out of 28 players at the  Games4Life's 2-Day 40k GT! with a Darkflight Pursuit+Devastator Brethren+Ironstorm Spearhead (Purge) list . Let's check it out! fast guns Lion Dad - Warlord Intercessor Squad: 5 bolter boys Impulsor Impulsor Eradicator Squad with melta rifles: 3 chonky melta boys Eradicator Squad with melta rifles: 3 chonky melta boys Incursor Squad: 5 spotty boys Incursor Squad: 5 spotty boys Land Raider Redeemer Land Speeder Land Speeder Land Speeder Vengeance: Nightforged Battery Land Speeder Vengeance: Nightforged Battery Scout Squad Storm Speeder Thunderstrike I had to really ...

  Greetings honored battle brethren! It has been what is likely the last weekend of the pre-codex 11th edition meta, and also the beginning of the post-codex meta, as one event at least used the new rules. That gives us a couple of lists to look at that didn't rise to my usual X/1 minimum standard, but they're what we have available, and it doesn't really seem like we can learn much from reviewing lists of a dead meta, so we'll look at them presently. First, we're going to do things in bass-ackward order and take a look at the statistics of the weekend.  Statistics It wasn't as big a weekend as the previous one, but it wasn't a small weekend either. Las Vegas Open was held over the weekend, with 678 players overall and 33 Dark Angels players in particular, making up roughly half of the 61 Dark Angels players of the weekend. Overall, our brethren played 331 games and won 177 of them for a net 54% win rate, 7 X/0-X/1 results, 3 podium finishes, and 1 event win...

  Greetings, honored battle brethren! First of all, let me apologize for this article taking so long to get to you. I had sort of a perfect storm of there being a LOT of Dark Angels players over the weekend of 9/26-9/27, the windows of opportunity I usually have for gathering the data and working on the article not happening this week, and preparing to attend an 8-round event myself the weekend of 10/10 (Battle for Salvation). So, this one is likely coming to you a week late. When I said there were a lot of Dark Angels players over the weekend, I mean a LOT of Dark Angels players. It was the weekend of the London Grand Tournament, which drew 1051 players, 64 of whom were Dark Angels players. That's like twice as many as attended events the weekend prior. All told, there were 100 Dark Angels players who attended big  The top Dark Angels list of the weekend, Jack Murphy's Company of Hunters + Darkflight Pursuit (Recon) list , went 8-1 and placed 4th out of those 1051 players at...