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Wrath of the Rock: First Use

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Hello battle brethren! I'm excited to tell you I used the new Wrath of the Rock detachment for the first time at an RTT this past Saturday, at Phantasm Gaming in Branford CT. If you're within a reasonable driving distance, I highly recommend it. They have a good setup on 40K days, with high tables so you don't kill your back, the tables have extra space for staging your stuff, they have good terrain, plenty of space to move around, and the registration fee for RTTs includes pizza for lunch. Anyway, there were 26 players at the event. I went 2-1 and took 4th place. You can see the BCP entry for the event here . Just as a reminder, I did a review of the detachment last week, which you can see here . I included a first idea for a list, which I modified somewhat before it hit a table. Here's the version I played on Saturday. Rocky Wrath Flavour 1.21 Azrael - Warlord Sammael Ravenwing Command Squad: Lord of the Ravenwing Assault Intercessors: 5 choppy boys Deathwing Knights...
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Chapter Update 6/9/2025

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Hello battle brethren! This is the first weekend we've been live with upgrades to Lion Dad and a new detachment to try, so I'm excited to see how they've been put to use! We have three lists to look at, one of which was an event winner, so without further ado let's take a look at that! Our first list was the top list at the I GT de Tomelloso held in Tomelloso Spain. This was a 5-round, 22 player event. Nymerio Stark (which may be the coolest name ever) of La Comunidad del Achillo went 4-0-1 with a Company of Hunters list. You can see Nymerio's list on BCP, and we'll discuss it below.  Fast & Furious Jail Sammael Chaplain on Bike - Warlord Chaplain on Bike Chaplain on Bike Outrider Squad: 6 choppy biker boys Outrider Squad: 6 choppy biker boys Outrider Squad: 6 choppy biker boys Centurion Devastator Squad: 3 super-chonky shooty boys Infiltrator Squad: 5 stay-off-my-lawn boys Ravenwing Black Knights: 6 awesome plasma biker boys Ravenwing Darkshroud Storm Spee...
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Detachment Review: Wrath of the Rock

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Hello battle brethren! As we're struggling with our near-rock bottom win rate, we've been hoping for some help from Games Workshop. Other than giving Lion Dad some pretty significant tweaks, what we got was a new detachment - Wrath of the Rock . It's not what I'd have done, but it's not nothing. So, let's take a look at this detachment and see what we think about it. Detachment Rule: Dutiful Tenacity After the Lion's Blade's detachment rule with all its terms and conditions, this one is nice, simple, and pretty far reaching. All attacks targeting Infantry or Mounted units with a Strength higher than the target unit's Toughness subtract 1 from the Wound roll. That's pretty nice. Easy to remember, easy to understand, easy to explain to opponents, and a net increase in durability, particularly for units like Deathwing Knights, who generally aren't being targeted by chaff-chewing weapons.  Enhancements Tempered in Battle (10 points): 6" aur...
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Chapter Update: 6/2/2025

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 Hello battle brethren! It's going to be a short one this week because it wasn't a very busy weekend event-wise. We only have one list to discuss, so we'll get to that straightaway. I apologize for this article getting out so late. In my defense, food poisoning laid me low at the beginning of the week. Our list for this week was played at the Nailhammer 8 - 2k 2 Day Tournament held in Wellington Court, England, a 5-round, 30 player event. Max DeBarr of Phoenix40K (which sounds to me like it should be a team in Arizona) played a Gladius Task Force and took 3rd place. You can see Max' list on BCP, and we'll discuss it below.  god i am such a pathetic coward  (No one taking Dark Angels with our 40% win rate to GTs is a coward Max!) Lion Dad Azrael Judiciar Lieutenant with Combi-weapon Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs: 5 flying choppy boys Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs: 5 flying choppy boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deathwing Knights: 5 ...
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Chapter Update: 5/26/2025

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  Greetings battle brethren! I thought Memorial Day weekend might be a slow weekend for events, but it turns out to have been the opposite! The holiday for us in the U.S. does give me the day off to work on the Chapter Update. I wish I had more to tell you about with this amount of time, but there are a couple lists to bring to your attention. I'm drawing my information from Meta Monday . I encourage you to check them out for yourselves. The first list for our discussion was played at the German Super Major 2025 40K, a 5-round event with 290 players. Jan Reisenauer went 4-1 with his Company of Hunters and took 16th place. You can see Jan's list on BCP, and we'll discuss it below. Jan's list Azrael - Warlord Sammael Lieutenant with Combi-weapon Ravenwing Command Squad: Recon Hunter Ravenwing Command Squad: Master of Manoeuvre Outrider Squad: 3 choppy biker boys Outrider Squad: 3 choppy biker boys Outrider Squad: 3 choppy biker boys Centurion Devastator Squad: 3 chonky s...
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Chapter Update 5/19/2025

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Hello battle brethren! I've decided to use Chapter Update as the title to my weekly blog entry, as it's a broader title I can use when there are no lists to talk about. I hope that doesn't happen very often, but when it does I can at least discuss the statistics from the weekend past. We do have some lists to discuss however. I'm excited to tell you that an Unforgiven Task Force won an event! In addition to that, a Company of Hunters list went X/1, as did a Stormlance Task Force.   Edit: Meta Monday incorrectly identified the winning list as a UTC, and in some fairness Conor's list entry on BCP doesn't include the detachment. His winning list was actually a Stormlance. Let's take a look at these lists and see what we can learn from them. The obvious thing to do is to start with the event winning list, so we'll do that. At the Winchester 40K GT - May 2025 in England, Conor McNama of South London Legion brought his UTC  Stormlance and his boss energy and w...
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Chapter Update: 5/12/2025

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  Hello battle brethren! Unfortunately I don't have any lists to share with you today. That's not to say that Dark Angels lists didn't do well over the weekend, because according to Meta Monday three did. However, I can't find them. Meta Monday only has a listing for one of them, Master Neptune Warhammer, and I can't find that event on BCP. That leads me to believe it's listed by some other aggregator, but the only two I'm aware of are BCP and Miniheadquarters.com, and an event with that name is not listed in either. I went through all the events BCP has listed and I didn't find any DA lists that went X/1. No shade at Meta Monday, they're doing an enormous amount of work on a weekly basis on basically a hobby basis. I'm just letting you know why there's no list discussion this week. That being the case, we'll jump to statistics. Statistics According to Meta Monday, it was not a great week for Dark Angels as a whole. We had 20 players who ...
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