Angel's Keep: A 40K Dark Angels Blog

  Hello, fellow 40K enthusiasts! Another weekend has passed, the days of 10th edition dwindling down to the last few. A lot of people seem to be staying at home rather than going to 10th edition events, but there were still a decent amount of events, including one quite big one, so we have something to talk about. The end of 10th edition will be remembered for the Defiler meta, and last weekend was no exception to that. As usual, Chaos Space Marines are the Top Faction, and Pactbound Zealots the top detachment. Here's a chart with the breakdown of detachments and results. Detachment Soulforged Warpack Pactbound Zealots Renegade Raiders 1st 1 3 2nd 1 1 3rd 1 Defilers are the heart of all these lists. All three of the winning Pactbound lists (one of which topped The Leeds 40K Super Major with 233 players) and the 2nd place list all had 3 Defilers in them, as did the Soulforged list. The 3rd place Pactbound list and the Renegade Raiders list had 2 Defilers apiece in them, and it's...

  Hello honored battle brethren! Another weekend has passed, and while the community still seems to be mostly holding its breath for the release of the new edition, there were still some events held, even some quite big ones. Still, the number of overall players was down, so we don't have as big a sample size to work with. We've still got a couple lists to look at though. The first is Keegan Watters' Stormlance list, with which he went 4-1 and took 10th out of 66 players at Fal-Con 2026: Fly Harder. You can see Keegan's list on BCP. We'll discuss it below. LEROY JONSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lion Dad - Warlord Azrael Librarian: Feinting Withdrawal Lieutenant with Combi-weapon Sammael Assault Intercessor Squad: 5 choppy boys 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 Incursor Squad: 5 spotty boys Incursor Squad: 5 spotty boys Infiltrator Squad: 5 stay-of...

  Hello fellow 40K enthusiasts! It seems that we're in a holding pattern waiting for 11th to fully drop. There were a lot less events held last weekend than over the previous ones. Less does not mean none though. There were still 14 GT or larger events held over the weekend, including 2 that had more than 100 players. That gives us some data to work with.  What that data tells us is that the Defiler meta is going to be what we wrap 10th edition with. The Top Faction of the weekend was, once again, Chaos Space Marines, and it appears the main list-building question CSM players are asking themselves is if the right number of Defilers is 2 or 3. The detachment breakdown is as follows. Detachment PBZ Soulforged Warpack 1st 1 1 2nd 2 1 3rd I don't have any really penetrating insight into these lists I haven't made before. The short version is: Defilers and Chosen, with some utility units and supporting characters. My eyes are starting to glaze over when I look at CSM lists becau...