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Dark Angels Update 8/3/2026

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  Greetings honored battle brethren! It was a busy weekend for Dark Angels players. There weren't as many events over the weekend, but one of those was the Lone Star Open with over 300 players, and there were two more events with 100+ players, so as you can imagine we had quite a few fellow brethren fighting for the honor of the legion chapter! Our scores were more reasonable than the weekend before, but our fellows still managed to score some quite impressive results, including an event win! It is my genuine pleasure to review a sampling of those lists for you.  Apparently after plodding along with powerful-but-slow Deathwing Knights for most of 10th edition, we as a player body feel the need for speed, because all of the lists we're looking at today used a combination of the Company of Hunters and Darkflight Pursuit as their detachments, all of which with the Recon disposition. We'll start in the obvious place, with the event-winning list.  That list belongs to Ja...
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Dark Angels Update 7/27/2026

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  Greetings battle brethren! I have the honor of relating to you the Dark Angels news of the weekend. I'm pleased to report good news, with 10 X/0-X/1 results, 7 podium finishes, and an event win! I can't remember the last time Dark Angels have had such an impact on the meta! I guess we'd better enjoy it while we can. We weren't the biggest bully of the meta, but we were the best-performing Space Marine army by a fair bit. I apologize for this one being out so late. The tardiness is due partially to me not having as much time to collect data and compose early in the week as I expected to have, the task being more complicated than it used to be due to the new detachment system, and one problem that's nice to have, the greater volume and variety of Dark Angels lists that are doing well! Our event winning list did not come from a dinky little event, but rather Battle of the East held in Bury St Edmunds, England (English town names are weird!). The event champion was Jo...
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The 7/22/2026 Dataslate

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  Greetings honored battle brethren! Games Workshop has released a dataslate and some points changes that we should all be aware of. I don't mind the changes, but I'm not 100% enthusiastic about them. Let's take a look at it and you'll see what I mean. I'm going to lead with changes to the Ravenwing, because I was playing a Ravenwing list for a year before it became fashionable, and there's a lot of excitement about them at this moment early in 11th edition. For starters, Sammael has unambiguously been buffed. He's 10 points cheaper and grants his unit the Mobile keyword, which allows his attached unit to go through walls. This is huge, as that's one ability that has been severely lacking in the Company of Hunters, and finally gives us a solid reason to include him in that detachment, especially if we're pairing it with Darkflight Pursuit so he can also grant his squad Ignores Cover. If you haven't looked at Sammy in a while, now's the time. ...
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Dark Angels Update 7/20/2026

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 Greetings honored battle brethren! There were three big events over the weekend, which between them and the more normal sized events attracted 53 Dark Angels players! That crop of players gave me an embarrassment of riches to draw from, including a win at the second biggest event of the weekend! I'm excited to bring this news to all of you! The top event of the week belongs to Innes Wilson, who combined an Inner Circle Task Force and a Librarius Conclave (Priority Assets dispo) and used it to go 7-0 and take 1st out of 231 players at The Endinburgh 40K Super Major held in Edinburgh, Scotland. You can see Innes' list on BCP. Let's take a look at it below! 4+ FNP Vs PsyOps Keyword Azrael - Warlord Lieutenant     Attached: Intercessor Squad: 10 bolter boys Librarian in Terminator Armour: Temporal Corridor     Attached: Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky swordy boys Librarian in Terminator Armour: Celerity     Attached: Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chon...
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Dark Angels Update 7/13/2026

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Greetings honored battle brethren! The weekend has come and gone, and in its wake we have news of the tragedies and triumphs of the First Legion Dark Angels Chapter! Dark Angels were pretty well represented over the weekend, with a solid 6 X/0-X/1 results and 3 podium finishes. Based on podium finishes, we weren't the best Space Marines, with both Ultramarines and, surprisingly, Salamanders beating us out, but this week at least we were ahead of all the other contenders. Let's take a look at some of these lists and see what we can learn from them. The top Dark Angels list of the weekend belongs to Alex Vian, who took Company of Hunters and Darkflight Pursuit, played the Reconnaissance disposition, went 4-1 and tied for 2nd out of 26 players at W4 - Western Wisconsin Wargaming Weekend held in Eau Claire, WI. Here's Alex' list on BCP. Let's check it out below.  Day of Judgment, God is Calling // On their Knees, the War Pigs Crawling Sammael - Warlord Outrider Squad:...
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