Angel's Keep: A 40K Dark Angels Blog

 Hello fellow 40K enthusiasts! The weekend of 5/16-5/17 was a big one, with a little over 1200 players who attended 26 events with 5+ rounds. That's a lot of 40K! As usual, I'll be listing out the Top Three factions of the weekend, with a look at what made those factions tick. It was not hard to choose the Top Faction of the weekend. Chaos Space Marines ran away with that accolade, with a grand total of sixteen (yes, 16) Top Three finishes. That's over three times as many Top Three finishes as the next most prolific contender. The finishes and detachments are broken down as follows: Chaos Space Marines Pactbound Zealots Huron's Marauders No List 1st 5 1 1 2nd 6 1 3rd 2 Holy fuck, what is going on with the Pactbound Zealots detachment? It's hard not to come to the conclusion it has something to do with Defilers. Across the 13 Pactbound lists, there are 29 Defilers. Six of the lists had 3 of them, including two of the winning lists, which included the list that won th...

 Hello honored battle brethren! The event tempo picked back up last weekend, and so did the fortunes of our beloved army! We had a number of X/0-X/1 results, over a wide spread of detachments, with two of those being podium finishes and one an event win! It is my pleasure to bring these lists to your attention. The obvious place to start is with the event winning list. That was piloted by our hero Kyle McCord of Midwest Monstars, who went 5-0 and emerged victorious from a field of 39 players at Kennedy Con held in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. You can see Kyle's list in full on BCP. We'll discuss it below. Angels of the Fierce 🦁 Lion Dad - Warlord Azrael Lieutenant with Combi-weapon Intercessor Squad: 5 bolter boys Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs: 5 flying choppy boys Centurion Devastator Squad: 3 super-chonky las-missile boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Eradicator Squad: 3 chonky melta boys Invader ATV: melta buggy...

  Hello 40K enthusiasts! Once again, I'm here to bring you the news of the top factions of the week. I suspect this week's results are less relevant than usual, because there were only five events over Mother's Day weekend. Clearly, more moms need to be introduced to the joys of pushing elaborately painted toy soldiers across tables while rolling absurd amounts of dice and making pew-pew noises. Since we're not at that joyous state, I'll just report on what we've got. Top Faction of the week is Death Guard! I'm going to eschew the tables I've been posting, and just write out that Death Guard earn the top spot by taking a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place result, all with Virulent Vectorum lists.  The lists were all pretty similar too. All three of them included Mortarion, a Daemon Prince of Nurgle with Revolting Regeneration, a Lord of  Virulence, at least 2 units of Poxwalkers, and as you may have guessed from the article picture, at least 2 Defilers. A Lord of C...

  Greetings honored battle brethren! It was a slow weekend for 40K events, with only 5 GTs taking place. There weren't many events scheduled on Mother's Day weekend, go figure. That said, out of the handful of events that did take place, there were a few stalwarts whose spouses or mothers let them go play with their toy soldiers over the weekend, and out of that handful we do have a pair of lists that rate discussion.  The top Dark Angels list of the weekend belongs to William Willoughby, who took a Bastion Task Force to The 2026 Central Arkansas Warhammer 40K Grand Tournament, went 3-1-2, and took 7th out of 45 players. You can see William's list on BCP. We'll break it down below. Oops wrong game Lion Dad - Warlord Ancient in Terminator Armour: Hero of the Chapter Captain in Terminator Armour: Blades of Valour Ravenwing Command Squad Tactical Squad: 10 Original Gangsta boys Tactical Squad: 10 Original Gangsta boys Rhino Rhino Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky swo...