Angel's Keep: A 40K Dark Angels Blog

  Greetings honored battle brethren! We have had the first full weekend of 11th edition! It wasn't a huge weekend, with only 12 events, but that 12 events gave us 10 distinctly different combinations of detachments, which complicates compiling the data from them some little bit. The weekend generated 2 lists that rate examining in my blog, so let's get to those.  The first list we're looking at is Nicholas Chesnick's Company of Hunters + Dark Ange Arsenal list, with which he went 5-0 and took 2nd out of 34 players out at Hellpit Grand Tournament 2026 in  Brunswick, OH. Nick went with Disruption as his Disposition. You can see Nick's list on BCP. We'll look at it below.  Motorized Scooters Azrael Lieutenant Attached: Hellblaster Squad: 10 plasma boys: Entreaty of Perpetual Ardour Ravenwing Command Squad: Recon Hunter Attached: Outrider Squad: 3 choppy biker boys Sammael Attached: Ravenwing Black Knights: 6 awesome plasma biker boys: Petition of Stability Ravenwi...

  Greetings honored battle brethren! Another weekend has passed, so it's time for news of how our fellow Dark Angels players performed at the tabletops. It was a low intensity weekend, with only 8 big events, but one of them, Edmonton Open, was quite big with 267 players. Nonetheless, there was not a big pool of Dark Angels players over the weekend. One point of interest is that a handful of events were our first 11th edition events. and it's to one of those 11th edition events that we owe this week's only list review. I apologize for this article being out a day late. A friend introduced me to Dispatch, and I binge-played it all the way through twice over Monday and Tuesday. Can't decide if I'm Team Blazer or Team Visi, but I got it enough out of my system to be able to do other things now. The list in question belonged to Kyle Myers, who went 4-1 and took 2nd out of 30 players at GDG Summer Ruin II Warhammer 40K GT (11th Edition) held in Slatington, PA. Kyle's...

  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...