Angel's Keep: A 40K Dark Angels Blog

 Hello, honored battle brethren! It was a somewhat slower weekend, with no huge events and just 23 players using Dark Angels, but we do have some lists to talk about, including an event winner! This week I started using attendance as a measure of what events I'm looking at. My cutoff is 20 players, which seems reasonable. Meta Monday seems to use a different figure, so their results and mine are a little different. Without further ado, let's get into the lists! Our event winner, I'm excited to tell you, is a Company of Hunters lists, piloted by Jan Reisenauer of Hoher Rat zu Terra[BreakingHeads]. He played his awesome list at Hour Zer0 2: Heroes Unchained, a 5-round, 40 player event held in Großweil Germany. You can see Jan's list on BCP. Let's take a look at it below.  Jan's list Lion Dad - Warlord Azrael Ravenwing Command Squad: Recon Hunter Ravenwing Command Squad: Master of Manoeuvre Outrider Squad: 3 choppy biker boys Outrider Squad: 3 choppy biker boys Cen...

Hello honored battle brethren! It is my pleasure to bring you the news of the weekend. The number of events wasn't huge, but three of the events were major ones - Lone Star Open 2025, the Krefeld Major 2025 40K, and WTC Warmaster GT 2025. As you can imagine, a fair few Dark Angels lists did well with that much 40K being played.  Lone Star Open 2025 - 40k Champs was a 6-round, 322 player event held in Allen, Texas. Jay DeCunzo of Y'allHammer went 5-1 and placed 8th. Even more impressively, he went 5-0 for the first 5 rounds! Here's Jay's full list on BCP. We'll discuss it below.  Ancient Weapons of the Dark Age Lion Dad - Warlord Azrael Chaplain in Terminator Armour: Deathwing Assault Lieutenant: Ancient Weapons Intercessor Squad: 5 bolter boys Centurion Devastator Squad: 3 chonky lascannon-missile boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deatnwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky swordy boys Hellblaster Squad: 10 plasma boys Inceptor Squad: 6 flying chonky plas...

Hello battle brethren! It was a weekend with less events than the previous one, but there are still some noteworthy results to discuss. One of our august company went undefeated at a 6-round event, and we had a number of other good results, so let's take a look at the lists that did well, both to celebrate the accomplishments of our brethren and to see what we can learn from their lists. Our undefeated player is James Walsh of Coors Light Saedith, who went 5-0-1 to take 2nd place at ECDC Present: The Big Sky Open 2025, a 6-round, 71 player event held in Great Falls, Montana. You can see James' list on BCP.  We'll discuss it below. Dark Angels - Still D Tier Ravenwing Command Squad: Warlord 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 Ballistus Dreadnought Ballistus Dreadnought Ballistus Dreadnought Centurion Devastator Squad:...

Hello, honored battle brethren! In an effort to help with playing into opponents you're likely to run into on your way to glorious victory, I'd like to do a deep dive into Imperial Knights. This is a continuation of the Know The Foe series of articles, just with a new name because it's more alliterative, because I am just that kind of nerd. One of the biggest barriers to winning games is the knowledge gap. Opponents will generally know what most things in our lists do because they're facing Space Marines all the time. The reverse is not always true, so I'm writing these articles to redress that balance. Imperial Knights were a strong faction in the meta before the recent balance dataslate buff, and they are a top faction now. I'd say they're competing with Death Guard for the title of top faction, and as of this writing they were the top faction last weekend. They're also a popular faction, so the odds of facing Knights across the table are fairly high. ...