Angel's Keep: A 40K Dark Angels Blog

  Greetings honored battle brethren! This is going to be a short one, because holy shit teams events! There were at least a half dozen teams events over the weekend, with Challenger's Cup drawing over 500 players alone! We do have a couple of lists from singles events to look at though, so let's see those lists! Edit: The London Grand Tournament was also played over the past weekend, and it did not pop up in my BCP search until I specifically added "London" to the search parameters. Turns out a full nine Dark Angels players went X/1 at that event, which I suppose is to be expected with over 1000 players. I think that's going to rate its own post. The first list we're looking at was played at Saimaa 40K 2025, a 5-round, 48 player event held in Imatra, Finland. Joonas Neva of Mukihammer went 4-1 with a Stormlance Task Force and took 7th place. You can see Joonas' list on BCP. We'll check it out below.  sl Lion Dad - Warlord Azrael Techmarine Techmarine ...

Greetings honored battle brethren! It was a pretty busy weekend, with three events that had over 100 players. As you can imagine, that gives us some lists to talk about. We didn't have any event winners, but two of those big events had Wrath of the Rock lists in the top 5, and another went 4-1 at the third big event.    Since I buried the lead, I might as well get right into it. Arguably the best-performing list of the weekend was played at Invasion 2025 40k, a 6-round, 107 player event held in Norway (the event listing was not more specific than that). Jonathan Arkin of Happy Krumping Wargaming went 5-1 and took 4th place. You can check out Jonathan's list on BCP. We'll discuss it below.  Wrathful Way Lion Dad - Warlord Azrael Ancient in Terminator Armour: Deathwing Assault Captain in Gravis Armour: Ancient Weapons Lieutenant with Combi-weapon Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Desolation Squad: 5 steely-eyed missileman boys Inceptor Squad: 3 chonky fly...

Hello, honored battle brethren! It was a relatively slow weekend for 40K events, with a smaller number of events than we've seen recently. We do have a two lists to talk about though, so at least we haven't been skunked this week.  I'm going to start with our midwestern hero, Kyle McCord of Midwest Monstars. He apparently wanted to join the Deathwing Knights fun and put together a Wrath of the Rock list, which he brought to the Flying Monkey Con 40k Champs 2025 (6 rounds, 129 players) held in Witchita, Kansas. Our honored brethren went 5-1 and took 3rd place.  Here's Kyle's list on BCP. Let's take a look at what he brought.  Welcome to the Rock Azrael - Warlord Lieutenant with Combi-weapon: Tempered in Battle Intercessor Squad: 5 bolter boys Centurion Devastator Squad: 3 ultra-chonky shooty boys Centurion Devastator Squad: 3 ultra-chonky shooty boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deathwing Knights: ...

  Hello, honored battle brethren! It was a slow week, with a relatively small number of events, and not a lot of lists to talk about. We did have one event willing list, plus two that went X/1. We'll take a look at those, and then get into the statistics of the weekend as appropriate.  The obvious thing to do is start with the event winning list, so that's what we're doing. That list was played at the 2025 Eagle Rock Open, a 5-round, 27 player event held in Rexburg Idaho. The list was played by James Walsh, whose Company of Hunters list is the terror of potato country. Here's James' list on BCP. Discussion is below.  DA - Ravenwing   Ravenwing Command Squad: Master Crafted Weapon - 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 Sq...

  Greetings honored battle brethren! Labor Day Weekend (for those of us in the United States) has come and gone. We had some pretty big events over the weekend, but sadly it was not a good weekend for the get of the Lion. We only have two lists to look at that are marginal X-1 results, but they are X-1 results, so we'll check them out.  We'll start at La Voz Open 2025, a 5-round, 146 player event held in Lugo, Spain. David Sagüés went 3-1-1 with his Wrath of the Rock list, scoring 29th place. You can see David's list on BCP. We'll analyze it below. Ángeles Oscuros LVO Azrael - Warlord Captain in Terminator Armour: Deathwing Assault Judiciar: Ancient Weapons Ravenwing Command Squad: Lord of the Ravenwing Intercessor Squad: 5 bolter boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky swordy boys Infiltrator Squad: 5 stay-off-my-lawn boys Inner Circle Companions: 6 spooky awesome swordy boy...