Angel's Keep: A 40K Dark Angels Blog

  Hello fellow 40K enthusiast! It's a new week with new GT results from the weekend! I'm here to share with you which factions are at the top of the meta, and the armies and detachments that made the top 3 slots at their events. The top faction of the weekend was once again Necrons , and by a wide margin to boot. Necron lists accounted for 4 of the 1st place results, 4 of the 2nd place results, and 1 of the 3rd place results for a total of 9 Top 3 placings. These results were spread across 5 detachments.  Awakened Dynasty took 2x 1st Place results and 1x 2nd place results.  Canoptek Court snagged 1x 1st place and 2nd place results,  with the 2nd place result at the second biggest event of the weekend, with 98 players.  Starshatter Arsenal took 1x 1st place result and 2nd place result. Hypercrypt Legion snagged 1x 2nd place result Cursed Legion took the 3rd place result. There was one datasheet that was in all but one of the top three scoring Necron lists, a...

  Hello honored battle brethren! It's the beginning of a new week, and with that comes the news of the events of the past weekend. We'll break down the three best performing Dark Angels lists here. The best performing list of the weekend was Team Battle Brothers' Aidan Barkley's Wrath of the Rock list. Aidan went 5-0 and placed 2nd out of 53 players at the Fourth Annual Blue Ridge Championship GT held in Charlottesville, VA. You can see Aidan's list on BCP. We'll check it out below.  The ROCK Lion Dad - Warlord Azrael Lieutenant with Combi-weapon Ravenwing Command Squad: Ancient Weapons Intercessor Squad: 5 bolter boys Centurion Devastator Squad: 3 super-chonky las-missile boys Incursor Squad: 5 spotty boys Outrider Squad: 3 choppy biker boys Ravenwing Black Knights: 6 awesome plasma biker boys Scout Squad: 5 sneaky lads Sternguard Veteran Squad: 10 awesome bolter boys Storm Speeder Thunderstrike Vanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs: 5 awesome flying swordy b...

Greetings, fellow 40K enthusiasts! It's late in the week, but better late than never. I'm here to share with you which factions dominated the meta over the past weekend.  You may have determined from the subtle clue that Necrons were the top faction of the weekend. They were, and the next in line was not particularly close. Over the weekend, Necron players took in 4 First Place results, 2 Second Place results, and 1 Third Place result. Five different detachments were represented in this spread. Awakened Dynasty lists got 2 of the First Place results. Starshatter Arsenal picked up the 2 Second Place results. Pantheon of Woe and Hypercrypt Legion each took 1 of the First Place results, and Canoptek Court got the Third Place result. One of the Starshatter Second Place results and the Canoptek Third Place result were scored at the biggest event of the weekend, The Colorado Cup '26 - Warhammer 40K with 190 players. The second most dominant faction over the weekend was T...

  Greetings battle brethren! It was a bit of a slower weekend, and it seems that not a lot of our top scoring brethren hit events this weekend, so we don't have a lot to talk about. I do have two lists to bring to your attention however, so let's get into those. I apologize for this article coming out so late. Tuesday morning I went down into the basement to discover the floor under about a half inch of water. I spent over four hours combined before and after work vacuuming it up and dumping it out. As you can imagine, that really impacted my time. The best performing list of the weekend was Kyle Myers' Ironstorm Spearhead, which he used to go 4-1 and take 7th out of 37 at Palladium Games Presents "the dumpster fire gt" Spring Edition held in Phoenixville, PA. Here's Kyle's list on BCP. We'll take a look at it below. Enter Lion-Man Lion Dad - Warlord Azrael Captain in Gravis Armour: The Flesh Is Weak Lieutenant with Combi-weapon Techmarine: Adept of t...

Greetings, honored battle brethren and fellow 40K aficionados! This is my second installment of the Meta Snapshot. The big winners of the weekend were the Ultramarines. The next most winning faction wasn't even close. Ultramarines lists accounted for 1 Third Place result, 4 Second Place results, and 3 Event Wins. Two of the Event Wins and one of the Second Place results were at the biggest events of the weekend, the Prague Grand Tournament - Spring 2026 with 118 players, and the UKTC Windsor Super-Major with 246 players - Ultramarines took Second Place at Windsor as well. The two lists that won at Prague and Windsor are remarkably similar. They both having Marneus Calgar, Uriel Ventris, two 6-man squads of Victrix Honour Guard, the Wardens of Ultramar, Repulsor Executioners, and Ballistus Dreadnoughts in common. Seeing these lists makes me think that there is hardly any distinction at this point between Ultramarines and the divergent chapters like the Dark Angels or Blood Angels. L...

  Greetings honored battle brethren! Another weekend has passed, and with it events of the game we all love. It was a bit of a slow weekend, but we do have a few lists to talk about. All of them are Wrath of the Rock lists, and three of the four lists that did well over the weekend were all played at the same event, the The UKTC Windsor Super-Major held in Windsor, England, where 246 players played 5 games of 40K, and of those 8 went 5-0 over the first five rounds to make the top cut. One of the players who made that top cut has a familiar name - Liam Callebout of Sturnguard Fat Tits, who went 5-1 overall for the event and scored 5th place, which is very impressive indeed! You can see Liam's list on BCP. We'll take a look at it below.  Liam's list Lion Dad - Warlord Azrael Chaplain in Terminator Armour: Ancient Weapons Lieutenant with Combi-weapon Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky macey boys Deathwing Knights: 5 awesome chonky swordy boys Desolation Squad: 5 steely-eye...

Hello brethren! So I thought to myself, since I was going through the data from Best Coast Pairings for my weekly Dark Angels update, I might as well also make note of what armies are winning events. Then I figured as long as I was doing that, I might as well make note of the top three armies at every event. Once I figured out a way to record that data in a way that isn't too difficult to interpret, I thought I might share the information with all of you. Because clearly the weekly Dark Angels update isn't enough work! Anyhow, the faction at the top of the meta for the first weekend of March was Necrons. I'm sure that comes as no surprise. Necrons had a total of 6 lists make the top three at events. The most successful detachment was Starshatter Arsenal, with 1 win, 2 second-place results, and 1 third-place result. Pantheon of Woe got 1 win and 1 second-place result, and Cursed Legion took 1 win.  The faction with the next-most top three lists was Astra Militarum, all of wh...

  Greetings honored battle brethren! It's a new week with new weekend results to review. I'm quite pleased with how our legion chapter did over the weekend. Not as many players played Dark Angels at GTs as the weekend before, but those that did play came to win. A full eight Dark Angels lists went X/0-X/1, and one of those was an event winner! I'll review three of those lists in this article, with the rest getting honorable mentions. The obvious place to start is with the event winning list. That list is a Company of Hunters, played by Rule Lawyerz' Phillip French. Phillip beat out 23 other competitors at Game Knight Warhammer 40,000 Grand Tournament held in Jasper, IN. Here's Phillip's list on BCP. We'll review it below.  D Angels dark wings Chaplain on Bike Lieutenant with Combi-weapon Ravenwing Command Squad: Warlord Ravenwing Command Squad: Recon Hunter Ravenwing Command Squad: Master of Manoeuvre Intercessor Squad: 5 bolter boys Outrider Squad: 3 chop...