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As per the above- who plays Dark Angels on here?

I used to, but after grinding it out with a boring 4th edition codex for years, I found the new codex to be underwhelming, so I dumped them on eBay. I really liked the Deathwing and the Knight models, but the codex still felt underwhelming to me compared to the likes of the BA and SW ones and the distinct identity those armies get from their codex.

Fair enough. Not everyone's cup of tea.

I have an Epic Dark Angels army, 5 full companies.

As in, 6mm Epic scale, not that I think the army is 'epic'. Though it is.

I just have a small allied detachment of DA. Someday I'll turn it into a complete army.

What is this, something to do with Jessica Alba?

2500 points of Deathwing and 3rd Co, marching for Caliban.

Ravenwing and Deathwing armies here (bikes and termies mostly from Dark Vengeance, yay).

I have a self-made Successor-Chapter Deathwing. At the moment it's sadly only 18 models strong but it was quite fun to build and I really enjoy painting the iconography.

 Shadox wrote:
I have a self-made Successor-Chapter Deathwing. At the moment it's sadly only 18 models strong but it was quite fun to build and I really enjoy painting the iconography.

Angels of Despair- interesting. Though if you don't mind me saying- sounds a touch Chaos-y

Dark angels player here. I have almost the entire 5th company (missing 1 assault squad), 1st and 2nd are in the works. Speaking of does anyone know how many terminator are in 1st company? Same with Ravenwing.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Shadox wrote:
I have a self-made Successor-Chapter Deathwing. At the moment it's sadly only 18 models strong but it was quite fun to build and I really enjoy painting the iconography.

Angels of Despair- interesting. Though if you don't mind me saying- sounds a touch Chaos-y

This is actually intended

It's a chapter of borderline-heretics with only the deathwing upholding the ideals of the imperial creed.

 Shadox wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Shadox wrote:
I have a self-made Successor-Chapter Deathwing. At the moment it's sadly only 18 models strong but it was quite fun to build and I really enjoy painting the iconography.

Angels of Despair- interesting. Though if you don't mind me saying- sounds a touch Chaos-y

This is actually intended

It's a chapter of borderline-heretics with only the deathwing upholding the ideals of the imperial creed.

Think Supreme Grand Master Azrael might have a few sharp words to say about that haha.

Dark Angels here, 1st and 5th Companies.

Most of my armored vehicles are ancient patterns based on the venerable Rhino Mk I chassis, so perhaps I should have chosen Consecrators, but by the time I learned of the chapter's existance half of my army was already painted in Dark Angels colors.

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:
Dark Angels here, 1st and 5th Companies.

Most of my armored vehicles are ancient patterns based on the venerable Rhino Mk I chassis, so perhaps I should have chosen Consecrators, but by the time I learned of the chapter's existance half of my army was already painted in Dark Angels colors.

Depending on how big your army is, you could always go and strip them then repaint in black? All Dark Angels successors chapters use similar heraldry to their original Chapter.

I tried them as a switch from my Tau, I still break them out occasionally, but only to keep my gaming group on their toes. I have a pretty small force, just the DV set + a very few extras, but my group is very loose on proxying so I use my friends wolves or even CSM to fill in when I need them.

I had some Dark Angels way, way back and I've just started painting up the Dark Vengeance miniatures and plan to get some of those pretty spiffy Deathwing; as they also have lots of bits for converting with. A project I would like to attempt in the future is some kind of warp Lion monster type thing to represent a beast of ancient Caliban.

 Inkubas wrote:
Dark angels player here. I have almost the entire 5th company (missing 1 assault squad), 1st and 2nd are in the works. Speaking of does anyone know how many terminator are in 1st company? Same with Ravenwing.

Boss there are each 100 strong

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Depending on how big your army is, you could always go and strip them then repaint in black? All Dark Angels successors chapters use similar heraldry to their original Chapter.

Heh, it's not that large, really, so that may work. But I've ended up growing attached to the Angels. Besides, the Deathwing terminators may be my best paintjobs to date

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Depending on how big your army is, you could always go and strip them then repaint in black? All Dark Angels successors chapters use similar heraldry to their original Chapter.

Heh, it's not that large, really, so that may work. But I've ended up growing attached to the Angels. Besides, the Deathwing terminators may be my best paintjobs to date

Just leave the Termis as is. There are no clear rules how the successors handle the color of the wings

The Redeemed.

Former Fallen and disgruntled DA loyal to the Lion > The Imperium. The bulk of which are converts from the original "traitors" who had the nerve to love and follow the lion over the Emperor.

Lots of work put into it but this pretty much sums it up. They are loyalists and purist to Caliban and to their Primarch Lion El Johnson and they feel betrayed by those brothers who turned on them to embrace and favor those DA who are Terran born.

Going with a clash of ideals between the two factions. I explain it in better detail in the topic I made a few days ago.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/593569.page

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Depending on how big your army is, you could always go and strip them then repaint in black? All Dark Angels successors chapters use similar heraldry to their original Chapter.

Heh, it's not that large, really, so that may work. But I've ended up growing attached to the Angels. Besides, the Deathwing terminators may be my best paintjobs to date

Was going to say, it doesn't really matter about Deathwing since most of them wear the bone white armour (I think there's one successor chapter that doesn't but I can't remember which one)

Feel free to exalt- would be interesting to see the demographic on here

I just started Ravenwing and Deathwing. I really do enjoy playing them. 2 games so far.

I have 30k Dark Angels if they count.

I have a very small DA allied force to buff up my marines.

Guardians of the Covenant, answering role call.

I got a thousand points of Dark Angels to allow me to game while I build and paint my Orks, they made good practice too in preperation.

DA are my first army from 2002. Actually split some out to create a BA army.
Still my favorite army altho my Necrons were right up there before they got all complicated with their new codex.

Here is my Saber Claw for Sammael



And Asmodai's ride with captured Fallen on his way to interrogation.

I play mine as a chapter of my own making called the Iron Eagles, mostly Ravenwing stuff. I am currently nearing completion of my Sableclaw converted from a LSS that is fully enclosed, with larger winglets, quad-assault cannons mounted on weapon pods on tge sides and a HB/ML combi-weapon under the nose.

 ciaotym wrote:
DA are my first army from 2002. Actually split some out to create a BA army.
Still my favorite army altho my Necrons were right up there before they got all complicated with their new codex.

Here is my Saber Claw for Sammael



And Asmodai's ride with captured Fallen on his way to interrogation.

Hate to break it to you but Sammael's LS is called Sableclaw