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Hi everyone,

Two weeks from tonight I'm going to be in a friendly draft tournament in which the winner gets to keep their 750pt army. We're going to be playing at a friends house, who is organizing the tournament and serving as its judge and points keeper, also no one is bring any model, they will be all supplied via the tournaments organizer due to the fact that he has a massive 40k collection and will be able to gives all the participants the required models for their armies. The tournament is consisting of 8 people and we had to pick our army literally out of a hat, the armies are as followed

Tau
Imperial Guard
Eldar
Dark Angels
Sisters of Battle
Necrons
Tyranids
Chaos Space Marines

I ended up drawing Dark Angels out of the hat and at first I thought ok, not a bad pick I will just use the 5th edition codex, however that is not the case as per the rules of the tournament I must use the proper codex for the army, so that mean I have to use the 4th edition Dark Angel codex. Now I have no experience with Dark Angels, I have never played them or played against them because no one plays them at our local gaming club. Now how this torunament is going to work is, each player will play each other 5 times, each round will have a different match style and out of those games the top 4 players with most points will advance to the semi-finals in which they will be held the next night, along with the finals. The semi's will be best of 3, while the finals will be best of 5.

I was able to borrow the Dark Angel codex and I've been looking around it trying to make the best list I can at that point value, by the looks of it, it seems like a wing style army would be the best choice for a competitive build at this point value, however I might be wrong. Here's the list I came up with

HQ
Belial w/ TH/SS -130pts

Troops
Deathwing Terminator Squad -235pt
5x TH/SS w/ CML

Deathwing Terminator Squad -235pt
5x TH/SS w/ CML

Fast Attack
Landspeeder w/ Typhoon ML and MM -75pts

Landspeeder w/ Typhoon ML and MM -75pts

750/750pts

I'm not sure how viable this list will be against the other 7 players and tbh I doubt I will win this tournament, but you never know. I find it hard to make an all comers list at this point value, so any input would awesome. Also just a little fun fact, these 8 armies have been only been primed.

I only know from experience so don't base your decision just on me. This seems like a solid army. You might want to trim a few poits and add an apothecary. The apothecary doubles the chance of a terminator surviving against a non power weapon wound.

I think its pretty solid. I am a DA player and have been playing since the dex came out. The FAQ helped this codex tremendously.

I would put MM on the speeders are they are free anyways and if they take out a weapon you will still have an anti tank weapon.

Other than that I think you have yourself a winner.

Good luck!

Hey thanks for the advice on the speeders, yea a multi-melta do seem better choice instead of the heavy bolter plus its a free upgrade.

Spot on list.
I like to go for a few LC with TH/SS to have a real cc hit.
Also I prefer the pred. with the 2+/3++ of the termies for larger points anyway.

However, great list. It will be weird to play: foot slogging with only a few models who happen to be hard to kill.

I'm just a bit worried on how this list will do against IG and tyranids players.

Give them a few LC to the deathwing to even the hitting. Otherwise you should have enough missiles to weaken their army down before they assault you.

The guard get within melta distance you can charge the chimeras. In a shoot out with leman russes your army may indeed struggle, you may need to teleport one unit in this case.

Would 2 per squad be sufficient?

Ok I've gone ahead and updated the list to as followed

HQ
Belial w/ TH/SS -130pts

Troops
Deathwing Terminator Squad -235pt
3x TH/SS, 2x LC w/ CML

Deathwing Terminator Squad -235pt
3x TH/SS, 2x LC w/ CML

Fast Attack
Landspeeder w/ Typhoon ML and MM -75pts

Landspeeder w/ Typhoon ML and MM -75pts

750/750pts

Looks alright. Let us know how you end up doing.