Dark Angels Battleforce?

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**Thatguyhsagun**

Looking to order one of these for a startup to my Iron Hands but it seems to be missing from the Dark Angels tab and i cant find it in search. Using the US siteThis a sign of new coming box sets?
BA, Eldar, Tau, daemons and Crons still have theirs listed though.

**ImAGeek**

I doubt there's a new box coming for DA.

**Thatguyhsagun**

ImAGeek wrote:
I doubt there's a new box coming for DA.

Meant a general new wave of box sets for Christmas, or maybe just renaming the current ones

**Wayniac**

Did the old box have the old style front (IIRC figures on a battlefield)? If so it's probably going to be reboxed with the new bland "figures on a blank surface" box, and knowing GW the price will go up a couple of bucks to boot.

**Nevelon**

But if the DA battleforce is gone, what will I recommend to people wanting to add some bikes to their C:SM marine army? <sigh> That box was a nice little package for a good shot of fast attack into any codex marine army. Hopefully they just pulled it for a re-print.

**Thatguyhsagun**

Nevelon wrote:
But if the DA battleforce is gone, what will I recommend to people wanting to add some bikes to their C:SM marine army? <sigh> That box was a nice little package for a good shot of fast attack into any codex marine army. Hopefully they just pulled it for a re-print.

My thoughts exactly. Now its the only non- SoB army without a box set afaik

**adamsouza**

I thought the Dark Angels battleforce was called Dark Vengeance

**Wayniac**

adamsouza wrote:
I thought the Dark Angels battleforce was called Dark Vengeance

You thought wrong.

**Murenius**

WayneTheGame wrote:
adamsouza wrote:
I thought the Dark Angels battleforce was called Dark Vengeance

You thought wrong.

And you missed the obvious irony

**Wayniac**

Murenius wrote:
WayneTheGame wrote:
adamsouza wrote:
I thought the Dark Angels battleforce was called Dark Vengeance

You thought wrong.

And you missed the obvious irony

Did I?

Besides everyone knows that Dark Vengeance is the Chaos battleforce.

**Thatguyhsagun**

Chaos set was gone too but::

pretre wrote:
via an anonymous sources on Faeit 212 *****
Tyranid Tyrannocyte/Sporocyst & Mucolid Spore $60 approx
A multipart plastic boxed set that makes either one Tyranid Tyrannocyte (Drop Pod) or one Tyranid Sporocyst (Weapons Bunker) and a Mucolid Spore (Giant Spore Mine)

Crimson Slaughter - A Dark Vengeance Expansion Set $127 approx
Includes 5 Cultists, 5 Chaos Terminators, 5 Raptors, 1 Land Raider.

Dark Angels - A Dark Vengeance Expansion Set $136 approx
Includes a Ravenwing Command Squad, 5 Deathwing Knights and a Dark Talon.

The Pestilent Swarm $191 approx
Includes a Maggoth Lord, 5 Putrid Blightkings, 10 Plaguebearers, 3 Plague Drones and 3 bases of Nurgling

**BoomWolf**

The CSM "battleforce" is also gone now.
Probably due to the upcoming release of the "DV expansion" as their new boxed sets.
Not a fan of either honestly.

Anyway, if you want to get bikes, the only way now is the basic biker kit.

**Wayniac**

Dark Vengeance expansion set? Wow... that's just what the game needed.

**Nevelon**

I can see it as a “where to go next” box. The DA one looks like a good replacement for the old DA battleforce. Useless to anyone who’s not a Dark Angel, or willing to file off a LOT of iconography, but filling a very similar role.

Of course, I don’t recall ever hearing a good thing about the dark talon, so it might end up being like the old boxes, where there was some decent stuff, bundled with chaff for no real savings.

**BoomWolf**

Well, a dark talon makes a GREAT crashed airplane terrain piece.

**Bishop F Gantry**

Nevelon wrote:
But if the DA battleforce is gone, what will I recommend to people wanting to add some bikes to their C:SM marine army? <sigh> That box was a nice little package for a good shot of fast attack into any codex marine army. Hopefully they just pulled it for a re-print.

Dark Vengance, gives 3 bikes and lots of models to trade for MOOR bikes

**Nevelon**

Bishop F Gantry wrote:
Nevelon wrote:
But if the DA battleforce is gone, what will I recommend to people wanting to add some bikes to their C:SM marine army? <sigh> That box was a nice little package for a good shot of fast attack into any codex marine army. Hopefully they just pulled it for a re-print.

Dark Vengance, gives 3 bikes and lots of models to trade for MOOR bikes

But they are chock full of DA iconography. Which if you are playing White Scars, or other codex marines, is a pain to remove. The old DA battleforce had all that stuff on seperate sprues, so was nice for all of us non-DA players.

**casvalremdeikun**

Nevelon wrote:
Bishop F Gantry wrote:
Nevelon wrote:
But if the DA battleforce is gone, what will I recommend to people wanting to add some bikes to their C:SM marine army? <sigh> That box was a nice little package for a good shot of fast attack into any codex marine army. Hopefully they just pulled it for a re-print.

Dark Vengance, gives 3 bikes and lots of models to trade for MOOR bikes

But they are chock full of DA iconography. Which if you are playing White Scars, or other codex marines, is a pain to remove. The old DA battleforce had all that stuff on seperate sprues, so was nice for all of us non-DA players.

Dangit! You recommended it to me so I can fill in my fast attack and now it is gone. Luckily, one of my flgs has one.

**Bishop F Gantry**

Nevelon wrote:
Bishop F Gantry wrote:
Nevelon wrote:
But if the DA battleforce is gone, what will I recommend to people wanting to add some bikes to their C:SM marine army? <sigh> That box was a nice little package for a good shot of fast attack into any codex marine army. Hopefully they just pulled it for a re-print.

Dark Vengance, gives 3 bikes and lots of models to trade for MOOR bikes

But they are chock full of DA iconography. Which if you are playing White Scars, or other codex marines, is a pain to remove. The old DA battleforce had all that stuff on seperate sprues, so was nice for all of us non-DA players.

the feathers is easily removed, wich leaves the pauldron and the fender symbol thats about 60-120 seconds work per bike a mild nuisance at worst.

**casvalremdeikun**

I forgot to address this in my last message.

Dark Angels - A Dark Vengeance Expansion Set $136 approx
Includes a Ravenwing Command Squad, 5 Deathwing Knights and a Dark Talon.

The RWCM and DWK are pretty good, since you can also make RWK and DWCM too. The Dark Talon and NJF are both kinda crap, so unless they are getting a rules re-write, this box is a bit of a waste.