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You're aware thats a UNIT of dreads, so 1-3 ?

 Lammikkovalas wrote:

 DarkStarSabre wrote:
Well, new Ravenwing character or special character confirmed from that.

Sableclaw. Make of that what you will.

Sableclaw is Sammael's landspeeder.

Edit: double ninja'd

Not a Dark Angels player. Don't expect to know the random names of your personal vehicles. It was never sold or labelled as Sableclaw either.

Love when Dark Angels players get uppity like that. Almost like Sisters players.

Also, regarding the lack of Black Knights - perhaps they're a Ravenwing Upgrade ala Dark Eldar Trueborn?

Your auxiliaries look a lot more manageable then the C:SM ones. It will be interesting to see the restrictions/bonuses.

MongooseMatt posted this a few pages ago - so the lack of Ravenwing Black Knights and other units is evidence that there are indeed more 'Detachments/Decurions' in the book than in the WD piccie

I am not really a rumour source, but this has just come through from the GW sales team;

A 160-page full colour hardback codex. The most comprehensive Dark Angels codex ever, which includes three new Dark Angels Detachments, 6 formations of and Tactical Objectives, plus Warlord Traits and Chapter Relics. This new codex gives the player the opportunity to build their own Deathwing and Ravenwing formations, from the extensive range of available miniatures.


It is a £35 Codex. Looks like Dark Angels are getting the royal treatment (at last)!

 Nevelon wrote:
Your auxiliaries look a lot more manageable then the C:SM ones. It will be interesting to see the restrictions/bonuses.

Yeah - 1-5 scout squads means you can just add some scouts if you want, for instance

 DarkStarSabre wrote:


Not a Dark Angels player. Don't expect to know the random names of your personal vehicles. It was never sold or labelled as Sableclaw either.

Love when Dark Angels players get uppity like that. Almost like Sisters players.?

If you're not a Dark Angels player and self-aware of not knowing all names from the Codex, why did you assume it must be a new Special Character?

Well I still think there will be more in the actual Codex. This is basically a repeat of the Space Marine Codex and symbolizes the Greenwing pretty well. I kinda miss Centurions and the vanilla flyers. Seems the vanilla units do not get added to the Codex. I still hope though that they add the Land Speeder Storm as a choice. Really like the new Scouts in that speeder.

Lack of RW Knights and Command on the other hand kinda hints at a separate Formation or Strike Force. Maybe we are lucky and get 2 or 3 Strike Forces in the Codex. And another important question ... Will there be a full Company with the free Transports rule ? In this case though I don't see the necessaty for a separate Codex. Could just have gone in with Space Marines really.

Not Long now and we will see what goodness awaits us .

Wonderwolf wrote:

 DarkStarSabre wrote:


Not a Dark Angels player. Don't expect to know the random names of your personal vehicles. It was never sold or labelled as Sableclaw either.

Love when Dark Angels players get uppity like that. Almost like Sisters players.?

If you're not a Dark Angels player and self-aware of not knowing all names from the Codex, why did you assume it must be a new Special Character?

Because it's listed as a seperate entry - previously Sammy's Land Speeder was an upgrade option for him. So stating that X can be taken in place of Y seems to imply that X (in this case Sableclaw) is oddly listed as its own entry otherwise that's a very redundant footnote to stick on the formation.

You'll note that the SM formation doesn't state that Moondrakkan can be taken in place of Kor'sarro Khan, so it's a very odd thing to see indeed.

I'm pretty sure the Moondrakkan bike would be allowed anyways, since it doesn't change Kor'sarro that much compared to Sammael's Sableclaw speeder.

You know nothing about what sisters players have had to put up with I think we are allowed to be uppity.

The lack of black knights is puzzling. Regardless I actually look forward to this for some reason.

WD pics - by www.gamestrust.de (in german, sorry guys)

















Not much new here, the Psychic power was leaked already last night

 Formosa wrote:
Sod all that, company master rather than belial, about bloody time!

Damn straight. That's the way it always should be.

There is more







There is another Dark Angels mission in the next issue of White Dwarf

Holy Hannah! Some original plastic Scouts made it into White Dwarf? Yikes!

I like that they put the 1st Ed / Advanced Space Crusade Scout models into the army pics

Also Iron Wing is kind of back (?) - In the german translation - that vehicle squadron is called Iron Squadron

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Holy Hannah Indeed

Hm. The Ravenwing Auxilary states RW Attack Bike Squad OR RW Bike Squad. Yet in the picture, we see 1 Bike Squad and a Attack Bike...

Did anyone else notice that half the scouts pictured are from "Advanced Space Crusade". A game that has not been in print for 25 years?

Ninjaed! I guess you all did..

Those Predators have a RW bike front on top of the turret. Nice!

1 ravenwing squad could be knights, the current unit as is.
The attack bike sqaud is what it says on the tin, I'm hoping like hh we get to have up to 5 in a unit, as that would be boss

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
Those Predators have a RW bike front on top of the turret. Nice!

I like the one with the twin bolters mounted on it . Nice way of doing a pintle mounted storm bolter

 Thairne wrote:
Hm. The Ravenwing Auxilary states RW Attack Bike Squad OR RW Bike Squad. Yet in the picture, we see 1 Bike Squad and a Attack Bike...

that looks to be the same as the last codex, where an attack squadron can be 6 bikes plus a speeder and attack bike as one choice

 Thairne wrote:
Hm. The Ravenwing Auxilary states RW Attack Bike Squad OR RW Bike Squad. Yet in the picture, we see 1 Bike Squad and a Attack Bike...

Might be that the regular Bike Squad can still take 1 Attack Bike, while the Attack Bike Squad is all Attack Bikes?

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 casvalremdeikun wrote:
Those Predators have a RW bike front on top of the turret. Nice!

I like the one with the twin bolters mounted on it . Nice way of doing a pintle mounted storm bolter

yup. Very unique. Too bad I don't play DA or I would be putting those on all of my tanks.

not inspired with some of the options so far (such as the hammer of Caliban) but it is only a snippet and e haven't seen the rules yet. The Deathwing one is as expected (with bonus of not having to take Belial) and will get some use for sure. The only thing we need to see is the little formation bonuses, that could change everything.

The text on the left reads that's the list there is only an example of a Lion's Blade detachment, it's not an exhaustive list.

Yes, *Edit: It says, Codex: DA allows you to use your collection to build up a Lion's Blade Strike Force: based on a DA Demi-Company and one or more Aux choices (I guess Aux is the correct translation). *

Warhams-77 wrote:
Machinepriest - Warseer

Spoiler:

Hmh. I would have liked another Core formation, personally, as that just looks too similar to the Necron book...just with the ability to field a single Command per Core(compared to the other books like this, that's rough.)

However...I can totally field a decent force from what I've got sitting around!

If you look at the plastic vets scan, the heavy weapon is a grav cannon

Edit: Actually several grav weapons.

Lion's Blade strikeforce is obviously the DA equivalent of the Gladius strike force. However, as hinted before, it may not be the only "Decurion" type detachment we get. This codex is close to the size of the SM codex (which is dealing with many different chapters) and so looks to be really getting the Royal Treatment. There could be a pure Ravenwing or Deathwing decurion since these are almost armies themselves.

Warhams-77 wrote:
MongooseMatt posted this a few pages ago - so the lack of Ravenwing Black Knights and other units is evidence that there are indeed more 'Detachments/Decurions' in the book than in the WD piccie

You ninja'd me

This all seems logical - the Greenwing detachment with RW and DW support, and then two more detachments to focus on DW and RW themselves.

Gentlemen, I think we Dark Angels, after many, many years, are officially sorted