Hektik wrote:The strength of
DA comes from their Black Knights.
Seriously, run as many of them as you physically can, they are absurdly good. Match them with a Librarian for invisibility if possible and watch as your enemies either focus every ounce of shooting power they have on them, or run in hopes of not getting into
CC with them, because 4 attacks on the charge with rending hammers is stupid. Throw in a couple of the Ravenwing grenade launchers with bio grenades to drop T4 to T3 for those wounding on 2's.
The jink save forcing snap firing next round hardly makes them care due to twin linked on the plasma talons.
It's honestly the only thing that makes
DA stand out over vanilla marines.
oh look another spam bikers competitive lemming come to spoil the fun of others
anyway look to getting some transports, get mobile son some rhino's/razors/drop pods would be nice for the tacticals and a land raider for the deathwing, without these they really cant rise and shine
from here look to getting a venerable dreadnaught, nice big ol dready is a solid investment, always always always use him as a venerable and nothing less he is a lot better this way, i typically use mine as a tank sniper with a lascannon and powerfist so he can do double duty as an anti deepstrike tool.
look at getting some scouts, people downplay scouts a ton but there so tough not to at least own some of. i usually run 7 with the heavy bolter /w hellfire shells and bolters or 5 snipers/4 snipes + missile. good for holding objectives, good as
cc sacrifice players, good at lane poke. why wouldnt you want some and for pennies on the dollar no less. 5 of them cost as much as a clamshell
hq does!
i also want to rant and rave about the darkshroud for a bit, seriously so good is this thing, park it behind a nice thick wall and blanket an area in cover saves and ignore overwatch, such a strong tool
finally anti-tank, you dont have any anti-tank really beyond your terminators right now and as you play bigger games there ability to just punch through your problems goes away, devestators are always a good look, the las predator isnt bad, the vn dread as noted above can be a good supplement to other anti tank units like a standard land raider or maybe a las razorback. you cant go wrong man
WHEN YOU"VE COVERED SOME OF THE BASES ABOVE heres something your going to want:
anti-air anti-air is a bit of an elephant of a problem for the dark angels because the nephilim is a fail of a plane compared to other things out there, and the dark talon cant fend off attackers. there are a few solutions however ill go over them:
land raider excelsior/rhino primaris (
uk only/ebay big spenders): you get a land raider that can just give whoever you want skyfire/interceptor; also doubles as a normal land raider with lascannons, comes with a free razorback with a twin linked plasma gun for a weapon, it can also call down an air strike once per game which is pretty sweet. there expensive though like 200 or so for the set, rules come in box
deredeo dreadnaught, perhaps the toughest meanest mother for ground to air fighting in the game, the deredeo dreadnaughts autocannons are second to none, his missiles and heavy bolters are just icing on the cake, keep in mind that this is forgeworld so all the caviats apply, but you can find knock-offs on ebay for 75 bucks with all the fixings most weekends. the rules for it are currently out as a PDF but there getting a possible update in the next imperial armour (book 16 i think it is?)
contempor mortis dreadnaught, we dark angels are blessed with the contempor mortis dreadnaught, this is a custom variant on the contempor dreadnaught from forgeworld, you can get most of the mortis in betrayal at calth box set, you need only find a second dreadnaught assault cannon arm and mount it to the other arm where his fist would normally go. forgeworld will sell the second arm for 20 bucks or you can go to the ebay and again probably find a knockoff for 12. whatever your preference is. and twin assault cannons is really how you want to run him, the rules for this dreadnaught are in imperial armour 3: third edition (which you can yank down from yonder e-bucaneer as a pdf).
aegis defense line: really only good if you buy devestators as then the sargeant can man the gun platform. its over the counter and its cheap like 50 bucks a box, but its also stationary where the others can be mobile, you can buy the gun emplacement on larger fortifications but then you need to probably go out and buy stronghold assault, rules for the aegis line can be found inside the warhammer 40,000 core rulebook (6th edition, both the cheap miniature pocket book and the big expensive megabook)
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