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Made in us
Imperial Admiral




So. I haven't even looked at 40K in about a year, but I'm starting to get the itch again. I noticed the Dark Angels 'dex is out, and I've always been fond of them, despite their limited options for decent lists.

Anything changed? Are you still required to play some variant of a 'wing? Anybody become a badass?
   
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Stealthy Dark Angels Scout with Shotgun




Being digested by a Tyranid.

well, we now get to choose what turn the DW come in on, 1 or 2, no rolling required, Azrael unlocks both wings as troops, we get bad*** bikes with 18" plasma guns and S5 rending CCWs (Black Knights) Belial with a sword is no longer useless due to it now having fleshbane, Belial has a teleport homer and doesn't scatter, Sammael has an AP2 strikes at init Power sword.

DW get split fire and their guns are twin-linked on the turn they deepstrike. DW Knights make abaddon cry for his mommy for one round and make chaos in general cry (they have power maces which are ap3 against chaos, and can become S10 AP2 for 1 turn.)

We get tonnes of cool relics to beef up our generic HQ's, Librarians went from terrible to awesome. We got two pretty cool new fliers. Greenwing is very much viable now. DA get many banners (such as the banner of Devastation, which makes all bolters within 6" salvo 2/3. All in all the entire book is really nice, there are alot of varied builds and the army is pretty balanced.


Oh, and the lion is completely healed now, but still asleep.


So, Yeah.

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The Conquerer






Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios

They got some cool stuff. The codex is still a case of you either play Deathwing or Ravenwing, no point playing generic DA tac squads and such. You'd be better off just playing vanilla marines if you want Tac squads.


Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines

Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.

MURICA!!! IN SPESS!!! 
   
Made in us
Stalwart Dark Angels Space Marine





Not true. Tac squads are super cheap compared to the 4th ed. codex. You also have some cool banners to choose from including one that makes sm's bolters salvo 2/4. I personally think the codex works best when you use a combination of death, raven, and green wing. They all compliment each other very well

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