Hi all, it's Neil here with a new For the Lion post with some Deathwing reinforcements and following the new Codex Supplement Dark Angels release my ideas for a list to build towards. This month I painted up a unit of 5 Deathwing Terminators and the Bladeguard Ancient.
For these terminators and the ancient I used the same colour palette as I've used before on the Deathwing models. The Ancient had a few additional areas such as his robes and banner. For the robes, I did the parts that were on the normal bladeguard in the same red but for the extra parts mainly around the shoulders and over the hips I painted in the same green as the armour on the regular Dark Angels to tie it back in with those. The banner I decided to paint in gold with a silver halo while the skeleton is bone coloured to look like real bones (probably from some captured fallen because Deathwing).
Since my last For the Lion post, the new Codex Supplement Dark Angels has been released and its looking pretty good. I'm not going to be doing a review but to me it has a lot of tricks for messing with your opponent's strategy as well a way to run the classic Ravenwing and Deathwing only styles which is great. My plan is to with a full slice across all three "Wings". For a 2000 point Grand Tournament style list this is my current aim:
Adeptus Astartes - Strike Force - Grand Tournament ( 12CP - 1995PT - 5PT )
Adeptus Astartes Battalion Detachment ( 3CP - 1995PT )
SUB-FACTION: Dark Angels
HQ
Ezekiel
PSYCHIC POWERS: Engulfing Fear, Mind Wipe, Mind Worm
WARLORD: Interrogator-Chaplain in Terminator Armour (105) Combi-flamer
TRAITS: Decisive Tactician (Aura)
LITANIES: Mantra of Strength
TROOPS
Intercessor Squad
1x Intercessor: Astartes grenade launcher
1x Intercessor Sergeant: Power sword
3x Intercessor
Intercessor Squad
1x Intercessor: Astartes grenade launcher
1x Intercessor Sergeant: Power sword
3x Intercessor
Intercessor Squad
1x Intercessor: Astartes grenade launcher
1x Intercessor Sergeant: Power sword
3x Intercessor
ELITES
Bladeguard Ancient
RELICS: Pennant of Remembrance
Bladeguard Veteran Squad
1x Bladeguard Veteran Sergeant
4x Bladeguard Veteran
Deathwing Terminator Squad
1x Deathwing Sergeant
1x Deathwing Terminator: Plasma cannon
1x Deathwing Terminator: Chainfist
2x Deathwing Terminator
Ravenwing Black Knights
1x Ravenwing Huntmaster: Corvus hammer
2x Ravenwing Black Knight: Corvus hammer
FAST ATTACK
Outrider Squad
1x Outrider Sergeant
2x Outrider
Ravenwing Land Speeder Vengeance
Storm Speeder Hammerstrike
HEAVY SUPPORT
Eradicator Squad
1x Eradicator Sergeant
2x Eradicator
Gladiator Valiant
Auto launchers
Total Command Points: 3/15
Reinforcement Points: 5
Total Points: 1995/2000
I feel it gives me a good mix of objective holders, objective takers and firepower units as well as a set of great support characters to lead it. The plan would be to have the Greenwing to hang back and hold objectives while the Ravenwing push the centre and my Deathwing drop in to apply further pressure.
I currently have the majority of this in my possession with just Ezekial, 2 more Bladeguard the land speeder Vengeance and the Eradicator unit still to get. Testing will have to wait till COVID gets more under control and my gaming club opens back up and then I'll be able to iterate on the list to improve it.
I hope this has been an interesting read and if you have any thoughts on what I've written about please put them in the comments. If you wanted to see pictures from my current painting projects you can check out my Instagram. I will see you gain soon for some more Dark Angels content in the next For the Lion post.
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