Dark Angels are up now for a look at 9th Edition.
Faction Focus Dark Angels
via Warcom
Jesse:
Many Dark Angels players can get trapped by playing too aggressively and overestimating the survivability of their force. With your expensive units or Flyers in particular, you need to be conscious of positioning and to make sure you don’t get caught out when taking advantage of your fun and potentially devastating Stratagems, such as Combined Assault. With the new cap to hit modifiers, your Darkshroud gives your whole force the best level of defence it can have to blunt overly aggressive forces. Utilise the speed and resilience of your Ravenwing and pick your targets carefully, then drop the hammer with your Deathwing units by Teleport Strike.
It’s tough to pin down a Dark Angels force, as they’ve got more flexibility and manoeuvrability than many armies out there. Keep in mind that playing the mission is more important than destroying your opponent’s force. To make sure you’re doing that, use your fast units to provide advantageous positioning and corral your opponent while your slower, hardier units get into position to hold objectives or perform actions.
However, if you’re looking to dominate the field with stalwart, lethal units, you’ll be bringing plenty of Deathwing Knights and Ravenwing Black Knights. With Combined Assault, you can use your Ravenwing units to position a Deathwing unit where it’s most dangerous. Both units are quite hard to kill while putting out a serious amount of damage. Coupled with a Chaplain’s litanies, you can mitigate your losses from supercharged plasma weaponry or give yourself insanely high odds to make that all-important Morale check.
Ravenwing Talonmaster
Ravenwing Dark Talon
Deathwing Knights
For those of you Dark Angels fans looking to order Indomitus on the 11th, we can confirm that the Outriders will be able to gain the ‘Ravenwing’ keyword and the Bladeguard Veterans are fully inducted members of the Deathwing.
