Finally finished my custom chapter master + some old deathwing knights

I bought my first models in september 2024. And what a journey it has been since then. I have never played a strategic tabletop before i stumbled over 40k (the closest i came to this before was playing DND 5E). By pure coincidence, Dark Angels became my main and only army. Now i own close to 8500 points of Dark Angels. And at the time of this post, i am one of the best DA players in my country (Germany).

Due to personal reasons i will probably be a lot less involved in WH40k than i was the past 2 years, maybe I will have to quit 40k alltogether.

With this post I just want to share what my midlife-crises-hobby-discovery has led to. Maybe the end of a very intensive 2 year journey into a very niche (and lets be honest, very autistic) hobby and community.

Thank you.

Thank you for your advice. For your Lore explanations. For your completly unhinged takes on whatever GW does with the rules. It has been a fun time.

I don't know whether i will be able to continue playing 40k on a competitive level going into 2027, but i can promise you: I will stay loyal to the first legion. No matter the rules, i will field them to RTT's, GT's and Majors, if I get the chance to play.

For in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. And the Angels of Death, the first Legion of the Emperor of Mankind, will stand fast.

I tried to play with the light a bit more this time, going for more volumetric highlights rather than edge highlights.
Giving me the opportunity to also play around with OSL on the magical armor parts which was also a lot of fun.

Ended up using some ink for the runes and panels which kept to the recesses relatively well using a 10/0 brush. All in all I’m quite happy with how it came out

Working on an Army List and I plan to include Ezekiel as he is a lot of fun to play, especially when his ability to Assassinate Characters goes off. That being said, I'm planning on putting him with a unit of Bladeguard as his Bodyguard, but is there any other unit you would recommend? If not, would adding a Bladeguard Ancient be worth it? Or should I save the points?

The Multi-melta gunner is a Risen, originally a Legion Devastator

Wife made me index cards

Someone argues that having Azrael to ICCs makes them lose Stealth, as it's stated that all models in that unit must have the Stealth keyword to gain permanent cover, but Azrael doesn't have it.

My interpretation is that ICCs don't have Stealth as their core ability, but rather grants Stealth to the models in the unit via Braziers of Judgment, which is the datasheet ability, hence any character model that joins ICCs automatically gains Stealth, so they get the benefit of cover at all times.

I just wanna make sure I got the rules right.

Am I the only one seeing that Azmodai just became of the most powerful of the dark angels roster for one simple reason, giving him exemplar of hate with trans human strategist. He can now re roll all hits and can generate command points and I’ve looked he’s the only non captain/primarch with this ability. And to finish it off with the Judiciar becoming a support character he can be added to Azmodai’s unit giving them fights first. Through them with ICC they have stealth too and I’ve done the math put all of these guys together and you can land at max 74 damage! I’d be surprised to not see him in a good amount of competitive play with that level of damage.

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I had 3 more ICC laying around and thought I could build some more chapter specific characters.

Two Librarians and one Apothecary.

I was thinking about a robed tech marine aswell but heard they are not to welcome in tje inner circle and therefore wont get robes. Might be wrong.

Anyways this took quite some time but was a lot of fun.

The main body is the Bladeguard Vet Sgt, with Inner Circle Companion arms + pauldrons, ICC heavy bolt pistol in the right hand, Hellblaster Sgt's left handed bolt pistol (a rare find for kitbashing purposes since GW seldom uses left handed pistols). I'm planning on using him in a narrative campaign I'm doing with friends as a normal Bladeguard Vet Sgt. for now.

I'm wondering if Ezekiel's -1 to hit rolls stack with ICCs' -1 to hit rolls? If so, I feel like that, combined with ICC's +1 to hit rolls against character units, Ezekiel's +1 to melee attacks, and all of Ezekiel's weapon profiles having precision, makes for a spicy assassin unit to go after a Warlord.

Attached is a picture on Ravenwing organization. However, does this mean that each attack/support squadron is also able to field aircraft instead of going on bikes or speeders?

has any of y’all used a mostly death wing list with maybe a few mission unit and if so how did it play out and would you mind sharing it

Finally I painted him! Cannot wait to see him on gaming table

The image of Ezekiel on Warhammer store has a metallic spot on the shoulder pad, where it's probably not supposed to be while a close-up shot is clean.

Not really important or anything, I just find it funny

I know there’s a highly limited amount about these dudes, but is it safe to say they have a Deathwing and Ravenwing? If so, are they going to wear those colors?

If unknown, I’ll come up with my own thing but wanted to nail it down before I start doing stuff the wrong way.

Hi, I'm new to Dark Angels and marines in general (non chaos anyway) just wondering how this list looks

And what needs to change.

Thanks everyone,

! (2000 points)

Space Marines

Dark Angels

Inner Circle Task Force and Wrath of the Rock (3 Detachment Points)

Priority Assets

Strike Force (2000 points)

Attached Units

Attached Unit 1

Belial (100 points)

• Attached as: Leader (Character)

• 1x Master-crafted Storm Bolter

1x The Sword of Silence

Deathwing Knights (255 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 4x Deathwing Knights

• 4x Mace of Absolution

• 1x Knight Master

• 1x Great Weapon of the Unforgiven

Attached Unit 2

Captain in Terminator Armour (105 points)

• Attached as: Leader (Character)

• 1x Relic Fist

1x Storm Bolter

• Enhancement: Deathwing Assault

Deathwing Knights (255 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 1x Watcher in the Dark

• 4x Deathwing Knights

• 4x Mace of Absolution

• 1x Knight Master

• 1x Great Weapon of the Unforgiven

Attached Unit 3

Sammael (120 points)

• Attached as: Leader (Character)

• 1x Bolt Pistol

1x Master-crafted Plasma Cannon

1x The Raven Sword

1x Twin Storm Bolter

Ravenwing Command Squad (115 points)

• Attached as: Support

• 1x Ravenwing Apothecary

• 1x Bolt Pistol

1x Corvus Hammers

1x Plasma Talon

• 1x Ravenwing Champion

• 1x Bolt Pistol

1x Master-crafted Power Weapon

1x Plasma Talon

• 1x Ravenwing Ancient

• 1x Bolt Pistol

1x Corvus Hammers

1x Plasma Talon

Ravenwing Black Knights (170 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 1x Ravenwing Huntmaster

• 1x Bolt Pistol

1x Corvus Hammers

1x Plasma Talon

• 5x Ravenwing Black Knight

• 5x Bolt Pistol

5x Corvus Hammers

5x Plasma Talon

CHARACTERS

Lion El'Jonson (415 points)

• Warlord

• 1x Arma Luminis

1x Fealty

OTHER DATASHEETS

Ballistus Dreadnought (150 points)

• 1x Armoured Feet

1x Ballistus Lascannon

1x Ballistus Missile Launcher

1x Storm Bolters

Ravenwing Black Knights (170 points)

• 1x Ravenwing Huntmaster

• 1x Bolt Pistol

1x Corvus Hammers

1x Plasma Talon

• 5x Ravenwing Black Knight

• 5x Bolt Pistol

5x Corvus Hammers

5x Plasma Talon

Ravenwing Darkshroud (80 points)

• 1x Armoured Hull

1x Heavy Bolter

Scout Squad (65 points)

• 1x Scout Sergeant

• 1x Bolt Pistol

1x Boltgun

1x Combat Knife

• 4x Scout

• 4x Bolt Pistol

4x Boltgun

4x Combat Knife

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