So people sent few hours with my copy of the codex on my iPad yesterday, overall the book is stunning, the art work is some of the best out there, and the finish is exceptional.
Now dark angels have always been interesting, they can field many different lists that play immensely different to the next one, but I have a few things that popped out at me whilst reading.
The good.
Tactical squads going done in price is. Huge bonus, cheaper than codex marines with stubborn, and in special weapons and heavy weapons at 5 marines is a huge gain to, making msu squads more effective.
Azreal, by far only way to run dual wing, saves a lot of points, choosing warlord trait is nice, fearless is great, but this guys weight in gold comes from his 4++ save for him and his unit, and this to a 50 guard platoon thanks to battle brothers and we are on to something.
65pt librarians, lv1 with divination for prescience. Fearless with reroll all to hits , add to the unit above and the heat is really turning up in here.
The bad.
Ravenwing command bike squads, although there are uses for this unit, why on why is there only 3 in the unit!
Bielial, this guy came very close to being in the ugly, due to its model being rather thin at the waist, however times are hard and those pounds don't go as far in shops so food is apparently an issue for the 1st company. Something strikes me as just boring with this guy, I think they missed the boat here.
Scouts are coming in here, in fed up with them being truly terrible, adding flak missiles does not make this unit viable.
The ugly.
Any of the dark angels vehicles with stupid cathedral pieces on, it looks terrible, genuinely on of the worst concepts I've seen.
Nope can't let this drop, especially the land speeder version, who wants. Land speeder that looks like crap, has 2hp, and did I mention could not have had more crap built in to it. Move over krootox, there's a new ugly duckling in town.
Both flyers, I think gw realised the mistake with flyers, especially costing, however they have gone to far here, they are more expensive than a vendetta, and doesn't come close to it. Other than the ork flyer, these two are the worse in the game.
So guys what do you think of the sons of caliban?
Dark angels: The good, The bad and the damn right ugly.
by Dice Jesus | Jan 30, 2013