I literally just started dark angels, and the way I got into it was I bought the horus heresy box set for the 10 relic termies, and the contemptor dread, kept the spartan, and then kept half the marines, and basically had two potential captains. Then bought two Deathwing Knight squads. Which I felt is a proper good start to a dark angels list.

The combat patrol is such a great box, intercessors make a strong battleline, inceptors give you fast units helping you understand how to use your ravenwing, chaplains are good and the redemptor is a great fire-base (plus big plasma gun, very DA)

Starting DA, I’d focus on starting with Greenwing, they’re easy to field and play, then later on add some flavor with death and/or ravenwings, don’t immediately make your army out of them because they can be very expensive unless you can get your hands on a bunch cheap.

DA combat patrol is fantastic, from there i got hellblasters and tried out deathwing, currently building a few ravenwing black knights

If you are looking to build up your Ravenwing I recommend the following list. Talonmaster Primaris Chaplin on Bike 10 Ravenwing Black Knights 3 Outriders 3 Outriders 3 Invaders (2 MM, 1 Gatling) 3 Tornados (3 AC, 2 HB, 1 MM) 3 Tornados (3 AC, 2 HB, 1 MM) 3 Typhoons (3 TML, 3 HB) For the RWBK, you'll have 4 boxes, which means you'll have 2 extra models to build your Apothecary and Banner. I recommend building 2 of the 10 RWBK that could be used as a Hunt Master so you have the option to field them as 2 units of 5 or 1 unit of 10. If you make one of the Hunt Masters with a bit more bling, it can double as a Champion. Point wise, you are unlikely to ever field 10+ RWBK, and all 3 characters, so those 12 models should cover you for just about all of your lists. This 2000 point list breaks down nicely into two 1000 point lists, bike and speeders. While the Primaris units are more generic looking compared to the Ravenwing units in this list, between the RWBK boxes and the Ravenwing upgrade frames there are a ton of bits to clearly mark everyone as Ravenwing.

I wish that Combat Patrol box had been out when I first started. Currently working on having 1,000pt lists of each “Wing” that function independently or blended together to make 2,000pt lists.

I've been building a Dark Angel army with a bunch of customs. Favorite chapter always will be.

You must be ready for HIS RETURN! For the Lion is coming!

Dark angels does make the most use out of the models with ravenwing and death wing

I think dark angels, blood angels and Space Wolfs are making the absolut best use of the old space marines

Thank you! I love these vids, dark angels are my favourite chapter along with Raven Guard.

Love my Dark Angels, so many different ways to play them which for me is great as I get really bored playing just one way.

I got my Chaos Space Marine codex yesterday. I started collecting after buying half the Eldritch omen Box. With a few more chosen. Some legionaries, terminators and friggin Abaddon I already have 1800 points. Love the customizability of this army with the marks of Chaos and the mini kill teams you can do with the Legos.

Wait for 10th edition !

Be me, a Dark Angels player: "I have 100 terminators and all the Terminator characters. I shall USE 100 terminators and all Terminator Characters!"

Just started dark angels this video was perfect Timeing. Great video.

Currently starting off with the Greenwing. Got the combat patrol already for Intercessors and the Redemptor. Keeping the Inceptors nice and cheap with assault bolters, 'cause I will be adding Hellblasters anyway, and the WL is going to be jump pack interrogator chappie with crozius+chainsword.

Great army. My Goff horde came a cropper against that crazy strong apothecary & knights combo recently. Took out 50 boys and a warboss for net zero casualties

I started the Dark Angels with the Combat Patrol box but ended up getting a Deathwing army for cheap. Now looking back and starting a Greenwing for my Dark Angels.

dark angel scouts with sniper rifles are pretty nice with the plus 1 to hit

That 30k box is a great way to start dark angels.

One suggestion I have for starting a Dark Angels army is to look into 2nd hand models from the old Dark Vengeance starter set. They're all Firstborn and fairly monopose (they're pretty old kits), but that also means they're cheaper than most Primaris kits or even other Tactical Marines. Moreover, the set itself had a good variety of units. A stylish Captain and Librarian, a bunch of Tacticals (with Plasma and Heavy Plasma) with molded on DA symbols on the shoulder pads, a squad of DA Terminators, and some DA bikers. I myself used a bunch of models from this set as the core of my Dark Angels army. (I painted mine as Fallen, but I run them using Dark Angels rules, for rules and lore reasons). I got them for pretty cheap, so it's worth it to keep one's eyes open for deals.

Love your videos, you do the heavy lifting for us all. Any chance of getting a White Scars video of similar content. Cheers!

I think it would be good to include a couple of different lists at the end instead of the most competitive. The whole appeal for me to collect Dark Angels is that whole flexibility. So would have been nice to see some lists that just work without needing to be tournament winning.

For green wing incepters, hellblasters and redemptors are bees knees. Id also argue a land raider has a place in dark angels to transport terminators up im cover. Otherwise they get picked up slogging up the board or just get ran away from after failing the 9 inch charge from deepstrike.

Thanks Auspex

It's worth pointing out that Black Knights have inner circle and can thus add some speed to a Deathwing Vanguard.

Just a heads up! If you are looking for a Dark Angels subreddit the one you want is r/TheUnforgiven. The one called r/DarkAngles is... not a 40k subreddit.

Nice video!

Despite not being my favorites due to some lore reasons, the color scheme and design of the Dark Angels will always grab my attention.

Eliminators and phobos captain are amazing dark angels imo. You can get captain to hit on 2s, always wound on 2 against infantry, and deal 3 damage with ignore look out sir

I plan on doing an all Deathwing army. Terminators, Blade Guard Vets, two Redemtors, and Azrael.

I can only recommend buying Deathing Terminator box, Ravenwing Black Knights and Dark Angels Veterans when building the army. I got 4 boxes of Deathing Terminators + bits (12 terminator legs, 12 backs, 12 crux terminator shoulder pads and 2-3 bolter arms) and I created 1x unit of Deathwing Knights, 2x 5 commando squad terminators (using robbed torsos), 15 terminators (1x close combat weapons, 2x bolters) and I finished a Strikemaster, librarian, chaplain, Deathwing ancient, apothecary and champion. I could get a couple more legs, backs and other bits for 4 more terminators. Its a great box combined with the Veterans for additional arms and legs. Basically with some regular terminator bits you can get 10 terminators out of a single Deathwing box. The veterans can also be combined with the Ravenwing bits to create a HQ with ancient, apothecary and champion in robbes on foot when you get a second Ravening Box to create regular Black Knights, not using the Raveing HQ bits for the bikers. On the other hand I can't recommend the Primaris... I think if the rumors are correct I would wait for 10th editon. The current primaris models are utterly generic, except for Lazarus. You can create a cool looking Blade Guard unit using heads from the Veterans box, but everything else has this green Ultramarins feeling.

I grabbed that box for £40 sealed on cash converters and am using it to boost my home brew IH successors. It’s a wicked box.

been collecting dark angels since Dark Vengeance was the starter box, cant wait to expand my army with this

Been wanting to start a DA army, but not sure whether to get some deathwing terminators now or wait around for the rumored primaris terminators.

I was thinking of starting a Dark Angel army but I'm going to hold out until 10th. Im pretty sure the Lion will be coming back so they'll get an entire model refresh. Also there's two Primaris models not one. Master Lazarus is the one you had in the picture but then there Primaris Lieutenant Zakariah.

Your severe 'upspeak' on every single phrase makes watching this channel really challenging

Just getting back into 40K after a 24 year hiatus. Your videos have been a great help in getting back up to speed. Just curious question, are you a train conductor? If not why not?

I'm getting into 40k with Dark Angels. So far I've only got a few models (very few: a dreadnought, a Primaris and I'm waiting for the Ezekiel I ordered). Problem is, I've no idea where to go from there as I've never played, my idea was just to paint and collect random minis but I got so into the lore I decided to give the game a shot. If anyone has any suggestions I'd appreciate it

Great video, but you could also just start with the CSM Combat Patrol.

I’ve got a combat patrol and agastus box waiting to be built but also desperately adore the look of both deathwing and Ravenwing. All the while I’m building up my bud army. Warhammer collecting is like the ultimate ADHD tutorial

the DA Combat Patrol is a great buy for many chapters, just sell the upgrade sprues

Need a 10th version maybe once deathwing assault is released to add that to the options, I just want to hear auspex tactics talk about it 😅

Best way to start Dark Angel is a thematic Terminator Deathwing Army. 20 models per 1000pts. It's Elite Army, yet you got enough numbers to be all over the board. Can get them painted pretty quick. Tough and Durable.

I started a dark angels army just today, main guy calls himself cypher. Quite mysterious

I’ve got combat patrol, a box of hell blasters, 5 boxes of deathwing (not sure how I’m going to build them but some have to be knights because they look so bad ass! And belial. With the return of mr. El’johnson this would be a good time to start I probally have 5-7 years worth of painting as is 🤣

I will add that for a Greenwing/Mixed-wing list, the Honoured of the Chapter box has a ton of value for what you get. Bladeguard vets are excellent in Deathwing, the Bladeguard Ancient can hold one of our best relics, Eradicators are fantastic anti-armor, and the chaplain and Judiciar work fantastic as-is or can be very easily kitbashed into Interrogator Chaplains, a unique unit to us that holds the secret of ultimate meme power (or the equivalent to one cheap tyranid unit). The Combat Patrol box is an excellent launching position and a couple of squads of terminators never hurts anything. Also I don’t think anybody’s going to be mad if you use a Phobos Librarian as Ezekiel.

Great job as always ! can you do the same thing for Blood Angels ? :)

I still have the dark angles from the 'dark vengeance' set, pressfit assembled but uncleaned, are they still any good/useful? :o

I'd say Azrael is one of the best buffing characters for space marines right now as well. He came down in points recently and his +2 cp's is much more useful than before when you only start with 6 to play with.

I’d love to see a get started for emperor’s children

HQ: Azrael, Chaplain(Warlord, Master of Sancticy), TallonMasters. ELITE: 2x Ravenwing Apothecary with Granade launcher, 1x Chapter Ancient. TROOPS: 4x troops. FAST ATTACK: as many as you can fitt, Attack Bikes with Multi-Melta. HEAVY SUPPORT: as many as you can fitt(Priority1), Hellblasters.

i started DA but im painting the green wing pre heresy colors

Nice video, can you do this for a loyalist chapter next?

take it from someone who has used a lot of HQ units, i definitely feel like lieutenants are the best HQ to buff your units besides librarians. because of your chapter tactic, rerolling hits is kinda overkill and boosting wounds is a much better option. i typically run a 6 squad of bladeguard, a bladeguard ancient, a chief apothecary, and a primaris lieutenant together as a roaming table threat that is very difficult to remove and outputs some solid damage. chaplins might be a good option. however, i feel like chaplins for a DA list are much weaker compared to librarians. since chaplin buffs come in the command phase, a terminator chaplin will not be able to recite litanies after teleporting in however a terminator librarian would be able to cast their spells after teleporting in. just some input from a DA player who fights imperial knights a lot.

I hope GW launchs a salamanders combat patrol box.

What do u think ur doing gw? The CSM book just got released 2 weeks ago and we are already getting our combat patrol box?!

Pretty much the key to any DA start if figuring out if you are playing competitively. If you are, then you need to immediately decide between Deathwing, Ravenwing, or Both. If you’re doing both, you MUST field Azrael. No way around it.

With armies i think people should really look into the unique models/units of that army. If you went the boring Primaris route for a Greenwing detachment (ie: intercessors, bladeguard, redemptors) whats the point? sure they are great units, but theres no flavour there, not when DA offer so many unique models such as Black Knights, Darkshroud, Dark Talon, Deathwing Knights, Landspeeder Vengeance, and more. Sure half of those units i mentioned are not meta breaking (and lets face it, if you wanted to break the meta theres better factions lol) but thats where the flavour is. Same goes for Blood Angels, you want Sanguinary Guard and Death Company. Space Wolves you want Thunderwolf Cavalry and Wulfen. Leave those cookie cutter Primaris lists for Iron Hands and Ultra Marines.

Also just want to add that blade guard deathguard are vastly weaker than the terminators. So it's the perfect army to go zero primaris. I think people can't go wrong getting some dark vengeance termies on the cheap and see how they like them. I don't think this combat patrol is worth it. You can get intercessors much cheaper than that.

I started collecting DA in 6th so.... more terminators?

Anyone else gearing up for the Lions return?

As far as im concerned i got 6 eradicators (a squad with 2 multimelter and 4 heavy melter and) having them on a home objective with lazarus is absolutly insane Hitting on 2/reroll 1 and s8... If an enemy is in rangr its kind of a guaranteed kill xD

Am waiting for new terminator's before i start 😂

combat patrol + hellblasters + captain lazerus + bladeguard vets

does anyone else just fast forward through these videos to just read the slides? Just me?

If you’re playing DA i definitely am against the recommendation to get the space marine codex first, as a lot of dark angels armies field exclusively dark angels specific units.

Recommending combat patrols and showing a Deathwing list at the end, sorry this is a joke.!

Angel within, Angel without!

"How to Start a Dark Angels Army in Warhammer 40K" Just buy all the terminators in the store and paint them white and all the bikes and paint them black. 🤷‍♂️

Play FALLEN - Astelan :)

Or start 30k get the new 30k box set, age of darkness, and paint all models as dark angels. Probably the easiest way to get a full 2k dark angels army for the cheapest price. Can work for 40k and can use as first born marines.

Stop saying that Storm Shields aren't as important. Those shields are still vital. You can run a few LC Terminators, but you still need SS.

I really hope gw don’t discontinue firstborn. I love using drop pods and personally dislike the new asthetics of Primaris models. Thats why I’m playing DA because they seem to have to coolest working firstborn units.

Since Fallen got squatted, what are dark angels even doing anymore ?

Why am I watching this video? I have 4k points of Deathwing ALONE. Good pics tho

Iron hands are too cool for you to start anyways, Ferrus Manus does not call on you

Thankfully robes are about the easiest greenstuff project possible.

Inner circle only wounded on 4+ is only for infantry. Bikers are not infantry

Honestly, in “GW” money its fine but honestly it’s not great value, you can get 5 intercessors for like $25, inceptors for $30, redemptor for like $45-50, and a cheap chaplain for like $20-25 so overall saving is like $120 which you can get on ebay so your not really saving anything

How to start dark angels,,,,step one commit heresy.

So the Command Squad no longer has Bodyguard? Awww, that's a shame... I thought that was quite a cool little ability, oh well... 🤷‍♂ I guess it might come back in an update or in 10th ed. lol.

Everybody's saying the combat patrol is great... and it is, but not if you want to build a deathwing/ravenwing army.

This list does not seem legal on battlescribe

Step one: Dont buy ANY Infantry whatsoever. Non. Really. Its bad. Step two: Buy alot of Land Speeder, Darkshrouds and Raven Wing Bikes

I just can't mix primaris and first born. Doesnt look right or feel good at all lol

be careful with advising looking for Dark Angels subreddits ;)

Is this still effective in 2023?

Disgraceful :) Celebrating the traitors while the loyalists they refer to as the "Fallen" are left trying to rebuild their names and showing their loyalty to the Emperor. Luther is posting facepalm memes as we type :P But on a slightly more topical note, if people do want to model the Fallen, they were mostly banished following the Horus Heresy. So todays Fallen would still be wearing Mk 4 and Mk 6 armours that were prevalent then. Which is perfect timing as GW have just released 2 new boxes of those armours :D

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Step 1: start marines Step 2: realize every average lobotomite on the street plays marines. Step 3: exchange marines for admech. Step 4: ????? Step 5: GLORY TO THE MACHINE GOD! AVE OMNISSIAH!!!

Sorry, won't start a Dark Angels army until they can learn to forgive themselves.

𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚘𝚜𝚖 🎶

Looks like auspex needs some repenting. That’s one fallen joke too much.

Suggestion no1: Brace for all the gay jokes.

Next step: throw out the army and then buy tyranids so you have a REAL army

I hate dark angels 💀