And it begins! After much agonizing over what to paint for the Throwdown I've finally settled on this 1500pt Dark Angels army. The original list was to be a 'purist' 3rd Battle Company - no Deathwing, and no Ravenwing elements. It had Tacticals, Assault Squad, Devastators, Land Raider, the works. But it also had like 60+ models to paint (including the b**ch to paint Land Raider).
And then the IG codex came out, and the mood for painting Dark Angels really sapped away. I even got distracted from my half-done Pink Horrors to paint the lovely new Hydra (almost done now), and lined up several IG models to paint - 9 infantry and weapons teams for an updated AirCav, 1 psyker, 1 priest and 1 lovely new plastic commissar.
But I managed to pass my own Ld test (of 5) and decided to build a Throwdown list that has models I really want to paint, and with a smaller number of models too. It so happened that I had black-primed 3 Land Speeders, 6 Black Knights and a Nephilim for my Ravenwing. And those models were all part of the original 2014 project list. So I kill several birds (black ones) with one stone by including them in the list. Now the list has fewer models, AND I get to paint most of the models which I'm supposed to add to my Ravenwing army.
So here it is, 1500pts Dark Angels:
HQ:
Company Master - w artificier armor, Lion's roar and power sword (bare plastic)
TROOPS:
Tacticals - 10-men, plasma gun, plasma cannon, vet sgt w power sword and plasma pistol (bare plastic)
Rhino (on sprue!)
Tacticals - 10-men, plasma gun, plasma cannon, vet sgt w chainsword and plasma pistol (bare plastic)
FAST ATTACK:
Black Knights - 6 Knights, 1 ravenwing grenade launcher, Huntmaster w power sword and meltabombs (black undercoat)
3 Land Speeders (black undercoat)
Nephilim (black undercoat)
HEAVY SUPPORT:
Predator - all-lascannons (on sprue!)
FORTIFICATIONS:
Aegis Defense Line - with Quad gun
Let's go!
