Dark Angel force 1500points

Well the dust has settled and I thought I would load a picture of the brave souls who represented on Sunday.

It is a small force in terms of numbers and quite attacking minded.

I know that I should have taken a shooting army. I should have sat tight and forced the Nurgle hoard to come to me, maybe keeping a counter punch option for the hand to hand that would happen from turn 3. However I was actually quite pleased with the way the army played. I was unlucky that the Venerable Dread and the Razorback got immobilised. I will have to invest in some extra armour!!

I think the main thing for me to learn is to pick the right unit for the terminators to engage and then use the Landraider and Vindicator together to keep the rest of the army at bay. Wipe the first unit and then move on to the next. I attacked two units in my enthusiasm. I should have concentrated on wiping the Obliterators first.

I think I would also revisit the second HQ choice and the Venerable Dread. Maybe this is where the devastators come in with lots of plasma cannons.

I will say that I like the power axes very much, they proved themselves!

I will also need a plan to handle the flyer.

Now where is that rule book ...... ? I think I will need some more models to paint ;-)

Lighting the fires

Encountering (and wiping out!! and OK I had a few more models than I should have and it was a barren table ....) a Nurgle scouting team could only mean one thing, more would follow....

Belial knew that flames alone would would not be sufficient to lay low the Nurgle scum. He eyed up the options available and was drawn to Demolisher Cannon mounted on the great Vindicator. He knew that this would vaporise all before it, a smile creased his face as a plan hatched.......

Strength 10, AP 2 and Ord. 1 Large Blast. Now that could deal with T5 Nurgle, even in terminator armour. Even if it misses the 2D6 scatter is reduced by the BS of 4 so nearly bound to hit something and instant vaporisation!!! The range of 24" may be an issue but lets face it the Nurgle scum have to come to the Dark Angels so let them and they will die.

And for those following I can confirm that Belial is in fact a good looking, blonde gent!!

Bring on the Death and Disease for we have made our preparations.