I've been working on (painting and playing) my Dark Angels army with Guard allies for a couple of weeks now, getting ready for an 1850 on the 30th. The first game went well against Chaos marines with 2 Drakes. What I am running...
Sammael
Ravenwing Command Squad (Ravenwing Banner and Grenade Launcher, Champion, Apothecary)
Librarian Power Field Generator and Nightvision
Ravenwing (5) 2 plasma guns
Ravenwing (4) 2 melta guns, multi-melta attack bike
Darkshroud
Devastator Squad (5) Lascannon x3
Devastator Squad (5) Missile Launcher x3 (Flakk)
Company Command Squad Lascannon, Officer of the Fleet
Infantry Platoon (3) Lascannon, Meltabombs x3, Autocannons x3, Power Axe x3
Commisar w/Power Axe
Heavy Weapons Team 3 Lascannons
Veteran Squad 3 plasmaguns, Chimera
I'm considering finding room for either one more bike squad, a Manticore, or a Lemun Russ Nova Eradicator...if I can get a few more games in we'll see.
Most important part of this is that with the exception of the Darkshroud everything is painted well enough. No highlights or blending yet, but everything is colored and washed nicely. So a much better start for me than previous events.
Right now the Darkshroud is the focus. I am using a Land Speeder Storm that I never got around to using. I'm going to paint up the boarded scouts to match the ravenwing bikes to keep the theme going and add a bunch of icons on the top to balance it out well for a proper "counts as" feel.
After that I need to fix the magnetization on the Sammael model I made. Kit bashed bike, with bits and lots of green stuff...pics to come. I ended up adding too much the front after the initial design and the magnets are too far to the back for it to stay on the base properly.
I'm also planning on overhauling the display board from Templecon. Got some inspiration from playing Halo 4 yesterday that I think will be perfect! Plenty of wIP pics coming in the next few days.
