After getting my hands on the new dark angels codex I dove straight into the fluff and found out that the ravenwing have finaly turned into the bad asses that they rightfully should be.
So me being the list whore i am I decided that I would love to run an entirely ravenwing army. So hares my first draft at a list.
Sammael
Cause hes the dude
Interrigator chaplain
Bike
Sammael and this guy to run with the command squad for extra wounds and general badassery!
Ravenwing command squad
Ravenwing banner
ravenwing grenade launcher
3 guys 2 twin linked plasma guns, grenade guy to make the target -1T and the banner to make sure they don't get bogged down in combat.
Darkshroud
Darkshroud
To give my units some mobile cover and also add a little bit of fire support where needed
6 ravenwing bikers
2 melta guns
Ravenwing land speeder
multi melta
6 ravenwing bikers
2 melta guns
Ravenwing land speeder
multi melta
6 ravenwing bikers
2 melta guns
Ravenwing land speeder
multi melta
6 ravenwing bikers
2 melta guns
Ravenwing land speeder
multi melta
The work horses of the list, Melta guns and multi meltas to deal with armor and if i read the rules correctly when the land speeder is out front it has to be shot first, makeing the squad almost immune to small arms fire on the way in. Don't quote mo on that, more testing will have to be completed.
10 scouts
cammo cloaks
sniper rifles
8 scouts
cammo cloaks
sniper rifles
Why? because with all the bikes and speeders zipping around there are 2 squads of sneaky dudes hideing on objective markers and "plunking" away at long range
1841pts
2 scouts
cammo cloaks
just to fill out the 2 odd guys out
3 black knights
Adding a little more punch to the list with 3 more twin linked plasma gun and war pick armed crazies.
1995pts
Okay so its not entirely monowing with the scouts in there. But I can see them as a "scouting" element to the force used to search buildings and dense foliage where the bikes just cant go. They dont need to know the true identity of what they are searching for, just to find it and send word to the ravenwing.
The largish bike squads will be used as harassers on the way into the enemy and the command and black knight squads coupled with the chaplain and Sammael will be the sledgehammers of the force. The Speeders will try and soak the S3-5 shots coming in and hopefully the bikes will be at full strength when they are finally committed to getting stuck in.
This list seems to be the best I can come up with at the moment. Im sure with play testing there will be some tweaks made, units dropped, added, cussed. But its a place to start from.
Now going on the GW site this list can be built for $849.... barring tax. Do I sense a slow build in the future? We will see
Stay thirsty my friends
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