Editing Warhammer 40,000/7th Edition Tactics/Dark Angels (section)

==Why Play [[Dark Angels]]?==
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Do you like to [[Dakka|shoot enemies dead and keep shooting the ones dumb enough to assault you]]? You hate the [[Chaos_Space_Marines|traitorous heretical scum]], like '''really really [[Rage|hate]]'''? Great, you're in the right place [[The_Fallen|<s>HERETIC BATTLE-BROTHERS</s>]] LOYALIST BATTLE-BROTHERS! We are to shooting what Blood Angels are to assaulting and Space Wolves are to being a [[Katanas_are_Underpowered_in_d20|mall ninja]] [[furry|who is into bestiality]]!
Because you want to field an entire army of Terminators (harder to do now) without being teased about being a [[Grey Knights|powergamer]] or a [[Space Wolves|furry]], or entire army of Bikers ([[Awesome|with re-rollable jinks now]]). The 7th Edition update boosted both [[Ravenwing]] and [[Deathwing]] builds with said jinking fuckery, and "Battle Focus" by another name with lots of deep striking goodness. 
Oh, and you have the last Jetbike in the Imperium. Did we mention it comes with a Plasma Cannon? Bitches love Plasma Cannons. How about a flyer that thinks he's a Vindicator? We got one of those!

In a nutshell:
*You want a flyer with a S10 AP2 Vortex-causing cannon on it's nose with a re-rollable jink save! Now that's sexy!
*You want to use awesome models, damn we have the best looking EVERYTHING (bikers, land speeders, flyers, veterans, terminators, color scheme).
*You're a Terminator lover. You can go ALMOST all Terminator in a Battle Forged army (you need at least one Ven Dread in a drop pod, and be using the Deathwing Strike Force detachment, although you might still end up taking some Ravenwing for your Deathwing army because of how well they complement each other).
*Your Terminators are some of the best Terminators you can find in the game even if they aren't the only thing you field. Probably specifically ''when'' they aren't the only thing you field.
*You like the idea of wearing robes over your power armor.
*You wish to laugh at morale checks.
*You want to build a shooty Space Marine army without having to take [[Pedro Kantor]] or shell out cash for [[Raptors| Corvus Armor]].
*You want to overwatch at BS2 (normal) or <s>BS4</s> FULL BALLISTIC SKILL (Lion's Blade)!
*You like plasma (Seriously, there's plasma in anything and everything).
* Deathwing Knights can stand their ground against some of the best dedicated close combat units in the game (math doesn't lie).
*Speed is your need, and Dark Angels are the best marine army for players who wants to use bikes in support of your army. You are the only Biker Army which can go toe-to-toe with the White Scars and have a chance at coming out on top:
# Ravenwing can still outflank without the need to add a special character,
# 7th Ed Jink saves now cause the rider to snap-fire, so having whole armies of Skilled Riders is no longer as epic as it used to be. If you really want cover saves take Dark Shrouds.
# You re-roll your failed jink saves. This statistically kicks more ass than Skilled Rider alone, [[Cheese|and Black Knights have Skilled Rider too]].
# Ravenwing work better with others by having Teleport Homers and some rules interactions with Deathwing, while their own formations radically support each other in a manner that any Tau player would feel familiar with.
# Black Knights are the best bikers in the game.
# Sammael beats Khan, whether he's on Corvex or inside Sableclaw.
*Codex Marines now cost (more or less) the exact same points as Dark Angels do. So you have to decide if you want to have [[Ultramarines|better]] [[Raven Guard|flyers]] and a [[Imperial Fists|bigger]] [[Salamanders|choice]] of [[Iron Hands|combinations]] for your army or a bunch of terminators, fancy bikes, and bonuses against Chaos Marines. 
*Newfags: Just picked up Dark Vengeance? Welcome to the next step in GW's long-term upsell scheme.
*You are to codex chaos space marine as what Grey Knights are to Daemons, with Hatred (Chaos Space Marines) conferred onto each of your units with the Deathwing rule and some vehicles. Heldrake spam? Meet the new Nephilim Jetfighter. Some of your weapons even have special bonuses against <s>the Fallen</s> TRAITOR MARINES
*With Allied Detachments, DA would make a nice ally army to anyone that needs a strong beatstick to defend themselves from CQC, or to help drive around the board/camping behind cover by sending a lot of dakka to make a tough shooty army.


On the downside:
*Your aerial game is subpar (forget transport and dogfights, our flyers are for infantry slaughter). Way better than what 6th Edition Codex gave you, but it still pales in comparison to [[Stormraven|sturdy]] [[Valkyrie|transport fliers]], while Forgeworld does have units that can fix this (Caestus Assault Ram, Storm Eagle, Xiphon), it may not be everyone's cup of tea. The Death from the Skies supplement helped a little bit but your only anti-air unit is still overcosted.
*You don't have access to a lot of the fancier vanilla codex units, like Centurions, Hunters, Stalkers etc. Not a big deal for the most part, you have plasma spam and the [[Wulfen|almost]] unmatched cheese of the Deathwing/Ravenwing to make up for it, but the lack of anti-air can really hurt when, again, your aerial game is subpar.
*Games Workshop [[Grandpa Dreadnought|sometimes forgets that]] [[Sisters_of_Battle|you exist]] when giving other armies new stuff via Supplements.
*You don't have access to 30k Era [[Terminator#Patterns|Terminator armor]]. Seriously, one of the [[Blood_Ravens|few chapters]] [[Ratlings|known for]] [[Skaven|hoarding]] [[Sammael|the good stuff]]. For some reason can't deploy equipment they should already have since the [[Great Crusade]]. At the very least ranks Sergent's and above should get the option to take [[Plasma#Plasma_Blaster|Plasma Blasters]].
*Your [[Lion_El'Jonson|Primarch]] is one of [[Vulkan|two]] confirmed to be alive who should have got rules for 40k first. Instead of [[Roboute_Guilliman|the guy]] who got stabbed like a bitch by [[Fulgrim]]. Prepare to rage when those [[Leman_Russ|jerks]] [[Corvus_Corax|dicking]] [[Rogal_Dorn|about]] in the [[Eye of Terror]] get rules first.