A Herd as Strong as its Parts

Hey team! Gunum here and I feel like it’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to reach out and entice you to expand your minds by using unique units to their maximum potential. We’ve had so many releases over the past couple weeks I haven’t had a chance to even think about my lists, much less to have a chance to focus on tweaking them. The way I’ll do this is that I’ll start with a unit that I think has some real Gold-Star potential that you could bring to any competitive event and have a real shot at doing well, and then build a list around it. Hopefully, through my painful and almost methodical thought process, you’ll be able to glean some insight about how even if some units or even ideas are bad, you can still take a battle plan to an event and see it through. These lists will be primarily Dark Angels focused, but I play a wide variety of armies and will explore this format often.

This will be a list run through the filter of my partner in Hog-crime, Cyle “Naramyth” Thompson. Cyle is one of the best — and most boring — players that I know and he has been suffering through my focus on “Bad” units throughout our entire friendship. Cyle plays very meta-focused lists, sometimes even trying to craft that meta himself. Ideally, by the end of this I’ll be able to pull him over to my side of thinking and sell my list idea as the new meta-list I know it can be.

+++ I do like some of the places Chase has been with his Dark Angels, especially when it was just a marine shell and he was running primarily units that are not in the Codex. But I have a feeling that there will not be a Christmas Miracle and I will suffer this holiday season. +++

It’s time. After a ton of requests this week the unit(s) I will be trying to focus on are…

~Chapter Approved Ravenwing~

The List