An Exercise in Dark Angel Restraint

Hello everyone! Your friendly neighborhood Gunum here, bringing you a small write-up on the thought process I go through when building lists for any tournament I go to. They way I do this is that I start with a unit that I think has some real Gold-Star potential that you could bring to a competitive event and have a real shot at doing well, and then build a list around it. Hopefully, through my pain 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.

++++++Cyle’s Notes++++++

Sigh

Sisyphus weeps for me dear reader.

Imagine every interaction with your roommate opening the door with “HEAR ME OUT, CYLE” and them going on about some C tier xeno unit in a book you haven’t read, in a faction that you couldn’t imagine caring about, equipped with a relic that the author couldn’t tell you what its real intention was.

Imagine Kramer bursting into your apartment, talking about plague drones, forever.

++++++End Notes++++++

Enough of these delays, this week the unit I will be trying to focus on is…

~Ravenwing Land Speeders~

The List