5/5 for the Dark Angels on loyalty, versus the obviously treacherous Space Wolves.

As many cool robes as you want, friend.ĭamn.

Zero mutants! (please ignore the Watchers in the Dark for the sake of this).

Seriously, Leman Russ is out of control, someoneshould stop him! Think of the children!Ĭompare this to the noble (and loyal) Dark Angels:

Attacked a loyal son of the Emperor for no reason no less than 3 times.

In fact, we would even say that they’re twice as loyal as the Space Wolves, a chapter that: None of these toys really get used in 40k, because the rules writers seem to love disappointing us, but it’s nice that, at least in the fluff, we can Big Time every other chapter by laying down the classic line of “If you’re not first, your last”.Īs you can see, all of this makes the Dark Angels the most loyal legion. They also have the best toys because of this, literally hiding away weapons and tools from the Dark Age of Technology while other legions got their hand-me-downs. The Dark Angels are also the First Legion and therefore can dunk on all the others by pulling the classic older brother move of “I did that before you did”. Backing those boys up is a fairly normal chapter, that people on the internet call Greenwing for some silly reason. The two companies work in tandem: the Ravenwing finds secrets (enemy targets) for the Deathwing to keep (kill, capture).

Clad in black is the 2nd company, the Ravenwing, who take up the fight on bikes and in speeders or flyers. The 1st company goes by the name “Deathwing” and always fight entirely in Terminator armor – which is rad – that’s bone-colored because a single squad survived a literal planet of Genestealer cultists, which is even radder. So cool and good that the Dark Angels have dedicated two entire companies towards it.

So we can all agree that keeping this a secret was cool and good. They kept the secret of their legion’s defection from everyone, and now relentlessly hunt the remaining Fallen Angels who escaped and made their way to the Eye of Terror. When the Dark Angels returned to Caliban, they had to fight a whole civil war that ended in Lion’el Johnson getting murdered and the planet being destroyed. They swore allegiance to Horus and fell in with the powers of Chaos. Then the Horus Heresy hit and while the Dark Angels fought on the side of the Emperor across the galaxy, back home, half the legion, led by Lion’el Johnson’s closest brother, Luthor, defected. See once upon a time, back in the Great Crusade, the Dark Angels were loyal and stalwart defenders of humanity, fighting to expand the Imperium and reclaim lost planets. As we all know, keeping secrets is a cool and good crime. One that they protect at all costs from the Imperium at large, with no act being beneath them in their quest to seek redemption. Dark Angels are haughty, proud, and hide a heck of a secret.

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