I was over at my uncles house a couple years ago, and we were cleaning the garage. And he pulls out these little tiny models for a game called "epic". he says no one plays it anymore, but he thought the models would look good on display. So for about a week we're setting up this bookshelf of epic models. these itsy bitsy little things. no, some of you are saying 'a week, how many models was it?' He had collected the entire chapter of the dark angels. all ten companies, 10 squads a piece. the raven wing, the death wing, the support elements of vehicles, and because they used in epic, a legion of titans. and as we worked he told me all these cool stories about space marines,their crazy history with the emperor, and the way the universe worked. in the last box i found this codex called "the angels of death" including stories and lists for both the dark angels and the red angels. and I was hooked. I read every last magazine and codex and 40k story he had in this garage of boxes. and i thought, well, he has the dark angels......
But really, I've fallen in love with the death company. I found rules to playing the flesh tearers back in his old white dwarf collection, and I played them for a few games. Something amazing about having a good third of your army being jet pack equipped lunatics that are near impossible to kill. and dreadnoughts that were the same! it was unheard of. dreadnoughts bring a good chunk of fear to a game, and to have furioso dreadnoughts that had extra attacks and more wounds? The black rage, the blood angels trait that had struck fear into the heart of many a gamer as those black monsters roared across the battlefield was now enclosed in armor surpasing any other infantry....
I'm in for life. I'm even getting the angels badge tattooed on me.
