Vs. Dark Angels v7.0

[yoritomo]

7th edition is here. Now that is has been out for a while it is time for us to combine our knowledge and share what we have learned.

This thread is for everything we know about the Dark Angels. If you know something about the strategies that Dark Angel players use, or units to watch out for, or how the meta is developing with Dark Angels, or popular ally choices, or units you’ve had success with, or anything else that will help fellow nid players do well against Dark Angels then we’d love for you to share it here.

This is for serious discussion about Dark Angel armies only. As such, flaming will not be tolerated, if you’re going to debate then use facts and don’t break down into make calling or other such nonsense. Also, this isn’t the place for army list reviews; please take those to the appropriate board. And as always, the moderators reserve the right to delete any off topic replies or inappropriate responses.

[justinzilla]

Anyone else having a tough time dealing with this 2+ jink dark shroud garbage? Also psychic shriek is tough on monstrous creatures. Any thoughts?

[gigasnail]

not really, it's pretty terrible. VS + egrubs and it's very likely gone.

my derp. you can't egrubs it if it's not in hover mode. still, VS + a round of devourers and it's still likely gone. it's possibly gone just from the VS.

[WestRider]

Dark Shroud is just a Skimmer, not a Flyer. eGrubs work fine, as does Vector Strike.

[gigasnail]

oh, thought that was that silly little flyer. my bad. then yeah man, just kill the damn thing. it's kind of awful.

[WestRider]

The Dark Talon/Nephilim is their garbage Flyer. The Dark Shroud/LS Vengeance is their garbage Land Speeder Easy to get confused.

[gigasnail]

yeah the VS+egrubs combo will erase that POS.

[justinzilla]

Thanks guys. Next time I get matched up, I'll go aggressive towards that thing early

[1swarmlord]

just played a match against dark angels with the Nephilim, land raider and a bunch of other troop choices. avoided land raider and focused the shooting at all the light tanks and troops with the flying hive tyrants. We definitely have a psychic (warp charge) advantage if we set up our army that way.

[gigasnail]

...well, yeah. they have a possible 2 psykers possible per CAD, unless i've missed a dangler somewhere.

[balthial242]

Had a game against these guys last night and found the armour saves and AC14 Land raiders a lot to deal with. What advice do people have for armour heavy infantry and getting around that pesky AC14?

[yowster12]

How many Flyrants did you have??

Massed fire power help. Against Land Raiders... Egrubs or a CC carnifex if the game is friendly enough. But I really just ignore them.

[gigasnail]

there's a reason 3 egrub dakka flyrants is standard core for lists.

[renko]

Drop in a neurothrope, eat brains, collect warpdices and lance that raider.
Worked fine last night. :-)