DA rumor bit

[Stickmonkey]

Interesting bit of rumor regarding DA.

Next incarnation will see expanded use of chaplains. Rumor is they may be able to be taken in groups and assigned to lead troops, like wolf guard. If solo they stay elite slot, if Interrogator they are hq.

Interesting to see if it pans out. No word on if/when Codex might be coming.

Cheers

[Malakai]

I always loved Asmodai. As to when the codex comes out I thought Dark Angels were 'in the works'. I took that to mean a Codex, but I guess it's the models in the starter set?

[Valkyrie Sky]

Are you sure they are called Chaplains?

[MajorWesJanson]

I like the idea of 2 Wound Elite slot Chaplains and 3 Wound HQ slot ones, personally.

[Droma]

Interesting idea. Thanks for the rumor stickmonkey.

[Stickmonkey]

Another little very tenuous bit.

Heard this stuff elsewhere before, however coming thru a more trusted source now...

Rumor of plasma cannon sponsons on DA tanks. And a special Plasma main gun predator or vindicator...

Again...tenuous...salt standing by. Any other rumormongers wanting to weigh in?

[Theocracity]

Very interesting!

I've been very interested to see how they will expand the Dark Angels beyond just the Ravenwing and Deathwing. The Chaplains seem like a potentially good way to do this - and the similarity to the Space Wolves could be used to highlight that rivalry. Thanks for the tidbits.

[brassangel]

Not too surprising, but very interesting, nonetheless. Chaplains have a great "mood" to them, and the Dark Angels ones were always exceptional; if never expanded upon enough. The Blades of Reason is just about the coolest name for a weapon ever!

[MajorWesJanson]

Another little very tenuous bit.

Heard this stuff elsewhere before, however coming thru a more trusted source now...

Rumor of plasma cannon sponsons on DA tanks. And a special Plasma main gun predator or vindicator...

Again...tenuous...salt standing by. Any other rumormongers wanting to weigh in?

I cant weigh in on the rumor part, but a predator variant would be easy, just like the Baal. One sprue, replace the turret, sponson, and accessory sprue from the pred with this plasma turret and sponsons, maybe another gun and sponson option (multimelta?) with the new Baal style durable sponsons. Would be easy, new so players would buy it, and distinctive. I can see that happening. Would only require a single tank sprue as well. Rules-wise, Predator Executioner, with the Executioner Plasma Cannon out of the Guard Codex? It would be useful as well, maybe priced about the same as an Annhilator variant.

[Raibaru]

Chaplains leading units sounds like a good idea and may help push the idea of something other than Deathwing and Ravenwing being all the DA have going for them. Bit surprised that the rumors are saying the DA are the next 40k book and yet this is all we know so far though. And the idea of them being the last book in another edition is a nightmare.

[BaronGustav]

I seriously hope this isnt the case. I always thought that chaplain squad leads is more of a Black Templar unique attribute than a DA one. If anything they could have an inner circle marine be the squad leads.

[Starchild]

I'm trying to wrap my head around a background justification for this. With DA having to recruit from many different worlds maybe they need lots of chaplains to make sure everyone gets along. Or it could be that DA are far more monastic and zealous than other chapters so the chaplains are more common. Either way there had better be some stunning models of them. I'd rather not use that tree hugging, power fisted abomination of a chaplain, although the other chap is ok, but not dark angely enough.

There are certainly some sources of inspiration they could use for DA chaplains! The imposing fellow on the front cover of the codex for one, also the chaplain in the codex with what appear to be iron maiden bars on his shoulder pad. Awesome stuff...

[Elios Harg]

The Dark Angels do seem to have more Chaplains than most Codex chapters as they have 1 per company plus Interrogator chaplains in the Inner Circle instead of just 1 per company. Perhaps they'll be like sanguinary priests rather than wolf guard.

[Maxis Lithium]

This has my intrest. Guard have plasma sponsons, so I don't see why a space marine chapter can't steal some of the IG's bits and rig them into a Pred Chassis
DAs have such a wonderful look and feel to them, I really hope they do them justice this time around.

[Ruthven]

The Dark Angels do seem to have more Chaplains than most Codex chapters as they have 1 per company plus Interrogator chaplains in the Inner Circle instead of just 1 per company. Perhaps they'll be like sanguinary priests rather than wolf guard.

I'd almost certainly bet that they act like Sanguinary Priests rather than Wolf Guard if this rumor pans out. Impressive as it may be, I'd highly doubt GW would make Chaplains their own self-contained unit like Wolf Guard. This rumor would make a lot of sense, though, since a lot of the books lately have had these kinds of options. Wolf Guard, Sanguinary Priests, Necron Lords/Crypteks....

[Droma]

Should be super obvious why DA have more chaplains from a fluff perspective. To keep a close eye on their brothers and determine who does or does not have the qualities necessary to learn the secrets of the Dark Angels. Chaplains would also be the ones telling the stories to help reinforce and mentally prepare the battle brothers to learn the truth of the fallen. The last reason would be to control information and perception should members not of the inner circle have contact with a fallen. It would also be the chaplains helping to silence the complaints from battle brothers about leaving a warzone in the middle of a fight to pursue the fallen. I'm sure the battle brothers don't enjoy consigning imperial citizens to their deaths.

[Polaria]

Are you sure they are called Chaplains?

They would most likely be called "chaplains" in the draft version of the army book so that everyone in the GW office having anything to do with the project would know what they are talking about... The final name of the unit in the printed codex is almost 100% sure to be something else as GW likes to have units have unique names. "Inner Circle" maybe?

I seriously hope this isnt the case. I always thought that chaplain squad leads is more of a Black Templar unique attribute than a DA one. If anything they could have an inner circle marine be the squad leads.

Like I said they are the "Dark Angel version of chaplains", most probably with another name alltogether in final version. So they are unlikely to be anything you'd assosiate with religions or templars.

The Dark Angels do seem to have more Chaplains than most Codex chapters as they have 1 per company plus Interrogator chaplains in the Inner Circle instead of just 1 per company. Perhaps they'll be like sanguinary priests rather than wolf guard.

Exactly. If you look at the army organization chart in the old Dark Angel codex you notice that they have something like 2 to 3 times more chaplains per trooper than normal chapters do.

[samiens]

Should be super obvious why DA have more chaplains from a fluff perspective. To keep a close eye on their brothers and determine who does or does not have the qualities necessary to learn the secrets of the Dark Angels. Chaplains would also be the ones telling the stories to help reinforce and mentally prepare the battle brothers to learn the truth of the fallen. The last reason would be to control information and perception should members not of the inner circle have contact with a fallen. It would also be the chaplains helping to silence the complaints from battle brothers about leaving a warzone in the middle of a fight to pursue the fallen. I'm sure the battle brothers don't enjoy consigning imperial citizens to their deaths.

Except, of course only interrogator chaplains actually know of the fallen, basic chaplains don't n the current fluff. However, with both interrogator and regular chaplains we are bound to have higher numbers- and frankly DA have been chaplain heavy since a time when BT were a codex chapter so I don't see a problem with it.


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[Droma]

Except, of course only interrogator chaplains actually know of the fallen, basic chaplains don't n the current fluff. However, with both interrogator and regular chaplains we are bound to have higher numbers- and frankly DA have been chaplain heavy since a time when BT were a codex chapter so I don't see a problem with it.

Forgot that part. Still I think my reasoning is sound and something that the designers are likely to change about DA chaplain fluff.

[eyeslikethunder]

The Dark Angels do seem to have more Chaplains than most Codex chapters as they have 1 per company plus Interrogator chaplains in the Inner Circle instead of just 1 per company. Perhaps they'll be like sanguinary priests rather than wolf guard.

I think they will be more like priests than wolfguard