[Epic] E40k When all else fails...

From: <pentacle_at_...>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 17:57:51 -0500

I am currently building a new Dark Angel Codex Chapter, called the Jester's
Angel. Based on the remains of the 2 companies and a ravenwing detachment.
The history reads that they were set up to defend a hive from a Tyrannid
attack, with a Imperial guard group behind them as a fall back position.
What no one knew, was that a group of Genestealers had invaded the
underhive and created a sizeable cult.
Right before the battle was joined, the stealers attackes the Impies from
behind and ravaged their lines. Part of the Ravenwing detachment was sent
back, leaving a company with out close support. The Tyrannids then attacked
the weakened line of the Marines and turned it into a slaughter. Right
before the killing blow landed, a warhost of Harlequins arived and
immidiately killed the main bio-titan. The remaining Marines and the
Harlequins destroyed the Tyrannids to the last Termagant. The Marines then
left with the Harlequins after interning their dead, and were not heard
from for ten years when they suddenly showed up and bailed out a Dark Angel
army from a different Tyrannid swarm.
The New codex is exactly the same, and deployment almost identical, except
that most of the support vehicles are now bikes and landspeeders.

This army translates really well in Epic terms, giving a lighter, more
mobile Chapter, with all the firepower of the Marines, and the speed of the
Harlequins.

                        Aerich Frodoson
                                "When all else fails, make it yourself"
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