It’s the exact opposite of the T’au Empire list we cooked up: dead hard and incredibly durable, and capable of holding down objectives while putting the hurt on anyone who comes close. Stuffing this into a Deathwing Vanguard gives back some CP, and grants Objective Secured to almost the entire list. The strength of it comes down to the incredibly flexible multi-purpose nature of the Deathwing box – it’s actually the same kit for Knights, Command Squads, Deathwing Squads, Assault Terminators, and “regular” Terminators, plus all the elite characters and the Strikemaster, and you can easily make a Belial proxy happen. Of all the stupid concepts I noodled over for this article, I think this one might actually come the closest to being worth playing. I didn’t get where I am by not writing about Dark Angels, so you had to know this was coming eventually.

If you missed the general ground rules or the first instalment of the series, you can find it here. This week we’re looking at the best armies you could assemble by buying a single box of minis over and over, then we’re gonna have them face off at some point to determine which is the best one. Welcome back to one of our best ideas yet. This is dangerous and untested new technology, but we remain committed to advancing the state of the art in the 40k meta. The premise is simple: using only the contents of one single box from Games Workshop, construct a legal thousand point army. We kicked off the One-Box Challenge recently, our newest and perhaps worst idea.

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