My, what a large Codex you are! Indeed Codex Adeptus Astartes Dark Angels is sizeable tome packed with a lot of pretty pictures, extended splash pages, miniature showcases, and more Dataslates than you can poke a stick at! There is a lot here, BUT... is it necessary to have all of this information in one tome when this includes repetition and potentially sacrificing good content.
More on that later, but the Dark Angels have a proud and shrouded history in the 40K universe - not only in terms of background but also in look a feel.
I was mentioning last week that there was a time where Native American iconography was associated with the Dark Angels - everything from mohawks to face paint to feathers. It's pretty politically incorrect these days and thankfully the Dark Angels are back to being gothic knights for some years now. I do wonder how different this Codex would be if they hadn't.
I will leave others to concentrate on rules, this is a review of the book, the look and the feel, the quality and content.
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Potentially the worst kept secret this year, but Warhammer is back, bigger and badder and... well there's a lot of talk and really not much action here.
There have been leaks (more after the jump) but any official look and word has been non-existent and this issue of White Dwarf which is pretty much dominated by it has ZERO new content.
You would think that with such an important relaunch and massive change to the look of the miniatures that they would at least throw us a bone - OR just deluge us with new stuff. Shock and Awe!!
Well unfortunately that's not what we get.
This issue is, yes, dominated by Warhammer but as for new releases - if some books and an Eldar Jetbike Host are it then maybe you need to look at something to satiate people's thirst.
So what do you get? Well there's some Dark Angels stuff, many pages on Warhammer & a nice Ultramarines force. Want to know more?
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This great video by Angry Joe is doing the rounds at the moment, so it's gives us a good chance to have an overview of the new Battlefleet Gothic: Armada game due for release early in 2016.
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is based on the Games Workshop tabletop game first introduced back in 1999 where space fleets of the different WH40K races fought in the Gothic Sector during the incursion by Abaddon the Despoiler, and the subsequent campaign by the Imperium to restore order.

White Dwarf #73 came out today and with it the reemergence of almost a lost part of Games Workshop lore - the Dark Angels. The Emperor's First, the Unforgiven, the Angels of Death - however you know them, I have to say... it's really nice to see them back.
In a time that seems to be almost entirely dominated by Ultramarines, it's such a breath of fresh air to see Dark Angels take to the field again. No more blue!!
The Dark Angels, in terms of miniatures have gone through some dark times in the past. Believe it or not, there was a time where the Dark Angels, unlike their current Gothic look, sported a look closer to American Indians, feathers and all. I think this might have turned a lot of people off - Hell it turned me off - some of those guys looked like birds!
But I digress, in more recent times they are back to being all dark and brooding, with this issue of White Dwarf almost entirely dedicated to their new Codex.
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Having now come to terms with owning this Armorcast Titan, it's time to update it so it's closer to today's expectations of a large kit. 
The original is pretty simple and is just an upscaling of the Epic scale version with large expanses of (at times pock-marked) resin. Many of the details moulded on also aren't crisp and straight and have obviously been lovingly crafted by hand - a hand that didn't do very straight lines.. 
There are however some new details on this model, and some details have not come across from the Epic scale kit. I wanted to add or delete depending on what that detailing was so that it would (hopefully) look better. The overall look of this kit is great - don't get me wrong - love the size and the vicious look of the original model, though I'm pretty sure the scale is slightly off.
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Happy White Dwarf Day!
You know when I first got into 40K I wasn't really sure what a Librarian does in that universe and more so, what the Hell were they doing on the battlefield?
I assumed they had something to do with books an I knew they were blue (silly idea that!) but what did they do - read the troops bedtime stories at night? 
It wasn't until I really delved into it that I worked out they were Psykers (still didn't explain why they were blue!).
So this week sees the release of a new Librarian in Terminator Armour (they're still sticking with blue), and speaking of blue, the Ultramarines Painting Guide, Sons of Ultramar gets a run too.
So with just two releases next week, what else is in this week's issue of White Dwarf? Well... pretty pictures, some rules, Warlord Traits for the Successor Chapters of the Imperial Fists and a pretty decent Paint Splatter!
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