Dark Angels 5th Company
The Dark Angels 5th company has been under development for a number of years. It started as an idea, long before Appocolypse was even rumored. How cool would it be to have a whole company of space marines?
I became a fan of the Dark Angels by accident. I was seeking to start a Black Templars army, but the Black Templar tactical squads had all sold out. At that time there was a Dark Angels box sitting on the shelf and I bought it. When I read the Codex, the story of a chapter ripped apart by the betrayal of thier brothers really appealed. The rest was history.
Dark Angels 5th Company
Why the 5th Company?
This is a very interesting question indeed. With a very uninteresting answer. I was looking online at Fortress Unforgiven and noticed an amazing army featuring the 3rd Company of the Dark Angels. It got me thinking about building a themed force.
Obviously I couldn't do the 3rd Company as they had been done before. In fact they had been featured in the 2nd Edition Codex. I started looking at the other unit designations. I decided that I wanted to do a battle company, which left me 2 choices. The 4th Company symbol was too challenging to paint on knee pads, so the 5th Company it was.
Constructing the Army
The development has been laboured. I have added bits here and there, but never really found the motivation to complete the army. When the new codex came out I snapped up the new veretan models, mapped out the company, and put them aside again. Just recently I have dusted them off and assembled all the models that I have.
Currently my Dark Angels 5th Company has have 4 tactical squads, 1 Assult Squad and 1 Devastator Squad. The squads that are fully painted are shown here. Unpainted squads are litsed as being in orbit, while those yet to be obtained are listed as recruiting and training.