Codex question

[ThralKhan]

I’m looking to get into DA (fmr SW player) and am pretty tired of GWs business model of making people purchase more than one codex for a single army. 
 

i’m considering moving to DA using the Lion, Inner Circle companions, Deathwing Knights, DW Terminators, and Ezekiel. Can I get away with just ysing the DA Codex Supplement?  
 

thanks!

[Indy Techwisp]

2 hours ago, ThralKhan said:

I’m looking to get into DA (fmr SW player) and am pretty tired of GWs business model of making people purchase more than one codex for a single army. 
 

i’m considering moving to DA using the Lion, Inner Circle companions, Deathwing Knights, DW Terminators, and Ezekiel. Can I get away with just ysing the DA Codex Supplement?  
 

thanks!

 

The Dark Angels Supplement does expect you to also be using the Loyalist Space Marine Codex, since it's only an addition to that Codex.

Dark Angels do have a lot of units they can use, but without access to the LSM Codex, you're missing a lot of the foundational building blocks of a Marine army.

[HeadlessCross]

21 minutes ago, Indy Techwisp said:

 

The Dark Angels Supplement does expect you to also be using the Loyalist Space Marine Codex, since it's only an addition to that Codex.

Dark Angels do have a lot of units they can use, but without access to the LSM Codex, you're missing a lot of the foundational building blocks of a Marine army.

If they're not looking to build an actual Marine army, let alone a competitive one, they don't actually need the codex though. 

 

It's a predatory business model though so just find the rules online for whatever extra units you want. 

[Indy Techwisp]

35 minutes ago, HeadlessCross said:

If they're not looking to build an actual Marine army, let alone a competitive one, they don't actually need the codex though. 

It's a predatory business model though so just find the rules online for whatever extra units you want. 

 

If you're OK with sourcing the rules via alternative means, then yeah, you should be fine with just the DA supplement.

With the current mission pack, Battleline units got a lot more important, hence me emphasising them.

[ThralKhan]

Awesome thanks.  I’ve been playing since 1999. (3rd ed) so I’ve seen this game change quite a bit.  My first army was 40k Space Wolves and it wasn’t bad back then when the supplement was on $19.  Now, the sups are as expensive as the main codex so I’ve been thinning the herd to single codex armies.  It almost seems blasphemous for me to say, but I like the DA better the wolves now, especially since I started getting interested in 30k Heresy and saw how B.A. Dark Angels are.  
 

So, I don’t really care about how competitive thd list is or isn’t.  I play for fun and to hang out and always like having options if I don’t feel like playing WE or Votann. 
 

and then there’s Kill Team…