Dark Angels Storm Shields

Slab-fronted energy shields for the elite of a secretive, monastic chapter of power-armoured warriors, the sort of wargear issued to heavy-armour units expected to walk into the worst of a firefight and still be standing at the end of it. On the tabletop a storm shield changes what a model is for: it stops being another gun in the line and becomes the point the line holds around. The set runs to several options, so a squad need not carry the same design repeated down its whole front rank. Robed, ritual-heavy forces reward that sort of variety, since the appeal of this particular brotherhood has always been the sense that every warrior is carrying a private oath. Conversion parts, then, for hobbyists building at tabletop wargaming scale who want their veterans to look chosen rather than issued.