All eyes may be on the Dark Angels as they track down Vashtorr for a final confrontation, but another legendary hero of the Imperium descends this week – Commander Dante, Chapter Master of the Blood Angels. He’s the Lord Regent of Imperium Nihilus, the saviour of Baal, and possibly the oldest Space Marine alive,* and now he’s got a fresh new Primaris bod to keep his axe arm swinging.
The stunning new miniature is available to pre-order this weekend, so to make sure you can get him right back into the thick of things – with a fresh coat of Retributor Armour – we have his new datasheet here to download today.
Not too much has changed for the venerable Commander, because it’s hard to improve on perfection, but his relic Perdition Pistol has received a serious upgrade. No longer a vanilla inferno pistol, it now fires a solid beam of melta right through anything in its way, melting man, beast, and tank like so much butter.
Commander Dante has been as active as ever since crossing the Rubicon Primaris, and has spent his time tracking down a strange phenomenon terrorising isolated Balefleets. Upon boarding his first Ark of Omen, Dante found the place deserted save for piles of Heretic Astartes corpses and some oddly spectral plant life.
What kind of being could commit such wholesale slaughter on the forces of Chaos, with a fondness for forests and a millennia-old grudge to settle? Your guess is as good as ours, but if anyone deserves credit for finding the Imperium’s next great saviour, it’s the good Commander. Maybe then he’ll be able to have a lie down at last.**
Pre-order Commander Dante this Saturday when he arrives alongside Arks of Omen: The Lion, and just maybe you’ll get to see him throw down with another axe-wielding melee machine with a fondness for red. Is time finally up for the 1,500-year-old Space Marine?
* At least, if we don’t count the ones stuck in Dreadnoughts.
** Spoilers: Nope.