Dark Angels Transfers and Honours
Decal reference
Formation, honours and personal heraldry
Use transfers to identify formation, role, rank, honours or campaign service. Establish which job a symbol is doing before assigning it to a model. A decorative variant can add individuality without creating a new army-wide rank.
← Collection overviewRead a transfer sheet by purpose
Chapter and wing badges: choose Dark Angels, Deathwing or Ravenwing for the model's formation. Sizes accommodate infantry and vehicles; alternate outlines and embellishments do not come with a complete published rank key.
Role badges and numbers: identify the squad's battlefield role and number. Apply the armour-specific placement guide, including the Deathwing shoulder reversal.
Swords: red swords appear on Lieutenants and in older veteran examples. Sword colour or point direction alone cannot settle the wearer's rank.
Keys, chains, script and small shields: personal heraldry with no complete published key for ranks or degrees of initiation.
Placement conflict · resolved by armour type
These are the useful distinctions in Ely's transfer-sheet survey. His non-Terminator Crux placement conflicts with his shoulder guide; the Deathwing page follows the armour-specific explanation. His preferences for ornate or gold badges are options, not mandatory officer colours.
Honours have meanings beyond rank
Supported meaning
Exceptional valour contributing to victory; associated with proven standard bearers.
Supported meaning
Distinguished shooting skill, often represented by a bolt-shell talisman.
Supported meaning
Honour and, as physical wargear, a protective device; chapter practices differ. A halo-like decal does not itself prove a particular force-field rule.
Supported meaning
Terminator Honours, with armour-specific display conventions; experienced company veterans do not all display the Crux.
Relic-origin stories and heraldic meanings can differ between chapters. The same motif may be an honour, sculpted equipment or decoration in different contexts.
Campaign badges and vehicles
A campaign badge identifies forces serving together, rather than their permanent company or rank. It may later survive as an earned honour. Sources vary on leg placement: Ely describes the right greave, while Lexicanum's older Codex-derived summary describes the left. Neither makes the other position universally wrong; choose and record a consistent army practice.
Vehicle surfaces allow chapter or wing badges, company devices, vehicle identification and campaign marks. Ely offers a common layout, but does not establish a universal compulsory tank-number position. Distinguish a transport's parentage from its passengers and from any game keyword.
Our army scheme · Sergeant rank cue
In this army, a red skull on a sergeant’s tilt shield is the rank marker. Skull decals elsewhere can have other meanings. The shield backgrounds are shown on our army scheme page.
The Intercessor recipe covers transfer preparation, application, sealing and the final finish.
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