Warhammer 40,000/Tactics/Deathwatch(7E)/Kill Team

Why Play Deathwatch

• This is XCOM, in 40k. Get 6 Veterans, kit them for 100 points, and go smash the enemies of man.

• Access to some sweet toys no one else has. (SUCK IT DARK ANGEL!)

• You can have any Chapter you want, so long as you move their badge to the left shoulder and paint their armor black.

• One of the easiest paint jobs out there. Even a palsy stricken chimp could pull it of.

• Increadably cheap (by Games Workshop standards). One Box of Deathwatch veterans and you are good to go.

• Combi. Heavy bolters. Heavy Flamers.

• Giant Two-Handed Thunder Hammers.

• Handheld fragstorm cannons.

Weapon Analysis

The Deathwatch weapons racks contain a bunch of fancy gizmos for killing Xenos.

Unit Analysis

Troops

• Veterans:

Honestly these guys are probably going to be your entire Kill team. A mildly kitted out Veteran Squad can easily pop the 200 point limit in Kill Team.

A veteran squad consists of 5 veterans one of which can be upgraded into a Watch Sergeant, and another which can be upgraded into a Black Shield.

• Intercessors:

Can be useful, but only because of Deathwatch special ammunition. Load auto bolters with AP-2 for a fast and deadly MEQ killer, or a stalker

pattern bolt rifle with long range ammunition for a 42 inch AP-3 kill shot.

• Reivers:

Pretty much pointless when regular deathwatch veterans all get power swords and bolters for 3 points less.

Elites

• Vanguard Veterans:

Expensive (double the cost of a normal marine) but with storm shields and thunder hammers baseline, these guys make a high-risk high-reward sideboarder.

• Terminators

Terminators are expensive and fragile for their cost, coming with a 2+ armor save and 5+ invuln baseline, but can be improved with the Deathwatch's armory. Storm bolters gain the benefit of special ammunition, and while 4 shots hitting on 3's, wounding on 4's and having AP-2 is pretty lethal, they do become more expensive when given to the deathwatch. A terminator with a storm shield and a thunder hammer will run you between one third and a full half a kill teams price, so you need to rely on RNG for the invuln saves, lest you lose most of your team to one well timed plasma overcharge.

Captains and Chaplains in terminator armor are legal in commanders, and give a deathwatch a nice alternative to the inordinately expensive Watch Master.

Tactics

What to buy

Buying the Deathwatch Kill Team box will give you literally everything you need to build a kill team. The rest is really up to you. You have the option of Intercessors or Reivers if you want to run Primaris over veterans.