A Vigil Unmatched – 1CP –You can give a DEATHWATCH WARLORD who is not a named character an additional Warlord trait, which must be a Deathwatch trait. One use only and all traits must be unique. There’s some reasonably strong traits here (as we’ll see in the Warlord Traits section) and being able to double up on them, or get one on top of a base Codex trait, is a good use of 1CP. A Field a battle ready force of Warhammer 40k Deathwatch Space Marines straight out of the box with the Combat Patrol: Deathwatch starter set. With everything you need to build a 'combat patrol' sized battle force of Deathwatch specific models this new boxed set is ideal not only ideal for new players but for established players looking to expand their collection of Death Watch marines. Apothecary [5 PL, 90pts, -1CP]: Chapter Command: Chief Apothecary, Stratagem: Hero of the Chapter, The Tome of Ectoclades As a small, elite force – even by the standards of the Space Marines – the Deathwatch are great if you want a small army to lavish attention onto, with many opportunities for cool conversions. Their specialised armoury is represented with some suitably tooled-up model kits.

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Members of the Deathwatch come from a wide range of Space Marine Chapters across the Imperium. This allows them to tap into the diverse combat doctrines, tactics, and abilities of various Chapters, making them highly adaptable xenos hunters. Brave, honest and true, they only very occasionally indulge in macabre vampiric rituals with goblets of suspiciously viscous red ‘wine’– and it really is only once in a blue moon that one of them slips into an insane, suicidal killing frenzy fuelled by the overwhelming psychic grief imprinted in his DNA. Special Issue Loadout – 2CP –Use in your Shooting phase when a DEATHWATCH INFANTRY unit is selected to shoot. Until the end of the phase, bolt weapons (except bolt sniper rifles for Eliminators) other than those that already have it gain Special-Issue Ammunition and change their Type to Heavy 1. Nice for getting to make a bit more use of the Special-Issue Ammunition rule, but quite expensive and limiting as it reduces your shot count and imposes a potential movement penalty as well. B Nowhere to Hide (Aura) –In your Command phase, you can select one enemy unit on the battlefield. Until the start of your next Command phase, DEATHWATCH CORE units within 6″ can ignore the benefit of cover for saving throws. A reasonably useful ability that pairs nicely with your ability to dip into the appropriate doctrine to maximise your weapons’ AP. B

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Heavy bolt pistol, Master-crafted power sword and Relic shield: Master-crafted power sword, Relic Shield We discussed the mechanics for building Kill Teams earlier on, but what can you actually do with them? If you’re looking to start collecting Deathwatch, theDeathwatch Combat Patrol is a solid basis for any Space Marine army, coming with: Make models troops that otherwise wouldn’t be. Kill Teams are all Troops, but they can still use Combat Squads. This means you can take five of the default troop model and five of something else, then split up pre-deployment and hey presto, you have a squad of specialist models that still has ObSec. This is especially relevant with the recent clarification on when Combat Squads happens pre-game, as you can now choose to put one half of the unit into deep strike with a Teleportarium.

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Also, can we talk about how flavorless some of these Combat Patrols are? Look specifically at the Space Marine sets: the Blood Angels, Dark Angels, Space Wolves, and Deathwatch could all be interchangeable, except for those upgrade sprues. Why don’t the Dark Angels have anything that could be either Deathwing or Ravenwing? Why don’t the Blood Angels have Death Company or Sanguinary Guard? Why don’t the Space Wolves have… wolves? It really seems like you’re just buying worse value Space Marine Combat Patrols. Artemis makes his return in 9th edition form, with the same Captain statline as before, and his upgraded combi-weapon – a boltgun with SIA and the Hellfire Extremis profile which is a flamer which always wounds non-VEHICLE/TITANIC models on a 2+. He also has a master-crafted power sword and his stasis grenade, which now doesn’t randomly murder him, and instead gives you a once per game Grenade which does d6 mortal wounds on a hit. He also gets to ignore wounds on a 6. Completely fine and completely unexciting; if you love his model then go ahead and run him, but you can do better with generic characters. Chaplain Cassius There’s a truly outrageous number of things you can do with these, but here are some of the big ones: The Soul Fortress. LIBRARIAN only; ignore modifiers to Psychic tests and increase the Psychic Hood ability to 24″. There’s just kind of not that many psychic modifiers in the game anyway. B Combat Patrols are a viable way to get started with Warhammer 40K and get all you need in one neat box. We take a look at what Warhammer 40K Combat Patrol boxes are on the market and which ones you should or may want to buy. Warhammer 40K Combat Patrol List

Each Combat Patrol is supposed to be balanced against all the others. That might be hard to believe when looking at the contents of the Adeptus Custodes box set, as the boys in gold are notoriously hard! Primaris Techmarine [5 PL, 100pts, -1CP]: Chapter Command: Master of the Forge, Stratagem: Hero of the Chapter, The Tome of Ectoclades Ah, the Blood Angels– noble and civilised sons of Sanguinius, most handsome, tragic, star-crossed and pretty of all the Emperor’s ‘Primarch’ sons. These renaissance Italy-themed space marines are among the most storied and popular chapters of the Adeptus Astartes.

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The Combat Patrol kits are an entire army in a box. As the name implies, each one contains a complete Combat Patrol-sized force of 25 Power or 500 points. That makes them perfect for getting started with the smaller-sized games of Warhammer 40,000, which are full of fast-paced action and a great way to learn the rules for your new army. Accompanying Cassius is his pet Blood Ravens Librarian, Codicier Natorian, who gets the same Deathwatch bolt pistol and an AP4 force sword, which is cute. He can also get +1 to cast for Smite or Witchfire psychic powers, and knows two powers from Xenopurge. Again fine, but not thrilling – nobody cares about the melee output of a Librarian.Primaris Captain [5 PL, 105pts, -1CP]: 3. Nowhere to Hide (Aura), Dominus Aegis, Rites of War, Stratagem: A Vigil Unmatched, Warlord Adamantine Mantle. Lets a model ignore wounds on a 5+. A solid boost in durability for a character, and best on characters who don’t benefit from taking artificer armour. B Finally we have The Long Vigil, which can be excellent in the right circumstances; if you have an opponent without much get up and go to get across the board and threaten your scoring, you can potentially max this out trivially and even 2 successful turns – which is pretty straightforward to score – is a respectable 10pt reward. The main thing to bear in mind here though is the category, as it competes with Engage on All Fronts, which with the flexibility Deathwatch have to ping things all over the board may work out better overall unless you can expect to trivially max this out. Units

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Eye of Abiding. The bearer can ignore any and all modifiers to hit and wound rolls, Ballistic Skill, or Weapon Skill. Additionally, unmodified wound rolls of a 6 by the bearer ignore invulnerable saves. There’s some potential here to make use of the “classic” smash Captain since you can ignore the modifier to hit, if that’s something you’re interested in. B We have previously written about the various Start Collecting boxes to see which ones are the best value, but since that article was written there have been a LOT of changes to Combat Patrol Range. There are currently 18 Combat Patrol boxes available–the replacement for the Start Collecting box–and more coming out all the time. Buy from Element Games) Warhammer 40k Combat Patrol Analysis: What’s the Best Value and What’s the Worst Value? Deathwatch get a selection of stratagems suited to their role as alien hunters, plus a few more generalist ones which assist them with things like making use of their special issue ammunition. Note that sometimes when discussing faction-specific stratagems in other articles we’ll give it two scores, one for its use-case and one for when it’s irrelevant; we’ll not bother here and you can simply assume for yourselves that a stratagem is bad if it targets AELDARI and you’re playing against Chaos Knights or something. Battle Tactics

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Artificer Bolt Cache. The bearer’s bolt weapons get Special-Issue Ammunition. Fine, but a single model getting this probably just doesn’t change anything enough to matter. C Indomitor: ‘Heavy’ Primaris Marines, consisting of 1 Heavy Intercessor Sergeant and 4 Heavy Intercessors. You can add up to 5 other models from either Heavy Intercessors, Aggressors, Inceptors, or Eradicators. The unit has INFANTRY, CORE, KILL TEAM, PRIMARIS, MK X GRAVIS and INDOMITOR for keywords Premorphic Resonance (Blessing) – WC6 – One DEATHWATCH unit within 18″ Overwatches on a 5+, fights first in the Fight phase, and gets +1 to hit in melee. A good power, giving you a lot of different pieces all at once to improve a unit’s prospects in melee. B+