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Deathwatch Forge Master - Deathwatch Forge Master: A Deathwatch Forge Master is a Techmarine who has been seconded to the Deathwatch and has won sufficient renown to be raised to the honoured rank of Forge Master. A Forge Master oversees the manufacture and maintenance of Deathwatch armaments of all kinds in a particular watch fortress. A Forge Master must also deal with all manner of xenotech captured by kill-teams on their missions, studying, categorising and determining its potential value or threat.A Forge Master is commonly a close confidante of the watch commander and acts as a central cog in the functioning of the whole watch fortress and its associated kill-teams. Whether in a watch fortress or out on a mission, the Forge Master's position is one of the gravest responsibility, for kill-teams rely on the quality of the Forge Master's work in environments where a single faulty bolt round or inoperable vox receiver could spell disaster.
Deathwatch Forge Master - Deathwatch Forge Master Wargear: Artificer Armour - A Techmarine's power armour is modified to accommodate their cybernetic enhancements and their backpacks are upgraded with several Servo-arms. Their armour is painted the rust red of the Adeptus Mechanicus, but their Chapter badge is retained and displayed on one of the shoulder plates, so as not to anger the armour's Machine Spirit.Servo-arm - Servo-arms are powerful manipulators tipped with crushing pincers, useful for field repairs and punishing enemies. Ports for these detachable appendages are installed at the shoulder, and the battle-brother's armour must also be upgraded with more powerful gyro-stabilisers to use one effectively. A servo-arm can lift one side of a Rhino APC to repair a broken tread link. A servo-arm can extend up to 1.5 metres. The limb's gripping mandibles allow the Techmarine to lift heavy objects or anchor himself in an emergency. Astartes servo-arms are more than just repair tools, and make deadly weapons. Techmarines have also been known to use this powerful tool to crush the skulls of those enemies that come too close.Servo-Harness - Like a servo-arm, a full Servo-Harness integrates with the Techmarine's power armour and is controlled through the same cybernetic spinal interface that makes him one with his armour. Radiating from a boosted fusion backpack capable of powering them all, this cluster of auxiliary limbs aid in battlefield repairs as well as combat. The composition of each Servo-Harness is unique, customised with the tools most preferred by its owner for tending to Machine Spirits and laying waste to the God-Emperor's enemies. Some bear only a few appendages, while others appear like great spiders, possessing servo-arms full of diagnostors, interface tines, drills, weapons, Plasma Cutters, and even more arcane elements that future inheritors of the harness may struggle to understand.Bolter - Techmarines make use of the standard ranged weapon of the Space Marines.Omnissian Axe (Astartes Pattern) - Often carried by Techmarines to show their devotion to the Omnissiah, this weapon has a long, staff-like body tipped with half of the circular Cog Mechanicum icon. The symbol forms a blade and is sheathed in a power field. Arcs of energy illuminate the ridged blade and light the skull's eyes with a hungry glow, leaving little doubt that--even while covered with inscribed circuitry indicating its sacred nature--this religious icon is also a deadly weapon in a Space Marine's powerful hands. The Ommnisian Axe also functions as a Combi-tool.
Deathwatch Forge Master - Deathwatch Primaris Forge Master Wargear: Artificer Armour (Based on Mark X Tacticus Power Armour)Forge Bolter (Shoulder mounted)Grav-pistolOmnissian Axe (Astartes Pattern)Servo-ArmServo-HarnessFrag GrenadesKrak Grenades
Deathwatch Graviton Cannon - Deathwatch Graviton Cannon: The Deathwatch Graviton Cannon is a modification made by the Deathwatch Techmarines of Watch Fortress Erioch in the Jericho Reach of the more common Space Marine Grav-Gun. The Deathwatch Graviton Cannon possesses a higher graviton output and has proven decidedly more deadly when unleashed on the Deathwatch's foes.Where the common Grav-gun has but one setting that affects the gravity in a sizeable area, the Deathwatch version can also focus its energies into a continuous tight beam of incredibly dense gravity waves.
Deathwatch Keeper - Deathwatch Keeper: A Deathwatch Keeper is a unique specialist Space Marine rank that is found exclusively in the Deathwatch. These Astartes are Veteran Space Marines and extremely capable warriors with many long standard years of service to the Deathwatch.These imposing figures bar entry to areas placed off-limits to ordinary battle-brothers, and stand sentinel over the captured xenos imprisoned within the walls of Deathwatch watch fortresses. Even an Inquisitor may not pass a Keeper without special remit from the watch commander. Keepers occupy positions of the most solemn trust as guardians of the holy and the most profane objects in the care of the Deathwatch.
Deathwatch Keeper - Wargear: Power Armour (Any Firstborn pattern)Clavis - A Clavis is a special silvered vambrace, a piece of armour granted to Space Marines upon becoming a Deathwatch Keeper. Created during the Dark Age of Technology, the workings of the Clavis are not fully understood even by the Adeptus Mechanicus, but it is known that it interfaces with the Space Marine's nervous system and cerebral cortex and monitors his vital signs. The Clavis acts as a unique and complex technological key that contains a myriad of Inquisitional override codes and other, more arcane systems that allow it to bypass nearly any technological seal. The Clavis communicates with light, vibration, and other, less-well-known means to unseal magnetic locks and gravitic energy field barriers at the Keeper's command. Servitors and other auto-defences register the Keeper as a friend and stand down in his presence. The Clavis is what allows a Keeper to walk his vigil undisturbed and reach nearly any secure zone of a Deathwatch watch fortress or voidship.Power Weapon (Any type)Chainsword, OptionalLas-lance, Optional
Deathwatch Keeper - Notable Keepers: Cuiris - Brother Cuiris was standing his fourth vigil of the Long Watch at the time of the defence of Watch Station Midael, his second vigil as a Keeper. The rank is one only granted to the most pure of heart and trustworthy of battle-brothers, for it bestows upon them the most vital of duties. Brother Cuiris' first Vigil was served at a watch fortress somewhere towards the galactic core, its name and nature unrecorded in the annals of the Jericho Reach. His second Vigil was mounted at Watch Fortress Erioch, where he discharged his Apocryphon Oath with such dedication that the Chamber of Vigilance requested he remain there and stand a third vigil as a Keeper, an honour which he, and his parent Chapter the Blood Angels, acceded to. As a Keeper, Brother Cuiris stood his third Vigil standing guard over the dread contents of the Xenos Bestiarium. He acted as warden and executioner, and occasionally as interrogator, of numerous fell aliens, including captured T'au, Aeldari, and Orks, as well as organisms never before encountered or categorised in the extensive archives of the Ordo Xenos. When one such being broke its bonds by shifting the molecules of its body from one state of matter to something entirely unknown, Brother Cuiris was responsible for containing it, and in so doing he learned the key to defeating its entire kin should they ever be encountered again. In laying low this blasphemous entity, Brother Cuiris fulfilled his third Apocryphon Oath, but as before, it was requested of him that he remain at Watch Fortress Erioch, so valued were his skills and experience.Arius Hyzeron - Arius Hyzeron, a battle-brother of the Ultramarines, has been on Watch Fortress Erioch longer than any other Astartes of the Deathwatch. He is one of the ten Deathwatch Keepers who serve as Guardians of the Chamber of Vigilance and has held that post for over two Terran centuries. Although no one is left who can confirm or deny it, it is said that Sergeant Varthion himself recommended Arius to his current post for his role in the famous defence of the Jericho Reach's Warp Gate. This places Arius in the Reach over four hundred standard years ago. He has seen the arrival of many new alien threats in that time. Arius is gifted with his Chapter's brilliant charisma, and has forged bonds with many of the people on Watch Fortress Erioch over his years there -- even the stubborn Forge Master Harl Greyweaver. He has an easy smile, although his face is marred by a triumvirate of parallel scars that cross over his augmetic left eye. He is also a repository of speculation and past tales concerning the Omega Vault. This makes him of great interest to Deathwatch Epistolary Axineton.
Deathwatch Kill-marine - Deathwatch Kill-marine: A Deathwatch Kill-marine is a specially-trained Firstborn or Primaris Marine battle-brother of the Deathwatch who is skilled in solo operations and acts essentially as an Astartes special operator. A Kill-marine is often sent to investigate and exterminate an enemy himself where such a thing is possible or to call in backup if he determines that the situation warrants it.Not every xenos-related threat demands the deployment of a full Deathwatch kill-team, but many seemingly inconsequential incidents can be harbingers of a greater threat that it would be unwise to ignore. Under these circumstances, a watch captain will deploy these lone Kill-marines to carry out their sacred duty. Kill-marines spend time living alongside those they must ultimately defend, sharing their trials and seeing the world through their eyes.
Deathwatch Kill-marine - Wargear: Power Armour (Any pattern)Bolter or Bolt PistolClose Combat Weapon of choice
Deathwatch Kill-marine - Notable Deathwatch Kill-Marines: Deathwatch Kill-Marine Semnai (KIA)- A notable Kill-marine of the Lamenters Chapter, Brother Semnai was serving his second vigil of the Long Watch at the time of the Hadex Anomaly operation, and his first spent as a Kill-marine in the Koronus Expanse. The exact nature of Brother Semnai's service in that far distant region of the galaxy remains a mystery, and it appears he travelled on the bridges of as many as a dozen different Rogue Trader vessels. Many suspect Brother Semnai had been tasked with hunting down a specific enemy of the Deathwatch in the Koronus Expanse, and that he finally cornered that unknown foe on the very brink of the Hecaton Rifts. Other than the fact that Brother Semnai discharged his Apocryphon Oath during that final battle, all that is known is that he sought to return to his Chapter's homeworld, his vessel laying up at Watch Fortress Erioch during its long voyage. Needless to say, Brother Semnai never completed the journey, deciding instead to stand a second vigil after Inquisitor Velayne Ramaeus approached him and specifically requested his aid in some undisclosed task. Brother Semnai served during the Hadex Anomaly operation and the reason for his continued interment in the Erioch Reclusiam is a complete mystery.
Deathwatch Librarian - Deathwatch Librarian: A Deathwatch Librarian is a powerful psyker of the Adeptus Astartes who has been seconded to perform the Long Vigil with the elite xenos-hunting Deathwatch Chapter. These powerful individuals are Firstborn or Primaris Space Marine Librarians who are born with innate psychic abilities, able to wield the powers of the Warp against the foes of Mankind as well as bearing the transhuman inheritance of their primarch's gene-seed.Deathwatch Librarians are often selected from members of three Space Marine Chapters -- the Blood Angels, the Blood Ravens and the Solar Hawks, due to the large numbers of psychically-gifted battle-brothers found among these Chapters.
Deathwatch Librarian - Xenopurge Discipline: Deathwatch Librarians can be taught an additional psychic discipline in addition to the disciplines they have mastered within their own Chapters such as the Librarius or Obscuration Disciplines. The Xenopurge Discipline has been crafted over the centuries by Deathwatch psykers to prove especially useful in defeating the xenos menace.Premorphic Resonance - The psyker peers into the timeless eddies of the Warp, seeing future echoes of whatever sinuous, scuttling or bounding movements the xenos enemy will make before imprinting this foreknowledge into the minds of his battle-brothers to better guide their aim and increase their accuracy against the foe.Fortified with Contempt - Fanning the fires of the Deathwatch's hatred into an inferno of contempt, the psyker instils a feeling of such vehement disgust in his battle-brothers that they shrug off the direst of injuries in their determination to exact their Long Vigil's vow.Neural Void - The psyker assails the target with a void-black darkness upon their minds, woven from psychomantic shadow. Mental cohesion and coordination begin to break down, orders become garbled and impetus and morale are blunted.Psychic Cleanse - Before the empyric might of the psyker, teeming throngs of lesser minds are swept aside in a Warp-fuelled purgation that purifies and slays the unclean.Mantle of Shadow - The psyker draws a shadow over his allies, shrouding their presence from enemy physical senses and assuring the completion of priority missions without detection.'Severance - The psyker has trained his powerful mind to single out enemy entities from which xenos foes gain their strength, snipping their influence with his razored thoughts. In an instant, commanding screeches fade to whimpers, inspiring presences falter and physical or telepathic communications vomit forth babbling nonsense.
Deathwatch Librarian - Deathwatch Librarian Wargear: Power Armour (Any Firstborn pattern)Psychic HoodBolter or Bolt PistolFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesForce Weapon
Deathwatch Librarian - Optional Deathwatch Librarian Wargear: Storm BolterCombi-weapons ( including Combi-flamer, Combi-melta or Combi-plasma)Plasma PistolStorm Shield
Deathwatch Librarian - Deathwatch Librarian in Terminator Armour: Indomitus Pattern Terminator ArmourPsychic HoodForce Weapons (Force Stave, Force Axe or Force Sword)
Deathwatch Librarian - Deathwatch Primaris Librarian Wargear: Mark X Tacticus Power ArmourPsychic HoodForce SwordBolt PistolFrag GrenadesKrak Grenades
Deathwatch Librarian - Notable Deathwatch Librarians: Deathwatch Librarian Miguel Gricalo - In 753.M41, Codicier Gricalo undertook an extended mission to investigate the Watch Stations of the Dark Pattern. As most of these sites are near dead or uninhabited worlds, the motives behind their implementation remain uncertain. The Librarian was motivated to undertake the study due to a series of visions that he received consistently for two standard years before his quest. According to records made prior to his departure, the divinations consistently told of an impending crisis that might soon emerge from this region. Several of these reports were corroborated by other psykers who worked in concert with the Codicier at the time. Codicier Gricalo's Kill-team had enjoyed tremendous success prior to his departure. Its other members, as well as his Watch Captain, were all reluctant to see the Librarian depart on this extended solo mission. However, a missive from an unidentified member of the Inquisition provided motivation for the Watch Commander to directly order the psyker to embark upon his survey of the Watch Stations. There have been no confirmed reports from the Codicier since his departure. Routine surveys of the locations included in his route show no signs of his ever having arrived. His fate remains a mystery.Deathwatch Librarian Tyrannus - A Battle-Brother of the Knights of the Raven Chapter, who was engaged upon his third vigil of the Long Watch, Tyrannus was instrumental in the action to track down and corner the infiltrator within the plasma exchanger. A gifted wielder of the psychic arts, Tyrannus had been able to sense something of the enemy’s presence even when other Librarians had not. It is tragic indeed that Brother Tyrannus fell alongside his brethren, for otherwise he might have been able to pass on how he did so and something of the mystery of the whole event might have been dispelled. However he achieved it, it appears that the Librarian was only able to estimate the approximate coordinates of a nearby infiltrator, for when confronted with the infiltrator masquerading as a member of his own Kill-team, his powers were unable to distinguish one from another. Ultimately, it was the intuition of brotherhood that unveiled the intruder, when Watch Captain Peratos declared which was the enemy. Though his unusual power abandoned him at the end, Librarian Tyrannus saw the truth of the Watch Captain’s judgement, fully acceding to his subsequent order to unseal the plasma exchange.
Deathwatch Tactical Marine - Deathwatch Tactical Marine: A Deathwatch Tactical Marine represents the most common battleline tactical specialty held by the Veteran Firstborn Space Marine warriors within the ranks of the Deathwatch. Tactical Marines are equipped and trained to fulfill the widest range of battlefield roles for the Adeptus Astartes. Armed with the iconic bolter, Tactical Marines provide the bulk of a Firstborn Deathwatch kill-team's firepower, which they are able to lay down in a devastating fusillade even as they advance implacably towards their objective.Most Firstborn battle-brothers taking up service in the Deathwatch have advanced to the position of Tactical Marine in their parent Chapters, and so are veteran warriors well versed in the many disciplines of war. There are very few enemies that the Tactical Marine has not encountered and defeated, and no battlefield holds any terror for him.
Deathwatch Tactical Marine - Wargear: Power Armour (Any Firstborn pattern)Bolter or Bolt Pistol with Shot SelectorFrag GrenadesKrak Grenades
Deathwatch Tactical Marine - Optional Deathwatch Tactical Marine Wargear: Specialised Bolter AmmunitionFlamerMeltagunPlasma GunChoice of Heavy Weapon, including Heavy Bolter, Multi-Melta, Missile Launcher, Plasma Cannon or LascannonChoice of Close Combat Weapon, including Chainsword, Combi-melta, Combi-flamer or Combi-plasmaPlasma PistolPower Weapon (Any type)Power FistMelta Bomb
Deathwatch Tactical Marine - Notable Deathwatch Tactical Marines: Battle-Brother Henghast - Brother Henghast, of the Space Wolves Chapter, served as a member of a Deathwatch kill-team led by Deathwatch Watch Captain Bannon. The team was summoned to the defence of Tarsis Ultra in the 41st Millennium to assist the Inquisitor Lord Fidus Kryptman in combating the Tyranids from Hive Fleet Leviathan. Brother Henghast assumed command of the kill-team after Captain Bannon was killed in action against the Tyranids, but eventually he ceded this role to the Ultramarines 4th Company Captain Uriel Ventris before the kill-team's assault on the last remaining Hive Ship in orbit around Tarsis Ultra. Henghast fought valiantly on the way to the Norn-Queen's chamber, and was one of the few surviving members of the kill-team.Battle-Brother Richter - Richter is a scarred old Space Marine of the Black Templars Chapter who joined the ranks of the Deathwatch at Watch Fortress Erioch in the Jericho Reach only recently. He seems taciturn and unremarkable but his expertise with boltgun and chainsword mark him as a past master in their deadly arts. To those with a practiced eye, he is clearly Sword Brethren material even though he wears no honours on his armour and seeks no recognition of his prowess. Some spiritual turmoil vexes Richter greatly. His set jaw and distant gaze speak of a soul deeply troubled by some past event. Those who watch closely for such things will note that Richter speaks privately with Deathwatch Chaplain Titus Strome more than most Astartes and that the two men interact as if they have a past connection or shared burden.Battle-Brother Josef Vincens - A few among Watch Fortress Erioch's complement suggest that Tactical Marine Brother Vincens has launched his own crusade against the T'au of the Velk'Han Sept. After two members of his kill-team were slain during a mission to investigate T'au operations on Innan, Vincens swore an oath of vengeance against the xenos. Since that time, he has undertaken dozens of missions into space held by T'au forces. None save the battle-brother know the precise terms of his oath, but it is clear that he is still attempting to fulfil that obligation. The other members of his kill-team have been remarkably accommodating in assisting Brother Vincens -- likely due to their own thirst for vengeance. Since swearing his oath, his kill-team's activities against the T'au have been relentless. The majority of their time away from the worlds held by these xenos has involved filing mandated reports concerning the details of their missions and the threat posed by the T'au forces. Many suspect that Brother Vincens has become the foremost expert on the sept's strategies and tactics within the Jericho Reach. However, due to his endless missions, none have been able to compile a comprehensive report of the information he has uncovered.
Deathwatch Techmarine - Deathwatch Techmarine: A Deathwatch Techmarine is highly valued for the important role that he performs in the Deathwatch. A Techmarine's skills in the operation of machines and techno-arcana are an asset to the day-to-day operations of the Long Watch and the advanced technology the Deathwatch has access to within the Vaults at the heart of each watch fortress. These weapons and wargear are known to be more exotic than even the rare Conversion Beamer.Many are unique, and all are sealed within the Vault at the heart of each watch fortress. Just as the Librarian has exclusive access to the reams of forbidden knowledge in each of these archives, so the Deathwatch Techmarine keeps his portion of the Vault sealed to all but his fellow Techmarines.There are weapons kept within the Vault the likes of which are thought to be unique in the galaxy, their secrets impenetrable even to the highest-ranking Tech-priests of Mars.
Deathwatch Techmarine - Deathwatch Techmarine Wargear: Artificer Armour - A Deathwatch Techmarine's power armour is modified to accommodate their cybernetic enhancements and their backpacks are upgraded with several Servo-arms. His helmet is painted the rust red of the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Cog Mechanicum is often displayed on one of his knee plates, but his parent Chapter badge is retained and displayed on one of the shoulder plates, so as not to anger the armour's Machine Spirit.Servo-arm - Servo-arms are powerful manipulators tipped with crushing pincers, useful for field repairs and punishing enemies. Ports for these detachable appendages are installed at the shoulder and attached to the backpack of a Techmarine's power armour. As a result, the Battle-Brother’s armour must also be upgraded with more powerful gyro-stabilisers to use one effectively. A Servo-arm can lift one side of a Rhino APC to repair a broken tread link. A Servo-arm can extend up to 1.5 metres. The limb’s gripping mandibles allow the Techmarine to lift heavy objects or anchor himself in an emergency. Astartes Servo-arms are more than just repair tools, and make deadly weapons. Techmarines can also use this powerful tool to crush the skulls of those enemies that come too close.Bolter - Techmarines make use of the standard ranged weapon of the Space Marines.Omnissian Axe (Astartes Pattern)- Often carried by Techmarines to show their devotion to the Omnissiah, this weapon has a long, staff-like body tipped with half of the circular Cog Mechanicum icon. The symbol forms a blade and is sheathed in a power field. Arcs of energy illuminate the ridged blade and light the skull’s eyes with a hungry glow, leaving little doubt that—even while covered with inscribed circuitry indicating its sacred nature—this religious icon is also a deadly weapon in a Space Marine’s powerful hands. The Ommnisian Axe also functions as a Combi-tool.
Deathwatch Techmarine - Deathwatch Primaris Techmarine: Artificer Armour (Based on Mark X Tacticus Power Armour)Forge Bolter (Shoulder-mounted)Grav-pistolOmnissian Axe (Astartes Pattern)Servo-ArmFrag GrenadesKrak Grenades
Deathwatch Terminator - Deathwatch Terminator: A Deathwatch Terminator, usually part of a Deathwatch Terminator Squad, is a Veteran Firstborn or Primaris Space Marine who serves in the Deathwatch Chapter as a Terminator or Assault Terminator wearing Tactical Dreadnought Armour.The indomitable Deathwatch Veterans honoured to wear the hulking Terminator Armour are an inspiring sight to their brethren. Deathwatch Terminators carry the most powerful close combat weapons and the strength and durability of their armour allows them to take the heaviest ranged firepower directly into hidden xenos lairs.
Deathwatch Terminator - Unit Composition: 4-9 Deathwatch Terminators1 Deathwatch Terminator Watch Sergeant
Deathwatch Terminator - Wargear: Indomitus Pattern Terminator ArmourStorm BolterPower FistTeleport HomerPower Sword (Deathwatch Terminator Watch Sergeant only)Assault Cannon (As replacement for Storm Bolter)Heavy Flamer(As replacement for Storm Bolter)Storm Bolter and Cyclone Missile Launcher (As replacement for Storm Bolter)Plasma Cannon (As replacement for Storm Bolter)Chainfist (As replacement for Power Fist)Power Axe(As replacement for Power Fist)Power Maul(As replacement for Power Fist)Power Sword (As replacement for Power Fist)2 Lightning Claws (As replacement for Storm Bolter and Power Fist)Thunder Hammer (As replacement for Storm Bolter and Power Fist)Storm Shield (As replacement for Storm Bolter and Power Fist)
Deathwatch Vanguard Veteran - Deathwatch Vanguard Veteran: A Deathwatch Vanguard Veteran is a Firstborn Marine who is a Deathwatch Veteran and serves the Deathwatch Chapter in the capacity of a Vanguard Veteran who specialises in close combat weapons and tactics.The Veteran Assault Marines sent to the Deathwatch are melee experts beyond compare. Many have put down looming alien monstrosities with no more than a Combat Knife and gut instinct. Once seconded to a watch fortress, these killers are armed with a profusion of weaponry and equipped with a comprehensive knowledge of alien anatomies that makes them hideously effective.Where a Sternguard Veteran marksman has to anticipate his target's movements to make the killing shot, the Vanguard Veteran face the xenos beast face-to-face, and more often than not their blades find their mark with unerring precision.
Deathwatch Vanguard Veteran - Role: The Veteran Assault Marines seconded to the Deathwatch are melee experts beyond compare. Many have put down looming alien monstrosities with no more than a combat knife and gut instinct. Once seconded to a watch fortress, these killers are armed with a profusion of weaponry and equipped with a comprehensive knowledge of alien anatomies that makes them hideously effective. The Vanguard Veterans face xenos beasts face-to-face, and their blades find their mark with unerring precision.Close combat is not the only means by which the Vanguard Veteran elevates his Kill Team in the arts of war. Bounding across the wilderness of alien worlds and through dying metropolises in a series of long leaps, these warriors use their powerful Jump Packs to reach high vantage points, looking down upon the disposition of the foe as a tactician looks upon a cartograph. To do so takes immense skill, for such warriors make themselves tempting targets, but this is a quality the Vanguard Veterans have in abundance.Some Vanguard Veterans range far from their squads during battle, trusting to their experience and independence to complete covert operations that a larger team would find impossible, striking hard and fast from the gloom before moving on just as swiftly. The most gifted at this approach hail from the Raven Guard -- it is said Edryc Setorax made over forty kills in the Great Pit of Ghosar Quintus with neither friend nor foe aware of his proximity.Some, such as those from the Flesh Tearers, take a far more bombastic approach. Courageous, some would say to the point of insanity, these warriors hurl themselves to the forefront of the battle no matter the odds. With every thunderous sweep of their weapons, they hurl broken xenos bodies through the air in sprays of gore. They bellow and slaughter, purposely drawing the foe's attention in as spectacular a fashion as possible, the better to give their battle-brothers the opening they require to strike the killing blow.Others, cooler-headed and more strategic, lead their brethren in a concerted charge. For these warriors, timing is everything -- a premature assault might be gunned down or torn apart before the Deathwatch can strike true, but a well-chosen attack can break a xenos battle line in a storm of shimmering blades and slashing claws.Vanguard Veterans play a key role in Dominatus Kill-team tactics. Wielding high-impact weaponry such as Heavy Thunder Hammers and Inferno Pistols, they fearlessly hit the enemy's elite warriors headlong. The Vanguard Veterans bludgeon and blast their victims, their strike so sudden and savage that the foe's strength is broken before they can raise their blades to respond to the deadly onslaught.
Deathwatch Vanguard Veteran - Unit Composition: 4-9 Deathwatch Veteran Vanguards1 Deathwatch Veteran Vanguard Watch Sergeant
Deathwatch Vanguard Veteran - Wargear: Power Armour or Artificer Armour (Any Firstborn pattern)Bolt PistolChainswordFrag GrenadesKrak Grenades
Deathwatch Vanguard Veteran - Optional Vanguard Veteran Wargear: May replace Bolt Pistol and/or chainsword with one of the following:Power Weapon (Any type) or Lightning ClawGrav-pistolPlasma PistolInferno PistolPower FistThunder HammerHeavy Thunder HammerStorm ShieldMelta BombsJump Pack
Deathwatch Vanguard Veteran - Optional Wargear, Veteran Watch Sergeant Only: Relic Blade
Deathwatch Veteran Biker - Deathwatch Veteran Biker: A Deathwatch Veteran Biker, usually part of a Deathwatch Veteran Bike Squad, is a Firstborn or Primaris Deathwatch Veteran who is skilled at riding an Adeptus Astartes Assault Bike or Raider Pattern Combat Bike.Matching their speed, strength and firepower against the swiftest xenos, Veteran Bikers are expert hunters. Undertaking extended missions in dangerous territory, they assess their enemy's every weakness, close off escape routes and use their velocity to enact sudden strikes from unexpected angles.
Deathwatch Veteran Biker - Role: Where a Vanguard Veteran represents the pinpoint application of close combat force, the Deathwatch Veteran Biker is a nigh-unstoppable battering ram. A Veteran battle-brother at full sprint can break limbs with the weight of his charge, but one hurtling upon the dense tonnage of a Space Marine Assault Bike can plough through an entire battle line, guns blazing and chainsword juddering until dozens lie slain in his wake.The Veteran Bikers of the Deathwatch are excellent shock troopers, especially when several ride to war side-by-side. When the order for the final charge comes, theirs is a blunt and unsubtle duty -- to smash aside the alien's defences so that the xenos army's throat is exposed for a killing strike. As with many elements of their alien-hunting brotherhood, however, the Deathwatch Veteran Bikers' role is multifaceted.
Deathwatch Veteran Biker - Unit Composition: 2-5 Deathwatch Veteran Bikers1 Deathwatch Veteran Biker Watch Sergeant0-1 Deathwatch Veteran Biker Attack Bike
Deathwatch Veteran Biker - Firstborn Deathwatch Veteran Biker: Power Armour (Any Firstborn pattern)Assault Bike armed with twin-linked boltgunsFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesAttack Bike armed with twin-linked boltguns and Heavy Bolter (side-car),  or a Multi-Melta, riders outfitted with Bolt Pistol and Frag Grenades and Krak GrenadesAny Deathwatch Veteran Biker can also be equipped with one of the following:Bolt PistolAstartes ChainswordPower AxePower MaulPower SwordDeathwatch Shotgun (Deathwatch Watch Sergeant only)Stalker Pattern Bolter (Deathwatch Watch Sergeant only)Xenophase Blade (Deathwatch Watch Sergeant only)
Deathwatch Veteran Biker - Primaris Deathwatch Veteran Biker: Raider Pattern Combat BikeTwin-linked Bolt Rifles (mounted on Raider Combat Bike)Mark X Tacticus Power ArmourHeavy Bolt PistolChainswordFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesDeathwatch Shotgun (Deathwatch Watch Sergeant only)Xenophase Blade (Deathwatch Watch Sergeant only)
Deathwatch Watch Captain - Deathwatch Watch Captain: A Deathwatch Watch Captain is a Veteran Space Marine officer of the Deathwatch who commands an entire Watch Company of Astartes composed of four formidable kill-teams. These charismatic heroes must be able to win the confidence and respect of their battle-brothers in both triumph and adversity. In rare instances, a senior and highly experienced watch captain may also serve as the watch commander of a watch fortress without first attaining the rank of watch master.A Watch Company of Deathwatch Space Marines can defeat seemingly insurmountable odds under their watch captain's command, the individual prowess of the battle-brothers magnified a hundredfold when coordinated by the ferocious tactical acumen of their leader.Where the watch masters are the masterminds of their order, watch captains are its fiery swords. These heroes of the Imperium lead the Deathwatch into the thick of the fight, binding their kill-teams together into armies of black-clad killers whose mission is the systematic annihilation of the enemy force. Each watch captain is given jurisdiction over four or more kill-teams, including their vehicles and the battle-brothers that attend them. It is the watch captain's duty to learn and understand the personalities and motivations of the Space Marines under his vigil. After all, every kill-team boasts an array of radically different individuals hailing from all over the galaxy.Without a guiding hand, the resultant clashes of culture and ideology could become a liability -- but with the guidance of a born leader, each team is forged into a weapon far greater than the sum of its parts.No Space Marine warrior reaches such esteemed heights without having proven himself in a dozen theatres of war. Many watch captains were once captains in command of a Space Marine company; amongst their number are Wolf Lords, Khans, Iron Fathers and luminaries from a hundred different Chapters. Others are promoted from within the standing forces of the Deathwatch, their conduct so exemplary they attain this rank within the Chapter.Regardless of their history, they think of little else than how best to slay those forces that threaten the Imperium. They do so not only by launching pinpoint strikes, but also by conducting the resultant battles themselves.Armed with an arsenal of specialist wargear, at close-quarters they can fell the strongest xenos goliaths. The watch captains of the Deathwatch have seen alien horrors beyond number, and remained stoically defiant.
Deathwatch Watch Captain - Deathwatch Watch Captain Wargear: Artificer ArmourIron HaloBolter or Bolt PistolChainswordFrag GrenadesKrak Grenades
Deathwatch Watch Captain - Optional Deathwatch Watch Captain Wargear: Terminator ArmourStorm BolterCombi-weapon (Combi-flamer, Combi-melta or Combi-plasma)Close Combat Weapon ( Power Sword, Lightning Claw, Plasma Pistol, Storm Shield, Power Fist, Relic Blade or Thunder Hammer)Xenophase BladeMelta BombDigital WeaponsAuxiliary Grenade Launcher
Deathwatch Watch Captain - Primaris Watch Captain Wargear: Mark X Tacticus Power ArmourIron HaloMaster-crafted Auto Bolt RifleBolt PistolSpecial Issue BoltsFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesMaster-crafted Stalker Bolt Rifle (As replacement for Master-crafted Auto Bolt Rifle)Power SwordXenophase BladePlasma Pistol (As replacement for Master-crafted Auto Bolt Rifle)Power Fist ( As replacement for Bolt Pistol)
Deathwatch Watch Lieutenant - Deathwatch Watch Lieutenant: A Deathwatch Watch Lieutenant is a Firstborn or Primaris Space Marine lieutenant who serves as one of the two subsidiary officers of a Watch Company under the command of a watch captain in the Deathwatch Chapter.
Deathwatch Watch Lieutenant - History: In the wake of the resurrection of Primarch Roboute Guilliman in ca. 999.M41 and his revisions to the Codex Astartes, the rank has been introduced to all the Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes, including the Deathwatch, since the start of the Indomitus Crusade. A lieutenant normally serves as a demi-company leader, with two assigned per full company of 100 Space Marines. In the Deathwatch, where a Watch Company rarely has more than four kill-teams, each comprising on average 10 or sometimes 15 Astartes, they rarely command more than 50 Astartes.Watch lieutenants act as the right hands of their watch captains by providing flexibility and helping to direct their battle-brothers in engagements, as well as providing strategic and tactical advice alongside their watch captain in the strategium of their watch fortress' watch commander.
Deathwatch Watch Lieutenant - Lieutenant Wargear: Power Armour (Any Firstborn mark)ChainswordMaster-Crafted BolterBolt PistolFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesAny Pistol (including Plasma Pistol, Bolt Pistol or Grav-pistol as replacement for Master-Crafted Bolter)Any Combi-weapon or Storm Bolter (as replacement for Master-Crafted Bolter)Any Melee Weapon (including Chainsword, any Power Weapon, Thunder Hammer or Lightning Claw as replacement for Master-Crafted Bolter)Any Melee Weapon (including Chainsword, any Power Weapon, Thunder Hammer or Lightning Claw as replacement for Chainsword)Xenophase Blade  (Optional replacement for Chainsword)Jump Pack (if leading a combat drop)
Deathwatch Watch Lieutenant - Primaris Lieutenant Wargear: Mark X Tacticus Power ArmourMaster-crafted Auto Bolt RifleBolt PistolFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesPower Sword (Optional replacement for Master-Crafted Auto Bolt Rifle)Xenophase Blade  (Optional replacement for Master-Crafted Auto Bolt Rifle)Master-crafted Stalker Bolt Rifle (Optional replacement for Master-Crafted Auto Bolt Rifle)Power Fist (Optional replacement for Master-Crafted Auto Bolt Rifle)If a Primaris Lieutenant is wearing Mark X Phobos Power Armour, the wargear available changes as follows:Mark X Phobos Power ArmourBolt PistolMaster-crafted Occulus Bolt CarbinePaired Combat BladesFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesGrav-ChuteIf a Primaris Lieutenant serves as a Reiver, the wargear available changes as follows:Mark X Phobos Power ArmourBolt PistolHeavy Bolt PistolCombat BladeFrag GrenadesKrak GrenadesSmoke Grenades
Deathwatch Watch Lieutenant - Notable Watch Lieutenants: Watch Lieutenant Alvor - Alvor was a watch lieutenant of one of the watch fortress of Mortguard's Watch Companies. During the Chalnath Expanse Campaign, the Deathwatch of Mortguard learned that the entire Arrajian System in the Chalnath Expanse was on a war footing. The trade guilds were pouring funds into raising Astra Militarum defence regiments as well as private paramilitaries, from the glacial algae seas on Arrajian II to the mag-trawlers skimming the atmosphere of the gas giant Arrajian IX. Everything pointed to preparation for a system-wide conflict, a laudable precaution given T'au aggression against other systems of the expanse. With a precise teleport strike, a single Proteus Kill-team led by Watch Lieutenant Alvor of Mortguard manifested in the servo-ducts beneath the guildhouse on Arrajian IV. Their aim was to uncover the true reason for the missing assets reported by the elderly Inquisitor Jazad D'ontor in the system. Within solar minutes of their arrival, the kill-team came under attack from "work gangs" of Genestealer hybrids and degenerate Aberrants. Kill-team Alvor pushed through one duct after another, seeking some source to the infection. For two solar days, the kill-team fought higher into the guildhouse's foundation, losing more and more of their number. All the while their signals back to orbit were blocked by psychosqualls of xenos static. By the third solar day, the kill-team had slain dozens of xenos-corrupted guilders, but only Brother Tyvus survived to pull himself to the surface and activate his teleport homer, taking into orbit a tale of widespread alien infection and twisted experimentation. Within solar months the system had fallen to the Genestealer Cult, but Mortguard now knew the truth and would return.
Deathwatch Watch Master - Deathwatch Watch Master: A Deathwatch Watch Master, usually referred to as a Watch Commander and/or a Master of the Vigil when they command a watch fortress, is the most senior ranking Astartes officer within the Deathwatch who serves as the commander of a Deathwatch watch fortress or other Deathwatch headquarters installation.Their role is equivalent in function and seniority to that of a Chapter Master of a Space Marine Chapter, save that there are many of them scattered across the galaxy in the myriad watch fortresses of the Deathwatch.They are the finest warriors of the Long Watch at the very pinnacle of their abilities, for their tactical acumen and uncanny skill at combating the alien is nearly unsurpassed within the Adeptus Astartes.The knowledge and experience a watch commander has gained through centuries of combat, against the various xenos threats from his time spent throughout the ranks of the Deathwatch, have taught him valuable lessons in the art of war, trained him in the various facets of military strategy and honed his martial instincts to a level nearly unmatched even by the other elite xenos-hunters of the Deathwatch.A watch commander acts with authority as he sees fit, according to his own counsel and judgement, answerable to no one except his fellow watch commanders, the Inquisition and the Emperor of Mankind Himself.Watch masters are the foremost Alien Hunters in the galaxy. They are counted as heroes even amongst the highest echelons of the Adeptus Astartes, for these warriors have tested their mettle against a hundred species of aliens and emerged triumphant. They have such intense charisma and martial and command ability that within the Deathwatch their every word is law.They do not win such respect through rousing rhetoric and generous gestures -- they are typically curt of speech and fierce of temperament, and they do not suffer fools gladly. Their mission is to ensure the survival of the Human species, and it is not one they take lightly. No less a body than the High Lords of Terra has been known to seek their counsel -- for in the business of laying low the alien, the watch masters are without equal.Though they theoretically return to their original Chapter once their duties are discharged, watch masters usually prove so vital they are never allowed to leave their post. All too often the watch master will shoulder his duties alone, seeking the solace of pure thought in long periods of introspection and solitude. Yet his actions send ripples throughout history, and almost always for the betterment of the Imperium.
Deathwatch Watch Master - History: When the Deathwatch was initially formed during the War of the Beast in the mid-32nd Millennium, it was set up as a singular Chapter, like any other of the Adeptus Astartes. In this era, the watch commander served effectively as the Chapter Master of the Deathwatch, with the first watch commander being Wolf Lord Asger Warfist of the Space Wolves who was chosen to take on the role by Lord Commander of the Imperium Koorland.Over time, the Deathwatch became a far more decentralised organisation that was deployed across the galaxy. Now based out of watch fortresses largely independent of each other, the title of watch commander stopped being a singular rank used to denote an overall leader of the Deathwatch. In the 41st Millennium the title now simply refers to the commanding officer of a particular watch fortress, who is almost always a watch master, but sometimes can be a senior watch captain.
Deathwatch Watch Master - Wargear: When the watch masters take the field, their centuries of experience are focussed to a deadly point, a weapon specifically made for the task of slaying xenos bioforms. Wisdom is far from their only tool. They go to war girded in the finest Imperial war-tech, the artefacts they bear so precious they would make a tech-magos weep oily tears of envy.Just as the hero of an ancient people was once given the keys to his city, the watch master is given the key to Humanity's domain -- the Clavis, a wrist-worn repository of Machine Spirits (artificial intelligence routines) from the Dark Age of Technology that can open any door, and in theory, take control of any Imperial machine.Watch masters are clad in precious masterpieces of the artificer's art -- each a formidable and ornate suit of armour which incorporates an Iron Halo, a device which projects around its wearer a field of protective energy. They also carry the fabled Guardian Spear, symbolic of their role of sentinel.This is a sign of great trust, for it is the same weapon borne by the Emperor's personal warrior elite, the Custodian Guard, yet modified to fire the signature bolt shells of the Deathwatch. When a watch master joins the fight on the front line, he cuts down his foes with a cold precision that leaves monsters and tyrants slain in his wake.Artificer ArmourTerminator Armour (Optional)Iron HaloVigil Spear - A long and stout-hafted polearm borne only by the Emperor's most trusted warriors, the Vigil Spear is two weapons in one. Beneath a powerful blade crackling with disruptive energies, the spear has a compact bolter that allows its bearer to kill his xenos enemies at range.Bolter or Bolt Pistol (As replacement for Guardian Spear)Chainsword (As replacement for Guardian Spear)Clavis - This wrist-mounted artefact contains ancient Machine Spirits (artificial intelligence routines) that can be projected through the air to disrupt a nearby mechanism or take control of its function.Frag GrenadesKrak Grenades
Deathwatch Watch Master - Special Issue Wargear: Relics of the Vigilant - Among the armouries of the Deathwatch are a number of items so powerful that their very presence on the field of battle could mean the difference between victory and defeat. A Deathwatch watch master may choose one at their discretion to carry into battle.
Deathwatch Watch Master - Optional Deathwatch Watch Master Wargear: Storm Bolter (When in Terminator Armour)Combi-weapon, including Combi-flamer, Combi-melta or Combi-plasma gunClose Combat Weapon - Power Sword, Lightning Claw, Plasma Pistol, Storm Shield, Power Fist, Relic Blade or Thunder Hammer (As replacement for Guardian Spear)Xenophase Blade (As replacement for Guardian Spear)Melta BombDigital WeaponsAuxiliary Grenade Launcher
Deathwatch Watch Sergeant - Deathwatch Watch Sergeant: A Deathwatch Watch Sergeant is a Veteran Firstborn or Primaris Marine sergeant of the Adeptus Astartes who has been seconded to the Deathwatch Chapter and now serves as a noncommissioned officer in command of a Deathwatch kill-team or as a sub-commander to a kill-team's chosen leader if the mission profile calls for accompaniment by a higher-ranking officer.A watch sergeant can serve as the commander of a Deathwatch kill-team composed of 10 Firstborn Space Marines or Primaris Space Marines.Watch sergeants often bore the rank of sergeant in their parent Chapter before secondment to the Deathwatch, but many give up the rank when they first enter their Long Vigil. Instead, many watch sergeants earn the rank anew when they are selected from those hardened Deathwatch Veterans who have survived and thrived through several standard years or even solar decades of service to the Long Watch.It is essential that a kill-team be led by a canny and daring individual capable of divining the flow of battle for those opportunities that will allow his squad to maximise its tactical advantage, and it is quite common for squad sergeants to be seconded from their Chapter's elite 1st Company. This is to ensure that the mainstay of the Chapter's battle forces are led by the most experienced of its warriors.
Deathwatch Watch Sergeant - Wargear: Power Armour (Any pattern)Boltgun (If Firstborn Marine Sergeant)Bolt Rifle (If Primaris Marine Sergeant)Bolt PistolFrag GrenadesKrak Grenades
Deathwatch Watch Sergeant - Optional Wargear: ChainswordCombi-melta, Combi-flamer or Combi-plasmaStorm BolterPlasma PistolPower WeaponXenophase BladePower FistMelta BombsTeleport HomerScout Armour (Scout Squad Sergeant only)Astartes Shotgun (Scout Squad Sergeant only)Jump Pack (Assault Squad Sergeant only)Terminator Armour (Terminator Squad Veteran Sergeant only)