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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!

Now known as the Unit Review Library!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!

Also this has become quite the Challenge! With so many units to review in the game the consensus in the hobby community is that I will not have enough time to review all of the Datasheets before the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 came out.

I should have started when 10th edition launched!
425 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #114, I am 311 reviews behind!

Not picking randomly at the moment, need to finish Imperial Agents and Deathwatch before they change as explained Here

Deathwatch, Deathwatch Veterans

10th Edition Index

Of all the units that are probably dissapearing with the Deathwatch Codex being swallowed into the Imperial Agents book, the Deathwatch Veterans are probably the most safe.

They are an iconic squad with a lot of options. Space Marines drawn from many Chapters across the galaxy and armed with both the weapons and the knowledge to kill the alien menaces that plague the galaxy.

Whether it is the Hive broods of the Tyranids, the brutish hordes of the Orks or the highly advanced Aeldari, the Deathwatch study them all and seek weaknesses.

They cost 100pts for 5, 200pts for 10 and have mostly a double-up system for special weapons.

A box of 5 of them costs you $45 and will then come with a lot of extra bits!

Let's start with their base stats.

Stats

Movement 6"
Toughness 4
Save 3+(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 2
Ld 6+
OC 2

Weapons

Every model starts out with a Boltgun and Long Vigil Melee Weapon.

The Sergeant can exchange his Boltgun only with a Long Vigil Ranged Weapon.
The Sergeant can exchange his Long Vigil Melee Weapon for a Xenophase Blade.

Any number of models can exchange both the boltgun and Long Vigil Melee Weapon for one of the following 3 combos:

Long Vigil Ranged Weapon and Close Combat Weapon.
Astartes Shield and Boltgun.
Astartes Shielf and Long Vigil Melee Weapon.

2 in every 5 can have a Heavy Weapons listed below.
2 in every 5 can wield Deatchwatch Thunderhammers.

Ranged:

Boltgun

Range 24", 2 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S4, Ap 0, 1 Damage each

Long Vigil Ranged Weapon

Range 24", 1 Attack, Hitting on 3+, S4, Ap 0, 1 Damage each
Rapid Fire 1 (Get 1 Additional attack at half range of 12")
Devastating Wounds (Critical Wounds, rolling a 6 to Wound, cause Mortal Wounds)
Anti-Infantry 4+ (Causes Critical Wounds against Infantry on a 4+ and thus triggers Devastating Wounds.)

Heavy Weapons:

Missile Launcher - frag grenade firing option

Range 48", D6 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S4, Ap 0, 1 Damage each
Blast (Get an additional Attack for every 5 models in the enemy unit targeted rounding fractions down.)
Heavy (Add 1 to the to Hit Rolls when this unit remains Stationary)

Missile Launcher - krak grenade firing option

Range 48", 1 Attack, Hitting on 4+, S9, Ap -2, D6 Damage each
Heavy (Add 1 to the to Hit Rolls when this unit remains Stationary)

Frag Cannon

Range 18", D3 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S7, Ap -1, 2 Damage each
Heavy (Add 1 to the to Hit Rolls when this unit remains Stationary)
Rapid Fire D3 (Get D3 Additional attacks at half range of 9")

Infernus heavy bolter — heavy flamer firing option

Range 12", D6 Attack, Torrent, S5, Ap -1, 1 Damage each
Torrent (Roll for the amount of attacks, they automatically hit)
Ignores Cover (Target does not get benefit of cover against this weapon)

Infernus heavy bolter — heavy bolter firing option

Range 36", 3 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S5, Ap -1, 2 Damage each
Heavy (Add 1 to the to Hit Rolls when this unit remains Stationary)
Sustained Hits 1 (On a 6 to Hit, score 1 additional Hit)

Melee:

Close Combat Weapon

3 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S4, Ap 0, 1 Damage each

Long Vigil Melee Weapon

3 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S5, Ap -2, 1 Damage each

Xenophase Blade

4 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S5, Ap -2, 1 Damage each
Anti-Vehicle 3+(Critically Wounds a Vehicle on a 3+ to Wound)
Devastating Wounds (Critical Wounds, rolling a 6 to Wound, cause Mortal Wounds)

Death Watch Thunder Hammer

3 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S10, Ap -2, 3 Damage each
Devastating Wounds (Critical Wounds, rolling a 6 to Wound, cause Mortal Wounds)

Abilities

Death to the Alie

This unit re-roll 1's to Hit rolls. If the target is neither Chaos nor Imperium (therefore one of the aliens) then they Re-roll to Hit at all times!

Wargear Abilities

Astartes Shield

The Bearer gets +4 Invul Save.

Thoughts

2x Infernus Heavy Bolters/2x Frag Cannons, 2x Thunder Hammers and a Sergeant with a Xenophase Blade and a Long Vigil Ranged Weapon... enough said.

As they are now, they are Battleline and have 2OC each and they are super versatile!

That makes 6 Deathwatch Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 54.54% Completed! The total Completed is 11.74% Complete! Can I review them all?!

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

Alphabetical List

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Adeptus Custodes	Prosecutors	#1
Adeptus Custodes	Knight-Centura	#54
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain	#61
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain in Allarus Terminator Armor	#70
Adeptus Custodes	Trajann Valoris	#40
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Fusilave	#13
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Stratoraptor	#14
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Transvector	#15
Adeptus Mechanicus	Belisarius Cawl	#53
Adeptus Mechanicus	Corpuscarii Electro-Priests	#97
Adeptus Mechanicus	Onager Dunecrawler	#110
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Raiders	#55
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Sulphurhounds	#56
Adeptus Mechanicus	Technoarcheologist	#104
Aeldari	Guardian Defenders	#64
Aeldari	Maugan Ra	#87
Aeldari	Night Spinner	#65
Aeldari	Shadowseer	#80
Aeldari	Prince Yriel	#92
Astra Militarum	Kasrkin	#60
Astra Militarum	Tank Commander	#90
Astra Militarum	Wyvern	#81
Black Templars	Black Templars Gladiator	#102
Black Templars	High Marshall Helbrecht	#38
Black Templars	Marshall	#46
Black Templars	The Emperor's Champion	#63
Blood Angels	Baal Predator	#2
Blood Angels	Gabriel Seth	#66
Blood Angels	Lemartes	#32
Blood Angels	Sanguinary Guard	#93
Chaos Daemons	Beasts of Nurgle	#98
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82
Chaos Knights	Knight Abominant	#94
Chaos Knights	War Dog Brigands	#30
Chaos Knights	War Dog Executioners	#31
Chaos Knights	War Dog Huntsman	#77
Chaos Space Marines	Abbadon the Despoiler	#50
Chaos Space Marines	Haarken Worldclaimer	#41
Chaos Space Marines	Khorne Lord of Skulls	#37
Dark Angels	Asmodai	#16
Dark Angels	Azrael	#17
Dark Angels	Belial	#4
Dark Angels	Deathwing Knights	#20
Dark Angels	Deathwing Terminator Squad	#99
Dark Angels	Lazarus	#62
Dark Angels	Land Speeder Vengeance	#101
Death Guard	Biologus Putrifier	#5
Death Guard	Blightlord Terminators	#10
Death Guard	Chaos Lord	#36
Death Guard	Lord of Contagion	#52
Death Guard	Tallyman	#39
Death Guard	Malignant Plaguecaster	#71
Deathwatch	Corvus Blackstar	#72
Deathwatch	Deathwatch Terminator Squad	#112
Deathwatch	Proteus Killteam	#57
Deathwatch	Spectrus Kill Team	#73
Deathwatch	Veteran Bike Squad	#84
Drukhari	Grotesques	#45
Drukhari	Haemonculus	#8
Drukhari	Raider	#35
Drukhari	Scourges	#7
Genestealer Cults	Aberants	#47
Genestealer Cults	Hybrid Metamorphs	#58
Genestealer Cults	Reductus Saboteur	#33
Grey Knights	Brother Captain	#25
Grey Knights	Grand Master	#48
Grey Knights	Strike Squad	#51
Imperial Agents	Callidus Assassin	#9
Imperial Agents	Culexus Assassin	#69
Imperial Agents	Eversor Assassin	#105
Imperial Agents	Exaction Squad	#111
Imperial Agents	Imperial Navy Breachers	#113
Imperial Agents	Vigilant Squad	#26
Imperial Knights	Canis Rex	#76
Imperial Knights	Armiger Helverin	#22
Imperial Knights	Armiger Warglaive	#43
Imperial Knights	Knight Castellan	#83
Leagues of Votann	Brôkhyr Iron-master	#27
Leagues of Votann	Brôkhyr Thunderkyn	#78
Leagues of Votann	Cthonian Beserks	#86
Leagues of Votann	Sagitaur	#3
Leagues of Votann	Ûthar the Destined	#44
Necrons	Obelisk	#11
Orks	Battlewagon	#34
Orks	Hunta Rig	#28
Orks	Zodgrod Wortsnagga	#89
Space Marines	Kayvaan Shrike	#23
Space Marines	Marneus Calgar	#42
Space Marines	Razorback	#21
Space Marines	Vanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs	#103
Space Wolves	Arjac Rockfist	#68
Space Wolves	Fenrisian Wolves	#91
Space Wolves	Wolf Guard	#74
T'au Empire	Breacher Team	#88
T'au Empire	Darkstrider	#12
T'au Empire	Kroot Carnivore Squad	#19
T'au Empire	Pathfinder Team	#79
T'au Empire	Piranhas	#107
T'au Empire	Razorshark Strike Fighter	#95
T'au Empire	Stealth Battlesuits	#67
Thousand Sons	Ahriman	#108
Thousand Sons	Ahriman on Disc of Tzeentch	#109
Thousand Sons	Exalted Sorcerer	#59
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Tyranids	Barbgaunts	#6
Tyranids	Lictor	#106
Tyranids	Raveners	#96
Tyranids	Screamer Killer	#24
World Eaters	Lord Invocatus	#100
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18
World Eaters	World Eaters Daemon Prince	#85

Thank you for reading!

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