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Deathwatch Assault Marine w/ Plasma Pistol Needs Friends; Ordo Xenos needs to jump on the "after the first" band wagon
Topic Started: 16 Jan 2015, 07:39 AM (413 Views)
Thursty

The Hor Kill Team lists for BA, DA, SW and SM, all have "One Assault Marine in your team may replace its bolt pistol with one of the following weapons. For every five Assault Marine after the first, another model may do so as well..."

vs.

Deathwatch's old school style "For every five Deathwatch Assault Marines you take in your team, one may replace its bolt pistol with..."


The way I'm reading this is that I need at least 5 Death watch Assault Marines in total order to take one with a plasma pistol. Where as every other astartes team can simply take 1 Assault marine with a plasma pistol, and no other assault marines at all.


If i'm seeing it wrong please let me know.

If I'm right, let's all everybody cry till the now much anticipated Kill Team List - Deathwatch 3.3




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Angrypuffin

You're right; it's an unfortunate thing for Deathwatch, which already has problems with some of its core troops (see my thread on Deathwatch Balance).

The bigger problem, though, is that some other lists just get better weapons. Frankly, the pistols are not very good choices. But the 5 pt flamer in the Space Marines list is an excellent choice, and they can take it on a single Assault Marine, and another on a single Biker.

I'd personally prefer to see them move to "for every 3 [insert unit here], one can take a special weapon". That way you couldn't just take one of a certain entry (like Assault Marine and Space Marine Bike) and get 100% special weapon proportions for those units. But requiring 5 is just punishing when you're trying to fit it in 250 points (or even 200).
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