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Do they exist? the reason i have doubts is that they already have to go through a great deal to paint the majority of power armour black due to the machine spirit what about terminator suits don't they have even stronger machine spirits?

IF they do have suits are they from the ordo xenos, and if so what would they look like? an amalgmation grey Knight (minus the physic bits) and Marine suits... if then would they paint the Marines  chapter colour on the right shoulder and have the Ordo xenos symbol instead of the crux terminatus?

thanks for any help guys

There is no reason why terminators cannot be seconded to the deathwatch just like any other marine. Just because they have a little more armor to paint doesn't mean that they cant be called upon. There are currently no offical rules for having terminator deathwatch vets, but I use traited marines to simulate them unitl a codex finally comes out. Here is one my my current WIP terminators. Scheme is same as any other deathwatch member, chapter symbol on the right shoulder, silver arm on the left, rest black except for red details.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h236/EmoryDelt/XenoLog/DSC01104.jpg

 

I'm not sure what they look like, but in the older fluff, chapters would loan each other terminator armor from time to time. Sometimes the armor would be repainted in the colors of the chapter that borrowed it, sometimes not. In one of the old white dwarfs, a chapter had several suits of borrowed armor that it used to quell some trouble in a hive. The heretics were in a panic because they believed they were under attack by several different marine chapters. If I can find that particular issue before someone else, I'll let you in more on painting terminator armor and the approach used.

that would help a lot mate thanks

According to the deathwatch rules, you can upgrade any marine IC, tactical, veteran or hq unit to a deathwatch marine for 5pts. They must have a bolter type weapon (bolt pistol, heavy bolter, bolter, stormbolter) and must select one of the following ammo types: Metal Storm, Inferno, Kraken, Stalker. There is no cost for the ammo, and no change in the marine's profile, so you don't get an extra attack, true grit, or grenades from the upgrade to Deathwatch. You can still get these though the normal codex options.

This allows you to upgrade any terminators assigned to an HQ unit to deathwatch, Assuming you use the Cyclone missile launcher vs. Assault Cannon and don't take assault weapons.

fluff wise yes, Rules wise not sure. read on of goto's books it had a termie deathwatch marine

My eyes are still bleeding from the filth he puts to paper. NEVER AGAIN C.S.!

Adding on to Beef's comment, besides Tac Marines, Goto added:

Termie (as stated)
Tech-Marine
Assault Marine

the bikes they used to run through Craftworld Ulthwe
atleast 1 speeder

Do yourselves a favor and take my word on it. Don't waste your time buying or reading C.S. Goto...

Interesting....I didn't find Goto's books that bad at all! He did refer to the Librarian Ashok being 2 meters tall in full power armour wich is ( IMHO ) a bit "off"....maybe he's a squat or something....other than that he's not the worst writer I've read.....I reserve that spot for J.R.R Tolkien

Posted By Delephont on 06/07/2007 3:36 PM
Interesting....I didn't find Goto's books that bad at all! He did refer to the Librarian Ashok being 2 meters tall in full power armour wich is ( IMHO ) a bit "off"....maybe he's a squat or something....other than that he's not the worst writer I've read.....I reserve that spot for J.R.R Tolkien

ROFL!

Remind me never to buy any books that delephont reccomends.

Ahhh  Hrud Crud...

 

you mean I shouldn't of spent 14 hours converting a jump pack equipped techmarine on a bike?  And here I was thinking Goto had found a rockin' loophole in the rules...

Cmon on guys with so little fluff available to players is it anywonder we lap up any 40K novels that come our way? I have pretty much all of them (marine ones, not the eldar or IG ones)

Posted By beef on 06/18/2007 2:41 PM
Cmon on guys with so little fluff available to players is it anywonder we lap up any 40K novels that come our way? I have pretty much all of them (marine ones, not the eldar or IG ones)

If you ever decide to read any IG ones, I don't recommend 15 hours, less you are a fast reader and want to return it the same day you bought it.  The story was interesting, but a few plot twists, and some random "here's someone new to the story that won't affect anything and kind of has no relevance to the store" type things.

at gd at the forge world section they had deathwatch termanators dont think their on the website thow

did ya grab any pics? did any one grab any pics?
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