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In fairness, ork boyz firing overwatch with shootas are something of a special case as they're only marginally worse shots than in a normal round of combat....

Besides which, if you can get one round of "aimed" fire plus one round of overwatch, you have a non-trivial chance of killing him before he makes his charge move - meaning he doesn't blow up in the middle of the mob after they've made a pile-in move to cluster around him. That alone strikes me as reason enough....

But I must say the dataslate is awesome. I'm very tempted to do a 1750 point "army" of three execution forces, just for the hell of it....

(Been watching The Expendables over the weekend, which isn't helping).

I'm very new to the 7th rules and detachments.

In order for an all assassin army to be viable, would it need a primary detachment of an HQ and troops from a separate army in order to have a warlord and some troops with the objective secured rule?

From what I have read, it is still possible to have a battle-forged army of only assassins right? This force just wouldn't have any warlord or troops with the objective secured rule?
Or is a primary detachment necessary for battle-forged?

Looking forward to converting a bunch of these up for an army!

The assassins can be a primary detachment. One of them will be your warlord. He just won't have a trait and you will have no objective secured rule. Any detachment can be your primary now if it contains your warlord, some just get no benefit for being your primary.

That rule comes from the Combined Arms Detachment (which is what the old force org chart's primary is called now).

You can take "Assassin Detachment"-s with only 1 Elites slot and/or Formations where you take all four Assassins.
And you can have any number of those!
Then you select one Character and that becomes your Warlord (aka your General) and his Detachment/Formation would be called your Primary Detachment.

Neither the Assassin-Detachment or their Formation has the Objective Secured rule, so it wouldn't apply.
And long as all your units are either in a Detachment or Formation, your army would count as Battle-Forged.