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A Kill Team Is A Troops Choice For A Deathwatch Army:

All Units have the "Deathwatch" special rule (Preferred Enemy ((Xenos)) and stealth)

Unit Composition: 1 Captain (Same as SM Captain) and 4 Deathwatch Marines (Same As Sternguard Vets)

(170pts)

Unit May:
Take Same Options As Sternguard Vets And Captains (Captain cannot take SM relics)
Replace Captain With Lexicanum (25pts)
Replace Captain With Apothecary (35pts) (Gives Squad Feel No Pain)
Take A Black Shield (35pts)

Lexicanum:
WS4, BS4, S4, T4, I4, W2, At2, Ld9, Sv: 3+

Wargear:
Power Armour
Bolt Pistol
Force Sword
Frag Grenades
Krak Grenades

Special Rules:
And They Shall Know No Fear
Deathwatch
Psyker (Mastery Level 1)

A Lexicanum may only roll on the divination and telepathy disciplines.

A Lexicanum May:
Take An Auspex/Melta Bombs (5pts)
Take A Digital/Combi-Weapon/ Hand Flamer (10pts)
Take A Plasma/Grav/Inferno Pistol (15pts)


Black Shield
WS4, BS4, S4 T5, I4, W2, At2, Ld9, Sv: 3+

Special Rules:
Deathwatch
Fearless
Furious Charge
Feel No Pain
Selfless (Black Shield may perform a look out sir roll on any model in the squad)

Wargear:
Power Armour
Chainsword
Bolter
Frag Grenades
Krak Grenades

Black Shield May:
Take A Hand Flamer (10pts)
Take A Power Weapon/Lightning Claw/Plasma/Grav/Inferno Pistol (15pts)
Take A Power Fist (25pts)
Take A Thunder Hammer (30pts)

Why Stealth?

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Why Stealth?

Because the Deathwatch rely on stealth combat...

natpri771 wrote:

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Why Stealth?

Because the Deathwatch rely on stealth combat...

I've never been aware of the Deathwatch relying on stealth combat. As far as I knew, they would use any kind of attack, mainly working as a small team hitting far above their class to augment other Imperial units in the area?

Deathwatch aren't steath-specialists. They used a variety of tactics, not just steath attacks.

As for the rules, they're pretty uninspiring. 170pts for a Captain and 4 Sternguard Vets, when you can have 5 Sternguard for 120pts.

Sternguard are the ranged specalists of the Chapter, so why would taking a Captain be any useful, seeing as he has very little ranged capability and is more suited for combat?

Consider making them a complete new unit, rather than just counting them as Sternguard. Remove the Captain, make him an upgrade, and start the unit as 5 Marines for 100pts for example. They can then be upgraded with Sternguard ranged or Vanguard CC weapons.

The 3e White Dwarf article that had rules for the Deathwatch was a squad with a Captain in it, but it also had a lot more options and old True Grit (bolter counts as an extra CC weapon, you can't claim extra attacks for charging). If you're trying to do an entire Deathwatch mini-'Dex I'd suggest having a Watch-Captain or Librarian as HQ and Kill-Teams with just a plain old Sergeant function as Elites, with a Deathwatch Detachment of 1-2 HQ and 1-3 Elites. There is canon evidence for Deathwatch aircraft, Land Speeders, Dreadnaughts, Terminator armour, and Thunderhawk Transporter-dropped vehicles if you're looking for ideas to expand this out.

I was working on something like this some time ago, though I do come back to it every now and again. This may be something like what you are trying to do. Feel free to take ideas where you find them.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/572148.page#7358292