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I recently split both Death Masque and Deathwatch Overkill with a few friends of mine, and would like to know how to optimize what have, and how to expand from here.

Currently I've been running Artemis and a squad of veterans in a drop pod as an allied detachment to a Combined Arms Detachment of Dark Angels, With Kill Team Cassius on the side.

My current thoughts are to run a Black Spear Formation to capitalize on the Mission Tactics changes, plus get some air support from the Blackstar.

My goal is to get a decent 2000 pt list for a tournament coming up in a few weeks

Unless you have a lot of disposable cash you won't get a decent Deathwatch force up and going at 2k in just a couple of weeks.

What other Imperial Armies do you have that you might be able to run along side of the Deathwatch.

If you played some standard tac marines/termis/bikers as deathwatch then you easily could. It'd be one of the most cost efficientways to get a 2K force, particularly if you use eBay?

Right now, I've got them running alongside Dark Angels, with 2 tac squads, a small termie squad, and a bike squad, with a librarian and company master as HQ .

So far, I've been using the tac squad as walls of human flesh, while Cassius & co. go for enemy elite, and Artemis and the veterans drop down behind enemy lines in a "suicide squad" of 4 DW Shotguns and a black shield w/ lightning claws

pods brah, get like 7~10 pods, all filled with vet squad with frag cannons/melta, and throw it in your opponent's face and see all the hate and discontent.

You should see the face on an elder player, especially I got 1st turn and frag cannoned the seer council right off the table turn 1. And jetbikes (NO JINKS FOR YOU!)

Yeah, if you are just gonna run with what you got then good luck, is gonna be real hard.