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Here's a question for some of you who are more familiar with the fluff. Has there ever been a Grey Knight join the Deathwatch? Perhaps the Deathwatch need someone who has experience hunting Daemons, as they are needing to attack a planet full of Daemon-worshipping xenos. I've heard that there have been cases of Orks summoning Daemons, so maybe this is one place where a Deathwatch force could benefit from a Grey Knight's expertise. As Grey Knights are all psykers, perhaps any that are inducted into the Deathwatch would be Librarians or something. I'm just curious as to if it has ever happened.

Orks summoning daemons? Where the heck did you find that?

Orks are amongst the most chaos-resistant species in the galaxy-- far more than marines or humans or eldar, and quite possibly more than Tau (we just haven't really had a situation where Tau faced off against a true Chaos insurgency yet). Hell, Orks have invaded the Eye of Terror before without mutating or falling to chaos or having their heads explode.

 Melissia wrote:
Orks summoning daemons? Where the heck did you find that?

Orks are amongst the most chaos-resistant species in the galaxy-- far more than marines or humans or eldar, and quite possibly more than Tau (we just haven't really had a situation where Tau faced off against a true Chaos insurgency yet). Hell, Orks have invaded the Eye of Terror before without mutating or falling to chaos or having their heads explode.

To be honest, I'm not sure where I've heard that. I just thought I heard my friends talking about it, so I'm not sure it actually happened. Specifically I thought they said something about a group of Orks that dedicated themselves to Khorne. Maybe I'm way off track with that, but it was only an example relating to the topic of Deathwatch joining the Grey Knights.

Orks are the most populous sentient race in the galaxy-- of the untold quadrillions, there have been a few mentioned to be corrupted by Nurgle or Khorne.

... and they promptly get krumped by their non-corrupted Kin, who outnumber them to a massive extent and can instinctively tell when an Ork is un-Orky, similar to how they react to genestealer infestations.

 ZergSmasher wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Orks summoning daemons? Where the heck did you find that?

Orks are amongst the most chaos-resistant species in the galaxy-- far more than marines or humans or eldar, and quite possibly more than Tau (we just haven't really had a situation where Tau faced off against a true Chaos insurgency yet). Hell, Orks have invaded the Eye of Terror before without mutating or falling to chaos or having their heads explode.

To be honest, I'm not sure where I've heard that. I just thought I heard my friends talking about it, so I'm not sure it actually happened. Specifically I thought they said something about a group of Orks that dedicated themselves to Khorne. Maybe I'm way off track with that, but it was only an example relating to the topic of Deathwatch joining the Grey Knights.

There have been quite a few fluff examples of Orks falling to Chaos worship. Way back when they even had Codex units of Khorne's Stormboyz.

I think the example you are thinking of is a certain Ork Warboss and his ladz blasted through the Cadian gate after being impressed by a Greater Daemon that materlised on their ship and slaughtered half their crew before the warboss put him down. They cruise around the Eye of Terror smashing stuff before they find a Khorne planet - eventually they die but Khorne is so impressed with their single minded joy in warfare that every day he resurects them to fight again. Its kinda Ork heaven

They don't technically fall to Chaos in this case

 ZergSmasher wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
Orks summoning daemons? Where the heck did you find that?

Orks are amongst the most chaos-resistant species in the galaxy-- far more than marines or humans or eldar, and quite possibly more than Tau (we just haven't really had a situation where Tau faced off against a true Chaos insurgency yet). Hell, Orks have invaded the Eye of Terror before without mutating or falling to chaos or having their heads explode.

To be honest, I'm not sure where I've heard that. I just thought I heard my friends talking about it, so I'm not sure it actually happened. Specifically I thought they said something about a group of Orks that dedicated themselves to Khorne. Maybe I'm way off track with that, but it was only an example relating to the topic of Deathwatch joining the Grey Knights.

The 3e Daemonhunter Codex made mention of Orks becoming corrupted and summoning Daemons through mistaken belief that an Idol of one of the Chaos Gods represented Gork and/or Mork.

And to answer the original question; No, the Deathwatch never recruits Grey Knights. If they are needed they are deployed. They likely will have worked along side one another, ie a Killteam is on world when things go down and the GK are deployed and they fight beside one another.

the new GK Deamonic adversaries rules don't exclude Orks from those rules (it
excludes Tau, Necrons, Tyranids and Genestealer Cults) so the idea that Orks are somehow super chaos resistant isn't borne out by the latest info. that said I suspect rather then a GK joining the death watch you'd be more likely to see a joint operation

 ZergSmasher wrote:
Here's a question for some of you who are more familiar with the fluff. Has there ever been a Grey Knight join the Deathwatch? Perhaps the Deathwatch need someone who has experience hunting Daemons, as they are needing to attack a planet full of Daemon-worshipping xenos. I've heard that there have been cases of Orks summoning Daemons, so maybe this is one place where a Deathwatch force could benefit from a Grey Knight's expertise. As Grey Knights are all psykers, perhaps any that are inducted into the Deathwatch would be Librarians or something. I'm just curious as to if it has ever happened.

There is no such thing as Grey Knights.

Shut uppa your mouth.

 Melissia wrote:
Orks summoning daemons? Where the heck did you find that?

Orks are amongst the most chaos-resistant species in the galaxy-- far more than marines or humans or eldar, and quite possibly more than Tau (we just haven't really had a situation where Tau faced off against a true Chaos insurgency yet). Hell, Orks have invaded the Eye of Terror before without mutating or falling to chaos or having their heads explode.

And then one finds this:



Where there are a Stormboy of Khorne, an Ork Chaos Champion and an Ork Mutant. Granted, these models are way old and fully OOP, but they exist.

This topic is not about Orks or Chaos. If you want to talk about Chaos-corrupted Orks, you should probably make a thread for it instead of derailing this one. I think the OP has made it plenty clear this thread is about Grey Knights in the Deatwatch.

The Grey Knights do not exist, so how are they supposed to join the Deathwatch?
Altough I guess that maybe one could join the Deathwatch in secret, disguised as Blackshield.

The daemonhunter rpg sourcebook addresses this:

No, grey knights are never inducted into the deathwatch.
occasionally, for mission-specific reasons, one may be asigned to a kill team. This is not unheard of - it's not that unusual for a chapter to request deathwatch support, and the chapter often assigns a veteran to aid/liase with the kill team. The grey knight will, however,never identify his chapter.

also, it's not uncommon for the astartes to have their memories of the mission purged (thats primarily a malleus thing, but the ordo xenos do occasionally do it too if they don't want to be xaught doing something nefarious)