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Wounds sinks for pure DW lists don't really exist. My current list is just pure vets, vanguards, termies, and HQs. Played a Chaos player last weekend. Wiped out his chaff, but consistently fell to his vehicles and larger multi-wound things (daemon prince, helldrake, predator). Is there a relatively effective method for DW to acquire a wound sink, or something big dumb and slow that can occupy focus for a couple turns? Rhinos don't last the turn, Blackstars are ok but pricey, and Land Raiders are super expensive.

Dreadnaughts/Venerable Dreadnaughts?

Wound sink means invul save.

You know you can take some storm shields in your squads, they are cheap and gives you invulnerable saves against those high strength attacks; maybe set aside 85 pts and add in an assassin of your choice.

If you decide to keep at pure Deathwatch, you won't regret taking a Leviathan Dreadnought, although it is expensive and you may pay extra HS as "Relic" tax.

 FezzikDaBullgryn wrote:
Wounds sinks for pure DW lists don't really exist. My current list is just pure vets, vanguards, termies, and HQs. Played a Chaos player last weekend. Wiped out his chaff, but consistently fell to his vehicles and larger multi-wound things (daemon prince, helldrake, predator). Is there a relatively effective method for DW to acquire a wound sink, or something big dumb and slow that can occupy focus for a couple turns? Rhinos don't last the turn, Blackstars are ok but pricey, and Land Raiders are super expensive.

Dreadnaughts/Venerable Dreadnaughts?

I've been playing my ~1500 points of Deathwatch paired with imperial assassins and the odd inquisitor and haven't found any real need for wound sinks. My list is just MEQ and TEQ with loads of storm shields. Every squad has 2+ 3++ available.

A full melee-built defiler using the Daemonforge stratagem on you in melee should kill an average of 1.7 vets if you have storm shields up. Factoring in average morale losses, you lose just as many points of guardsmen to the same thing - and the defiler is not super efficient at killing guardsmen.