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As above askes. would a unit of deathwatch possibly have interceptor style teleport homers?

I ask as id like to use interceptors in kill team but am debating modeling them with cool jet packs or the teleporter backpacks. (would they ever even use jet packs?)

Hmm, I could definitely see it being a possibility and those interceptor packs look great, so, I'd go for it. Can't comment on whether its been done in fluff before though.

I can't see why not. the deathwatch are the chamber millitant of the ordo xenos. so one should assume they'd have access to tech that the inqusition suplies to their other ordo millitants

As far as I recall, Grey Knights are only able to use their personal teleporters due to their impressive psychic defences. Anyone who wasn't well warded against the effects of the warp (i.e either a soul-bonded psyker or some kind of psychic null) would probably be lost in the warp when using the stripped-down miniature teleporters that interceptors use. Don't have a copy of C:GK here to confirm that, though.

If the Deathwatch do have personal teleporters, it seems likely that they would be mentioned somewhere in one of the Deathwatch RPG books...

That doesn't make any sense, because you can find teleportariums on certain very old Navy vessels, the flagships of particularly wealthy and long-standing Rogue Trader dynasties and in otherwise non-GK hands. The teleportarium device itself predates the GK, so it must be usable by non-psychic, non-Astartes personnel.

Don't have my codex on me but I think Grey Knight Interceptor squads work like Eldar Warp Spiders, short burst teleportation. Like Warp Spiders it would be dangerous to do without protection, so it would be limited to the Grey Knights most likely.

Deathwatch would have access to teleporters like other Imperial agents, they would need a beacon to safely teleport from A to B, e.g. ship to ground but not have the use of short range/quick burst teleportation.

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That doesn't make any sense, because you can find teleportariums on certain very old Navy vessels, the flagships of particularly wealthy and long-standing Rogue Trader dynasties and in otherwise non-GK hands. The teleportarium device itself predates the GK, so it must be usable by non-psychic, non-Astartes personnel.

I think there's a difference between 'normal' teleporters, like the ones Terminators use to deploy and personal teleporters, like the GK use. Normal Imperial teleporters are house-sized units mounted on a starship or something which can teleport someone to or from their teleporter chamber, but not directly from one point to another, which makes them slower than the Interceptor teleporter packs, which allow the user to teleport themselves directly to where they want to go without an external device.

On the other hand, it seems plausible that a very good ship-mounted teleporter could be fast enough to give effectively the same effect with different methods and displacer fields show that some kinds of personal teleporter can make short jumps without too much risk.

Another explanation could be that the Deathwatch has access to xenos teleporter technology. Warp Spiders manage to get a similar effect while being far more vulnerable to the Warp than GK and the necrons show that non-warp based teleportation is possible. While it seems unlikely that the Ordo Xenos could steal necron technology, it's surely possible that some other xenos race (looking at you, Jokaero) have access to something similar.