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Have been looking at the battleforce box as an easy deathwatch army set. Reading whats in the dedicated formation I tried to come up with a beginner list to use them as but given deathwatch is all about upgrades, this feels stupidly light to me. Anyway this is what I have so far, what needs to change to make this decent? I'm feeling like the 1000 point limit may not work for these guys.

HQ
Watch Master
No Upgrades

ELITES
Terminators x5
Assault Cannon, Power Weapon

TROOPS
Veterans x5
DW Shotguns x2

Veterans x5
Frag Cannon x2

Veterans x5
Stalker Bolter x2

FAST
Bikers x5
DW Teleport Homer

Razorback
TL Heavy Bolter

Shotgun veterans and watch master take the transport to get close, snipers to hold rear objective and frag cannon team runs to secondary objectives/supporting fire for the razorback.

Honestly, your list is just muddled. None of the units really do anything well.

Very little mobility, other than the bikers.

The terminator squad is meh.

The razorback is also meh.

Add more frag cannons, shotguns and stalker bolters to the squads. That way each squad can be really good at something. Also, drop pods seem to be the way to go with DW.

Honestly, I would also drop the termies and the bikers. You most likely won't get your points back for them. At least add a meltabomb or two to the bikers, and as for the termies, one of the coolest thing about DW termies is that every one of them can have a heavy weapon, and they can be units of one.

Also, a bare bones librarian is a lot cheaper than a bare bones watch master, and really better all things considered.

If this is the extent of your DW collection, then I get it, but don't expect to win any battles

That's my 2 cents. Hope it helps.

Does that formation stop you from taking dedicate transports for the squad? if not, take a droppod for your frag cannon guys, and a rhino for the sniper guys but run empty to contest objectives.

 LemanRuse wrote:
Honestly, your list is just muddled. None of the units really do anything well.

Very little mobility, other than the bikers.

The terminator squad is meh.

The razorback is also meh.

Add more frag cannons, shotguns and stalker bolters to the squads. That way each squad can be really good at something. Also, drop pods seem to be the way to go with DW.

Honestly, I would also drop the termies and the bikers. You most likely won't get your points back for them. At least add a meltabomb or two to the bikers, and as for the termies, one of the coolest thing about DW termies is that every one of them can have a heavy weapon, and they can be units of one.

Also, a bare bones librarian is a lot cheaper than a bare bones watch master, and really better all things considered.

If this is the extent of your DW collection, then I get it, but don't expect to win any battles

That's my 2 cents. Hope it helps.

The bikers and Watch Master are mandatory in the Watchblade formation.