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So honestly, I hate the new deathwatch rules. I picked up a bunch of firstborns and deathwatch bits to realize that they really don’t look nearly as fun as they were in 8th. Do you think it would be acceptable to just take the 8th codex and basically update the point values/stat lines where relevant?, it just boggles my brain that a tl bolter can’t use special issue ammo (which somehow got worse too).

Yes the Deathwatch supplement is a mess. Instead of costing things correctly, like more expensive Storm Bolters, they just gutted Special Ammo, which was the shtick of Deathwatch.