Hello everyone !!

This week GW sent us the DeathWatch codex for review (thx).

I'll start with the fluff/illustration and then the rules.

Illustration & Fluff

There are a lot of very fine artwork in the book. I know this is open to interpretation but i personally liked the visual of the book. Especially all the fighting scenes that look like early 2000 comics !

Images

Fluff

There are a few tidbits of fluff on how the DW works, stay vigilent and so on..

The most interesting part is of course the Primaris question :



Here a force organisation of a fortress.



Fortress description



They have Primaris : Watch captain, Librarian, Chaplain (spoiler, nearly all the Primaris released yet are present in the codex)

Let's jump to the rules part !!

The Rules !

This codex is first a space marines codex, so you get most of the options you would find in a chapter codex.

Chapter master, captain, librarian, chaplain, all the Primaris Marines entry (but lieutenant and gravis captain), Dread, LR, Corvus.

-They get the usual special rules : Combat squad and Atsknf.

-Special issue ammunition for every bolter.

-Troops get defenders of humanity if battle forged + mission tactics (reroll wound roll of 1 against a selected type of target)

-They get some nasty stratagem against xenos.

-Multiple stratagem grating +1 to wound rolls vs a type of target.

There 4 entry that i want to look closely : Veteran squad, Intercessor squad, Terminator squad, bike squad.