"Amongst a hundred men, there may be none fit for the Adeptus Astartes. Amongst a hundred Space Marines, there may be one fit for the Deathwatch."— Watch Captain Brand
Ho boy Deathwatch. My favourite Chambers Militant of the Inquisition Ordos, my favourite of all of Fantasy Flights Tabletop RPG's and now a new kick ass board game from GamesWorkshop. Ever since I started playing Space Marines way back when I was 12 I've always wanted to build my own kill team, and when I bought the Chapter Approved 2003 annual collection I started converting Sergeants into, as I was playing Dark Angels at the time, Deathwatch Deathwing Veteran Sergeants. Yes, that's like a 50 point 1 wound squad leader, but dammit I was 15 and those 30" range ap 4 Kraken bolts excited me since my most common opponent was a Tau player. I also ran a year long deathwatch campaign when FFG first released the game and I'd love to do so again. Lastly since GW released datasheets for the new kill team I cant wait to include them in my Imperial Guard army now which on its own is exciting.
However all of this excitement pales in comparison to my excitement at seeing their adversaries. Genestealer Cults! The first army I ever played was Tyranids. I really only played them in third edition, but I had a copy of the old 2nd edition Tyranid codex and in the back of it was a Genestealer cult army, and boy was it cool. Cult leaders riding around in Limo's, Technical's with machine guns on them, weird hybrid troops and the ability to include Imperial Guard units as allies to represent corrupted PDF troops. However, since a brief splat appearance in Chapter Approved the 41'st Millennium has seen hide nor hair of that brand of cultist (or any cultists really, but that's another rant.) Bust as the saying goes, GET HYPE, because their back! Honestly I don't even care if their datasheets good or anything like that, they're super fun to use in Deathwatch: Overkill, and I plan to add them to my Imperial Guard whenever I get a chance to play Unbound.
All of this is leading up to a point though, as I plan to use this blog to chronicle my painting of Deathwatch: Overkill, and as a showcase when everything's all done. As I'm writing this I have just finished painting Kill Team Cassius, so look forward to seeing them posted soon!
However all of this excitement pales in comparison to my excitement at seeing their adversaries. Genestealer Cults! The first army I ever played was Tyranids. I really only played them in third edition, but I had a copy of the old 2nd edition Tyranid codex and in the back of it was a Genestealer cult army, and boy was it cool. Cult leaders riding around in Limo's, Technical's with machine guns on them, weird hybrid troops and the ability to include Imperial Guard units as allies to represent corrupted PDF troops. However, since a brief splat appearance in Chapter Approved the 41'st Millennium has seen hide nor hair of that brand of cultist (or any cultists really, but that's another rant.) Bust as the saying goes, GET HYPE, because their back! Honestly I don't even care if their datasheets good or anything like that, they're super fun to use in Deathwatch: Overkill, and I plan to add them to my Imperial Guard whenever I get a chance to play Unbound.
All of this is leading up to a point though, as I plan to use this blog to chronicle my painting of Deathwatch: Overkill, and as a showcase when everything's all done. As I'm writing this I have just finished painting Kill Team Cassius, so look forward to seeing them posted soon!
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