Retributor gunner, Deathwatch kill team

Hello, brothers!

I've recently started to go a bit deeper into 40k and space marine chapters lore and the Deathwatch is the one that I like the most so far. Because I don't really have a chapter that I like specifically, I made my classes into black shields and this is the result with the right shoulder being covered all together.

The question is: what changes do I have to do for them to be more lore accurate?

Love working on Terminators lately

I’m resharing this from the main 40k subreddit as I had no idea there was a Deathwatch subreddit, too!

I finished my first free space marine and I decided to buy the Deathwatch Kill Team. My blademaster is finally at a good stopping point and I’m pretty excited to share. Now, I definitely got in way over my head jumping to this next.

There are a million mistakes on here but he’s so damn cool and I learned a lot. Excited to put the other team members together! Right now I only have 20 or so paints and a citadel base brush. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! Any general Deathwatch painting tips?

Also, I haven’t done a wash yet. I own agrax earthshade and nuln oil. Would either be appropriate here? Thanks!

After like two weeks of procrastination I finally finished up my first dreadnought. I think I’m gonna add some more details and transfers later but I think he turned out neat.

Been painting a few months and finally felt like I’m starting to improve! Basing was fun on this one

I may be missing something, but is there any rule that now prevents us from taking Imperial Agents Deathwatch in our armies? I know we used to have rules that said if you take Deathwatch you can’t take Imperial Agents Deathwatch but I can’t seem to find them now.

Moreover Aquila Kill Teams have the Gravis keyword (I think, I don’t own the IA book personally but free sources say they do), which means the Gravis detachments rules should apply to them. All the strats even are for Gravis units, not Adeptus Astartes Gravis units.

At the moment IA watch masters allow the use of doctrines, and the deathwatch support detachment only cares about you having the kill team keyword which the IA units do. Thus allowing any Watch Master led IA unit to work exactly like a normal Deathwatch unit.

So my question is, am I missing something or can we field 500 points of IA Deathwatch alongside the 500 points of Support Deathwatch and have them benefit from most of our rules and even some strats?

I had them sitting unpainted for way too long.

Finaly they can march onto the battlefield in all their painted awesomeness.

I have the killteam cassius kitbashed as primaris. Could it be played as a regular killteam in an army? Not as legends or so.

I have never seen a deathwatch player before so I don’t know what’s their appeal in the game

Any suggestions on what to do for Deathwatch heraldry on ancient banners? I acquired the new one from the Armageddon box and have no idea how I want to approach it.

I'm slowly working my way through the RPG books and was just wondering if anyone's got any cool stories from the game? Also, who has the most deranged moment from the game 😅

Also if anyone has any general advice about DMing the game and also team sizes?

From my limited experience with DND I'm not convinced this game lends itself overly well to large parties.

So lucky a friend gave me 2 Plasmas and I managed to find one on ebay. I went with Red Talons, Blood Scythes and Disciples of Caliban. I'm starting to love freehanding the chapter symbols. Pew Pew

Finished up painting this kitbash. Really happy with how the lil guy turned out :3