Warhammer 40,000 Battle Report: Deathwatch vs Tyranids 1750pts
Tabletop Tactics April 25, 202029
143
29 Likes
Bone debuts the updated Deathwatch rules, but will Spider and Hive Fleet Myrmidon withstand their onslaught?!
Want even more Tabletop Tactics videos? Sign up for On Demand here: https://tabletoptactics.tv/membership-account/membership-levels/
For all your hobby and gaming needs, visit Tabletop Tactics’ sponsors Element Games: http://elementgames.co.uk/warhammer?d=30
Tabletop Tactics Merchandise: https://www.tabletoptactics.tv/shop/
Game Mats provided by http://www.gamemat.eu
For professional miniature painting commissions: http://www.siegestudios.co.uk
The Army Lists are:
Deathwatch
++ Battalion Detachment +5CP ++
+ HQ +
Watch Master: Warlord- Vigilance Incarnate, Relic- Tome of the Ectoclades, Guardian Spear
Watch Master: Guardian Spear
+ Troops +
7x Intercessors: 1x Auxiliary Grenade Launcher
Intercessor Sergeant: Auto Bolt Rifle
1x Aggressor: Auto Boltstorm Gauntlets, Fragstorm Grenade Launchers
1x Inceptor: 2x Assault Bolters
4x Intercessor: Auto Bolt Rifle
8x Intercessors: 1x Auxiliary Grenade Launcher
Intercessor Sergeant: Auto Bolt Rifle
1x Aggressor: Auto Boltstorm Gauntlets, Fragstorm Grenade Launchers
1x Inceptor: 2x Assault Bolters
1x Hellblaster: Plasma Incinerator
4x Intercessor: Auto Bolt Rifle
8x Intercessors: 1x Auxiliary Grenade Launcher
Intercessor Sergeant: Auto Bolt Rifle
1x Aggressor: Auto Boltstorm Gauntlets, Fragstorm Grenade Launchers
1x Inceptor: 2x Assault Bolters
1x Hellblaster: Plasma Incinerator
4x Intercessor: Auto Bolt Rifle
++ Vanguard Detachment ++
+ HQ +
Chaplain: Crozius Arcanum, Bolt Pistol, Jump Pack
+ Elites +
Redemptor Dreadnought: Heavy Onlsaught Gatling Cannon, Onslaught Gatling Cannon, Icarus Rocket Pod, 2x Storm Bolters
Redemptor Dreadnought: Heavy Onlsaught Gatling Cannon, Onslaught Gatling Cannon, Icarus Rocket Pod, 2x Storm Bolters
Redemptor Dreadnought: Heavy Onlsaught Gatling Cannon, Onslaught Gatling Cannon, Icarus Rocket Pod, 2x Storm Bolters
10x Reiver Squad: Grav Chutes
Reiver Sergeant: Combat Knife, Heavy Bolt Pistol
9x Reiver: Combat Knife, Heavy Bolt Pistol
10x Reiver Squad: Grav Chutes
Reiver Sergeant: Combat Knife, Heavy Bolt Pistol
9x Reiver: Combat Knife, Heavy Bolt Pistol
++ Total: 1,748pts ++
Tyranids
++ Battalion Detachment ++
Hive Fleet: Leviathan
+ HQ +
Tervigon: Massive Scything Talons, , Stinger Salvo, Power- Catalyst
The Swarmlord: Bone Sabres, , Prehensile Pincer Tail, Powers- Catalyst and Paroxysm
+ Troops +
28x Termagant: Fleshborers
28x Termagant: Fleshborers
28x Termagant: Fleshborers
+ Heavy Support +
Tyrannofex: Powerful Limbs, Acid Spray, Stinger Salvo
Tyrannofex: Powerful Limbs, Acid Spray, Stinger Salvo
+ Dedicated Transport +
Tyrannocyte: 5x Deathspitter
++ Supreme Command Detachment ++
Hive Fleet: Leviathan
+ HQ +
Hive Tyrant: Warlord- Adaptive Biology, Relic- Resonance Barb, Monstrous Scything Talons, Prehensile Pincer Tail, Two Devourers with Brainleech Worms, Wings, Powers: Psychic Scream and The Horror
Hive Tyrant: Monstrous Scything Talons, Prehensile Pincer Tail, Two Devourers with Brainleech Worms, Wings, Powers: Catalyst and Onslaught
Malanthrope: Grasping Tail
++ Total: 1,749pts ++
Related View More
Tabletop Tactics January 16, 202124
66
Tabletop Tactics January 16, 202119
75
Tabletop Tactics January 15, 202142
52
Tabletop Tactics January 14, 202155
18
Tabletop Tactics January 13, 202132
180
Tabletop Tactics January 13, 202122
72
Tabletop Tactics January 12, 202159
114
Tabletop Tactics January 9, 202127
68
Tabletop Tactics January 8, 202176
218
Someone did the stats of those Turn 3 saves from LAWRENCE??
this is just awesome craic!!! Larwences face when he accidentally called it the terry
Epic intro guys! Great game as well!
this is just awesome craic
Awh! I can’t find the WD review! Where is it?
Awesome close game guys. Nice fun lists too, very much what you’d find in your local store.
The Deathwatch changes actually tempted me but I’ve got too many armies already ? Harlequins (my main army) are going to be interesting in White Dwarf since there’s nothing to copy and paste in.
One of the top 5 best intros!!! Ever!,
Plus if you find a good stash oil let me know please, thank you.
Poor Lawrence. Undiluted lock-down Bone. If your friendship survives this…
Thank you for your service guys! Loving the overhead cam stuff.
Fantastic batrep as always guys. Best $10 (after conversion) a month I’ve ever spent and I’ve never had that in doubt since the day I joined. Sincere platitudes out of the way, its on to Deathwatch. My my. GW what have you done you bunch of lazy sods. You tout these as new rules for the Deathwatch and all you’ve done is give them the standard marine rules they should’ve had all along and somehow expect us to fall for the word “new”. If I’m completely honest I’m actually ok with no “super” doctrine. I get the fluff behind Deathwatch… Read more »
Bone: It’s getting weird now
Me: “Spits out coffee” Woah woah woah…
Got to say guys, great game! That was right down to the wire!
Pat on the back for whoever is writing these balanced and thematic lists :p
Good game guys. Swarmlord still doesn’t feel as nasty as he should be I think. Thanks for more entertainment!
After what Spider did to Chefs Phobos List he should have to play with a Reiver / Rhino Spam List. To have max Phun add an assassin in there too. Best day for this would be his Birthday. XD
Absolutely loved the battle report guys, amazing as always. Is there anyway we can get a cheeky aos battle report? I know you said you dont have enough armys to do it full time but I would love to see a preview game.
Oh my god, as fast I was to give feedback about the new format for tactica I have to gice credit for this bat rep. This is why I watch, love and support TTT. You two together are genuine comedy gold, backed by a really good game of 40k, gorgeous armies and competent generals.
This is TTT at it’s best, keep up the good works bosses!
Malcolm the Malanthrope?
“Have you ever considered, allowing people to feel like they have a fighting chance?
– Lawrence “The Spider” Baker, 2020 (Following circa 30 days in lockdown with the B-Bone, the madness was beginning to show).
Deathwatch are one of my two main armies and this release just made me feel even more “meh” about them as a faction. I don’t want to be more powerful than everyone else on balance (just getting a small bump to become viable in 2020 is needed), I just want Deathwatch to not feel so limited. The Corvus Blackstar is one of the coolest looking models but also one of the worst units in the Imperium—couldn’t we have gotten something to help make it a viable way to drop in vets? There is just no creativity here. It’s the bare… Read more »
Friendly correction for the Spider – Leviathan only confers the 6++ FNP if you are within 6″ of a Synapse Creature; not simply being in Synapse.
Lawrence Terri would kill you if you tried to fight her, just saying.?
I have to say guys, these last few weeks of batreps have been some of the funniest and most entertaining things I’ve ever seen. Keep up the good work!
here is my problem with giving Deathwatch the doctrines, all SIA that increases the AP of weapons has a cap for the AP value, most of the inbuilt AP on the intercessor rifles mixed with SIA already maxes out the AP allowed by the SIA, and I’m not sure if the doctrine allows you to push past that cap. It effectively makes SIA less attractive. Also the Strats continue to promote primaries (which is no surprise). yet I’m not sure death watch have access to half the primaris units, and the ones they do have just don’t feel overly like… Read more »
That was amazingly entertaining. Very funny, great game. A+
A separate video discussing the new deathwatch? ….. You sit on a throne of lies!!! I can’t wait for this one, and I am ready to hit that reply button so, so quickly!
Suffer not the Spider to constantly humiliate the Bbone! Quit picking on him already. He’s lost his bloody mind. Nice moustache though.
Where did you guys get your shelves that hold your armies? Would be perfect for my gaming cave
I dont think bone kan take mutch more of this lockdown
It was actually stressful watching this game because I was rooting for bone. I can’t imagine dealing with spider making all those saves in the later turns! You deserved the win Bone
“Does not affect game outcome” – ahhh I see he nids are about to get slapped then
Nice battle report.
(And her name is obviously Terry.)
We need to crowdfund our way into getting bone a record deal for a full version of the dance/song at 30:50 ?
“You can have fun with lists.” The pain and sorrow in Lawrence’s expression there really jumped through the screen and made the viewer feel the emotion. ?
Thanks for this fun report, was good to see someone else command the Deathwatch (Love Beard but good to see army played with a different general). The addition of litanies and doctrines and some of the marine codex stratagems is nice for Deathwatch but we should have gotten that on release along with every other marine codex when they FAQ’d the new marine codex. I would liked to have seen a new relic and warlord trait with some deathwatch flavour, access to the new phobos units and our psychic powers revisited. We’re stuck with vanilla marine psychic powers and yet… Read more »
If it wasn’t for this channel I would have already fallen to Chaos with everything going on.
I’m going to comment this now so I don’t forget. Lawrence brush your beard with a stiff bristled brush. You would be surprised at how effective that is. Also beard conditioner works well. Once you grow you beard for a week it’s smooth sailing.
I was just (re)watching Aliens, and here come the ‘nids! A pity that good old Beard didn’t watch the movie, I see it (and the first one) as a WH40k film as much as Event Horizon.
Love the Deathwatch, I’ve yet to see the new rules but to me the things they lack the most are some units like Eliminators or Invictor Warsuit, and especially Relics… If they didn’t get some new one I’ll be a little upset.
Thank you for the game!
Holy wow- I’m just watching the intro and gotta say- the weathering effects on the Redemptor is fan/TASTIC/! I’ll be starting my own Ultramarines Redemptor in the next month or so and I hope I can get mine even half as sexy as yours right there.
Great game. Keep up the good work.
Is harlequins in the same White dwarf?
Beard Balm. Works great for me.
And Lawrence – they may be your army, but she is Terry. That’s just her name. ?♂️
??
I’ve been making a Deathwatch army over the last 6 months, I love the idea of the army. The ‘new’ rules will make DW much stronger, that isn’t a problem for me, but it was obscenely lazy. They could have just had an FAQ with the old Space Marine rules and added the Deathwatch keyword.
Hilarious report fellas.
I’m pretty sure Bone should have used 40k Lawrence instead of the Watchmaster, as he would not only provide an 9 inch aura “Treat all rolls as sixes” but also killed the Swarmlord in the close combat… provided one of the reaver guys would lend him his knife.
“We’ve done a full review of it that we’ve released over on on demand”
*checks shows*
LIES!! LIES AND DECEIT!!
^_^
Loved the battlereport! Was great to see the Men in black back again. As a DW player I do feel cast aside by GW. The “new” strats we got in a White Dwarf are exactly the same as codex marines Pre-FAQ. Thats right, they couldnt even bother to copy and paste the revised versions. And these could have been released not long after codex SM for DW, there was no reason to give us this copy-paste job 7-8 months later. DW got nothing new or unique, our Librarian powers are the worst and in one of the cases, which allude… Read more »
Cracking game guys close to say the least !
You can use special issue ammunition if you are in half range found this ages ago on Warhammer community( Note: Note that the normal rules for Rapid Fire weapons, as described in the Warhammer 40,000 core rules, continue to apply when shooting a Rapid Fire weapon with special issue ammunition)
You want beard oil fellas!
As a long time Deathwatch player I wasn’t upset with the lack of Deathwatch strats because everything we got in the new book has only made us stronger and there’s some really nasty tricks we are gonna be able to do.
I personally think the list that was being used wasn’t the best but well done for the win.
Next time I’ll lend you my army Bones and you can really hurt spider
I think Bone is doing a great job of creating appropriately powerful lists. 40k is so wildly unbalanced that there has to be a degree of curation, and whenever I saw one of Spider’s Dark Eldar lists (which we’ll charitably describe as “optimised”) I could largely predict the outcome before a single model had hit the table. 40k can be a fun game with an incredibly rich universe and awesome models, but it basically doesn’t really function as a competitive game as first turn advantage is so powerful and there is little to no reactive play. It’s almost trivial to… Read more »
Someone tell Lawance to condition his beard to stop the itch already!
Bone, oil that bad boi up!
A lot of truth is said in jest…. all i’m saying. 😀
Another great report guys!
Sweet baby Emperor Bone I’ve had an epiphany!! I was gazing enraptured at your glorious soup strainer when it hit me!
You need to go for a full van dyke. Just imagine how bitter with jealousy Lawrence will be having to see that facial fuzz making you look like a roguishly handsome musketeer throughout lock down.
Always good to see the DeathWatch in action, intrigued to see how their PA will effect them.