If you thought the new Deathwatch minis looked good on the sprue, wait until you see them assembled! Don’t miss these minis!
Bell of Lost Souls got the new box set early, and it looks like they have have the goods on Deathwatch Overkill. Come see their first look now!
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Deathwatch Assembly
First off, we shall take a look at the Deathwatch assembly instructions. These minis are dripping in detail and each one would make a fantastic HQ in a marine army. The fit and finish of the models is superb and they fit together like glove with the assembly seams well hidden once glued. Top notch work from GW as usual.
Chaplain Cassius and the Blood angel’s Antor Delassio are up first.
Next up is Blood Ravens, Dark Angels Imperial Fists, and Iron Hands
Raven Guard, Salamanders (in termy armor!), Space Wolves and Ultramarines up next.
Last but certainly not least is the White Scar’s Suberai (and his cyber eagle)
The Sprues
The first of the three Dwathwatch sprues contains Suberai, Sorrlokk, and Grytt. I hope to see Grytt’s belt fed grenade launcher making it’s way into future Astartes arsenals. It looks awesome!
Sprue 2 contains Cassius, the hulking Branatar, the Blood Raven’s Natorian and the Unforgiven Gydrael.
Sprue 3 rounds it out with the two jump pack users from the Blood Angels and Raven Guard, Ultramarine sharpshooter Donatus and the hot-headed Redblade of the Space Wolves.
And let’s wrap up this tour up with a quick look at the ‘Eavy Metal team’s paintjobs of these fine heroes.
Deathwatch: Overkill – $165 £100 €140 AU$280 NZ$330
Source: Games Workshop
DEATHWATCH: OVERKILL – WHAT’S IN THE BOX?
A brand new game in a box, telling the story of the discovery of the Warhammer 40.000 Genestealers Cult (Tyranids). The box contains:
50x brand new highly detailed plastic miniatures, with lots of little details depicting character background information.
The miniatures have a dynamic single pose and will require glue and assembly (they are not push fit). The miniatures can be divided into two camps:
The Kill Team Cassius DeathwatchThe Deathwatch Kill team
These veteran Space Marines will make great champions for any Space Marine army!
11x individual Space Marine Veteran Champions (equivalent to approximately ? 215 / € 275 retail normally)
Genestealers hybrid of the Brotherhood of Ghosar Quintus
The Genestealer Cult
A brand new Warhammer 40.000 fraction! The below list of miniatures make for addition to an original Tyranid army, an allied detachment to another army, or a great start for a brand new Tyranids army! This box contains the following Genestealers Cult miniatures
- 12 Acolyte Hybrids (1st and 2nd generation Tyranids)
- 16 Neophyte Cultists (3rd generation Tyranids)
- 2x Purestrain Genestealers
- 2x Familiars
- 4x Aberrants
- 1x Patriarch
- 1x Magus
- 1x Primus
- A 48-page rulebook with all the rules (just 3 pages, so it will be easy and quick game), character explanation, the background story, and 9x different missions. (Each scenario acts out one of the stages of the storyline. Each scenario will last between 30mins to 2 hours and will give a lot of playability)
- 8x double sided board tiles with different landscapes.
- A deck of 12x reference character cards and 30x Broodmind ambush and mission cards, to offer even more variation to the game so that each game will be different.
- A booklet with assembly instructions
- Gaming accessories such as markers, templates and 6 dice.
Checkout all EIGHT of the new Deathwatch Dataslates, and a bunch more on the boxed game itself over on our Deathwatch Roundup NOW!
Deathwatch: OVERKILL Roundup
We’ll be featuring all their great Deathwatch content all week long, so keep it locked to BoLS or here for your first look at the new box set!
Should Tournaments go to 1500 Points? – Long War Episode 40
~Check back in all week. Next time, the Genestealer Cult!
About the Author: Rob Baer
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About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.
Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls.
Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at the Las Vegas Open, each of which attracts thousands of players from around the world.
Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the 2011 Adepticon 40k Team Tournament. He was even featured for his painting in issue #304 of Games Workshop’s White Dwarf Magazine.
With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.
While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.
