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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!

Now known as the Unit Review Library!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!

In this series, I will review one unit at a time, picking them randomly.

So let me spin the wheel again and see what I get:

Deathwatch, Veteran Bike Squad

10th Edition Index

It's a Deathwatch Entry and as usual it's... strange...

There is nothing much to this datasheet, its Deathwatch specific but it is basically either 3 bikes or 6, they could be represented by either OG Space Marine Bikes or Outriders so... The price is a mystery, you decide!

80pts for 3 bikes and 160pts for 6 bikes.

Let's check their stats!

Stats

Movement 12"
Toughness 5
Save 3+(armor/invul/Feel No Pain) * Invul only to Ranged Attacks
Wounds 3
Ld 6+
OC 2

Blindingly fast and OC 2 Caught my eye. So 6 OC on 3 models at this speed really could be handy!

Weapons

All the bikers are armed with Close Combat Weapon, Bolt Pistol and the Twin Boltgun that is on the Bike.

They can all have a Long Vigil Close Combat weapon without swapping anything out... so why not?

The Sergeant has a bunch of options, like getting a Shield for a 4+ invul, a slightly better gun, but I would possibly go for the Xenophase blade if not the Shield.

Ranged:

Bolt Pistol
12" Range, 1 Attack, Hitting on 3+, S4, Ap0, 1 Damage each
Pistol

Twin Boltgun
24" Range, 2 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S4, Ap0, 1 Damage each
Twin-linked

Long Vigil Boltgun
24" Range, 1 Attack, Hitting on 3+, S4, Ap0, 1 Damage each
Anti-Infantry 4+, Devastating Wounds (Basically a Combi-weapon with a different name) Rapid Fire 1

Melee:

Let's ignore the Close Combat Weapon and say you are clever and are running all with Long Vigil Melee Weapons.

Long Vigil melee weapon
3 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S5, Ap-2, 1 Damage each

Xenophase blade
4 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S5, Ap-2, 1 Damage each
Devastating Wounds.

Abilities

Turbo-boost

When this unit Advances, do not roll for the extra movement. Instead add 6" to this unit's Movement rate.

Thoughts

As strange as this entry is, this is actually a pretty useful unit at 80pts. Much less to do with their combat ability and more to do with their agility and ability to get around the board and hold objectives, do actions at M12-M16 at T5 W9 Sv3+.

They can complete actions and really help with certain secondary objectives.

A solid spend for 80pts!

That makes 4 Deathwatch Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 36.36% Completed and the total Completed on 8.65% Complete!

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

Alphabetical List

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Adeptus Custodes	Prosecutors	#1
Adeptus Custodes	Knight-Centura	#54
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain	#61
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain in Allarus Terminator Armor	#70
Adeptus Custodes	Trajann Valoris	#40
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Fusilave	#13
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Stratoraptor	#14
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Transvector	#15
Adeptus Mechanicus	Belisarius Cawl	#53
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Raiders	#55
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Sulphurhounds	#56
Aeldari	Guardian Defenders	#64
Aeldari	Night Spinner	#65
Aeldari	Shadowseer	#80
Astra Militarum	Kasrkin	#60
Astra Militarum	Wyvern	#81
Black Templars	High Marshall Helbrecht	#38
Black Templars	Marshall	#46
Black Templars	The Emperor's Champion	#63
Blood Angels	Baal Predator	#2
Blood Angels	Gabriel Seth	#66
Blood Angels	Lemartes	#32
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82
Chaos Knights	War Dog Brigands	#30
Chaos Knights	War Dog Executioners	#31
Chaos Knights	War Dog Huntsman	#77
Chaos Space Marines	Abbadon the Despoiler	#50
Chaos Space Marines	Haarken Worldclaimer	#41
Chaos Space Marines	Khorne Lord of Skulls	#37
Dark Angels	Asmodai	#16
Dark Angels	Azrael	#17
Dark Angels	Belial	#4
Dark Angels	Deathwing Knights	#20
Dark Angels	Lazarus	#62
Death Guard	Biologus Putrifier	#5
Death Guard	Blightlord Terminators	#10
Death Guard	Chaos Lord	#36
Death Guard	Lord of Contagion	#52
Death Guard	Tallyman	#39
Death Guard	Malignant Plaguecaster	#71
Deathwatch	Corvus Blackstar	#72
Deathwatch	Proteus Killteam	#57
Deathwatch	Spectrus Kill Team	#73
Drukhari	Grotesques	#45
Drukhari	Haemonculus	#8
Drukhari	Raider	#35
Drukhari	Scourges	#7
Genestealer Cults	Aberants	#47
Genestealer Cults	Hybrid Metamorphs	#58
Genestealer Cults	Reductus Saboteur	#33
Grey Knights	Brother Captain	#25
Grey Knights	Grand Master	#48
Grey Knights	Strike Squad	#51
Imperial Agents	Callidus Assassin	#9
Imperial Agents	Culexus Assassin	#69
Imperial Agents	Vigilant Squad	#26
Imperial Knights	Canis Rex	#76
Imperial Knights	Armiger Helverin	#22
Imperial Knights	Armiger Warglaive	#43
Imperial Knights	Knight Castellan	#83
Leagues of Votann	Brôkhyr Iron-master	#27
Leagues of Votann	Brôkhyr Thunderkyn	#78
Leagues of Votann	Sagitaur	#3
Leagues of Votann	Ûthar the Destined	#44
Necrons	Obelisk	#11
Orks	Battlewagon	#34
Orks	Hunta Rig	#28
Space Marines	Kayvaan Shrike	#23
Space Marines	Marneus Calgar	#42
Space Marines	Razorback	#21
Space Wolves	Arjac Rockfist	#68
Space Wolves	Wolf Guard	#74
T'au Empire	Darkstrider	#12
T'au Empire	Kroot Carnivore Squad	#19
T'au Empire	Pathfinder Team	#79
T'au Empire	Stealth Battlesuits	#67
Thousand Sons	Exalted Sorcerer	#59
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Tyranids	Barbgaunts	#6
Tyranids	Screamer Killer	#24
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18

Thank you for reading!

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