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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!

Also this has become quite the Challenge! With so many units to review in the game the consensus in the hobby community is that I will not have enough time to review all of the Datasheets before the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 came out.

I should have started when 10th edition launched!
411 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #99, I am 312 reviews behind! Am I slowly winning?

Picking them randomly, let me spin the wheel again and see what I get:

Dark Angels, Deathwing Terminator Squad

10th Edition Codex

Right! Another entry for the Dark Angels. This is the Deathwing. The Elite First Company of the Dark Angels, led by Grand Master of the Deathwing - Belial whom we have already reviewed!

There is also a Deathwing Knights unit... and that means, yes! I have all the Deathwing subfaction units in the game reviewed and in this Library!

Now this means that I can start looking at synergies between units!

Essentially, this unit is very similar to the Space Marine Terminator unit, which I have not yet reviewed, but they have an extra choice when it comes to a Heavy Weapon and the unit may have a Watcher.

It is 180pts for a 5 man unit and a whopping 360pts for a 10 man unit.

Its tricky to build, Space Marine Terminators cost $65 for a box of 5. But to get the Plasma Cannon and the specific heads there is an upgrade sprue that costs $35.

That would be steep if the Upgrade sprue only modified one model, or squad. There are enough head and such that multiple units can be upgraded.

Let's see their stats!

Stats

Movement 5"
Toughness 5
Save 2+/4++(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 3
Ld 6+
OC 1

Weapons

All Terminators come equipped with a Storm Bolter.
For every 5, one Terminator can wield one of the following:

• Assault Cannon
• Heavy Flamer
• Cyclone Missile Launcher, plus Storm Bolter
• Plasma Cannon (This one is unique on Dark Angel Terminators)

Range:

Storm Bolter
Range 24", 2 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S4, Ap 0, 1 Damage each
Rapid Fire 2 (So 4 Attacks at 12")

Assault Cannon
Range 24", 6 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S6, Ap 0, 1 Damage each
Devastating Wounds (6's to Wound bypass saves and cause Mortal Wounds)

Heavy Flamer
Range 12", D6 Attacks, Torrent, S5, Ap -1, 1 Damage each
Torrent (Hits Automatically with the number of attacks rolled), Ignores Cover

Two firing options for the Cyclones, krak missile or frag missile:
Cyclone Missile Launcher - krak missile
Range 48", 2 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S9, Ap -2, D6 Damage each

Cyclone Missile Launcher - frag missile
Range 48", 2D6 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S4, Ap 0, 1 Damage each
Blast (Extra 1 attack per 5 models in enemy unit rounding down)

Two firing option for Plasma Cannon, regular and overcharge:
Plasma Cannon Standard
Range 36", D6 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S7, Ap -2, 1 Damage each
Blast (Extra 1 attack per 5 models in enemy unit rounding down)

Plasma Cannon Overcharge
Range 36", D6 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S8, Ap -3, 1 Damage each
Blast (Extra 1 attack per 5 models in enemy unit rounding down), Hazardous (roll a dice after shooting, if you roll a 1, the shooter takes 3 mortal wounds!)

Melee:

The Sergeant in the squad is armed with a Power Weapon.
The rest of the unit is armed with Power Fists, though any number of them may exchange a Power Fist for a Chainfist

Power Weapon
4 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S5, Ap -2, 1 Damage each

Power Fist
3 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S8, Ap -2, 2 Damage each

Chainfist
3 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S8, Ap -2, 2 Damage each
Anti-Vehicle 3+(Critically Wounds Vehicles on a 3+)

Wargear Abilities

Watcher in the Dark

This is the mysterious little Jawa looking dude that follows them around. Once per game, use the Watcher and the unit gains a 4+ Feel No Pain against Mortal Wounds for a phase.

This is great, its free, why not? Helps you against certain situations!

Abilities

Deep Strike (Able to be set up anywhere on the board from Reserves)

Teleport Homer

At the start of the game, put down a Teleport Homer anywhere that is not inside your opponent's deployment zone.

You can, once per game, target this unit with the Rapid Ingress Stratagem for 0CP and deploy within 3" of the Teleport Homer and outside 9" of an enemy unit.

Deathwing

When models in this unit make an attack, you can ignore any modifiers to Weapon Skill or Ballistic skill.

Generally this means any de-buff from other units are ignored and they remain as accurate as ever!

Additionally, should they be targeting the Oath of Moment target, they add +1 to the to Hit roll.

Thoughts

Terminators are always awesome! Deathwing Terminators have an awesome aesthetic. I feel that most Dark Angels are going to field at least one Plasma Cannon... because they CAN and not because of whether or not it is the best Heavy Weapon option.

Which one is the best Heavy Weapon you ask? Well... that depends on the internal balance of your list building. You should make sure that this army can deal with anything. Base your choices on that.

That makes 6 Dark Angel Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 37.5% Completed! The total Completed is 10.19% Complete! Can I review them all?!

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	Corpuscarii Electro-Priests	#97
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Raiders	#55
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Sulphurhounds	#56
Aeldari	Guardian Defenders	#64
Aeldari	Maugan Ra	#87
Aeldari	Night Spinner	#65
Aeldari	Shadowseer	#80
Aeldari	Prince Yriel	#92
Astra Militarum	Kasrkin	#60
Astra Militarum	Tank Commander	#90
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
Blood Angels	Sanguinary Guard	#93
Chaos Daemons	Beasts of Nurgle	#98
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82
Chaos Knights	Knight Abominant	#94
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
Deathwatch	Veteran Bike Squad	#84
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	Cthonian Beserks	#86
Leagues of Votann	Sagitaur	#3
Leagues of Votann	Ûthar the Destined	#44
Necrons	Obelisk	#11
Orks	Battlewagon	#34
Orks	Hunta Rig	#28
Orks	Zodgrod Wortsnagga	#89
Space Marines	Kayvaan Shrike	#23
Space Marines	Marneus Calgar	#42
Space Marines	Razorback	#21
Space Wolves	Arjac Rockfist	#68
Space Wolves	Fenrisian Wolves	#91
Space Wolves	Wolf Guard	#74
T'au Empire	Breacher Team	#88
T'au Empire	Darkstrider	#12
T'au Empire	Kroot Carnivore Squad	#19
T'au Empire	Pathfinder Team	#79
T'au Empire	Razorshark Strike Fighter	#95
T'au Empire	Stealth Battlesuits	#67
Thousand Sons	Exalted Sorcerer	#59
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Tyranids	Barbgaunts	#6
Tyranids	Raveners	#96
Tyranids	Screamer Killer	#24
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18
World Eaters	World Eaters Daemon Prince	#85

Thank you for reading!

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