The Deathwatch are Weaponized Xenophobia

[@dekuvisuals9847]

"Don't ask why kill the alien? Ask why not?" Literally the Deathwatch

[@cecilsmith2061]

For me, the Deathwatch asks how best to kill the alien.

[@nocturnal7474]

"They use illegal weapons" sounds like the deathwatch was started by the bloody magpies or somethin

[@OGTacitus]

Those were Imperial Fists

[@evanfish4505]

To be fair, Codicier Natorian is from the magpies...

[@blizzardgaming7070]

Dam, the magpies even stole the dark angel's illegal weapons.

[@matttan8066]

funny that in dawn of war 3 the death watch are your space marine heroic unit

[@OGTacitus]

@@matttan8066 makes sence, by lore chosen to be in deathwatch first had to show in battle (mostly more than one) that they have efficency against xenos above regular, so they are at least battle-harden veterans

[@kristianfischer9814]

"Throw a fucking vortex grenade at it, it works most of the time!" Words to live by, Arthur.

[@GrimDarkHalfOff]

And may the emperor bless them for it

[@dontgetmarried]

🙏🙏🙏

[@thewerdna]

My favorite Deathwatch character is Chyron, a Dreadnaught from the Lamenters. He (incorrectly) believes he is the last Lamenter is existence and is thus incredibly pissed off as a result.

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

In all fairness, he *was* the last Lamenter for a good while before Belisarius rocked up with his primaris.

[@RorikH]

Remember kids: It's not alien adjacent once you've stuck it into an alien.

[@dr.bright3081]

Is this a Rowboat Girlyman and Yvraine joke?!

[@RorikH]

@@dr.bright3081 No, he was showing their knives while saying their tech was alien-adjacent.

[@dr.bright3081]

@@RorikH yeah… I was making a joke about the whole Guilleman and Yvraine situation

[@RorikH]

@@dr.bright3081 Oh. Your joke was phrased as a question. My apologies.

[@alecazadi-hocking8381]

“They use illegal weapons” **smiles in Dark Angel**

[@SB-129]

"Who am I to judge where they get their weapons from as long as they kill aliens with it!" -Blood Ravens: "You're goddamn right..."

[@dr.bright3081]

Right before all their shit goes missing by said Blood Ravens!

[@ssjjshawn]

​@@dr.bright3081Arthur ends up as a Chapter Sef since they steal him as well. They do have manpower issues still

[@minhducnguyen9276]

​@@dr.bright3081 "How do you plan to kill the Xeno over there?" "With this plasma gun I brought here." "And you, how do you plan to kill that Xeno." "With the plasma gun this guy brought here."

[@AkaIceBear]

I really enjoy that they get to keep their pauldron after they leave too. A veteran back in their home chapter, rocking the pauldron on the right ride is super dope.

[@minhducnguyen9276]

Except for the space wolves. While it shows you are a badass in the chapter it also shows that you are a weirdo who hangs out with the Ultramarines, the Blood Ravens and Russ forbid, the Dark Angels.

[@JackzTheIcompetant]

The fact that the space sharks hate elves makes me love them even more I am so happy I got my tyberos model

[@funny4052]

They also have the best killteam, fight me

[@adeptusslugusgaming]

I agree but someone will come along and go on about Intercession...

[@thenerfkid9228]

I mean yeah they have a gigantic amount of customisation. I still like intercession squad (mmm free rules) a lot but yeah.

[@Nostroman_Praetor]

This is a fact.

[@tybaltmarr2158]

The deathwatch were formed 2000yrs after the Horus heresy because the orks brought the entire Imperium to its knees. We're talking an ork version of the death star teleporting above Terra. The Imperial Fists chapter getting wiped out to a man, a loyalist primarch (spoilers) getting killed by a mega-ork. The Imperium was so unprepared that in the aftermath, the grand master of assassins killed all high lords of terra, and the inquisition formalised the deathwatch formations made up of survivors from various marine chapters.

[@Nuvem_AV582]

I relly like the Deathwatch, I think just the idea of having so many different traditions of different chapters, coupled with the relative freedom of doing as they like so long as it gets the job done, can lead to some really interesting interactions.

[@soffren]

One of my favorite fan fics was about a Black Templar who had to hide his psychic abilities from his brothers until he joined the deathwatch. He ended up dying to defeat a bloodletter, but his brothers memorialized him all the same, never knowing he was a psycher.

[@minhducnguyen9276]

For many chapters it's a matter of pride to have members transferred to the Deathwatch. The Ultramarines or the Salamanders would throw a party for that. For other chapters, that's a way to send away space marines who they don't like.

[@Appropriatenamenumbervalid]

​@@soffrenwhats the name??

[@soffren]

@@Appropriatenamenumbervalid I wish I could remember 😭

[@Appropriatenamenumbervalid]

@@soffren awww...is it on ao3??

[@PeachyPixel28]

"...bugs, mushrooms, and old people..." 🤣

[@DCJMS]

the Deathwatch RPG pretty much makes you a team of Arnolds hunting the aliens

[@DaKdawg]

I love reading peoples adventure logs. Really wish I had invested in that instead of Dark Heresy.

[@KIPKA-g2z]

Where do you find the adventure logs?

[@monoclesquid9667]

I always fancied the idea of running Deathwatch and naming, backstorying, etc each and every individual character, their tensions and friendships with other chapters within their battle brothers, etc.

[@Bread-nx9fo]

GW finally put a Deathwatch captain onsale, perfect time to get some.

[@CalebAdams]

Deathwatch is my favorite faction in all of WH40k. I’ve dove deep into the lore of all the universe but I always come back to Deathwatch. Just something about elite task forces comprised of different chapters and personalities on suicide missions where anything goes to accomplish the task that is freakin badass to me.

[@HappyVoidWanderer]

I like how they're elite. Not from being litteraly build different like grey knights but by being veterans of minimum 50 years

[@Channel-23s]

The underrated group compared to the Grey knights Sisters of silence and Custodes while being one of the most interesting concepts and imho kinda better then some of the latter with how different the brothers can be while fighting crazy Xenos instead of deamons a Deathwatch book would be fucking LIT ngl

[@adamstephens5964]

Shadow Breaker by Steve Parker, it’s awesome, 16 hr audio book, and it’s all DW, fighting tau, kroot, Genestealers, aaaand more!! I’ll stop there not to spoil anything

[@AzkuulaKtaktu]

Deathwatch is a great setting and premise for a show.

[@gerardmontgomery280]

I think they felt special in earlier editions where you could take one kill team as a sort off super Vanguard squad they felt special but now they just feel like another chapter with some funky lore.

[@kevinr8207]

Good video. It can be noted that DeathWatch can potentially have chaos specialists in kill teams with members of certain chapters such as the Exorcists, the Red Hunter and the White Consuls for example.

[@bruvamichal7437]

I can't believe captain Titus didn't end up in deathwatch.

[@mementomori771]

It's been 100s of years in universe between games so for all we know he did

[@bruvamichal7437]

@@mementomori771 He should have Deathwatch Veterans Shoulder Pad if he served in Deathwatch

[@jossguerrero277]

That was a huge miss oportunity to show more of the WH 40k lore into videogames, I would love to watch more chapters interacting with each other

[@NoName-ew3hz]

Looks like you predicted the future

[@thehaloodstd7716]

This aged well lol

[@Technoanima]

Necron: Hippity Hoppity, Get off my property!!! Deathwatch: No. You.

[@ReverandSatan]

That there are/can/might be Black Shield members of the Deathwatch that are/were Nigh Lords tickles me unimaginably.

[@amandahugenkiss2310]

There are probably a lot of black shields from the Marines Malevolent

[@personwhotalks2049]

i don't play deathwatch myself but the deathwatch combat patrol was a great way to break up the monotony of painting the same green space marines all the time for my dark angels. cause aside from their specific units you can always just make some deathwatch with the heraldry of your chapter of choice for a bit of variety in your army

[@evanfish4505]

I fell in love with Deathwatch purely because of the conversion potential Not only can you have any sort of customization on literally any model you own, but you can just convert marines from other ranges Want a Chaplain with a wierd loadout? Just do a pauldron swap on one of the chapter specific versions Want

[@MortiefiedBear]

Literally why I love the Deathwatch

[@budtloper1]

I'd love for a Death watch unit to see a World Eater walk up and tell them to paint his armour black

[@DCJMS]

no Blackshields where harmed in the making of this video - signed Dark Angels

[@reisakashiya]

“Uuuh, hi, I’m Arthur” Aah, this makes my dad

[@nicholasgucwa2065]

Worldeaters' successor video is going to slap.

[@jonpato]

First time listener. I frickin love you and will be going on a full binge as of right now. You're funny AND relaxing, that's a rare combo. We might have to put you in stasis until we learn how to replicate you.

[@jossguerrero277]

I like the idea of all the chapters united to defend humans from xenos and irony of a xeno species dying with they own weapons

[@Ark_3311]

The Death watch are indeed a space marine chapter.

[@the_word_bearer]

Hot damn, kroot servo skull looks amazing

[@inductivegrunt94]

*XENOPHOBIA INCREASES*

[@gustavogutierrez6568]

Fun fact: the protagonist of angels of death was a death watch member

[@2SSSR2]

Imagine Marines Malevolent in Deathwatch.

[@Br0oham]

Now I can't speak in terms of the Tabletop for any of this stuff, but I tell you what, playing with all this stuff in a TTRPG setting is insane, The Deathwatch get absolutely batshit tier equipment, that said, they have to deal with issues that very much warrant the use of it. But a very cool chapter nonetheless

[@nathankemmer3891]

he missed the opportunity to say squiggillions

[@minhducnguyen9276]

Ironically, they are also used as escort for diplomatic missions with xenos. In fact, they are the most suitable to negotiate with the xenos besides an ordos xenos inquisitor.

[@williammiller4768]

The Deathwatch is also the place Chapters dump their “problem” Astartes. Watch Angels of Death. Khazarion gets dumped into the Watch when he begins to succumb to the Black Rage. His Brothers even get pissed when he actually survives his Service and returns. “Sacrificed to Duty.” He snarls at them. Oh, and the forced psychological torture while being strapped onto a table is another thing….

[@Depressed_Grimm]

The deathwatch has fallen brothers. We live in dark times....

[@cypher4783]

Strength through diversity for the expressed purpose of bigotry

[@acutler4745]

Finally! Ive been looking forward to hear your banter on the DW.

[@theodorehodbor5080]

Fun fact there's actually an entire tabletop RPG where you can play as a Deathwatch kill team creatively named Deathwatch. It's made by the same people who made the Dark Heresy and Rogue Trader rpgs and so follows the same d100 based system but instead of mortals you're massively powerful space marines who kill hordes of mortals as mooks basically. Also fun fact you can play a Minotaur in it and they have a special trait called "Rivalry (Every Astartes Chapter)."

[@invictarussuzerain]

Ah man, I do Ultramarines, Salamanders, AND Deathwatch. Am I a meme? Yes. Probably yes.

[@painlord2k]

"Xenophobia"??? Deathwatch don't fear any Xeno.

[@winterknight4307]

Correction, Xenos fear them 💀

[@alberthwang2900]

Best excuse for a 40k space marine RPG ever.

[@robrib2682]

I never thought of it but yeah, if you know very little about 40k the marines that go out of their way to deal with the horrid alien gribblies instead of just reacting to them when they invade sound cool. also black and silver slaps as a color scheme

[@jamesf3871]

The Deathwatch will always be synonymous with the Frag Cannon for me. Absolutely busted weapon. My Tau gun line WAS LITERALLY OUTSHOT by the Deathwatch squads with them. Still salty years later.

[@dr.bright3081]

lol what?! Seriously?! That’s legit a thing for the table top?! Man… I need to get involved in the table top game.

[@jaegerbomb269]

I like the Deathwatch as it's an all in one chapter. Not to mention a fun way to have crossovers, too.

[@Gr_ywind]

love how the Space Wolves deal with these "requests" for personnel. "Yeah, yeah sure we'll get right on that, in the mean time here's a pack of blood claws, have fun!". 🤣

[@Start3rPack]

The ceremony for each chapter when a brother goes to the Death Watch is fun. Each is unique but the one I love is how thr Dark Angels mad dog the marine and threaten them to silence all the while masked in a sword passing ceremony.

[@chadstorm92]

Dude….. I just noticed that “old timey” music in the background. 😂

[@NobodyDungeons]

I personally made my own black watch kill team and one of my favorite characters from that group is a iron warrior who was unwilling inducted into the iron warriors but managed to resist the brainwashing and escape to the imperium where he pleaded his case and was deemed a useful tool for the imperium. He ended up becoming a black shield, and is a stellar tech marine using the leeway that the legion provides to Greta effect with modified terminator armor and many other wonky and otherwise heretical inventions which include a bottled and purged portion of the warp which allows psykers to not worry about demon possession.

[@jeremyleclair8883]

Hey man, I want to say you have a great taste in books. I just started the talos book series you recommend in your night lord video and its been great! Talos is a fantastically done character and also setptimus ans Octavia are good also. I'm using audible, so I only use the 1 credit a month, but what other books do you recommend I read the first 2 ciaphas cain books and thats all

[@dschlangoe6255]

As a fellow audible enjoyer, when you have an extra credit and need another book that isn’t so focused on the imperium and imperium adjacent factions, I highly recommend “The Infinite and the Divine” it’s probably the best necron book and one of the best books from black library. For some series I recommend the Gaunt’s Ghosts books for imperial guard stories, the Fabius bile trilogy for some crazy traitor action, and the eisenhorn main series of books for scratching that inquisitorial intrigue itch. I have so many individual books in my audible library it would take forever to recommend all the best of them. But I hope this poorly written comment gives you a good starting point for some new books.

[@jeremyleclair8883]

Hey man. I appreciate you taking time out of your day to recommend some books for me. I heard the trazyn book is good, but I had it spoiled for me... I love the guard books because it is the normal view someone would have if we were thrown in that situation. Btw I appreciate it. I will look into Fabius bile. I don't know much about him, but I know he is working with angron correct?

[@dschlangoe6255]

Anything for a fellow new fan. Having a novel like that spoiled is An unfortunate situation for sure, still a good listen if you ever feel like listening to it. Fabius Bile is the former chief apothecary of the Emperor’s Children legion, so he works more with his gene father Fulgrim, and even then he doesn’t like what his primarch has become. I’m not sure about him working with Angron since I haven’t had a chance to listen to any of the new book releases in a few months, so I’m not sure what interaction the two have had. The most recently released audiobooks I’ve listened to are “Only in Death” which is a fairly old Gaunt’s Ghosts book and “The End and the Death Part 1” which is the most recent siege of terra book so nothing particularly relevant currently. I do know Bile is the antagonist in the new book “Genefather” so maybe that has more information you’re looking for

[@thorwhitaker]

Always loved the Deathwatch, mostly because Xcom 2 is one of my favorite games and they remind me of it. Plus the whole marines from multiple chapters appealed to me, I always wondered what type of culture would form out of it and how would they see other chapters after their time in the Deathwatch.

[@DragonsHoardOfPlastic]

I always imagine the Deathwatch's hijinks are similar to the "Expendables" films.

[@LazzarrusLong]

03:15 Mushrooms and old people 😁

[@ryanjohn8875]

0:55 nah that’s wild, never thought I’d be called out like that 😂

[@zacharyhemlock3300]

Me who knows lots about the lore and picked the deathwatch as a fav chapter later: "Interesting."

[@Kennyselman]

"...ah jeeze, where'd you get that phase blade my Blackwatch Brother?" "Better not ask such questions, Brother, best return to your business."

[@alexisdelfino9442]

Also. If someone gets bored of being a chaos space marie, they can paint black is gear and play loyal again.

[@colonelturmeric558]

Ahh chaplain cassius, what a great model for chaplain kitbashes

[@scalefreakgaming]

Jon snow, of the Death Watch

[@emeraldhog9797]

As a salamander player, i wholeheartedly agree with that statement

[@wikoroo2366]

Well Not xenophobia Xenophobia is the fear of aliens The deathwatch doesn't fear aliens *The aliens fear the deathwatch*

[@DefaultProphet]

The Deathwatch are pretty tight. My space marine chapter acts as sort of a green team to the local DW watch station , helping them train and acting as rapid replacement if shit goes bad. If they’re acting as rapid replacement they wear black shields and will leave as soon as tithed marines show up to replace them. When they’re back with my chapter they do get to continue wearing the DW pauldron on the opposite shoulder.

[@reverenddmo8944]

I'm now referring to Necrons as Old People from hereon in. Thank you from the bottom of my Mushroom heart.

[@maxwellbeckconrad7606]

0:32 who are these guys with the white and black and the horns!?

[@yukiomishima9769]

Sons of malice

[@nikkicoyotie8431]

There's also an "Ultramarines" offshoot called the Sons of Orar who see Orar (some may not have existed exemplar for them) as their "spiritual primarch" and we all know where the leftovers of 2 and 11 probably went....so maybe they're a second founding to one of the lost legions....?

[@KIPKA-g2z]

Underrated and underutilized faction. So much strorytelling potential for games, shows, books, etc. Perfect for showcasing rivalries among chapters. Could also use it for some political intrugue (Inquisition). If they ever make a Space Marine 3 game, would be a great next step for Titus, given his experience with Orks and Tyranids. He would make a perfect addition to the Furor Shield, to help fix the Inquisition's fuck-up with the Octarius War.

[@rumorcontrol7873]

deathwatch just has so much neat variety

[@largaCat]

All my Space Marine classes in Space Marine 2 are all Deathwatch. My Tactical is a Void Trident Deathwatch, My Sniper is a Raven guard Deathwatch, My Heavy is a Blackshield Deathwatch, My Bulwark is a Templar Deathwatch and my Vanguard is a Blood Raven Deathwatch. 1. Cool left Deathwatch Pauldron 2. The left silver gauntlet 3. The Deathwatch left leg armor 4. The color red lines in the knee pad on the RIGHT leg armor 5. A chapter colors for the right pauldron. All other parts of the armor must be Abbadon Black. All available to everyone who preordered Space Marine 2

[@thecrimsonfire4921]

Damn you’re a great warhammer KZbinr. I offer forth my comment to aid in your algorithm

[@acutler4745]

Bro, you arent wrong... 20yrs ago I never thought I would play spacemarines... when the time came, it was either Salamanders... or Deathwatch. Purge the Xenos.

[@nikkicoyotie8431]

Old forgotten lore: Genestealer ork hybrids are welcome in the clan as normal members and actually disrupt brood telepathy, have no interest in helping the patriarch, and will be openly hostile to actual tyranids. But this is also dating back to the time of tinboyz, so kind of abandonded lore. But still kind of a cool idea

[@jkee9760]

They are just passing the word of God onto them. (WE ARE MADE IN HIS IMAGE WHILE THE FILTHY XENOS AREN'T)

[@henrypaleveda7760]

would you mind doing a dive into some deathwatch or black shields lore? the video was very enjoyable and I'd like to see more.

[@SgtThiel]

they dropped that comic, it was cool asf. damn you GW

[@dariostabletopminatures]

6:36 YES!

[@janefkrbtt]

im one of those cool, smart, and swagged out individuals who decided to start 40k with custodians. and ive never looked back baybee

[@edthesillybrain]

I prefer Luna Wolves, Black Templars, and Imperial Fists. But that’s because they’re in what I read so far.

[@UnluckyDragon13]

3 hour ork vídeo when?

[@ExProductions95]

Yup dealing with orks with tryinids has never ever back fired whatsoever

[@theenderdestruction2362]

Fun fact: the animosity was accounted for, and so every deathwatch member is trained to the point of exhaustion. Yes, their training space marines that hard, and so because of this, hell training chapters that normally HATE each other get along pretty well cause "hey if their willing to help me up this hill cause I'm dead tired then i can put away my animosity"

[@TheRastawookie]

apparently, Captain Titus was in the Deathwatch as a black shield for a while maybe?

[@camrongoodall]

Is it possible for a grey knight to be requested by the death watch?

[@ironduke5058]

Damn, weaponised Xenophobia? They sound like they're one of, if not, dare I say the most based Space Marines out there

[@mikhanical7338]

"The chapter that people play when they don't want to play Salamanders" bro wtf I feel called out. I started with DW, because I didn't want to commit to the friendly flamer boys. But now I have both =)

[@jakeku2662]

Those comics are very hard to find in print.

[@LAV-III]

The also have the single best HMkids song out there

[@KIPKA-g2z]

More Deathwatch content, please!

[@timbob1145]

Well, now I'm a happy DW player again. These new datasheets are ludicrous.

[@Forsparda]

Huh I only started building deathwatch after I had a smattering of random bits

[@vladimirmihnev9702]

Xenos are Heresy, Heresy bad, Xenos BAD! PURGING XENOS GOOD

[@MrYoujordan]

So black shield members are the same thing as members of the nights watch from ASOIAF / GOT

[@bryanmulivanu4270]

Wow I feel attacked, Chose Deathwatch as my 1st army because I didn’t want to be Salamanders

[@dariostabletopbastelecke4846]

9:20 YES!

[@MortiefiedBear]

I love the Deathwatch, planning on building my space marines as them.