Death To The Vile Xenos!

This past Friday evening That Damn Punk ran a Deathwatch demo instead of our usual Shadowrun game.  Deathwatch is the third installment of roleplaying in the grim world of Warhammer 40K.  This time you get to play the Emperor’s elite, Space Marines.  Being a Space Marine player in the table top game, I was looking forward to strapping on some Mark VII Power Armour and bringing glory to the Emperor.   We each chose our marines and got down to business.  The demo seemed to be fairly combat heavy but considering that one is playing a member of a Deathwatch Kill Team that is to be expected.  They are not  kidding about the kill part .  Five marines are practically a small army in game terms.  The designers of the game cleverly introduced horde rules to represent large groups, which is good because great bloody swaths were cut by the Marines.  The game does epic battle quite well.  There is also enough room for roleplay.  The game moves fast, or at least it did for us.  It was quite easy to pick up and most importantly we had a ton of fun.  I look forward to the arrival of the rule book so I can really dig into this game.  Assuming that there are no major changes, I can recommend giving this game a try.  And if you can’t wait, then get your own copy of the demo here: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite.asp?eidm=108&enmi=Deathwatch