UK Games Expo, May 2026…
Wandering the cavernous halls of the NEC in Birmingham, and trying to find something to do due to the lack of official Talisman content this year, my son – Peter – was chatting away about how he really fancied getting the new Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon box for the upcoming launch of the 11th Edition game from Games Workshop… or are they just called Warhammer these days?
I agreed that it would be a great time for him to get into the game, and we bought some Terminators and an Inceptor Squad to make a start on his Blood Angels army.
We (he) spoke about it more during the day with him insisting that it’d be a great idea for me to start an army so that we could both learn to play together and even join forces to fight the dreaded Orks on Armageddon. Knowing that this would be folly, I said I was okay helping him and we headed to bed ready for our final look around the next day, and then we would get off home.
The morning came, and we headed back to the Element Games stand where we’d spent a small fortune the day before, and he pondered which unit to go for next and eventually settled on some Hellblasters.
Of course, my mind had been mulling over what Peter had said previously, and I’d always had a hankering after playing a smaller form game, like Kill Team, however after a previous spending spree on Necromunda stuff, only to sell it unplayed at rather a large loss, I was a little reluctant to rinse and repeat that behaviour.
However… I absolutely love the idea of the Deathwatch, and there was a Deathwatch Battalion box on the stand, whispering to me through the Warp…
So, I guess I’m now a Deathwatch player.
It’s been a busy (and expensive) couple of weeks since UK Games Expo, and my collection has already increased somewhat. We’ve preordered Armageddon for Peter, and also bought a few units to bulk out his force, and it seems that we haven’t finished quite yet.
Of course, I had to sit down and research releases for Deathwatch, and as ever thought it would be a good idea to catalogue everything I’ve found… and then make a good attempt to recreate all of these releases for the tabletop in some form or another given that a lot of them are long since retired.
The good news is that the majority of these releases were just regular units repackaged with sprues of Deathwatch Upgrades, so the hunt is on…
I’m just going to go ahead and post things in whatever order seems right, and there will be crossovers between boxed sets, repackages and bundles, but hopefully it’ll all make sense!
You can now click through most of the images on the page and it will open a new image showing you the contents for that set, or it will show the currently available unit that it uses along with any number of Deathwatch Upgrade sprues. That way you can do what I did and pick up some units on the cheap!
You should be able to tell which unit sets you might need to recreate a larger release, whether it be a sprue of Kill Team Veterans for Kill Team Mordelai, a Kill Team Cassius set for Deathwatch: Overkill, or a regular Space Marine Tactical Squad box for the 2016 Kill Team release.
I’ve also added pics of the bundles that Games Workshop sold around the release of the Deathwatch Codex in 2016, but these are made up of various combinations of the other listed units.
Fingers crossed we get some more Primaris Deathwatch releases, even if they just utilise the Deathwatch Upgrade sprue, but it’d be better to get something completely new!
The OG Deathwatch
Complete Catalog & Hobby Reference 2006-2007 (US)
Deathwatch Hobby Essentials
Deathwatch Upgrades (2016)
Large Box Releases
Deathwatch: Overkill (2016)
Warhammer 40,000: Death Masque (2016)
Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team (2016)
Battleforce: Deathwatch Watchblade Task Force (2016)
Deathwatch Kill Team Cassius (2016)
Start Collecting! Deathwatch (2017)
Combat Patrol: Deathwatch (2020)
Imperial Agents Battleforce: Ordo Xenos (2024)
Kill Team: Tomb World (2025)
Armageddon Battalion: Deathwatch (2026)
Unit Box Releases
Deathwatch Kill Team / Kill Team Veterans (2016)
Deathwatch Vanguard Veterans (2016)
Deathwatch Terminators (2016)
Deathwatch Venerable Dreadnought (2016)
Deathwatch Bikers (2016)
Deathwatch Transport (2016)
Deathwatch Land Raider (2016)
Deathwatch Corvus Blackstar (2016)
Deathwatch Starter Set – Kill Team Mordelai (2018)
Kill Team: Deathwatch (2025)
Character Box Releases
Deathwatch Watch Captain (2016)
Deathwatch Watch Captain in Terminator Armour (2016)
Deathwatch Librarian in Terminator Armour (2016)
Deathwatch Chaplain (2016)
Deathwatch Watch Master (2016)
Deathwatch Watch Captain Artemis (2017)
Deathwatch Commander Set – Gaius Acastian (2018)
Deathwatch Disruptor – Mini of the Month (December 2025)
Upgraded Models
Deathwatch Primaris Lieutenant (2018)
Deathwatch Primaris Apothecary (2018)
Deathwatch Primaris Intercessors (2018)
Deathwatch Primaris Reivers (2018)
Deathwatch Primaris Aggressors (2018)
Deathwatch Primaris Inceptors (2018)
Deathwatch Primaris Hellblasters (2018)
GW Mail Order Bundles
Deathwatch Watch Company (2016)
Strategium Command Team / Black Spear Strike Force (2016)
Corvus Dropship Wing (2016)
10-Man Kill Team
Dominatus Kill Team (2016)
Furor / Malleus Kill Team (2016)
Venator Kill Team (2016)
Deathwatch Army (2017)
Ordo Xenos Inquisitors
Inquisitor Solomon Lok (2006)
Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn (2018)
Lord Inquisitor Kyria Draxus (2024)
Inquisitor Ynigoh Kroyle (2026)
To be continued… probably…
With thanks to the fabulous resources that are Richard “Orclord” Hale’s Stuff of Legends, the Miniset Collectors Guide, and the Element Games webstore!