Specialities and Chapters

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Specialities:

Each Deathwatch marine has one speciality, chosen at character creation. These determine the cost of stat increases and the availability of skills, talents, and other advances.

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Apothecary:
- Specialist healer
- Limited combat bonuses

Assault:
- Close combat specialist
- Fast, and skilled with jump packs

Devastator:
- Heavy weapon specialist
- Bonuses with all ranged weapons

Librarian:
- Access to universal and chapter specific psychic powers
- Powerful psychic close combat strike

Tactical:
- Generalist with a mix of close and ranged combat abilities
- Can be built as a squad leader or solo marksman

Techmarine:
- Tech-use, repair, and security specialist
- Extremely tough

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Chapters:

Each Deathwatch marine has one Chapter of origin, chosen at character creation. These determine what bonus skills and talents are available above and beyond those of the characters speciality, as well as access to unique psychic powers and wargear.

Chapter abilities can provide access to skills not normally associated with a characters speciality - for example all Iron Hands and Salamanders characters gain tech use skills even if they are not a techmarine.

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Black Templars
- Cannot be librarian or devastator. Strong anti-daemon/psyker abilities

Blood Angels
- Improved close combat abilities.

Dark Angels
- Accurate firepower and superior wargear

Space Wolves
- Cannot be apothecary. Skilled tracking and access to the 'wolf scout' tactical marine variant.

Storm Wardens
- Skilled tracking with mixed offensive and defensive bonuses.

Ultramarines
- Enhanced command and superior wargear. Access to the Tyrannic War Veteran anti-horde advances.

Imperial Fists
- Siege warfare masters, enhanced cover benefits

Iron Hands
- Increased durability and tech use

Raven Guard
- Exceptional stealth

Salamanders
- Improved wargear and use of heavy melee weapons

White Scars
- Quick moving with starting access to their unique power lance

Blood Ravens
- Potent squad-boosting psychic powers (as a librarian only)

Red Scorpions
- Protected from corruption (particularly as an apothecary) and psychic powers.

Flesh Tearers
- Potent anti-horde melee

Crimson Fists
- Strong willpower

Howling Griffons
- Swordmasters

Novamarines
- Talented specialists with effective tactically flexible psychic powers

Raptors
- Multi-talented melee, stealth, and sniping

Carcharodons
- Brute force combat and ambush specialists

Doom Eagles
- Nimble jump-pack specialists

Silver Skills
- Favoured by Fate

Minotaurs
- Superior physicality

Star Phantoms
- Superior psykers