Editing Kill Team (section)

==Role==

The Kill Team is the primary formation of the Deathwatch, serving as the core group that engages the bulk of their hated xenos foes, and to bring about the achievement of the Deathwatch's objectives. They are in a essence, the Deathwatch's equivalent of the vanilla Space Marine [[Tactical Squad]]. Most Battle-Brothers are veterans of a hundred alien wars before being inducted into the Deathwatch, but selection is not made upon length of service alone. In theory, even a Scout Marine who shows exceptional skill at arms against the xenos may be selected to serve, although such an event is extremely rare. In the main, it is those Battle-Brothers who have faced a broad range of alien threats and not only survived, but prevailed, learning and passing on new methods of defeating such foes. A Deathwatch Kill Team consist of no less than 5 Battle-Brothers, but they are no larger than a reinforced squad in size, tasked with carrying out a specific objective, such as the destruction of a particularly dangerous target or strategically important objective.

If a mission requires an unusually large number of Deathwatch Astartes to participate, the Inquisition may assemble several Kill Teams, though such instances are rare because of the elite status and potent combat ability of even a single Deathwatch Kill Team. The term Kill Team can also refer to larger, more ''ad hoc'' assemblies of Space Marines drawn from the companies of the standard Space Marine Chapters. These types of Kill Teams often consist of 3-5 squads within a standard Astartes company, or about 30-50 Space Marines. These Kill Teams are lightly armed and are intended to make use of speed and relative stealth to destroy selected, highly important strategic targets. These targets are primarily the enemy's most important command-and-control units, such as an enemy commander and his bodyguard. Additionally, standard Space Marine Chapters also make use of Kill Teams to mop up any remaining enemy troops after the primary combat has ended in an Astartes victory.

Being Supersoldier Spec-Ops, Kill Teams get all the [[Awesome]] shit. They are usually armed with a [[Special Issue Boltgun]] chambered to fire specialized rounds like Hellfire or Dragonfire rounds, [[Infernus Heavy Bolter]], [[Mark IX Sniper Rifle]], an assortment of [[Combi-weapons]] such as a [[Combi-Flamer]], [[Combi-Melta]], [[Combi-Grenade Launcher]], [[Combi-Plasma]], [[Combi-Grav]] and even the elusive [[Disintegration Combi-Gun]], the rare [[Grenades & Explosives#Egerian Geode|Egerian Geode]], as well as a [[Power weapon#Power Maul|Power Maul]], [[C'tan Phase Weapons#Xenophase Blade|Xenophase Blades]] and a motherfucking [[Power weapon#Heavy Thunder Hammer|Heavy Thunder Hammer]]. Oh yeah, and all of them wear the elusive [[Mark VIII: Errant Armour]].