In that regard, its value is maximized for the GM who wants to make his or her Deathwatch game as ‘authentic’ as possible, and is also running a campaign that does not heavily hone in on a particular Salient (if you’re running a campaign focused on just one kind of foe, be it Tau or Tyranid or Chaos, then you’re necessarily leaving half of the book behind). To my mind, there are three potential audiences for RPG books – GMs, players, and readers (do not be dismissive of the mere reader, for in my experience we gamers buy a lot more RPG books from a lot more RPGs than we could ever really make use of).įunctionally, The Achilus Assault is a GM book, not something that you’d be picking up as a player. These includes a couple of new deeds, a new relic, a new combat drone, optional rules for the effect of the Shadow in the Warp cast by the Tyranid hive fleet, stat blocks for five different kinds of Stigmartus ground troops, for two kinds of Tau, for simuloptera (a kind of nano-robot found on the fallen Forge World of Samech), and for four unique enemy NPCs. There are a few new bits of crunch to be found scattered through The Achilus Assault. Overall, the fluff is The Achilus Assault most commonly consists of relatively lengthy sections on the history and politics of the Crusade, including some detailed discussions of important NPCs, or shorter sections (half a page to a page each) concerning particular worlds or events in one of the Salients. In my RPG reviews I often go into a relatively detailed level on the contents, but I have a hard time here identifying something that’s more detailed than the book’s own Table of Contents, but provides some meaningful information without just summarizing what the flavor bits are. The Achilus Assault is primarily divided into four sections – one for the history of the Crusade, and then one for each of the three Salients. I combine these two together because, with a small number of mechanical bits listed below, this is a book of setting material. These were all good, as is the standard for the Deathwatch line.

The Achilus Assault is a 144-page, full-color hardcover, and retails for about $40 (although since the Deathwatch line is on hiatus, which I presume has something to do with FFG announcing Second Edition 4H40K RPG books, you are pretty likely to be able to get it for substantially less than that). There are also a few new mechanical bits thrown in. The Achilus Assault provides background information on the history of the Achilus Assault, as well as a selection of planets and NPCs. The Achilus Assault is primarily a setting book for Deathwatch, one of Warhammer 40K Roleplay lines from Fantasy Flight.

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