Deathwatch Smash Captain

The Deathwatch draw their veterans from across dozens of Chapters and put them into small kill teams built for one purpose: hunting things that are not human. This is the officer who leads from the very front of that formation — a jump-pack captain built entirely around closing the distance and ending the fight in one exchange. "Smash captain" is a nickname that came from the tabletop rather than the fiction, and it describes the archetype exactly: land in the enemy's lines, swing something enormous, survive the reply. It is a role that suits an aggressive collection and an aggressive player in equal measure. As an HQ choice he anchors a kill-team force, and as a painting subject he is a rewarding one: a veteran seconded from another Chapter entirely is an invitation to break up the sober black these squads wear with markings borrowed from wherever you like.