Deathwatch: Overkill
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BGG #8,794
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7.0

Deathwatch: Overkill

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Rules assistance for Deathwatch: Overkill

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 60 min
  • Complexity 2.4/5

Rules assistant for Deathwatch: Overkill

For 2 players

What would you like to know?

Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Deathwatch: Overkill is a board game released in 2016 for 2 players and 60 minutes per game. Its main mechanics are Variable Player Powers, Dice Rolling, and Modular Board.

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About the game

The Deathwatch are the elite of the elite. Recruited from the ranks of the Adeptus Astartes, humanity's power-armored Space Marines, the Deathwatch embark on the most difficult missions in the name of the Emperor. Genestealer Cults are the advanced infiltration units of the Tyranid Hive. They infiltrate human civilization and interbreed to create monstrous hybrid cultists. Deathwatch: Overkill pits these two forces against each other. The Deathwatch player controls a squad of marines plus one Terminator and one White Scar on a bike. The Genestealer Cult player controls one Patriarch, one Magus and 37 Genestealers ranging from purestrain to fourth generation cultist. Each player uses dice and cards to shoot and force the action.

Editions

  • Deathwatch: OverkillenGames Workshop Ltd.2016
  • Deathwatch: OverkillfrGames Workshop Ltd.2016
  • Deathwatch: OverkilldeGames Workshop Ltd.2016
  • Deathwatch: OverkillitGames Workshop Ltd.2016

Publishers

  • Games Workshop Ltd.

Questions and answers

Deathwatch: Overkill supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.