The People of Armageddon
 Veteran Build - Warhammer 40k: Darktide 

First time trying one of these, one of my thematic builds which seems to work so may as well share it here.

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Weapons

We're using the Chainsword for its major horde clearing personally it's one of the best if not the best melee option for veteran with Wrath and Rampage to allow us to quickly cleave our way through any hordes that get too close to us although hopefully you have a good enough frontline where you won't need to be involved in the fights too often as this build is focused more around sniping specialists/elites.

On the topic of sniping im sure its why the Helbore MK III here especially with the perks its got its currently the highest damaging lasgun and with the perks we are using you should very quickly have a fire rate to contest with the other las gun's and also very thematic. But when you have your Executioners Stance enabled ive been able to sometimes one shot crushers on Heresy, not too sure about damnation though but any other kind of specialists with full charge you should be able to one shot either to the head or body although i would emphasise shooting them in the head is obviously the main target.

Curios

Honestly with curios feel free to go with whatever you want however apparently it's better to run toughness on Veterans however i haven't tried it and currently using 2 +wounds and max health and that's done me well so far but i would say that it's a must to have damage reductions, personally i like to have as much gunner reduction as possible as they are usually the bane of my existence especially depending on the mission set.

Perks

I think it's generally self explanatory however i'll just explain some of the ones of importance.

• Krak Grenade - This is a personal choice, however i would recommend it as i find it to be really useful especially when Crusher, Scab Maulers get close suddenly they make a great way to just get them out of the way for you to get back to sniping, Also with the Chainsword there's probably not much use for Frag Grenades as you'll be clearing hordes just fine but again it's a personal choice.
• Fire Team - Again personal usually if i want to be giving ammo with the use of Survivalist i'll just go with my support build as this already means there's either other veterans or people who are gonna make me redundant aka Psykers.
• Executioners Stance - This is obviously a must (it's a sniping build after all) however you can choose whatever augments you want to run but i would heavily suggest running with Counter-Fire and Relentless, these have allowed me to sometime stack it up to almost a minutes worth of executioners stance and will allow you to well be relentless.
• Shocktrooper - Again a must for not just this build but i'd say all Las based veteran builds as much as the weak spot damage may be tempting and if you have any spare points i'd recommend you put them into this cause extra damage is always nice. But with us using the Helbore with Executioners Stance it should be more than enough to put them down so taking Shocktrooper allowing us to sort of "self serve" ourselves when it comes to ammo is not just helpful to the team (more ammo for them) also allows us to keep going as its put right into your magazine.

That's all there is in the build however there is something extra although it won't actually help i would recommend you use this with Armageddon armour as it looks really cool with it and as we all know the rule of cool is most important.

Have fun Rejects!