thinking of running a solo game for a friend of mine, could a deathwatch marine survivie alone? can it work ?

I was thinking librarian or apoc might be best for the spread of skills or extra healing? or maybe a techmarine with servitors as cannon fodder?

There is a career advancement in Rites of Battle for such lone wolves on extended missions, combined with a higher rank and an nsc or two, it might work well enough.

Talking about Black Shield?

No, I think he is talking about a Kill-Marine(I am guessing).

A librarian would work very well. Kill Marine makes sense too. If I may suggest, if he does want to do be something else other than the ones described, I suggest giving him a house rule where you can make defense reactions like parry or dodge equal to his agility bonus to increase survivability. Or simply stick one or two NPC marines in his party for fodder as well as interaction purposes.

Hardrainfalling said:

I do a solo game for a friend on the side when my other players can not make it. I just allowed him to roll a whole kill-team, though the new kill-marine Idea from the new supplement might be good if just want him to run one character. Another way might be to have him start as a scout and have him do scouting missions for a chapter or kill team.

When I do this, I just fill the extras in with NPC's.

He gets to be team lead by default and the rest of the kill team functions at the demands of the almighty plot.

i'd definitely have him start at a higher rank. encourage the player to take things that average out results and make one devastating roll not as bad (like taking hardy so he's always eligible for first aid) and allowing him to take pretty much anything skill or talent wise as an "elite advance". he *needs* to be able to cover all the bases technically, so he should take command/techuse/medicae as trained skills.