Compendium book as a stopgap until then, fielding dull units with no abilities and hoping things get better when your version of Octarius is released – if it ever is. Also, the new Narrative Campaign rules will help your Kill Team grow and become more unique with each battle. Warhammer Community have already teased us with this roadmap, which promises oodles of Kill Team content over the coming months. I’m not a particularly huge Greenskins stan, but, in the personality stakes, the greenskins blow the kriegers out of the water here, with an endlessly lip-curling smorgasbord of chunky weaponry, big yellin’ faces, and scrapyard couture that you can’t help but love.

I already have units for my first kill team, Warpcoven which is too complex for my small newbie brain, and Gellerpox which seems straightforward enough and is super fun to paint so far!

This can only be done on each of your operatives however – but can be done by multiple different operatives. Instead of the “measure everything in inches” spiel we’ve all got used to from playing, I don’t know, just about every other wargame or TTRPG ever, the new edition of Kill Team ties everything you can do with your figure to these, uh, plastic shapes.

The alternating activations move quickly and fluidly, and the Strategic and Tactical Ploys, as a mini version of 40k’s much more expansive sets of stratagems, offer just enough extra in-game levers to pull, without cluttering up Kill Team’s more energetic, moment-to-moment turn-taking. The Compendium contains lists of Fire Teams that you can pick from when composing your Kill Team – and thus, here begin the issues. Whilst I wasn’t an enormous fan of the expansion set (funnily enough, I still haven’t painted the 3,000+ pieces of ridiculous cuboid terrain that came in the box), I did quite like the skirmish-style gameplay and found it fast-paced and exciting.The Kill Team Compendium is not only expensive, but is also bereft of unique rules for a huge number of models.

Plus, you’ll get more tokens, cards, dice, and measurement tools than you can shake a trench shovel at . This is essentially the “Hero Phase” or “Command Phase” of Kill Team – here each player generates a command point (In addition to any they start with – having a “leader” in your Kill Team for example starts you with an additional 2 CP) and then can take turns using that CP to play Strategic Ploys.

Swathes upon swathes of the units listed in the compendium have absolutely nothing listed under Abilities or Unique Actions. No pieces are grouped by number, and rare is the occasion that a leg or arm may be near the torso it needs to be attached to. Of course, once you’ve got a Compendium and have a better grasp of what’s expected of your Fire Team combos for your favourite faction’s Kill Team, GW’s catalogue becomes your oyster. By parrying you sacrifice that hit to remove one of the opponents hits, again with your critical rolls being able to remove their criticals.

Rob has spent most of the last 20 years playing World of Warcraft and writing stories set in made-up worlds. While there is a list of universal actions within the book, some operatives and factions also have unique actions only they can perform – and I imagine this will be expanded further in later supplements. This is the first proper release for the new edition of Kill Team, so there’s not really much else pertinent to this new edition available. Whilst this’ll make drawing up your list for your Kill Team super quick, it does seriously hack away your ability to really personalise your Kill Team – something that I found was always so synonymous and appealing about the game. analogous to the Index books released at the beginning of Warhammer 40k 8th Edition – and successive factions will inevitably receive more in-depth rules alongside the promised “conveyor belt” of new Kill Teams scheduled to release quarterly (with those poor, hard-done-by Space Marines at the front of the queue, no doubt).Unlike games of 40K, in the new edition of Kill Team matches have three phases: Initiative, Strategic and Firefight.