![]() ![]() Expansion books such as the one in the Octarius starter set gives you even more detail, telling the story of a specific warzone and what kill teams from different factions are up to there. The Kill Team Core Book does an excellent job of converting 40K lore to this smaller scale, with tons of examples of what missions each faction in the game would give their kill teams, and there are plenty of story snippets and quotes from kill team soldiers strewn across the pages of the book. It’s about the squad of Imperial soldiers giving their lives to call in an airstrike on an Ork stronghold, or the undercover team of Genestealer Cultists sabotaging a weapons factory. Kill Team lore takes place in that same universe, but it abandons the grand scale in favour of a focus on all the individual soldiers carrying out heroic and/or suicidal missions that might not seem like much in their own right, but which can still turn the tide of war. Towering war machines, devastating daemonic invasions and orbital bombardments constantly destroy entire worlds, and the apocalypse is always just a minute away. It’s a dark and bombastic fictional universe full of war on a massive scale, where millions of soldiers fight battles across solar systems all through the galaxy. With billions of ordinary human soldiers, religious military orders and the post-human superwarriors called the Space Marines, the Imperium fights a constant, all-out war for survival against all manner of alien species, as well as a myriad of worshippers of the Forces of Chaos, which nearly destroyed the Imperium 10,000 years ago, converting whole worlds as well as some Space Marine legions to their heretic cause. In the far future, Humanity has spread across the galaxy as the Imperium of Man, ruled through fear and bureaucracy by the worshippers of the Emperor of Mankind, a powerful superhuman being who, while nearly dead, guides his empire from planet Earth, now known as Holy Terra. The ultra-short version of Warhammer 40,000 lore goes something like this: More on all that below! Let’s take a look at the game’s background story. On top of that, many players like to play the game in campaigns where multiple games are tied together to form a coherent story, and the game has rules for upgrading your fighters between games. After a few rounds, the game ends, and the mission objectives determine which team wins. You take turns moving and fighting with one or more models (depending on their rules), using custom measuring tools to measure distances, and using dice to resolve shots and melee combat. You assemble a kill team of soldiers from a specific faction, and pit them against another player’s kill team in a specific mission which is played on a game mat with sculpted scenery for your soldiers to cover behind or climb up on. The gameplay of Kill Team is basically the following: If you need an overview of all current Kill Teams, we got you covered here. Since Kill Team builds on the existing 40K universe and its model ranges, there are already dozens of factions ( you can see all 40k Factions here) for you to build kill teams for, but in this new edition, bespoke boxes of models built primarily for Kill Team are also being released, so there has never been a better time to get on board this great skirmish game. If you’re new to the 40k universe, Kill Team is a fast-paced tactical tabletop experience with great depth but also a very streamlined play experience without some of the older idiosyncrasies of Games Workshop design. ![]() In this new edition, however, Games Workshop has taken a big step away from 40k rules, so if you’re used to playing 40k, Kill Team will feel very new to you. The current version of Kill Team is the second since the game was relaunched after the release of Warhammer 40,000’s eighth edition, but the idea of playing 40k with small squads has been around for a long time. These sorts of games are also called Skirmish Games. This makes the game feel very different from larger tabletop wargames: Each model has a role in the game, and you can get very invested in the story of your small team and their grimdark adventures. You also control each individual model rather than a whole unit at a time. This means that, while regular games of Warhammer 40,000 features big armies with many different units, vehicles and characters, Kill Team is all about a small group of soldiers fighting other small groups of soldiers. Kill Team is a Warhammer 40,000 tabletop skirmish game. 7 Our Verdict on Kill Team 2.0 What is Kill Team?
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