Last night we had another of our semi-regular games of Kill Team, I was too brain-fried from work during the week to play myself so I just observed and my other friends did a 1v1 with the full rules and equipment and everything.
It was Space Marines of the Angels of Death squad versus the new Ork "Wrecka Krew" squad, and in typical Orky fashion the Wrecka Krew were hilarious. We only got through two and a bit turns though we played it out partially into the third and man it would have been close. We did the more casual missions where you've got the primary objective and you also get points for killing the other team, which feels a lot better than the previous edition where you would get nothing for killing your opponent's operatives.
The most hilarious moment came when the Space Marines made the mistake of not fully killing one of the Bomb Squigs (they'd gotten it down to 4 wounds remaining but retreated instead of taking another shot to finish it off because it would have them exposed to a very large rocket). The Squig immediately proceeded to run into the Space Marine leader and explode, dealing TWENTY EIGHT damage to him thanks to the close-quarters rule of blast weapons having Lethal 5+ combined with having a surplus of Wrecka Points to convert failed hits into successes. Because the explosives are a Blast weapon, you also need to roll damage against the Bomb Squig itself which meant it ended up taking a good 15 damage or so as well.
In future we're going to try doing a rotating 1v1 each time so we can actually get through games a bit more quickly and also get used to playing with the real rules rather than the slightly cut-down multiplayer ones.
Posted on 15 February 2025, 23:29