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A photo of the game board for the full Warhammer 40,000 game. The board itself is red desert, and all the terrain on it is ramshackle Mad Max-esque junk terrain, or stepped hills that have been painted to look like they're in a desert. On the left are the so-called Tyranids (which are actually 3D-printed proxies that look kind of Tyranid-esque in that they're clearly xenomorph-type aliens but for legal reasons are not actual Tyranids) and on the right are the shameful Space Marines.

A photo of the much-smaller game board for the Combat Patrol game. The board itself is grey urban ruins, and the terrain is a mixture of Warhammer 40,000-looking ruined urban buildings, and a set of grey stone ruins that look like it might have come from some sort of fantasy game. On the left are the absurdly heavily armoured golden Custodes, of which there are all of eight in total, and on the right are the mechanical hunched-over zombie-looking Necrons.

Today I went over to a friend's place to hang out and watch a couple of games of Warhammer 40,000! (I have my mind full with Kill Team, plus I absolutely cannot be bothered painting that many miniatures to make a single full 40K army so I'm happy to just observe.)

The first game was a full-sized game of Tyranids versus absolutely shameful Space Marines, they were mostly unpainted and three-quarters of them were held together with Blu-tac. The second was an introductory game of 500-point Combat Patrol for a friend who hadn't played before, Adeptus Custodes versus Necrons, and both games were absolutely one-sided blow-outs. The Tyranids won 29 points to 4, and the Custodes wiped all but three of the Necrons off the board by turn 3, oof.

It's also hilarious how large the boards are versus Kill Team... the cut-down Combat Patrol game which was just two players is still double a regular Kill Team board, or the standard size you'd use for a three or four player game, and the full game board is just HUGE. I used to play 40K way back in the day and know it's a 60"x44" board but the vastly smaller scale of Kill Team has made me forget just how big that actually is. 😅

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Posted on 31 January 2026, 18:58

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The board looks like the metal of the inside of an ancient steampunk starship, and the terrain is a bunch of walls all connected together in the same steampunk style to form number of interconnecting rooms. At the bottom closest to the camera are the four hulking Adeptus Custodes in giant golden armour, my six converted all-women Space Marines clad in deep red armour are at the right, and the left are the six Night Lords Chaos Space Marines, in fairly bright blue armour and with small red bat-looking wings as decorations in various places.

A close-up shot of a very cramped bit of hallway with three of the Night Lords miniatures all facing one hulking warrior in ornate golden armour wielding a massive spear.

We had our regular fortnightly Sunday night Kill Team tonight, same composition as before (my Intercession squad versus Night Lords versus Adeptus Custodes) but after the previous game we'd decided we'd see about tweaking the map a bit for this game. It's completely symmetrical now and had five objectives instead of three, with two objectives being in easy reach of the middle spot but being harder to defend.

The Custodes ended up in that centre deployment zone, and man it was a fun game! The Custodes all had shields so they were tough as nails (2+ save, 4+ invulnerable save), and two operatives each immediately moved on the middle points and it really felt like they were completely dug in so we had to play cagey and try to bait them out without being murderised in the process.

The funniest point was one of the Custodes charging into close combat with THREE of the Night Lords, unsurprisingly he ended up dying but he did a hell of a lot of damage. Between my Spaces Marines and the Nightlords, we ended up wiping out the Custodes, and it was 5-5-4 at the start of the final turn. I was SO CLOSE to pulling off a win, but the Night Lords ended up pipping me at the last minute with a combination of their special rule of not being able to be shot at if they're within 1" of heavy cover and are in conceal, and an ability that lets them force your one of your operatives to make a dash action. I had two operatives on the final objective, but he was able to push one of them off and because this same character was an icon bearer it meant he counted for more when calculating who controlled the objective, and so he was able to steal it. It was 100% luck because that character happened to be the who was in the right spot at the right time and was JUST able to make it onto the objective by the thinnest of margins. In retrospect I should have moved Sister Dominea up to just block the hallway because it wouldn't have mattered if she was killed in close combat or not and the Night Lords couldn't have gotten past her and stolen the objective!

The final score ended up being 8-7-4 Nightlords/Intercession/Custodes.

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Posted on 21 July 2024, 23:29

We had our semi-regular game of Sunday night Kill Team tonight, my Intercession squad versus a four-man team of Adeptus Custodes versus the brand-new Night Lords squad!

The final score was 3-2-0 Night Lords/Intercession/Custodes, but we ended up calling shortly after the start of the third turn because there were only three objective markers and I couldn't physically move fast enough to contest the two that the Night Lords had. In retrospect we should have put some more objectives down, but the mission we chose had three objective markers on it but with different rules that we decided were too complicated, so we just did a standard "capture the point" type of thing.

Play of the match goes to my leader Sister Sarine, she fired a supercharged plasma pistol shot into one of the Custodes and rolled two 6s, a 2, and 1. I'd taken the strategic ploy that lets you reroll an attack dice if you're shooting at something within 6" so rerolled the 1 for that and scored another 6, then spent a command point and rerolled the 2 and got ANOTHER 6! That SHOULD have been game over for the enemy operative but annoyingly he'd taken a strategic ploy that takes crit damage down to normal damage, and so even though he was only rolling one defence dice because of the AP2 plasma pistol shot, it was still a 2+ save and so he survived on only 3 wounds. ::fistshake::

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Posted on 23 June 2024, 23:13

A photo of a very-terrain-covered pair of gaming boards. The terrain is all industrial-looking rusty ruins and big steam-punk looking pipes. At the left are my Space Marines in very large rich red armour, all wearing no helmets as befits the Rule of Cool and carrying either a chainsword and pistol or a big bolt gun. At the right at the Custodes which are made up two separate groups of one VERY CHONKY fellow in big gold armour with two Sisters of Silence next to them, who are also clad in golden armour but are much smaller in stature. The Sisters are bald except for a ponytail topknot, two of them have glowing blue power swords and the others have regular guns. Finally at far side across the board and barely visible are the Chaos Legionaries who are all mutated-looking and wearing black armour with gold trim.

We had our mostly-regular fortnightly game of Kill Team tonight, and we ended up playing on open board instead of Into The Dark because one of my friends was in a rush to leave and forgot his set of terrain (you need two sets to play more than two players). It was my Intercession squad versus the Talons of the Emperor versus Chaos Legionaries, and we only got part-way through the third turn before we had to call it primarily because it took long enough to set up all the open board terrain that we started later than usual. 😛 It was a fantastic game though, I didn't win but the final score was 6-5-5 to the Legionaries and I absolutely would have won if we'd gone all the way through to turn four.

The Talons of the Emperor team was two Adeptus Custodes and four Sisters of Silence, and despite the Custodes being terrifying with a 2+ save and 18 wounds AND one of them having a 4+ invulnerable save, it turns out if you manage to put ENOUGH firepower into them they'll go down. This also wasn't helped by my friend being extremely aggressive with them and thinking that they'd be hardier than they actually ended up being! I managed to put 8 wounds into the one with the storm shield in one attack in the second turn thanks to some very excellent rolling from Sister Lucena with her "Doom Bolter" (our nickname for the Bolt Rifle + Vengeance-Class Scope + Reclusiam-Blessed Bolts equipment combination).

When we finished, the Talons of the Emperor were down to only two Sisters of Silence and the Chaos Legionaries had only two miniatures left, all of them very wounded, but I still had three of mine left, two of whom were completely unwounded: Sister Lucena with her Doom Bolter, Sister Ephestri with the auxiliary grenade launcher, and the half-wounded Sister Genevane who continued her streak of being awesome by accounting for Legionaries' leader and psyker. Though to be fair, my Assault Grenadier Sister Decimica deserves the bulk of the credit for taking out the leader because it was her krak grenade that took him down to two wounds, and it WOULD have killed him outright except the Legionaries had used the Mutagenic Flesh strategic ploy that reduced non-critical damage on every attack dice by one!

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Posted on 26 May 2024, 23:37

A photo of a fully set up game board of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is all very ramshackle and looks like it's straight from a junkyard.

We had a four-player game of Kill Team today! Turns out I'm pretty shit at playing my team (Imperial Guard) and I barely did anything and got mostly shot off the board. I came third and that was because the fourth guy was having fun just blowing shit up and wasn't actually playing objectives, heh.

Though in retrospect, I don't think the terrain was really set up very well, there was a lack of heavy cover around the deployment zones which meant I had to be bunched up and in conceal to avoid being murdered on the first turn.

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Posted on 1 April 2023, 18:17