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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 left are my Wyrmblade, eight miniatures in industrial dark green armour and carrying shotguns and various other guns, none of which is particularly advanced. If you look closely they're just subtly not fully human, their skulls are a bit too large and their skin is an unnatural pinky/purple, and several of them have three arms. At the right are the Battleclade, which consists mostly of humans that have been lobotomised and turned into essentially robots to do the bidding of the Adeptus Mechanicus. They're dressed in red clothing with black armour plates, and they have all sorts of mechanical implants in them. And then finally at the far side of the board in the middle are the Gellarpox Infected, they're all gross daemon things, four are HUGE mutants that are towering over the other miniatures, then there a number of smaller little things scurrying around at their feet.

We had another one of our three-player games of Kill Team today! I played my Wyrmblade, we also had the Battleclade and a proxied 3D-printed army of Gellarpox Infected. We didn't end up getting through the whole game, but finished turn three and it ended up being a 7-7-1 draw between my Wyrmblade and the Battleclade. Plus we kind of went a bit silly and the Battleclade and Wyrmblade both yoloed themselves into the middle because it was pretty much going to be a bit of a stalemate otherwise.

I continue to thoroughly enjoy playing the Wyrmblade, they have so many tricks up their sleeves and are so nasty when they pop out of conceal to shoot at something. Operative of the match goes to my Kelermorph who single-handedly killed one of the giant 20-wound mutants in turn 1 in one activcation, and my Locus tore the shit out of two units in close combat also in one activation. Additionally actually remembered the "Familiar Territory" faction rule that lets me set up up to a third of my force in hiding, so I don't actually need to put them on the board and can determine at any point before the end of turn two when I want to have them pop out based on what the board is looking like and where I need some additional firepower.

This map was a bit tricky though because neither the Battleclade nor the Wyrmblade had enough speed to get across to the objectives on the other side (hence the meat grinder in the middle at the end just for the fun). The friend who was playing the Gellarpox also didn't know how to play them properly because this was his first time so there were some mistakes made with the initial positioning, and he ended up getting tabled during turn three.

Next time we're going to try doing just a 1v1 but will do the Adversary Ops mode where there are also NPOs (non-player operatives, basically NPCs) who come in and wreak havoc, and we'll have whoever isn't playing in charge of controlling them, sort of a like a DM. Should be really fun, I just need to get around to actually finishing my Tomb World terrain so we can finally play on it. 😅

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Posted on 29 March 2026, 19:51

I have finally, finally played my Wyrmblade squad for Kill Team for the first time! 🎉 And we even made it through the whole game, and I won 7-5! (Though it was one of those good games where even if I'd lost it would have felt fine, it wasn't an absolute one-sided thrashing where none of the dice went my way at any point.)

It was versus the Battleclade which granted are more one of the difficult teams to pilot and both of us were brand-new to our teams. I've never played a horde team before, it was really interesting playing them compared to our usual elites because I was able to play a bit more cagey and had four just bog-standard warriors that were handy for doing stuff or baiting the enemy out but if they died it didn't really matter that much. Lucky roll of the match goes to my Locus who needed to roll three 5+ saves to not die horribly and pulled it off! It also very much turned the tide of the game in that particular room and allowed me a lot more breathing room than I'd otherwise have had. I also managed to absolutely destroy the Battleclade leader with the heavy stubber on my heavy gunner, five attacks on 4+ with Piercing 1 and ceaseless, and after re-rolls they all ended up being 5s or 6s with the exception of a single 4. Beyond that, though, there wasn't a particular single character who really shone and murdered a bunch of the enemy on their own, everyone was pretty solid.

I definitely made some mistakes, I need to remember to keep some of the warriors around my leader so they can be used to throw themselves in front of attempts to kill him, and there were a couple of other things that triggered off the warriors dying or being around other specific miniatures. But having the cards printed out and all sitting in front of me visible so I could glance over them to refresh my memory really helped. They're a really fun team to play, they have so much access to rerolls that I didn't end up using a single command point reroll the whole game.

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Posted on 9 March 2026, 21:18

A photo taken from the side of the board of a game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is all ruined industrial-slash-gothic buildings, on the left are my Death Guard which are hulking super-humans in a somewhat sickly-green power armour and lots of tentacles and pustules and general grossness, and on the right are the Adeptus Mechanicus who believe in the purity of the machine and replacing as much as possible of their biological components with machine parts and such mostly look like robots with cool cloaks on.

(The AdMech were actually custom 3D-printed models that combined the Adeptus Mechanicus with the Skaven rat-men from the Warhammer fantasy universe, and were really very well done.)

First night of a planned fortnightly Kill Team gaming session at @littleal@mastodon.au's tonight! There were four of us, one hadn't played before so I played the introductory game with him, sans Tac Ops and equipment. He was playing the Adeptus Mechanicus Hunter Clade, versus my revolting Death Guard. We got part-way through the final turn but called it because I was up 7-4 and he wasn't going to be able to come back from that.

He really enjoyed it though, and I'm keen to start playing more regularly so I can actually properly remember the rules (and also learn how my Corsair Voidscarred play, because the miniatures are SO GOOD but I don't feel like I have a good handle on them yet).

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Posted on 29 October 2023, 22:52

A photo of a bunch of boxes of Games Workshop miniatures: for Warhammer Underworlds, two warbands (Hrothgorn's Mantrappers and the Crimson Court) and the "Primal Lair" terrain pieces from Beastgrave, and for Warhammer 40,000, Adeptus Mechanicus (two boxes of Skitarii and one box of Sicarians).

Birthday haul! This should keep me going for a while. And I'm getting another three Warhammer Underworlds warbands from my parents when we see them weekend after next. 😅

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Posted on 20 April 2021, 8:59

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team game. It's on two of the standard-size game boards, the left half has very industrial-looking terrain, all metallic and pipes, the right half's terrain is ruined gothic church-style buildings. A team of Death Guard at are the bottom, Necrons at the top, and Adeptus Mechanicus at the right.

Tonight we played more Kill Team! It was a three-player game on two boards, unfortunately Nurgle's finest got some REALLY unlucky dice rolls (and the fucking Necrons kept reanimating!).

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Posted on 12 September 2019, 19:14

A photo from above a Warhammer 40K Kill Team battle. Miniatures are all over the board and there's plastic building ruins in it.

Aw yeah, more Kill Team! We did a 2v2 and my Plague Marines are delightfully hard to kill.

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Posted on 29 August 2019, 19:54

A photo of Warhammer 40K Kill Team in mid-game.

Current nerd levels: high.

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Posted on 15 August 2019, 19:10