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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

Another Sunday, another game of Kill Team!

I didn't actually play tonight because I didn't have a great night's sleep last night and absolutely did not have the mental capacity for it, but I DID supply the terrain and it looked absolutely fantastic. It was Plague Bearers vs. converted Skaven Adeptus Mechanicus, but because there were 12 Plague Bearers and 11 AdMech we only got through two turns, final score was 5-4.

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Posted on 17 March 2024, 23:12

A photo of a 3-player game of Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. The terrain is all industrial, with lots of pipes and metal structures, as well as shipping containers and cargo crates, and some bridges connecting the various upper levels.

Went over to a friend's place for a three-player game of Kill Team! It was Death Watch versus Chaos daemons versus my Astra Militarum. Very happy with how my guardsmen performed, though I didn't win. We called it after the fourth round, and the Death Watch won despite having only one model left. If we'd gone another round, though, the daemons would have overrun EVERYONE and definitely won.

This was definitely the best-looking board we've ever played on, terrain-wise, despite my larger pieces only being undercoated with silver. My friend has been making lots of terrain, both 3D-printed and built from scratch, and all of his was fully painted, so it really felt excellent to play on. The only thing letting us down was that the Chaos daemons were all only base-coated. :P

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Posted on 28 March 2021, 19:49