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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 of my fully-assembled Wyrmblade (Genestealer Cults) squad for Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. There are twelve miniatures, they're all wearing industrial-looking armour that's painted in a dark green colour, but when you look closely they're clearly not human: their skin is too purple and their heads are too large, and some of them have claws or three arms or a freakishly-long lizard tongue. The Kelermorph I mentioned in the post has one pistol pointed off to the side like it's aiming something, its other arm is holding another one upwards, and it has a THIRD arm that's about to pull a third pistol out from a holster. It's got a red cloth mask around its nose and mouth, and its brown leather cloak is billowing out behind it as if it's actually in the middle of a gunfight. The leader's chainsword has been painting with black and yellow hazard stripes but I used a piece of microcell foam to dab dark grey primarily on the side where the teeth are, followed by the same for a light silver, and it absolutely looks like the paint has been coming off due to wear! All the bases are painted with muddy-looking texture paint and have swamp-looking grasses growing so it looks like they're wading through a swamp.

Three years after I bought them, and two years after I assembled and undercoated them and painted the first test miniature, I've finally finished my Wyrmblade squad for Kill Team. 😅

This has been a record pace for me, it took me under a week to finish them (although I'm cheating because I'm on holidays and have been spending hours at a time getting them done). The initial broad stages took maybe two and a half days, but then it was the same amount again spent on the details. Absolutely stoked with how they've come out though, the Kelermorph (the three-armed gun-slinging-looking fellow at the front) is such a cool miniature, and I did some weathering for the first time on the hazard stripes on the leader's chainsword and it came out absolutely perfectly!

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Posted on 2 January 2026, 18:39

A photo of a Warhammer 40,000 miniature, he's wearing dark green armour and is holding a shotgun in one hand and has a big knife in the other, with the pose implying he's about to use it. He's wearing industrial-looking goggles and looks mostly human except his skin is a very light purple and his skull is just... slightly too big. The base of the miniature looks like it's completely muddy and there's lots of dark green and brown grasses growing, and the mud is splattered up his legs.

Just finished the test miniature for my colour scheme for the Genestealer Cults squad for Kill Team I have. Pretty happy with how it came out, the usual thing with the GSC is that they're all wearing industrial gear so I wanted to do something different and so made it look like they're wading through a swamp instead. There's also a pool of gross-looking green swampy water at his feet but you can't really see it at this angle due to the grass. I'll have to make a point of not covering that up so much next time, oops.

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Posted on 15 January 2023, 14:22

A photo of seventeen assembled miniatures in grey plastic. They're all wearing industrial-looking protective gear but their skulls are freakishly large and they're clearly not actually fully human.

Continuing my miniature-assembling spree by finishing putting together my Genestealer Cults! I absolutely love these miniatures, they look human at first glance, but then you look more closely and their heads are too large and the ones at the right have three arms. Looking forward to getting them painted up.

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Posted on 9 November 2022, 22:17

A photo of the boxes of two Warhammer 40,000 miniatures, both are freaky-looking human/alien hybrids (one looks like a gunslinger and the other is standing there looking menacing). Underneath those are three plastic things: a little bellow, a funnel-looking thing, and a small weight.

Birthday haul part 2! The multi-part plastic thing is a single dose attachment for the coffee grinder.

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Posted on 24 April 2022, 12:27

A photo of four boxes of Warhammer 40,000 miniatures. Kabalite Warriors and Wyches for the Drukhari (think sadistic space elves), and Neophyte Hybrids and Acolyte Hybrids for the Genestealer Cults (the Neophytes are broadly human but with heads that are slightly too bulbous and alien-looking, the Acolytes are humanoid but with 3 arms and heads more like the alien from the movie Alien).

I think my favourite thing about Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team is that you you can dip your toes into ALL the factions without having to spend an arm and a leg making a full army (plus the subsequent time expenditure of painting them). It's pretty much, "Buy a couple of boxes of the basic troops and bam, you've got a squad."

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Posted on 5 January 2022, 10:17

A photo of a game of Warhammer 40K: Kill Team, with industrial-looking terrain mixed in with gothic cathedral ruins spread across two of the standard size game boards.

We had a three-way Kill Team game tonight, between Death Guard, Genestealer Cult, and Primaris Marines. God damn the Marines are hard to kill, and my Poxwalkers are VERY squishy against them. Probably not worth taking any next time depending on the mission. I managed to kill only a single Marine right at the end.

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Posted on 27 February 2020, 20:40