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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 closest to the camera are my six converted all-women Space Marines clad in deep red armour and at the top left are the five similarly-armoured Space Marines of the Deathwatch in dark blue armour. Lastly at the top right are the eleven miniatures of the Sanctifiers who are basically just regular humans but religiously fanatic and just wearing robes and brandishing holy books and flamers.

In the office again today, this time for after-work Kill Team. My Angels of Death vs. the Deathwatch vs. Sanctifiers.

It was one of those games where my dice rolling was just fucked, on multiple occasions I needed 3s to either hit something or or save something, and rolled all 2s. I can't even tell if my game plan was decent or not because the rolling was so shit. I left before the game was finished because my train was coming and I was down to one single miniature left and was not even slightly going to get anything but dead last, ugh. I don't mind losing as long as the game is decent, but this was decidedly not. 😞

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Posted on 2 February 2026, 20:45

A close-up photo of Arendra Firewinter, my Starstorm Duellist, right as she was vaporising one of the Plague Marines. She has dark skin and a bald head with a white flowing topknot, is wearing got a dark-ish teal cape that looks like it's blowing in the wind, and she's holding two elegant-looking alien pistols, one of them aimed forward and the other held pointing upright like she's just finished shooting it. Through the hatchway in front of her is one of the hulking Plague Marines holding a huge boltgun and with a demon face in his shoulderpad. Just to the left of frame you can see the Poxwalker's foot that she killed right after the Plague Marine.

I FINALLY got around to playing some single-player Kill Team! I decided to use my Corsair Voidscarred since I love the miniatures so much even though I'm pretty bad at remembering everything they can do (which I guess just means I need to play more). My Death Guard were the non-player operatives (NPOs) and I went with a mix of the light "brawler" troop type so I could have an excuse to use my Poxwalker miniatures, and the heavy "marksman" type for the Plague Marines.

It didn't actually start off super-well, I was very excited to see my Shaderunner get stuck in because she can teleport through walls, but misjudged where I could move her and keep her safe before she attacked, and she ended up getting killed by one of the Plague Marines before she did anything. 😞 I think I also need to rethink my initial deployment strategy on Into The Dark because I always end up sitting with a hatchway closed because I don't want to open it and give the enemy free reign to shoot my quite-squishy operatives, and if I was to run out my operatives would be completely murderised.

Operative of the match goes to my Starstorm Duellist Arendra Firewinter who single-handedly accounted for two of the three Plague Marines and one of the Poxwalkers. One of the Plague Marines in particular got absolutely turned into slag, he was on ten wounds and got hit with three critical successes from Arendra's fusion pistol, which meant that the Devastating 3 rule went off and immediately inflicted three damage for each crit, with no save possible, before anything else even happed. And in the same activation thanks to the Pistol Barrage ability that lets her shoot twice, once per pistol, she then turned around and killed the Poxwalker that was standing behind her with her shuriken pistol!

Overall I only lost three miniatures, the aforementioned Shaderunner along with my Way Seeker and my leader, and the win condition for this scenario was to just completely wipe out the enemy.

As I'm writing this, I realised another difficulty I have with the Voidscarred in particular is that they're very close-combat-focused because I built them all as the specialists with no regular warriors. My Fate Dealer doesn't see much action especially on Into The Dark (she did nothing whatsoever this game), and although the Kurnite Hunter finished off the remaining Plague Marine in this particular game, I'm constantly wishing that he was a regular Warrior with a shuriken rifle.

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Posted on 7 September 2025, 16:45

The closeup of the moment the Bomb Squig exploded. The Space Marine captain is standing behind a waist-high barricade, his Power Fist held back behind him partially like he's exhorting his squad and partially like he's about to punch something, and he's aiming a plasma pistol forwards. On the other side of the barricade is the Bomb Squig, a red, squat, very round four-legged creature in mid-run that doesn't even come up to the height of the barricade. It has a landmine strapped to its back and a grenade held in its mouth.

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.

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Posted on 15 February 2025, 23:29

We had our first game of the new edition of Kill Team last night!

Only got through two rounds, and we played without equipment—apart from barricades, just to match it from the last edition—but I'm really liking how streamlined the rules are, the new rules for line of sight and cover are SO much clearer now. In terms of actually scoring anything it was a miserable failure on my part, I didn't get anything at all but that was mostly my fault for fucking up my deployment (and I now have a whole new set of chapter tactics I need to remember as well), but that's fine, this was just a "Get used to the rules" game anyway. I am disappointed at how much of a nerf plasma has had though... even when supercharged, my Assault Intercessor's plasma pistol is only 4/5 damage, Piercing 1.

Side note, the Nemesis Claw "You're obscured if you're within one inch of heavy terrain" rule is SO IRRITATING. 😛 At least they can be shot at now, but obscuring still means that you're very unlikely to deal any damage unless you roll really well AND the Nemesis Claw player rolls really poorly.

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Posted on 27 October 2024, 23:39

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 close-up shot of my Assault Intercessor Sister Genevane who is mid-stride through a hatchway pointing her big pistol at an ominous-looking figure who is wearing a cloak and wielding a huge evil-looking sword.

I took my shiny new Intercession squad out for the first time tonight and was victorious, winning 16-11 over the filthy Chaos cultist heretics!

It was definitely an awful start though, absolutely atrocious dice rolling. At the start of turn two, my leader Sister Sarine fired her plasma pistol and of the four dice hitting on 3+, only ONE was a success (which was duly saved). Then she charged into combat, rolled five dice that would normally hit on 2+ but needed 3+ instead because of an aura effect the Chaos mutant I was fighting had, and EVERY SINGLE dice was a 2. 😑 She and my grenadier Sister Decimica ended up getting killed within the first couple of activations of turn two, and two of the giant mutated Chaos Torments had spawned and it was looking very bad. Fortunately after that I was able to rally a bit and my dice rolling turned around, and player of the match goes to my remaining Assault Intercessor Sister Genevane who accounted for two Blessed Blades, a cultist, AND one of the huge Chaos Mutants.

Being able to move a full six inches — actually seven because I took the Chapter Tactic that gives an extra inch of movement — instead of the slow plodding four of the Death Guard meant I was able to move around the map a fair bit more, and the bulk of my victory points ended up being from scoring objectives. I definitely enjoyed playing the Intercession team and they don't have too many things to remember. I think my plan is going to be to pretty much take the exact same equipment and tac-ops each time until I get a proper handle on them.

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Posted on 14 April 2024, 23:19

A closeup of my Death Guard Fighter, who is wearing hulking green armour with a HUGE toothed mouth in his chest armour going across his whole abdomen and chest and wielding two plague knives, facing off against one of the xenomorph "Warriors", which is down on four legs and looks like it's about to pounce. To the side is a smaller xenomorph more upright behind a set of ammo crates.

A close-up of a Space Marine aiming his boltgun (complete with a 3D-printed muzzle flash weapon effect) at one of the Tyranid Warriors, while a second one lurks just around the corner behind him.

We had our rematch of the Death Guard vs. Tyranids vs. Strike Force Justinian tonight, and because tomorrow is a public holiday we all stayed slightly later and managed to finish the whole game, AND I won 8-7-4! 🎉 (We did slightly fuck up one rule up about injuries and so my Heavy Gunner did better in close combat versus the Space Marine leader than he should have, and ended up killing the leader.) Instead of ten Genestealers, my friend playing the Tyranids took three Tyranid Warriors instead and used, uh... some different type of Aliens miniature for them that looked very cool.

The Death Guard felt extremely thematic, it was just a slow, steady, plodding advance across the battlefield, and they were hard enough to kill that they were difficult to dislodge from the objectives once they were on them. My plasma gunner was my MVP, he only shot three times but each one was a killing shot, taking out two Space Marines and a Genestealer. I also took the dual-plague-knives Fighter for the first time and he did okay, but he definitely served well as an extra close-combat threat beyond just my leader. The Disgustingly Resilient rolls were a lot swingier this game than usual, I either did fantastically well (my Plasma Gunner took nine damage from the Space Marine sniper and would have died but ended up rolling so well he only took four, and subsequently ended up vaporising the sniper in his own activation), or really badly (my Fighter took something like ten damage in his first melee combat and saved NONE of it), with nothing in between.

As with the first game, we had a couple of very cool cinematic moments, my Fighter facing off against one of the Warriors and a Genestealer, and one of the Space Marines shooting at another of the Warriors while one lurked behind him ready to pounce.

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Posted on 31 March 2024, 23:45

A photo of the three measuring gauges from Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team. One is long and thin with stylised skulls and a red pentagon. The other two are two halves of an isosceles trapezoid with a white circle, blue square, and black triangle on three of their edges, and half of a large skull with a knife under it on either side. All three pieces fade from a dark metallic blue to a bright copper colour, on the dark blue side I've added rust pigment so it looks like it's been rusting, and on the copper side I added a verdigris effect.

The same three combat gauges as before, but without the rust and verdigris effects.

The "barricades" from the Into The Dark set. Instead of being actual barricades like in the original Octarius release of Kill Team, they consist of four stacks of large ammo crates, two things that look like a portable generator/engine on wheels, and two sets of what look like propane tanks and big lead battery type things. They're all dark and silvery.

With my week-long cold I unfortunately didn't manage to get much miniature painting done at all, but I DID paint up my second batch of combat gauges to match my Into The Dark terrain, with a dirtied-up rusted side and a clean side. Weirdly, on the dirty side where I did the rust pigment I actually went a bit too heavy-handed with the matte varnish and it actually dried white in places (or maybe it reacted with the pigment or something? All I know is that I didn't have this same problem when doing my actual ITD terrain) but it's totally worked fine anyway and just added some extra wear!

I also made the ITD "barricades" look at least somewhat better with the application of some airbrushed silver, a dunk in The Army Painter's "Dark Tone", and some drybrushing.

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Posted on 3 March 2024, 19:17

A photo of a bunch of steampunk-looking terrain on a game board, it's all walls and put together to look like the interior of a gothic-slash-steampunk starship. The terrain is all rusty-looking like it's been properly abandoned for centuries. Closest to the camera are the warriors of the Astra Militarium, ten heavily-armoured women in white-coloured armour wielding various guns. On the far side are six Plague Marines, huge superhuman warriors in green armour that have all sorts of gross mutations.

A close-up of two of the Astra Militarum who are about to go barrelling through an open hatchway. Above the hatchway are black and yellow hazard stripes, and the walls are all details with pipes and skulls and cabling. Next to the hatchway is a little button pad with a round screen that I've painted green and it looks like it's lit up.

A closeup of one of the sections of wall that has a series of ten smaller screens on the left half of the wall. They look like they're probably CRTs (or whatever the Warhammer 40,000 equivalent is) because they're curved and are green and glowing like what one of the old Apple IIe displays from the 80s looked like. On the right half of the wall is what looks like a round radar display along with two much larger screens, also green and glowing. Similar to the rest of the walls, there's also a bunch of cables and wires and pipes and skulls and it all looks appropriately grimdark.

A closeup shot of the leader of the Astra Militarum who is wearing an officer's army cap and has her cloak billowing out behind her. She's pointing a glowing plasma pistol directly at a Plague Marine who has a giant mouth in the chest/abdomen section of his armour and is wielding two plague knives (which basically look like mutated short swords). They're both standing at either end of a room that has two open doors where they've come in, and all the walls are the standard grimdark steampunk/gothic look with cables and pipes and skulls and rust.

My Kill Team terrain is DONE! Absolutely fucking stoked at how good it looks, I even painted the screens up to look like, well, screens! Other than the screens, all I did to the rest of it was a drybrush of Ironbreaker plus the rust pigment. I wasn't looking forward to having to individually apply pigment fixer to everything but fortunately using a solid thick coat of matte varnish via the airbrush has done the trick just as well, and with far less effort. The hazard stripes above the doors look so good too, and I made sure I dabbed them with rust pigment so they looked properly worn like the rest of it.

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Posted on 18 February 2024, 16:06