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Space Hulk Kill Team Mission Generator: Getting Started With Warhammer 40,000 Warhammer 40,000 Miniatures Catalog Gaming
Space Hulk Kill Team Mission Generator: Getting Started With Warhammer 40,000 Warhammer 40,000 Miniatures Catalog Gaming
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Forces
This aspect is the tricky part. In the Kill Team rules, on average, the brutes get 202 points to spend on squads to the Kill Team's 160. That ratio reflects the fact that the Kill Team is always outnumbered during its dangerous missions. With the Space Hulk modifications in this article, the Terminator Kill Team is even more outnumbered. Based on the penalties from the Kill Team rules, a standard Terminator Squad breaks one immutable law and gives the brute player a lot of extra points to spend on a boss. However, the regular Space Hulk game didn't have any bosses in the regular missions, so it didn't make sense for the Tyranids to have one in the two missions in this article. Instead, we make up for that by adding even more Genestealers to the missions! Check out the chart below to see how we translated the standard Termagant brute squads into Genestealers. Kill Team Cost 200 210 230 # of Genestealer Brute Squads 7 7 8
We needed the Genestealers rather than Termagants (the normal Tyranid brutes) to make this more like Space Hulk plus, the Termagants wouldn't have much of a chance against Terminator armour. With a little math, we figured out the equivalent number of Genestealers. If you want to play games with two Kill Teams, just double the number of brute squads from the chart above. If you just want to play a regular game of Kill Team between Terminators and Genestealers, then all you need is the chart above. Bringing in the Space Hulk blips left us with another problem: how do you translate Kill Team brute
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squads into an initial number of blips along with a blip generation rate per turn? Check out the chart below. Genestealer Brute Squads 7 8 14 16 Blips at Start 2 3 4 5 Blips Added per Turn 1 1 2 2 Blips in Tyranid Pile 3 "false alarm" blips, 5 "one-squad" blips, 1 "two-squad" blip 3 "false alarm" blips, 6 "one-squad" blips, 1"two-squad" blip 6 "false alarm" blips, 10 "one-squad" blips, 2 "two-squad" blip 6 "false alarm" blips, 12 "one-squad" blips, 2 "two-squad" blip
We didn't want to dilute the actual number of brute squads that make it onto the board, but since the blips "regenerate," we didn't want to go too crazy, either. In general, we tried to make sure that all the brute squads got on the board by Turn 6. You will likely have to play your mission a few times before you get the blip rates set correctly.
Objectives
The objective really makes or breaks your mission. Does the Kill Team have to hold a room for a certain number of turns? Do the Terminators have to fight their way across the board to torch a room with their heavy flamer or activate some system on the Space Hulk? Does the Kill Team have to recover an item and carry it out of death's grasp? Does it have to kill a certain number of Genestealers? The sky's the limit! Much like the blip rates above, there's no really way to know how an objective will affect your mission's gameplay until you get in there and try it out.
Golden Rule
The golden rule from the Kill Team section in the 40K rulebook still applies: you and your opponent need to cooperate to have fun constructing missions like these. We strongly recommend that you trade places and play the mission from both sides. Keep tweaking the mission design until you're both satisfied change the map layout, the blip rates, and the objectives until you find the right balance. You'll likely have fun along the way, and in the end, you'll have a mission that you're proud to share with your other gaming buddies.
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Back: Mission 2 Exterminate SIMPLE KILL TEAM Simple Mods Intro Advanced Mods
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