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23 Jul 21
Create Kill Teams for Your Faction of Choice With the Kill Team Compendium
OctariusPreview Jul10 KT Header

The Ork Kommandos and Death Korps of Krieg models included in the Kill Team:
Octarius set are incredible, but you might be wondering how your existing Warhammer
40,000 collection works with the all-new Kill Team rules.

Rest assured, nearly every faction* can build a team of specialist operatives with
the Kill Team: Compendium supplement, which is available at the same time as the
launch box.

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We’ve looked at how you can quickly and easily put together a finely balanced kill
team in the new system, and the Compendium is packed with everything you need to do
just that. It’s overflowing with rosters and datacards, including stats for all the
available operatives. Simply assemble them into fire teams, and you’re ready to
rumble.

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We’re sure you’re keen to find out what you can bring to the battle, but you’ll
have to wait a little longer for the full list. In the meantime, here are a few
examples to tide you over until the Compendium comes out.

On the lighter end of the spectrum, there are lots of front line troops, like
Poxwalkers in a Death Guard kill team.

KTCompendium Jul23 Poxwalker

They don’t have the stat line** to match some of their more monstrous brethren, and
their Mindless trait means they find it harder to seize mission objectives, but a
fire team does contain eight of these shambling creatures. That makes them useful
as a relatively disposable screen for your more powerful Death Guard operatives.

Compare that to the four Dire Avengers you can run in a Craftworld Aeldari fire
team. Though there are only four, they have a solid ranged attack and excel when
they’re able to take a vantage point and lock down the battlefield with their
Defense Tactics rule. As you can see, fireteams vary a lot between factions, and
they have been carefully balanced to ensure that every mission is a tense, tactical
battle between evenly matched kill teams.

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At the other extreme, you’ve got elite warriors like the Adeptus Custodes. You may
only get two Custodian Guards in a fire team, but each warrior is extremely potent
and more than a match for most opponents.

KTCompendium Jul23 Custodian

If you’ve been following our Kill Team rules articles recently, you’ll know just
how deadly that Custodian Guard truly is thanks to those four action points.

Of course, every faction has a variety of worthy operatives to choose from with
their own skills, equipment, and specialisations.

KTCompendium Jul23 Sisters

Kill Team is shaping up to be truly amazing. We can’t wait to see your operatives
battling for supremacy on war zones stacked with terrain – we’ll be taking a closer
look at Kill Team battlefields on Monday, so be sure to join us then.

You’ll find loads of beautiful Orky terrain pieces and two iconic kill teams (Ork
Kommandos versus Death Korps of Krieg) in the Kill Team: Octarius launch box, which
is available to pre-order from next month.

If you can’t wait to learn more, spend some time on the updated Kill Team website
to catch up with the latest news. KTdatacards Jul14 Button384hn1* Imperial Knights
and their Chaos-tainted counterparts are, sadly, too big for this ride.

** If you’re not sure what all those stats mean, check out our article explaining
how the datacards work in the new edition of Kill Team.
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