Kill Team Unit

Kill Team Units are small groups of warriors who are frequently assembled by their species to carry out missions that larger armies can not accomplish.^[1]

Description

This can require them to be capable of stealth, speed and flexibility, which leads to Kill Teams having a staggering amount of variety in their composition. They can be highly disciplined elite forces, remnants of much larger devastated forces, specially formed for specific tasks or gathered ad hoc as and when required. However they are assembled, or what mission they are given, Kill Teams are a vital force within armies and many commanders have won victories due to these small bands of warriors.^[1]

There are even independent Kill Teams that are thrown together by the whims of fate or driven by a number of personal motivations, such as opportunism, greed or vengeance. Though even if they are carrying out the orders of far away commanders or pursuing their own vendettas against those who have wrong them, Kill Teams are an integral part of war in the Galaxy.^[1]

Kill Team Names Used by Species or Factions

• Blades of Khaine - Asuryani Aspect Warriors^[13a]
• Blooded - Traitor Guard^[3]
• Exaction Squad - Adeptus Arbites^[10]
• Farstalker Kinband - Kroot^[5]
• Gellerpox Infected - Nurgle^[3]
• Hand of the Archon - Drukhari Kabals^[10]
• Headhunters - Alpha Legion^[7]
• Hunter Clades - Adeptus Mechanicus^[3]
• Imperial Navy Breachers - Imperial Navy Voidsmen^[5]
• Inquisitorial Agent Kill Team - Inquisition^[11]
• Intercession Squad - Primaris Intercessors^[4]
• Kill-Teams - Deathwatch^[2]
• Legionary Kill Team - Chaos Space Marines^[17]
• Nemesis Claws - Night Lords^[12]
• Phobos Strike Team - Primaris Vanguard Space Marines^[3]
• Scout Squad - Space Marines^[13b]
• Void-dancer Troupes - Harlequins^[3]
• Warpcovens - Thousand Sons^[3]
• Wyrmblades - Genestealer Cults^[3]

Known Kill Teams

• Blackfalcons - Asuryani Craftworld Ulthwé^[16]
• Brotherhood of the Mantis - Genestealer Cult^[16]
• Borgrot's Dakkaboyz - Ork Death Skulls^[16]
• Cast of the Crimson Sun - Harlequins^[9]
• Covenant of Sylux - Alpha Legion^[19b]
• Crimson Thorns - Drukhari^[19a]
• Devourers - Hive Fleet Eumenides^[6]
• Elucidian Starstriders - Rogue Trader Elucia Vhane^[3]
• Hutanian Bullsharks - Hutanian 91st^[9]
• Notable Alpha Legion Headhunters
• Insidious Infiltrators - Hive Fleet Leviathan
• Notable Death Watch Kill-Teams
• Kill Team Antraeon - Flesh Tearers^[18]
• Kill Team Jackal 265 - Astra Militarum^[21]
• Pillars of Imhotep - Thousand Sons^[15]
• Riders of Morkai - Space Wolves^[6]
• Sneaky Ladz - Ork Kommandos^[9]
• Squad 005 - Cadian Shock Troopers^[8]
• Tempest Blade - Craftworld Telennar^[6]
• Gue'vesa Ghosts - Gue'vesa Auxiliaries^[20]

Sources

• 1: Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team Core Manual (3rd Edition) Core Book, pg. 16 - Kill Teams
• 2: White Dwarf 306 (UK), pg. 30
• 3: Warhammer Community: Kill Team: Annual 2022 – The Elucidian Starstriders and Gellerpox Infected Return (Posted on 19/08/2022) (Last accessed on 19 August 2022)
• 4: Warhammer Community: Download the Core Rules for Kill Team – and a New Intercessor Team – for Free (Posted on 16/08/2022) (Last accessed on 19 August 2022)
• 5: Warhammer Community: Kill Team: Into the Dark – What’s in the Box? (Posted on 04/08/22) (Last accessed on 19 August 22)
• 6: White Dwarf September 2016, pgs. 118-121 - Parade Ground: Warhammer 40,000 Kill Teams
• 7: The Horus Heresy Book Three, pg. 260
• 8: White Dwarf August 2018, pg. 11 - Planet Warhammer: Kill Team
• 9: White Dwarf 478, pgs. 18-25 - Kill Team Engage!
• 10: Warhammer Community: The Hand of the Archon Are Drukhari Out To Prove Their Worth With Wicked New Weapons (posted on 08/02/2023) (last accessed on 08/02/2023)
• 11: Kill Team: Ashes of Faith factions book, pgs. 7-9 — Agents of the inquisition
• 12: Warhammer Community: Warhammer Championships Preview – Night Lords Put the Kill in Kill Team (Posted on 17/11/2023) (Last accessed on 17/11/2023)
• 13: Kill Team: Salvation
  • 13a: pg. 28 - Blades of Khaine Kill Teams
  • 13b: pg. 39 - Scout Squad Kill Teams
• 14: White Dwarf 497, pgs. 98-100 — Insidious Infiltrators
• 15: Warhammer Community: My Kill Team: Mike Idris' Thousand Sons (Posted on 26/07/2018) (Last accessed on 14/02/2024)
• 16: Warhammer Community: Kill Teams in the Office (Posted on 24/02/2016) (Last accessed on 14/02/2024)
• 17 : The New Chaos Space Marines Kill Team is Here – and They’ve Got a Host of New Ways to Slay 21/02/2022) (saved archive, last accessed 17/04/23)
• 18: White Dwarf December 2019, pg. 80 - The Sons of Blood: Kill Team Antraeon
• 19: White Dwarf 480, Operatives Assigned
  • 19a: pg. 66
  • 19b: pg. 67
• 20: 2025 Atlanta Warhammer Championships - Grotskull's Facebook Page (see Gue'vesa Ghosts/Sources for more details)^{Golden Demon}
• 21: Warhammer World Dioramas - Fourth Edition, pg. 82

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