Kill Team (Board Game)
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This article is about the tabletop game. For other uses of Kill Team, see Kill Team (disambiguation). |
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| Manufacturer | Games Workshop | |
| Released | 2013 | |
| Scale | 1:60 (approx.) | |
| Players | 2 to 4 (as of Kill Team 2021) | |
Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team is a tabletop miniature game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, pitching small forces of a dozen infantry miniatures against each others.
Contents
Gameplay overview
The player takes control of a team of highly trained operatives from a 40k Faction conducting vital and dangerous missions against their rivals. Each mission is set in an environment called a Killzone.[4a]
Various narrative generators allow you to establish your kill team name, background, quirks, base of operations and individual operative names.[4a]
Your operatives can earn experience which give them benefits like battle honours and rare equipment.[4a] During the game, each players alternate the performing of actions for each of their operative.[4b]
History
Warhammer 40,000 4th Edition' Kill Team (2004)
The Warhammer 40,000 4th Edition Rulebook included rules for a variation of Warhammer 40,000 called Kill-team. This version of the game is asymmetrical, with one player controlling an elite squad of warriors while the other controls Brute squads patrolling the area who start out unaware of the Kill-team's presence.[5]
Battle Missions' Kill Team (2010)
The 2010' Battle Missions book featured a short set of rules for playing mirroring forces consisting of 200 points of models, equalizing the gameplay between the opposing players.[7]
Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team (2013)
Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team (Rulebook) was released in 2013 in the form of an ebook only, as a supplement to the 6th Edition of Warhammer 40,000.[8]
Kill Team 2016
The Kill Team 2016 Core Manual featured updated rules and was accompanied by the first starter set for this format. Its tagline was: Brutal close-quarters combat in the 41st Millennium[1]
- Starter set : Kill Team: The Boxed Set (2016)
Kill Team 2018
The Kill Team 2018 Core Manual takes the fundamentals of the 2016' edition – deep squad customisation, narrative progression and development, low model counts – and marries it to updated rules design, bringing in the team behind Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire to ensure the ruleset is as tight and balanced as possible.[3]
- Starter Set: Kill Team: Starter Set (2018)
Kill Team 2019
- Starter Set: Kill Team: Starter Set (2019)
Kill Team 2021
The Kill Team 2021 Core Book saw the rules reimagined from the ground up: Stealth and positioning are every bit as important as shooting; units’ datacards are changing, showing off what your operatives can do in more detail than before. Front-line troopers can act with comrades, nimble fighters can dodge incoming fire, and powerful soldiers can even perform more actions in a turn than lesser beings; commanders take alternating turns to activate each of their operatives. No longer will one player have to withstand the full fury of their foe’s assault before getting to respond; The kill teams themselves are highly customisable. Each model can be equipped with weapons to match different specialisations within their roster.[4]
Kill Team 2024
The Kill Team 2024 Core Book featured updated rules, as well as new modes of play: Solo & Co-operative Game Mode.[6]
See also
- Kill Team Rulebooks and Expansions (List): A complete list of all rulebooks, expansions, & boxed sets for the various editions of Kill Team.
- Apocalypse, a way to play Warhammer 40000 with massive armies
- Combat Patrol, a way to play Warhammer 40,000 with small-scale forces
- Boarding Actions, a way to play Warhammer 40,000 with only infantry forces
Sources
- 1: Warhammer 40,000: Killteam | Games Workshop Webstore (saved archive from the original dated 1 September 2016, last accessed 17 September 2024)
- 2: Warhammer Community: Discover The All-New Kill Team in This Brutal Cinematic Trailer (posted 09 July 2021) (saved archive from the original dated 11 July 2021, last accessed 17 September 2024)
- 3: Warhammer Community: Kill Team: The Game You’ve Been Waiting For (posted 5 July 2018) (saved archive from the original dated 5 July 2018, last accessed 17 September 2024)
- 4: Kill Team Core Manual (3rd Edition)
- 5: Warhammer 40,000 4th Edition Rulebook, pgs. 214-227
- 6: Warhammer Community: Inches and Icons – What to Expect From the New Edition of Kill Team (posted 21 August 2024) (saved archive from [1] dated 09/10/2024, last accessed 17 August 2024)
- 7: Battle Missions, pgs. 90-91
- 8: Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team (Rulebook), pg. 1
