Warhammer 40,000 : Kill Team Core Manual

Got this for my Son as a Christmas present. There’s quite a lot of detail in here and explains as you would expect how to build a kill team for use with your 40k models. This spans different types such as marines, Orks , Xenox etc. It’s a different approach to a full scale battle and much easier to setup and get a quick game in when pressed for time.

On Time, well protected. perfect condition

Arrived damaged. Not acceptable.

Not as good as Shadow Wars - apocalypse. Great sellervthough.

Great game if your a fan of 40 k this is for you

I was very much looking forward to Kill Team, but have been left disappointed. Even when comparing it to Shadow War, 40k’s previous skirmish incarnation, it comes off poorly. The rules are overly complicated, the rulebook is poorly written with many ambiguous interpretations, and the game play nothing more than a dice-grind with most of the important tactical decisions made before models are even placed on the board. The game isn’t even that quick to play: Sure, I’ve had a few games that were over in half an hour, but normally games last 1.5-2hrs, with a few going on for 3hrs. Want to know which tactics you can activate this turn? Best look through 6 different pages of the rule book then! The promised support for narrative play is entirely absent and the league rules are a complete joke – I WON my local league and I still think they are a joke. At the end of the league, most of the players asked the gaming club to go back to Shadow War. The nub of it is this: When I played Shadow War, I felt like I was simulating a battle in dice-form. It was fun and there were stories of heroism and bravery to tell afterwards. When I play Kill Team I feel like I am just finding exploits in rules. None of my models move or act like people, just nodes of rule-manipulation. After 9 games I have no epic tales to tell. The whole thing feels like a skirmish game rushed-out to bring the rule set into line with 8th edition 40k. The ideas behind it were good, but not enough play testing was done.

Even though GW is coming out with a new Kill Team in August, this is still a great game for Warhammer 40k skirmish battles and a must for anyone who wants to play the game without having to take out a bank loan or sign a deal with the devil to afford a decent army of miniatures. You get information and stats on nearly every faction in 40k (except demons and Sisters of Battle which are in Kill Team Annual 2019) so you can play any of them you might want. Best of all, you can usually buy one box set of miniatures (maybe two at the most) and field a Kill Team. If you're playing some of the more expensive factions like the Space Marines a single box set of 10 miniatures can easily give you two full teams. It's a nice game for playing 40k on a budget. Highly recommend it.

If you play Warhammer or other Skirmish games: This is a great value. We used to play about 2 to 4 games a year of warhammer. *( we have large / expensive armies and nobody ever wants to play a small game ) BUT: with Kill team / we play two or three games a night each / on weekends. It is fast enough to learn, has loads of optional rules and features. There are some RPG elements to it if you like....

Physical nature. Full size softbound book, 210 full color pages. Paper quality is very high, the book mostly stays open if you open it, but not completly. Binding quality is mediocre, I reccomend having it spiral bound if you will be using it regularly. This book is a skirmish style wargame using the Warhammer 40k and based on the 8th edition Warhammer 40k ruleset. It is a complete ruleset that provides a fun and quick playing game with interesting choices. With this book, some dice, some miniatures and some terrain, you have everything you need for a game. Games take around 30 minutes to play. The game has some intersting changes from 40k, with some alternating activations included. The army lists are intentionally limited in scope, and many of the armies play very differently. Typically each team will include between 6-15 (you're permitted up to 20) models on the board, depending on playstyle. Each team can have up to four specialists (one of which must be a leader), these specialists get additional abilities they can use during the game above and beyond their normal model's abilities. Additionally they can "level up" in a campaign and become stronger with more abilities to use. Overall Kill team is a great game, very fast paced and fun. The investment required is far lower than Warhammer 40k, and provides a great entry point, or alternative to that game. All models in kill team are also useable in regular 40k, so one can always expand one's kill team into a full army. The price point is very good for such a complete experience. Games Workshop has also issued errata and a FAQ for the book, showing their continued commitment to this product. There are a wide variety of expansions and boxed sets for use with this game, many including tactics cards. But this book alone provides a complete and fun experience, you won't be missing out if you only buy this. Internal Kill team balance isn't perfect, but its pretty good. Shaking up the mission, map, and terrain will encourage people take balanced lists that can mitigate some of the somewhat unbalanced teams that are included. All in all I'm exceptionally impressed. This is the 40k product I've wanted for quite a while. Unfortunately as of January 2019, the starter set (which included this book, terrain, map, and miniatures) is out of production, but the relatively low price point of this book did not leave me feeling I missed out much by not being able to buy it within that boxed set. My only complaint is that its softbound, and won't stay completly open flat during gameplay.

Love the game, it is much faster than a traditional 40k game, and in many cases more interesting. However, buying the book alone is challenging. The board is easy to create (30" x 22" from a piece of plywood or whatever), but the data cards, which seem simple, are really needed. With the data cards (hopefully a unique set for each player), it is much easier to track what you can do, etc. I'd recommend buying the datacards off of the interwebs to supplement this. Oh, and golf markers are great for objective markers.

Content is great; however, the physical book itself was not worth the money as it is soft cover and the cover glue is brittle that the cover is breaking off at the back page.