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**Verviedi**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Pictures!

http://grotorderly.blogspot.com/2016/08/kill-team-boxed-game-is-coming-out.html?m=1

Grot Orderly wrote:

(this is not the actual artwork)

Welcome!

I got some fresh news for you.
Kill Team boxed game is coming out!

Last time we saw it was 6th edition with rules to play small games and all.

This time we will get:
- A space marines tac squad (the standard one)
- Tau fire warrior strike team (the standard one)
- Small format 40k rule book
- 32 page soft back Kill Team rule book - skirmish tweaks (updated version of the 6th edition rules, expanded rules for team leaders and specialists, missions and inspirations)

Cost: 40 pounds!

It will be out for sale on 3rd September.

FLGS Order Brief (Thanks BrookM!)

KILL TEAM

Warhammer 40.000 kill team is a boxed set of Warhammer 40,000 miniatures and game rules for playing skirmish games on the battlefield of the 41st millennium. The box contains:
· A Space Marine Tactical Squad (48-07)
· A Tau Empire Fire Warrior Strike Team (56-06)
· A small-format softback Warhammer 40.000 The Rules
· A 32-page softback Kill Team booklet, providing full updated rules for playing skirmish missions

The Kill Team booklet is an updated version of the 6th edition rules and features:
· Expanded rules for Kill Team Leaders and Specialists, plus new special rules specifically written for Kill Team games
· Six Kill Team missions
· A section on additional gaming ideas – linked games, multiplayer Kill Team battles and games against hordes of enemies or powerful battle tanks

This booklet also includes full rules for the Tactical Squad and the Fire Warrior Strike Team, presented as example Kill Teams with leaders and specialists. The game doesn’t end there though, as customers can use a wide range of products and other armies to play Kill Team

**Milkshaker**

I'd be very interested in this game if it is true.

I just hope they thought it through in regards to army special rules.For example Tyranid synapse. having to keep your guys very close to your leader limits your tactical options enormously, especially for larger 'nid creatures

**Verviedi**

In all likelihood I'll grab one, I need a spare rulebook to give my friend, and more Tacticals and Fire Warriors are always fun.

**Vankraken**

GW Please stop, the spirit is willing but the bank account is all bruised and paint queue full.

**Verviedi**

Death by glue glue?

**MongooseMatt**

Call this one confirmed - retailers have just received the info for it.

**Requizen**

I wonder if the rulebook will be available separately. I have no need of any Tau or Space Marines, but I love Kill Team type games.

**foenixphate**

Fire Warriors are thirty pounds on their own, factor in the discounters and why wouldn't you chip in the extra four or five quid for some marines and the rules etc, same situation as the "Start collecting" stuff, Damn it GW is getting good at getting my money this year.

**Chikout**

If retailers have just got their info, what else is coming next week?

**Hanskrampf**

Very nice.

I will probably buy one and sell everything except the Kill Team rules.

**Brother SRM**

Vankraken wrote:
GW Please stop, the spirit is willing but the bank account is all bruised and paint queue full.

Verviedi wrote:
Death by glue glue?

I appreciate this fine pair of posts

I'm curious how different this will be from the old Kill Team rules from 5th, or they'll more closely resemble the 4th ed ones. I'm hoping for the 4th ed Kill Team rules since there's so much more to them.

**MajorWesJanson**

OK, lots of cool box games, and and Kill team small battles rule set is great news. Now for some balance and new plastic superheavies please? Updated Stompa kit? Silver Tower? Warhound? Thunderhawk?

**Verviedi**

4th ed kill team was fun, especially the paint guides and conversions in the rulebook. That SM scout guide taught me how to do skin by itself. How far the mighty have fallen.

**Nostromodamus**

Well I need a Breacher Team anyway. Will this have those parts?

**Brother SRM**

MajorWesJanson wrote:
OK, lots of cool box games, and and Kill team small battles rule set is great news. Now for some balance and new plastic superheavies please? Updated Stompa kit? Silver Tower? Warhound? Thunderhawk?

You're asking for a number of things that are way harder and riskier to do than "take two boxes of troops we already have and package them with some reprinted and updated rules"

**Verviedi**

Nostromodamus wrote:
Well I need a Breacher Team anyway. Will this have those parts?

Yes.

**Requizen**

MajorWesJanson wrote:
OK, lots of cool box games, and and Kill team small battles rule set is great news. Now for some balance and new plastic superheavies please? Updated Stompa kit? Silver Tower? Warhound? Thunderhawk?

How about less Superheavies. They already make the game unfun for a lot of people.

I would be interested in another Silver Tower expansion though. It's a cool game.

**Kanluwen**

Requizen wrote:
MajorWesJanson wrote:
OK, lots of cool box games, and and Kill team small battles rule set is great news. Now for some balance and new plastic superheavies please? Updated Stompa kit? Silver Tower? Warhound? Thunderhawk?

How about less Superheavies. They already make the game unfun for a lot of people.

The same can be said(and quite frankly in my opinion is more true) of Gargantuan Monstrous Creatures and certain Monstrous Creatures.

And let's be blatantly honest here. It's not "Superheavies" that make the game unfun for a lot of people. It's Imperial Knights. Nobody complains about Stompas or Baneblade hulled vehicles.

**Imateria**

As someone that doesn't play Tau or Space Marines I hope the rules will be available separately.

**gungo**

Damn roundtree is killing it. He is like the Phil spencer of Xbox just hitting all the right ideas.

Now question? I know current players are eating up all the new box games and mini codexs GW are making but are these new box games bringing new players into the game?
I can only suspect most of the box games are being sold to current players who are eating up the discounts or starting secondary armies, but other than lowering the cost of entry into 40k I haven't seen any fundamental changes that draw in a new player base.
However I'm hopeful all the community outreach stuff they do ends up building stronger game communities again and that the new edition incorporates community based feedback changes.

This box set will need some terrain however I always found killteam better suited to a zone mortalis style board not sure how they are going to incorporate that density of terrain.

**Dr_Keenbean**

Imateria wrote:
As someone that doesn't play Tau or Space Marines I hope the rules will be available separately.

I would be surprised if this is not the case. At the very least I'd suspect we'll get an ebook like last time.

**aracersss**

will this mean it's for pre orders this week, or 'the on sale' refers to next week's pre order?

**Vankraken**

gungo wrote:
Damn roundtree is killing it. He is like the Phil spencer of Xbox just hitting all the right ideas.

Now question? I know current players are eating up all the new box games and mini codexs GW are making but are these new box games bringing new players into the game?
I can only suspect most of the box games are being sold to current players who are eating up the discounts or starting secondary armies, but other than lowering the cost of entry into 40k I haven't seen any fundamental changes that draw in a new player base.
However I'm hopeful all the community outreach stuff they do ends up building stronger game communities again and that the new edition incorporates community based feedback changes.

I do think it helps when you have somebody from off the street walk in and you have your store manager and/or 40k player answering questions about the hobby and can point to the Start Collecting box and say that you can build everything in the box and use that as a small army. If only GW can fix the steep price for the BRB and army codexes. Fitting thin BRB into box sets like this one and Death Masque is a good way to go with it but unless there are sets like this for every army then its still difficult for new players to get models and rules for the faction they want for a cost effective price. Honestly I hope with 8th edition they just go away from trying to profit off the BRB and sells them for near cost and provides the rules free digitally.

**NewTruthNeomaxim**

I would kill for a really thoughtful, expanded Kill Team. I don't expect one, per se, but a Kill Team, given a Necromunda treatment, with campaign rules, a more thought into each armies skills, etc...

It would be a terrific introduction for newer players to the hobby, as well.

**Binabik15**

As I said in the other thread, I just finished buidling a Kill Team (with enough conversion work for a whole army...geez) and the models would be usefull foe my brothers team. And if KT gets support that AoS skirmish ruleset might be real as well. Nice all around.

But Gorechosen might be more fun as a game than 7th edition bloat and the fan rules for teams are already pretty nice.

**Yodhrin**

This is a cool move, but unless "revamped" means "we pretty much copied the Strike Force rules from FW wholesale", I'll just stick with the far superior Strike Force rules from FW.

**gungo**

Vankraken wrote:
gungo wrote:
Damn roundtree is killing it. He is like the Phil spencer of Xbox just hitting all the right ideas.

Now question? I know current players are eating up all the new box games and mini codexs GW are making but are these new box games bringing new players into the game?
I can only suspect most of the box games are being sold to current players who are eating up the discounts or starting secondary armies, but other than lowering the cost of entry into 40k I haven't seen any fundamental changes that draw in a new player base.
However I'm hopeful all the community outreach stuff they do ends up building stronger game communities again and that the new edition incorporates community based feedback changes.

I do think it helps when you have somebody from off the street walk in and you have your store manager and/or 40k player answering questions about the hobby and can point to the Start Collecting box and say that you can build everything in the box and use that as a small army. If only GW can fix the steep price for the BRB and army codexes. Fitting thin BRB into box sets like this one and Death Masque is a good way to go with it but unless there are sets like this for every army then its still difficult for new players to get models and rules for the faction they want for a cost effective price. Honestly I hope with 8th edition they just go away from trying to profit off the BRB and sells them for near cost and provides the rules free digitally.

Well rumours are that dataslates in 8th are getting the AoS treatment and will all be online. However if AoS is the future of 40k product design you can expect entry rules for free and the more robust complex rules in a fairly reasonable price streamlined rulebook. That's about the best to hope for and why I'd expect a slow upgrowth of a new player base. But this is largely dependent on how well and long GW can drive community based gaming.

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Yodhrin wrote:
This is a cool move, but unless "revamped" means "we pretty much copied the Strike Force rules from FW wholesale", I'll just stick with the far superior Strike Force rules from FW.

To be fair the box games are created by a division in FW not GW. But that doesn't necessarily mean it will incorporate strike force rules though.

**reds8n**

via the 40k FB page

**Kanluwen**

Wonder if it will finally include a Raven Guard transfer sheet...

**Agamemnon2**

If they include the same minirulebook as Death Masque and others, this will get me back into the game, I think, even if I still have to buy 3+ really stupidly overpriced codexes for my various armies.

I don't really *need* another 10 tactical marines or a bunch of fire warriors, but I'd rather get those than a whole heck of a lot of Deathwatch and a bunch of Harlequins.