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Ok me and some friends are trying to start playing kill team. But we can not figure out shaken. I know what it does. But how do you become shaken. Cannot find it anywhere in the rule book.

Models that fail a Nerve Test are Shaken. Page 36, Morale Phase, step 3, Take Nerve Tests, the paragraph below the Nerve Test Modifiers describes the results.

You need to read P36 a couple of times. It is not especially intuitive.

Then you need to figure out for your team how many models need to be out of action before it's possible to fail a nerve test. That gives you an easy to remember threshold before which you can ignore nerve tests. For example, with marines all being Ld 7 or 8 you need two models out of action before it's possible to fail a nerve test.

Then, consider how having other models close by protects models from nerve tests. For example - if Ld7 marines are going around in pairs then they cannot fail a nerve test until 3 models are out of action.

Large clumps of models enhance this protection (and low Ld models need it) but it carries risks. Once one model in a clump fails it's nerve tests the others in the clump no longer get the benefit leading to nerve test failure cascades.

ok that makes sense. Could GW make this rule as convoluted as possible.

Yeah, why they couldn't add a small paragraph titled, "Shaken" and them go on to describe the effects of shaken in the Morale section is beyond me. Sure, they would have had to make the picture of the genestealers attacking the scions a bit smaller, but I think that is a small price to pay to easier to locate rules.

What's wrong with:
"If the result of the Nerve test exceeds the model’s Leadership characteristic, the test is failed. The model is shaken, and cannot do anything until it is no longer shaken: place a Shaken token next to it."
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The effects of "Shaken" in the morale phase are described in the paragraphs above the one cited.