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Hello!

My 12 year old son and I are trying to get into 40K Kill Team and I have no idea about the terrain. I used to play Infinity, which was terrain heavy due to the AROs, but can't seem to find a good place to read about how much terrain I need for a 22x30 board and how dense it should be. Also, if ,multi level terrain is required, or just a level battlefield is preferred. I see a little bit of everything on the BatReps I've seen on YouTube, but they don't talk about terrain much in those. I seem to remember seeing a post around here somewhere linking to NOVA or something like that, with terrain rules, but now can't find it, even after Googling.

Any help would be grand. Thank you!

Usually kill team works pretty good with a similar terrain setup to infinity.

The "official" recommendations can be found on p40 of the KT rulebook (under "the Battlefield" heading). Generally speaking though, Killteam lends itself pretty well to dense terrain – you're generally not going to run into any issues with vehicles or other larger models not being able to manoeuvre, and you don't need to worry about keeping units together, so you can pretty much go crazy.

Cool, thank you!!

The Core Manual, IIRC, recommend you use one or two pieces of terrain that can harbour a handful of models per 1'1' square.

Theoretically, an Administratum and a set of Imperial Ruins would probably do it. That'll give you five terrain pieces, or six if you put the upper-facade of the Administratum on the ground.

I had an old Imperial Bastion from before my last break, when I came back I bought one box of cheap Ryza ruins and with those it filled the board nicely.

So my recommendation is one big LoS blocking centrepiece (check used market) + Ryza ruins.

Containers... lots and lots of.containers

And bodge up.some barricades or walls.

Honestly the arena box is fantastic to start with, otherwise this is a good all in one box with a lot of good terrain coverage for a 30x22 https://www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Warcry-Defiled-Ruins-2019

 Crablezworth wrote:
Honestly the arena box is fantastic to start with, otherwise this is a good all in one box with a lot of good terrain coverage for a 30x22 https://www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Warcry-Defiled-Ruins-2019

man why can;'t they make something like that for 40k?!

BrianDavion wrote:

 Crablezworth wrote:
Honestly the arena box is fantastic to start with, otherwise this is a good all in one box with a lot of good terrain coverage for a 30x22 https://www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Warcry-Defiled-Ruins-2019

man why can;'t they make something like that for 40k?!

Agreed, the density is really good too

 Flinty wrote:
Containers... lots and lots of.containers

And bodge up.some barricades or walls.

I got a bunch meant for infinity, they are pretty large and can interlock to build with, the doors can also open so you can make passages through them.

Dimensions: 2.7 in. Tall, 2.5 in. Wide, 6.3 in. Long

https://warsen.al/products/large-shipping-containers

Mantic's Terrain Crate offerings are also good for Kill Team.

Necromunda: Dark Uprising would be where I'd go for a one-stop terrain shop for kill team. The terrain is fairly modular, so if you're fastidious in your gluing you can create a new board every game.

I asked a similar question in the specialist games section a few months back. The general consensus was that multi-level terrain wasn't that important for Kill Team, but that a good amount of sight blocking terrain was key along with the smaller stuff that grants cover.

BrianDavion wrote:

 Crablezworth wrote:
Honestly the arena box is fantastic to start with, otherwise this is a good all in one box with a lot of good terrain coverage for a 30x22 https://www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Warcry-Defiled-Ruins-2019

man why can;'t they make something like that for 40k?!

Because they have to work for it with AoS, it has 10% the playerbase of 40K so they get free rules, better box set deals etc.

Us 40K players will buy any old monopose crap with 5% savings even if the absolute worst unit in the codex is in the box and the new and shiny thing in it couldn't be phoned in any harder (see: Blood of the Penix)

I try to recreate the urban environments I have seen working overseas. So dense 3-5 storey buildings with typically a single truck width between them.

I should add the other kill team players think I go overboard. I can only assume they never leave the suburbs...

 Kroem wrote:
I asked a similar question in the specialist games section a few months back. The general consensus was that multi-level terrain wasn't that important for Kill Team, but that a good amount of sight blocking terrain was key along with the smaller stuff that grants cover.

Which is exactly why I recommend dark uprising. Near everything in the box blocks LOS, and multilevel is possible even if not required.

Really, best value terrain box I've ever seen. Also comes attached with an arguably better game than KT, so theres that

(I mean, nothing stops you from using the arbiters as better looking marine scouts and the khorne lads as better looking cultists, so go hogwild)

Thanks for all the awesome feedback, everyone!!

I used basic cardboard towers, "bunkers", those weird shaped insets from electronics boxes, ashtrays, etc. for my first few home games.

In Killteam, you only need something big to block LOS, and then a few barricades. For Killteam, nearly everything provides cover, but it's a-1 to hit modifier, not a bonus to armor save. Having a few little barricades, fences, trees is more than enough.

I bought a few of the KT battle zones and none of them really contain any multi level terrain.