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Vespid are superb. They’ve taken a pretty wonky, but oddly appealing design and modernised it wonderfully.

The terrain is also looking pretty spanky. It’s nowt special, but every battlefield kinda needs its Nowt Special.





Bloody handy bits for Necromunda and all.

R A H A N M E N O J A

Looks like inches are back, colors are dead now. Hope yer happy

Terrain is also looking really good! Great capture of a blasted Imperial heavy military industry zone.

 Geifer wrote:

On the one hand the new Vespids do look nice. On the other hand I don't know how to handle Vespids that don't look derpy.

Paint googly eyes on them.

 Geifer wrote:

 BertBert wrote:
Loving the Vespids, good amount of Tau bits in there to break up the organic shapes. These will look great next to the Pathfinder and Kroot KTs.

On the one hand the new Vespids do look nice. On the other hand I don't know how to handle Vespids that don't look derpy.

Carefully, I would think. Long thin bits of plastic sticking out of small joints are fragile.

Anyways, new edition; are we going to get conversion FAQs? I don’t really want to have to rebuy books. New cards I don’t mind though, because they’re actually useful to have.

Never mind,

Anyways. Looking over the terrain bits? Lots of general purpose usefulness. Ladders always welcome, as are things I can use to make interest smoke/blind markers for Necromunda.

Guess I’m getting me this set.

Oh, and triangles etc. are gone. We got inches back!

 Mr_Rose wrote:


Anyways, new edition; are we going to get conversion FAQs? I don’t really want to have to rebuy books. New cards I don’t mind though, because they’re actually useful to have.

During the stream they said all kill team faction rules will be free online

Free rules is huge for Kill Team. It will be interesting to see if there’s sales growth that makes GW think about expanding that to more games.

I’m also very excited they’re doing away with the shapes for ranges. I know experienced players had no problem with it, but it was always a stupid initial hurdle for me.

Free team rules from the get go sound dope. You only want the books for their missions now

My favourite Vespids are the ordinary Warriors but the specialists are quite nice too.

 xttz wrote:

 Mr_Rose wrote:


Anyways, new edition; are we going to get conversion FAQs? I don’t really want to have to rebuy books. New cards I don’t mind though, because they’re actually useful to have.

During the stream they said all kill team faction rules will be free online

Ah, must have missed that bit. Stupid adverts. Anyway, that’s good but also makes me think the rumours of “some old teams” being dropped basically means everything still using the Compendium.

What a lovely lovely box

Some of the terrain is recycled from 9th edition starters https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/08/06/new-warhammer-40000-terrain/

Which is nice in its way, means it can fit in with existing boards.

Love the barricade sprue, I hope I can get lots easily, but probably it's gonna be 1 per book/card bundle or sth.

As for the Aquilons, Servo-Sentry steals their show.

Oh, Imperial ruins! That's fresh and original.

Vespid names are suitably GW-dumb. Skyblast, for real?

Other than these two nitpicks it looks like a nice set, good models. I like more choice for barricade equivalents!I'd rather see the rules, though

Cant wait to play drop troop rules with my marines

whole host of great models. terrain is very solid, too, if primarily just functional

curious to see what the deal is with a new edition. i see the measuring tools have numbers on them, which is very cool and good change. also a big fan of kill teams having datacards for everything

 tauist wrote:
R A H A N M E N O J A

Looks like inches are back, colors are dead now. Hope yer happy

I am. It's always good to see the rules designers quietly dropping a dumb idea instead of doubling down on the idiocy by clinging to it like the AoS team does with the double turn.

 BertBert wrote:

 Geifer wrote:

On the one hand the new Vespids do look nice. On the other hand I don't know how to handle Vespids that don't look derpy.

Paint googly eyes on them.

I'm tempted.

Quick Gameplay question as it’s not something I’ve ever figured out…is a Killteam a one box wonder?

As in, I don’t need more than each team’s standard on the shelf box to field a Killteam, including casualty replacement/team advancement?

Was there any indication on if the new Scions are just a new unit, or are they a replacement for the current kit?

New unit. The elite of the elite.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Quick Gameplay question as it’s not something I’ve ever figured out…is a Killteam a one box wonder?

As in, I don’t need more than each team’s standard on the shelf box to field a Killteam, including casualty replacement/team advancement?

technically, you'll be fine with one box, but in most cases, you might want a second for more options. some are better or worse about this than others, like how Necrons need a bunch of extra characters. the only teams where one box will be absolutely all you need are Gellerpox and Starstriders, although for some of the compendium teams, you can get most relevant options out of a single box (but maybe wait to see how compendium teams are handled)


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 Mentlegen324 wrote:
Was there any indication on if the new Scions are just a new unit, or are they a replacement for the current kit?

they're using a lot of language to say, there are those guys, and there are these guys, and they're similar but different

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Quick Gameplay question as it’s not something I’ve ever figured out…is a Killteam a one box wonder?

As in, I don’t need more than each team’s standard on the shelf box to field a Killteam, including casualty replacement/team advancement?

Rather 2 boxes as you may want to build all specialists, and you may be forced to choose because the box allows you either gunner x or y etc.

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
Was there any indication on if the new Scions are just a new unit, or are they a replacement for the current kit?

They said that the new Aquilons are specialists compared to the more generalist Scions, so it's probably safe to assume both are here to stay

Thanks for the answers.

Yes and no.

A box lets you field a complete Kill Team but, unless you are ok with magnetising weapons (which I heartily recommend) won't give you all the options for most teams.

That said:
-some teams are indeed in one box 100%
-some teams don't need all the options because some of them will never get fielded anyway

So this varies from complete one box teams (eg Gellerpox or Kommandos or Felgor) to teams where even a few boxes may not be enough to cover all the bases (Warpcoven, Blades of Khaine or Legionaries)

Also, lore snippet from the vid?

The ammo boxes and cables are aesthetic options. The theory being Drop Troops can do with minimum flappage on the way in, so they go loaddd with the ammo box/power pack. Once that’s exhausted, they plug in the cables.

Nice little touch if you ask me.

Hot shot power packs have also been a thing for at least 25 years now.

The 3rd edition Stormtroopers from 1999 had power packs instead of power cables:

Vespids are xenos goodness.

 xttz wrote:

 Mentlegen324 wrote:
Was there any indication on if the new Scions are just a new unit, or are they a replacement for the current kit?

They said that the new Aquilons are specialists compared to the more generalist Scions, so it's probably safe to assume both are here to stay

Those might be, but a lot of units released for this have had non-specialist build options for 40k too. Thought theirs in this case might just be normal scions.