I managed to get this built up and painted to a battle ready standard in a day (due to needing this stuff together and painted in time for this review! As with all these releases, GW included a print of the box art to keep the spikey bits on the sprues form damaging any of the more fragile items included in the box beneath it.

You’ll be shunting your Heavy Intercessors around the board and rolling to hit and to wound, and that’s about it. However, the new era of Kill Team that the box heralds includes many changes to the way the game works that will leave many fans feeling hard done by.There are also a few tables to help you begin personalising your Kill Team, which can be found on the respective “Names and Demeanours” page for each of the two factions. The Kill Team Compendium is not only expensive, but is also bereft of unique rules for a huge number of models.

If you have played Crusade or Path to Glory then you know the drill here (And Spec Ops actually kinda works as a blend of the two) you start with a kill team and over the course of the campaign you will gain experience, earn special equipment and goals, expand your available pool of operatives and even expand your base of operations from a hasty built forward post to a bustling command centre. Unlike games of 40K, in the new edition of Kill Team matches have three phases: Initiative, Strategic and Firefight. However, today I’ve engaged my brain (a hard thing to do on a Saturday morning) and realised the board can be partially folded out to give you a look at what is printed on both sides. Check out the value and pricing for the new Warhammer 40k Kill Team: Octarius Box that comes with some key in-demand products for hobbyists!And because you can only take one or two types of Fire Team in your army, it’s not like you can even spice things up by chopping and changing models for extra abilities.

Plus, you’ll get more tokens, cards, dice, and measurement tools than you can shake a trench shovel at . And yeah, whilst I think the Kill Team: Octarius box, as an isolated release, is absolutely smashing, I am concerned what the wider changes to the new edition of Kill Team mean for players. However, the obverse/reverse are a little disappointing, given that they’re almost identical to look at.The 40k concept of overwatch on a charging unit doesn’t exist, this is more so your operatives managing to get off an inaccurate reactive shot in response to an enemy action. In the Twenty-First Century, it seems that no TTRPG, wargame, or any derivative thereof, can be considered complete without a staggering amount of push-out cardboard tokens for you to lose under the sofa cover your gaming table with. The alternating activations move quickly and fluidly, and the Strategic and Tactical Ploys, as a mini version of 40k’s much more expansive sets of stratagems, offer just enough extra in-game levers to pull, without cluttering up Kill Team’s more energetic, moment-to-moment turn-taking. There’s an enormous amount of stuff in here, including all the dice, rulers, and what have you that you need to start playing the game. You’ll get a list of several Fire Teams: Intercessors, Assault Intercessors, Incursors, Infiltrators, Reivers, and so-on.