Games Workshop - Warhammer 40,000 - Killzone Octarius (Scenery Set)

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The Slasha Boy is your other melee specialist, sporting a weapon with the Relentless trait and trading the Breacha’s surprise factor for the ability to dish out mortal wounds on a 4+ each time it loses wounds in melee but doesn’t go down. SPEC OPS BONUS Inviolate Defence: If the Defender is currently undertaking the Honour Bound or Secure District Spec Op, then at the end of the battle, if the vital installation has suffered no Damage points, reduce by 1 the number of games required to complete that Spec Op’s Operation 1.

With time being a precious resource, there’s loads of games to play and not nearly enough time – but with only a handful of models on each side and a small gaming footprint I can see Kill Team being a regular addition to our gaming rotation. As with most other GW games, Kill Team keeps the “3 ways to play” mantra allowing different play styles. On the whole there’s more here than we expected, particularly compared to the pamphlets that constituted Killzone releases in the prior iteration of Kill Team.Although not necessarily positioned as such up to this point in GW’s marketing materials, the Octarius book is very much written as a full campaign expansion to the base Kill Team rules, with new factions, missions, and requisitions. This kit is comprised of 55 plastic components with which you can build: 4x Ramshackle Walls 3x Ramshackle Barricades 3x Scrap Piles 1x Oil Pump The set also includes a double-sided folding gaming board measuring 30" x 22. These are heavily themed, story-driven narrative missions set within War Zone Octarius, and contain a mixture of symmetric and asymmetric mission rules and mission objectives. At the end of the battle, if the Defender’s Commander has all of its Wounds remaining, the Defender scores 1VP.

While there is a list of universal actions within the book, some operatives and factions also have unique actions only they can perform – and I imagine this will be expanded further in later supplements.

Kommandos can do similar, and my favorite of these is Thievin’ Git, which gives your operative a free piece of Equipment before the battle from your stash. At the end of the battle, if the Defender’s Commander is Injured, the Attacker scores 6VP (if the Defender’s Commander is Incapacitated, the Attacker scores 9VPs instead. Evasion: If the Defender is currently undertaking the Extraction or Breakout Spec Op, then at the end of the battle, if at least half of their operatives escaped the ambush, reduce by 1 the number of games required to complete that Spec Op’s Operation 1. It might be small, and it might be terrible in combat, and it might die of fright if a stiff wind carries the scent of something that might be an enemy operative anywhere in its general direction, but it’s honestly one of the most useful pieces in the entire list. Finally we get Spec Ops which is the Narrative Play module for Kill Team and where I feel the game is at it’s strongest.