Games Workshop - Kill Team: Compendium

Product Information

The annual packs rules for 10 full kill teams into its pages, including those from the Into the Dark, Shadowvaults, Soulshackle, Gallowfall, and Ashes of Faith* expansions. Unlike the mere mortals from teams like the Astra Militarum, Space Marines have 3 APL to work with per turn, allowing them to move, shoot, and capture an objective in the same activation, or shoot, charge, and fight, etc. Our second, and final, option is to simply go hard and bring a team composed of a full six Tyranid Warriors. These guys are powerhouses, clocking in at 18 wounds each with a 4+ save, 3+ to hit/wound in melee, and 4+ to hit/wound at range. If you’ve been following our Kill Team rules articles recently, you’ll know just how deadly that Custodian Guard truly is thanks to those four action points.

There are generic Tac Ops Objectives for use with all factions, along with faction-specific Tac Ops.As mentioned in previous articles, combat is by definition less versatile than shooting, and in the case of Genestealers being 2 APL they will struggle to carry out their melee duties and still perform mission actions or hold ground without the assistance of Tyranid Warriors.

We’ve looked at how you can quickly and easily put together a finely balanced kill team in the new system, and the Compendium is packed with everything you need to do just that.

Shooting attacks through engaged allies now incur -1 attack dice penalties, which makes the rules about base movement matter much more than on Open. The new game is an exciting departure from 2018’s first edition and we’re here to cover every part of it. As with previous Kill Team sets, there’s also a stack of new terrain boxed in – this time, it’s Ork-themed, ramshackle metal fortifications and scrap piles. A Kill Team is built from one or more Fire Teams, and depending on the faction you may be able to take the same Fire Team more than once.

The first thing you’ll notice when you open the Compendium is that Space Marines have 30 pages of options compared to most other factions’ 10 or so.An Ecclesiarchy Kill Team consists of up to 2 Fire Teams chosen from either Battle Sister, Repentia, or Arco-Flagellant Fire Teams. From 2021’s release to the April 2023 changes we’ve had many updates that have made the game healthier. If Veteran Guardsmen aren’t your team, there’s regular guard teams, which can confusingly contain highly-trained veterans of their own.