The oceanic platforms of Bheta-Decima are haunted by the monstrous Mandrakes in Kill Team: Nightmare, and it’ll take a truly terrifying team of equally awful operatives to stand up to their shadowy brutality. One thing is certain – they’ll get more than they bargained for with the Nemesis Claw Kill Team, whose expertise in slinking through the darkness and flaying their enemies alive rivals the most despicable killers of the Drukhari.
This awesome kit is based on the excellent Chaos Space Marine Legionaries you may remember from a previous Kill Team box, adding two full sprues of upgrades to turn them from generic raiders and reavers into the specialised killers of the Night Lords legion. To match their brutal reputation as the ultimate terror troops, these sprues include all manner of flayed hides, barbed chains, and skeletal details to put the fear of the God-Emperor into your hapless opponents.
You can also use the kit to build a fully Night Lords-themed unit of Legionaries for games of Warhammer 40,000, with 12 shoulder pads and 11 heads featuring the distinct bat-winged stylings of the VIII Legion amongst all of the other morbid accessories.
Even though they’re composed of reckless butchers so extreme that even their fellow Night Lords give them a wide berth, the Nemesis Claw have a wide variety of useful skills. The
Skinthief, for instance, uses their experience in the skinning pits to deftly swing large Nostraman chainglaive and terrify enemy operatives with gory in-situ displays of their skin-shredding expertise.
These brutal skills are further augmented by unique equipment dredged from the darkest corners of the armouries, such as the paralysing sonic blasts of the Screecher’s Vox Noctis and the virulent Terrorchem toxins applied to the Fearmonger’s blades. One scratch from these wicked razors will spell doom for even the toughest operative, as their Wounds continue to drain long after the Fearmonger has left the field – made doubly deadly by hidden explosives that spread the toxin to booby-trapped objectives.
Perhaps strangest of all is the leader of a Nemesis Claw kill team, known as a Visionary. These natural warlords possess a fragment of their Primarch’s powers of prescience, granting them prophetic flashes of incoming attacks and sticky situations.
This power manifests as a pool of dice that can be spent to manipulate the battle through each Turning Point, such as negating an opponent’s successful hits or allowing them to skip a disadvantageous activation altogether. This makes the Visionary a powerful strategic force for your marauding Night Lords, commanding the flow of battle amidst the dreadful carnage.
You can pre-order your own copy of Kill Team: Nightmare this Saturday and pit the Nemesis Claw against the murderous might of the Mandrakes, amidst the crumbling corpse of Bheta-Decima.
Want to know exactly how they perform in game? Watch them in action right now on Battle Report on Warhammer+!
