The deadly new edition of Kill Team dropped into stores, homes, and gaming clubs last weekend – and skirmish combat in the 41st Millennium will never be the same. The Kill Team: Hivestorm launch box is packed with everything you need to play balanced, competitive operations – a brilliant choice for veteran commanders.
But for those just starting down the path of Kill Team, there's a Starter Set coming to teach you your Conceal Orders from your Tac Ops. This package contains 14 push-fit miniatures in two teams: the proud Space Marines of the Angels of Death facing down the degenerate heretics of the Plague Marines*.
Both sets have been hard to come by in recent years – having been released as two separate generations of the Warhammer Heroes blind box series – but they return to the range with an uncomfortably wet bang. And even though they're both designed to be easy for newcomers to play, they're strong teams who are perfectly capable of tussling with any of the other factions in the game.
The new 64-page introductory rulebook is designed from the ground up to guide new players through their first few missions, starting simple and adding new concepts as it goes along until a final climactic confrontation puts all of the commanders’ new knowledge to the test. New builders can follow clear construction guides laced with examples and lore snippets to help them along, followed by in-depth lore sections on each of the kill teams so you can figure out who your favourites are before plunging into combat.
Finally, the booklet caps off with a few advanced rules and extra mission conditions to showcase a little of the full Kill Team experience. Rules reference sheets and tokens are included for both kill teams, while the full rules used in regular Kill Team games will be available for download from the Warhammer Community website.
This set is fantastic for another reason – the all-new terrain. If it looks oddly wooden, that’s because it is. The Kill Team Starter Set comes with easy-assembly printed MDF terrain that slots together in seconds, so you can get right into your first games without needing to build and paint loads of plastic walls and ruins.
Not only does it build and set up easily, but it also packs down flat as… well, a board, making it the most portable and convenient terrain since those little folding cardboard walls that serious Warhammer veterans may remember from the second edition of Warhammer 40,000. It’s a genuinely exciting prospect for those of us who want to quickly pop a game out of our pockets at lunchtime – a common occurrence in the Warhammer Community office.
The new Kill Team Starter Set will be coming very soon, hot on the heels of the Hivestorm launch set.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this article published incorrect images of the token sheet included in this box. The correct tokens are now shown.
* Yes, this means there'll be rules for Plague Marine Kill Teams appearing on Warhammer Community and in the Kill Team app in the coming weeks.
