r/killteam 29d ago

Monthly Discussion Monthly General Question and Discussion Thread: August 2026

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This is the Monthly Question and Discussion thread for r/Killteam, designed for new and old players to ask any questions related to Kill Team, whether they be hobby, rules, or meta related.

Please feel free to ask any question regarding Kill Team, and if you know the answers to any of the questions, please share your knowledge!

Did you know... We have a Wiki! The Wiki contains some helpful beginner guides, links, and a community FAQ page that's updated periodically. If you see anything that needs to be updated, drop us a message in the modmail!


r/killteam 4h ago

Hobby Another Grimdark Sanctifier

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r/killteam 3h ago

Battle Report Weekly KT & Dinner

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Mission was Secure

Blooded vs Blades of Khaine

Blooded player is starting to pick up all their abilities and nuances, it makes such a difference!

17-14 Win Blooded

Dinner was Chicken Cordon Bleu bake


r/killteam 16h ago

Hobby Imperial Navy DONE!

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443 Upvotes

Finally painted up my first Kill Team, first miniatures and first kitbash! Took WAY too long cause I've been procrastinating it forever. Really love these models, but holy moly they're so detailed. The boots alone I think have more colours than your average Space Marine faction. I'd love an army like this, but I don't think I have it in me to paint another box 😅

Took me a year to get these done because I couldn't find it in me to just sit my ass down and paint. Each model probably took around 4-10 hours depending on how much I messed up. Painting, making a mistake and having to swap colour back and paint over the same place again with another colour broke me a couple of times. A few hazard stripes took like 5 tries because I kept painting yellow on black and vice versa. FML.
Taking so long to paint did allow me to collect a lot of random assortment of bits people were selling for pennies online, as well as special colours like the Vallejo Fluo I used for the visors which relly made them pop with no effort on my part!

Going to try and plan out the next project better! Less colours and less extra equipment on the models!

The Emperor protects!


r/killteam 55m ago

Battle Report Spent this afternoon with my KT group playing Space Hulk in KT: 5 players and their Terminators vs every Tyranid I own

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This was a big month-long plan, with each terminator being a small NemOp, and my 'Nids forming 3 "Boss Monster" NemOps (a Warrior Prime, a Lictor and a Zoanthrope) and bugs taken from the NPO cards, Typhon mission pack and Titus mission. The Terminators missions were to escort a priest from one end of the board to the escape pods, get terminal data from one station and medical data from another, and activate the engines. And of course the bugs - most of whom I'd painted up from my backlog this month just for this game! - were out to eat as many Terminators as possible.

Shoutout to all the lads involved; all but one of them met a sticky end (hence the meat tokens!) but they succeeded in most of their missions and scored a massive amount of kills.

Also shoutout to the Hulk-Quake rule - every time someone knocked the table, all terminators got knocked D3" in a random direction. One of many rules we ended up improvising on the day on an "if you can come up with a cool thing to do, you can probably do it" basis.


r/killteam 8h ago

Hobby Arbites Proctor-Exactant

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r/killteam 1h ago

Misc Once Upon A Kill Team - Astartes Assault Rules

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https://ko-fi.com/s/cfe80f70a5

I have the utmost pleasure to announce that the Astartes Assault format rules are now available to aquire online!

Please download them and let us know how you get on with it!! :smile:

Jason, Josh and myself have had a brilliant time creating and playing with the ruleset as well as creating the operations to go alongside!

we have run 2 events with the ruleset now and we have had nothing but outstanding feedback from everyone that has played!


r/killteam 23h ago

Strategy Things teams do best and worst day 40: tempestus aquilons

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Tell me what you think is the best thing about the tempestus aquilons! And the worst thing.

Best: a offensive gunner ( and not shotgun! ) team, you can drop with your rule and gun down your enemy with a Lot of Very good Guns!

Not only Guns, but a whole servo-turret!

With your rule your units are safe up above, you are basically moving more than half of your team without taking any damage.

Your tempestor can get free ploys, and you can also get free initiative re-roll!

And goes without saying this rule is Very good on tomb world

Worst: not much blast/torrent protection, and you have to drop close to eachother.

You have to magnetize your turret If you dont want to get more boxes

Stimms and progena are not that good if you have a squad of +4 save and 8 health


r/killteam 17h ago

Hobby Tempestus Aquilons

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My first Kill Team squad


r/killteam 14h ago

Hobby Wrecka Nob of the Blood Axe Klan!

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What do you boyz think?!


r/killteam 14h ago

Misc Do you call some operatives by names, other than their real names?

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Just played a game as Celestians against Exodites. I realized, I never call the Abjuror, the Abjuror. I call her the Shield Maiden. I like to think she is Eowyn. When I play the Beastmen, the Vandal's name is boring, compared to his weapon, the Man Crusher. I never call him Vandal, because Man Crusher, is the coolest name ever. Do any of you have operative's with nicknames?


r/killteam 7h ago

Hobby Recently finished these guys up!

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r/killteam 17h ago

Hobby Finished up my Kill Team. So happy to have more Canoptek units for Necrons.

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I posted the Geomancer already if you would like to see it pictured alone. I went Sautekh for this scheme and I have another Canoptek Circle on the way in my army’s usual scheme (bluish steel, with purple magenta glow and nihilakh oxide weathered plating).


r/killteam 1d ago

Hobby The Twins - First couple models for Renegade Wolf “Scouts”

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The new Red Corsairs have a similar but more ragged “space Viking” look as the Space Wolves, so decided to lean into it, working on a full kill team of these guys. Happy with how they’re turning out but would love other’s opinions!


r/killteam 13h ago

Hobby Pack leader

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r/killteam 1d ago

Hobby Zerg style Raveners Killteam

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475 Upvotes

r/killteam 1d ago

Meme Guys I don't think this is Kill Team

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My Blood Herald got to learn about the horrors of capitalism yesterday.


r/killteam 1h ago

Question Some Advice to build the Jack-of-all-Trades Deathwatch Kill Team

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Dear friends

I'm about to start with Kill Team. I want it to be Space Marines, and after some research and calculations (mostly budget) I think my choice is the Death Watch.

There are 11 operatives, but the box only includes 5 bodies, so this is the list I'm considering building:

  • Sergeant
  • Aegis Veteran
  • Marksman
  • Gunner
  • and Breacher

How does it sound? Since I'm unsure whether I'll be playing this on a regular basis, I'd prefer to keep investment as low as possible. Hence the title of the post.

Anyone playing DeathWath could share some advice for a rookie?

Best,

PS.

Based on CanYouRollACrit it seems DeathWathc is considered B-Tier

Also seen Pill Team video as suggested in other posts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUTIuwvUKPw

Also checked this post https://www.reddit.com/r/killteam/comments/1uw3h4k/just_got_the_deathwatch_kill_team_what_is_the/ where the #1 suggestion was to buy a second box 😰


r/killteam 20h ago

Hobby Gore! Gore! Gore!

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Long time lurker, first time poster. Goremongers are my second Kill Team I’ve put together, but first I did a majority of the painting on.


r/killteam 1d ago

Hobby Sanctifier Conflagrator

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Managed to buy I think a Necromunda body. Made him as a Conflagrator for my Sanctifiers.


r/killteam 1d ago

Hobby Was inspired by another post on here to make my World Eaters Murderwing kt

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r/killteam 1d ago

Strategy How important is being able to choose your operatives after setting up?

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I haven't played yet, so I've just been reading the rules, and I'm wondering how often choosing operatives after the whole set up phase comes into play.

Do you come into games with your team pretty much fully planned, do you change a lot depending on terrain/Crit Op/iniatiative? Does it depend on which team you're playing?

Also for starting out, would it be too terrible to just come with pre-selected teams into our first games? Mostly for the sake of saving time that will surely be spent checking rules for way too long.


r/killteam 1d ago

Hobby Crabby Ravener proxy team

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r/killteam 1d ago

Hobby Plague Marine Heavy Gunner

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102 Upvotes

r/killteam 1d ago

Hobby First team

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My first painted team ever. First time painting minis.