Kill Team

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Does anyone play Kill Team?

I get really bogged down painting lots and lots of the same miniatures, so building a large Warhammer army is not going to happen for me. I love painting and want to play! I have two starter sets and I made a mistake when buying the Thunder and Blood set, its just too many models to bother with. Loved painting the starter box sets and I'll probably buy the Nighthaunt starter set, although I wish it was not another Stormcast army (painted them in Storm of Sigmar). Just using the models to have a battle works very well with me. From what I have seen all the rules for all models come in the box, so no need to buy a codex for everything.

So I'm thinking of splashing out £60 on the Kill Team box set. From what I have watched on Youtube it looks right down my street, small army's and quickish games. I have lots of Marines and Necrons I painted years ago, do the rules include using these? I like the idea of being able to paint 5-10 models and use them in a full game. If I was to use my old models do I still need to buy these cards that you get when buying the official Kill Team sets?
 
I think as soon as I sell some of my old marines and the rest of this Thunder and Blood set I'll see how much I have and make a decision then. I really get so bogged down with all these unpainted models it stops me from doing anything. Thanks for the reply.
 
What about the team specific cards you get when buying the official boxes? Would I need to get them if I was to use other none Kill Team figures?
 
I've finally got my Kill Team started. I didn't want to buy the complete box set because I didn't really want the two factions. So I took £64 as a ballpoint figure (What Kill Team costs) and have just finished getting everything together to make my own Kill Team setup. I sold a load of my old Warhammer to fund this; which made a lot more that my ball point figure. Although I want to stay as close to £64 as possible.

I got a box of Necrons Immortals / Deathmarks and I'll use some of my existing Necron Warriors that I'll either convert or use as they are.
Got a new box of Ork Lootas and Burners and bought 10 Boyz off ebay (£8.75!), some of which will be converted into Nobz/Kommandos
Already got my First Strike Marines, with 2 of the conquest mag sprues and a load of converting bits from an online bits store (Forbidden Gaming - Who sell bits from as low as 10p! Very reasonable P&P as well) Also got a load of old Marine bits to convert with.
Bought the rulebook.
Don't need dice or ruler. Don't really need the cards and extra tactics things. I'll be sticking to the basic rules.
Spent a week foraging through rubbish bins to make myself some cool industrial scenery. Still a work in progress but I have enough bitz to work with.
Printed out some A4 pages of earthy/rubble/road landscape to make a play mat.

Just got to put it all together, its going to take some time to get all the models painted! The best thing about the painting side is that there wont be much repetitive work because the teams are so small. Love it!
Spent just over £64, which I think is great since I now have a full team of Necrons, Primars Marines and Orks. Might get the next issue of conquest for the Death Guard, but they will be the same as the three I got in First Strike so I'll have to think on that one.

I'll probably get some photos up in a month.
 
I missed yesterdays post, that was my Kill Team manual so I was going to have to hold off putting together my Kill Teams. Then someone on Killteam reddit pointed me toward the BattleScribe app... What a great app! Kind of holds your hand while putting a team together. With my lack of experience this was invaluable when deciding what weapons to glue onto my teams.

I crafted a knife out of a bit of a sprue for one of my intercessors, its so great its got a name. Its called "That's not a knife, knife" It gets the name from being about a foot longer than a sword, but its definitely a knife! Name courtesy of Mike Dundee
 
I had a good painting session tonight. Got well over half way painting my Adeptus Astartes team and made a couple of Flayed Ones from Necron Warriors (Lesson for the day - No amount of 'Blood for the blood god' is too much for a Flayed One!). Most of the scenery is done. Just need to build and paint the rest of the Necon team, build and paint the Ork team, build and paint the Scion Team I impulse bought off Facebook market place and work out what I'm going to do with a Death Guard team! Christ, what am I doing... Someone pass me a bottle of single malt.

Also bought a new LED lamp from Amazon. Hopefully it'll help me see what I'm doing a bit better, I cant position my desk lamp over my work very well. Also bought a paint holder from ebay, something that will hold 40 paint pots and I'll be able to fix to my existing painting piece of wood board thing.
 
I started a Necron team. I thought it would be easy, but the ball joints are a bit fiddly and where the arms connect to the hands GW seemed to have omitted the little locating lug they have used in other places on the Necrons. With the Immortal pack I can see I'll be left with loads of left over bits that I really don't want. I could convert some of my Necron warriors but I don't really need to, it would just be extra work. I think its time to brave ebay and try to flog them.
 
Show and tell time. Kill Team update! Pretty much finished the gaming zone. Got a few more barriers to add to the buildings. Its just all junk from bins! Saved a bit of money which ment I could buy more models! Not even played yet, just waiting for something or another...










My Necron Kill Team roster. Managed to convert a bunch of warriors using all the spare parts in the Deathmark box.









My Primaris Team (With "Little big small" as my Marine Sargent with combie plasma gun. A few mods to the weapons, namely granade launcher, snipy type gun and old "Mike, thats not a knife, knife" with his knife that looks like a sword to the right of one of the Primaris photos.







All I need to do now is paint my Orks and Scions/Imperial Guard.
 
Got my Ork team finished. Really enjoyed painting these. Although I took the easy way with the skin this time. Just green with a green wash, rather than dark green, highlighted with light green then a wash.

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Also finally managed to paint the Death Guard from the First Strike box. I really did NOT enjoy painting them and gave up on some of the finer details. They are great models and I just could not be bothered to put more time into them.

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Just started on a Tau kill team.
 
No1newts said:
I'm tempted to buy a battle map and load of scenery and get into this with my son, doing full armies takes far too long.
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You only really need the manual. You can do poorhammer like me and print out a map (just search for stone wallpaer or the like) and use anything for terrian. Means more money to spend on making kill teams! I'm pretty much doing this so my son and I can learn together. We played a few rounds of the Storm of Sigmar and he remembers all the rules, I'm constinatally having to look at my notes to work out what to do next. He also loves the info sheets so I printed them from the manual and laminated them. It seems like a great game, you dont really need to follow the rules to a T straight away as long as its fun.
 
Although I should be painting my Scions and Imperial guard team... I had three Intercessors and three Reivers from Conquest lying around collecting dust. Bashed them up with some Scion bits, a Death Guard head, some Marine Terminator bits and bought some shoulder pads and Nemesis falchions for £7.80 off ebay. Et voila. I quite liked the halberd made from a falchion and the Scion flag pole. There is also a metal arm from a Techmarine I bought (and regretfully sold) 10 or so years ago.

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That's as far as I'll go with them for now. I'm just happy that I have used a ton of bits that were lying around doing nothing and had fun doing it.

I don't know much about the lore on Grey Knights but I did read they they don't like having the Imperial Aquila on them; thinking they have not earned it? So off it came... mostly.
 
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AhHa! Also finished off a Tau Kill Team a while back. Started off fun painting the Stealth Suits but quickly became frustrating with so many thin coats of Celestra Grey. Also painting white is definitely off my list of fun things to do. I wanted something brighter to stand out from the other kill teams that are all quite dark.

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Pookie Bear said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFk-rV9fH24

The supposed AoS version of Kill Team. Either that, or a full Skirmish release.

Some rumours from a "trusted source" (not mine) has said it's a full boxed AoS Kill Team, with squads of 4 to 20, more terrain, cards, new models, etc...
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Jesus christ. I don't have any room left. Mind you, might be a great excuse to buy a pack of Chainrasps, I really want a go at painting them. I'm so screwed...
 
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