Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team (Board Game)

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This article is about the Board Game. For other uses of Kill Team, see Kill Team (disambiguation).

Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team is a board game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

1st Edition (2016)

1st Ed. Game contents

No strength in numbers. No margin for error. Pure, fast-paced combat where tactics matter more than brute strength, and every action matters. A single shot can spell the difference between life and death, and a single decision can decide whether a battle ends in glorious victory or dismal defeat: this is Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team.

A whole new way to play games with your Warhammer 40,000 miniatures, this standalone two-player game puts you in charge of small bands of warriors, and gives you one objective – win, or die.

Launch Box Contents

• a Space Marines Tactical Squad — this is everything needed to build 10 Space Marines with a huge amount of customisation: boltguns, a grav-gun, a melta gun, a flamer and a missile launcher, with power fist, chainsword, plasma pistol and bolt pistol options for a Sergeant.
• a Tau Empire Strike Team – 10 Tau Empire Fire Warriors, with two drones, a DS8 tactical support turret, a selection of different shoulder pads and back packs and a choice of weapons — pulse pistols, pulse carbines, EMP Grenades and Photon Grenades.
• a 32-page softback Kill Team book, featuring full rules for playing skirmish missions (six Kill Team missions are included), with an extensive section on additional ideas for your games – making up and linking your own missions as a narrative, playing games with more than two players, introducing vehicles and mobile objectives, co-operating against hordes of enemies; there’s almost limitless scope.
• a small-format softback copy of Warhammer 40,000: The Rules, providing the basic groundwork that Kill Team expands upon.

2nd Edition (2018)

A 2nd Edition of the game was released in July 2018.

Kill Team is a standalone skirmish game set in the world of Warhammer 40,000. The game’s focus is on covert operations – players hand-pick their kill teams of die-hard special operatives to get a specific job done, whether that be reconnaissance, sabotage or assassination. The games are fast-paced with a rapid back-and-forth between players (and can include up to four players).^[32]

1. Core Rules
   • Main article : Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team Core Manual (2nd Edition)
2. Launch Box
   • Main article : Kill Team : The Boxed Set (2nd Edition)
3. Released Supplements for 2nd Edition
   • Standalone Starter Sets
     • Kill Team: Rogue Trader - Starter set with Elucidian Starstriders and Gellerpox Infected.^[8]
     • Kill Team: Pariah Nexus
   • Kill Teams Factions Starter Sets
     • Kill Team: Fangs of Ulfrich — Space Wolves Primaris Reivers set^[3]
     • Kill Team: Krogskull's Boyz — Orks set^[4]
     • Kill Team: Drop Force Imperator — Astra Militarum Starter Set — Tempestus Scions^[5]
     • Kill Team: The Writhing Shadow — Tyranids Starter Set — Genestealers^[6]
     • Kill Team: Mordelai — Deathwatch Starter Set^[7]
     • Kill Team: Slicing Noose — Dark Eldar Starter Set^[7]
     • Kill Team: Advance Team Starpulse — T'au Starter Set^[9]
     • Kill Team: The Exalted Scythe — Necron Starter Set^[10]
     • Kill Team:: Starn's Disciples^[14]
     • Kill Team: Theta-7 Acquisitus – Adeptus Mechanicus Kill Team^[15]
     • Kill Team: Toofrippa's Krew – Ork Kill Team^[19]
   • Terrain expansions
     • Killzone: Wall of Martyrs — Terrain expansion
     • Killzone: Death World Forest — Terrain expansion
     • Killzone: Sector Mechanicus — Terrain expansion
     • Killzone: Sector Munitorum — Terrain Expansion
     • Killzone: Sector Fronteris Environment Expansion^[11]
     • Killzone: Sector Sanctoris Environment Expansion^[13]
   • Rules Expansion Sets
     • Kill Team: Arena^[12]
     • Kill Team: Commanders*
     • Kill Team: Magos Dalathrust (Supplement) - Adeptus Mechanicus Commander Set^[18]
     • Kill Team: Crasker Matterzhek (Supplement) - Genestealer Cults Commander Set^[20]
     • Kill Team: Torrvald Orksbane (Supplement) - Space Marine Primaris Commander Set^[21]
     • Kill Team: Gaius Acastian (Supplement) - Deathwatch Commander Set^[22]
     • Kill Team: Feodor Lasko (Supplement) - Astra Militarum Commander Set^[23]
     • Kill Team: Gitzog Wurldkilla (Supplement) - Ork Commander Set^[24]
     • Kill Team: Fireblade Twinflame (Supplement) - T'au Empire Commander Set^[25]
     • Kill Team: Vysa Kharavyxis (Supplement) - Drukhari Commander Set^[26]
     • Kill Team: Nemesis 9 Tyrantis (Supplement) - Tyranid Commander Set^[27]
     • Kill Team: Ankra the Colossus (Supplement) - Necron Commander Set^[28]
   • Kill Team: Elites
     • Kill Team: The Dolorous Strain – Death Guard Kill Team Elite Set^[16]
     • Kill Team: The Fractal Blades – Thousand Sons Kill Team Elite Set^[17]
   • Kill Team: Annual 2019^[29]

3rd Edition (2021)

3rd Ed. Launch Box Contents

A 3rd Edition for the game was released in 2021, focusing on the Octarian War.^[30]

Launch Box Contents

The box set for the 3rd edition includes :

• a veteran Death Korps of Krieg Kill Team
• an Ork Kommando Kill-Team
• the core rulebook and the Octarius Manual
• dices, tactical cards, game board, an Ork redoubt, and other accessories.^[30]

Released Supplements for 3rd Edition

• Octarius Manual^[30]
• Kill Team: Chalnath^[31]

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• 6: Kill Team: The Writhing Shadow (last accessed 29 July 2018)
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