Next up is the Kill Team sprue – this contains movement gauges marked with symbols for ease of play during your games of Kill Team – don’t worry, this isnt some bespoke measuring system however – each of the facings also relate to inches with pips along the edge of each template marking these out. I only briefly dipped my toes into Kill Team at the end of the last edition after I as the Pariah Nexus expansion foisted onto me to review. The miniatures included in the set are some of the best Citadel have ever produced, and will have painters’ jaws dropping with their stunning character and detail.

As with all these releases, GW included a print of the box art to keep the spikey bits on the sprues form damaging any of the more fragile items included in the box beneath it. Sanguinius faced Fulgrim and won, Dorn charged Horus Ascended…and soon regretted it whilst Sigismund took not one, but two heads (Eidolon and Abaddon).As a few other reviewers (including everyone’s favourite soothing-voiced nerdy YouTube uncle, Tabletop Minions’ Atom Smasher), have remarked, the list-building rules in the Compendium not only appear pretty light on Abilities and Unique Actions (which help give distinct, meaningful in-game roles to the various different operators), but also leave many factions very limited in the variety of models they can field at once. Still, such drawbacks are temporary; as Atom Smasher rightly notes, the Compendium is obviously a “stopgap” solution to make all factions playable in Kill Team 2.

Once an operative has lost half their wounds they also reduce their movement, BS and WS to represent them being on their last legs! The long ruler is 6 inches long with the smaller markers having 1″, 2″ and 3″ facings in the same way as a combat gauge. Thankfully however, one box gives you everything you would need for a 2 player game, meaning your opponent will not be lacking for cards and tokens as long as you have a set! But anyway, these tokens are made of good quality card, just like the board, and won’t easily break or fall apart, so another tick from me. A near infinitesimally minor gripe that I know I and a lot of people have with these boxed sets is boring dice.Where many had thought it would die out, GW has instead invested much in rebooting it, hard, with a genuinely top-class starter box, and a cracking ruleset with vast potential. If you were hoping to use your Kill Team of, say, two Reviers, a few Assault Intercessors, maybe a Bladeguard Veteran and whatever else, you’re going to be very disappointed. The 40k concept of overwatch on a charging unit doesn’t exist, this is more so your operatives managing to get off an inaccurate reactive shot in response to an enemy action.

This was a decent book; even when looking through it as an absolute novice, I could tell it was a decent bit of kit, and it really helped me in my first couple of games. You’ll get a list of several Fire Teams: Intercessors, Assault Intercessors, Incursors, Infiltrators, Reivers, and so-on.DF is a measure of the unit’s ability to avoid attacks, and is the number of saves a figure can make each time they are fired upon. I’ve not had the chance to absorb its every delicious option yet, but this persistent campaign system – obviously built from the same materials as Warhammer 40k 9th Edition’s Crusade mode – is pregnant with potential for fantastic emergent storytelling.