These look super fun, and each mission details exactly how your scenery from this box must be laid out. A game of Kill Team lasts about half an hour to 40 minutes, making it easy to squeeze into a lunch break or get several games in across an evening.

TAC OPS BONUSIf you are the Defender and scored 3 or more VPs from Seek and Destroy Tac Ops during this battle, you gain 1 additional Requisition point. In Kill Team, alternating activations for shooting and combat mean that you'll have to be on-the-ball in every moment of the game - and you won't have long to wait until it's your turn, either. These buildings are surrounded by smaller ruins, but each of these is still heavy cover, providing substantial protection for operatives in position behind them.

Unlike its predecessor, and probably suggesting the model for these things going forward, there’s no core rules in here. Each time an operative makes a shooting attack while on a Punishing Vantage Point, before rolling attack dice for that shooting attack, if the target is not in Cover, the attacker can retain one attack dice as a successful normal hit without rolling it. Regardless of how many APL modifiers an operative is affected by, the total modification can never be more than -1 or +1 from its normal APL. The book is 96 pages, bound by a glossy high quality cover and is, as you’d expect, full of fantastic artwork. These points can then be spent on a variety of stuff including to perform rerolls, free critical hits and heal operatives.

The terrain rules are pretty straightforward, and really need to be available for anyone who plays Kill Team without this box.It’s a refreshing kind of confidence in the product that Kill Team has needed, and we’re glad to see it. At the end of each Turning Point, if Defender operatives control both primary objective markers, the Defender scores 1VP. We’ll have to wait and see if this plays out on the T’au side, with their new codex trailed for “early next year” on Warhammer Community this week, and we might end up seeing some of their upgrades integrated into a new 40k datasheet – the Medical Technican and Transpectral Interference Pathfinders both have shades of the Helix Adept/Comms Array guys from their sort-of equivalents, Infiltrators – but it’s nice to see a bit of restraint exercised here.

SPEC OPS BONUS Relics Retrieved: If you are currently undertaking the Recover Archeotech or Extraction Spec Ops and you are the Defender, then if at the end of this battle, three or more objective markers are in your drop zone, reduce by 1 the number of games required to complete that Spec Op’s Operation 1. Scalable: Each time an operative climbs this terrain feature, the final incremental distance of less than is ignored, instead of being rounded up to .

They have been designed to immerse you in the story of your operatives as they fight across the Chalnath killzone, with a particular mind to rewarding players who use them as part of a Spec Ops Campaigns. We’ve otherwise only seen these for Howling Banshees and Incubi, which suggests a similar kind of thing – those are in power armour, kind of, but they’re lighter in weight class than a Space Marine or Battle Sister so the slightly smaller base suits them better.