@@stankshop I would bet the majority of people who play warhammer thier only human interaction is at the gameshop where they play. The community is full of losers and weirdos.
Solo and COOP is incredibly important in the current state of boardgames. GW has probably started paying attention to what happens elsewhere in the nerdosphere. I bet you they are trying to rope in some boardgamers with this
Holy crow, found the GW Shrimp. 🙄 Indies have been pushing Solo and Coop for years. Blackstones version of it was pretty janky. Add to that the fact that their "rules" have been built to push new models, and even push old ones into "Legends." Utter GW garbage man. I hated Kill Team MK1's Flesh Wound rules but MK2 and if this is MK3, not impressed.
By the sound of it I believe GW is going in exactly the right direction with this new edition of Kill Team, based primarily on the fact that they are treating it as it's own game. I understand what you want is 40k skirmish like what the "original" KT was but I feel that leads to exactly the sort of half baked system we have with Combat Patrol. 40k is made to be 40k and making a smaller version of that just takes away a lot of the fun of the system. With the current and future version of KT they are making a dedicated skirmish game wholly independent from the 40k game, and the gameplay is better for it. There's some of what you said I can certainly agree with, cover rules or more specifically obscuring rules were a bit clunky and could use some tuning but the engage/conceal component of the game is critical to the enjoyment of the experience and I'm glad to see based on the tokens at least it appears to be returning. Ultimately I think a lot of fans out there need to separate KT from 40k and enjoy it for what it really is Kill Team not 40k Skirmish.
Building your own team was really the ONLY good thing about KT 2018... I played guard and lost almost EVERY one of the 30-something matches I played because the rules were 40k but for single models and had nothing to do with making any non-space marine teams viable. KT21 was great for balance with teams and fun missions but lost all the customization and appeal but damn it played fun and tense and suddenly my poor guardsmen had some thrilling and successful missions. I dunno. The only real way to have BOTH systems is to do what One Page Rules does and itemize all the gear and abilities etc... and GW does not want to do that for obvious reasons.
Except that the whole point behind Kill Team was to make these cool narrative groups and not just a normal squad from 40k. That is what separated Kill Team from 40k. Doing what they keep doing just makes this a combat patrol.
You have a cookie for saying that sooooo well, the game has it's own identity and payer base now, they keep all the good stuff and throw away the points that were the most critiscized by players and non-players (the ones who didn't catch up with more than 1 or 2 tests)
@@charlesforward9036 Weirdly I've had the opposite result. My guard and CSM kill teams in 2018 felt great, but for KT 21 if you're using a T3 army vs marines the game is decided on the marine players loadout. You're SOL either way. If they rock up with nothing but bolters they're going to just melt your team in one turn of fire and then you're done. Sure KT18 probably could have used a cap for how many plasma guns you're allowed per team, but other than that it felt great. For a newbie it helped keep the game simple. KT21 somehow avoids teaching you 40k's rules, while also being a bloated poorly written mess that takes far too long to play because of their own mess of baggage they added instead of keeping it to a tight streamlined system.
Remember folks, you can do whatever you want especially if you're casual, you can STILL use your custom Kill Team, no one is going to kick your door down and flashbang your gaming room just because you mix and match your a custom rule set.. You can even make custom cards etc.. If you love Kill Team, make it your own.. They can't stop you.
This is right on. If you still have all the stuff and people to play with then it aint obsolete. All of this is made-up. You can make things up as well or better. Have fun with it. After all, its yours and its inly a game. You want an Outrider Killteam? Make up Outrider Killteam rules. Will it win a tournament? Do you even care?
KT21 is the reason I hobby at all these days. My concern was that all the KT21 teams would become invalid in KT24, but now knowing that “almost every” (whatever that actually means) of the KT21 teams will get updated rules for KT24 is what will keep me hobbying and playing. I understand that the list building aspect of a game is a deal breaker for Uncle Adam, but personally KT21 is a really fun game, and the fun is more important to me than mathhammering. Also the ability to just try so many different KTs since they are mostly one box pick ups, so if you don’t like how one plays, try a different one. Lastly, I think the compendium made sense for KT21, as there were only 2 official KTs upon release, so it gave a way to easily make other KTs. But now that 24ish boxed KTs for KT21, you don’t really need a compendium, as there could be a lot of easy 1 box pick up teams right from the start.
Yeah, I used to think list building is fun until I've played KT21 :D. With little hobby time nowadays I really appreciate that I need only one or two boxes to be able to play most of the teams. That puts a clear limit on both financial engagement for a particular team and time engagement because I know precisely how much models I need to paint to be able to field the team in any allowed combination. On top of that KT21 is just a really good game. It's tight, it's fun, it's very tactical and well balanced. I'm really happy KT24 is shaping to be just a slight upgrade to the existing version.
I played the previous edition and is was reduces to plasma spam, the bespoke teams added specialists and the ability to have a KT without having to buy multiple sets to have all the available models
Which ones are gone has been clarified. Compendium is gone. All bespoke teams stays, maybe with the exception of Intercessors and Justian which are edge cases not covered by the wording in the article.
@@jonasbarkaI thought they may get rid of the Striking Scorpion team since I have no problem admiring that they really don’t follow the kill team specialist design
As a club and tournament organizer spanning the current edition, I am extremely relieved that the ruleset is not undergoing a drastic change. I’ll agree that the loss of the Compendium is a disappointment, as it was great for teaching games, but in our experience, when a new player latched onto the gameplay, they got excited by the concept of bespoke teams and would often have one bought and built by our next weekly meet up. As for the use of non-KT 40k models, it looks like they’ll be excellent “NPOs” for the solo and co-op missions, as shown on WarCom this morning.
GW has had some fantastically balanced and playable rules but dumped them in favor of selling books. I am so sick of it and no longer buy into it. Hell, I don't even buy into their pricing model anymore, as it is absolutely ridiculous. I can buy a Tamiya infantry squad for 6 to 10 USD and tanks for ~30 USD, so why the hell are we paying 45 USD for a squad and 150+ USD for vehicles? It is utterly moronic and I refuse to pay it.
I'll honestly never buy one of thier rules books. GW just keeps trying to price gouge me but I guess they dont understand that I dont give a fuck what they say about rules and I dont give a shit about thier updates/books.
I’m going to reiterate my critique of KT 2018 - it was a game that favoured players with extensive bits boxes. Players that could kit out a whole team with plasma guns were at a substantial advantage compared to new players who were just building models from one or two boxes. Modern Kill Team is clearly designed as a gateway game - you buy one box, you build a team, and you’re ready to play against any other team in the game. As a hobby challenge, perhaps it’s less fulfilling, but ad a gateway into the hobby, it seems vastly improved.
Agreed, KT2018 wasn't bad for some "your guys" flavor BUT good grief so much came down to min/max mathing your way with very specific types of gear loadouts for your guys, many of which couldn't be acquired in a normal way. Hell forget sticking every Guardsman with the spammy plasma sprues, you literally only had 1 truly legal non kitbashed option for Chaos Cultist Champion unit(the dude with the shotgun and sword) and it only existed(at least when KT2018 was new) via a long out of print CSM vs SM box set, a rarer mini in general. I understand people feeling like list building element is a good practice for other stuff, but sometimes people don't wanna be so bothered with mini 40k for something that's supposed to go a bit quicker.
Yeah the new one is definitely a better "gateway drug" but it really doesn't help players take the leap into 40k proper anymore. And it lacks the depth you'd need to integrate it as cleanly with a narrative, while having it's own massive pile of bloat and baggage that it really didn't need. They seem to want to make a nice tight intro game but can't actually bring themselves to stick to a nice tight game. And it's still a gearcheck for half of your fights.
@@Randicore As someone who loves killteam, everything about 40k, the IGOUGO game, turns me off. I would never buy a 40k army to play 40k, but I have 7 killteams, 2 box sets, and a passion for the hobby now. I started just a month before Hivestorm released by getting a box of Phobos Strike Team. I had no idea how the game system would be, because I never looked into KT2018. I knew a new edition was coming out, so I wanted to wait to see anything about the game until I opened the Hivestorm box. I've been hooked ever since, and not once have I wanted to get into Bighammer. I liked the hobby so much that I found a secondhand unbuilt 2000pts of AoS Seraphon and built it in a week. Delicious lissurds waiting for the right paintspiration. After witnessing a tournament of 40k and a tournament of AoS, I realized I would never actually have an interest in playing any form of bighammer. Killteam would never be a "gateway" drug to 40k anyway, but I bought Hivestorm, Nurgle v angels, striking scorpions, phobos strike team, and Wyrmblade Genestealers boxes brand new. I've built them all and painting them in my own pace. Historical Henry will never spend as much as Casual Kristoff. I think Killteam 3rd is awesome being its own outlet/support to the hobby. I've heard a lot of this "gateway drug" thing for Killteam and I just don't think the market data supports the paradigm anymore, even if it did with obvious gusto in the past.
Kill Team 2079 will have actual, living, tiny soldiers made out of actual flesh/bone/metal etc. instead of plastic and you have to literally tell them where to move and how to do it.
Getting rid of the compendium teams feels like something that was always part of the plan. They only existed so the game wasn't just Orks Vs Guard. Also GW have been matching rules to the contents of boxes for a while now. It's a little worse for existing players who already have two to for squads they can pick and mix from. For new players or players wanting to try a different faction just buying one box is so much better. I think the compendium style mixed kill teams may come back in some (limited) way by GW packing an Intercessor sprue with a Phobos sprue, for example.
No, it only existed to sell more books. They double the cost of the books then split it in half. The 2018 Kill Team rule book included the compendium in the rule book.
@TallTaleGael theyve already confirmed that the annual teams like Harliqunns are getting rules for kill team, its just those ones from the origina compendium that is getting the boot, and the only ones not replace yet really are talons of emporer and nids
I have a suspicion that the Almost Every Bespoke Kill Team clause is in reference to the Ashes of Faith Boxed Set, as only the Inquisition Acolytes could be considered a Bespoke Kill Team, but the rest of that release was a hodgepodge of previously released models.
KT18 was mini 40K. The buy in for someone wanting to play for example space marines was nuts. Yes you could buy one box and off you go, but then the power struggle started and before you know it you had bought 6 boxes to various marines to get the team,roaster you wanted to be able to compete with the other people that had done the same. Now its 1 box and your done, maybe a second box if your want every option, but for the most part its one box. The new kill team is a low invertment game, two teams, a core rulebook, tokens and a surface to play on and your set. No power creep because you opponent bought 3 more faction boxes and now bring a combo of 5 over power units. Its more balanced. Oh and finally the charge rule in KT18 was hot garbage. I can move 6" but if I charge i could move less as charge was part of the movement not an additional move. In one game i had a rust stalker that failed a 5 inch move 4 times but could walk 8" normally. Dont miss the power creep or the rule set of the open design of KT18.
Not to mention the kt18 break test mechanic. If you ran a horde team like orks you would only get to play half the game before your orks broke and ran. Not fun
Or, if you already had Space Marines, you could build a Kill Team without buying anything. That’s the real issue for Games Workshop here. Thanks for watching!
@@tabletopminionsthat's a pretty gutless response. Every Single Company In Existence Want's people to buy more of their products. Kt18 only benefited people who already had an army or two. For anyone who didn't what was the cost to get started? Yeah gw is rather shit with milking it's customers, but currently it's cheaper and easier to get people into the hobby with kt21 and will be for kt24. Plus how many people have bought kill team boxes to use in their standard armies? Probably a metric shit-ton. And while the rules could be *written* better, they're still not that complex and are far more mentally stimulating than anything gw has put out in decades. Lost all respect. This has been the the saddest, saltiest whinge I've seen from a hobby channel in a while. Also fyi, they're still keeping the "hide and seek" mechanics, one of the smartest additions to a gw game ever. The order tokens are a pretty clear indication that stealth will be in.
@@fatal-flaw10 That is not entirely true. What companies actually want is to maximise their revenue. Ideally by not doing, producing or selling anything. Ideally they want money for nothing. The question is how hard do they push this. Most companies are pretty happy with delivering a product or service with some value for the customer while making a decent and sustainable profit. This is where GW differs and why their business practices are quite douchey. There is a reason why they are fequently critisied for their bad value for money and exploitive methods. The fact that they now will not provide rules for Kill Team specific kits is one of them. There is no reasons to discontinue a Kill Team. It would cost them basically nothing to provide updated rules. But they decided to drop some, which ones they do not specify, for no reason other than trying to force people who allready have Kill Teams to buy new ones. Few other companies in the tabletop and wargaming business behave like this. Nobody has a problem with GW or other companies making money. A lot of people have a problem with extortionate prices as well as manipulative and deceptive communication just to push profit margines and return on investment to obscene levels.
@@schnuersi wow, there's a lot to unpack here. 1. No, most companies aren't. Don't know if you've checked lately but prices for EVERYTHING is going up, and most of that is gouging. I will include GW in that though. 2. Uhhhh..... They've actually made it *crystal clear* that they will be releasing all the rules for existing AND future bespoke kill teams for free online. They are canning the *Compendium* teams, which has already drawn ire, including mine as a few of them were good, but they have actually specified compendium teams *specifically*. The only grey area is the Whit Dwarf teams. So you either haven't actually read the news/paid attention, or..... well... 3. Yeah I have a problem with extortionate prices too. And I'll be damned if I pay full price for anything from GW, if I have to at all (hooray for internet piracy with rulebooks). This is also why I support kill team and necromunda over everything else from GW. It's so much cheaper and anyone can find the rules online for free. In a lot of places around the world other games just don't draw in players and we're stuck with the big boys or nothing. At least this game is good, and it's damn good. I'm *really* pushing myself to be polite here, but if you want to make a point make sure you're fully loaded and concrete in your facts.
I agree that it's a bit lame that we don't get to build custom whacky teams, but it's been kinda clear for a few years now that this isn't the direction GW wants to go. Again, bit lame, but i've made my peace with it, there are other games. As far as Kill Team is concerned, I'm kinda hyped about this new edition. Despite it's shortcomings in terms of customization and such, KT2021 was a real fun game, and the Into the Dark terrain made it imo even better. I also like that for this edition - although i haven't seen them really talk about that - there seem to be fewer "special" operatives and more "regular" ones. Like, in the two new teams, each seems to have 4 operatives that are just basic dudes, and idk i kinda like that, but i've always liked having more vanilla troops in my wargames anyway so maybe it's just me.
I think boarding patrol is taking the spot kill team used to have. Little 500 point games that use models from big 40k in a smaller scale, so you can just grab what you have sitting in your collection and jam some games. I love bespoke teams, personally, and never played much compendium, but I'm still sad to see it go
The compendium teams are actually still 95% compatible with the rules, so if you're a casual player (the compendium barring one or two teams haven't been viable for at least a year) you can still slot them in _extremely_ easily. It doesn't come as a surprise to anylne who actually plays the game that compendium is being officially retired, and it opens up the opportunity for those factions to get proper bespoke teams :) (Also kill teams aren't live animals and you can still use the models lmao)
@@collegeoffoliage6776 If it were that easy to convert compendium into KT24 then GW should have done it themselves. And again, you're saying "just buy a new one, lol" like it's and actual solution. Ignoring the fact that I don't want to use GW's team of anime protagonists, you're expecting me to sit out until GW eventually decides to release a Tyranid team. Great solution, mate! I guess I'll be over here waiting then.
@@garlicxlr That's actually nonsense, it's incredibly easy to convert to kill team 2024, however many off the compendium kill teams are extremely underpowered, so GW would have to do a complete re-design if they wanted to bring them back in line. If you just want to play compendium vs. compendium with the new rules however, converting is almost effortless.
@@collegeoffoliage6776 Then you tell me, oh great wise one. How does my tyranids play in KT24? Tell my small brained, compendium loving self how to convert them.
@@garlicxlr Throw out faction rules and all gambits for all teams. Develop weapon profiles from the weapon rules that you think is fair, gauging off of your deep understanding of the faction and models. Reference the Plague Marines, Hierotek Circle, and Angels of Death to see how many wounds they should have, and how much damage they should deal. The corsair voidscarred killteam has interesting operative rules that would probably work for the multi-appendage models of Tyranids. The Blooded Killteam (traitor guardsmen) have a model called the Patriarch who is a tyranid. They have 4AP (insanely good) and can commit those AP as a seperate activations inside the Turning Point. Dude man can MOVE AND KILL. This cuts down on the ability to have counteractions available, as your opponent gets to make a counteraction or a activation in between you using your Patriarch like that, but it's a cool operative rule that really fits the flavor of the Tyranids' superior physiology and biomass diversity. In the mission pack Tyranid Hunt in the warhammer-community downloads page for killteam mission packs, they have simple "squishy" datasheets for the Terms, Horms, Tyranid Warrior, and Lector. I would assume you would have to "boost" the stats of those sheets because they're meant to provide a "horde" experience for 1-3 player models. It's a solo or Co-op mission, but this could be a hint that a Tyranid Killteam may be on its way anyway. In the context of lore, Tyranids' killteams would be more akin to the GSC operatives offered right now anyway. When the Tyranids come, they come in numbers, but that applies to almost every faction in 40k. I suppose straight up Tyranid model Killteam would probably look like a 12 model team, or a elite 6 model team. I would love to see a Tyranid Warrior elite(6 model) team, with whatever lore-accurate models would be most appropriate for ripping into an Angels of Death killteam.
Personally as a person with limited hobby time (if any) not having to worry about all the potential cheese lists and options and just being able to field the models as per its compendium list has always been a MASSIVE plus for me. Also easier to balance. Happy the compendium are going online (obsolete books good bye) and glad they are doing away with the silly symbols for measurements.
I guess its cool I can use my Tyranids, Stealth Suits, and Krootox as NPO's, but it will be harder to get new 40k players into killteam without the pitch "just bring some of your battleline troops and your all set". The simplified ruleset was a bummer for competition, but they were great for light games. On the flip side putting the killteams online for free is a great business move IMO and I'm sure you could Port 40k models over to a few of them
To be fair, you also can use your existing models as substitutes for bespoke teams John from canyourollacrit recently played his regular necron models (some with slight modifications) as a gellerpox infected bespoke team and won an official tournament. So if you are down for some hobbytime you can use your kits&bits. Also most specialists are either gunners (plasma, melta etc) and some kind of sniper, medic or comms-person - sometimes someone with a big melee weapon. If you have an 40k army, you can easily bring those models together as a count-as-team and no one will bat an eye.
Not if the faction you want to play doesn't even have a bespoke team yet which is the main problem with me. I have a death guard, grey knight and custodes team because I think they look cool. Now I won't even be able to play the new edition even if I want to with them. I have a few bespoke so it's not an issue, but my problem with move away from compendium is that it should only be done once they have all factions represented as bespoke teams and not before
@@kjs5932 use Death Guard as either Legionary or Nemesis claw (Legionary should be closer mechanically but Nemesis claw has more similar weapons) It is a harder pass, but I'd say you could use grey knights as intercession, just write down what weapon is what version of intercessor.
@@kjs5932You already should have been running the deathguard models as nurgle aligned legionary. Angels of death could proably be used to run the other two.
Definitely not a first for GW to have solo or coop play. Blackstone fortress had it and more recently, the tabletop version of Darktide had it too. For anyone paying attention, Darktide was marketed to newer players as an intro game - if you like it, why not get Kill Team next! - so I feel like it's not surprise that GW are including solo/co-op in the new edition of Kill Team. I'm sure we'll see it in the next iteration of Warcry too.
solo & coop mode might be the single reason for me to finally think about purchasing a GW product. Coming from Board games & mini painting for them, I always missed out on GW and tabletop skirmish or army battle gaming.
I find kill team to be the best introduction to the 40k scene. You'll have more people to play with and I find the different terrain and rules associated with them as fun.
I suppose you also want to increased player base of GW, right? Because these days there are plenty of skirmish solo/coop indie games :) Though they are less known that whatever GW does, of course.
Even as a PvP game Kill Team is by far the best entry into the 40k universe. Contrary to what this video claims, the goal with the newer editions are not to force 40k players to buy more, but to make it easier for new players to begin (they already got the 40k players hooked). One box of minis is a playable team and many don't need more to be completive in tournaments.
@@Mandrewlochner do you mean to hit/block/wound rolls? It's not particularly unique to KT. For example, Space Station Zero does something similar, though not exactly the same. And many games have variants of this, too.
they said you could download the new data cards so you could tray out new teams before spending the money so you would be able to use your collections of models.
I think this edition is a step in the right direction. I enjoyed Kill Team 2021 but it had some convoluted rules. I don’t mind the bespoke teams as it generally lead to more balanced games (at least in my playgroup).
As someone who has never played kill team but would love to get into it, the new solo and cooperative modes are a freaking awesome edition. I for one will be visiting my local warhammer store asap to find out more
I'm very happy with the changes previewed so far. The new edition preserves most of the good things about the core game, and the changes seems to mostly to improve on that. On the list building issue: There are already plenty skirmish games that support flexible list building. I'm happy Kill Team instead tries to fill the 'niche' of a more tightly balanced/designed, competitive, less chaotic, and very strategic and tactical skirmish game. I think of it as chess with dice - and complexity.
As a hobbist mostly i really love the new kill team, i liked the old one, and there was some charm in being able to build lists, but the new teams have so much more character:) and at least for me the game plays much smoother, really excited for the small tweaks and fixes to the new version😁 solo play is going to be really great, one of the few good things about covid, people realised solo play is nice to add to your game:)
@@auradmg totally agree:) its so good for playing as well, im a alittle nuts so i have most teams painted, and i tried hosting a tournament for some friends using my models, but it was a nightmare in 2018, but with 2021 it was amazing. Just gave each person a team and we played:) Feel like uncle atom has gotten so upset over kill team not being what he liked in 2018 that everything now is negative, and from a person thats normally always so positive:) the killteam scene is booming as well😁👍
Honestly list building to me isn't a meaningful expression to me i get that it is to a lot of folks but to me it lead to only selecting from a small subset of things because they are the only things efficient enough to bother spending points on anything else becomes wasting points effectively. The way the kill team operative selection is way more interesting to me because i get to select things after i know my opponent's faction and get to adapt to them on the fly in a way ie. swap a melta for a GL if my opponent is playing a horde team. Or bring the guy that shuts down forward deploys againt teams that can do that. To me those minute to minute decisions are what keeps me coming back time and time again to kill team. List building works great for other games but it also is more aprochable to the average person when they can buy one to two boxes and thays all the investment they need to make as opposed to getting 3-4 boxes so they can list build
@fatal-flaw10 I didn’t delete anything - but UA-cam might’ve auto-moderated something depending on what you said. Did you have something about confirming the Legionaries? Maybe if it was a link, UA-cam might’ve auto-modded it. It does that with links sometimes.
Those shapes for movement made the game unplayable, I gave up even trying after just reading the rules. I couldn’t visualize ranges while looking at the units. They couldn’t even be bothered to add logic to the shapes like square is 4 or hexagon is 6.
Ruler system is stupid f%*king thing ever they should go tile based and be done with it. 40k rules as is absolutely make the game unplayable. Wish they would do more PC games or even a 40k digital card in boxes so you can streamline it online
I understand the points raised and I'll be honest I let the last edtiion of Kill Team pass me by. I have since warmed to the idea of bespoke teams, much like Bloodbowl, you buy a box and you have everything you need. I'd imagine if your model collection is big enough you can replicate a bespoke team with your own models. I think the straw that broke the camels back to get to try the new edition is the new starter set and hopefully its priced to make it a painless entry point.
Guy who disliked current edition doesn't like the next one so far. Color me shocked lol. I like that they're trimming the fat a bit, and looking forward to the co-op play. All the bespoke teams are being updated from what I read though. I think you're mistaken about it not being all. Only the compendium, which was always a bandaid solution and GW were not subtle about it, so I'm not surprised. - Edit: I may be wrong here, there may be some bespoke teams being affected too. We'll just have to wait an see. - End edit. As for list building, KT2018 was just full of plasmas an almost nothing else. People were not all that unique with list building either. And yes, numbers better then weird shapes. I may not agree with ya on KT, but I respect ya.
@@colinmack8655 the little ** it has on that statement takes you to the bottom bit about compendiums not being supported. I assumed that's what it was referring to. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
Indeed. A "turn" and a "turning point" are not the same. A "round" and a "turning point" are pretty much the same. (Do we know if Uncle Atom objects to big 40k's use of "battle round" instead of "turn".)
It will be pretty similar to Octsriud. Dense ruins custom made for the game. Two teams. Everything needed to play the game as intended. Probably a bit better as it doesn't seem like one of the teams need another box like Veteran Guard.
Easy to agree about numbers over shapes and that they're looking into the cover/los aspect. Love solo and co-op modes as well. In terms of list building, they probably have some data that competitive play drives a lot of engagement with the game. While limiting the game to bespoke teams means they get to sell you specific teams, it seems way too limiting to do if they know they're likely going to cut off a large chunk of their player base. Would be cool to see a set of rules for list building for non-competitive kill team along side the bespoke teams that are green lit and balanced for comp.
As much as I’ll miss my White Dwarf Harlequin team, there are aspects of this that I am a fan of. Having coop and solo play options are things I’m very excited about. Also having static lists feels like an easier entry point for me to introduce people to the game. I speak only for myself and the reasons to not like the changes are valid and make sense. Also I have 3 boxes kill teams so I am pretty comfortable from that standpoint
I'm no GW stan, and I'm rarely jonesing to get the latest new thing, but I'm actually interested in the new changes! Especially solo play. List building was never big for me.
I agree with most of your criticisms but I'm still a big fan of the new kill team. I've been playing since the 2018 edition and the 2021 edition was a big improvement for me. On the topic of list building: this game has list building! For most teams, you build a list every time you play. Those decisions could be more interesting and how many you have to make varies greatly from team to team, but list building is there. One thing I think they could do to impress theorycrafty/listbuildy type players is to make that part more fleshed out and nuanced. Give us a good reason to select basic warriors instead of bespoke specialists, for example, maybe with more selections for load out (this would reduce the number of specialists on the table and speed the game up, too). But having a full roster in just two boxes is fantastic compared to the previous edition.
That's hilarious! I looked up every game that flew by and it wasn't until the end I realized they were YOUR GAMES!! I had no idea. Didn't know your name and I've been following your channel for a while now.... Oh boy....
It's been rumored GW is trying to keep sales of each game/line separate from the others to help accounting... I guess. That's one of the (again rumored) reasons Beasts of Chaos were removed from Age of Sigmar as they'll be fully supported in The Old World. Could this move to only supporting bespoke Kill Teams be due to this to?
This edition has ALMOST gotten me onboard. I also miss any list building and customization being part of the game, especially after having made multiple rosters for the 2018 KT game, nice and flavorful ones too. I like the look of the $100 starter set , with the MDF terrain and the 2 teams being available now and not by buying those blind buy single models. I also like the introductory aspect of it and how it looks aimed at teaching a slightly simplified set of rules to brand new players. I do wish it had a mini or soft cover Core Rules book, even if it made the set like $20 more. Having the full rule book in the box definitely would've been the kicker to get me to have already bought it, vs just considering that purchase. For now, I'll keep working on my queue of unfinished models and playing OPR. Too many hobbies and inflation makes it just not feasible to chase the revolving door of GW books and editions anymore. Also, living in a place now that doesn't really have a wargaming scene nearby is a biggie for me, it's about 2hrs one way to a place with much of a scene to find opponents. Thanks for the channel, I hope 2025 is going well so far.
Thats not the main reason 40k splits datasheets. They're split to give the different loadouts different abilities. If the purpose was to balance equipment way more datasheets would be split.
@@TemporalElpis Abilities could easily have been tied to the weapons in the current system, we see it in GSC. If you really want to argue what the reason behind splitting data sheets, it was probably to boost the number of data sheets and hide how many units are being cut. Technically T'au only lost like two units if you compare Index to Codex, but comparison ignores things like the Crisis Suits becoming 3 sheets. Crisis Suits were also one of the best examples of why 'free wargear' doesn't work.
Kill Team has become a way for GW to release new infantry units for 40k while getting to double-dip by also getting people to buy boxes for JUST Kill Team. For example, Kommandos with Snikrot is a core Ork list item, and also Exaction and Inquisitorial Agents get to fill out the Agents of the Imperium options.
I'm actually looking forward to the new edition. I still consider myself new to warhammer and I tried the last edition. It was too confusion with cover and the symbols, but I still thought it had potential. I think they're addressing those core issue, and as Adam said making it accessable. Regardng the model box sets, I don't mind too much because I can intergrate those models into my larger armies for 40k - and they always seem to have unique figures so they look cooler when intergrate into my larger armies. I'm willing to give the game a second shot this time around. I hope they actually fixed things instead and not in the reverse direction. Thanks for the video Adam!
So excited for some streamlined rules, when I first became interested in Killteam the volume of rules and lack of structure was a huge turrnoff for me. Seeing these new rules and hearing your concerns though it does have me thinking about my 40k armies that dont have support now-- I love my Orks but will there ever be support for my weirder ones?
The compendium teams were a crutch GW used to add additional options when KT2 launched when they didn’t have additional bespoke teams. They weren’t good, and didn’t see much competitive play. I am sad we are both loosing Hive Fleet as well as Talons of the Emperor, but tbh it was for the best, let the old make way for the new. I’m sure they will be releasing rules in white dwarf or for bespoke rules of those factions sometime in the future. With them announcing all current and future team rules being free online now, I’m confident you can use something in place of another team. (heck, I have a friend who kitbashed some Tau into Nurgle infected Tau and ran them as a gellerpox team, do whatever you think is cool!) I’m actually really excited for this new edition! GW so far hasn’t dropped the ball yet, crossing my fingers! (Not saying you can’t be sad about losing compendium, or rules changes that are happening, everyone’s feelings are valid! Just that I’m actually looking forward to what’s to come!)
I'm disappointed that they are removing the compendium. Including basic troop boxes, which are easily available, was a good way to get 40K players into Kill Team. Since the rules seem to be similar, we may be able to translate Compendium to the new edition. Or I can play Kill Team 2018. Or I can use the 7th edition Kill Team rules with 10th edition 40K. Oh the heresy.
The thing is, KT doesn't need to go out of its way to encourage 40k players to start now. That was the case when KT was new and they knew the only way to get enough players was to say "hey here's a smaller scale alternative to 40k and you can use your existing models!" I suspect it will be possible to convert Compendium teams to the current ruleset, but it doesn't change that Compendium teams are over-complicated, which goes against the design philosophy of KT today. The majority are just not fun to play with or against because of the amount of team-exclusive rules and micro-managed customisation that your opponent needs to keep track of.
Compendium teams were way less accessible than bespoke teams unless you happen to already own the stuff. Most of them required 2 boxes minimum, and up to 4 boxes if you wanted all the options.
I got into kill team because of your enthusiasm for 1st edition. I dutifully got the terrain for the T’au/Space Wolf version, then the new edition came and I was sad I couldn’t play my necrons as I wanted to. I’m glad they’ve got rid of distance symbols, as that really put me off playing. I built myself a version of the Necron kill team, converting the apprentek as I didn’t want to pay for even more immortals, with an upgrade sprue, so stuck with minis I already owned
Yeah, big disappointment on the lack of updates for compendium teams. Definitely some of those things are not great. I still think the core system is great, and there's nothing stopping us from doing a little homebrew and/or proxying to make the rules and teams to our favor. Still, good update video, thank you.
The compendium was always a bandaid solution, they were never going to be permanent. Also, the rules look to be barely changing, so could prob just still play em anyway.
Its really a pity that i cannot use compendium teams in the next Edition. I have so many, and my friends also play a lot compendium. To be honest, first i was hyped (New scions and vespids Look cool, terrain is fantastisch) but now im really disappointed.
I don't have any issue with them abandoning compendium teams - they haven't given them any updates in years now, they were never going to make it. The only issue I have is that some of the teams on there don't have a bespoke version that can be used (for instance Tyranids)
@@BlommaBaumbart Yeah I'd be expecting one to come out eventually, but my point is it sucks for compendium team players (such as Tyranid players) until then as the compendium team won't be playable
I like the more streamlined rules, and I get how it can be easier to balance teams when they are more or less fixed. This in turn should allow them to more clearly define the play styles for each team. However I do miss the variety and flexibility offered by KT2018 - I wish there was a game mode to allow for this (minus plasma spam). Having said that, the bespoke nature of the teams does allow them to make some really interesting and unique models.
Most of the changes seem to tighten up the game. Sure, it's a shame about compendium teams but the gap between "compendium" and "bespoke" teams was crippling. My first game was GK compendium versus Hunter Clade and it was a complete wash. In this case I'll say out with the old. I have enjoyed the complexity of bespoke teams more than list building with many choices of which only a few are correct.
Its funny you say that because I feel like I could still play kt21 for another 3 years not because the new edition is crap but because the game isn't "solved" yet.
@@kjs5932This is the weirdest part of the game. So many factions got two or more bespoke teams and some got none. Gallowdark not getting a Tyranid team is peak weird.
Some good ideas (solo and co-op!) mixed in with some not-so-great ones. This is the sort of thing that got me to move to the OPR side and not look back. I kind of would like to have the terrain from this one though. And the "upgrade" minis - folding ladders and smokes? Yes please.
Every company wants you to buy more of their shit. Yes it's greedy, but it's also not like the people who throw money at GW weren't going to spend a fuckton more. A current kill team is cheaper than before to start from scratch, the gameplay is far better and far more mentally stimulating, and a lot of list building choice is an illusion so it's not like that much has been lost.
I agree about the loss of compendium teams, a friend of mine specifically bought a box of plague marines to play the compendium team specifically for a more streamlined experience. The only thing is, I think its a bit late. Most compendium teams have been abandoned and barely playable for a good while now.
I can see why they got rid of list building: It's hard to balance, especially in something as swingy as a skirmish game. I also perfectly understand being upset over it. Using the toys you already have and slightly tweaking it as needed is a cool thing. I like how Spearhead has handled it, where they're using selected units from the box sets they've released in the past, which also happen to be many of the units that people will will just happen to already have if they have that army. You loose the creativity, but you gain people already having collected the models for their armies. In just my sporadic collecting of "what do I find cool?" or "what do I need for D&D this month?" I've collected within 4-12 models of like 4 spearheads.
It's not that hard to balance though. I've been playing several skirmish games that have deep list building and customization and have been very balanced. If you've not tried Trench Crusade you're missing out. GW just doesn't bother playtesting and doesn't care to do so. If they release something that's an unbalanced mess meta chasers flock to get it, if they release something balanced and cool they get a nice chunk of change, and if they release something bad and that nobody wants they just make it OP for a little (see the space marine desolation squad). They have little incentive to get it right and don't care to fix it.
As an avid Kill Team player, I can't be more excited. Every modifications announced prove that their listening their regular player base. I'm sorry for 40k players who want to use their minis though. But Kill Teams is better by being its own thing.
Tbh the 2018 rules are the only ones that should exsist for list building the money grab forced to buy a set approach is enough to make me vomit and rub it in my hair
GW: We are going to use Kill Team (alongside Combat Patrol) as an on ramp for larger 40K games to get players on board simply and move them up to full armies. Me: So, the Kill Team rules will be similar to the 40K rules? GW: No Me: So you can custom build your team to represent different 40K units? GW: Ummm... No. Me: So you can use 40K minis in KT and KT minis in 40K. GW: ...... Hmmmm. No.
@@HB2K-h8m I'm not sure how it is in 40k, but in AoS warcry bands are quite good and in some armies they're a staple, hoping we get something similar in 40k
Nearly all KT can be used in 40k, so yeah? Custom built KTs were too imbalanced and having similar rules to 40k resulted in worse gameplay. Moving on to specialized ruleset and new model each season was right decision
Why can't we just treat it as a fun skirmish game and not some gateway to bighammer 😔 I think boarding actions and combat patrol is the real gateway to bighammer
Just started learning KT. The shapes actually make a lot of sense in context of moving over terrain, and despite my initial moaning, I don't dislike the system. My hope is that reverting back to inches will make it more intuitive, but breaking distances down into specific increments was not a bad idea in my opinion. Other games like Star Wars Legion used measuring widgets that were unique to the system, and not many people (that I know at least) complained about it. Equipment points don't bother me at all, but maybe only 4 pieces will really matter in any game, so perhaps it's not a loss. Solo/Co-op I LOVE though. I am looking forward to giving that a shot. Only thing that really has me worried is if they change team composition enough to render my current builds useless. I'd hate to feel the "need" to buy a new kit again. On the bright side, if I really dislike the new edition, I'm sure I will be able to find some of the current books for cheap. I've been studying the "Lite" rules and Wahapedia.
I love KT, this new edition is trimming the fat of stuff I didn’t like. I’m not gonna miss DEF dice. Now hopefully they made the melee combat better too.
Man… you just seem super frustrated. Deep breaths. Look - I only stumbled onto this hobby three weeks ago. I got the last box set on Amazon. Surprise! We’re retiring all that stuff. But somehow you’re more upset than I am. Two years of full support for each new squad? That’s fair. That’s the cost of a nice dinner. I’m personally a little miffed that they were still selling the old stuff at retail, but you’ve been around for three years and you knew that this was coming. Stiff upper lip, brother
I loved the original Kill Team that launched in 2018. It was my favorite game, I made a lot of videos about it - I even started doing battle reports (which are a pain to produce, frequently) just before the pandemic hit and made that impossible for a while. The 2021 version of Kill Team was not to my liking - it was a drastically different ruleset and invalidated most of the six full teams I had built and painted previously. I fully stopped playing. I’m frustrated because I’ve been doing this a long time and I know what’s possible - I know what companies as big as GW *could* do - especially to make a game more consumer-friendly. Instead, with this new edition, they’ve decided to go the other direction. This is my frustration. However, don’t worry - I won’t be making any more videos about Kill Team going forward, so you won’t have to worry about me. I’ll be playing (and producing) other games that I enjoy much more. Thanks for watching!
KT2018 was the best, tired of them trying to reinvent the wheel. New edition severely limits your options especially coming from 40k. I like the "named" kill teams, super cool models and themes but I think those should be built to fit the rules, and it feels like they're building the rules around those teams instead. Feels like the opposite of the direction they should be going if they wanted to sell more 40k models. Seems like they want to sell you models that can only be used for 40k and models that can only be used for kill team, kind of like necromunda. The thing is I just wont end up playing it if that's the case.
I have a lazy Custodes compendium kill team since you just need to roll out 4 minis, it was perfect for teaching the basics of the game and they had a decent enough chance of winning. Now I've got 4 custodes that don't fit into any of my collections.
@@imthelizardking I get what he's saying tho. I started my SoB KT at the beginning of the year, I'm just about done with the paint, and this new edition will render them completely obsolete. I got 15 models total, a SoB squad of 10 and 4 repentias plus the repentia superior. It sucks that I wont be able to play them as soon as KT24 comes out. I got the Kommandos to get more options for KT21, but I guess thats all I'll be playing on the new edition. I know we can always play KT21, regardless, but I was looking forward to seeing how compendium KTs would be a part of the new edition and now they most likely wont be. It just sucks.
I might be late to reply but I still want to express my disappointment when I discovered, returning from a long slumber that lasted all second edition, that my farsight enclave hunter cadre I was planning to finish painting got erased from the game. I don't play big 40k so I guess those models will never see the light of day. Another element I miss are the selectable keywords, like septs. I really love the solo-coop idea.
Honestly not sure how I feel about the loss of the compendium. On one hand, it's a real shame, but on the other, did anyone ever really use it at all? I thought the general consensus was that the bespoke teams were so much better that people just used that instead. So I kinda get why they don't wanna update the compendium rules, after all, why spend development time on something that very few people use anyway.
I know people were nervous about the potential changes to the previous KT, which was near perfect to many (barring cover rules, etc). But everything I hear of KT 2024 seems right up my alley. I'm all for simplifying and streamlining, and the inclusion of solo/coop rules is exciting! It seems this is one of the "good" GW games, much like Warcry and Underworlds.
Really enjoyed KT 2018. Didn't really play KT 2021 due it moving to the format where the Kill Teams are "pre-made" and had to be bought as separate boxes. Moreover some of weapons were so unique they couldn't be used in other games. Started looking into building some simple Kill Teams recently in line with the KT 2021 Compendium. Now I hear that those lists will be voided again, and I really can only use the pre-built boxes, I will probably give this whole addition a pass as well. Too bad, I really liked the co-op idea. Anyway, will probably start making lists based on One Page Rules Firefight. Maybe if I ever want to play co-op I'll use Space Station Zero's AI rules. :-)
The 2021 version is simply a much better game. Specialized kits allow for much better balance, new special weapons and cool rules and still allow for huge customization. For example look at Legionaries or Votann teams. Compendium teams sucked compared to the dedicated ones and were never worth playing if you like deep tactical gameplay.
@@psz5515 I can't agree with you. KT21 is missing everything that made kt18 special. You have fixed team size, almost fixed loadout, you need to buy special boxes to play and the rules are bloated. And it's supper hard to make custom narative missions unlike in kt18 or in GFF from OPR. One thing that i agree with is that it's more balanced than kt18. But it could be fixed if the company wanted make a good game. And also... GFF is better balanced than kt21 and it doesn't have the same problems.
Seriously? Calling you out on this one. Some of the things said in this video seem a tad hypocritical. Back in 2021 you made a entire video about how much you disliked the compendium, and NOW you are 'disappointed' it's going away? For someone who styles himself as being a mentor/ambassador for new players, you seem to miss the point - the compendium going away is bad because it's basic teams were simple and straight forward PERFECT for NEW players. That's the reason I don't like the fact it's going away. BUT we don't really know anything yet - there might be a new compendium, for example. Or the new solo/co-operative mode might make up for it. This video at worst comes across as another 'GW hate' video (and God knows there are thousands of those), and at best, it comes across 'I can't do it the way I want, so it's bad. Nothing will ever be as good as my beloved 2018 edition.' Either way, it's not objective or a good look for a mentor figure where most people are introduced to the hobby via GW. How about this, look at it from a new player's perspective and judge the game on its own merits and failures, then decide whether its a good product and go from there? And for those players with models/armies they want to play but are not represented in the game, pick the rules for a bespoke team that matches your gameplay style and use the models you want with it - users on reddit do this all time, with pictures of their 'bespoke' teams - r/ Kill Team.
@@Leithaine I agree - but people paid for the teams compatible with the current version of Kill Team (2021); they are still playable and will always be playable in this edition of Kill Team (2021). If GW suddenly revokes the team from the current roster without warning - TOTALLY AGREE THAT'S WRONG. Should the new edition be backwards compatible? In an ideal world YES ABSOLUTELY. Are GW obliged to do this? No. GW is a business, selling product - welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism. That said, they have said that nearly all off the 2021 bespoke teams will be compatible with KT 2024 (and IMHO, it's probably the 'Ashes of Faith' teams that aren't, and even then I could see it just being the chaos cultists). Again, tho. there is no reason why you can't pick the rules for a bespoke team that matches your gameplay style and use any models you want with it, as long as your opponent agrees. Okay, you couldn't use that team in an official tournament, but when 90% of the player base is just friends or family around the kitchen table, or at the FLGS, it shouldn't really matter too much. If you are a tournament player, then yes it does matter and you would need a completely tournament legal team.
@@Leithaine Addendum to my previous answer - This from the latest GW article regarding solo/co-op (which you can play how you like really, with whatever homebrew rules you want): "The NPOs themselves are chosen through a flexible process. Missions have a tally of Wounds and NPOs are chosen from a list of universal datacards until they meet that amount. These datacards are completely model-agnostic and represent a variety of different unit types, so you can use whatever miniatures you have in your collection." so any miniatures can be used to make the NPO Kill Team, no waste. I'm all for the pitchfolks when GW deserves it - prices, availability, Cursed City, etc. But not this time - wait for the game, don't buy into the hype - positive or negative, make up your own mind and don't be swayed by anyone on UA-cam.
I am very positive about the changes, what I have learnt since actually playing miniature war games is that while list building can be fun when you're alone and can't play a game, the main enjoyment I get from the hobby is rolling dice and laughing with my opponent at the silly and ridiculous things that happen. So the fact it's going co op is just fantastic. I share your frustration with the ploys, but I LOVE tactical ploys, it is essentially heroic actions from MESBG, which I love. So I hope they ditch strat ploys. Also, I play the murder clowns (Void Dancers) and I can't stand the bean counting you need to do to fully utilise their main army ability so I would be happy to say good bye to all those mechanisms, just make it a baked in ability or forget it
It sounds like you didn’t like the second edition which is a shame because imo it is GWs best game. Los rules are hard at first but clear if you play a lot. In fact the complex line of sight rules are one of the best points of the game. But what I also like about it is how well balanced it is and how well it plays when trying to play competitively which most gw games function better narratively. And for balance sake the compendium teams have to go.
In my opinion, Warcry is their best game - and it has amazing list building Compendium options AND the ability to use bespoke lists, too. Thanks for watching!
@@procrastibate yeah, he's really salty about not being able to use old minis, it's so childish. Also really doesn't seem to like any kind of intellectually stimulating rules. The raving about warcry as above is honestly really sad. It's not a bad game and has lots of potential, but it needs a lot of work and love. Hence why it isn't doing anywhere near as well as kt21.
@@tabletopminions Part of the reason I have trouble getting into Warcry as a new player, though, is the thought that my bespoke one-box warband is already at a disadvantage against people with existing collections or who are buying into larger AoS and can beat me at the list-building stage. I got my butt kicked at the two Kill Team events I've been to, but at least it wasn't because my opponents spent more on their models.
Kill Team was actually my introduction to Warhammer and skirmish games, period. The rules felt both simple to learn, but had a lot of these... complex nuances for anyone who actually wanted to really go balls deep. My first team is an Ecclesiarchy team... And they suck in just about every board that isn't Gallowdark lol. The compendium teams outside Deathguard and to an extent Emperor's Talons are pretty much ass, but it would have been cool to see some kind of update for them. While them getting rotated out does nothing to change the competitive landscape, I would have at least like ld an update that would have made compendium teams an actual viable option if you wanted to get serious with the game... I also wouldnt be surprised if even veteran guardsmen and ork kommandoes and a few of the early bespoke teams get rotated out with every passing competitive season the way sets in MtG rotate out of standard.
Every time I look into Killteam, I keep going back to Deadzone. There are so many options for sci-fi skirmish now, my next will be Five Parsecs. Killteam doesn't seem to give you much opportunity to make a bespoke warband with their own story. When the next edition is out in the wild, I'll check it out, but.ifnit isn't staggeringly different than it's current form, it will be another pass for me.
I'm happy to see the focus on it being its own game, rather than a bonus game you can play with minis you might already have from another game. Will hopefully allow for a tighter more balanced design. List building is just another barrier to getting started playing for us.
Something I'm surprised you overlooked is that with free new datacards it is very easy to proxy whatever minis you have as whatever killteam you want. For example I'm currently painting up some plague marines but now compendium death guard is going away. I'm fine with this since i can run them with the chaos legionary rules instead(which look like better rules anyway haha). It's easy to take it even further for just starting out and use whatever 6 to 13 minis you have even if they look nothing like the kill team you want to play just to try out a ruleset before you buy a bespoke box. Also cost wise for anyone that isn't trying to go to world's, 3rd party 3d printed kill teams are everywhere on etsy for roughly $30 USD with a ton of incredible sculpts and different aesthetics. So yes fully custom list building from 1st is long gone which I think was important for balancing the game but with free rules just pick a rule set you like and scratch build crazy models for it if you want. Since you mentioned having a vet guard team try running them with the new Scion rules when they come out! RIP compendium but I believe it's for the good of balancing the game and am optimistic about 3rd edition.
The coop/solo options are intriguing. Truth be told though, I will wait until we know more and then hold off until the rulebook is available separately and buy that. The $200+ boxed sets are rather ludicrous IMO.
My first guess after watching the live stream about Hivestorm is that the box will sell for $285 USD. It’ll be interesting to see. Thanks for watching!
I prefer the new Kill Team system where you can buy one box and already have access to different operatives. I honestly think hunting down multiple models from different kits and raiding bits bins for parts is a hassle. I think being able to buy one box and downloading the rules online is great and accessible.
Yeah, I feel like a crazy person when people complain about Kill Team '21 focusing on one-box teams with no list-building. That's exactly why I play it. I got out of 40k years ago when I realized it would be cheaper to throw my entire collection in the trash and buy into a different game than to finish my halfway complete army. Kill Team got me back specifically because I don't need to constantly add more models or already have a huge existing collection to have a good time.
I still play KT18 with my friends. If you still have the books or pdfs, then there’s nothing stopping you from doing so. We even played Shadow War Armageddon yesterday, that was a fun experience. I’m looking forward to this new edition of KT, mainly because of the coop mode, I’m wondering if it’s finally going to be something like tabletop version of Dawn of War 2 Last Stand mode. I guess they might have been reworking the rules of the tabletop Darktide for that.
@@procrastibate to be honest I dont know if 18 is better than 21 or not, because I haven’t played a single game of 21, so I don’t say that it is. I’ve heard great opinions of that game and that’s super. We just play 18 because we’ve never wanted to get into 21 and we like to have fun with different units that we have.
Solo mode is a win for all of us with no friends.
We're not lonely. We just play life on solo mode.
@@stankshop I would bet the majority of people who play warhammer thier only human interaction is at the gameshop where they play. The community is full of losers and weirdos.
The friendless unite!!!!
Solo mode is godsend I have no friends!!! 🎉
Don't have friends to play KT? Find a place where KT is played, make friends.
Solo and COOP is incredibly important in the current state of boardgames. GW has probably started paying attention to what happens elsewhere in the nerdosphere. I bet you they are trying to rope in some boardgamers with this
Its funny he thinks he invented solo play but GW had it in Blackstone fortress
@@procrastibate He was clearly making a joke...
@@Chozo_hybrid he was clearly trying to suggest that his games were inspirational in GW adding solo mode to new KT. I'd say he's wrong
Holy crow, found the GW Shrimp. 🙄
Indies have been pushing Solo and Coop for years. Blackstones version of it was pretty janky. Add to that the fact that their "rules" have been built to push new models, and even push old ones into "Legends."
Utter GW garbage man. I hated Kill Team MK1's Flesh Wound rules but MK2 and if this is MK3, not impressed.
@@procrastibate The Assassins game too.
Definitely happy with the solo play option. Also inches instead of shapes is good.
Inches over the stupid shapes is more than enough to sell 3rd edition to me lol
Now if they only could move from inches to centimeters, like the rest of the civilized world :P
@@theandfIn day to day life yes. In wargaming inches rule. :)
@@jirga_jirga They used cm for Battlefleet Gothic.
@@theandf If you wanted centimeters in wargaming you shouldn't have lost the IRL war! 😜
By the sound of it I believe GW is going in exactly the right direction with this new edition of Kill Team, based primarily on the fact that they are treating it as it's own game. I understand what you want is 40k skirmish like what the "original" KT was but I feel that leads to exactly the sort of half baked system we have with Combat Patrol. 40k is made to be 40k and making a smaller version of that just takes away a lot of the fun of the system. With the current and future version of KT they are making a dedicated skirmish game wholly independent from the 40k game, and the gameplay is better for it.
There's some of what you said I can certainly agree with, cover rules or more specifically obscuring rules were a bit clunky and could use some tuning but the engage/conceal component of the game is critical to the enjoyment of the experience and I'm glad to see based on the tokens at least it appears to be returning. Ultimately I think a lot of fans out there need to separate KT from 40k and enjoy it for what it really is Kill Team not 40k Skirmish.
I think you’re right. One of the reasons i liked 2018KT was because it was skirmish 40K but I think that’s why it was a mess
Building your own team was really the ONLY good thing about KT 2018... I played guard and lost almost EVERY one of the 30-something matches I played because the rules were 40k but for single models and had nothing to do with making any non-space marine teams viable.
KT21 was great for balance with teams and fun missions but lost all the customization and appeal but damn it played fun and tense and suddenly my poor guardsmen had some thrilling and successful missions.
I dunno. The only real way to have BOTH systems is to do what One Page Rules does and itemize all the gear and abilities etc... and GW does not want to do that for obvious reasons.
Except that the whole point behind Kill Team was to make these cool narrative groups and not just a normal squad from 40k. That is what separated Kill Team from 40k. Doing what they keep doing just makes this a combat patrol.
You have a cookie for saying that sooooo well, the game has it's own identity and payer base now, they keep all the good stuff and throw away the points that were the most critiscized by players and non-players (the ones who didn't catch up with more than 1 or 2 tests)
@@charlesforward9036 Weirdly I've had the opposite result. My guard and CSM kill teams in 2018 felt great, but for KT 21 if you're using a T3 army vs marines the game is decided on the marine players loadout. You're SOL either way. If they rock up with nothing but bolters they're going to just melt your team in one turn of fire and then you're done. Sure KT18 probably could have used a cap for how many plasma guns you're allowed per team, but other than that it felt great. For a newbie it helped keep the game simple. KT21 somehow avoids teaching you 40k's rules, while also being a bloated poorly written mess that takes far too long to play because of their own mess of baggage they added instead of keeping it to a tight streamlined system.
Remember folks, you can do whatever you want especially if you're casual, you can STILL use your custom Kill Team, no one is going to kick your door down and flashbang your gaming room just because you mix and match your a custom rule set.. You can even make custom cards etc.. If you love Kill Team, make it your own.. They can't stop you.
This is right on. If you still have all the stuff and people to play with then it aint obsolete. All of this is made-up. You can make things up as well or better. Have fun with it. After all, its yours and its inly a game. You want an Outrider Killteam? Make up Outrider Killteam rules. Will it win a tournament? Do you even care?
KT21 is the reason I hobby at all these days. My concern was that all the KT21 teams would become invalid in KT24, but now knowing that “almost every” (whatever that actually means) of the KT21 teams will get updated rules for KT24 is what will keep me hobbying and playing. I understand that the list building aspect of a game is a deal breaker for Uncle Adam, but personally KT21 is a really fun game, and the fun is more important to me than mathhammering. Also the ability to just try so many different KTs since they are mostly one box pick ups, so if you don’t like how one plays, try a different one. Lastly, I think the compendium made sense for KT21, as there were only 2 official KTs upon release, so it gave a way to easily make other KTs. But now that 24ish boxed KTs for KT21, you don’t really need a compendium, as there could be a lot of easy 1 box pick up teams right from the start.
Yeah, I used to think list building is fun until I've played KT21 :D. With little hobby time nowadays I really appreciate that I need only one or two boxes to be able to play most of the teams. That puts a clear limit on both financial engagement for a particular team and time engagement because I know precisely how much models I need to paint to be able to field the team in any allowed combination. On top of that KT21 is just a really good game. It's tight, it's fun, it's very tactical and well balanced. I'm really happy KT24 is shaping to be just a slight upgrade to the existing version.
100%
I played the previous edition and is was reduces to plasma spam, the bespoke teams added specialists and the ability to have a KT without having to buy multiple sets to have all the available models
Which ones are gone has been clarified. Compendium is gone. All bespoke teams stays, maybe with the exception of Intercessors and Justian which are edge cases not covered by the wording in the article.
@@jonasbarkaI thought they may get rid of the Striking Scorpion team since I have no problem admiring that they really don’t follow the kill team specialist design
As a club and tournament organizer spanning the current edition, I am extremely relieved that the ruleset is not undergoing a drastic change. I’ll agree that the loss of the Compendium is a disappointment, as it was great for teaching games, but in our experience, when a new player latched onto the gameplay, they got excited by the concept of bespoke teams and would often have one bought and built by our next weekly meet up. As for the use of non-KT 40k models, it looks like they’ll be excellent “NPOs” for the solo and co-op missions, as shown on WarCom this morning.
GW has had some fantastically balanced and playable rules but dumped them in favor of selling books. I am so sick of it and no longer buy into it. Hell, I don't even buy into their pricing model anymore, as it is absolutely ridiculous. I can buy a Tamiya infantry squad for 6 to 10 USD and tanks for ~30 USD, so why the hell are we paying 45 USD for a squad and 150+ USD for vehicles? It is utterly moronic and I refuse to pay it.
I love Classic Battletech as the rules have not really changed since the 1980s.
How do you think us Aussies feel about GW pricing.
I'll honestly never buy one of thier rules books. GW just keeps trying to price gouge me but I guess they dont understand that I dont give a fuck what they say about rules and I dont give a shit about thier updates/books.
Let's not forget about how ridiculously they price they single minis these days.
They literally just made all Kill Team rules free in their new app.
I’m going to reiterate my critique of KT 2018 - it was a game that favoured players with extensive bits boxes. Players that could kit out a whole team with plasma guns were at a substantial advantage compared to new players who were just building models from one or two boxes.
Modern Kill Team is clearly designed as a gateway game - you buy one box, you build a team, and you’re ready to play against any other team in the game.
As a hobby challenge, perhaps it’s less fulfilling, but ad a gateway into the hobby, it seems vastly improved.
Agreed, KT2018 wasn't bad for some "your guys" flavor BUT good grief so much came down to min/max mathing your way with very specific types of gear loadouts for your guys, many of which couldn't be acquired in a normal way. Hell forget sticking every Guardsman with the spammy plasma sprues, you literally only had 1 truly legal non kitbashed option for Chaos Cultist Champion unit(the dude with the shotgun and sword) and it only existed(at least when KT2018 was new) via a long out of print CSM vs SM box set, a rarer mini in general.
I understand people feeling like list building element is a good practice for other stuff, but sometimes people don't wanna be so bothered with mini 40k for something that's supposed to go a bit quicker.
Yeah the new one is definitely a better "gateway drug" but it really doesn't help players take the leap into 40k proper anymore. And it lacks the depth you'd need to integrate it as cleanly with a narrative, while having it's own massive pile of bloat and baggage that it really didn't need. They seem to want to make a nice tight intro game but can't actually bring themselves to stick to a nice tight game. And it's still a gearcheck for half of your fights.
@@Randicore As someone who loves killteam, everything about 40k, the IGOUGO game, turns me off. I would never buy a 40k army to play 40k, but I have 7 killteams, 2 box sets, and a passion for the hobby now. I started just a month before Hivestorm released by getting a box of Phobos Strike Team. I had no idea how the game system would be, because I never looked into KT2018. I knew a new edition was coming out, so I wanted to wait to see anything about the game until I opened the Hivestorm box. I've been hooked ever since, and not once have I wanted to get into Bighammer. I liked the hobby so much that I found a secondhand unbuilt 2000pts of AoS Seraphon and built it in a week. Delicious lissurds waiting for the right paintspiration. After witnessing a tournament of 40k and a tournament of AoS, I realized I would never actually have an interest in playing any form of bighammer.
Killteam would never be a "gateway" drug to 40k anyway, but I bought Hivestorm, Nurgle v angels, striking scorpions, phobos strike team, and Wyrmblade Genestealers boxes brand new. I've built them all and painting them in my own pace.
Historical Henry will never spend as much as Casual Kristoff.
I think Killteam 3rd is awesome being its own outlet/support to the hobby.
I've heard a lot of this "gateway drug" thing for Killteam and I just don't think the market data supports the paradigm anymore, even if it did with obvious gusto in the past.
I'm just happy they're changing to inches instead of the stupid shapes thing they kept forcing.
Killteam 2027 will probably switch to centimeters.
Killteam 2058 will probably switch to Tarot cards.
@@volcano3493 or actual bolters
Kill Team 2079 will have actual, living, tiny soldiers made out of actual flesh/bone/metal etc. instead of plastic and you have to literally tell them where to move and how to do it.
Getting rid of the compendium teams feels like something that was always part of the plan. They only existed so the game wasn't just Orks Vs Guard.
Also GW have been matching rules to the contents of boxes for a while now. It's a little worse for existing players who already have two to for squads they can pick and mix from. For new players or players wanting to try a different faction just buying one box is so much better.
I think the compendium style mixed kill teams may come back in some (limited) way by GW packing an Intercessor sprue with a Phobos sprue, for example.
No, it only existed to sell more books. They double the cost of the books then split it in half. The 2018 Kill Team rule book included the compendium in the rule book.
@TallTaleGael they confirmed that the harlequin team is staying. All the teams in the 2022 annual are ok i thought. Void dancer troupe is staying.
@@gregi696 The 2018 Kill Team was a terrible, unbalanced mess, and the less we talk about it the better.
@@OmegaDezI agree with you on the balance front.
@TallTaleGael theyve already confirmed that the annual teams like Harliqunns are getting rules for kill team, its just those ones from the origina compendium that is getting the boot, and the only ones not replace yet really are talons of emporer and nids
I have a suspicion that the Almost Every Bespoke Kill Team clause is in reference to the Ashes of Faith Boxed Set, as only the Inquisition Acolytes could be considered a Bespoke Kill Team, but the rest of that release was a hodgepodge of previously released models.
I hope you’re right - that would be understandable I suppose. Thanks for watching!
KT18 was mini 40K. The buy in for someone wanting to play for example space marines was nuts. Yes you could buy one box and off you go, but then the power struggle started and before you know it you had bought 6 boxes to various marines to get the team,roaster you wanted to be able to compete with the other people that had done the same. Now its 1 box and your done, maybe a second box if your want every option, but for the most part its one box. The new kill team is a low invertment game, two teams, a core rulebook, tokens and a surface to play on and your set. No power creep because you opponent bought 3 more faction boxes and now bring a combo of 5 over power units. Its more balanced. Oh and finally the charge rule in KT18 was hot garbage. I can move 6" but if I charge i could move less as charge was part of the movement not an additional move. In one game i had a rust stalker that failed a 5 inch move 4 times but could walk 8" normally. Dont miss the power creep or the rule set of the open design of KT18.
Not to mention the kt18 break test mechanic. If you ran a horde team like orks you would only get to play half the game before your orks broke and ran. Not fun
Or, if you already had Space Marines, you could build a Kill Team without buying anything. That’s the real issue for Games Workshop here. Thanks for watching!
@@tabletopminionsthat's a pretty gutless response.
Every
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Want's people to buy more of their products.
Kt18 only benefited people who already had an army or two. For anyone who didn't what was the cost to get started?
Yeah gw is rather shit with milking it's customers, but currently it's cheaper and easier to get people into the hobby with kt21 and will be for kt24. Plus how many people have bought kill team boxes to use in their standard armies? Probably a metric shit-ton.
And while the rules could be *written* better, they're still not that complex and are far more mentally stimulating than anything gw has put out in decades.
Lost all respect. This has been the the saddest, saltiest whinge I've seen from a hobby channel in a while.
Also fyi, they're still keeping the "hide and seek" mechanics, one of the smartest additions to a gw game ever. The order tokens are a pretty clear indication that stealth will be in.
@@fatal-flaw10 That is not entirely true. What companies actually want is to maximise their revenue. Ideally by not doing, producing or selling anything. Ideally they want money for nothing. The question is how hard do they push this.
Most companies are pretty happy with delivering a product or service with some value for the customer while making a decent and sustainable profit. This is where GW differs and why their business practices are quite douchey. There is a reason why they are fequently critisied for their bad value for money and exploitive methods.
The fact that they now will not provide rules for Kill Team specific kits is one of them. There is no reasons to discontinue a Kill Team. It would cost them basically nothing to provide updated rules. But they decided to drop some, which ones they do not specify, for no reason other than trying to force people who allready have Kill Teams to buy new ones. Few other companies in the tabletop and wargaming business behave like this.
Nobody has a problem with GW or other companies making money. A lot of people have a problem with extortionate prices as well as manipulative and deceptive communication just to push profit margines and return on investment to obscene levels.
@@schnuersi wow, there's a lot to unpack here.
1. No, most companies aren't. Don't know if you've checked lately but prices for EVERYTHING is going up, and most of that is gouging. I will include GW in that though.
2. Uhhhh..... They've actually made it *crystal clear* that they will be releasing all the rules for existing AND future bespoke kill teams for free online.
They are canning the *Compendium* teams, which has already drawn ire, including mine as a few of them were good, but they have actually specified compendium teams *specifically*. The only grey area is the Whit Dwarf teams. So you either haven't actually read the news/paid attention, or..... well...
3. Yeah I have a problem with extortionate prices too. And I'll be damned if I pay full price for anything from GW, if I have to at all (hooray for internet piracy with rulebooks).
This is also why I support kill team and necromunda over everything else from GW.
It's so much cheaper and anyone can find the rules online for free. In a lot of places around the world other games just don't draw in players and we're stuck with the big boys or nothing. At least this game is good, and it's damn good.
I'm *really* pushing myself to be polite here, but if you want to make a point make sure you're fully loaded and concrete in your facts.
I agree that it's a bit lame that we don't get to build custom whacky teams, but it's been kinda clear for a few years now that this isn't the direction GW wants to go. Again, bit lame, but i've made my peace with it, there are other games.
As far as Kill Team is concerned, I'm kinda hyped about this new edition. Despite it's shortcomings in terms of customization and such, KT2021 was a real fun game, and the Into the Dark terrain made it imo even better. I also like that for this edition - although i haven't seen them really talk about that - there seem to be fewer "special" operatives and more "regular" ones. Like, in the two new teams, each seems to have 4 operatives that are just basic dudes, and idk i kinda like that, but i've always liked having more vanilla troops in my wargames anyway so maybe it's just me.
Was not a fan so I moved over to deadzone and boy that is an amazing game. Mantic don’t get enough props for how good the rules are.
@@colinmack8655when?
@@colinmack8655 Mantic minis aren't very good, though
The Veer-myn (space skaven) look great, but I agree beyond that @@michaelcarter577
Unless you’re playing at tournaments, play what ever edition of rules you want 🤷♂️
HA!
Everyone plays the latest edition even casually.
@@Redtecho yeah, because this one isn't shit 🤣
This is always such a pointless comment because unless you have a large consistent isolated gaming group that all agrees, this never happens.
good luck getting stuff for old rules
@@Axonteer have you not heard of pdf scans? I haven't bought a rulebook/armybook/module etc. In a decade.
Moving back to numbers and inches will remove what I think is one of the biggest blockades to cultivating 40k converts
I think boarding patrol is taking the spot kill team used to have. Little 500 point games that use models from big 40k in a smaller scale, so you can just grab what you have sitting in your collection and jam some games. I love bespoke teams, personally, and never played much compendium, but I'm still sad to see it go
It's really funny (and sad) to read all the "So what your pet died? You can just buy a new one!" energy about compendium being gone.
The compendium teams are actually still 95% compatible with the rules, so if you're a casual player (the compendium barring one or two teams haven't been viable for at least a year) you can still slot them in _extremely_ easily. It doesn't come as a surprise to anylne who actually plays the game that compendium is being officially retired, and it opens up the opportunity for those factions to get proper bespoke teams :)
(Also kill teams aren't live animals and you can still use the models lmao)
@@collegeoffoliage6776 If it were that easy to convert compendium into KT24 then GW should have done it themselves.
And again, you're saying "just buy a new one, lol" like it's and actual solution. Ignoring the fact that I don't want to use GW's team of anime protagonists, you're expecting me to sit out until GW eventually decides to release a Tyranid team.
Great solution, mate! I guess I'll be over here waiting then.
@@garlicxlr That's actually nonsense, it's incredibly easy to convert to kill team 2024, however many off the compendium kill teams are extremely underpowered, so GW would have to do a complete re-design if they wanted to bring them back in line. If you just want to play compendium vs. compendium with the new rules however, converting is almost effortless.
@@collegeoffoliage6776 Then you tell me, oh great wise one. How does my tyranids play in KT24? Tell my small brained, compendium loving self how to convert them.
@@garlicxlr Throw out faction rules and all gambits for all teams. Develop weapon profiles from the weapon rules that you think is fair, gauging off of your deep understanding of the faction and models. Reference the Plague Marines, Hierotek Circle, and Angels of Death to see how many wounds they should have, and how much damage they should deal. The corsair voidscarred killteam has interesting operative rules that would probably work for the multi-appendage models of Tyranids.
The Blooded Killteam (traitor guardsmen) have a model called the Patriarch who is a tyranid. They have 4AP (insanely good) and can commit those AP as a seperate activations inside the Turning Point. Dude man can MOVE AND KILL. This cuts down on the ability to have counteractions available, as your opponent gets to make a counteraction or a activation in between you using your Patriarch like that, but it's a cool operative rule that really fits the flavor of the Tyranids' superior physiology and biomass diversity.
In the mission pack Tyranid Hunt in the warhammer-community downloads page for killteam mission packs, they have simple "squishy" datasheets for the Terms, Horms, Tyranid Warrior, and Lector. I would assume you would have to "boost" the stats of those sheets because they're meant to provide a "horde" experience for 1-3 player models. It's a solo or Co-op mission, but this could be a hint that a Tyranid Killteam may be on its way anyway. In the context of lore, Tyranids' killteams would be more akin to the GSC operatives offered right now anyway. When the Tyranids come, they come in numbers, but that applies to almost every faction in 40k. I suppose straight up Tyranid model Killteam would probably look like a 12 model team, or a elite 6 model team.
I would love to see a Tyranid Warrior elite(6 model) team, with whatever lore-accurate models would be most appropriate for ripping into an Angels of Death killteam.
Personally as a person with limited hobby time (if any) not having to worry about all the potential cheese lists and options and just being able to field the models as per its compendium list has always been a MASSIVE plus for me.
Also easier to balance.
Happy the compendium are going online (obsolete books good bye) and glad they are doing away with the silly symbols for measurements.
Having recently started kill team, the compendium teams needed a lot of work to be viable versus the bespoke teams. So it’s probably for the best…
I guess its cool I can use my Tyranids, Stealth Suits, and Krootox as NPO's, but it will be harder to get new 40k players into killteam without the pitch "just bring some of your battleline troops and your all set". The simplified ruleset was a bummer for competition, but they were great for light games.
On the flip side putting the killteams online for free is a great business move IMO and I'm sure you could Port 40k models over to a few of them
To be fair, you also can use your existing models as substitutes for bespoke teams John from canyourollacrit recently played his regular necron models (some with slight modifications) as a gellerpox infected bespoke team and won an official tournament. So if you are down for some hobbytime you can use your kits&bits. Also most specialists are either gunners (plasma, melta etc) and some kind of sniper, medic or comms-person - sometimes someone with a big melee weapon. If you have an 40k army, you can easily bring those models together as a count-as-team and no one will bat an eye.
Canyourollacrit also saw an Emperor's children Hierotek circle in that tournament
Not if the faction you want to play doesn't even have a bespoke team yet which is the main problem with me.
I have a death guard, grey knight and custodes team because I think they look cool. Now I won't even be able to play the new edition even if I want to with them.
I have a few bespoke so it's not an issue, but my problem with move away from compendium is that it should only be done once they have all factions represented as bespoke teams and not before
@@kjs5932 use Death Guard as either Legionary or Nemesis claw (Legionary should be closer mechanically but Nemesis claw has more similar weapons)
It is a harder pass, but I'd say you could use grey knights as intercession, just write down what weapon is what version of intercessor.
@@kjs5932Playing Necrons as Gellerpox is not dependent on there being an official Necrons team.
@@kjs5932You already should have been running the deathguard models as nurgle aligned legionary.
Angels of death could proably be used to run the other two.
Definitely not a first for GW to have solo or coop play. Blackstone fortress had it and more recently, the tabletop version of Darktide had it too. For anyone paying attention, Darktide was marketed to newer players as an intro game - if you like it, why not get Kill Team next! - so I feel like it's not surprise that GW are including solo/co-op in the new edition of Kill Team. I'm sure we'll see it in the next iteration of Warcry too.
solo & coop mode might be the single reason for me to finally think about purchasing a GW product. Coming from Board games & mini painting for them, I always missed out on GW and tabletop skirmish or army battle gaming.
I find kill team to be the best introduction to the 40k scene. You'll have more people to play with and I find the different terrain and rules associated with them as fun.
I suppose you also want to increased player base of GW, right? Because these days there are plenty of skirmish solo/coop indie games :) Though they are less known that whatever GW does, of course.
Even as a PvP game Kill Team is by far the best entry into the 40k universe. Contrary to what this video claims, the goal with the newer editions are not to force 40k players to buy more, but to make it easier for new players to begin (they already got the 40k players hooked). One box of minis is a playable team and many don't need more to be completive in tournaments.
@@theandf I haven't seen combat dice like how killteam does combat dice. Is there any else that does it this way? I love it more than the game itself.
@@Mandrewlochner do you mean to hit/block/wound rolls? It's not particularly unique to KT. For example, Space Station Zero does something similar, though not exactly the same. And many games have variants of this, too.
Well, I have a lot of nice models to play Stargrave now
they said you could download the new data cards so you could tray out new teams before spending the money so you would be able to use your collections of models.
I think this edition is a step in the right direction. I enjoyed Kill Team 2021 but it had some convoluted rules.
I don’t mind the bespoke teams as it generally lead to more balanced games (at least in my playgroup).
As someone who has never played kill team but would love to get into it, the new solo and cooperative modes are a freaking awesome edition. I for one will be visiting my local warhammer store asap to find out more
I'm very happy with the changes previewed so far. The new edition preserves most of the good things about the core game, and the changes seems to mostly to improve on that.
On the list building issue: There are already plenty skirmish games that support flexible list building. I'm happy Kill Team instead tries to fill the 'niche' of a more tightly balanced/designed, competitive, less chaotic, and very strategic and tactical skirmish game. I think of it as chess with dice - and complexity.
Yup people who want that should join us in deadzone
Play Kill Team occasionally and when I do I still play 1st edition 🤷♂️
Same
Ah yes, BASIC MATH makes things less 'accessable'
As a hobbist mostly i really love the new kill team, i liked the old one, and there was some charm in being able to build lists, but the new teams have so much more character:) and at least for me the game plays much smoother, really excited for the small tweaks and fixes to the new version😁 solo play is going to be really great, one of the few good things about covid, people realised solo play is nice to add to your game:)
I think if people are desperate to play with extremely customisable list building, they should just play Combat Patrol or 1000-point WH40k.
@@auradmg totally agree:) its so good for playing as well, im a alittle nuts so i have most teams painted, and i tried hosting a tournament for some friends using my models, but it was a nightmare in 2018, but with 2021 it was amazing. Just gave each person a team and we played:)
Feel like uncle atom has gotten so upset over kill team not being what he liked in 2018 that everything now is negative, and from a person thats normally always so positive:) the killteam scene is booming as well😁👍
Honestly list building to me isn't a meaningful expression to me i get that it is to a lot of folks but to me it lead to only selecting from a small subset of things because they are the only things efficient enough to bother spending points on anything else becomes wasting points effectively. The way the kill team operative selection is way more interesting to me because i get to select things after i know my opponent's faction and get to adapt to them on the fly in a way ie. swap a melta for a GL if my opponent is playing a horde team. Or bring the guy that shuts down forward deploys againt teams that can do that. To me those minute to minute decisions are what keeps me coming back time and time again to kill team. List building works great for other games but it also is more aprochable to the average person when they can buy one to two boxes and thays all the investment they need to make as opposed to getting 3-4 boxes so they can list build
I see you have actually played Kill team 21.
I was thinking of getting into kill team with my friends in the new editiom. Can i still use the chaos legionaries kill team?
We don’t know yet, unfortunately. Thanks for watching!
Ignore the boomer, it's been confirmed that *all* bespoke teams, including the chaos legionaries, will be getting new rules.
@fatal-flaw10 Where’d you see this confirmation? I can’t find it on Warhammer Community, so I’d love to see it. Thanks!
Wow, deleting my replies, talk about cowardly 🤣
@fatal-flaw10 I didn’t delete anything - but UA-cam might’ve auto-moderated something depending on what you said. Did you have something about confirming the Legionaries? Maybe if it was a link, UA-cam might’ve auto-modded it. It does that with links sometimes.
Those shapes for movement made the game unplayable, I gave up even trying after just reading the rules. I couldn’t visualize ranges while looking at the units. They couldn’t even be bothered to add logic to the shapes like square is 4 or hexagon is 6.
Ruler system is stupid f%*king thing ever they should go tile based and be done with it.
40k rules as is absolutely make the game unplayable. Wish they would do more PC games or even a 40k digital card in boxes so you can streamline it online
I understand the points raised and I'll be honest I let the last edtiion of Kill Team pass me by. I have since warmed to the idea of bespoke teams, much like Bloodbowl, you buy a box and you have everything you need. I'd imagine if your model collection is big enough you can replicate a bespoke team with your own models. I think the straw that broke the camels back to get to try the new edition is the new starter set and hopefully its priced to make it a painless entry point.
Guy who disliked current edition doesn't like the next one so far. Color me shocked lol.
I like that they're trimming the fat a bit, and looking forward to the co-op play.
All the bespoke teams are being updated from what I read though. I think you're mistaken about it not being all. Only the compendium, which was always a bandaid solution and GW were not subtle about it, so I'm not surprised. - Edit: I may be wrong here, there may be some bespoke teams being affected too. We'll just have to wait an see. - End edit.
As for list building, KT2018 was just full of plasmas an almost nothing else. People were not all that unique with list building either.
And yes, numbers better then weird shapes. I may not agree with ya on KT, but I respect ya.
In general I use activation for model and turn for "all models in both teams have been activated" for secondaries and counting point control
They literally said in the article highlighted “almost all released teams” almost is not all.
@@colinmack8655 the little ** it has on that statement takes you to the bottom bit about compendiums not being supported. I assumed that's what it was referring to. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
@@colinmack8655I've taken into account what you've said and edited the original comment to reflect this possibility 👍
Why do people even pay attention to their rules bullshit? I don't get it... 😂
Personally pumped for this new edition, solo AND co-op play along with dropping the "shapes" for actual inches. Both new KT squads look sick af
I think of a turn as each time I activate a unit. A turning point is a full round of both players having activated all units
Turning point makes it feel more dramatic which is probably what GW wanted.
Indeed. A "turn" and a "turning point" are not the same. A "round" and a "turning point" are pretty much the same. (Do we know if Uncle Atom objects to big 40k's use of "battle round" instead of "turn".)
Solo and Co-Op modes were in Killteam 1st edition,
And was axed when moved to the new “upgraded” edition
I love to have a new Kill Team starting box if it's similar to Octarius. As for the rules, I hope it's good for the people that want to play it.
It will be pretty similar to Octsriud. Dense ruins custom made for the game. Two teams. Everything needed to play the game as intended. Probably a bit better as it doesn't seem like one of the teams need another box like Veteran Guard.
Easy to agree about numbers over shapes and that they're looking into the cover/los aspect. Love solo and co-op modes as well. In terms of list building, they probably have some data that competitive play drives a lot of engagement with the game. While limiting the game to bespoke teams means they get to sell you specific teams, it seems way too limiting to do if they know they're likely going to cut off a large chunk of their player base. Would be cool to see a set of rules for list building for non-competitive kill team along side the bespoke teams that are green lit and balanced for comp.
As much as I’ll miss my White Dwarf Harlequin team, there are aspects of this that I am a fan of. Having coop and solo play options are things I’m very excited about. Also having static lists feels like an easier entry point for me to introduce people to the game.
I speak only for myself and the reasons to not like the changes are valid and make sense. Also I have 3 boxes kill teams so I am pretty comfortable from that standpoint
The halrequins should be safe, as they were in the kill team Annual
I'm excited for the new edition, especially the solo mode, but I do want clarity on which bespoke Kill Teams aren't making the cut.
I'm no GW stan, and I'm rarely jonesing to get the latest new thing, but I'm actually interested in the new changes! Especially solo play. List building was never big for me.
I'm SUPER hyped for the co-op and solo mode. Overall, as a WH40k newbie I'm very excited about this edition.
GW: Let's go-to the brewery and update the rules.
Gw Employee: should I bring a note book?
Gw: nahh we'll use the napkins.
Hopefully, updated rules means that you can play with the old rules and that they focused on balancing and giving rule updates to the bespoke ones
I agree with most of your criticisms but I'm still a big fan of the new kill team. I've been playing since the 2018 edition and the 2021 edition was a big improvement for me.
On the topic of list building: this game has list building! For most teams, you build a list every time you play. Those decisions could be more interesting and how many you have to make varies greatly from team to team, but list building is there.
One thing I think they could do to impress theorycrafty/listbuildy type players is to make that part more fleshed out and nuanced. Give us a good reason to select basic warriors instead of bespoke specialists, for example, maybe with more selections for load out (this would reduce the number of specialists on the table and speed the game up, too). But having a full roster in just two boxes is fantastic compared to the previous edition.
If you want to list build in a skirmish game, I hear great things about the update to boarding action.
500 points doesn’t seem like “skirmish” to me. Thanks for watching!
That's MINDblowing they don't let you make your own killteams this time.
That's hilarious! I looked up every game that flew by and it wasn't until the end I realized they were YOUR GAMES!! I had no idea. Didn't know your name and I've been following your channel for a while now.... Oh boy....
It's been rumored GW is trying to keep sales of each game/line separate from the others to help accounting... I guess. That's one of the (again rumored) reasons Beasts of Chaos were removed from Age of Sigmar as they'll be fully supported in The Old World. Could this move to only supporting bespoke Kill Teams be due to this to?
GW has been doing this for decades though. It's said to be the reason why Warhammer Quest was discontinued.
This edition has ALMOST gotten me onboard. I also miss any list building and customization being part of the game, especially after having made multiple rosters for the 2018 KT game, nice and flavorful ones too. I like the look of the $100 starter set , with the MDF terrain and the 2 teams being available now and not by buying those blind buy single models. I also like the introductory aspect of it and how it looks aimed at teaching a slightly simplified set of rules to brand new players. I do wish it had a mini or soft cover Core Rules book, even if it made the set like $20 more. Having the full rule book in the box definitely would've been the kicker to get me to have already bought it, vs just considering that purchase. For now, I'll keep working on my queue of unfinished models and playing OPR. Too many hobbies and inflation makes it just not feasible to chase the revolving door of GW books and editions anymore. Also, living in a place now that doesn't really have a wargaming scene nearby is a biggie for me, it's about 2hrs one way to a place with much of a scene to find opponents.
Thanks for the channel, I hope 2025 is going well so far.
Same way I talk to my grown up kids 😂 'I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed...' 😅❤
Great parenting, they must love you!
You could at least pay for their therapy, you'd be a better parent than ever before
@@karolkrajewski755 you're the only one here who needs therapy, mate 🤡
To your list building point, you can still proxy models with already owned models
Removing pts from equipment? That worked so well in 40k they had to split datasheets to try to balance things.
Thats not the main reason 40k splits datasheets. They're split to give the different loadouts different abilities.
If the purpose was to balance equipment way more datasheets would be split.
@@TemporalElpis Abilities could easily have been tied to the weapons in the current system, we see it in GSC.
If you really want to argue what the reason behind splitting data sheets, it was probably to boost the number of data sheets and hide how many units are being cut. Technically T'au only lost like two units if you compare Index to Codex, but comparison ignores things like the Crisis Suits becoming 3 sheets. Crisis Suits were also one of the best examples of why 'free wargear' doesn't work.
Kill Team has become a way for GW to release new infantry units for 40k while getting to double-dip by also getting people to buy boxes for JUST Kill Team. For example, Kommandos with Snikrot is a core Ork list item, and also Exaction and Inquisitorial Agents get to fill out the Agents of the Imperium options.
Looks at my pile of 300 beasts of chaos AoS army and shrugs in sympathy.
I'm actually looking forward to the new edition. I still consider myself new to warhammer and I tried the last edition. It was too confusion with cover and the symbols, but I still thought it had potential. I think they're addressing those core issue, and as Adam said making it accessable. Regardng the model box sets, I don't mind too much because I can intergrate those models into my larger armies for 40k - and they always seem to have unique figures so they look cooler when intergrate into my larger armies. I'm willing to give the game a second shot this time around. I hope they actually fixed things instead and not in the reverse direction. Thanks for the video Adam!
Not playing a list that I want was the reason why I didn't pick up the 2nd ed rule for Kill Team. Looks like I won't be playing the new one either.
So excited for some streamlined rules, when I first became interested in Killteam the volume of rules and lack of structure was a huge turrnoff for me. Seeing these new rules and hearing your concerns though it does have me thinking about my 40k armies that dont have support now-- I love my Orks but will there ever be support for my weirder ones?
The compendium teams were a crutch GW used to add additional options when KT2 launched when they didn’t have additional bespoke teams. They weren’t good, and didn’t see much competitive play. I am sad we are both loosing Hive Fleet as well as Talons of the Emperor, but tbh it was for the best, let the old make way for the new.
I’m sure they will be releasing rules in white dwarf or for bespoke rules of those factions sometime in the future.
With them announcing all current and future team rules being free online now, I’m confident you can use something in place of another team. (heck, I have a friend who kitbashed some Tau into Nurgle infected Tau and ran them as a gellerpox team, do whatever you think is cool!)
I’m actually really excited for this new edition! GW so far hasn’t dropped the ball yet, crossing my fingers!
(Not saying you can’t be sad about losing compendium, or rules changes that are happening, everyone’s feelings are valid! Just that I’m actually looking forward to what’s to come!)
Good thought re base sizes, I’d been wondering about that number
Since I’m an optimist, I’m glad I never painted the shape ruler. I hated those darn shapes.
I just purchased the "compendium". Not going to be held to only GW teams. If I want to build a custom team, I'm going to do it.
I'm disappointed that they are removing the compendium. Including basic troop boxes, which are easily available, was a good way to get 40K players into Kill Team. Since the rules seem to be similar, we may be able to translate Compendium to the new edition. Or I can play Kill Team 2018. Or I can use the 7th edition Kill Team rules with 10th edition 40K. Oh the heresy.
The thing is, KT doesn't need to go out of its way to encourage 40k players to start now. That was the case when KT was new and they knew the only way to get enough players was to say "hey here's a smaller scale alternative to 40k and you can use your existing models!"
I suspect it will be possible to convert Compendium teams to the current ruleset, but it doesn't change that Compendium teams are over-complicated, which goes against the design philosophy of KT today. The majority are just not fun to play with or against because of the amount of team-exclusive rules and micro-managed customisation that your opponent needs to keep track of.
Compendium teams were way less accessible than bespoke teams unless you happen to already own the stuff. Most of them required 2 boxes minimum, and up to 4 boxes if you wanted all the options.
I got into kill team because of your enthusiasm for 1st edition. I dutifully got the terrain for the T’au/Space Wolf version, then the new edition came and I was sad I couldn’t play my necrons as I wanted to.
I’m glad they’ve got rid of distance symbols, as that really put me off playing.
I built myself a version of the Necron kill team, converting the apprentek as I didn’t want to pay for even more immortals, with an upgrade sprue, so stuck with minis I already owned
Yeah, big disappointment on the lack of updates for compendium teams. Definitely some of those things are not great. I still think the core system is great, and there's nothing stopping us from doing a little homebrew and/or proxying to make the rules and teams to our favor. Still, good update video, thank you.
The compendium was always a bandaid solution, they were never going to be permanent. Also, the rules look to be barely changing, so could prob just still play em anyway.
Its really a pity that i cannot use compendium teams in the next Edition. I have so many, and my friends also play a lot compendium.
To be honest, first i was hyped (New scions and vespids Look cool, terrain is fantastisch) but now im really disappointed.
I don't have any issue with them abandoning compendium teams - they haven't given them any updates in years now, they were never going to make it.
The only issue I have is that some of the teams on there don't have a bespoke version that can be used (for instance Tyranids)
@@retnuHDJ Don't have one yet. I can't imagine they'll do new Vespids just to ignore Tyranids forever.
@@BlommaBaumbart Yeah I'd be expecting one to come out eventually, but my point is it sucks for compendium team players (such as Tyranid players) until then as the compendium team won't be playable
I like the more streamlined rules, and I get how it can be easier to balance teams when they are more or less fixed. This in turn should allow them to more clearly define the play styles for each team.
However I do miss the variety and flexibility offered by KT2018 - I wish there was a game mode to allow for this (minus plasma spam). Having said that, the bespoke nature of the teams does allow them to make some really interesting and unique models.
Most of the changes seem to tighten up the game. Sure, it's a shame about compendium teams but the gap between "compendium" and "bespoke" teams was crippling. My first game was GK compendium versus Hunter Clade and it was a complete wash.
In this case I'll say out with the old. I have enjoyed the complexity of bespoke teams more than list building with many choices of which only a few are correct.
Its funny you say that because I feel like I could still play kt21 for another 3 years not because the new edition is crap but because the game isn't "solved" yet.
I would be fully on board if all the factions had bespoke team. That's the problem for me not the move away from compendium to bespoked
@@kjs5932This is the weirdest part of the game. So many factions got two or more bespoke teams and some got none. Gallowdark not getting a Tyranid team is peak weird.
Some good ideas (solo and co-op!) mixed in with some not-so-great ones. This is the sort of thing that got me to move to the OPR side and not look back. I kind of would like to have the terrain from this one though. And the "upgrade" minis - folding ladders and smokes? Yes please.
having custom warband rules lets you use the models you already have, and that's the last thing GW wants, they want you to buy more miniatures
Every company wants you to buy more of their shit. Yes it's greedy, but it's also not like the people who throw money at GW weren't going to spend a fuckton more.
A current kill team is cheaper than before to start from scratch, the gameplay is far better and far more mentally stimulating, and a lot of list building choice is an illusion so it's not like that much has been lost.
F that noise! Print models. Play OPR -> Have more time and money for other games!
I agree about the loss of compendium teams, a friend of mine specifically bought a box of plague marines to play the compendium team specifically for a more streamlined experience. The only thing is, I think its a bit late. Most compendium teams have been abandoned and barely playable for a good while now.
Proxy the Plague Marines as Nurgle Legionaries in the future. Easy mode.
I can see why they got rid of list building: It's hard to balance, especially in something as swingy as a skirmish game.
I also perfectly understand being upset over it. Using the toys you already have and slightly tweaking it as needed is a cool thing.
I like how Spearhead has handled it, where they're using selected units from the box sets they've released in the past, which also happen to be many of the units that people will will just happen to already have if they have that army. You loose the creativity, but you gain people already having collected the models for their armies. In just my sporadic collecting of "what do I find cool?" or "what do I need for D&D this month?" I've collected within 4-12 models of like 4 spearheads.
It's not that hard to balance though. I've been playing several skirmish games that have deep list building and customization and have been very balanced. If you've not tried Trench Crusade you're missing out. GW just doesn't bother playtesting and doesn't care to do so. If they release something that's an unbalanced mess meta chasers flock to get it, if they release something balanced and cool they get a nice chunk of change, and if they release something bad and that nobody wants they just make it OP for a little (see the space marine desolation squad). They have little incentive to get it right and don't care to fix it.
As someone who tried and eventually loved the new version's depth, I’m actually very happy with the coming edition
As an avid Kill Team player, I can't be more excited. Every modifications announced prove that their listening their regular player base.
I'm sorry for 40k players who want to use their minis though. But Kill Teams is better by being its own thing.
Deadzone however rocks even harder
@@colinmack8655 Yeah, I'm going to get deeper into that now.
Tbh the 2018 rules are the only ones that should exsist for list building the money grab forced to buy a set approach is enough to make me vomit and rub it in my hair
GW: We are going to use Kill Team (alongside Combat Patrol) as an on ramp for larger 40K games to get players on board simply and move them up to full armies.
Me: So, the Kill Team rules will be similar to the 40K rules?
GW: No
Me: So you can custom build your team to represent different 40K units?
GW: Ummm... No.
Me: So you can use 40K minis in KT and KT minis in 40K.
GW: ...... Hmmmm. No.
Well we got a better game out of it so they may be cooking
All the KT minis can be used in 40k.
@@HB2K-h8m I'm not sure how it is in 40k, but in AoS warcry bands are quite good and in some armies they're a staple, hoping we get something similar in 40k
Nearly all KT can be used in 40k, so yeah? Custom built KTs were too imbalanced and having similar rules to 40k resulted in worse gameplay. Moving on to specialized ruleset and new model each season was right decision
Why can't we just treat it as a fun skirmish game and not some gateway to bighammer 😔 I think boarding actions and combat patrol is the real gateway to bighammer
Just started learning KT. The shapes actually make a lot of sense in context of moving over terrain, and despite my initial moaning, I don't dislike the system. My hope is that reverting back to inches will make it more intuitive, but breaking distances down into specific increments was not a bad idea in my opinion. Other games like Star Wars Legion used measuring widgets that were unique to the system, and not many people (that I know at least) complained about it.
Equipment points don't bother me at all, but maybe only 4 pieces will really matter in any game, so perhaps it's not a loss.
Solo/Co-op I LOVE though. I am looking forward to giving that a shot.
Only thing that really has me worried is if they change team composition enough to render my current builds useless. I'd hate to feel the "need" to buy a new kit again. On the bright side, if I really dislike the new edition, I'm sure I will be able to find some of the current books for cheap. I've been studying the "Lite" rules and Wahapedia.
Especially since equipment is now team-wide buffs for the most part.
I love KT, this new edition is trimming the fat of stuff I didn’t like. I’m not gonna miss DEF dice. Now hopefully they made the melee combat better too.
Man… you just seem super frustrated. Deep breaths. Look - I only stumbled onto this hobby three weeks ago. I got the last box set on Amazon. Surprise! We’re retiring all that stuff. But somehow you’re more upset than I am. Two years of full support for each new squad? That’s fair. That’s the cost of a nice dinner. I’m personally a little miffed that they were still selling the old stuff at retail, but you’ve been around for three years and you knew that this was coming. Stiff upper lip, brother
I loved the original Kill Team that launched in 2018. It was my favorite game, I made a lot of videos about it - I even started doing battle reports (which are a pain to produce, frequently) just before the pandemic hit and made that impossible for a while.
The 2021 version of Kill Team was not to my liking - it was a drastically different ruleset and invalidated most of the six full teams I had built and painted previously. I fully stopped playing.
I’m frustrated because I’ve been doing this a long time and I know what’s possible - I know what companies as big as GW *could* do - especially to make a game more consumer-friendly. Instead, with this new edition, they’ve decided to go the other direction. This is my frustration. However, don’t worry - I won’t be making any more videos about Kill Team going forward, so you won’t have to worry about me. I’ll be playing (and producing) other games that I enjoy much more. Thanks for watching!
pretty much explains why I play OPR
KT2018 was the best, tired of them trying to reinvent the wheel. New edition severely limits your options especially coming from 40k. I like the "named" kill teams, super cool models and themes but I think those should be built to fit the rules, and it feels like they're building the rules around those teams instead. Feels like the opposite of the direction they should be going if they wanted to sell more 40k models. Seems like they want to sell you models that can only be used for 40k and models that can only be used for kill team, kind of like necromunda. The thing is I just wont end up playing it if that's the case.
I have a lazy Custodes compendium kill team since you just need to roll out 4 minis, it was perfect for teaching the basics of the game and they had a decent enough chance of winning. Now I've got 4 custodes that don't fit into any of my collections.
oh no, how will you survive this burden 😢
@@imthelizardking I get what he's saying tho. I started my SoB KT at the beginning of the year, I'm just about done with the paint, and this new edition will render them completely obsolete. I got 15 models total, a SoB squad of 10 and 4 repentias plus the repentia superior. It sucks that I wont be able to play them as soon as KT24 comes out. I got the Kommandos to get more options for KT21, but I guess thats all I'll be playing on the new edition.
I know we can always play KT21, regardless, but I was looking forward to seeing how compendium KTs would be a part of the new edition and now they most likely wont be.
It just sucks.
I might be late to reply but I still want to express my disappointment when I discovered, returning from a long slumber that lasted all second edition, that my farsight enclave hunter cadre I was planning to finish painting got erased from the game. I don't play big 40k so I guess those models will never see the light of day. Another element I miss are the selectable keywords, like septs. I really love the solo-coop idea.
Honestly not sure how I feel about the loss of the compendium. On one hand, it's a real shame, but on the other, did anyone ever really use it at all? I thought the general consensus was that the bespoke teams were so much better that people just used that instead. So I kinda get why they don't wanna update the compendium rules, after all, why spend development time on something that very few people use anyway.
It allowed 40K players to get into the game. I play Tyranids and just got shafted.
I know people were nervous about the potential changes to the previous KT, which was near perfect to many (barring cover rules, etc). But everything I hear of KT 2024 seems right up my alley. I'm all for simplifying and streamlining, and the inclusion of solo/coop rules is exciting! It seems this is one of the "good" GW games, much like Warcry and Underworlds.
Really enjoyed KT 2018. Didn't really play KT 2021 due it moving to the format where the Kill Teams are "pre-made" and had to be bought as separate boxes. Moreover some of weapons were so unique they couldn't be used in other games. Started looking into building some simple Kill Teams recently in line with the KT 2021 Compendium. Now I hear that those lists will be voided again, and I really can only use the pre-built boxes, I will probably give this whole addition a pass as well. Too bad, I really liked the co-op idea. Anyway, will probably start making lists based on One Page Rules Firefight. Maybe if I ever want to play co-op I'll use Space Station Zero's AI rules. :-)
Don’t forget deadzone is a thing too.
The 2021 version is simply a much better game. Specialized kits allow for much better balance, new special weapons and cool rules and still allow for huge customization. For example look at Legionaries or Votann teams. Compendium teams sucked compared to the dedicated ones and were never worth playing if you like deep tactical gameplay.
@@psz5515 I can't agree with you. KT21 is missing everything that made kt18 special. You have fixed team size, almost fixed loadout, you need to buy special boxes to play and the rules are bloated. And it's supper hard to make custom narative missions unlike in kt18 or in GFF from OPR.
One thing that i agree with is that it's more balanced than kt18. But it could be fixed if the company wanted make a good game. And also... GFF is better balanced than kt21 and it doesn't have the same problems.
If you are looking for co-op 40k rules, the Horde mode ruleset created by the Poorhammer podcast is a blast!
Seriously? Calling you out on this one. Some of the things said in this video seem a tad hypocritical. Back in 2021 you made a entire video about how much you disliked the compendium, and NOW you are 'disappointed' it's going away? For someone who styles himself as being a mentor/ambassador for new players, you seem to miss the point - the compendium going away is bad because it's basic teams were simple and straight forward PERFECT for NEW players. That's the reason I don't like the fact it's going away. BUT we don't really know anything yet - there might be a new compendium, for example. Or the new solo/co-operative mode might make up for it. This video at worst comes across as another 'GW hate' video (and God knows there are thousands of those), and at best, it comes across 'I can't do it the way I want, so it's bad. Nothing will ever be as good as my beloved 2018 edition.' Either way, it's not objective or a good look for a mentor figure where most people are introduced to the hobby via GW. How about this, look at it from a new player's perspective and judge the game on its own merits and failures, then decide whether its a good product and go from there? And for those players with models/armies they want to play but are not represented in the game, pick the rules for a bespoke team that matches your gameplay style and use the models you want with it - users on reddit do this all time, with pictures of their 'bespoke' teams - r/ Kill Team.
Ouch. If you don’t like the content feel free to move on.
@@colinmack8655 Normally I love Uncle Atom's content, but on the topic of Kill Team the message always seems to be same. Broken record.
People can't play with teams they paid for. That's bad
@@Leithaine I agree - but people paid for the teams compatible with the current version of Kill Team (2021); they are still playable and will always be playable in this edition of Kill Team (2021). If GW suddenly revokes the team from the current roster without warning - TOTALLY AGREE THAT'S WRONG. Should the new edition be backwards compatible? In an ideal world YES ABSOLUTELY. Are GW obliged to do this? No. GW is a business, selling product - welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism. That said, they have said that nearly all off the 2021 bespoke teams will be compatible with KT 2024 (and IMHO, it's probably the 'Ashes of Faith' teams that aren't, and even then I could see it just being the chaos cultists). Again, tho. there is no reason why you can't pick the rules for a bespoke team that matches your gameplay style and use any models you want with it, as long as your opponent agrees. Okay, you couldn't use that team in an official tournament, but when 90% of the player base is just friends or family around the kitchen table, or at the FLGS, it shouldn't really matter too much. If you are a tournament player, then yes it does matter and you would need a completely tournament legal team.
@@Leithaine Addendum to my previous answer - This from the latest GW article regarding solo/co-op (which you can play how you like really, with whatever homebrew rules you want): "The NPOs themselves are chosen through a flexible process. Missions have a tally of Wounds and NPOs are chosen from a list of universal datacards until they meet that amount. These datacards are completely model-agnostic and represent a variety of different unit types, so you can use whatever miniatures you have in your collection." so any miniatures can be used to make the NPO Kill Team, no waste. I'm all for the pitchfolks when GW deserves it - prices, availability, Cursed City, etc. But not this time - wait for the game, don't buy into the hype - positive or negative, make up your own mind and don't be swayed by anyone on UA-cam.
I am very positive about the changes, what I have learnt since actually playing miniature war games is that while list building can be fun when you're alone and can't play a game, the main enjoyment I get from the hobby is rolling dice and laughing with my opponent at the silly and ridiculous things that happen. So the fact it's going co op is just fantastic. I share your frustration with the ploys, but I LOVE tactical ploys, it is essentially heroic actions from MESBG, which I love. So I hope they ditch strat ploys. Also, I play the murder clowns (Void Dancers) and I can't stand the bean counting you need to do to fully utilise their main army ability so I would be happy to say good bye to all those mechanisms, just make it a baked in ability or forget it
It sounds like you didn’t like the second edition which is a shame because imo it is GWs best game. Los rules are hard at first but clear if you play a lot. In fact the complex line of sight rules are one of the best points of the game. But what I also like about it is how well balanced it is and how well it plays when trying to play competitively which most gw games function better narratively. And for balance sake the compendium teams have to go.
For someone who's trying to promote tabletop, he really sh!ts on GW, even when they deserve credit. I love KT21 and im proud to admit it
In my opinion, Warcry is their best game - and it has amazing list building Compendium options AND the ability to use bespoke lists, too. Thanks for watching!
@@procrastibate yeah, he's really salty about not being able to use old minis, it's so childish. Also really doesn't seem to like any kind of intellectually stimulating rules.
The raving about warcry as above is honestly really sad. It's not a bad game and has lots of potential, but it needs a lot of work and love. Hence why it isn't doing anywhere near as well as kt21.
@@tabletopminions Part of the reason I have trouble getting into Warcry as a new player, though, is the thought that my bespoke one-box warband is already at a disadvantage against people with existing collections or who are buying into larger AoS and can beat me at the list-building stage. I got my butt kicked at the two Kill Team events I've been to, but at least it wasn't because my opponents spent more on their models.
Kill Team was actually my introduction to Warhammer and skirmish games, period. The rules felt both simple to learn, but had a lot of these... complex nuances for anyone who actually wanted to really go balls deep.
My first team is an Ecclesiarchy team... And they suck in just about every board that isn't Gallowdark lol. The compendium teams outside Deathguard and to an extent Emperor's Talons are pretty much ass, but it would have been cool to see some kind of update for them. While them getting rotated out does nothing to change the competitive landscape, I would have at least like ld an update that would have made compendium teams an actual viable option if you wanted to get serious with the game...
I also wouldnt be surprised if even veteran guardsmen and ork kommandoes and a few of the early bespoke teams get rotated out with every passing competitive season the way sets in MtG rotate out of standard.
Every time I look into Killteam, I keep going back to Deadzone. There are so many options for sci-fi skirmish now, my next will be Five Parsecs. Killteam doesn't seem to give you much opportunity to make a bespoke warband with their own story. When the next edition is out in the wild, I'll check it out, but.ifnit isn't staggeringly different than it's current form, it will be another pass for me.
I'm happy to see the focus on it being its own game, rather than a bonus game you can play with minis you might already have from another game. Will hopefully allow for a tighter more balanced design. List building is just another barrier to getting started playing for us.
Something I'm surprised you overlooked is that with free new datacards it is very easy to proxy whatever minis you have as whatever killteam you want. For example I'm currently painting up some plague marines but now compendium death guard is going away. I'm fine with this since i can run them with the chaos legionary rules instead(which look like better rules anyway haha). It's easy to take it even further for just starting out and use whatever 6 to 13 minis you have even if they look nothing like the kill team you want to play just to try out a ruleset before you buy a bespoke box. Also cost wise for anyone that isn't trying to go to world's, 3rd party 3d printed kill teams are everywhere on etsy for roughly $30 USD with a ton of incredible sculpts and different aesthetics. So yes fully custom list building from 1st is long gone which I think was important for balancing the game but with free rules just pick a rule set you like and scratch build crazy models for it if you want. Since you mentioned having a vet guard team try running them with the new Scion rules when they come out! RIP compendium but I believe it's for the good of balancing the game and am optimistic about 3rd edition.
The coop/solo options are intriguing. Truth be told though, I will wait until we know more and then hold off until the rulebook is available separately and buy that. The $200+ boxed sets are rather ludicrous IMO.
My first guess after watching the live stream about Hivestorm is that the box will sell for $285 USD. It’ll be interesting to see. Thanks for watching!
I prefer the new Kill Team system where you can buy one box and already have access to different operatives. I honestly think hunting down multiple models from different kits and raiding bits bins for parts is a hassle. I think being able to buy one box and downloading the rules online is great and accessible.
Yeah, I feel like a crazy person when people complain about Kill Team '21 focusing on one-box teams with no list-building. That's exactly why I play it. I got out of 40k years ago when I realized it would be cheaper to throw my entire collection in the trash and buy into a different game than to finish my halfway complete army. Kill Team got me back specifically because I don't need to constantly add more models or already have a huge existing collection to have a good time.
I still play KT18 with my friends. If you still have the books or pdfs, then there’s nothing stopping you from doing so. We even played Shadow War Armageddon yesterday, that was a fun experience. I’m looking forward to this new edition of KT, mainly because of the coop mode, I’m wondering if it’s finally going to be something like tabletop version of Dawn of War 2 Last Stand mode. I guess they might have been reworking the rules of the tabletop Darktide for that.
Its like where are the videos of how KT18 is better than KT21?
@@procrastibate to be honest I dont know if 18 is better than 21 or not, because I haven’t played a single game of 21, so I don’t say that it is. I’ve heard great opinions of that game and that’s super. We just play 18 because we’ve never wanted to get into 21 and we like to have fun with different units that we have.
@@Lyzwa92 i think I replied to the wrong comment.
@@procrastibate no worries :)