The Spec Ops rules for Veteran Guardsmen and Kommandos here give you Battle Honours that the squads can earn, Rare Equipment they can be outfitted with, Assets to add to your Base of Operations, Requisitions for your team, and two Spec Ops you can choose for your team. Also included in the box is a full supplement about the Octarius system – we see a lore section giving us the story so far about Octarian War that I believe we will see play out over the next few months in 40k supplements – Essentially, Inquisitor Kryptman had the idea that the best way to deal with the Orks and Tyranids in that region of space was to draw a hive fleet towards Ork inhabited planets – the plan being that they would destroy each other and thus save humanity. These effects may not be enough to win outright against dedicated melee specialists, but the ability to negate two normal hits per fight will keep them in the fight longer.

It can move within Engagement Range of an enemy operative, but cannot finish its move within Engagement Range of an enemy operative. Octarius introduces us to two new factions made from models that can ostensibly be used in other factions: Veteran Guardsmen, which use the new plastic Death Korps of Krieg models, and Kommandos, which use the new plastic Ork Kommandos models. Kill Team Octarius is an outstanding set, not only does it contain some stunning miniatures such as the new Ork terrain, Kommandos and plastic Death Korps, but it is also a much needed refresh of the Kill Team. Exfiltration: If the Defender is currently undertaking the Extraction or Secure District Spec Op, then at the end of the battle, if none of their Spy operatives were incapacitated and all of them are within the Defender’s drop zone, reduce by 1 the number of games required to complete that Spec Op’s Operation 1.Moving on to the Veteran Guardsmen, these models were the polar opposite to the orks, in terms of assembly shenanigans. The detail on the models is very good and I'm looking forward to putting paint on everything at some point.

As you take turns doing this your pool of dice will shrink as the fight goes on, so seeing an opponent with lots of hits you may decide to simply use your single hit to do some damage, or instead if you re badly wounded you might use your hits to reduce the damage coming into you. Each time an operative makes any kind of move, if it has the FLY keyword, it can move around, across and over other operatives (and their bases) as if they were not there, but must finish its move following all requirements specified by that move, and cannot finish its move on top of other operatives (or their bases). If, when you are randomly determining which objective marker should be removed from the tabletop, the objective marker selected has 1 or more Homing Beacon points, reduce the number of Homing Beacon points on that objective marker by 1 and then randomly determine an objective marker again (if this objective marker is randomly selected again, and it still has 1 or more Homing Beacon points on it, repeat this process until you have selected an objective marker with no Homing Beacon points to remove). If the Defender scores 3 or more VPs from Recon Tac Ops during this battle, they gain 1 additional Requisition point.If an operative performs this action, until the end of the Turning Point, they cannot perform any other actions. JAMMERS [1EP]Once per Turning Point, when the Defender rolls to see if a Relief Force operative arrives in the killzone, an operative equipped with jammers can use them. At the end of each Turning Point, you score 1VP if you control the Oil Pump Vantage Point objective marker. Kommandos can do similar, and my favorite of these is Thievin’ Git, which gives your operative a free piece of Equipment before the battle from your stash.

Operational freedom granted - if opportunity presents itself, destroy anything else of value you can find. This is essentially the “Hero Phase” or “Command Phase” of Kill Team – here each player generates a command point (In addition to any they start with – having a “leader” in your Kill Team for example starts you with an additional 2 CP) and then can take turns using that CP to play Strategic Ploys. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

At the end of the battle, if you control one or more Refined Fuel objective markers, you score an additional 3VPs. To randomly determine a Shadow Operations: Octarius War mission, one player rolls one D3 to determine one of the tables below, then the other player rolls one D3 to determine the mission from that table. This one has a very “Orky” design, but I imagine just like with the previous editions of the game that we will see Kill Zone boxes with themed designs and terrain. Curabitur blandit, erat at ultricies pretium, libero dui sollicitudin enim, et sodales nisl augue nec mauris.