Games Workshop - Kill Team: Octarius (2021 Starter Set)

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Sure, you can take “operatives” with special traits (like a comms guy, for example), but thanks to the new Fire Team rules and the Compendium, you’re still locked to fielding only the models from that one Fire Team.

Strategic Ploys are army unique and give you some cool bonuses – for example adding 1 to save rolls for that turn. How best to introduce and assess this new – and, honestly, quite bright – star in the Warhammer firmament?

While there is a list of universal actions within the book, some operatives and factions also have unique actions only they can perform – and I imagine this will be expanded further in later supplements. The Orks don’t have the same firepower, but make up for it with greater numbers, beefier maximum wounds, and the Throat Slittas rule, which allows them to charge the enemy directly out of concealment. Kill Teams of around 10 models jostle for control of a key objectives in tight and dense terrain as they try and set up beneficial vantage points while out manoeuvring their opponents in deadly skirmishes.

After that, the rest of the book is dedicated to the different kinds of game you can play: Open Play, Matched Play, and Spec Ops and Narrative Play. Heads up, though: Kill Team has been rebuilt from the ground up, so there’s going to be a lot to talk about.Octarius comes with two books: the Core Book and the Octarius Book (well, three if you count the build guide for the Orks, DKoK, and scenery). No, thanks to those Fire Team rules, you’ll probably have to use either the Kill Team provided in the actual launch box, or bite the bullet and commit to the dull Fire Team selection rules which let you play models from only one or two units. In close combat we get echoes of early editions of 40k – Each player rolls a number of dice equal to the attacks of one of their weapons, again with standard and critical hits being separated – then starting with the attacker they take turns picking a dice and choosing to either cause damage to their opponent directly or parry one of their opponent’s blows – defence stat is for nothing in brutal close combat if you get stabbed in the face with a rusty blade! This meant that, if you already had a collection of miniatures, all you needed to start playing Kill Team was that one book.