Shadow War Armageddon- what Kill Team are you planning?

[Bloodaxe]

Awesome.  The preorder should be up soon too.

[Hobby Services]

It certainly won't take many Harlequins to make a team.

Or Zoats.

[Agis]

Agreed, I really like the way GW released it, even while the initial box is sold out, you can get everything now.

[Bloodaxe]

Holy $#!(  $83 for the rulebook.    $%#@! GW.


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Now i looked and its $40 USA.  Maybe i was listed as different country?  Or are there soft & hardcover versions?

[Pictors Studio]

You probably got the New Zealand price.  It is always a heart stopper when I do that too.

Although I've bought their FW campaign books for 70 quid each and thought they were pretty good even at that price. 

[Diablo Jon]

I was looking on the GW site this morning the ready made kill teams look like small armies

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Warhammer-40-000?N=102296+3151434147&_requestid=1383163

for example the chaos one is

10 Chaos Space Marines and a set of 5 Cultists, who make up the bulk of the Kill Team, along with 2 Chaos Spawn, 5 Raptors and 5 Terminators, who function as Chaos Space Marine Special Operatives.

and the Tau one is

10-man Pathfinder Team, who make up the bulk of the Kill Team, along with 3 XV25 Stealth Battlesuits, a Cadre Fireblade and an Ethereal with Honour Blade, who function as Tau Pathfinder Special Operatives.

I was expecting to need a lot less or are these sets giving you every available option?

[Agis]

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I was expecting to need a lot less or are these sets giving you every available option?

You need indeed a LOT less. 
You can run a Kill Team with 5 Scouts, or SoB.
Just check the list I linked above.

[spect_spidey]

I was looking on the GW site this morning the ready made kill teams look like small armies

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Warhammer-40-000?N=102296+3151434147&_requestid=1383163

for example the chaos one is

10 Chaos Space Marines and a set of 5 Cultists, who make up the bulk of the Kill Team, along with 2 Chaos Spawn, 5 Raptors and 5 Terminators, who function as Chaos Space Marine Special Operatives.

and the Tau one is

10-man Pathfinder Team, who make up the bulk of the Kill Team, along with 3 XV25 Stealth Battlesuits, a Cadre Fireblade and an Ethereal with Honour Blade, who function as Tau Pathfinder Special Operatives.

I was expecting to need a lot less or are these sets giving you every available option?

It is indeed a lot less than what they are selling bundled. For example, the spawns, Raptors, and terminators are all special operatives. When you spend a promethium cache to hire them for a game, you get one of those not a full unit. So to take the 5 Raptors would be spending five caches. You really only need one of each special operative, but since they aren't sold as individual models, GW is selling the whole box to you.

[Hobby Services]

To be fair, what else were they supposed to do?  They don't make individual-model sprues of most/all of the specialist models.  In the old days they could/would have done metal single packs or two-packs, but that's not an option in the new all-plastic era.

[Bloodaxe]

It is indeed a lot less than what they are selling bundled. For example, the spawns, Raptors, and terminators are all special operatives. When you spend a promethium cache to hire them for a game, you get one of those not a full unit. So to take the 5 Raptors would be spending five caches. You really only need one of each special operative, but since they aren't sold as individual models, GW is selling the whole box to you.

And you really do NOT NEED the Special Operatives at all.  They are not essential, only optional.  Mercenaries, hired guns that you dont need to use at all.  Just look on Ebay or Bartertown for single figs.

[YPU]

I am very happy to see GW going back to supporting this smaller format of play.
Is there a complete list of all warbands out there? I know of the extended file but IIRC that does not include the "base" teams.


And to answer the topics main question. I havn't looked at my 40k stuff for a while now, but I'm pretty sure I have all I need for a Tau pathfinder team and a Tyranid warrior team on hand.

[Pictors Studio]

I've finished my Space Wolf kill team.  These guys will also see service as a 30K Vlyka Fenryka Recon squad for my Prospero project.

Here they are with an Ork Kill Team.

http://imgur.com/a/Iuw0k

[Elbows]

I cannot get over how bad the Scout heads are.  Absolutely terrible!  I see now why people always replace them! 

[Sbloom141]

I've got plenty of Chaos marines that I've painted in all sorts of colours so they would be useful, it's just a shame it's a game of majority cultists!

[Pictors Studio]

I also just bought a box of Genestealer cutlists to use with this.  I'll probably use the Guard list in the book until I get my hands on a proper list for them.  I'm going to use the heads with the more genestealer-y bits as the veterans and the more human head guys as novices.  Just count the autoguns as lasguns and mining laser as a meltagun or whatever and you are all set.  I'll probably build the first set with just a flamer and guys with shot guns and auto guns.  Leader will have a chainsword and bolt pistol.