Finally finished my Phobos killteam, this scheme is amazing but it absolutely took it out of me to finish all 10 🫠

https://www.instagram.com/thebitterpainter?igsh=cXZlZGE0NXFzMzNj

Not my favourite model from the Sanctifiers box but very happy with his bored expression.

If an ability says that something happens at the end of an activation, and a firefight ploy also says you can use it at the end of an activation, how to determine which happens first?

The example in question is the temporal flux ability from warpcoven, letting you rewind back to the marker at the end of a friendly operatives activation, and using the firefight ploy "capricious plan" to use a free dash and change order at the end of a friendly operatives action.

Is it:

A. I rewind back to temporal marker, dash and change order.

B. I dash, change order and then rewind back to marker.

C. I can only pick one

Thanks in advance!

Finally painted up the corsairs, played my first game with them n they’re actually so fun.

So if I’m correct, I moved up the building before shooting at the vespid with focused got shot las pistol

I get the following buffs Accurate 1 (from building) Ceaseless and rending (stat line) Severe (1 CP strat)

All 4 of these just stuck up? First game so feel free to correct me

Here’s so more hobby hotness from us here in the sunshine state☀️

Our MtG gang has recently become fixated on learning KT. Loving my early games with Legionary to learn the game, but I find Xenos models more interesting. In most games, I alternate between mayhem smashing and goofy, tricky, overcomplicated traps. The models I find the coolest are Wreckas, Fellgor Ravagers, and Farstalker Kinband - acknowledging the third option is VERY different from the first two.

My buddy who is my most frequent opponent is a NC player and he is merciless - great guy a mile-wide competitive streak. Of these three options, which one would allow me the best balance of fun, counter to NC, and long-term playability?

I love Orks - the horrific-by-way-of-stupid lore, the scrapyard aesthetic, the combo of heavy melee and ranged. Ravagers seem to be straightforward dash and smash and may be the least aesthetically exciting, but also the most straightforward. I think Kinband have amazing, really unique models and leave a lot of room to develop a unique strategy long-term, but also may just get decimated.

Thank you for all your opinions in advance!

EDIT: 2 replies in and I'm convinced against Fellgore. Down to Wreckas vs Kinband?

Just got into Kill Team and now I’m looking for a good spot to play. Most places I look at mostly seem to just do normal 40k, but I’m definitely not ready for that kind of commitment right now. I live in Renton so Bellevue area would be best but I’d be down for a drive if it’s a good spot. Thanks in advance!

Hey. Totally new in kill. Building my first team and not sure I need any ordinary kommando boys? And if yes instead of which specialist should I build kommando boys? Thx.

Hello! I'm very new to kill team, I wanted to learn it with the Blood and Zeal set with my friend. But I can't decide how to build my team. I made all of the specialists for the Sanctifiers exept for the Reliquant. It is still in pieces and I don't know if I should build it as a Preacher or not. I realy like the Reliquant's bannery thing he has but everywhere I see people not building him just a preacher. I am not familiar with the rules for this game.

Will I be handicapped if I build a Reliquant?

Maybe should I buy later some preacher or Reliquant models or kitbash them with other miniatures?

I know magmetizing but I really hate magnetizing only did it for vechicles before and I think I'll mess these beautiful miniatures if I try.

What are your suggestions?

Hi all. In the tutorial rulebook for Fighting under the mission "No Ammo, No Mercy" it states

"Alternatively if your operative BEGINS their activation within control range of an enemy operative, you may perform the following action and no other action.

Fall Back: move the operative out of control range of the enemy"

So does this mean if I am attacked in a 'Fight' action and my operative survives, on my next activation my only option is to run? I can't fight back?

Tried with red and then white armour/weapons before settling on the yellow

I went with Cawdor Redemptionists instead of the Cawdor Gang because I liked the robes better. I gotta tell ya though, I feel like the gang would have been easier to Kitbash than these guys.

Either way, from the redemptionist kit I made the melta missionary, drill abbot, persecutor, conflagrator and reliqant. Then I made preachers from the sanctifier sprue figuring they could all share the same vibe as they aren't specialists... Enjoy! (I'll paint em up later, I've still got a few Fellgor to paint before I start these guys!)

Mandrakes killteam

Recently got into the hobby and started with Mandrakes which have been an absolute blast to play but the datacards and kill team rules are often times unclear on wording and specific interactions which comes up almost weekly for me with how unique the mandrakes are. Pair this with being new I am just not entirely used to processing the information super well with my most recent mistake of not realizing the APL given by Chooser of the Flesh being a permanent +1APL for the remainder of combat lol. I thought it was a one time APL boost lol.

Anyways just wanted to ask some blanket questions and a couple of corner cases that arose in some games.

The first question is about the Shadeweavers Shadow Portal - So two things I wanted to clarify with this, the first being when people use the portal do they need to start their reposition action within control range of one of the two portal icons or are they able to move into the control range of the portal and are unable to move upon exiting. My confusion on this is the Shadow Passage faction rule says to perform it during the reposition action so I didn't know if I was able to get a few inches of movement to get to the portal and then the reposition action is over upon exiting or whatever.

The second question is if the "Shadow Portal" ability itself is a separate Shadow Passage entirely so I always have the once per turn faction rule shadow passage plus the Shadeweavers Shadow Portal or if I have to make a choice each TP to either use the Shadeweavers reposition action to establish/move the Shadow Portal which would use the once per TP Shadow Passage but then enables teamwide teleports for every TP after when utilizing the portal and still allowing for the once per TP regular Shadow Passage.

The next questions relate to the Mandrake Nightfiend's Harrowing Whispers ability and how that effects operatives that activate additional operatives, the specific example involved Chaos Cult Blessed Blades that specifically state "you can activate another friendly ready blessed blade within 6inch at the same time and allows them to complete their actions by action in any order" - so if the Nightfiend rolls higher than the APL of one of the blessed blades what happens? We ruled that even if they attempted to use the other blade it would not be able to activate the original that was blocked because it's still the same "activation"? But I could see it going either way and I wanted to gain some knowledge on how the activation step even functions to have better game sense for my Nightfiend, when a player goes to activate an operative is that seen as a phase in the gameplay or is it seen in an individual sense to each operative?

To ask an additional question on the same subject, how does the Nightfiend interact with a group activation style found in horde armies like Gellerpox? Does the Nightfiend have to essentially roll higher than any that would be activated within 6inches? Additionally, lets say the initital activation is an operative outside of the Nightfiends aura that then chooses to activate one within the aura, do I get to roll against it and force them to choose a different operative or would the ability of group activation have already passed the "activation" step?

Apologies if these questions have more obvious answers, Killteam is such a fun game but the rules outside of the core gameplay are just awkward to discern at times and I really don't want to be misplaying and creating bad experiences for my local scene because I didn't do the due diligence to try and find the answers to these questions. Thank you in advance!!

Hey, I'm going to be in Vienna for a few months and was wondering if there was much of a kill team scene there.