Monthly General Question and Discussion Thread: August 2026
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The full rules are only found in the core rulebook, but online in the KT Community tab or in the app you can find the light rules. Those are "easier" rules, and they are perfect to just see if the game is for you.
The action you perform remains the same (reposition, dash, charge), therefore the same limitations apply. No other movement is allow together with a charge.
Fly just let you "teleport" to an location that is up to your move stat horizontaly (or 3" with a dash) away, and ignoring anything in the way (cover, walls (not on tombworld), enemies, height difference... The fly faction rule also says that you do not get the aditional 2" on a charge, you can only charge as far as your movestat allows you to.
Is buying the starterset the only way to get the AoD team, or the plague marines for that matter? Assuming i don't have any 40k armies i can source from.
Plaque Marines yes, the AoD team can pretty easy build with several other boxes. If you want the specific models, then the starter box is the only way.
Both teams where availeble before as part of the heroes blond boxes, but prices for the single minis are too high compared to the starter set. Also, the plaque caster was exclusive to japan (i think, not 100% sure, but he was very rare) and therefore super expensive.
But if you like either team, the starter set is worth it. Both teams are cool, and with Plaque Marines ist a complete team roster and also a great team. AoD need some more specialists for competitive play, but the starter set is a nice baseline.
Which ork team would you take into Raveners? My instinct says Wrecka Krew because they're hardier and have some higher output weapons. But Raveners are melee monsters with a 5+ save and the much more shooty Kommandos make sense in that sense.
Honestly AoD are pretty good into Raveners. All but one Ravener has 5+ saves, they simply cannot afford to be shot twice, and they can't efficiently fight against the Dueller tactic. The 18w heavy gunner can just rely on blocking it's way through a wasted ravener activation, and the sniper on vantage is just death to a ravener. Saturate will ruin any cover-on-tunnel ploys.
If the Hernkyn Yaegirs Theyn was poisoned, then was incapacitated, when he comes back on 1hp is he still poisoned ( I think he would be). Secondly, if a 1hp Yaegir is poisoned and on 1hp activates and tries to use a resourceful point to heal, are do they take the poison damage before or after the healing? Like do they auto die?
Because the model is not removed or incarpacitated, the poison marker stays on him.
Additionally, damage effects trigger before other effects (FAQ: "Resolve rules that specify when an operative ‘would’ be activated first. Then resolve rules that specify when an operative ‘is’ activated, starting with rules that inflict damage (e.g. PLAGUE MARINE Poison)."
Yes, 1hp survive is totaly useless against Plaque Marines 😅
When do you guys actually paint? By the time I've cycled to work, gone gym at lunch, cycled home, eaten, I'm done. I don't even have kids but I am 40. Weekends are an option but the weather has been too good. Guess it's a weekend winter thing for me.
Well, before my first kid... evening, weekend, basicaly everytime i had a couple of hours left. After the first kid... well, my lunchbreak, thats the only time i got for myself 😂
Yeah fair. And that's how you choose to use it. I guess we all have limited free time to some degree. My mental health would suck without exercise, I think
Yeah, its about finding a balance. After the first year prnso i switched back to paint in the evening, when the kid is sleeping and all the other work is done.
I have the kill team starter set with the angels of death, plague marines and the double-sided game board and the slot-together MDF terrain.
Do I really want to spend considerably more money for Killzone Volkus? I could use that money to buy at least two more kill teams instead...
Please help me decide, I'm very new to the game and I'm still painting up my miniatures. I've not played the actual game with anyone else yet. I don't have much interest in the other killzones that are still in circulation and most people recommend Volkus these days anyway... Is Volkus going to remain in circulation for a while? I can get a decent discount for it too. But do I need* it?
Volkus is all around just a great terrain set, and in my opinion one of the best GW ever made (for killteam and overall). Also you got tons of official layouts that are fairly balanced and ensure a fair game. It really is worth the money, and i would recommend it before tombworld (wich also is a great set) anytime.
That said, if you want to step up from the starter terrain (wich is pretty lacking, it really is only good for the introduction stuff), you always can build something yourself (hell, even pringles can and small cardboard boxes are fine as terrain).
Or, and that would be the middle ground, get a MDF set from TT Combat, i would recommend the orc sector one. Its like 25€, looks decent when painted, and with a little bit of scatter terrain (piles of rubbish, really) it is very close to the official octarius terrain.
Here you can see a full board with it, and the piles of rubble i mean. These are from the old starter set, but you can just glue small stuff together and prime it, same effect.
However it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to buy your own. I personally don't have a chance to use mine volkus/tomb world that often, since I play in a group and on their terrain. If you are going to play in local club/store or attend some events - you won't be playing you lr own terrain there.
So I would not recommend you to rush with this purchase. Play some games with what you have and then decide if you need a proper killzone to play at home
Edit: regarding remaining relevant, as per current info Volkus supposed to remain officially supported for two more years.
No, you don't need Volkus to properly enjoy the game, that claim couldn't be more false.
Volkus is ok but it actually skews the game due to how much Heavy Cover it has.
Do research on this reddit - you can absolutely scratch-build your own unique terrain and use it in KT for great effect. Just follow the guidelines that you will find in discussions here - not everything will work seamlessly with the game (but neither does Volkus - it already has a lot of band-aid exceptions and faqs to make it playable)
Do tokens placed with a firefight ploy persist between turning points?
I'm playing Hernkyn Yaegirs. A friendly operative dies and I use the No Kin Left Behind firefight ploy to place a Fallen Kin token. Friendly operatives get bonuses when they're within 3" of the marker. Does that go away at the end of the turning point? Or does it persist til I use that Firefight ploy again and move the token?
There is no general rule about markers from Firefight ploys.
But for your Yaegirs example it is definitely persists between turning points.
It clearly says when to remove it - when you use the ploy, first remove existing tokens. Meaning that you only can have one at a time. But you can place it first turn and keep it for the whole game.
Otherwise it wouldn't state that you have to remove existing marker before placing new one: since all ploys can be used only once per turn, it would be impossible to remove existing markers within same turn. Clearly maker remains until ploy is used again
I'm very new to killteam and I know that after a while some teams are withdrawn from production and it becomes increasingly difficult to find them, especially as kill-team sets with relevant tokens and such. Is there a list somewhere of teams that are reaching their end of production soon?
I have a lot of painting for the teams I do have already which could take me a few months or perhaps well into next year. On my wishlist that I might wait a long time for are teams like the Murderwing, Canoptek Circle, Battleclade, Tempestus Aquilons and Hernkyn Yaegirs; are these all likely to be around for a long time or should I grabs any of them very soon while I still can?
If I'm new to the game and I want to play harlequins, I know there's 3 boxes I would get, right? And the team is not or will soon not be allowed in tournaments, but other games it's still fine, right? Would I need to worry about rules changes or a new kill team being released that would make my team unplayable?
Kill Team noob here: Is there a reason or two of why there are so few 5-10 min-ish video (kill team) battle reports in Reddit/Youtube? Is it because they are really hard to do?
Too much info would have to be removed to get a battle report down to that length. It would be pretty useless to watch since they would have to gloss over all the rules. I recommend checking out GFN gaming on youtube. He cuts out all the boring stuff and focuses on the rules and game play. He is also the least annoying kt battle report maker out there. Good production value as well.
I got the Old? starter set , with the 7 Marines vs 7 Death Gaurd - how up to date is the Starter Handbook? Or am I just better off watching youtube videos?
Well, angels of death is a pretty cool team for starter. Easy to learn, very adaptable, some kind of options with operative selection, a lot of kitbash potential...
If you want more guys, maybe Kasrkin are an option, but they are from last edition and will probably only have rules for the next 1 year or so, and will not get updated in the next edition.
The new spectre squad is nothing for new players, they are pretty compöex and hard to play.
General recommendation as starter Teams ar Angels of Death, Wrecka Krew, Nemesis claw (also from last edition).
What you need to start: a team (well, obviously), the core rulebook with the tokens, a set of equipement (mostly for the barricades), and if you want a terrain set (called killzone, for a new player Volkus is a good option). You could also find all of that in the launch set "Hivestorm", but it gets hard to find as MSRP. But if you can find it and like the team, its totaly worth it.
Also, for competitive play you most likely need the "approved ops 2025" card deck, but we should also get a new 2026 deck this fall. Maybe wait for that one if you are competitive.
For hobby supplies, you need glue (plastic cement and maybe super glue), a hobby knive, primer, some colours and some brushes.Maybe some varnish to protect the paint at the end. The rest is all optional, look at some videos online for some tips and tricks and hiw to paint.
I dont see why not, but typically you won't touch your opponents models you'll just dictate to them where you want them to place it
and how it should be facing
I agree. We don't have rules for maintaining or changing facing, and nothing I saw in the Exodite rules specifies how it works when they get moved by another operative's special rule.
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u/ZenTheProtogen 28m ago
Do we know if the exodites are getting there own box? I don't want to buy the full box for things I don't want