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Kill Team

Games Workshop · Warhammer 40,000 · 2018

Skirmish28mmSci‑Fi

Small-scale skirmish rules for Warhammer 40,000 using a handful of specialists per side. Missions emphasize tight terrain, asymmetric objectives, and narrative campaigns on compact 22"×30" boards.

Publisher

Games Workshop

Year

2018

Players

2

Board Size

22x30

Movement

Free Measurement

Base Type

round

Miniature Agnostic

No

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Adeptus Mechanicus

The Tech-Priests of Mars who worship the Omnissiah. They maintain the Imperium's technology and field armies of cybernetic warriors and war machines.

Astra Militarum

The vast conscript armies of the Imperium, also known as the Imperial Guard. Billions of ordinary humans fighting with tanks, artillery, and sheer numbers.

Chaos Daemons

Manifestations of the Chaos Gods given physical form. Daemons pour through warp rifts to corrupt and destroy the material universe.

Chaos Knights

Corrupted Imperial Knights sworn to the Chaos Gods, their noble houses fallen to darkness and daemonic corruption.

Chaos Space Marines

Corrupted Space Marines who have turned to the Chaos Gods, wielding daemonic power and ancient grudges against the Imperium.

Dark Eldar (Drukhari)

The sadistic kin of the Aeldari who inhabit the Dark City of Commorragh. They raid realspace to harvest souls and stave off spiritual death.

Eldar (Aeldari)

An ancient and dying alien race of psychic warriors. The Aeldari are swift, elegant, and deadly, fighting to preserve their dwindling species.

Genestealer Cults

Insidious alien-human hybrids who infiltrate Imperial worlds from within, preparing for the arrival of the Tyranid hive fleets.

Imperial Knights

Towering war machines piloted by noble houses, each Knight a walking fortress of guns and close-combat weapons.

Leagues of Votann

The Kin — a resurgent race of stocky, technologically advanced warriors descended from ancient human colonists, guided by ancestral AI constructs.

Necrons

Ancient skeletal warriors of living metal who slumbered for 60 million years. They seek to reclaim their galactic empire and harvest all life.

Orks

Green-skinned alien warriors who live for battle. Orks are held together by a crude but effective culture of violence, looting, and WAAAGH! energy.

Sisters of Battle (Adepta Sororitas)

The military arm of the Ecclesiarchy, fanatical warrior-nuns clad in power armour and armed with bolters and flamers.

Space Marines

The Emperor's finest warriors, genetically enhanced super-soldiers organised into Chapters. The backbone of humanity's defence.

Tau (T'au Empire)

A young and rapidly expanding alien empire driven by the philosophy of the Greater Good. They combine advanced technology with allied auxiliary forces.

Tyranids

A vast alien swarm from beyond the galaxy, consuming all biomass in their path. The Tyranids are a single hive mind driving countless creatures.

Warbands

  • Angels of Death

    Space Marines

    Elite Intercessor specialists who combine heavy intercessors, eliminators, and chapter tactics for versatile strike operations.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Starter Set

  • Battleclade

    Space Marines

    Close-quarters Space Marine operatives built for brutal room-clearing assaults amid the ruins of Volkus.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Typhon

  • Blades of Khaine

    Eldar (Aeldari)

    Striking Scorpion Aspect Warriors dispatched to intercept Imperial extraction teams on the ocean-rigs of Bheta-Decima.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Salvation

  • Blooded

    Chaos Space Marines

    Traitor guardsmen and enforcers who have turned on the Imperium, fighting with scavenged arms and fanatical spite.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Moroch

  • Brood Brothers

    Genestealer Cults

    Genestealer cultists concealed within the Astra Militarum, ready to betray their supposed comrades when the brood commands.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Termination

  • Canoptek Circle

    Necrons

    Canoptek constructs and cryptek acolytes who reclaim lost technology through methodical, merciless tomb protocols.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Tomb World

  • Celestian Insidians

    Sisters of Battle (Adepta Sororitas)

    Celestian operatives who strike from concealed positions to eliminate high-value targets in the Emperor's name.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Shadowhunt

  • Chaos Cult

    Chaos Space Marines

    Mutating heretic cells whose devotees warp into grotesque new forms even as battle rages around them.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Ashes of Faith

  • Corsair Voidscarred

    Eldar (Aeldari)

    Aeldari corsair raiders who plunder the Nachmund Gauntlet with reckless bravado and lethal precision.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Nachmund

  • Death Korps

    Astra Militarum

    Cadia's finest siege veterans, remorseless trench fighters who hold the line no matter the cost. Successor to Veteran Guardsmen under KT24 rules.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Octarius

  • Deathwatch

    Space Marines

    Hand-picked xenos hunters drawn from many Chapters, armed with specialist ammunition and alien-slaying expertise.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Tomb World

  • Elucidian Starstriders

    Astra Militarum

    Rogue Trader Elucia Vhane's hardened crew, survivalists who fight through horrors for profit and the Imperium's frontier.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Rogue Trader

  • Exaction Squad

    Astra Militarum

    Elite Adeptus Arbites who enforce the Lex Imperialis and drag fugitives back to face Imperial justice.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Soulshackle

  • Farstalker Kinband

    Tau (T'au Empire)

    Veteran Kroot mercenaries who stalk prey through the claustrophobic corridors of the space hulk Gallowdark.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Into the Dark

  • Fellgor Ravagers

    Chaos Space Marines

    Chaos beastmen raiders who have prowled the Gallowdark for centuries, hunting with horned fury and pack cunning.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Gallowfall

  • Gellerpox Infected

    Chaos Daemons

    Warp-tainted mutants and hulks led by Vulgrar Thrice-Cursed, spreading Nurgle's corruption through confined voidships.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Rogue Trader

  • Goremongers

    Chaos Space Marines

    Khorne-devoted jakhals who have mutilated themselves into bloody parodies of Bloodletters to serve the Skull Throne.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Blood and Zeal

  • Hand of the Archon

    Dark Eldar (Drukhari)

    Cunning Drukhari Kabalites who strike from the shadows, sowing terror before vanishing with their prizes.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Soulshackle

  • Hearthkyn Salvagers

    Leagues of Votann

    Leagues salvage teams racing to recover kin and archeotech before the doomed Gallowdark tears itself apart.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Gallowfall

  • Hernkyn Yaegirs

    Leagues of Votann

    Ruthless Votann commandos who defend prospector claims with sniper rifles, breaching charges, and iron discipline.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Termination

  • Hierotek Circle

    Necrons

    Crypteks and their immortal guardians awakened to seize archeotech from the vaults of the Gallowdark.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Shadowvaults

  • Hunter Clade

    Adeptus Mechanicus

    Skitarii and Sicarian hunter-killers who stalk the killzone with doctrina imperatives and relentless cybernetic precision.

  • Imperial Navy Breachers

    Astra Militarum

    Imperial Navy boarding specialists trained for aggressive close-quarters assaults through voidships and hive depths.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Into the Dark

  • Inquisitorial Agents

    Sisters of Battle (Adepta Sororitas)

    Ordo Hereticus acolytes and requisitioned Imperial assets who root out corruption before it can spread.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Ashes of Faith

  • Kasrkin

    Astra Militarum

    Cadian elite shock troops who excel in the cramped, lethal corridors of the Gallowdark shadow vaults.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Shadowvaults

  • Kommandos

    Orks

    Sneaky Ork infiltrators from Octarius who ambush, demolish, and dakka their way through any killzone.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Octarius

  • Legionaries

    Chaos Space Marines

    Heretic Astartes champions who fight for glory, plunder, and the favour of the Dark Gods in the Nachmund Gauntlet.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Nachmund

  • Mandrakes

    Dark Eldar (Drukhari)

    Otherworldly Drukhari assassins who materialise from shadow to butcher prey amid Bheta-Decima's sinking rigs.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Nightmare

  • Murderwing

    Chaos Space Marines

    Chaos spawn and cultist hunters who overwhelm foes with frenzied close assaults and warp-born resilience.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Shadowhunt

  • Nemesis Claw

    Chaos Space Marines

    Night Lords terror troops who relish cruelty and fear, stripping flesh and hope from their victims alike.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Nightmare

  • Novitiates

    Sisters of Battle (Adepta Sororitas)

    Battle Sisters in training, zealous recruits proving their worth with blade and bolter in the Vedik war zone.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Chalnath

  • Pathfinders

    Tau (T'au Empire)

    T'au forward observers who mark targets, deploy drones, and bring precise firepower to the Vedik front.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Chalnath

  • Phobos Strike Team

    Space Marines

    Primaris infiltrators and incursors who conduct covert sabotage and assassination behind enemy lines.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Moroch

  • Plague Marines

    Chaos Space Marines

    Death Guard champions who advance inexorably, shrugging off wounds as they spread Nurgle's gifts.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Starter Set

  • Ratlings

    Astra Militarum

    Diminutive Imperial snipers and saboteurs who stalk urban killzones with tripwires, spotters, and lethal marksmanship.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Brutal and Cunning

  • Raveners

    Tyranids

    Burrowing Tyranid shock organisms that erupt from below to tear apart defenders on Volkus.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Typhon

  • Sanctifiers

    Sisters of Battle (Adepta Sororitas)

    Zealous Ecclesiarchy militia who defend sacred sites with flamer, melta, and unshakeable faith.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Blood and Zeal

  • Scout Squad

    Space Marines

    Space Marine Scouts who infiltrate extraction rigs, striking from concealment to complete their Raven Guard debt.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Salvation

  • Spectre Squad

    Astra Militarum

    Raven Guard Phobos operatives who exploit darkness and misdirection to eliminate targets without warning.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Terror on Devlan

  • Strike Force Variel

    Space Marines

    A covert Space Marine strike team assembled for high-risk operations requiring speed and overwhelming violence.

  • Tempestus Aquilons

    Astra Militarum

    Elite Tempestus Scions who descend by grav-chute to seize objectives in the tyranid-haunted hive world of Volkus.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Hivestorm

  • Vespid Stingwings

    Tau (T'au Empire)

    Airborne T'au auxiliaries armed with neutron weapons, striking from above with alien speed and lethality.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Hivestorm

  • Void-dancer Troupe

    Eldar (Aeldari)

    Harlequin performers for whom every battle is theatre, chaining flawless manoeuvres into murderous crescendos.

  • Warpcoven

    Chaos Space Marines

    Thousand Sons sorcerers and rubric thralls who unravel reality with psychic malice and ensorcelled firepower.

  • Wolf Scouts

    Space Marines

    Space Wolves scouts who hunt with feral instinct, closing for the kill when their prey least expects it.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Dead Silence

  • Wrecka Krew

    Orks

    Ork demolition specialists who smash fortifications apart and spend Wrecka points to turn near-misses into carnage.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Brutal and Cunning

  • Wyrmblade

    Tyranids

    Genestealer cult neophytes guided by brood agents, ambushing foes amid the Octarius war zone.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Octarius

  • XV26 Stealth Battlesuits

    Tau (T'au Empire)

    T'au stealth suits that strike from concealment, marking targets before vanishing into sensor static.

    Introduced in Kill Team: Dead Silence

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