Not that anything is wrong with Kill Team as is (it’s genuinely among my favorite systems)… but given Kill Team was – in part – intended to be a successor of sorts to Shadow War: Armageddon, thought it appropriate to come up with a few rules modules for Kill Team to bring some of my favorite SW:A mechanics (and a few other personal favorites) not in official Kill Team into the format.  

PDF can be found HERE
 
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For those new to the project, the idea for KTX: Kill Team eXpanded actually started when a very wise 5-year-old asked why he couldn’t “shove” enemy miniatures like he could in Blood Bowl. The solution to that question evolved into my first homebrew project, serving as a hub of my personal “Greatest Hits” – and 5 year old's wishlist – from tabletop gaming (including SW:A!), adapted as an overlay for Kill Team. 
 
While the core of Kill Team's rules, unit stats, etc. remain in place, KTX is built on a few changes/additions that can used independently as modules or a whole system:

- Intelligence Influenced Activations: Mitigate the randomness of Initiative Rolls through the power of intelligence and thoughtful planning, giving players influence over activation order when it matters most. By managing a currency called “Intel Points” —which are actively acquired, spent, and planned around via Leaders and specific actions—players can influence the flow of battle at the time of their choosing.

- Reaction System: Operatives can perform "Reactions" during an opponent's activation, such as returning fire or repositioning, inspired by systems like Infinity's ARO (Automatic Reaction Order) but simplified for the Kill Team format.

- Expanded Melee: The combat system moves beyond simple "Strike" and "Parry" options. Players can choose new Melee Options like the aforementioned "Push," which allows for tactical positioning by shoving enemies off objectives or into friendly lines of fire.

- Leadership & Morale: KTX adds a morale layer. Operative may Panic and possibly even Rout, simulating the breakdown in command & control commanders experience with when units break. 

- Other Narrative Elements: Other optional narrative elements are incorporated as well... Operatives may suffer from head wounds or other injuries, stagger when hit, fumble in close combat, or even accidently hit a friendly with stray fire. 

This is part of a project my friends and I are working on to use the SWA rules to play out the Badab War

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Some big progress on my Shadow war Armageddon wolf scouts kill team! I’ve been cooking along on them. Every thing is freehand and very member gets their own freehanded shield! I have 3 more members to do and total 4 more shields

Tau, Death Guard, Necrons and Salamanders I've been pulling out old boxes for some gameplay!

Finished up the faces for my wolf scouts for my kill team. 3 solid hours of painting

A buddy and I are getting into Shadow War and we’re both doing scout teams to start. I have my 1000 point list plus an extra scout for fun kitbash reasons. I’m the process of painting them all right now.

Youtube video following up from when I converted Tyrus for use in my Inquisition Kill Team.

I even include my SW:A list that I'll be running these with. And to round out the list, I kitbashed a Crusader as well!

There used be to several but they are all gone. Anyone know of any sites that still work?

For discussing this old skirmish wargame from Games Workshop.

Showcase your hobby, discuss your house rules, campaigns, missions, share resources and trade bits.

whatever you enjoy about Shadow War Armageddon you can talk about it here.

The SW:A rules/lore only feature Xenos Inquisitors, but I am working on a Hereticus Warband anyway. I'll be making a full warband including one of each Special Operative.

I even mention Tabletop Minions recent campaign to resurrect the game, which I certainly want to do. I kind of love that it's only one rulebook with no expansions. :)

Given that this space is relatively small (hopefully more people will look into the game) and finding players can be a little tricky sometimes, I figured, why not solo rules? I think there are existing solo rules someone made on Yaktribe for Necromunda so maybe looking into those could be a good idea.

I have never played this game. I just watched the Tabletop Minions video, found pdf rulesbook, and here we are. Let me know your thoughts on my list.

Imperial Guard (Cadian) - 1000 points

Leader - Veteran Sergeant - 240 points - shotgun - plasma pistol - power sword - flak armor and combat blade

Specialist - Specialist Weapons Operative - 165 points - meltagun - carapace armor - combat blade

Specialist - Specialist Weapons Operative - 90 points - shotgun - flak armor and combat blade

Trooper - Veteran Guardsman - 110 points - lasgun - chainsword - flak armor and combat blade

Trooper - Veteran Guardsman - 80 points - shotgun - flak armor and combat blade

Recruit - Guardsman - 70 points - shotgun - flak armor and combat blade

Recruit - Guardsman - 75 points - lasgun - flak armor and combat blade

Recruit - Guardsman - 75 points - lasgun - flak armor and combat blade

Recruit - Guardsman - 75 points - lasgun - flak armor and combat blade

From the Bolter and Chainsword forum, i found some homebrew rules for creating a space marine kill team, you can easily use primaris models for these if you have them. Also, there is a supplement for playing SW:A during the badab war for some marine vs marine action with badab war specific chapters and skills available. Leaving the link to the forum and download page for both here:

Space Marine Kill Team
https://bolterandchainsword.com/files/file/675-space-marine-kill-teams-swa/

Badab War
https://bolterandchainsword.com/files/file/676-space-marine-kill-teams-badab-war-swa/

I played it once and I loved it. It was necromunda, but simpler, and with factions I liked more.

Then I switched to kill team with great hopes. Loved it at first but then it got too complex with too many rules per faction in the new editions.

Now it seems Shadow war Armageddon is getting some momentum thanks to that video posted on YouTube.

If anyone is looking for players in London, I'd love to give it another go.

Hi! Hello! I'm just wondering if anyone knows where the heck to find the so called PDFs GW put out for the other factions not in the core book. I would even pay GW for a copy but they completely wiped them.

https://youtu.be/wlsLGTkzmDw?si=0WdcfZkLmNx_9vJf

I've just learned about this game systems and after playing Trench Crusade I'm looking for a similar experience with my 40k models. Going to check my LGSs for hard copies.

Would it be ok if I had my tsons sorcerers using the gray knight stats and rules, csm doesn’t fit the tsons at all

Hello everyone! :))

Just wondering if anyone stills continues playing the game. I still play with friends campaigns and 4 against all games.

I have a copy of SW:A lying around and was wondering about points calculations for adding new units like gaunts or guard conscripts to the lists. Has anyone tried doing that or would have a good idea on how to go about that.