New elite Guardsmen take on the Red Terror – an iconic Tyranid bioform available in plastic for the first time – in the next veritable action movie of an expansion for Kill Team. Plus, there are new ways to play, as you can challenge your special operatives to take on similarly large threats.
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Kill Team: Terror on Devlan
This new expansion for Kill Team shakes up the formula by pitting the elite Spectre Squad soldiers of call sign Jester against a single massive foe, with their efforts to bring it down spread across nine linked Joint Ops missions. They’ll need skill, luck, and the Emperor’s blessing to get it done, as their foe is none other than the infamous Red Terror – a tunneling Tyranid bioform notorious for swallowing its prey whole.
The Red Terror
Veteran Tyranid commanders may remember the Red Terror from Warhammer 40,000 Codexes of old. Now it’s back with its first standalone plastic kit to terrorise the galaxy once more. This huge serpentine monster is unique in its ability to regenerate damage from consumed biomass, and it can disappear beneath the killzone and lurk unseen until it’s ready to strike and swallow your operatives whole.
Spectre Squad Kill Team
To ensure the destruction of this elusive foe, the Cadians unleash one of their most valuable assets – a team of veteran scouts known as a Spectre Squad, whose hard-won experience and well-drilled fieldcraft make them the perfect warriors to track and eliminate their fast and deadly adversary.
Spectre Squad members are lightly armoured and equipped with camouflage cloaks to help them move undetected through rough terrain, and rely on ambushes and cunning tactics to bring down tough targets. Normal Guardsmen might think that starshell flares are just for illuminating battlefields, for instance, while Spectres know that the blinding burst is a great way to stun a room full of hostiles.
They’re also kitted out with some heavy ordnance for more conventional firefights, like a rapid fire autostubber and a choice of plasma gun or meltagun. After all, when even the best-planned trap might only scratch the Red Terror’s hardened carapace, a cheeky missile launcher to the chest is an excellent Plan B.
Big creatures being an absolute menace in the killzone isn’t confined to Terror on Devlan either. A new Kill Team expansion book brings your favourite big guys into the action with flexible rules designed to work with miniatures of all factions,* taking the place of your regular specialists as mighty Nemesis Operatives.
Kill Team: Nemesis Operatives
Whether you’re looking to add some serious muscle to your kill team or whip up a deadly boss encounter for your Joint Ops missions, Kill Team: Nemesis Operatives has a tool for the job. This book provides commanders with a flexible set of rules to create their own nemesis operatives – generating characteristics, weapons, and abilities suitable for your own scenarios.
For instance, your Stealth Battlesuit kill team might call upon a Crisis Battlesuit ally when much heavier firepower is required. Your go-getting Wrecka Krew might burst through a wall only to find a massive Tyranid Screamer-Killer on the other side. Both teams might need to tiptoe around the periphery while a Dreadnought and Helbrute lock in a deadly duel in the centre.
To get you started coming up with ideas for your own Nemesis Operatives, two awesome creatures previously seen in the Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress game will be getting standalone releases alongside the book – the ferocious Ambull, and the mysterious Zoat known only as The Archivist. Each of them has a mission pack in the Nemesis Operatives dossier, with a datacard for the beast and two joint ops missions that use them in ways suited to their particular methods and goals.
We’ll be taking a closer look at these new Kill Team expansions soon, so make sure to check in with Warhammer Community each week for the latest.
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* Yes, even Imperial and Chaos Knights.
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