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Definitely using AI mode. Everyone in my area only paints; they never actually play the games.

Great content. Its good to find another Irish miniatures game creator out there.

RPG books could certainly benefit from being in a smaller, digest-sized format. These huge books are so unwieldy at the table.

I thought it was a great battle report. Thanks for sharing. Hoping yoy have more on the channel.

Nice vehicle overview

I can finally put good use all the teams I bought but never had the time to learn to use

i play 40k this way but the steps 1234 are randomized as an action. So for example a d6 is rolled for the 4 unit types im my collection. Maneovre/ melee/support and hybrid. A unit might move/ say stationary or move and not charge. etc The AI in my games are 2000 points while my army is 1700. Games are decent but playing an opponent is better.

I’m really looking forward to using this to teach the new game. I’m going to be using 90 or fewer wounds worth of the Billy-basic trooper tier bodies (Termagants for marksmen & Hormagaunts for brawlers). Down the line I may try out using actual teams as the NPOs.

If you want to turn solo play into an amazing campaigns, the Kill Team battles could be substituted into Five Parsecs from Home.

40k player primarily here - i am planning on buying this to let my kids play in the grim darkness. And if gives me an excuse to buy some kill teams for factions I don’t play in 40k to use as the player character specialists trying to go against my space marines (who I have a wide range of choices to fit the various melee and shooty types)

Now we just need a "mod" for five parsecs from home and we are golden :D

I think adding a behavior table tied to a dice roll like they have in in the warhammer quest system would work perfectly for this. You could use the initiative system for enemy activations as well.

I'm looking forward to this. I tend to have the AI target the model with the lowest reaming health when they have a choice. I will use many of the missions from all the Kill Team books I've collected. I think I will run my Blooded through a campaign using Spec Ops from the current edition.

Im thinking of using this to make space marine campaign onto co-op kt

The only real question that I have about solo/co-op mode is how many turning points a game will have, because it is not mentioned in the sections. By looking at the missions it seems it can be a lot more than 4. But beside this, I'm pumped up! I can't wait to play it!

Mic to mouth 👍

Sounds like the perfect way to play with kids!

This could be very interesting. The genetic enemy profiles are a nice touch.

Great discussion and analysis, thanks

While I understand why you are stating it, it drives me crazy when people talk about either Horus Heresy games as "historical". They are not historical, it is a completely fictional universe with the "documentation" of it being fictional books. My dislike of using this word is that it lends credence to all the rivet counters and gatekeepers who insist you can't participate unless you have specific models that reflect THEIR idea of what is "historically" accurate which is of course complete nonsense.

Any advice on using the Solar Auxilia Superheavies? I have found them underwhelming thus far, vapourised in the first or second turn!

Great recap. Waiting for more Legions Imperialis with baited breath.

I would argue that the importance of pre-game mechanics in Killteam (current Killteam, who knows for the new edition) is where you get into it being considered more competitive. There are a lot of decisions before the game that impact it, and if you don't know how to perform them well, puts you at a distinct disadvantage. A lot of that also includes knowing a lot about the opponent's team. The game play can be largely similar after that.

Thought this was a terrific discussion that is overdue.. I've never really understood the position that Warcry is all luck and kt is all strategy... But that notion persists, thank you for the thoughtful look at dispelling that myth

Team selection in Kill Team is far easier than in Warcry. Kill Team, pick a faction and buy the box. Every model that you need is in the box. With Warcry, unless you just go with the models in a two player box set, you’re faced with a much bigger set of options for building your team. And the models you want are probably not going to be found in a single box.

First thing is to determine what people mean by competitive vs casual. What you see with many people who consider themselves competitive players is that they look for predictable rules and abilities. So, if you’re playing Warcry as presented, the fact that you use random cards to generate a scenario makes it much less predictable. Sure, you can creat custom scenarios but then you’re modifying the basic game to support a competitive setting. So the basic version of Warcry is random scenario generation and Kill Team is fixed preconceived scenarios. In other words... Warcry is a casual game that can be modified to support competitive play, whereas Kill Team is a competitive game that can be modified to be more casual.

I would really appreciate a vid about deployment in Warcry. The way to allocate the three battle groups still eludes me.

Great Vid topic :)

I love both games, specially Warcry. But there are a few things I don't like in Warcry. The game set up needs to be as KT, not that you choose and split your band before even know the deploy. The cards need text such as the name of the mini and the name oh the rune ability. The runes like "fly" or "beast" need to be differenciated in color or other way. And finally the abilities as runes instead of the name are a pain in the ass, if not for the Warcrier app that sorts them out and identifies the users by portrait.

I love GW models and some of the lore too is :) Every year they mange to make soem new stuff that makes my mouth water somehow. Long since. When it comes to rules though GW are ..shal we say amateurs? They constantly mess up all their rules and FAQ upon release is standrad. For rules, sold rules and codexes that is... Warcry has few rules and therefore is my favorite GW gameset. Easily. Off course it has been changed up back and forth left-right-center constalty too. But it is a very good smooth FUN gameplay system. Kill team is good too but more rules heavy and it is GW-rules (written by soemone tahts eems drunk at best).

How dumb would it be to almost just bring titans for a regular game? Asking for a friend

Yo! Blood Angels drop pods here! You're correct, I got mixed up on the army builder but I was able to rectify it and have it match the squads correctly. That event was excellent and I've been to a good few local tournies since, developing my list. My L was to the winner of the event; I conceded after turn 1 because, frankly, I had nothing left! There's definitely a schism between competitive players about how far to push the cheese lists as no one I've spoken to who have played against The AlphaFists build have said they enjoyed it, but it's entirely legal and it shows that not all chapters were created equally in the rules. Both those factions are grim alone, together is a pretty negative play experience. My local group (verging on 20 local players) have some house rules to deal with the more egregious rules issues and try to treat it as a more "historical" game where building a powerful list is fine, but we self police anyone being a bit too cheesy.

I am trying to do this. Whenever I download the card image and scale it down to 3.5x4 inches (rough card size) it gets really pixelated. Is there a way to fix that?

Thanks for giving the site a run down Baz! Troels made such an incredible tool for the community and I hope your video makes it easier for even more people to check out! Also that list of mine you looked at for wildercorps is the list I am taking IRL to NOVA next week 😈

Thanks for going through this site. I heard of it but didn’t know much about it. Very informative.

I just dusted off my unplayed starter set last night, so this is a very timely video. Thanks for explaining it!

Hello! Fantastic application but I have a question. When using the editor on an already created miniature (for example on bladeborns) I have seen that the points assigned to it are not equal to the points of the editor itself without manual adjustments. What is this due to?

Nice! I was planning to start a campaign :)

I definitely would like to hear your thoughts about the Hive Secundus campaign rules especially after your 2 player campaign video from a while back. It seems the rules the box offers follows your advice about GM’ing a Games Workshop 2 player experience.

Would you recommend just grabbing the Khorne team booster pack? As it has more khorngors?

Awesome, we need more videos like this

This was great, thanks!

Nice! Will the Warhammer RPG videos have their own playlist?

Great video man, you do a excellent job laying out the system.

For JO, healing the bearer is really good. If only you culd use the ability. The priestess killing something and using the triple never, ever happened to me in the year I have been playing JO. You don't want the priestess in combat. Only t3 means she dies fast and you want her alive. If she kills something, it's luck, on executing a fighter with a few wounds left. The Bloddy Tribute triple is so hard to use it never gets used, and as such their battle trait will be the same, I think. The only way to heal you bearer is to put the pristess in danger, not the best deal

Where are the Warcry rules for these guys? I don’t see them in the Rules download for Skaven. Also, did you make those Warcry cards for this Warband?

I'm a big fan of this update as an idea - I think it's a fun way to incentivise taking less allies - I just wish they were a little more consistent - some of these abilities are really flavourful and useful, and then others kind of just feel like they ran out of ideas 😅

i think you misunderstood the bonesplitters ability, it is actually pretty interesting IMO. so lets say you roll a double 1, a double 5 and a 3 and 4. Before it is decided whohas the initiative and assigns wild-dice first, you get to choose to reroll the ones, in a hope of maybe get another six to make it more likely to get a rampage. So still pretty minor as it is only 1's but an ability that can be usefull in all four rounds and can give you a better chance of tripples and quads. So pretty fun IMO. Apart from that, nice video run-down. I really like these on theory, but i wish they were slightly more balanced. A kurnoth hunter leader getting a free teleport in the first round to immedeately move and attack, compared Askurgans maybe being able to heal or Claws making disengage slightly worse is just one example of some pretty weird balancing. I thought for sure they would have used this to give better abilities to weaker warbands

Massive gratitude for this! Having all of them in one place for a review really helps with perspective. Excited to give these a go, especially to have undying flame puppies!

This is the sort of thing to which the Community site should have dedicated an article. Had it not been for my semi-weekly swing by your channel, I would not have heard of this change. Good stuff, overall. Interesting to see the designers all but formalize the separation from the original Warcry ideal that the only passive information for any given fighter be the numbers on the card, which has been increasingly suggested by the recent warbands. It's a complication, but one that was probably necessary in order that certain factions have their flavors represented in the game, and to enable newer warbands to distinguish themselves from the rest. In many if not most cases, the battle trait doesn't replace an ally for "optimized" listbuilding. This is especially so in cases where they opted to reinforce the theme of an already one-dimensional warband (e.g., Riverblades), because the inclusion of allies is typically to bring a profile type or ability that your warband otherwise lacks (I don't think that even allies can help the Riverblades, but it was the first example that came to mind). In other instances, though, it's a strong incentive to play "mono-faction" (e.g., Ironjawz). I think that you have misinterpreted the Bonesplitterz ability. The "initiative roll" -- though that term does not appear in the rules that way -- refers to the six dice at the top of the round that become singles (for initiative) and Ability Dice -- hence "each result." It's a pretty good trait.