GW Pre-Orders: Pricing & Links – Kill Team ARENA
This weekend we’ve got competitive Kill Team, a helpful floating Mechanicus Tech-Priest and Genestealer Cult pistoleer from GW.
via Games Workshop
Kill Team ARENA $90
Kill Team: Arena is an expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team that introduces rules for competitive play, using evenly balanced terrain set-ups and mission objectives to offer each player an even playing field. Also included are missions and rules for running competitive Kill Team tournaments, either for single players or teams of two allies (known as Battle Brothers).
The Book
A 64-page softback book, Kill Team: Arena explains everything you need to know about playing competitive games of Kill Team, from one-off games to various formats of tournament play:
Killzones: This sections describes rules for Ultra-close Confines combat and introduces four new Killzone Environments (Generatorium, Catacombs, Armorium Stockpile, and Garrison Vault), each with their own environmental rules.
Competitive Play: This section includes competitive rules, terrain maps and missions intended for use in games where balance is paramount, such as those played in tournaments.
Battle Brothers: Introduces a cooperative format for playing team-based competitive play games of Kill Team, where each Battle Brothers team consists of two players whose kill teams are pitted against their opponents’ to see who can complete the most objectives. Includes 4 Battle Brothers missions and 28 Battle Brothers Tactics.
Ultima Missions: This section describes how to create custom competitive missions using the Killzones found in Kill Team: Arena by utilising randomly generated killzones, deployment maps and Arena Objectives. This ensures no two competitive play games are exactly alike!
Kill Team Tournaments: Guidelines for running and participating in competitive play Kill Team tournaments, including how to register players and command rosters, determining player pairings in each round of a tournament, as well as how to score and rank players.
Kill Team: Theta-7 Acquistus $65
An expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team, this box includes 6 miniatures – one of which is an exclusive Commander, the Tech-Priest Manipulus – a scenery set, a background booklet, as well as brand-new Tactics and Mission cards. Included:
– 8-page Theta-7 Acquisitus booklet
– 17 Adeptus Mechanicus Tactics cards
– 5 Adeptus Mechanicus Commander Tactics cards
– 4 Mission cards
– 2 Adeptus Mechanicus Kill Team tokens sheets
– 6 Adeptus Mechanicus datacards
– A Balphamus Vaulk Tech-Priest Manipulus ability tree card that presents a new Adeptus Mechanicus Tech-Priest specialism that can only be used by Balphamus Vaulk.
– 1 multipart plastic Tech-Priest Manipulus (exclusive to this set), armed with magnarail lance, omnissian staff and mechadendrites, supplied in pre-coloured red plastic
– 5 multipart plastic Adeptus Mechanicus Sicarian Infiltrators armed either with stubcarbine and power sword, or taser goad and flechette blaster. They can be built instead as Sicarian Ruststalkers, depending on your preference, carrying either paired transonic blades, or a combination of chordclaw and transonic razor. All miniatures are supplied on red-coloured plastic.
– 1 set of Ryza-pattern Ruins
Kill Team: Starn’s Disciples $65
An expansion for Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team, this box includes 6 miniatures – one of which is an exclusive Commander, a Kelermorph – a scenery set, a background booklet, as well as brand-new Tactics and Mission cards. Included:
– 8-page Starn’s Disciples booklet
– 18 Genestealer Cults Tactics cards
– 6 Genestealer Cults Commander Tactics cards
– 4 Mission cards 4 Psychic Power cards
– 2 Genestealer Cults Kill Team tokens sheets
– 6 Genestealer Cults datacards
– A Ghyrson Starn ability tree card that presents a new Genestealer Cults Kelermorph specialism that can only be used by Ghyrson Starn
– 1 multipart plastic Kelermorph (exclusive to this set), armed with 3 liberator autostubs and a cultist knife, supplied in pre-coloured light grey plastic
– 5 plastic Genestealer Cults Hybrid Metamorphs that can be armed with any of a huge variety of Meptamorph mutations. They can be built instead as Acolyte Hybrids that can be armed with any of a huge variety of knives, explosives, claws, hand flamers and heavy mining equipment. All miniatures are supplied in re-coloured light grey plastic.
– 1 set of Ryza-pattern Ruins.
Killzone: Sector Fronteris $80
The Sector Fronteris Killzone Environment is an expansion for Kill Team – in the packed box, you’ll find a gameboard, scenery, and exclusive rules that use the unique nature of the Sector Fronteris terrain to introduce dangerous new missions and powerful effects to your games. Included:
– A double-sided Kill Team gameboard measuring 22” x 30”, printed on heavy, durable card stock. One side depicts a sand-blasted wilderness, while the other represents a more industrialised border region
– An 8-page booklet describing the sorts of wild frontier worlds that loosely make up the borders of Imperial territory, and where the influence of Terra is seldom felt.
– 12 Sector Fronteris Tactics cards – these can be used by any Kill Team Faction, with 4 cards providing interactions with the Sector Fronteris scenery and 5 being used specifically by Scout, Comms, Sniper or Medic Specialists
– A Sector Fronteris Environment card, which provides 6 different rules that interact with the scenery
– 4 Sector Fronteris Mission cards – designed to be used in conjunction with the gameboard and scenery, this is a set of 2 matched play missions and 2 narrative play missions, which are split between attacker and defender
– 4 Ryza-pattern Ruins plastic frames – including two brand sets of frames that include 2 slot-together walls, raised barricade, 3 armoured window covers, 1 large section of flooring, 3 small sections of ruined floor, and one connector that resembles a light. If you combine these 2 new frames, you can build a complete STC Ryza-Pattern building with a roof. There are also 2 plastic frames of STC Ryza-Pattern Ruins, each containing 3 slot-together walls, 3 ruined wall sections, and an Inquisitorial crate.
~ So is it Tech Priest or pistoleer for you?
