Games Workshop - Warhammer 40,000 - Kill Team: Blooded (Traitor Guard)

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And I can’t leave without leaving my own tier list here based on my absolute opinion based on my national meta and experiences: As you can see, similar to Veteran Guardsmen teams we have a long list of unique specialists to choose from, along with the ability to swap two generic TRAITOR TROOPERS for more powerful unique operatives in the same way Wyrmblade do for their CULT AGENTS. Unlike the Wyrmblade team, The Blooded have so many specialists to choose from they can compose their entire team of them, only taking the generic traitor troopers if they wish to have 14 operatives on the table instead of 12. As a final discouragement you can choose to attempt to blow him up when he is incapacitated, causing mortal wounds to nearby operatives. Keep in mind this also affects friendlies. Traitor Butcher

Rogue Traders are merchants of death and explorers of the unknown, each granted powers and responsibilities beyond measure by their heirloom Warrant of Trade. Gathering hard-bitten companies of crew, mercenaries, and retainers, these bold privateers venture into hazardous warzones and uncharted space in search of profit. Elucia Vhane stands proud amongst these luminaries. The scion of a noble mercantile dynasty, she seeks to eclipse the rich history of her ancestors – or die trying.Mission actions are specific to the mission you are playing, and will be detailed by that mission’s briefing. Missions can be found here (Open Play mission) and here (Spec Ops Narrative missions). Your basic guys, they come with a lasgun and bayonet, and have no special rules specific to them. As mentioned before you don’t even have to take them, however as we will see one of the main differences between The Blooded and Loyalist Veterans is a greater focus on close range fighting with many Blooded specialists not having ranged options, meaning you may find yourself in a position where you prefer the ranged flexibility of these guys, especially when used in conjunction with the Overcharge Lasguns strategic ploy. Traitor Brimstone Grenadier Motivation for Violence: Each time this operative performs a Charge action, it can move an additional for that action. The first time a friendly operative is incapacitated in each Turning Point while within 6 inches of an enemy operative. But the taint of Chaos has already come to Moroch, and even now warbands of Militarum Traitoris* are throwing off their disguises and striking from within. Only a deadly Phobos Strike Team of Space Marines can prevent the world falling to anarchy, and taking the entire sector with it.

For those of a more Loyalist bent, there are these Space Wolves upgrades, following hot on the heels of everyone’s favourite helmets . Covered in runes, wolf teeth, and other symbols of the Legion, they can be used with the Mark III , Mark IV , or Mark V kits.As always, there’s a crop of new content on Warhammer+ this week. Citadel Colour Masterclass shows you how to paint muzzle burn on your gun barrels, while there’s a Battle Report from the Mortal Realms which finds the Thunderstrike-armoured Stormcast Eternals take on the Kruleboyz. Finally, Part One of Imperial Armour: The Siege of Vraks makes it to the Warhammer Vault, alongside issues 360 and 361 of White Dwarf.

Two further issues of White Dwarf are added to the Warhammer Vault this week. Issue 338 focuses on the Harad for the Middle-earth ™ Strategy Battle Game, and issue 339 takes us deep into Sylvania in the World-that-Was to cast a light upon the Vampire Courts. The meta is still in a healthy place and with smaller events and fewer rounds the chances you can take whatever faction you want and use it to win events in your area increases. That said, if you want to qualify in the top 8 of a major, you’ll likely have to go the extra mile and prepare for each matchup – your skill and knowledge of the game and the opposing faction are going to be what powers you over opponents more often than the power of the faction you chose to play. Let’s add some finishing touches. Use Carroburg Crimson to paint any blood or gore effects, such as wounds or splatters, on the miniatures.Each Operative aside from TRAITOR TROOPERS may only be taken once, and only 2 GUNNERS may be taken. TheChirurgeon: Swing and a miss here. It’s hard to add something that Death Guard would take, but Mutoid Vermin could have potentially been it if they were Troops or didn’t require Gellerpox Infected. As-is, the big guys are basically slow Spawn and if there’s one thing Death Guard and Chaos Marine armies don’t need, it’s more slow units. The box includes everything you need to play Kill Team, including a copy of the full Core Book and the Into the Dark book, which contains rules for the new kill teams and terrain. You also get a token sheet, two sets of tactical ops cards, three combat gauges, six barricades, and 10 six-sided dice.

Deadly Marksman– While The Blooded don’t specialize in ranged combat this could be given to the SharpShooter who never has to leave Conceal, and is mobile enough to avoid enemy attempts to run him down once he has made a kill. Meanwhile, the rules for the Blooded Kill Team reward aggressiveness — which is ironically not the case with all factions. Players will be able to field larger (compared to standard Imperial Guard) sets of units without making any concessions to durability. The faction also includes a new mechanic that rewards consistently killing the opposition with guaranteed hits and other goodies in later rounds. Once they get going, Blooded Kill Teams can be very hard to stop, making them more than a match for the Space Marines in this box. Basically a regular trooper except for his two unique abilities, both of which require APL to perform. Signal (1 APL) , the most directly powerful of the two, allows him to increase the APL of another operative by 1 as long as they’re within 6 inches of him. Sacrilegious Actuation (1 APL) allows him to transfer a blood token from one operative to another as long as they’re BOTH, within 6 inches of, and visible to the Commsman. A key detail is that you have to have a valid operative to reassign the token, otherwise you can’t perform this action, which means you can’t use this ability to snag tokens from doomed operatives and add them to your pool. With this in mind your best strategy is likely to never assign a token to this operative, so that he can be the target of his second ability in times of need. Traitor Corpseman These big lads still have odd keywords – their only faction keywords are CHAOS and NURGLE – but they can now be included in a Death Guard or NURGLE TRAITORIS ASTARTES detachment without taking up a battlefield role slot and without turning off any of your army-wide abilities. There are two datasheets here, and both are Elites choices. Gellerpox InfectedHeadhunter– Always a good choice, especially if your opponent’s leader is a combat specialist who needs to be forward to be useful.