Your gunners have great choices, with 2 being able to be chosen although youвЂ™ll likely go with plasma and arc rifle. Rangers seem hard to justify with the heavy trait on all their weapons when compared to Vanguard. ItвЂ™s a real struggle to justify using these guys over the Krieg.ДЄdmech can have 2 fire teams alternating between Rangers, Vanguard and Sicarians who can also oddly mix and match selections for the latter. Ploys feel a bitвЂ¦limiting when compared to the Death Korps of Krieg. The other oddity is that the Tempestor gets a CP refund for orders whereas the Guardsman Sergeant does not, weird. The kill team severely lacks in close combat but, well, they are the Imperial Guard. Note that the Imperial Guard gunner has a 3+ save for some reason, which surely must be an error. Imperial Guard pack the вЂњaverageвЂќ human stats with a 4+ save and 3+ WS/BS for the Scions. Sure, only 1 of the pair hits on 3+ but theyвЂ™re pretty much the only kill team in the game that can do such a thing. Taking both an Guardsman and Tempestus Scion fire teams allows for 2 gunners of both plasma and melta. Imperial Guard are not as strong as the Death Korps of Krieg but do have their own tricks. Combine with a heavy bolter that moves and shoots twice per turning point. Equipment also feel as a way for Primaris kill teams to get more usage, although the Suspensor System is still amazing, removing the heavy trait to a weapon basically. A lot of the good strats are Primaris-locked which feels a little intentional. Ploys offer the notable shoot twice for bolt weapons or fight twice, both incredibly powerful options. Biggest losers are the Primaris units, especially Reviers who struggle against Assault Intercessors.

Heavy Intercessors feel a bit meme-level and just annoying to play against. Oddly, Tactical Squads are quite good thanks to their flexibility with Deathwatch as the big winners. Their limited Kill Team size and selection is a big weakness. All with an APL of 3 (2 for Heavy Intercessors) and 11 wounds (12 for Primaris, 18 for Heavy Intercessors). Outside of the Tactical Squad, Scouts and Deathwatch, Primaris units are limited to what they can take. Space Marines, as hinted to earlier, suffer in-terms of selection.

Now IвЂ™ll briefly go over Kill Teams, their datacards and loadouts. While understandable, it is a shame to see and only results in dedicated Kill Team units (such as the Ork Kommandos and Death Korps of Krieg) growing even more in power when compared to Compendium kill teams. There are none in the Kill Team Compendium book, probably meaning those will be reserved for dedicated Kill Team releases. Outside of all of this, this biggest notable thing is the lack of faction Tac Ops and specific Spec Ops rules. Not being able to mix and match does suck but on the other hand, this helps with balance and lowers the bar of entry to Kill Team. For example, Space Marines and Necrons struggle heavily in this department. The biggest losers are units that have very little selection when it comes to their own Warhammer 40,000 boxes and units. You still have a lot of choice thanks to your 20 operative roster and it does overall level the field in terms of power. Overall, I still find kill teams easier to build and more balanced overall. Still, this is generally balanced by operatives not being able to be spammed anymore. For example, if your operative has the choice between only a bolt pistol and plasma pistol, thereвЂ™s no reason to not ever pick the plasma pistol, the stronger option just always wins with no cost involved. For example, while you may alternate between a gunner with a plasma gun or a melta gun depending on your mission and the opponent, certain loadouts become no-brainers with the removal of points. One big drawback is the loss of comparison between certain upgrades. While this is a drastic change, I find it overall to still be balanced while also making it much easier to make competitive and balanced kill teams for the game. Specialists have also gone, being limited to narrative play in Spec Ops campaigns. Despite this, generally specialists cannot be spammed so gone are the days of bringing multiples of the same special weapons whether it be plasma gun spam to frag cannon spam and so on. Gone are points and instead are fixed teams and loadouts, partially limited by what comes in a unitвЂ™s box.

As hinted by Games Workshop and the Octarius book, Kill Team construction has changed. The Kill Team Compendium book contains all the rules for pretty much all the factions within Warhammer 40,000.

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