I’m going with Marvel. It doesn’t take away from the base game, but does allow players to slowly build their armies to full on 40K.

I think I would say Marvel. More options.

Its a Marvel! The oppertunities for narrative play with heroic characters at the skirmish/scuffle level are enormous. I can imagine a squad of guardsmen taking on a Genestealer Patriarc or a squad of Wyches on an assassination mission targeting a Necron Overlord. Or why not imagine a squad of Space Marines evacuating a Librarian onto a waiting flyer as a horde of Poxwalkers and a few Plauge Marines are closing in threating to overrun their position. Or why not proxy an Astra Militarum Commander as an Imperial Knight Pilot that has to cross the board to reach his Knight with… Read more »

Mistake – due to execution * The price for the single rulebook is ridiculous (to field *ONE* model). * The Commanders are not new sculpts, so the only way to buy the faction specific Commander is to buy a box with a model we likely already have. * They’re super-over-powered relative to the rest of the troops. * Instead of now meeting up to play KT, you’ll need to agree whether to play with/without Commanders. * It’s taking a leaf from video games, release a product that’s incomplete and sell expansions that should’ve been in the main game to begin… Read more »

Re the new prize place. You have used ( in my opinion) the wrong spelling of centre.

Marvel. Nice to have a team go assasinate some higher ups.
Still gw needs to learn that expansions like this should not be that expensive

8th!
I don’t play KT, but I would say both – from my gw days people like characters and if gw didn’t get there, people will make their own character rules, and they don’t like ideas that deviate from the stc

It’s the Weekend!! Time again for a Weekender.

Mistake – feels like a commercially exploitative release and messes with what Killteam in its various previous releases has always been about. Danger it becomes a necessary pay-to-win purchase.

I like the idea that Cruel Seas . I shall maybe have to go and by a new Duffle coat and a cup for my cocoa

I’m slightly on the Mistake side of the fence. I like playing grunts. But I’m with Sam too, bribed by the new options. I want Harlequin commanders. I want a commissar. I’m just not sure what it’ll do to the game. I’ll probably pick it up to find out for myself.

Marvel… never played 40k (i know.. shame on me), but now its a possibility for me to get into the game.. 40k feels sooo big for newby’s, thats why I never get involved

So you will be Beasts of Peace from now on :p

Marvel because it adds interesting individual commanders which is what any small scale miniatures game needs. Reminds me of the original concept for Rogue Trader way back in the day.

I don’t think it’s as extreme a move to be either a marvel or a mistake. But I’m nearer to marvel. For me a marvel would be if for each faction you got a bits-box-on-a-sprue – so a highly modular kit with a wide variety of options to create a unique commander, but way more accessible than having to kit bash from other kits. Accessibility is key. People who play Kill Team over Necromunda say that the Necromunda campaign is way more complex and is a huge multi-week time sink. Kill Team is more pick up n play and you… Read more »

I’m not sure about Cruel Seas. Torpedo boats were made to attack bigger ships (cruisers and battleships and up) by zooming in very quickly and then launching torpedo salvos at close range. Actually, the Destroyer (short for Torpedo Boat Destroyer) was specifically made to combat this threat.

To me it seems out of place to have torpedo boats fighting between themselves. Their main armament is the torpedo, which would be useless against other torpedo boats.

I would say marvel, whilst I like the original squad idea having a commander this way allows you to expand if you want. Plus it’s a cunning way of building an army slowly 🙂

I’m leaning toward marvel for the commander expansion for Kill Team.

Had to double take when you were showing off the new prize centre, great way to see I’d won a boot camp bundle! Thank you to you guys and Warlord :).

As someone just starting kill team (having never played 40k) this fills like something I now have to buy to keep up in getting started. I guess story wise in my head kill team battles are pockets of a larger 40k battle going on somewhere with just a handful of models so adding this special unit might not make it feel like that given he/she is the Hero rather than just one of the team stepping up into that heroic moment. As a collector, they look cool and I will probably pick them up. I don’t think it is needed… Read more »

Great to see Sam improving the sartorial quotient of the show – sharp jacket man! I approve! To the question in hand, for me, the Commander expansion is definitely a #Marvel. I totally accept the concerns and agree that the distortion of the meta could be an issue. But “meta” is a concept in games I just run a million miles from and never impacts on my play. I play at home every couple of weeks with a mate I have played against for well over a decade now. I also play at a local club every couple of weeks.… Read more »

Marvel. With caveat, the price, which will be unnecessarily inflated for Australia and New Zealand (says the angry retailer – see my comments from last weeks piracy debate). GW has added characters to the kill team game but lets face it, we aren’t talking about special characters that everyone has heard of. These are characters that no-one has heard of before, just like the characters in Shadespire. I doubt they will be overpowered or be auto-includes in everyone’s games. GW has tried a number of character progression systems in a number of games, usually embedded in a campaign system. It… Read more »