Welcome to my Kill Team Progress Blog

Back in July my wife and I decided to take the plunge and start playing Kill Team. She had always wanted a Sisters of Battle (Adepta Sororitas) army but when she started wargaming 10 years back after we began dating they were all metal and all out of print.  She got in with a space wolves army and quickly found that she much perfered the modeling and painting aspect of the hobby to the long teadius battles played on the large scale that Warhammer 40k uses. She lost interest and sold her space Wolves. I Had been in the 40k hobby since 3rd edition having played Tau, Thousand Sons and Ravenwing over the various years but having not touched anything GW since 6th edition 40k as we had opted for the smaller more skirmish battles provided by Privateer Presses Warmachine and Hordes. Though we still have our Khador (me), and Menoth (her) for Warmachine and Circle Orboros (me) and Legion of Everblight (her)  for Hordes we took this time to jump into Kill team.

In the beginning She chose a sisters team and I went back to T'au having sold all of my first tau army in 2010  it was the nostalgic choice. then one day she approached me with an idea that instead of one team since the cost was much less than full on armies we should build instead 3 teams each, an Empire team, a Chaos team, and a Xenos Team. My Xenos was taken care of with T'au and her Empire with Sisters, so we set about choosing 2 more teams each. She picked Thousand sons for her chaos and though I still had my old army of metal plastic hybrid Rubrics from 3rd edtion she wanted the new fancy Rubric models (and who could blame her they are gorgeous) and then picked Eldar (Aeldari) for her Xenos. For me I went with Space Marines for my Empire force and for Chaos I went with Chaos Marines.

For my Tau force, I picked a different colour scheme than the last tau I painted but stuck with D'yanoi as my Scept (They have no rules for D'yanoi Scept so I plan to use the DAL’YTH SEPT: ADAPTIVE CAMOUFLAGE rules for my Hunter Cadre which currently consists of Pathfinders, Stealth Suits, and a Start collecting box. (not all of which can be in a 20 man maatched play roster of course.)

For Adeptus Astartes I had always had in the back of my mind a project involving Loyalists from traitor legions who escaped Istvaan III similar to Nathaniel Garro and his crew on the Eisenstein. Over the years GW, and black library authors have retconned the specifics around the eisenstein and since it had 70 men on it much too many for kill team I decided to make my own fluff. I picked up Two boxes of the GW Plastic Mark III Marines to make a 20 man Matched Play Kill team roster and decided to build them as 5 marines each from the World Eaters, Death Guard, Emperors Children and Luna Wolves. (Having changed their name back from Sons of Horus) I figure these are guys who some how through Deus Ex Machina have ended up escaping Istvaan and ended up in the 41st mellenium  to hunt down Heretic Astartes (with a focus on those from their own legions). I have a feeling this might also mean they would get targeted by Inquisitorial forces who don't believe they could possibly be loyalist and it also gave me a good excuse to paint 4 different colour schemes. 

As for chaos I thought It might be neat to build a "Horde army" by using lots of cultists and maybe I could also build an all women chaos cult that was being lead by some Alpha Legion guys because back in my day only alpha legion had access to cultists. For this project I grabbed some Necromunda Escher gangers, the cultist champion, and Heavy Stubber lady out of the Blackstone Fortress Cultists of the Abyss box to beef me up to 12 cultists and then filled the other 8 slots with 4 Alpha legion Chaos Space Marine Gunners and 4 Alpha Legion Terminators.

On this page I'm going to post my progress towards the completion of each of the 3 teams. The T'au team are almost fully painted at this point and I don't plan to paint the other teams until I have the tau team fully painted. though at present I think I will leave the Chrisis suits from the start collecting box unassembled as it is less likely I will field them in kill team.