Get everything you need to fight tense skirmishes in the heart of the Gallowdark – this box includes two complete kill teams, space hulk terrain, rules, and all the accessories that you need to play. The rules themselves are mostly easy to grasp, and well laid out, though afflicted at times with the over-worded, competitive-balance-minded legalese of all modern GW rules. The Kill Team rules book, much like its cousins in Age of Sigmar or proper Warhammer 40,000, are meant to be used as indices of reference to which one can refer at various points through set-up and play. Whilst all the miniatures in the box are available in their own individual kits, a lot of the value of this box lies in the other stuff that comes with it to help you actually play the game, such as the rules books and the combat gauges.

The Adepta Sororitas or Sisters of Battle are a faction that recently received several new gorgeous-looking models. It ran to a princely 208 pages, with well over 100 of those taken up with datacards, tactics, name tables, and points values. By contrast, in the new Kill Team: Compendium – where points costs have beenaxed, in favour of picking models from pre-structured quotas– most of the various factions’ listed Fireteam options can only have one type of model in them.I had no trouble with mine, and none of the print ripped or was frayed at the edges as some cheaper push-out tokens occasionally can be when removed.

This is an expansion set , not a starter set, like the original box which set some intergalactic space furries against the Blue Man Group Space Wolves against T’au. Whilst this is forgivable with the Space Marines, where it’s pretty obvious what goes where, with the fiddly and extremely fragile Flayed Ones, this doesn’t make the process of putting them together any easier. Rarely, with miniatures game starter sets, do you open the box and find yourself with more terrain than you need to play – but that’s what GW has pulled off here, underlining Kill Team’s focus on a close-up, detailed scale and atmosphere. Here are the two side-by-side so you can appreciate the comparative paucity of the Pariah Nexus expansion.The rulebook in the Starter is the “compact” version, it doesn’t have all the same bells and whistles (like cards and dice), and the terrain set is essentially just the scatter terrain and not the full-on Orky encampment. The whole direction of the Pariah Nexus box is to take Kill Team and ram it into the claustrophobic confines of a Forty-First Millennium slaughterhouse. The expansion has a few nice new additions to both factions, “as well as all-new rules and tactics” to keep the game fresh. You’re going to have to try a bit harder to stop your foe from catching you than by just slamming a door in their face.