Re: your team’s background, one of the big arguments that the Traitor Legions had for their betrayal was that there was a very real consideration that once the galaxy was conquered the Legions would no longer serve any purpose and thus would likely be… “liquidated” with extreme prejudice as the Missing Legions had been, so to their minds they weren’t so much betraying a great ruler as preempting that ruler’s inevitable betrayal. To emerge from the most traumatic experience of unprecedented fratricide in Imperial history only to be dropped ten millennia into the future and learn that not only was that act pointless but that by betraying their oaths and fellow Astartes they ensured the Primaris would be needed as an upgrade down the line would absolutely drive anyone insane, and the Primaris would make excellent scapegoats since they embody the total futility of the greatest shame any Astartes ever participated in. In any case I very much look forward to what you end up choosing for them!

I'm putting together a set of tactical marines that are Alpha Legion disguised as Lamenters. The one $40 pack allows me to alternate between fielding a chaos space marine team and a tactical marine squad (with a few weapon layouts to switch out as well). The painting is going to be pretty tricky, but for anyone seeking a niche 2-for-1 setup it's a pretty cool route to take.

Great video! As a new Kill Team player I really appreciate hearing WHY you make the decisions you do, so I can apply similar thinking and problem solving to my own team. I bought the Chalnath box set and am excited to try both Novitiates and Pathfinders! I'm looking forward to the next videos in this series for more knowledge! :)

You have such a chill and fun vibe. I totally agree that coming up with a story for the team is almost as fun as painting or playing them. 🤘

I do enjoy the idea of Kill Team as a potential place to experiment with Kitbashing. Especially as a beginner to the games, whose only army up until now has been a pretty basic "By the book" assembly and paint-job, there are loads of ideas that i could see being awesome to work into a proper army, but have no idea how it would look like at the end. With Kill Team, it gives the opportunity to run that idea through a sort of proof of concept phase. A smaller troop with a relatively reduced price, you can try out an idea and see how you like it. If it looks good to you, you start building from there. Didn't turn out so good? Well, you're usually either almost done or ready to play with a single box, so why not just finish it and maybe figure out how to fix the concept during it? Most importantly though, the unique models will be able to illustrate your idea much better than a regiment of mono-poses and inspire the idea to germinate further. For example, one of the many ideas I've had for exanding my list of armies was making an army of Imperial Guard with a small, undead twist. Inspired by the imagery in the music video to Pink Floyd's "Goodbye Blue Sky", the idea is to give the Guardsmen a skeletal makeover, with skull heads and boney hands. The "Ghosts of Cadia" as I've codenamed the project. However, if I buy a box of regular troops and while bashing them either aren't as impressed with the idea in practice, can't get it to look right or just think it's too much work, that'll leave me with a whole lot of nothing I cannot get any use of. Instead, I buy a box of Cadian Shock Troops for Kill Team and even if these problems arise, all I gotta do is bare it for the one box and maybe buy one box of Tempestus to give an excuse to have fully covered soldiers I don't need to bash and there you go. A full squad ready to play. If the project proves super successful and I fall in love with it, moving over to expanding on the idea with a full 40k army can now be done with full confidence and knowledge of what I'm getting into.

I f***ing love your Videos Ben. You play and create the same way I do so your vids just make sense to me. Keep up the content buddy

Even the glasses colors are matching the black and orange of the octarius. Kudos.

I got a game of KT in yesterday against Space Marines featuring bolter pistols and grenades. With 3 APL my opponent made good use of the terrain and the mission objectives to exploit my Ad Mech's weaknesses. Having 3 APL goes a long way in making SM (and Traitor SM) a really good choice. Looking forward to the rest of the series - keep up the good work.

Man Im so glad I found your channel! I am currently finishing up my Death Watch roster and built an "original 5" that feel like *my* kill team, with some kit bashing and customizing and background lore etc, and the rest are there to fill out a more competitive roster. Which is a part of compiling the team I really enjoyed. Seems like your chaos roster is going to be really similar. Love the kitbashing work too. Keep up the awesome work man, love the channel.

Honestly it's this series of videos and your channel in general that has made me wanna play since Kill Team requires less models, and you've helped me understand a lot of the rules since I usually have trouble just learning from reading a codex. Plus sold me on using Legionaries to kitbash a Thunder Warriors Kill Team

Killer video! Kinda makes me wanna take a step back and look at how I put mine together. And your kitbashes look great! Can't wait to see them painted up!

great looking team! those MK3 torsos look spot on! also 13:09 glad to see someone else's desk that looks like mine during a project :D Great video looking forward to part 2

Flamer gunner with malefic blade on ITD maps slaps, especially against geq teams, Charge, carve up then shoot.

I played KT at the weekend for the second time, assault intercessors vs Ork Commandos and I got absolutely smoked. It was so unbelievably unbalanced, it was crazy! Hope the Space Marines get a buff soon. 🙏🏻 Loving you custom kill team, they look dope! Kind of remind me of iron man mark 1. 😆 Can’t wait to see the paint job!

Just decided to get into kill team, perfect video to stumble across

Been working on a Chaos Marine team, myself, so this is rather helpful! I painted mine up as Iron Warriors as a nod to my long-lost first 40k army from back in 3rd edition.

I magnetized my death guard for this edition that means I have 7 marines as the Grandfather intended but with the options to make a full matched roster including the 8 poxwalkers. Their background is they are a squad of Venomarines working "acquisitions" after the war of rust and ruin. I also haven't had this much in building models since I built a turnip infantry last year

Maybe after finally starting to put my army together I make a kill team... It sounds super fun.

great idea for kitbashing. its also one of my favorite ways to improve/practice kinda advanced ideas for hobbying

Love the vid 😂, def agree "your" kill team is way better than "a" kill team. Love the conversions too, cant wait to see them painted in the rest of the series!

Thanks for the video! Nice to see someone else's process. Especially under the new ruleset.

I like to build my kill teams frombthe oldest, most crappy models I can. My space marine team has a 2nd edition guy with one leg and had been painted with house paint. Most peoplr would hack them to bits and use them as parts, but if they have survived for 30 years beeing chewed by dogs and uses sprues as arms, they must be the best of the best. They are the heroes you put insode a dreadnaught.

Love it!

Rn im building a sisters of battle army. This is my first one so theyre gonna be pretty stock but maybe eventually ill do my own crazy stuff. Id like to get the Custodes combat patrol so i can do a sisters of silence/2 custodes kill team.

Nice video again mate! Heretics FTW!!!!!! I agree, we found the missile launcher can be much more versatile against many foes, especially if they forget about it and bunch up. More description text though!! :)

after playing quite a lot of games with csm in kt21 i've noticed I now usually take the same team you recommended. it's just a great all rounder!

Hey y’all anyone built a kill team for space wolves? Any suggestions? Thanks ❤

The Skull Priest/Shaman looks sooooooo dopeeeeeeee

I just finished my Assault Intercessors Salamanders Team for KT21 and now i am starting to build my CSM Red Corsairs team... I also have three Craftworlds Fireteams... Seems we have the same preferences :-D

I love my orks from the prior KT. Even though Kommandos have bespoke rules, I'll be playing Greenskins with my Nob and his boyz.

What book can you look at to see the different kill teams you can put together?

Love the video, can't wait for more!

Really looking forward to seeing how you paint these up! Is part three, or a theoretical part four going to be a battle report? I hope so!

What scale did you print your models at?

I’m building up a death guard kill team now

now that chalnath has been released, what changes would you make to your battle sisters killteam if any?

Great video

Is this legal in tournaments? Sorry to ask such a possible dumb question but I’m new and I want to build a KT having all my options. I was thinking of kitbashing intercessors into Black templars. Could I use an auto bolt rifle as another rifle? I would magnet the option but is such a small piece…

Thank you.

I mean I bought a khorne berserker squad to paint, are any of them viable to play in Kill team? I haven't played a game, I just paint as a hobby

These guys look amazing. Can't wait to see them painted up. Do you normally give your dudes names?

Love your vibe and balanced approach to the hobby

wait a minute, i see you in Eons of battle streams

I'm new to Kill Team. This is a good primer, but you lost me in the beginning around 6:18 when you said that "Traitor Space Marines are build of two, 3 man fire teams." How did you know that? And how can I figure that out with other factions?

The problem ive had is the person who taught me how to play keeps running thousand suns. With AP and firing twice? Against my kommandos (first team) that stand no chance.

If theres no points how do you know for example 5 marines should go against 10 guardsmen not 15?

How do you know how many units you can have?

They could loathe the Primaris because had they been just deployed as they came to fruition, many of their battle brothers would still be alive. The Traitors could think it is yet another manifestation of the Emperor's abandonment of the Crusade, the Legions, and the Primarchs. Another approach could be jealousy. I know I would resent being made obsolete despite the unwavering loyalty and sacrifice. "Why not give us better tools? We have certainly earned the right to be at the frontline of these wars. Our brothers and their memories will not be usurped by a new gene process!" The Primaris has undoubtedly become the standard bearer of the Space Marines; they were replaced by a little brother.

Is heavy gunner a default option? Model with 3AP and heavy weapon seems strange to me.

30K Blackshields? If your kill team just stepped back into real space after being lost in the warp for ten thousand years a Blackshield warband could be the solution for you; dark, moody, mysterious and dripping in MK3. Also gives you the opportunity to grow the lore in your own time game after game...

Is this still relevant with the new rules

This does not help an entirely new player build a kill team at all. This seems like a guide for people who already know where to find the rules for each miniature variation, how to actually build a team now that points are gone, etc. Where do I even begin? I bought the Phobos Kill Team box and the Core Book, there is absolutely no guidance in the box or the book that tells me what I can build, what each build variation does etc. Totally at a loss.

The structure is so irritating. What are the elite teams? There is almost no clarity or consistency from GW about rosters and kill teams and names and races its so frustrating.

Video could of been shorter. It was obvious you were pushing for the 10+ min mark. Too much fluff information. Downvoted