As a Scouts player, I'm not pleased. It feels like these changes were written by someone who has never played the faction. The lazy changes and the lack of a dev team video reek of "late in the edition" apathy.

Hearthkyn Salvager player here! I played a game last night with the new dataslate rule and I have to say the new buffs are especially good on Gallowdark. Being able to move up to and alpha objective, securing a room and setting up is an absolute fortress with plasma knives , the Theyn’s weavefield 4+ invuln (which is harder to kill now with that damage negation) and a well placed barrier. The fact that damage can be reduced by 1 helps with survivability massively with the amount of 3/4 weapons in the game Pairing that with the grenadier’s utility grenade making it harder to approach or reducing the distance of enemy weapons to Red (which was especially useful against the pathfinder with a silent weapon, i forget the name), as well as the dozr positioned just inside the door and the full adoption of all the tokens and shenanigans, Fort Knux was real! Can’t wait to keep maining these guys, they aren’t suddenly S tier over night, but they are starting to feel like a tough bastards that I wanted them to be!

To be fair, a scout doing a backflip would look really sick.

I cannot believe the exaction squad's manacles haven't been boosted to work on 8 wound models. They really did give the team a fun, unique mechanic and then say it only works against like 6 teams in the game

Salvagers have had so many extra rules tacked on at this point that gw needs to release their rules in print again. Not always fun starting at old information and having to cross check a pdf

Gonna field my kinband as space marine scouts now.

I really hope that the new edition doesn't change too much of the (in my opinion) very good core rules. Maybe a few rule simplifications and clarifications. But I hope it won't be a complete overhaul.

The scout buff is wild. Every time GW has done a +1 model buff it’s broken the team and this time they felt that wasn’t enough which is crazy.

I read this dataslate and instantly called Gellarpox the winner. Glad to see I’m not alone. Also the number of changes some factions are getting is nuts. That said, I’d rather they keep trying to get it right than just leave some teams in the dust.

I really hope the next edition of Killteam doesn’t change much, just cleans up some messily written rules and maybe adds minor changes. If they try to simplify it like 10th or, god forbid, put it on a damn grid I’m gonna be devastated

Legionary roster update is nice. Although i hope next edition they just scrap rosters altogether. Kill team doesn't need them, assuming they don't make some big changes.

Farstalkers are in dire need of changes.

Yeah, now scout Marines using Knives strong like a Powersword while the Sergeant has to use a rusty chainsword. And the Primaris units are weaker than the new recruits... Who the hell thinks this Is Logic...

GW to kroot and kasrkin players; "get gud scrub"

Very nice looks like my Inquis agents can take some exaction squad support, also the hipster in me can finally play felgor without feeling like a meta slave. Also all the players who stuck with scouts deserved those buffs ^^

Thanks, some interesting changes. I guess Scouts couldn't stay worse than Yaeghir... And still no excuse to use a Corsair Heavy Gunner. Oh well, it can proxy a regular one just because it looks cool then.

Every Warhammer shop I go into has plenty of scouts on the shelf.... I'm just saying 😊

That intro 😂 CYRAC is becoming a twitch streamer with that voice

where is my Intercession buff? Sad day for normal marines.

I run Intercession, Phobos, and Scouts. Unfortunate to see Intercession didn’t get any fixes. Would have loved to see them improve their tactics, or change them up, or be more flexible in switching between them. I think their loadout and equipment is fine. Phobos seems fine enough, like more tricksy Intercession. Scouts going to 10 seems fine to test the waters, but that knife change? That’s broken. Just as a comparison, it hits as hard as a Custodes sentinel blade. Literally ZERO thought went into that. I predict that will be reverted. If I’m playing locals or against buddies, I’m personally not implementing/enforcing that combat blade change.

Alright. That's it. I will EXCLUSIVELY play Kinband until they get buffed!

Great video ^^ Phobos has the same knife... but they forgot how to use it. With the Eldar they matched the rifles of all their kill teams. Will they do the same?

Personally i wanted and hoped for scouts getting an extra op. Jamie is pleased :)

good review! still a bit confused about the necron's reanimation though... so they are not getting healing after being reanimated because it now says "instead"?

Needed some explosion effects for the intro and outro. Surprised there was nothing for Kroot or Breachers, but I guess they are out of ideas. Also, RIP Intercession.

If you have built the rest of the team - how would you equip the 4 warriors? 2 Shotguns 2 Knives? Or 4 Knives? (Only one box)

What does the legionary rule change? The way I'm reading it, it still seems like you can only pick two marks aside from undivided for the team.

The knives change for the Scouts is silly. It makes no sense from an in-universe perspective. I’m glad I never built my team because I was considering the option of building a second sgt.

Agreed with scouts....

I’m not sure what you mean by running all shotguns and knives for the scouts? They don’t have knives as equipment just the extra blade that gives a knife balanced. You still have to decided between the super shotgun and the super knife

Nerfing Pathfinders in ITD makes no sense to me. It's true that they are OP in the other modes, and the nerfs there make sense, but why a further ITD nerf, where they pretty much auto lose anyway?

Ha - laughed out loud at the intro. Super helpful as always

Dwarf buffs? Love to see it the dozer is still my favorite model in kill team For the love of the emperor GW do something with Kroot. I wish they’d get a proper rework like hierotek got back in the day but damn at this point I’ll take basically anything that actually helps them

Hierotek nerf awful. I think the best way is to make it without rolling dice ever (so you gain more control over your reanimations), than its ok that you use reanimation after living metal. And technomancer should be like +2 to reanimation and living metal, instead of +1. So if you pick Chono - you should play more risky, but have nice abilities. And your wounds after reanimation will be like D3+2=3-5, 2 res/round. And if you pick Techno - you become really tanky D3+5=6-8, 3 res/round

You know what I am going to say about the Scouts... WTH? None of the common sense recommendations (like remove LOS from the Sgt's +1 APL & add Cumbersome for the Hvy Weapons Gunners)... The +1 Warrior operative is just lazy. And the change to the combat knife is just plain weird. Well, at keast you have (once again...) proved that you are not a playtester. 😂

Where does it say that Hierotek reanimates now after living metal?

unusual nerfs for fellgor. not sure why they touched everything else but the problem itself, which is the frenzy ability 😅

YO YO YO YO, great as always!

I think Hierotek just changed from D3+3 to D3+2. They didn´t include the wording for timing in the Dataslate, so it should still be "In the Ready Operatives step of each Turning Point, before resolving the Living Metal ability, roll one D6 for each of your Reanimation tokens. On a roll of 1, leave that Reanimation token in the killzone. On a 2+, operatives are successfully reanimated:"

I think living metal happen before reanimation is reasonable. When i read living metal happen AFTER reanimation i was like "yo what? Did they mistype it? That doesn't make sense to me"

Gangsta opening

Just wait till he learns that every other forward deploy in the game also works 3 different ways ;)

That Hierotek Circle nurf is WAY too much. Going down to +2 instead of +3 was okay, but if its true and living metal does not happen after reanimation anymore, that is just dumb.

I have a question for Hierotek and this is probably because I have poor reading comprehension 🥲 but where is it written than reanimation happens after living metal?