Tuesday 2 October 2018

Kill team - Drop Force Imperator

I have brought in to kill team in a big way, even if I have yet to actually play a game! I'm hoping that situation will change soon but time will tell. As with 40k proper, the astra Militarum are my main army and will probably see the most games, as such I decided to fork out some of my hard earned cash on to the new box set, Drop Force Imperator.


There were three main reason that I did this. Firstly, the terrain. The munitorum armoured containers have always been on my list of things I would like to own but I have never really had a need for them. The additional items on there are also very nice and can add a lot of detail to a battlefield, something I have discovered in recent years can really make a huge difference to the game. The fact that the containers are also brown in colour and not the standard grey is also great, as it means that if I don't get around to painting them for ages, it's not going to be quite as noticeable!


The second reason for the box is obviously the figures themselves, although I don't actually intend on using them all in the kill teams. I will create a inquisitor to lead my kill team, using a standard tempestor stat line, although this will include some kit bashing. I will also be using some of the weapons and arms tonkit out the models I intend to use as my inquisitorial kill team, mainly the special weapons as I have quite a few already with the hotshot lasguns. As for the rest, I don't quite know what I'm going to do with them, they may join the Dagr Ormr Militarum Tempestus force or they my not, I really don't know yet.


The third and probably the main reason I brought the set, is for the rest of the stuff, the 'paperwork' side of things. Now, I have a full set of AdMech tokens and cards but what I really wanted was the guard ones. I have a pack of the general cards with all the specialists abilities and all of the universal tactics cards but having the guard ones is also very useful as well. I have found in 40k that having cards makes things significantly easier, organising Stratagems and psychic powers is as easy as laying out the cards on the table edge, rather than flipping back and forth in the book to check out what's what. With kill team being a faster paced games, I think having the cards will be even more vital to keeping things going in the right direction.


Also included in the paperwork are a couple of missions, which I may play at some point but that will depend on how many games I get and lore book, which was a nice little read with some good stories in. I always like these little extra lore books and stories, not only are they a good read but they also provide lots of ideas and options for creating my own lore for my models and units. I won't be using the preset kill team, as I like creating my own but my leader has actually ended up being almost identical in stats and war gear!

I think overall, that this is a really good value boxset, especially as I got it from a third party retailer at a very good discount. My only complaint is a general complaint across all the boxset and it's to do with the faction cards. I understand why they only put some in the box and not in the core rules but it's still annoying. I plan on building a deathwatch kill team as well and I already have to models, so I won't be buying the boxset bit that means I can't access some of there tactics, which is annoying. Apart from this issue, it's a really good little set, it does seem to be one of the few that can't field a full 100 point force straight off though.


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