Kill team

[barenone]

I will be playing my first kill team game on Tuesday, I do not have my nids yet so I am going to play my Grey Knights. My quandary is I cannot decide what I should do.

Should I play an Interceptor Squad kitted out for CC and jump around the board taking people out in CC, Also having Hsunt to get the objective and gain the bonuses (relic)

Or should I play a Purgation squad with psycannons and use there lovely ability of shooting through cover and not needing line of sight to shoot something to just shoot every thing.

The map will be indoor (even though jump packs are allowed) so lots of walls and turns, Should be hard to get anywhere without jump packs. There will be about 8 players 200 pts per player with an objective to control.

[Ragged Warrior]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Interceptors can only jump once per game. That said, I think they still make for a more interesting game.

I vote interceptors.

[barenone]

They are jump troops that have a special ability that is called shunt that moves them 30" once per game, so ye they only get that once but they are still 12" jump troops.

[mennorach]

Voted for purgation squad, because 40k is mostly a shooting game and in kill-team anything that can ignore cover is in god-mode. I would also look at the point costs and choose the cheaper troops, because in small games every casualty hurts and you don't want to be crippled with three or four casualties.
Seriously though I have played kill-team a couple of times (two with my nids, once with IG) and the game is decided in the shooting phase more often than not.
I don't have GK codex so I can't give more specific advice.
Good luck with your game

[barenone]

Thanks for the ad vice and the luck. I would point out that even though purgation ignores LOS the enemy gets a 4+ cover, But that cannot be anything but 4+ regardless of specials ability's and such.

[snowdaman]

Id go purifiers. I know its not one u mentioned but they have cheap psycannon ( can take 2 in a 5 man squad) and cheap halberds with and extra attack each

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[barenone]

i was thinking purifiers especially with there " hey I'm flaming" move but i put the purgation down as superior with the 4 psycannons. If I go shoot mights as well go all they way.

[snowdaman]

Yes 4 psycannon will make u more shooty. But the halberds will make u int 6 so u will go before most anything so u have a mix of shooty and cc

Edit.

The thing is if u just want to be shooty then just take warrior accolytes with plasma guns and have a tonne of them lol
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[barenone]

True howvwer only 2 armys playing in the batch have equal int so - was not to worried, - - - could do 2 hals ,d 3 cannons, that would give me a large amount of firepower with some cc, that wil weaken me against the nid and ork hordes though

[barenone]

Well guys I played interceptors...... And dominated

the armies out consisted of be advised the models are all considered individual

10 death company models

5 terminators

4 of these weird demon Calvary rhino things

my 6 man interceptor squad

to many orcs to bother counting

and 3 obliterators.

so 6 players.

The orcs had a huge advantage have a horde army and only being able to shoot one guy at a time.

I did what I thought was the best tactic and hide lol. I popped out twice in in round 2,
one guy to assault one of the obliterators and the other to assault the daemon Calvary.
At this time the obliterators were pretty much dukeing it out with the death company and the orcs
were fighting off both the daemon rhinos and the terminators.

using my nice preferred enemy re-rolls and my force halberds i was able to take out the obliterator and
the daemon rhino thingy. this however left both those guys open to get cut down by orc looters and an overcompensating
obliterator twin linked lascannon......

that left me 4 of my 6 guys (1 incinerator and 3 halberds)

I stayed behind my wall while the 2 oblits were left fighting the death company, the terms are pretty much being ignored,
the orcs finished off the rhino thingies while loosing one boy and 2 lootas.

The orcs charge after the 5 termies while the death company and the obliterators knock each
other under 50 and roll 3d6 for leadership (as per game type rules) and they both FAIL. this
get them removed from the board leaving me, the orcs and the termies.

I leave them to duke it out until the orcs overrun the termies leaving roughly 15 orcs and no looters left.
I shunt up lay down a flamer and my storm bolters and finish all but 5 boys who then lose
there leadership roll and are out of the game

Victory to the cowerdly (i say patient) grey knights

[0800hell]

Lol!! In kill team as grey nights i would take some assasins and that troop guy who keeps getting back up. But good job

[barenone]

I was thinking assassin but they are pricey.

[snowdaman]

I think he means death cult assassins

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[barenone]

death cults.... hmmm, an inquis with a warband of death cults and crusaders with power axes. could always give the inq a incinerator, hmmm i think i will look into a set up like that for my next kill team.