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New 40k Kill Team & Next Week’s GW Releases REVEALED

By Rob Baer | May 5th, 2019 | Categories: Warhammer 40k

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It’s happening! New 40k Kill Team Rules and units are coming next week along with Funko Pops! at Games Workshop Stores worldwide.

Warhammer Community just let us know that the wait for new 40k Kill Team is over. Elites are here along with new kits and Funko Pops as well!

Get ready to take your game to the next level with Kill Team: Elites.

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And if that wasn’t exciting enough already, there are also powerful new Commanders – including a nigh-unkillable Lord of Contagion and T’au Commander in VX85 Enforcer Battlesuit – as well as some legendary operatives in the form of Boss Snikrot, Illic Nightspear and Sly Marbo!

They also mention that there will be new sub-faction rules as well like Chapter Tactics etc.

If you’re looking to jump right into this new expansion, there are three new Kill Team sets, each boasting a famed – and highly elite – kill team, with their own background, skills and equipment (though you can also build them as you see fit to make your own kill team). 

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These first three Elite kill teams are the Flash Gitz of Toofrippa’s Krew, the Death Guard Terminators of the Dolorous Strain, and the Thousand Sons Scarab Occult Terminators known as the Fractal Blades.

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No word on the rumored Kill Team Environments set that we reported on last week. More on that once the full lineup is revealed later in the week.

Plus Warhammer Funko POP! Models are coming to Warhammer Stores next week as well:

If you’ve been patiently waiting to decorate your desks or shelves with your very own Warhammer 40,000-inspired Funko POP! vinyls, you won’t have long to wait – they’ll be hitting the store shelves of Warhammer and Games Workshop stores next week.

Which of these new releases are you looking forward to the most? Will you be transforming your gaming experience? Let us know in the comments of our Facebook Hobby Group, and get your free hobby updates each morning as well!

About the Author: Rob Baer

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Rob Baer

Job Title: Managing Editor

Founded Spikey Bits in 2009

Socials: Rob Baer on Facebook and @catdaddymbg on X

About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.

Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls. 

Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at Las Vegas Open, which attracts over 350 players from around the world.

Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the Adepticon 40k Team Tournament.

With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.

While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.