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This is the final pre-order to be released before Christmas, so our prediction of a new game coming before Christmas is incorrect. We'll take that on the chin, but you need to make your choices for Santa - there's nothing else new before jolly old St Nick visits and ravishes your mum under the Christmas tree.
Everyone's favourite Universe-expanding game, Kill Team has a new Edition! We had some releases a few weeks back, but this week Games Workshop have flooded us with a new set and pretty much all of the-best-of-the-rest, with minis to satisfy even the most hardened of Beardy!
The new Kill Team: Brutal and Cunning set gives you Ork Wrecka Krew Kill Team and the Ratlings Kill Team as they square off in the new defensive fortification terrain, Compound Siege. Why the Ratlings don't have body armour is beyond me, but there you go. As for the new inddividual Kill Team boxes - where to start? How about the newest of the Kill Teams, the Tempestus Aquilons and the Vespid Stingwings, who have broken free of the launch box for this edition of Kill Team to spread their plastic majesty to us. This is the first expansion to the previous Tempestus Scions kit, this time giving us the first Imperial Guard troops with jetpacks since Forge World, and much more dynamic poses. The Vespid Stingwings on the other hand are the first plastic incarnation of the classic Tau allies, and you'd have to say a very solid update - especially in terms of dynamism. Curiously the Vespid haven't been very present on the Tau FB Community Groups, so maybe they haven't hit the right spot, or do Tau players prefer mechs and gun lines? The rest of the sets are older, and weirdly not all the same price, in fact the excellent Blades of Khaine get the prize for the most expensive followed, weirdly, by the Heirotek Circle. The rest are mostly the same price-point, with the Exaction Squad, Farstalker Kinband, Imperial Navy Breachers, Death Korps of Kreig, Fellgor Ravagers, Novitiates and Hearthkyn Salvagers all rolling in, while Hand of the Archon get a lower price. Considering the Hand of the Archon has Drukhari Kabalites base kit that is cheaper than the others anyway, the maths on this is crazy! Of course these forces need their Data Cards, so there's cards for the Tempestus Aquilons, Vespid Stingwings, Blades of Khaine, Heirotek Circle, Exaction Squad, Farstalker Kinband, Imperial Navy Breachers, Death Korps of Kreig, Fellgor Ravagers, Novitiates, Hearthkyn Salvagers, and our friends the Hand of the Archon, as well as the Angels of Death and Plague Marines. There's also a terrain set, with Killzone: Volkus - a very nice multi-level urban battlefield - available for pre-order this week too.
Legions Imperialis have some releases on pre-order this week too, with the Legions Imperialis: Stalker Constructs, Legions Imperialis: Serperos 'Overlord' Heavy Stalkers, and the Legions Imperialis: Thanatar Siege-Automata Cohort all on pre-order. There's also terrain for them too, with the new Legions Imperialis: Civitas Imperialis Elevated Plaza set to add height to your buildings, rolling out too.
In books we have the The Infinite and The Divine Special Edition and it's a White Dwarf week with Issue 506 here to turn up in your Xmas stocking and you'll probably never read.