Kill Team: Shadowhunt

[Nova-V]

Well done GW scrambling to get out proper pics, I am totally sold on the Sisters following today's article.  Actual witch hunter specialist Sisters are a surprisingly gap in the range I didnt realise needed filling.

 

Interesting we have Ordo Xenos and Ordo Hereticus represented.  Could be coincidence as DW didn't have a Kill Team yet and Sisters need a Novitiates replacement.  Also could indicate the middle set will be GK?

 

If they are going down an Ordo theme could we see a new generic Inquisitor as a hero for the PvE mode?  Its a glaring hole in the Agents range.

[Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf]

8 hours ago, Halandaar said:

Also also, per the Warhammer Instagram it looks like it's the Lord and 5 Raptors for the Chaos side which is a bit of a shame given the article shows 8 Operative types buildable from the kit.

 

Just five plus lord. Hummm not so appealing now if this is confirmed...it will depend of the final price, specially when those commandos(Sororitas and Raptors) will come separately in a future.

Edited August 15 by Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf

[INKS]

if you like either of these guys you'll be waiting a while, you have 2 releases to go through and one of them we don't even know yet. ouch.

[Kurgan the Lurker]

Sadly no return to the classics. I am sad. 

 

 

[Scribe]

8 hours ago, Jings said:

Three of the same body with repeated sprues? Pretty weak for such an iconic unit. 

 

I mean how many of the same CAD 'assault marine' body have they used now across both SM and CSM?

 

Cut costs and hit that 70% profit somehow.

[ThePenitentOne]

12 hours ago, Nova-V said:

Well done GW scrambling to get out proper pics, I am totally sold on the Sisters following today's article.  Actual witch hunter specialist Sisters are a surprisingly gap in the range I didnt realise needed filling.

 

Interesting we have Ordo Xenos and Ordo Hereticus represented.  Could be coincidence as DW didn't have a Kill Team yet and Sisters need a Novitiates replacement.  Also could indicate the middle set will be GK?

 

If they are going down an Ordo theme could we see a new generic Inquisitor as a hero for the PvE mode?  Its a glaring hole in the Agents range.

 

To quote the Oracle from the Matrix, "Here's what's really going to bake your noodle:"

 

What if, in addition to all three Imperial forces in the season being Chamber Militant units, each of them follows the pattern of Sanctifiers, and is supplied with a datacard to use them for either their associated faction or as an additional requisitioned unit for their respective Ordos?

 

I mean honestly, don't you remember when the Dex dropped thinking, "Huh, the demise of the Deathwatch is terrible, but it does also mean the DW have more units available as requisitioned units than any other faction?" I remember wondering why not include a Power Armored unit of GK in addition to Terminators as requisition option? Why not Dominions or Sacressants?

 

Maybe the reason why is that GW had a plan all along to add these units to the requisition roster. And look, GW are the KINGS of missed opportunities, but if this DOES turn out to be the case? Whoever is the Inquisition advocate on the 40k design team is an evil genius who watched in silence as we all panned his team's work knowing full well that they were gonna knock us on our asses if we could just shut up and wait a year and a half.

 

The curse about seeing this as a possibility is that if it doesn't happen, I'm going to be at least a bit disappointed, which would be a shame if it prevented me from fully appreciating good new kits for sisters and DW, two armies that I both love and happen to collect. 

Edited August 16 by ThePenitentOne

[Inquisitor lorr]

Those sisters look absolutely fantastic!! 

[divad8]

18 hours ago, Jings said:

Three of the same body with repeated sprues? Pretty weak for such an iconic unit. 

 

That's not true. The kit will include 5 raptors with 5 different bodies/poses, plus the Lord. What you're talking about is just different build options.

[Lord Marshal]

23 hours ago, sitnam said:

Maybe? Chaos Cult and Beastmen will still be around for a season or two, so the need for replacement isn't as dire Only real things I could think of are:

 

-Dark Mech kill team

-Stormtrooper-equivalent Traitor Guard

 

Thousand Sons and Harlequins are about to lose their WD teams too. I think Harlies are out of luck, but maybe the other Chaos gods will get god specific mortals like the Goremonhers

 

Good point about Fellgor.

 

Hunter Clade also got it's replacement in Battle-Clade and Wyrmblade had Brood Brothers.

 

Emperor's Children Cultists would make a lot of sense, as you say.

 

Edited August 16 by Lord Marshal

[Emperor Ming]

Are those chaos dudes even pskyers.....

[Indy Techwisp]

4 hours ago, Lord Marshal said:

Good point about Fellgor.

 

Hunter Clade also got it's replacement in Battle-Clade and Wyrmblade had Brood Brothers.

 

Emperor's Children Cultists would make a lot of sense, as you say.

 

I'm holding out hope that a TSons team is still Rubric based.

Just... a new kind of Rubricae.

Tho a TSons Psyker Cultist team would also be nice.

 

(Can't let Deathguard be the only Cult Marines team to actually field their cult marines)

[Nephaston]

3 hours ago, Emperor Ming said:

Are those chaos dudes even pskyers.....

Painted as Night Lords so probably a lil' bit, microdosing Divination. Other than that, any Anti-Psyker shenanigans might help a bit against Chaos-juiced enemies.

[01RTB01]

On 8/15/2025 at 7:30 AM, Lord Marshal said:

An interesting tidbit from the article that might point to one of the teams coming before Shadowhunt:

 

 

When you look back at the bespoke Season 1 teams which are about to be rotated out, they've received a similar replacement quite recently:

 

Krieg -> Pick your 100th Guard team.

Kommandos -> Wrecka Krew

Pathfinders -> Vespid

Novitates -> Celestians

Legionnaires -> Raptors

Voidscarred -> Blades of Khaine

Phobos -> Scouts

Traitor Guard -> ???

 

So based off the above, could we be getting more Mortal Chaos Chaff next...?

 

 

In fairness kommandos and wrecka crew are totally different to each other.

 

I've been trying to hunt for kommandos and failing miserably.

[HeadlessCross]

34 minutes ago, 01RTB01 said:

 

In fairness kommandos and wrecka crew are totally different to each other.

 

I've been trying to hunt for kommandos and failing miserably.

They're probably repackaged in a purple box and that's why you can't find them. 

[Interrogator Stobz]

42 minutes ago, 01RTB01 said:

 

In fairness kommandos and wrecka crew are totally different to each other.

 

I've been trying to hunt for kommandos and failing miserably.

I'm looking for Gellerpox, also failing miserably. 

Love this game, loath the shelf life of the teams.

[INKS]

12 minutes ago, Interrogator Stobz said:

I'm looking for Gellerpox, also failing miserably. 

Love this game, loath the shelf life of the teams.

Gellerpox are very hard to find. GW seems to stop making then even before this last season of KT, put them on the soon to restrict list very early. so  you have to comb either ebay and over pay and some local store and hope someone hasn't found a box. I guess because of the box and the contents GW doesn't like making it - or so this is what I've heard.

 

shame because it's my favorite.

[Tastyfish]

On 8/15/2025 at 7:02 PM, HeadlessCross said:

Harlem Glaivetrotters

 

I'm too tired to think up anything else

Globe Traitors was right there.

 

The Daemonkin rumour for me holds the most weight as it'd also tick off the missing Daemon kill team from the compendium if it is a mix of mortals doing stuff to summon daemons (specifically Bloodletters in the box or team).

 

Thousand Sons could also help to tick off this style as well, if it's a daemon summoning sorcerer and associated hangers on and bodyguards.

Edited August 17 by Tastyfish

[LSM]

Used my magnificent MS Paint skills to line up the bodies' two builds.

 

(There isn't, as far as I can tell, a corresponding Curseclaw option shown off yet. I hope there's a "normal legs" variant.)

 

 

[Indy Techwisp]

3 hours ago, LSM said:

Used my magnificent MS Paint skills to line up the bodies' two builds.

 

(There isn't, as far as I can tell, a corresponding Curseclaw option shown off yet. I hope there's a "normal legs" variant.)

 

 

 

Are there 2 Operatives left over?
Or is it just the Cursewing and Señor Del Caos left.

[Tastyfish]

Mr Del-Chaos is the current Lord sprue isn't it? 

 

There's also another body done up in Night Lord colours as a regular Raptor at 10 seconds in the video.

Blurry one at the front I think has different leg armour to the rightmost of your pairs.

 

 

[divad8]

23 minutes ago, Tastyfish said:

Mr Del-Chaos is the current Lord sprue isn't it? 

 

There's also another body done up in Night Lord colours as a regular Raptor at 10 seconds in the video.

Blurry one at the front I think has different leg armour to the rightmost of your pairs.

 

 

 

 

It looks like the same Shrieker to me. Same pose. And loot at his right leg, you can see a spike.

[TheMawr]

When I came back from my festival "season" the story on this already faded into old news, and I tried to resist the urge to dredge the hot topics of this and the Nightbringer up.. but when making my thumbnails I noticed something peculiar.. but first a peace offering for threadomancy :

 

 

Imho saves him a little bit if the mutated parts are mutated armor, not flesh breaking out ( for the record, I think this one is the KT Murderwing "leader" but not the leader of the regular builds.. that would be the Raptor champion one with the regular champion loadout etc., wich I think makes it almost certain that this one can also be built as a regular raptor or warp talon.)

Thats not the peculiar bit though

 

the base is, so far every season had one consistency throughout the season, the basing they represent the kill teams on. But whereas Tombworld follows black basing, shadowhunt follows traditional 40k basing.

 

It follows another noticable thing, in contrary to previous seasons this season follows the same "setting" but not the same location

Tomb world is on Somneft in the Pariah Nexus ( I think ), but Shadowhunt is set on Garranox a world in Ultramar. I think the other two boxes of the season will be different locations where a Necron tombworld awakens as well

 

lastly there is ofcourse this interesting image ( where the kill team bases are gray.. funny enough ) :

 

Im probably wrong but.. that green shape in the middle of the background ? thats a huge gigantic cannon... like Volkus, the dark shape on the top left background, that looks like a crashing spacehulk, this is one KT allstars image. But its likely not intentional, it was just that when I saw it, I couldnt unsee it. Makes me still wonder if the top right half or weird hovering blob between "gallowdark" and "big cannon" has any relation to one of the other kill team boxes ( the flappy beings in front of the cannon are also fascinating, considering none of the 3 factions visible have flappy units.)