Kill Team Moroch is the next expansion for Kill Team, and follows the same format as Chalnath and Nachmund, introducing two brand new kill teams and a kill zone. Moroch features the loyalist Adeptus Astartes, or Space Marines, in a Phobos Strike Team, fighting against the Militarum Traitoris Blooded Kill Team. In this article, we'll have a look at what's in the box, and talk about the two new kill teams and the new kill zone.

Kill Team is a skirmish wargame, set in Games Workshop's larger Warhammer 40,000 setting. As a skirmish game, Kill Team features a small number of elite troops, fighting special operations battles, rather than huge battles fought with entire armies. If you want to know more about Kill Team, you can check out our full guide here.

Kill Team Moroch is an expansion for Kill Team, which means that it's not playable straight out of the box, a copy of the Kill Team Core rules are required, as are some dice and measuring tools. If you have the Kill Team Starter Set or Octarius box, then it contains everything you need to start using Moroch right away. You can purchase the items required to play separately, and they are all detailed in our Kill Team Guide.

The Moroch campaign book is split into several chapters, the first, Warzone Sanctus - Frontier World Moroch, details the lore and narrative of the planet Moroch and the forces battling within it. The next chapter contains the background for Phobos Strike Teams and Blooded kill teams, along with narrative ideas and hooks to flesh them out.

The core of the book are the datacards, abilities, special rules, ploys, and spec ops details for the two new kill teams included in the set, the Space Marine Phobos Strike Team, and Militarum Traitoris Blooded. These are different kill teams from those previously presented in the Kill Team Compendium, and we look at both in detail below.

The book closes with Killzone: Moroch and special rules for all the Fronteris scenery in the box, rules like the Fronteris Stockade, which gains the Defendable trait if certain conditions are met, giving an operative an advantage even when they're charged. It also has a Shadow Operations: Moroch Mission Pack, a series of nine narrative missions that make use of the Killzone: Moroch scenery, and also the Sentries rules, a short prologue battle using a few operatives each that enable the attacker to try and move into key positions and complete objectives.

The Space Marines are the poster boys for Warhammer 40,000 and have been a staple of the system since its release, along with being a core of the lore, as can be seen with the Times Best Selling Horus Heresy series of novels that details the fall of half of the space marine legions against the Emperor. In recent editions, a new generation of Space Marines were created, the Primaris. Larger, tougher, and better equipped than their firstborn brethren.

To aid these new warriors, the latest version of their iconic power armor, Mark X, allows huge customization to meet different challenges. Part of this is the Phobos-pattern armor which is lighter and more maneuverable, perfect for covert operations. Three types of space marine troops wear Phobos-pattern armor, the Infiltrators, advanced behind-enemy lines operators, Incursors, stealth assault specialists, and Reivers, shock terror assault troops. All three of these troops types make up the Phobos Strike Team for Kill Team, giving commanders a lot of options when picking their assault squads.

These options do mean that you are going to have to make some choices when building your Phobos force out of the Moroch box. It doesn't contain any Reivers, so those will have to be bought separately, but it doesn't contain two identical Infiltrator/Inccussor sprues, that can make most of the options without the need for a second purchase. If only working out of the box, you will have to choose between having both Seargent options and the Infiltrator Saboteur, and between having two of the three options of Commsman, Voxbreaker and Marksman. We detail all the options below and picking up a box of Reivers and an additional spur of Infiltrators/Incursors will allow you to build all options for full access to the roster.

If the greatest heroes of humanity can fall to the lure of Chaos, then what chance does an unaugmented human have? The Militarum Traitoris Blooded are those of the forces of humanity that have chosen to act on their greed, lust, and anger and turn against their fellows in support of either the fouls gods of Chaos, or simply to pursue their own ends. 

Blooded Kill Teams gain Blooded tokens each turn, and when they incapacitate enemy operatives or their own are taken out close to enemies, which they can use to draw the attention of the dark gods. If an operative has a Blooded token, they can automatically retain a hit when they attack, or if they are under the gaze of the dark gods, a critical hit.

Some choices will have to be made when building out of the box, as they have sixteen troop choices in all, and only twelve and buildable with a single Moroch set. So plan your build carefully using the construction booklet, or pick up another sprue or two in order to fill out your roster with all options.

The Fronteris scenery set allows you to build:

It also contains a single very durable, double-sided game board. All of the included scenery is used in the Shadow Operations: Moroch Mission Pack narrative missions detailed in the back of the Moroch book.

It doesn't sound like much scenery compared to the other Kill Team boxed sets, but the Hab-Bunker and Landing pad are huge, and the Vox-Antenna is a great sniper's nest if you can survive getting to the top.

Along with Kill Team Moroch, the new book of lore and stat blocks Warhammer 40K Codex: Chaos Knights is also up for preorder. We covered this to some extent with our review of the Chaos Knights Army Box, where a special edition of the Codex was included. Read on to find out more.

The copy of Kill Team Moroch used to produce this preview was provided by Games Workshop.

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