Mine would be Sicarian Infiltrators! They seem like such a prime candidate for me and I could imagine they'd have some interesting rules and give us and Ad Mech team without so many servitors. What are all of your dream Killteams?
Definitely Jungle Fighters. They need new models reslly badly. But we also dont have models for Mordian Iron Guard or Steel Legion, I don't think. But Jungle Fighters need new models and id love to have them as a kill team.
In 9th edition the Cadians were upgraded, in 10th the Deathkorps and through all these years, GW never dropped the Catachans, unklike so many other regiments.
My hope is, that in 11th edition, before the IG guard codex comes out, GW releases a KT box with a new design of Catachans, that later comes into the codex.
The same way they did KT2 with Deathkorps, basicly.
I too am hoping for this combo!
Exodites with a mini ankylosaurus as the squad good boy would be lovely (and save something two legged for the Dragon Knights).
Maybe GW would do something similar to the voidscarred corsairs, release a killteam and then later follow up with a mini wave of models to expand the Exodites. I can dream.
Catachan must on the cards at some point. And combining them Exodites seems like an obvious choice.
Same here! In my last KT game, my vanguard warriors helped the ruststalkers and infiltrators survive rounds of raveners melee attacks, and we ended up winning the game! What a surprisingly fun kill team.
if you want to continue with building a hunter clade kill team here is a blog i found that i used as a guide while creating my first kill team https://disregardingdice.com/hunter-clade-guide
unfortunately i can't find any sicarians in my area so i just bought 3d proxies for them
Gretchen/grot team or a flayed ones team. Really it feels like there are so many options. Also not my vibe but I'm shocked there isn't a tyranid horde team already.
Currently working on my grotlings team (ratlings with grots). Gotta say, I'm low-key glad there's no official team, because I wouldn't have made this if there was
Grot tanks, 5 operatives loaded with rickety guns and complex movement rules. Have the second super-elite team in the game be grots, give the people what they want.
Chaos Undivided Demon team is what I'd love. Run by a Black Legion sorcerer. You pick which types of demons you want to to bring from each ruinous power. Have like two specialist for each power. Get some new demon sculpts.
I like this idea. I've been toying with proxying Blades of Khaine with demons. Daemonettes = Banshees, Striking Scorpions = Bloodletters, and Dire Avengers = Blue Horrors. Really just want a demon team.
There's an EC, White Dwarf Combat Patrol that has a Sorcerer leading Daemonettes, Fiends, and a few Tormentors. It kinda sucks but I find it extremely fun to play.
Not sure why Daemons are so unpopular in 40K, maybe it's because they're not "sci-fi" enough and feel more like a fantasy trope? But 40K is just a fantasy world set in Space lmao.
But anyway, I'm rambling now. This is a good idea and would be a great excuse for me to pick up the few random Daemon models that I like, such as Beasts of Nurgle and Screamers.
Beast snaggas with a weird boy shaman would be tight as hell. I love the beast snaggas combat patrol but the model diversity sucks ass so bad you can't even proxy them as the other ork teams without having to kitbash the tits out of them
They’re very classic orks in a way. No tricks, just sluggas and choppas.
KT upgrade sprues seem to be less of a thing nowadays but feels like they could be well fleshed out with one if it had bits for a weirdboy (or add as a plastic character), an apprentice painboy, a madboy, a guy with a squig-hound, maybe another weapon or two.
Actually, imagine if KT was the opportunity to bring back Madboys? https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Madboy
Each specialist a different mental illness. Probably not something you could really do in 2026…
I said the same thing on the lore forum and got schooled with excepts about large, genetically engineered laborers being common in the Imperium.
I still like the idea of an ex-custodian trying to look casual in a seven foot long trench coat. Standing in an alley. Acting cool. Leaning against a wall and knocking the whole building over.
I have to say, after seeing The Enforcer, I didn’t realize how beefy they actually are in-lore. They seem closer in size to Kroxigars than to Saurians. I bet it would be another awesome elite T’au team something like Stealth Suits but focused a bit closer range.
Noise Marines. Great way to get some EC into the game; we've had Night Lords, we've had the Gore things, we've had Plague Marines & Gellerpox. NOW, I WANT SLAANESH CSM!
Personally, I think we have plenty of elite teams and don't need more of them. While I really want an emperor's children kill team, I'd much rather it be some kind of Slaanesh cultists instead, especially because then we'd get an interesting new unit to use for 40k as well. Emperor's Children desperately need new units for their army, so it'd be a shame if their kill team was just one of their existing units in a different box.
Honestly, As cool as noise marines would be, I think it would be even cooler if we got something else for EC. Noise Marines already got a brand new cool as hell kit for 40k. I'd hate for them to produce another new kit for the same unit to clash with the already new one.
I'd love to see EC in kill team, but I'd like to see something new from them so we're building the range a bit more.
Sicarians are up there but I'd reaaaally dig a Cult Mechanicus KT with Corpuscarii, Fulgurites, maybe a Mirmidon and some sort of HQ akin to a Manipulus
Im going to start on a Goremongers team using Berserkers pretty soon. I like the thought of them being reckless fighters being reflected in the lower wound count. Plus the whole fueled by gore tanks thing is just sick as hell.
When they're not getting rules support you'll still be able to use the rules for casual play im guessing? I only am a casual killteam player as of yet and tbh I want an excuse to buy and paint them 😂 if their playability falls off a cliff ill accept that
Hunter Clade is still an awesome team! They updated and buffed them right before moving them to classified, and they're my favorite.
5 Sicarians and 5 Skitarii, lots of cool maneuvers and tricks you can do.
They certainly aren’t sucky, their win rates and most tier list standings are surprisingly high. CanYouRollACrit recently put them near the top of A tier.
We NEED more grot representation. My suggestion? Grot horde kill team.
Their motivation is to secure equal rights as their Ork overlords by proving themselves more than capable. Would be a blast painting Ork themed little protest signs for them.
Well I got Raveners for my Tyranid hopes and dreams.. so now I would say I would love a Grey Knights team and a Thousand Sons team to replace and rebalance Warpcoven... Or maybe since we had generic Legionaries and the Night Lord specific upgrade sprue I would love a new Legio upgrade sprue for the other non-mono God legions....
Gaunt's Ghosts! Would be interesting to see an "elite" imperial guard team. But chances are, since they cant be given 3+ saves, they'll probably have stealth rules to cover their durability. Which would then play similar to tau stealthsuits.
Iron Warriors like the serie iron within, blood angeles space hulk Terminators, assassinorun, lucifers blacks, alpha legion ,and thunder warriors vs custodies
Khorne Berzerkers, Noise Marines, horde kill teams (regular imperial guards with commissar, tyranids), Grey Knights, regular battle sisters squad, dark eldar wyches, Adeptus Custodes (very elite team of 4-5 men in golden armour and medium-elite team of sisters of silence)
Apart from them, arcoflagellants. I bet there can be a cool ecclesiarchical battleclade esque melee focused servitor team made with the extremis trigger word rules and such
Ynnari Spirit-hunters (Aeldari). A band of Ynnari cultists drawn from craftworlds and Commorragh, tasked with seeking out Aeldari relics and spirit stones, or acting on the wisdom of the Aeldari dead. A 10-model team where each operative has minor psychic/ritual abilities, led by a full Ynnari necromancer-priest. The kit includes plenty of spare heads and accessories to spread out across Asuryani/Drukhari kits for a full Ynnari army.
Tarellian Dog-soldiers (T'au Empire). A pack of Tarellian mercenaries, kitted out for hunting missions against the hated Imperium (or whoever pays the bills). A 6-8 model team with a focus on close-range firefights and sniffing out targets. They're available to T'au Empire armies in 40k, and the kit includes optional T'au-themed cosmetics to build them as direct auxiliaries (you can probably also take a squad in Red Corsairs if they're lead by the Enforcer).
Bilean Gene-takers (Chaos). A squad of Fabius Bile's New Men, loaned out to other Chaos warlords or sent on missions to claim enticing technology and genetic samples. An elite 'human' team with mechanics for unpredictable genetic enhancements. Available to both Chaos Space Marines and Emperor's Children armies in 40k (just as Fabius Bile should be).
Norn Herald (Tyranids). A specialised Tyranid Prime leading a 'command squad' of mixed Gaunts (Termagants, Hormagaunts, a Gargoyle, a Barbgaunt, a Sporegaunt, a Neurogaunt, etc), all of them bred to complete a specific task or campaign. A swarm team with mechanics centred around controlling operatives through the Herald's synapse range, extended by a Neurogaunt operative.
Sacristan Recuperautors (Imperial Knights). An elite combat recovery team, led by a Questoris-sworn Tech-priest, with bionic legs to keep up with their masters on the battlefield. Sent into killzones to retrieve wrecked Knights, stranded pilots, and household relics. Mechanics based around upholding their master's knightly honour.
Grey Knights anything. They've had three new kits in the last fourteen years, all Characters and none super exciting. A nice Kill Team would be just the shot in the arm the range needs, whether it's a wholly new infiltration unit or an update of one of the existing power armoured squads... as long as it's not just an upgrade sprue to go on the existing SIPP Squad sprue. That would be sad.
A dedicated Raven Guard team. 5 bodies in Phobos armor (easier to get GW to put them all in the same armor) led by a Shadow Master. Gimmie lightning claws, jump packs, and a mechanic to recover Corvia off a fallen ally and I'll probably be happy.
I’d like to see a kill team of:
Ork Rokkit Boyz (like the vulcha boys and Zagruk)
A hyper elite imperial assassin kill team (IE: the sniper, the combat specialist, the body changing assassin and the null) - very hard to hit and deadly, but when wounded go down easily.
An aspect kill team of Eldar: a fire dragon, a swooping hawk, a warp spider, a howling banshee, a dark reaper, a dire avenger
New Harlequin unit - Webway Dancers, models based on the AoS Lumineth Spirits of the Wind effects with the cool warp ribbons and crackling webway energy on the base with them "riding" it.
In Kill Team a fast, hit and run melee unit, in 40k one with dev wounds on melee and the ability to choose to gain anti-monster 4+, anti-vehicle 4+ or anti infantry 4+ at the start of each fight phase lasts until end of turn.
Exodites vs Catachans.
Drukhari Trueborne (Elite Kabalites) vs Emperor's Children Warpshredders (think more like close range shooting/melee hybrid unit with more of the classic hair metal aesthetic).
Battle of the Bands: Goff Rockers vs Noise Marines
Do the goofy, fun, over the top noise marines and Goff rocker models. They’ve re-released the Goff rocker singer for a holiday years ago, and did a fun individual noise marine a few years ago too. A whole squad of each would be awesome.
Chaos Demons vs Grey Knights would be cool, but tbh I would just like some deeper roster building to happen. I know that it was annoying to need 3 different boxes for Warpcoven but it felt like you basically got 2-3 teams in one and I feel like a lot of the more recent teams were kinda built for us with not many decisions in the teambuilding part.
Either deeper weapon profile selection so we have to actually choose for that (I had hoped for this with Deathwatch but its ok), or just some teams that aren't explicitly elite/horde and maybe a mix
An EC flavored one. As the last mono-god Legion to get a model range, I'm not surprised at how long it's taking us to get a Kill Team, but we're now the only ones without one.
Also honorable mention for a Tyranid one that's not Raveners. It doesn't have that Tyranid flavor imo. We need a Hormogaunt Kill Team or something so I can feel the stress of sending a handful of Kasrkin at a bug infestation
Carcharodons, Deathshroud terms, lictor type sneaky tyranid team. Any of those, to me, would be awesome. Meta or not, they would be my main squeeze lol.
Every time I post this I get downvoted but who cares....
Just gonna say that a Drukhari Court of the Archon or Beast pack kill team would've been so interesting with operative selection. Imagine a dracon leader with Lhamaean, 2 medusae, 3 sslyth mercs with various options, then a small pack of ur-ghul to harass the board. Or literally just the group of Beastmaster and beastpack exactly as it is.
For me it is:
1. An Inquisitorial Kill Team with more customizable options for the henchmen and an actual Inquisitor
2. Warp Spiders
3. Officio Assassinorum
4. Genestealers
5. Lictors
6. Grey Knights
7. Repentia
5 jump pack death company and a new jump pack chaplain. All decked out in blood angels stuff. A chance for a proper death company kit. And an updated Primaris jump chaplain to lead them.
I dream a daemonic engine kill team
Two demon machines with three operative maybe
Chaos undevided that can be personalized as the Legionaries or folower of Vashtorr
I want the older freaky looking skitari I remember thinking how cool looking they seemed reading titanicus and this seems to be the closest thing I’ve seen.
Exodites, Farsight Enclaves, feudal guard, the space marines with the forearm spikes, weird ad mech shenanigans, and any xenos that they can scrounge up from the lore.
Anything that would be cool models and fluff that wouldn’t make sense to do an entire range refresh for. Also I want space dinosaurs pls.
I'd love for a flashgitz team, other that that I'd like something a bit gimmicky, like gretching and killakan...
I know people play that with the ratling team, but i would want more incompetent gretching with a really scary killakan
I think Kill Team would be a great place to refresh Haemonculus Covens. A new Haemonculus for the leader, a bunch of Wracks, maybe something new that fits between a Wrack and a Grotesque (I wouldn't put Grotesques in KT).
This might be a hot take but I miss the Custodes team. Even if they go back to two custodes and some sisters of silence, I would love an updated Custodes team for 3rd edition.
I know people are saying there are too many elite teams but a squad of GreyKnights, Carcharadons/Space Marine specific teams like DA or RG. Some World Eaters would be awesome, could maybe get a butcher Surgeon model finally.
For a horde team maybe introduce a new minor Xenos species that’s been briefly mentioned in a book but nothings been done with like the Mega Arachnids
They should be fast units, but it's not well represented on tabletop, so they can be big, slow-ish guys, with additional potency when either close to and/or in line-of-sight of the Spiritseer. Maybe a bit of movement range, weapons gain Balanced/Ceaseless, increased Hit stat, things that represent the psyker rousing the spirit in the Wraith unit to be a bit more active, a bit more focused. Could just be an APL battery too.
Separately I want a black crusade CMS mixed legion team. Kinda like a Chaos death watch. I really want to paint different chaos legions but I don't want to buy the separate sets / models. Maybe if it was a Warhammer heroes set it might happen.
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Catachan vs Exodites, 'nuff said.