Sorry not really other than stuff like necromunda, which as you say is a very different game to 40k and just as complicated in its way. What about the combat patrol rules and using 400 point armies? Its a good starting point and as long as no one goes crazy trying to make broken lists its usually very fun to play

 

Well I made this (www.geocities.com/cilionelle/wh40kskirm.pdf) today. Please critique (gently) and please, please playtest it. If it doesn't work, I will go back to the drawing board, but basically it's a combo of Kill Team and Necromunda.

Merry Christmas!

 

interesting. Will have to give it a go

 

(www.geocities.com/cilionelle/wh40kskirm.pdf)

looks good I'll try it

 

You should try the Combat Patrol Rules, also in the big green book. Max size is 400 one troop compulsory... lots of fun.

 

What up Zeke?

 

There's also Kill Team, if you're more interested in even smaller scale, single-squad missions.

 

The original poster said kill-team was undesireable because the 'goons' player doesn;t really get any choice or customization. I say two things in regards to that.

One: They can always customize the hell out of the boss character.
and Two: You're supposed to alernate who plays the goons and who plays the kill-team, so go ahead and let everyne make their own kill team and either share a set of goons (it's family, right? Sharing is what we do), or let everyone do up a goon squad too.

 

One of the other things that I forgot to mention with Kill Team (I love the concept and look forward to playing in the future) is that we (as a family) don't yet have the models to be able to play goons. 27 Termagants, 15 Space Marines, 24 Eldar Guardians, etc. I have 10 Termagants, 13 Space Marines, 16 Guardians... and that's it. I guess substituting them would work okay (with SM scouts for regular SMs, but being SM is another story...

 

PS: Tacoma rocks!

 

True, but any time you're trying to get yourself/others into a new game, there's bound to be at least a little forking over of the dough. And between places like battlewagon bits and ebay, you can probably get either the handful of individual models or a squad box for less than $20

For beginners, kill-team is a pretty good choice. It's quick and rules-lite.

However, if you can manage to scrape up the minis/points to field at least one troops choice, the Combat Patrol rules are the way to go. Max 400 points, requires 1 troop, max of 1 HQ (but not required) no models with 2+ saves, 3 or more wounds, or total front/side/rear AV of more than 33 (count side once) play it on a 4x4 board with the mission tules provided in that section of the book.

Edit: PS: Thanks. Seems like every time I say i'm from Washington they either assume I mean DC, or they assume I mean Seattle ;-)

 

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