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The Fireteam set comes with a campaign mode, just like its big brother Kill Team , meaning you can string together multiple missions with a friend and improve your individual units along the way. When the original Kill Team launched in , many saw it as the gateway to getting people into the full-fledged Warhammer 40, tabletop wargame.

That never panned out due, in part, to the quirkiness and complexity of its rules. But Fireteam is very clearly intended to be the gateway to getting people into the new version of Kill Team. If you were on the fence about that rebooted skirmish game — or looking to save a little money and just settle down to paint some miniatures with a gameplay goal in mind — Warhammer 40, Fireteam is the new best point of entry into the franchise.

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So you can roll 2 dice for movement yes, roll to move! Roll again until you reach your objective a group of enemy skeletons. Then you have to decide: use all your dice in an all out attack, hoping to wipe out the enemy… or reserve some for defense? Or should you reserve some dice for movement so you can retreat after you make your attack?

So why is it at 10? You really need to put a lot of work into designing your own scenarios to make the game work. And you really need the paid for version to see the game play examples and example scenario that will give you a grasp of what to do.

You could trawl through the web site looking for the specific examples and put them all together, but the PDF is cheap enough that you save a lot of time to make it worth it. And the game is really fun once all the pieces are in place and you play it out. You really feel like a swashbuckling Cimmerian hero in the Hyborian Age undreamed of.

As always, there are more games than can make it on the list, hence the honourable mentions. Games worth definitely taking a look at, or games I haven't managed to get on the table in So in no particular order other than alphabetical It's a minis agnostic modern skirmish game.

Think of a 4-man squad in Afghanistan or some other modern 21st century conflict It DOES use d20s though so if the extreme swinginess of a d20 isn't for you