The Red Terror, a massive Tyranid that dates back to Warhammer 40K's 3rd edition, is making its return as a Kill Team NPO. At this week's Warhammer Preview event, Games Workshop revealed the "Terror on Devlan" Kill Team expansion, which adds a new Kill Team squad of Cadian veterans against the Red Terror, a massive red Tyranid that burrows through the ground and emerges to eat its victims whole.
The Terror on Devlan contains a series of linked Joint Ops missions, which are solo play missions with pre-programmed behavior. Likely, the Red Terror will be joined by other Tyranids in other missions, at least judging by the promo pictures for the new expansion.
The interesting part of this release is that Kill Team is also testing out a way to incorporate bigger miniatures into the game. The new Nemesis Operatives book provides ways to incorporate nemesis operatives, larger units that can either be used as allies or as boss fights in joint ops missions.
Kill Team is a spinoff game of Warhammer 40K in which players control small squads pulled from every corner of Warhammer 40K lore in intense and deadly missions. Typical Kill Team squads contain a mix of rules for individual units, allowing for a range of gameplay options even though the entry cost for the game is much smaller than a normal 40K army. Games Workshop has also used Kill Team as a way to bring back obscure units or float new units for a possible wider release, with the Kroot and the Death Korps of Krieg both receiving Kill Team releases before expanding into full-fledged army boxes for the main Warhammer 40K game.
