Hernkyn Yaegir Kill Team Review 

New GW Kill Teams; John says “I’m sure it’s totally fine”. Bartender pours a seventh shot of Jager; John says “I’m sure it’s totally fine”…

This team is a science experiment in how many crazy abilities you need to bolt onto something to make up for bad stats.

I like when John Yaegir says "IT'S YAEGIRING TIME" and he yaegirs all over the brood brothers

God damn I am HYPED for this team.

I really like the philosophy behind this team. They start out with really good board control, but as they lose operatives, they start to suffer a lot from their 4 inch movement and smaller resource point pool. It kind of stinks that they outshine the scout squad, but I think they’re pretty well balanced, all things considered.

Thanks John! I pre-ordered this KT last night, obviously before I watched your review, so I am glad to hear that they are actually good! Sad about them not having Grudges but I understand Resources are more thematic. More Squats = more happy!!! 🥳

You totally convinced me on the cowboy hats..!

I cant wait for them to have their own box.

The forward deploy ability practically said "this is sneaky git but a bit lesser" long live sneaky git. Gonna get this KT when on solo box You gotta love one box kill teams man

Holy crap, that Ironbreak's just playing Yugioh with those minefields.

Looks like a fun team! Did the sprue come with helmet options or only heads?

Green stuff cowboy hats 👍

Cannot use the two gun guy with the GA 2 ploy if you shoot during the ready operative phase (so not 3 killsbefore the ennemy activate but always 2 kills without using a CP)

I feel like they will probably update the scouts to reflect the better ideas put here. Not a scout or marine fan, though. So doesn't affect me! GIMMIE THE DWARF SCOUT BOYS!!!

They can invest a little bit into explosive ammo instead of knives for hoardy low wounds teams.

My minefield tokens didnt even come with any blanks. All mines or both sides. RIP

Woo yaegir bombs!

I’m a bit disappointed with the lack of judgment tokens rules in this team, the units look fun but it really confuses me why they chose to make votann team and ignore the factions identity, it’s like if they made a new necron team and they didn’t have resurrection protocols

we sure the bombast can shoot in his activation if he negotiated at the start of the turning point?

How do we know which are blank mines ?

I am so disappointed that this team is slower and has a worse save in comparison to the salvager team. The forward deploys aren't really enough to be able to make up for that. It's just sapped so much enthusiasm I had for this team because of how much trouble the slow 4 inch movement of the hearthkyn salvagers was for me, so to have a team just as slow and now easier to kill? It's just so very mid

Just want to point out at the end you mention ga2 with bombast free firefight action, but he can't as per the ploy wording!

I am super confused why they have such low movement when they are literally the fastest unit in 40k for Votann with 6" movement.

To not paint these guys in the jager miester color scheme would be a shame.

Marketing wanted to call them scouts+. ;)

With the gunslinger you can actually shoot twice per turning point?? What the hell? Can anyone please confirm this?

Looking for someone to split the termination box

Also. NO COWBOY HATS! I RIOT NOW!!! >:(

their abilities kinda bad, when it tries to make up for their poor movement, which is poor compared to other 8w 9 or 10 man teams with 4+ save.

The fact that you don't get the tokens in the stand alone box is ridiculous.

The hy-pex mine thing is weird, I think it gives too much information away to have tokens that are flipped to reveal if it's an active mine or not. The decision of whether a mine is active should be on a d6; maybe 5+ to be an active mine, 4- for inactive. It would make things a bit more interesting than "There are mine tokens in every chokepoint and 2 randomly elsewhere, therefore all the chokepoints are active mines" and also in maps where that doesn't happen, once an active mine has been flipped, the enemy knows that there will always be an active mine there even if you reset the token. It shouldn't be a case of having 3 real and 2 arbitrary fake mines, it should be 5 mines with a chance that any of them might fail. The current way seems like it will lead to a lot of boring plays where your opponent knows they will take at least 3MW and potentially 9 wounds total just for approaching so they simply don't go there. When every available path to engage has a mine in it, that isn't so much area control as it is stifling play. The only counterplay to blocking chokepoints like this is to set up and shoot from the other side.