Solo Kill Team - Darktide or Stargrave? 

If they had added the complete Blooded Kill Team and used the Commisar and Ogrin from that box as some kind of boss fight I think the price might have been more acceptable.

Darktide seems like kill team flavor using the silver tower/cursed city system.

Must look in to Stargrave, thanks for this review.

Without new sculpts, this should have been another store exclusive like Barnes & Noble or Target. Those games are always around $35-$60 US when new. Combat Arena Lair of the Beast was only $35 and it has 13 Blackstone Fortress miniatures including the Ambull (vs 20 for Darktide).

I agree on all the criticism of Darktide, specialy the price tag. I'm actually writing a mod using this concept and the previous game Fireteam to try to use all the KT warbands on a hex grid. With Stargrave, I think it has no comparison, it's just a different type of game. I love the concept of Stargrave and the way you put together the cards (great design!) a thing that the core game needs desperatly. The only thing of Stargrave is the damned D20 and the "quick math" in combat, it's very tedious and slow way to play. Anyway, thanx for the video!

Stargrave is way better than any gw products

I think the biggest disappointment for me is "Available while stocks last". Pretty much confirms this is a one off, which is frustrating cause I was kind of excited for a 40k version of Underworlds

Each poxwalker or trooper have a unique number to go with the picture. Just place a small piece of tape with a number on the base of the different enemy force. Problem solved.

Thanks ,I need to get more serious about Stargrave. I do have the book

This game looks cool, but the price is too much. Stargrave is an interesting alternative. It has AI rules and threat spawning tables in the base game.

Love Frostgrave, ROSD and Stargrave.

This the same what I have done grabbing ideas from frostgrave to use with warcry and the bladeborn box from B&N ... Bladeborn imo is one of the best small games out there. Warcry but with smaller underworld warband. Pure genious if you ask me. Sadly very limited and now extremely rare to find. Being based in western europe I had to import from the usa luckily way before covid and import then was still resonable, niw its just utterly insane to get things from the usa like this

Stargrave likely has so much more value… :/ dark tide is super costy

Try to check the Star Saga. It has option to play solo and have nice card profiles. Plus nice mechanic to create your own characters

The Stargrave Cards look great! Did you make them yourself or did you find the template somewhere?

Actually I think Darktide is a pretty decent game. But the price is prohibitive. Sad really. I think using existing models was a good idea. If they had put new sculpts in the box it would have been snapped up by people just looking for the minis, like so many of Kill Team boxes.

You should check out the Acolyte fan made expansion.

Cool 👍

Darktide looks to be to Kill Team what Bladeborn was to Warcry

💯 i just want simple rules so i can convince people to play.

I think you have misunderstood what darktide is as you haven't played the game. The board game is supposed to be a literal translation of the video game which is why you are limted to what is in this box. the "kill team" as you put it are the only 4 options available in the video game. the guardsmen are justthat, they are chaose guardsmen/zealots. and then the poxwalkers. the only thing missing from this that are in the video game are a beast of nurgle, chaos spawn, plague ogryn, poxburster, a mutant, some of the enemy ogryn types, a daemonhost and pox hounds. it's not meant to be a kill team style game but i think morelike silver tower where you are moving through tiles to complete an objective while fighting off hoards. I think the price is a bit much for what is included BUT am putting that partly down to GW's new price hike (£50 would have been better). I can see them maybe doing an expansion in the form of extra missions and the extra miniatures. But overall I think this is just a quick money grab from GW and we would be better off having someone in the community make a free version that uses more miniatures (or from other ranges/3D printed) and printable card tiles.

This game is worth £30-£40 max. At that price, I'd give it a go (even though I have most of the miniatures already. But this sounds like a one off cash grab, as opposed to a new game with expansions and new enemies down the line. So disappointed in games workshop.

Play five parsecs instead

The real answer is Acolyte

IMO Stargrave isn’t the best at representing the 40k characters or setting. I played a full campaign, in my case, 6 games against various others, all of us using 40K minis (I played gsc), and in the ENTIRE campaign only like three of my guys died, even tho I was playing super reckless, because of the really cushy shooting rules. TL:DR-> nothing ever dies in Stargrave which removes any need for self preservation.

I think the kazrkin is one of the free mini giveaways the gw stores did.

The correct answer is Acolyte. Inq28 🤝 Kill Team FTW