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Recon Squad
Titus stood above his Razorback's hatch, chainsword resting lazily on one shoulder. Mere yards away, the monstrous creature's piercing scream rocked the tank slightly on its treads. Muscles and servos bracing imperceptibly, Titus' chainsword buzzed throatily to life as he flicked the thumb controls...

Recon Squad is an unofficial, fan-made variant of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 miniatures game. It is a simple set of rules and missions tailored for skirmishing. All the usual 40k mechanics are used so there is no new core gameplay to learn. But each model acts independently, moving about the board and fighting on its own rather than as part of a unit. Each player typically only fields a handful to a dozen of models, some of which are given unique special abilities. Matches generally take well under an hour to play. Grab your favorite sergeant and his best grunts and take them on a mission---the fates of entire sectors hinge on the mettle of such warriors!

Missions, Design, and Questions
Legacies

The Recon Squad PDF contains a default mission that works well for pickup games. The Legacies 40k skirmish narrative framework includes seven more thematic scenarios, and ties them all together in a simple multi-player campaign of squads working to accomplish special missions and earn their place in history.

A discussion of the design rationale for Recon Squad—based on the 7th edition version but still applicable—is on tjkopena's blog. It also compares Recon Squad to Games Workshop's traditional and current Kill Team rules.

Changelog

Credits

Disclaimer & Copyright

Recon Squad is obviously completely unofficial, unauthorized, and unaffiliated with Games Workshop. All models depicted above are also all obviously Games Workshop intellectual property. Adepta Sororitas, Adeptus Astartes, Astra Militarum, Blood Angels, Chaos Daemons, Chaos Space Marines, Dark Angels, Dark Eldar, Eldar, Grey Knights, Necrons, Orks, Space Wolves, Tau Empire, Tyranid, Forge World, Games Workshop, Warhammer, and all associated marks, names, races, race insignia, characters, vehicles, locations, units, illustrations, images, and models from the Warhammer 40,000 universe and game are either ®, TM, and/or © Copyright Games Workshop Ltd 2000. Used without permission, no challenge to status intended, all rights reserved to their respective owners.

Creative Commons License

Recon Squad is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It has been produced using solely open source tools. The document and image sources are available on GitHub.