{"id":1687,"date":"2014-01-19T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T01:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2015-10-24T22:02:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T02:02:37","slug":"recon-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2014\/01\/recon-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Recon Squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a couple\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pagegaming.com\/\">PAGE<\/a> guys and I have been <a href=\"http:\/\/pagegaming.com\/forums\/viewtopic.php?f=5&amp;t=1392\">working on<\/a> our own variation of 40k Kill Team. The effort was prompted by discussion around the many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2014\/01\/40k-kill-teams-review\/\">deficiencies and shortcomings<\/a> of Games Workshop&#8217;s official, $12 Kill Team eBook. I think the army list and game rules are pretty solid now. \u00a0It&#8217;s a bit more permissive than traditional Kill Team&#8212;Terminators are allowed, oh noes! There&#8217;s also been a fair amount of thought put toward how to make unit rules work in a no-units setting, something GW again doesn&#8217;t address hardly at all with this Kill Team update even as the core game&#8217;s rules and units continue to get crazier and more esoteric. In any event, hopefully at the latest we&#8217;ll have some games in by mid-February, and in the interim comes campaign rules.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1688\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/banner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1688\" class=\" wp-image-1688 \" alt=\"Draft banner logo; illustration from Luke Walker (without permission).\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/banner.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/banner.png 600w, https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/banner-300x80.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Draft banner logo; illustration from Luke Walker (without permission).<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a couple\u00a0PAGE guys and I have been working on our own variation of 40k Kill Team. The effort was prompted by discussion around the many deficiencies and shortcomings of Games Workshop&#8217;s official, $12 Kill Team eBook. I think the army list and game rules are pretty solid now. \u00a0It&#8217;s a bit more permissive than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2014\/01\/recon-squad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[398],"tags":[272,274,197,10],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","tag-40k","tag-miniatures","tag-recon-squad","tag-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}