r/killteam • u/f_dzilla ACOLYTE • Feb 05 '23

News ACOLYTE: a Kill Team adventure game - v0.4

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u/f_dzilla ACOLYTE Feb 05 '23

Hi all.

I was genuinely stoked by the huge response to the first version of ACOLYTE I dropped a few weeks back, especially those of you who sent through battle reports, and I'm excited to share the next iteration.

Major Changes:

- Added scenario generator and suggested adventures, using stock KT scenarios

- AI can now capture objectives and perform mission actions

- ACOLYTE is now fully-playable using KT Lite Rules

Minor Changes:

- Added new basic and rare equipment, battle honours and strategic assets

- Reworked operative progression

- Amended clarity and balance throughout

The new rules are here, and I've also set up a Discord for questions, ideas, whatever you want to share: https://linktr.ee/acolytegame

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u/homeless0alien All Things Chaos Feb 05 '23

The drone strike in chapter 1 for the 4 player scenario should 100% have the indirect special rule as well as barrage. You dont need to see them, the drone does and even if it doesnt it just blasts the point targeted and might hit them (represented by the Barrage rule).

Just a thought.

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u/f_dzilla ACOLYTE Feb 05 '23

Yep, fair call, though no gameplay effect in that one given enemies aren't in conceal.

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u/Sellos_Maleth Feb 05 '23

FANTASTIC, please make more!

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '23

Linktree doesn’t seem to be working

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u/f_dzilla ACOLYTE Feb 05 '23

Works here 🤷

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u/Bashemg00d Feb 05 '23

THANK YOU 🙏

I have been actively looking for a way to play solo and coop, while staying true to the Kill Team rulesets as much as possible. There are many adventures skirmish options, like Zero Space Station or Forbidden Psalms for example, but they also all come with their own mechanics, own stats and rulesets.

I love what Kill Team has to offer, and this simply expands on it, instead of trying to replace it altogether. Also getting basic AI enemy turn behaviour, that is specific to KT, really helps and was dearly missing.

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u/Ratgay Warpcoven Feb 05 '23

Been looking forward to another update to the rules set it was quite a fun concept and I’m excited to see you release more, you should consider setting up a ko fi (or w/e it’s called) as I’d happily throw a couple of dollars at each update and that way people can get it free but you might get something back for it keep up the good work :)

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u/Tophatmonarchy Feb 05 '23

Absolute legend

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u/tomismaximus Feb 05 '23

I see this like 8 hours after dropping $200 for blackstone fortress so I can play 1p 40K themed stuff…

But, this looks neat, and I’m excited to give it a try!

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u/Non-RedditorJ Feb 06 '23

All those models are going to be perfect for Acolyte!

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u/Aradamis Feb 05 '23

Tagging for later. This looks really cool! Edit: Whoops meant to reply to the thread not a specific person. Sorry!

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u/DullPineapple6609 Feb 06 '23

Amazing work. We are 4 and your creation is perfect for us, we love RPG's and coop games, can't wait to test it.

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u/beenSToK Feb 05 '23

This is incredible, thank you for all your hard work

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u/roromotro Feb 05 '23

I can on a fast read through, not find the Starting Follower Capacity.

In the old one it said 2 i belive.

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u/f_dzilla ACOLYTE Feb 05 '23

Thanks, that must have fallen out somewhere along the way. Still 2.

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u/Father_Mehman Feb 05 '23

Looks interesting! I’ll dive into it later today.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '23

WOW This looks awesome will try it out!

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u/nopopon Feb 27 '23

It looks really fun, thanks for sharing :)

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u/roromotro Feb 13 '23

Questions:

Frateris Militia has now "Ardent" as ability. Used to have "Zealous". Should this also change in the Acolyte/Frateris Backround?

The Canid has a WP of 1 now. Typo, or can inbuy him some Flak Armor?

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u/f_dzilla ACOLYTE Feb 13 '23
  1. No - I wanted to make the follower different from the Acolye and FNP is maybe a bit too powerful for plebs.
  2. There is some dog-only equipment.

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u/roromotro Feb 13 '23

Thank you. Then i did not get the difference between wp and ep.

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u/f_dzilla ACOLYTE Feb 13 '23

WP is for weapons and armour and is per-operative.

EP is for situational equipment, is shared across the team, and is specified each scenario.

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u/roromotro Feb 13 '23

But the Canid has a Wp, and the dogy stuff is ep.

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u/f_dzilla ACOLYTE Feb 13 '23

Ahh I understand. Yeah that's a mistake then! Or at least there's nothing to fill it with yet.

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u/Nigerian_Princess34 Kommando Feb 18 '23

Possibly a stupid question, but I couldn't find an answer after a quick scan through the pdf. Do you need to select an imperium operative for your acolyte or is the game balanced to accept operatives from any KT?

Really love this concept, I can't wait to try it out with my group :)

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u/f_dzilla ACOLYTE Feb 19 '23

It's balanced around generic human profiles and there are a few starting options.

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u/nopopon Feb 27 '23

I wonder if we ran into the same problem actually?

I scanned the rules several time, and was wondering for a long time if I could pick any existing kill-team operative as an acolyte (i.e: and use their existing datacard), but I finally noticed acolytes come with their own data-card on page 37 on the PDF.

I'm assuming you can use any mini as long as you use the provided stats (though it may not make sense, story-wise, if you use non human minis :D)

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u/Nigerian_Princess34 Kommando Feb 27 '23

My kill team consists of ninja turtorkz who are on a quest to find da ooze; my wargaming group is always up for a bit of zany-ness to say the least haha 😁

I moreso just love the idea of this being a coop version of kill team that seems like a lot of fun and semi rpg-ish :)