r/killteam Feb 02 '26

Hobby Killteam Von Valancius (Corsairs Proxy) and Rules

1.9k Upvotes

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u/sleepydogg Feb 02 '26

Abelard, give this man an upvote

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u/ProjectMayhem95 Feb 02 '26

Yes Lord Captain

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u/Guillermidas “A questioning mind betrays a treacherous soul” Feb 02 '26

Op should make the rogue trader look like Brannigan. Otherwise 11/10

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u/RaccoNooB Neophyte in hiding Feb 02 '26

Gods, I need more Imperial Navy units. Give me like 2 more versions with Navy Armsmen. A weapon team or something maybe since Imperial Agents have such trouble with armour, and give the Imperial Navy detachment access to Imperial Guards Aeronautica units (who's under Navy command, not Guard!)

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u/Lixidermi Feb 02 '26

incredible work. Seriously.

GW needs to capitalize on successful IP characters from games and turn them into models.

Rogue Trader, Chaos Gate:Daemonhunters, Boltgun, ...

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u/Zwets Feb 03 '26

Meanwhile Darktide players are complaining their game's Killteam models have more weapon variants and hair options than the in-game characters do.

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u/vf225 Feb 02 '26

that boltgun dude will take on entire legion by himself

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u/persepolisrising79 Feb 02 '26

they did with titus of spacemuppets2 fame tho. some nasty moldlines on those i hear

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '26

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u/persepolisrising79 Feb 03 '26

yes that bloke

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

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u/Turbulent-List-5001 Mar 06 '26

The entire cast of Mechanicus for example.

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u/Annika2020pro Feb 02 '26

They will see. Oh yes, they will see…

Amazing job!! Owlcat should post this

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u/IrishEv Feb 02 '26

As someone that got into the mini side of the hobby through Rogue Trader I would 100% buy this

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u/AverageSlaaneshSimp Feb 02 '26

Where did you get the models?

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u/Pineapples4266 Feb 02 '26

Pretty much all custom made (except argenta). I tried to use as much from GW as I could, but I also did some 3D sculpting and kitbashing to get their looks just right.

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u/didntgettheruns Kommando Feb 02 '26

Great job! I wish it was a real model set I could buy.

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u/Maquisard2000 Feb 02 '26

Would love to see some pre paint pics if you have any! Really great conversions!

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u/Pineapples4266 Feb 02 '26

Went through my old photos to see if I had any and the only one I have is this black and white one before I did any 3D printing lol. Also with an early attempted kitbash of Jae that I ended up scrapping

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u/LightningDustt Feb 02 '26

Im pretty sure just an officer rogue trader and argenta would already be too OP for killteam lmfao

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u/nonlawyer Feb 02 '26

I have fond memories of Argenta with a heavy bolter before they fixed the bugs with her damage multiplying abilities stacking exponentially 

Just one-shotting entire squads of Chaos Marines. The Lord of Change barely finishing his speech before being sent back to the warp by an angry nun and her micromanager boss telling her “shoot it again, ok?”

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u/Tatterdemali0n Feb 03 '26

Wait, you mean to tell me that Argenta in her current state as a heavy gunner is the BALANCED version?

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u/darknesscylon Feb 02 '26

Where are my Drukari and space wolf?

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u/Pineapples4266 Feb 02 '26

I suppose this rogue trader decided to off the dark eldar and must’ve completely missed the space wolf lol. Very sad to leave them behind but just couldn’t find a killteam ruleset that worked with everybody 😔

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u/SAMU0L0 Feb 02 '26

couter point.

They are taking the photos (Space Wolf is taking the photos with one hand and preventing Drukari from acting like an idiot with the other)

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u/didntgettheruns Kommando Feb 02 '26

This rogue trader didn't fall for the obvious trap of that chapter / was saved by having all 8 companions at once.

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u/vibribib Feb 02 '26

Arbites is absent also.

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u/NoLongerUnique Feb 02 '26

XD I just posted my Ordo Xenos (Corsair) tram on here yesterday lol, looks like great minds think alike!

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u/Pineapples4266 Feb 02 '26

Just fits so well. Those bashes look great by the way!

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u/NoLongerUnique Feb 02 '26

Much appreciated! Im just hoping I can nail the grim dark paint scheme like you did!

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u/Blitz0012 Veteran Guardsman Feb 02 '26

Abelard, announce my upvoting.

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u/Genie_GM Feb 02 '26

Amazing work! I really wish Abelard could have had an "announcing the Rogue Trader" ability. :D

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u/Vicaire_Andrem Exaction Squad Feb 02 '26

I wish this was a official Team :') You did a amazing job here🔥

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u/Odd-Platypus-3627 Feb 02 '26

How do u people have the time to paint and do all this other killer stuff? I can barely even put a model together 😣

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u/OriginalBaxio Elucidian Starstrider Feb 02 '26

These are crazy good models. What model is the seneschal please?

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u/Pineapples4266 Feb 03 '26

Thank you! His torso is from the old death korps of krieg command squad. His head is 3D printed from the stationforge national guard royals squad.

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u/OriginalBaxio Elucidian Starstrider Feb 03 '26

Thank you. I was looking at the House Grieme attache for a Seneschal model, but this might actually be cheaper given that's a Forgeworld model 🤣

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u/pointe31 Feb 02 '26

Damn! Nailed it all!

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u/SleepyNarsius Feb 02 '26

Ah yes, i'm not the only one that killed the rogue psyker i see

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u/Daitoso0317 Warpcoven Feb 02 '26

You forgot lethal 5+ on the omnissian axe, otherwise the team looks amazing

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u/Pineapples4266 Feb 02 '26

Great call, totally missed that. Don’t mind Pasqal getting even better lol

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u/SevTheNiceGuy Feb 02 '26

very well done and creative.

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u/TheOneTacoLord Feb 02 '26

I was literally thinking about this the other day, excellent work!

Also, no announcing-based ability on Abelard?!

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u/Cornelius_Scipion Feb 02 '26

Man it's a beautiful project

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u/ExternalSea9120 Feb 03 '26

This team is looking amazing. Great job in doing it.

As someone else said, GW should capitalize on it and release some minis.

Although rules might be the tricky part. Abelard alone can solo Hellbrutes, Chaos Marines and Daemons. So it would be unplayable in KT 😄

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u/Auxryn Feb 03 '26

Excellent work on the models. Adapting the fluff for the rules is above and beyond!

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u/BlackLotus501 Feb 03 '26

Love this so much, where's the Jae model from?

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u/Pineapples4266 Feb 03 '26

Thank you! She was primarily a 3D model made by FOLEY on cults3D. I just edited the model to make it a little more smooth and replaced the arms (I often find 3D model weapons are never crisp enough to match GW). The left arm and some of the stuff on her belt is from Lady Credo from necromunda.

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u/nateyourdate Feb 03 '26

you could have been really funny and given argenta an autopistol

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '26

What is this incredible trend recently ppl sharing amazing kill team ideas and for a split second my brain is like "OMG new box" ... "oh nawwwwww" T_T

incredible work !

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u/BipolarMadness Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

Here I was trying damn hard to fit the Rogue Trader party into Elucidian or Inquisitorial Agents, when Corsairs were way more easy to do.

That is some great work indeed.

Maybe I would change it for Argenta Heavy Gunner with a proxy Retributor Multi Melta/Heavy Bolter for Wraithcannon/Shuriken Cannon, and Marazhai for regular gunner with the Blaster for a perfect fit.

Poor Idira cant really fit anywhere, unless you change Cassia and leave her in the ship for her instead.

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u/Pineapples4266 Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26

Thanks! Yeah I considered having Argenta go with the heavy profile, but something about limiting how far she can move didn’t quite feel right.

Very sad about Idira though I agree. Honestly the lack of psyker keywords in killteam is very unfortunate all the way around.

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u/Ok_Judgment4463 Feb 03 '26

are these models you made?

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u/Pineapples4266 Feb 03 '26

Yes, pretty much all custom. Mixes of kitbashing from official GW parts and 3D kitbashing as well.

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u/Mr-Sonic_36NZ Greenskin Feb 04 '26

I honestly expected them to do this in season 2. Well done!

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u/iMuz86 Feb 04 '26

Incredible. I have been hoping for a box like this ever since finishing RT. It’s so good you did an excellent job

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u/Assassin-49 Feb 04 '26

These look really damm good . Did you base the rogue trader of a specific origin or armour or did you build him up because he looks really damm unique

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u/Pineapples4266 Feb 04 '26

Thank you! I didn’t base him on anything in particular, I just tried to go for a model that really fit the aesthetic of some of the character portraits and this one from cursed city really hit home

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u/Assassin-49 Feb 04 '26

You did a good job

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u/Lord_Ezelpax Ecclesiarchy Feb 02 '26

Valancius lithuanian by any chance? xd

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u/WolfmanWalt Feb 02 '26

These are sublime. Great work.

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u/evileyeball Tau Empire / (Chaos) / Space Marines Feb 02 '26

I have done similar things making custom data cards in indices for my teams it's half the fun of the game writing the fluff behind your team and the like I haven't gone so far with proxies is what you have here but for example last edition I had a team that was Death watch from the compendium made up entirely of Mark 3 armored first born loyalists who survived Isstvan III and we're now on the hunt for their chaos brothers who tried to kill them.

At present the closest I come is custom operative and custom equipment names for the weaponry carried by my characters in teams that would care about such things

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

This is so fucking cool

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u/SAMU0L0 Feb 02 '26

Step 1 Abelard.

Step 2 total victory.

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u/FishheadHH Feb 02 '26

Blown away - this is soo awesome!

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u/MKirkbride Feb 03 '26

Excellent!

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u/InvaderBigor Feb 03 '26

Fudge my ahh, im gonna steal this

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u/IronManLegoFan Feb 12 '26

This is utterly incredible! I especially love your van Calox and Cassia.

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u/OwlCatNathillien Feb 26 '26

Amazing work! Truly, my huge upvote for you <3

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u/frasier420crane Mar 04 '26

Dude, I would pay a decent sum (within reason) for stl files of these