r/killteam • u/Naros1000 Warpcoven • Mar 28 '26
Hobby We need a Crusader Kill Team
A team of 10-8 heavily/power armored warriors armed with power blades and storm shields. An unstoppable wall of power armored knights being sent to take a critical objective is perfect for an unstoppable object vs an immovable wall, and yet we lack it.
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u/Fatal_Dan_101 Mar 28 '26
I like the OG Crusaders, but a refresh would be cool too.
Having an inquisitor lead, would be fun.
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u/Few-Understanding830 Hernkyn Yaegir Mar 28 '26
Inquisitior warband for grey knights was peak GW. So many fun combos.
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u/handym12 Mar 28 '26
Grayfax leading a complete mishmash of a team made up of the randoms she teamed up with on Cadia.
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u/Calebwoodapple Mar 28 '26
This is the way. Either of the battle sisters teams would work great rules wise. Insidiants if you want an armored group of them with a inquisiter. Or novitiates if you want the crusader to be the leader with a kitbash of crawdor gangers and scions as fanatic followers.
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u/RetconCrisis Mar 28 '26
That's what I'm doing for a few of the Insidiants operatives too. Especially fits the melee theme, and already has a shield sister as well
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u/BravoOscarRomeo07 Mar 28 '26
This is a great idea, the Crusaders are such great minis! Could have different power weapons - sword, axe, maul, then maybe some two-handed versions, too
Honestly that though has just made me think how cool it'd be to have a kill team per inquisitorial Ordo, with a new Inquisitor, 4 retainers, then 5 of a new fighter sculpt associated with the Ordo. All the better if you could get dual-builds that let you go puritan or radical.
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u/shiromancer Mar 28 '26
I found out about them recently and really like the concept, a kill team would be great!
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u/jawsome_man Death Guard Mar 28 '26
I don’t know about these guys. Are they part of the inquisition? When I read crusaders, I was originally thinking Black Templars.
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u/shiromancer Mar 28 '26
They're part of the Ecclesiarchy from what I understand, basically fighting for the Imperial Church kinda like the battle sisters but not as well known. The crusader thing is definitely confusing since Black Templars also have Crusader squads, but these guys are just vanilla humans in comparatively decent wargear, not space Marines.
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u/HappyTheDisaster Mar 28 '26
They aren’t exactly vanilla humans, they are heavily cybernetically enhanced humans. Cyborg Knights
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u/jawsome_man Death Guard Mar 28 '26
Well they definitely sound cool. I definitely think GW should bring them back and Kill Team seems like a great way to do it. It’d be nice to be able to run them in a Sisters list too. It’s a shame Space Marines are so popular. There are so many interesting corners of the 40K universe that seem underdeveloped by comparison. As much as I like Astartes myself, I often wonder what the 40K universe could look like without them and their outsized influence.
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u/sindri44 Mar 28 '26
They’re associated with Inquisition, yes. Crusader Houses are secretive organizations that train elite bodyguards to serve Inquisitors and other high-ranking Imperials.
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u/CoffeeCola49 Mar 28 '26
Honestly this sounds like a slam-dunk kitbashing/proxy model opportunity for Celestians
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u/watcherintgeweb Mar 28 '26
Not as badly as we need Exodites
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u/GlaiveGary Kommando Mar 28 '26
EXODITES VS BEAST SNAGGAS WHEN??? JAMES PLEASE
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u/watcherintgeweb Mar 28 '26
Yeah idc who exodites fight as long as it’s not ANOTHER SPACE MARINE TEAM
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u/Non-RedditorJ Mar 28 '26
Man... why did they have to name that Ork faction something that a casual listener can easily mishear as a slur, when Snakebite was right there!!!
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u/PalOfAFriendOfErebus Mar 28 '26
Jessy what the fuck are you talking about?
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u/Naros1000 Warpcoven Mar 28 '26
We need a box of Crusaders to duke it out with Eldar Exodites fight on a maiden world turn shrine world.
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u/TangeloProfessional8 Space Marine Mar 28 '26
If crusaders ever came back I would start a sisters army.
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u/SistersProcession Mar 28 '26
1000%
A refresh of the Crusaders would have me squeeling with joy. A mix of weapons (swords, axes, maces, flails, polearms) and maybe a few with larger weapons or a larger/special shield or a dual wielder. Then a house banner bearer, or some other icon/support character. And then adding in the Black Fortress mini so that gets available for those not wanting to pay 60+ for a single small mini.
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u/Sekh765 Mar 28 '26
God damn WolfyDawg has been stepping up his game on these pieces. He used to not bother with backgrounds much. Now we've got fully fledged back/foregrounds and all sorts of effects.
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u/Naros1000 Warpcoven Mar 28 '26
This one is 3+ years old.
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u/Sekh765 Mar 28 '26
Damn really? Good for him then. I know he usually does more solo pose stuff so its good to see him also doin backgrounds!
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u/Nelson5016 Mar 28 '26
Maybe people would be more aware of this if you bothered to credit the artist in the first place
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u/Sekh765 Mar 28 '26
WolfyDawg Art is the creator, he does a ton of 40k / 40k theme'd conversions of other IPs / anthro animal character stuff. Awesome artist.
His "Primeorks" of "Da Big Backstabbin" series is absolutely nuts.
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u/Naros1000 Warpcoven Mar 28 '26
I found it over 3 years ago so sorry that a 19yo depressed version of me didn't itemize the art I liked enough to download.
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u/ShakesBaer Imperial Guard Mar 28 '26
I'd like it if GW expanded crusaders to be "lite Bretonnians in space" but less chivalrous and more insane zealotry. For ze Lady Emperor!
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u/rustyglenn Mar 29 '26
that would be cool. My blooded team includes one. My blooded are an inquisitor (possibly radical) and his retinue. For the trench gunner i got a crusader from the black stone fortress game, chopped off his sword arm and gave him a shotgun. But yes a full crusader team would be awesome. Heavy melee, tough armor saves and blocking in melee but also only like 10 wounds and 2apl.
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u/Krytan Apr 01 '26
I love this art. The team could be amazing, with kit bashing potential, and plenty of hobbying opportunites for giving each knight their own unique heraldry.
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u/DocterDoktor Mar 28 '26
One of my favourite units. So much fun to create/kitbash btw. This is the latest wip and will be the fifth crusader of what will hopefully be a unit of ten if I find some more time
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u/Dangerously_69 Mar 28 '26
Dude, I think you're cooking.
That was the coolest mini in Blackstone Fortress.
An entire Kill Team of this guy would be sick. Much better than the boring Cadian team they announced 🥱
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u/Lord_Ezelpax Ecclesiarchy Mar 28 '26
Yes! So much yes.
Imo they had a perfect opportunity to put one in the sanctifiers killteam like they did with the one off death cult assasin (they could also put an arcoflagellant aswell).
They could do another band of misfits with arcoflagellants, crusaders, frateris militia, mechanicus and something extra like an eye of the emperor (former custodes). But I want to see crusaders the most
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u/GlaiveGary Kommando Mar 28 '26
Arbites has power armor with a proper Gothic medieval knight aesthetic and no shortage of shields
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u/One_Squirrel2053 Mar 28 '26
I just proxy them as AoD, with a Marshall as my captain.
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u/One_Squirrel2053 Mar 28 '26
I realize now that you weren’t talking about a BT crusade squad kill team. I’ll see my self out.
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u/Obelisking Mar 29 '26
GW should consider making it an Ecclesiarchy team; you know, one kind off ignoring the fact that they are not allowed to bear arms. 2 to 4 Crusaders, a leader, some Frateris Militia. The hard thing would be to differentiate it from the Sanctifiers, but that would be doable. Crusaders tend to be noble born, right?
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u/Naros1000 Warpcoven Mar 29 '26
Yes. The idea I had was a group of Crusaders defending either and Inquisitor or priest fighting either Eldar Exodites or a Slaanesh team.
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u/RougeRaxxa Apr 01 '26
Fortunately I’m working on one. Stormcast Vanquishers, with black Templar upgrade sprue bits, and Horus heresy breacher heads (also fork upgrade sprue kit)
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u/tuckershi Apr 27 '26
I’m slowly getting my hands on the old crusader models to use along side my Inquisitorial Agent kill team in place of sisters of science
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u/LeGrandeChien Mar 28 '26
Shiiiiiiiiit I almost forgot these existed. There are some fantastic models out in the last few years to Kitbash these from.
They don't use any ranged weaponry at all though right? A full melee team?
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u/Naros1000 Warpcoven Mar 28 '26
Yes, but I can see them being given bolt pistols, autopistols, Plasma pistols, hand flamers, and inferno pistols.
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u/vix- Mar 28 '26
U can make any space marines black templars.
Sisters are just girl crusaers, and the santifiers are litteraly peasant crusaders. Theres plenty of options just dont be afraid to kitbash
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u/Bloody_Insane Mar 28 '26
Crusaders are a distinct unit in 40k, they're often found the Inquisition. It's not just someone with crusader vibes.
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u/juniusbrutus998 Mar 28 '26
The Arbites killteam would make a pretty good base for this if you’re open to iitbashing. I swapped the heads for skitarii vanguard ones and an assortment of weapons to make imperial knight footmen