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Operation Briefing: Top Ops

July 2022·pp. 44–47

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Elliot Hamer selects memorable operatives from Kill Team’s first year and explains the combinations that make them useful. Stealth, support, mobility and specialist violence all receive attention, with the modest Kommando Grot ultimately praised for how dramatically it can alter objective play.

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