Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!

Now known as the Unit Review Library!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!

In this series, I will review one unit at a time, picking them randomly.

So let me spin the wheel again and see what I get:

Astra Militarum, Kasrkin

10th Edition Index

This is an exceedingly clever and cool box for GW to have developed. This box allows you to play the squad-combat focussed game Killteam, while, the datasheet for 40k uses the Kill Team exactly as they are!

Kasrkin are 120pts for a squad of 10 specialist Guard Infantry.

The box above costs £37.50 for the box of 10 models.
This box would cost 150.09 HIVE at current prices.

Let's check those stats!

Stats

Movement 6"
Toughness 3
Save 4+(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 1
Ld 7+
OC 1

Weapons

This Squad has a massive amount of options.
1 Sergeant wields a chain sword or power weapon, and a hot-shot laspistol or bolt pistol or plasma pistol.
To be honest, there is no real advantage of not running the plasma pistol. You do not have to fire it in overcharged mode.
The Power Weapon is one less attack but far more effective.

The rest of the squad come standard with hot-shot lasguns. Except for the specialists:

1 vox-caster
4 Kasrkin Troopers with special weapons (flamer, grenade launcher, hot-shot volley gun, meltagun, plasma gun) - no more than 2 of any gun!
1 Kasrkin Trooper with melta mine.
1 1 Kasrkin Trooper with hot-shot marksman rifle

Ranged:
Hot shot Lasgun - 24" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S3 AP-1 Damage 1. Rapid Fire 1 so double the shots at 12"

Hot-shot marksman rifle - 36" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S4 AP-2 Damage 3. Precision and Heavy. So standing still, hit on 2+ and can target a character in a unit!

Special weapon options:
Flamer (Standard Militarum version)
Meltagun (Standard Militarum version but hit on 3+)
Plasmagun (Standard Militarum version but hit on 3+)
Grenade Launcher (Standard Militarum version but hit on 3+)

Hot-shot volley gun - 30" Range, 2 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S4 AP-1 Damage 1. Rapid Fire 2 so double the shots (4 shots) at 15"

If it were me, I would run 2x Grenade Launchers and 2x Plasmaguns.

Melee:

The squad just have basic Close Combat Weapons:

2 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S3, AP0 and 1 Damage.

Sergeant Weapon Options:
Chain Sword
4 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S3, AP0 and 1 Damage.

Power Weapon
3 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S4, AP-1 and 1 Damage.

Wargear Abilities

Vox-caster
When you use a Stratagem on this unit, roll a 5+ and get 1 CP back, get +1 when this unit is within 6" of an Officer.
Melta Mine
Once per game, roll a 2+, the target takes D3 damage. If the target is a vehicle , then it takes 2D6 damage.

Abilities

Scouts 6"

Warrior Elite

In the Command Phase the Kasrkin can Select an Order to be active on themselves.

Thoughts

They look great and at 120pts for 10 men they are really useful! I would love yo have a box of them for my Imperial army!

They have a sniper, the ability to deal mortal wounds to targets, and of course, my suggested Anti-infantry, Anti-light tanks and anti-light infantry.

The shooting put out by the right special weapons would hurt alot.

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

Alphabetical List

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Adeptus Custodes	Prosecutors	#1
Adeptus Custodes	Knight-Centura	#54
Adeptus Custodes	Trajann Valoris	#40
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Fusilave	#13
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Stratoraptor	#14
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Transvector	#15
Adeptus Mechanicus	Belisarius Cawl	#53
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Raiders	#55
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Sulphurhounds	#56
Black Templars	High Marshall Helbrecht	#38
Black Templars	Marshall	#46
Blood Angels	Baal Predator	#2
Blood Angels	Lemartes	#32
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Knights	War Dog Brigands	#30
Chaos Knights	War Dog Executioners	#31
Chaos Space Marines	Abbadon the Despoiler	#50
Chaos Space Marines	Haarken Worldclaimer	#41
Chaos Space Marines	Khorne Lord of Skulls	#37
Dark Angels	Asmodai	#16
Dark Angels	Azrael	#17
Dark Angels	Belial	#4
Dark Angels	Deathwing Knights	#20
Death Guard	Biologus Putrifier	#5
Death Guard	Blightlord Terminators	#10
Death Guard	Chaos Lord	#36
Death Guard	Lord of Contagion	#52
Death Guard	Tallyman	#39
Deathwatch	Proteus Killteam	#57
Drukhari	Grotesques	#45
Drukhari	Haemonculus	#8
Drukhari	Raider	#35
Drukhari	Scourges	#7
Genestealer Cults	Aberants	#47
Genestealer Cults	Hybrid Metamorphs	#58
Genestealer Cults	Reductus Saboteur	#33
Grey Knights	Brother Captain	#25
Grey Knights	Grand Master	#48
Grey Knights	Strike Squad	#51
Imperial Agents	Callidus Assassin	#9
Imperial Agents	Vigilant Squad	#26
Imperial Knights	Armiger Helverin	#22
Imperial Knights	Armiger Warglaive	#43
Leages of Votann	Brôkhyr Iron-master	#27
Leages of Votann	Sagitaur	#3
Leages of Votann	Ûthar the Destined	#44
Necrons	Obelisk	#11
Orks	Battlewagon	#34
Orks	Hunta Rig	#28
Space Marines	Kayvaan Shrike	#23
Space Marines	Marneus Calgar	#42
Space Marines	Razorback	#21
T'au Empire	Darkstrider	#12
T'au Empire	Kroot Carnivore Squad	#19
Thousand Sons	Exalted Sorcerer	#59
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Tyranids	Barbgaunts	#6
Tyranids	Screamer Killer	#24
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18