Did you mean to link to a thread?

This whole thread is worth reading.

I see. But I think you'll run into the issue that the team rules are also how they put variety in the game. The core rules themselves are pretty simple, or at least approachable. The operatives' stats and their weapon stats are actually fairly standard across teams (there's really only 5-6 archetypes of operatives and weapons), so faction rules and abilities are how they differentiate the teams and make an aeldar feel like and aeldar on the table.

You could choose to play with one of the more streamlined teams (e.g. Angels of Death) and just proxy your minis in but I don't think that's what you're looking for either.

I think you're stuck with trying to house-rule the team rules which could remove or reduce that complexity, and keep the flavor/variety. But doing that well would be difficult, especially finding the equilibrium between simple rules and "strength" of those rules.

Very cool, but this wasn't really about which game system to play instead.

Everything you said is why I created Ruinstars. We had the exact same headaches and gripes with KT. Games are under 45 min, PvP or PvE and coop play, campaign system, squad builder + game tracker, and 100% free + open-source.

I considered this but ultimately that boils down to "play a different game", which is fine, but if I'm going to do that then there's any number of other rulesets.

I was more wondering about people's experiences with Kill Team.

Our group has basically dropped GW's rulesets for OnePageRules variants, specifically Grimdark Firefight as a Killteam replacement. There's a built-in army builder and faction equivalents for just about every GW faction.

While not killteam, we used their base Grimdark to play a full 2v2 500pt game in less than 3 hours.

The best part of all of this is that there's no tracking of individual armies unique tactical options, everyone is using the same ruleset that uses a combined set of tactical options available to everyone. You can evem do- interfactional armies!