Kill Team Damage Calculator
Estimate expected damage and KO chance from one attack action. Enter your weapon profile and the target's defenses.
This tool models dice probabilities and save allocation to minimize incoming damage. It is intended for quick planning during list building and activation sequencing.
Why use a kill team calculator?
Kill Team is a game of positioning, tempo, and probability. You may know that a plasma gun is dangerous or that a durable operative can soak damage, but in close matches, rough intuition can lead to bad trades. A calculator helps you answer practical questions quickly:
- How likely is this shot to remove a key target this turning point?
- Is AP worth it into a high-save operative?
- Should you commit a buff now, or save it for another activation?
- Which target gives the best expected value for your attack?
How this calculator works
1) Attack dice and hit quality
The calculator first models your attack dice. Each die can become a fail, a normal hit, or a critical hit. Your hit threshold sets when a die becomes a success, and the critical threshold sets when it upgrades to a critical success.
2) Defense dice, saves, and AP
The target rolls defense dice after AP is applied. Normal saves and critical saves are tracked separately. If the target is in cover, this version of the calculator grants one automatic normal save for a quick approximation of defensive positioning impact.
3) Save allocation to reduce damage
Critical saves can cancel either normal or critical hits, while normal saves cancel normal hits. The script checks valid save allocations and applies the one that produces the lowest final damage to the defender.
Reading the output
After calculating, you will see:
- Expected damage — average damage across all possible dice outcomes.
- KO chance — chance to deal at least the target wounds entered.
- Average unsaved hits — expected number of normal and critical hits that remain after saves.
- Most likely damage results — a quick distribution snapshot to see swinginess.
Practical tactical use
Compare targets before committing
Run the same attacker into multiple defenders to identify the best elimination line. Often, reducing one enemy to low wounds is less valuable than reliably removing a specialist.
Evaluate AP and cover pressure
High AP profiles can show large gains into elite saves but modest gains into low-defense models. Toggling cover on and off helps you understand when repositioning to deny cover is better than taking a lower-quality shot now.
Plan sequencing
If your KO chance is low, consider softening the target first with chip damage, markerlights, mortal wound sources, or support abilities before firing the premium weapon.
Limitations to keep in mind
This tool is deliberately fast and clean, so it does not include every edge rule from every faction and season update. Treat it as a tactical estimator, not a rules engine. If you want full match-level optimization, incorporate mission scoring, objective control, and activation order pressure in addition to pure damage math.
Bottom line
A strong Kill Team player combines good board play with informed risk management. Use this calculator to reduce guesswork, choose better trades, and make your activations more purposeful.