AURA OF THE KROOT! THE DARKER SIDE OF THE TAU EMPIRE? 

the Kroot being Cannibals is not a new fact, it's been in Dawn of War both Dark Crusade and Soul Storm: Kroot can feast on corpses to increase their HP, in the assault of the Tau on the Deimos Peninsula (the Chaos Stronghold) the epilogue speaks of a number of Kroot Carnivores who feasted on Cultists and Heretics but were executed by their comrades because they were afraid to corrupt their gene pool. The Kroot are the closest thing to sentient Tyranids.

"How do you defend your cannibalistic and brutal combat doctrine as a contributor to the Greater Good" "I AM KROOT !!" "He is right though"

OKAY NOW A TWELVE PART SERIES ON THE VESPID.

I like the idea that Kroot versus Catachans is like the movie Predator and they make that odd clicking sound in the jungle to coordinate attacks/hunts.

We need a proper kroot mercenary army, with gnarlocks and everything

Honestly, I think Ciaphas Cain's encounter with the Kroot when the two fought on the same side showed some interesting aspects behind their culture and psychology, especially on their opinions/actions on the Tyrannids.

This fact that Kroot feed on their human opponents would be both horrifying and infuriating to Gaurd. I would imagine Gaurd would ( more than normal) hate and want to exterminate them with extreme prejudice. No I don’t think they would appreciate the compliment of Kroot wanting their DNA.

There’s a great short story from the 3rd Ed Tau codex that involved Kroot and some Eldar Rangers. I recommend it!

I feel like instead of doing the whole mind control gimmick with the tau that they ended up going with they should have just leaned into the T'au having shady dealings with less the savory alien civilizations, it would be a lot more thematicly appropriate and would lend itself to allowing for more obscure aliens making their way into being represented in the hobby through the t'au as a faction. Despite being the faction for it there isn't really a way to play a mixed race t'au army officially even though they are known to make alliances as their bread and butter.

According to the wiki, the kroot can taste tyranid genestealer infection

“What other races would you like to see them interact with on the tabletop…” takes on a very different meaning with the Kroot.

An all Kroot army would be awesome

I think the biggest problem with the current Tau is that GW refuses to tell the community if the Tau empire are "secretly" evil or just naive to the extreme. I prefer the naive to the extreme rather than the evil plot line. The secretly evil idea for me doesn't hold water when the same can be said with more evidence against the imperium because both factions do horrible things to survive but the imperium is more extreme.

I would really like to see how the Tau interact with the Nissicar and their 'mind science'. Get a better feeling for what it is they are doing to understand the strange abilities other species possess - and how much they may or may not respect the Nissicar's traditions . . . . like do they try to force the Nissicar to train human pyskers, or are they so protective of their Empire's best scouts that they don't even let humans know that the Nissicar exist just in case they turn against the Tau. On the table top, it would be interesting if the Nissicar did appear as something very similar in function as the Guard's Navigator units - - - but with more of a focus on movement support rather than a proper Smite.

I recently finished the white scars omnibus and there were a few good interactions with the kroot

There's a very fun suggestion that the Kroot basically became Space Faring because they ate So many Orks that they just basically picked up the basics high end technology (Because of an Ork Infestation on their home world).

There's a fun story about a Kroot who broke the taboo against eating a T'au. Long story short he kinda physically devolved into a more aquatic type thing, but got realllly smart. Kinda like theres a deeper reason as to why the Kroot cannot eat T'au and not what the "official" reason is.

Noice!!!!! Just seen this. I'm gunna go back watch all the videos I missed pal. I been bizzy.

I haven't read the story, but it would be interesting to hear a space marines take; they have an organ and training to consume the brain of their foes, (at least heresy era) to gain understanding/context of what they were facing. In a bizarre way, it would be interesting to see them confront a deeper expression of that utility.

Thank You .👌 I like the Kroot , so yes I d love to , get more / deeper Lore .

The Kroot sounded like a cool concept with eat a few of a species and you get the good, but too many and you start getting the bad stuff as well. But then it's like the Kroot got to be most ignored because fans might ask for table top rules on if the Kroot ate a lot of Orks or ate the larger Tyrannids.

Great Video

I'd love a story about an Apex Kroot that ate some species that have long life and then spent the next few thousand years hunting down all Apex species and becoming a super Kroot.

Waiting for some Kroot Raven guard to turn up. "Just had this instinctual urge to kill some Word Bearers, don't mind us."

While the Corsair Eldar in Battlefleet Gothic got me into the 40k setting in the first place, the very first army I ever collected was a Kroot Mercenary army back in 3rd edition when they and the Catachans were the only ones who could see and shoot further than 8 inches into forested terrain. That was a great army. Not a power house but you could give them weapons and gear which they either looted from fallen enemies or were paid with by previous employers. I think that the Kroot are one of the most alien feeling xenos factions in the setting that we see with any kind of regularity (more than a one-off that is). Their weird cultural practices are firmly rooted in practicality and necessity by their physiology. I've always liked that. Also, I think the Rogue Trader RPG supplement which came out with rules to play a sanctioned Kroot were on the mark: You could choose what kind of selective feeding/breeding your character was a byproduct of and so could choose between being a bigger greener Kroot (from eating Orks), a Kroot that can actively camoflage itself, a Kroot that was venomous, and more. A Kroot army absolutely should be able to choose what evolutionary gains they've chosen similar to chapter traits and the like.

I would love to see a story which explains why the kroot have not taken Astartes DNA and made a big ol' plethora of them. Maybe the geneseed is hard to digest, the marines are too difficult to secure as food source, or there is something in the genes that activates a kill-switch when it merges with non-human DNA. But I would also like to see a kroot that, either with the cooperation of Tau black ops scientists or because it has the right genetic mutations, was able to successfully take in Astartes DNA and now we have a super kroot that could be the start of the Tau's own Astartes program.

Ohhh I so want some kroot models rn.

I love the kroot I have always said I wouldn't play 40k unless they made the kroot a fully fledged army again even if only as a major subfaction .

The novel War of Secrets by Phil Kelly has some Kroot playing an important role. It's pretty interesting to see them away from the battlefield.

How have the Kroot not been snatched up by Tzeentch by now?

Awesome🩸🤘🏻great video as alwayz !!

Kroot aren’t even that bad. They have to wat sentient things in order to stay sentient. #Krootdonothingwrong

Fun fact, the kroot appear to excrete waste through their skin in liquid form

I miss when the tau weren't so grimdark tbh. I liked having good guys to juxtapose how evil humanity has become.

1 year later and we have the Kroot Army box

Watched the final rendition of Angels 😇 of Death ☠️ really enjoyed it far better than the shorts

id love to hear a story about kroot gene stealers

As a Tau player I love the Kroot. Wish they had a bigger footprint in the Codex.

Honestly so curious as to how the tau would react to bobby G, like they already think space marines are nonsense, now imagine a primarch

5:23 why humans would join the tau to be used as cannon fodder?

Just listened 🎶 to Kasrkin novel I really enjoyed the Kroot depicted

The short story Warsphere by Darius Hinks is a really good Kroot story.

Love the Kroot they are the coolest part of the Tau empire.

I'd love to see the kroot forces expanded with different evolutionary diversity and weapons just as much as I'd like to see some different types of weapons and utilities for the Farsight enclaves... But I'm not holding my breath.....

It's isn't like the Imperium is opposed to cannibalism or consuming the dead enemies. Marines eat brainmatter to gain knowledge and insights. Human Corpses are often processed into food on starships and hiveworlds.

Kroot supposedly ate Ciaphas Cane’s parents. Leroy appear in For the Emperor, the 1st Ciaphas Cane novel.

Corpse starch is no better but at least you get eaten by your own. Doesn't matter much in the end, you're dead anyway, but I guess one feels better than the other for an imperial citizen. As for rules it could work like making your own custom Space Marine chapter. Choose a race your Kroot have been feasting on an get a appropriate trait, ability or stat increase. Would open up for a lot of fun conversions.

I would like to know more about the vespids

Check out the Blackstone fortress novels. They are about a rogue trader with a kroot homie

Can you talk about the humans within the Tau empire and what is like compared to the Imperium

Weird thought, but could tyranids or Votann create bugs/kin that could have dna, or something, designed to kill Kroot? Leading to some kind of Kroot genocide?

It's not even a foreign concept to humans lol, eating the heart/eyes/brain of your enemy to gain their power or memories has been a thing that South American tribes did for ages. Heck, even Space Marines eat the fallen, in order to gain their memories. Honestly, it was the eating things to gain power that made me branch out to Tau when I first read that in the 3rd edition codex. Kroot are basically like my beloved Tyranids but chickens instead of bugs

Anyone know how large the Votan empire is yet? Is it bigger than the Tau's?

Auspex tactics is amazing too. He's more stato like in football. Discourse miniatures is oh no female. She puts her lady love into being the phwaar into Warhammer. (I'm an ogryn loader and some bloody one typed this for me) sex is great and the Emperor sux 1000

Lessons to be learned from the Tau empire: Kroot: Man... that human was tasty. Wanna taste too, Tau? Tau Soldier: What do you mean. Kroot: Well... you know we ate those hum... Tau Soldier, fingers in the ear: Lalalaala... for the Greater Good... lalalaa

Kroot trophies come in many forms

The Greater Good is turning out to be more Machiavellian.

Would Kroot feasting on Tyranids become Tyranids or at least controlled by the Hivemind or not...?

I don't know much the Tau or Kroot, but I thought the Kroot were an evolutionary "downgrade" of Tau that couldn't be assimilated into what would be considered "normal" Tau society, or its version of cousins.

It time the kroot get delivered by the master of shadows and his son XIX legion Victorus Aut Mortis (Victory or Death).

Ah dude you just missed Krootoberfest and Krootvasion by a couple days

Imagine kroot betraying the tau to ally with the tyranids XD

Hey, finnaly first, if i may ask, do a video about the minor xenos

Tau? Rho it’s not even my birthday. Why are you being this nice to me?

Interesting, you don't see the Kroot a lot among the Tau. Maybe the Kroot are like shock troops, used in specific instances by the Tau.

have the kroot eaten the tyranids yet? would be cool to see one with scythed arms n stuff haha

What an irony! A guardsman expressing his rightous fury about a xenos that eats their enemy for tactical reasons to a Space Marine ... who is implanted with an Omophagae for exactly the same reason!🤫😆

I'm still wondering how the Kroot have changed from transhuman Dna

I really don’t see what’s wrong with Kroots eating other races… this is a known fact already. I don’t see it as dark, I see it as part of their culture and traditions. Just an interesting part of their life as Kroot.

Hear me out: mobilised infiltrator kroot. They ain't stupid, who's to say a kroot team couldn't operate a Leman Russ or a chimera, mimic a lost guardsman's voice and authorisation and Trojan horse their way into a Guard armory depot?

They sound a bit like tyranids,

I would like to see the kroot eat tyranids or psykers

Having so many cultures in one empire can lead to a lot of problems, and this will backfire in due time.

It's ok, the Kroot get away with it because they are space budgies.

Kroot, Tyranid, Votan, Chaos, Eldar (bummer type) and Cult tyranid weird thing with metal parts. You genuinely would not like to live and see a moment in any of these places. (Reads more of a book) Pain, Read, Type, Build. Listen. AMBER KING JUST DONE SOMETHING ABOUT CONSTANTINE VALET. HA HA HA oooOooo we have come for you. IN MIDNIGHT CLAD.

See kroot, watch video

Personally I’ve always prefer the angle that the T’au are just super naive good guys, it’s a good contrast to the Imperium’s grim darkness and makes the Imperium’s grim dark hit that much harder. That and well as Rho said it’s part of the Kroot’s culture and if the T’au are more than happy to allow humans under their banner to keep worshipping the Emperor as a God- something the T’au think is silly superstition- then kroot’s evolution via consumption seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to allow. It’s how they grow after all. As for the kroot though there are so many things worse than them eating the dead. Heck space marines do it as well but you don’t hear people go about saying they are deprived and represent a darker side of the Imperium. 😂

I think the kroot and to a lesser extent the vespids need a rework the kroot being savage cannibals doesn't fit with the tau who are one of the more civilized factions in 40k I'm surprised the tau haven't "fixed" them yet

I've not read or listened to a good tau novel. Its all they moved to the flank and gunned their enemies down. They fell back and shot at their enemies and the occasional tau beating anything up in combat. I'm just not feeling it.

The Tau are the most evil of the factions.

Give me the Dark side of the Tau, we must expose the greater good! and barbaric flesh eating Xenos will do it!

Kroot are lowkey 'Nids. Change my mind

I'd love to see the kroot leave the tau for their own pirate style campaign which leads to ork, tyrannid, aeldari etc variants. The kroot leaving the tau could then lead to the tau adopting more closer combat units

"Unity" had always been one of my least favorite shorts. I feel it is one of the worst written depictions of an Astartes I've ever read. I mean really? Death by a dozen Kroot? Pretty pathetic.

Man, the GW must think they can really market the Tau to keep giving them such plot armor. Every time an Imperial force goes against them it's undermanned and lacking firepower. I can't wait to see what reason GW comes up with for why they aren't a stain on Guilliman's boot by now. He could @#$ a force that could mop up the Tau and those scumbag kroot. The Abyssal Crusade is just one example of how the Imperium has wasted forces that could turn the Tau worlds into Ghost Moons, yet somehow are too strapped for resources to beat the Tau.