Kroot - Army Overview in 10th Edition Warhammer 40K- Kroot Hunting Pack + Units in Codex T'au Empire 

CORRECTION - Tri-blade for the War Shaper is D3+1 attacks, not D6 sorry (it averages VERY slightly attacks less and is less swingy)

Still missing the Great Knarloc!!😡

Kroot are one of those armies that's like an AoS faction: most people are gonna be luke warm on them, but the few people who like them are gonna be insanely passionate I'm one of the latter. Bring on the KROOT

_You're strong! It will be good to have that strength!_ DoW made me fall in love with these weird birds. So glad to see them fully realized after all these years.

Fun fact, I think there was actually a Chapter Approved army list for the Kroot in the early 2000s. It featured cool stuff such as Kroot riding medium-sized lizards, winged Kroot, super-mutated Kroot, and could all be led by a winged Master Shaper wielding an eviscerator and who also happened to be a minor psyker. The whole army could also gain various stat bonuses, depending on which race they had been most heavily feeding upon. Of course, as was the case with Chapter Approved lists back then, you had to convert all of this yourself. Those were the days.

I hope this release does well and GW continue to expand the auxiliaries range

Kroot Mercenaries used to be their own army back in 3rd Edition with Andy Hoare's 2002 Kroot Mercenaries army list from White Dwarf 266 (UK), 4 months after the Tau as an army itself had made its debut as per White Dwarf 262 (UK). In fact, the Kroot were actually, originally, conceived as an independent army unrelated to the Tau first for that matter, as elaborated on in the Tau designers' notes article of the debut White Dwarf issue, and hence the Kroot Mercenaries army list was a nod to that later on. This was all far prior to Forge World's own resin Kroot release during 4th Edition in 2005 as per Imperial Armour 3: The Taros Campaign, and moreover, Forge World's Knarloc Riders were just the successors of the original Tracker Kindred. No mention of the original Kroot Mercenaries army list made me sad since the Vulture Kindred themselves were an interesting unit, and the Kroot Mercenaries army wide special rules were also quite fun such as the Signature Evolutionary Adaptations and Hyperactive Nymune Organ Adaption. Kroot Mercenaries army list was also available to download on GW website as per Chapter Approved live rules system back then in free PDF format, and it was also published again in Chapter Approved 2003 and Chapter Approved 2004 during 3rd Edition, and the Kroot Mercenaries conversion showcases were widely featured in Citadel Miniatures Collectors' Guides. And also Anghkor Prok himself had his own PDF Chapter Approved unit profile as an HQ choice special character available to download on the GW website to go alongside his own 2001 Games Day exclusive pewter miniature.

It feels as if GW has some more ideas in the pipeline but first wants to test their demand.

Important note, you can stack a trap well laid twice in a phase from a war shaper for -2 ap across the army. Farstalker really like this against their bounty targets

I don't mind the Kroot not having weapons that can take down Knights or Russes. It makes for a fluffy, in-game mechanic that helps further explain why they still hang out with the T'au.

The video we've been waiting for since 2001.

Anyone else here seen the sprue kroot(sproot) that guy has been making? I implore you to check it out

Tbh I was a bit disappointed to see that GW, while claiming the Hunt Pack box was just the half of minis they had in stock for kroots had only the lone spear and hounds left to show. We want more auxiliaries!

These guys supported by stealth suits, ghost keels, shadow sun, any number of Tau artillery, with some fire warriors in a transport for some flexible firepower and you have the ultimate stealth CQC shoot army.

I do love the look of a kroot horde list in hunting pack, just an absolute mountain of 5++ bodies with stealth.

On the war shaper using “Join the hunt” - my thought was, since attacks are resolved one-by-one, technically there’ll be a point where the whole Kroot Carnivore squad gets destroyed as the 20th Kroot is killed, but before any damage starts going to the shapers. War shaper can use “join the hunt” at this point, putting the squad of 20 Kroot that’s just been destroyed into reserves - at the point when the 20th Kroot is killed, the war shaper is still on the board and part of the squad, so is still able to target them

I love Kroot, and I've been eagerly awaiting the new models for a long time. I really hope we will get some form of Gnarlok too!

Birds from planet Pech. Birds peck, they had to know what they were doing 😂

Thank you, oh ! shaper, for our daily Kroot content :)

Considering joining and trying 40k I've never played but these guys seem the coolest to me.

i can't wait for my boxes to arrive! always loved the kroot and always use them in my armies for mainly screening/block charges etc

Lets hope sales are good enough to make them rethink releasing the Knarlocs again. Maybe made to order? I'm going to kitbash some aos Carnosaurs, Stegadons or Bastiladons alt Skyrays and Aggradons as Tetras. Angkor Prok can count as shadowsun.

Krootox Rampagers and Lone Spears imo seem like despite the points price they may be auto include for Kroot heavy lists alongside carnivores and farstalkers

I would say that involving Tau transports and vehicle variants like the Devilfish can still be a dedicated kroot army. Kroot still have to use transport after all. You could even paint up a devilfish to be more krooty

Restricting any and all melee attacks to nothing better than ap1 (even the legends rules) so that it isn’t better with a stratagem doesn’t seem quite right, I’d rather just have a lethal or sustained hits stratagem if they’re within a certain radius of a shaper. Also two characters doesn’t seem like the second half of the box set, even if their rules are pretty good, they could have at least given us a new “centrepiece” model (even if knarlocs are out of the question) to have some sort of way of fighting vehicles. Still like the release but it could have been much better.

I'm not saying I'm begrudging of the T'au and their new toys _necessarily,_ but by the by, have you seen my new proxy army, The Leagues of Krootan?

We need some love to the Vespids now ❤

I actually like the fact that they have no dedicated anti-tank weapons. from experience the worst enemy of tough units like primarch and knights is volume and if you field 2000 pts of raw kroot thats what you will have. if you wanna add some sort of anti tank my suggestion wuld something like melta bombs (similar to GSC) and give dem rampagers a carnifex like ability with mortal wounds on charge impact

Against infantry heavy armies or factions that heavily rely on infantry to secure points (ie Gaunts and warriors performing actions for Nids), Kroot would be an absolute nightmare to face. Especially in lower point games, like 1k or 1.5k. 2k and above might be a different story, since the Kroot don't seem to benefit much from vehicles and heavy armor...they kinda give the vibe of Drukhari with better durability potential and less speed

These models are awesome, and I'm glad they're getting a release. That said, as a custodes player, it's honestly insulting that tau got a release of more kits than Custodes have unique plastic kits in their entire range and we only got a single character that should have been a datasheet loadout addition.

the thing I think that would of made this range really sing would of been to include a unit similar to the orks hunta/kill rig. One version is a transport mainly while the other one could still transport say 10 kroot but has a large hunting cannon. Do feel however the lack of any sort of anti-tank is a big issue. Even a simple specialist unit of ambushers that use the atlatl that the lone spear uses (a real world spear throwing tool) that could of had similar blasting tip javelins, a unit of 5 with infiltrate and scout would of been a big help.

The Tau rely on the Kroot for a melee threat, while the Kroot rely on the Tau for fire support and anti-tank. That's fair to me.

It would be hilarious if the kroot start eating style ethereals replicate their hold over other Tau and usurp the tau empire

I got a rules question that fits well for this video. So, for the Kroot Farstalkers, it ahs 2 separate stat lines which makes sense since there are 2 hounds there. But how does that work? Like, I would assume you roll separately for the hounds and the kroot, but how are you supposed to keep unit cohesion with 2 models having a higher move speed? I just never saw anything about how that entire thing works

it would eventually be very cool if the Kroot eventually gained a big monster type unit like maybe one of them got a taste for carnifexes or squiggoths and just started getting bigger than your average krootox

What's your favourite kill team squad auspex tactics?

Does the hidden hunters stratagem mean they enemy unit can re-select targets?

Cheers for this! IDC about competitive, and both my family and friends are a lot more interested in narrative/fun than meta. So stuff like this is always welcome. Heres hoping we get big birb knarloc 😭🙏

Man, Kroot look like a lot of fun! (Don't mind me, watching to learn my potential enemy's tactics.😅)

i thought the box came out today. i was very sad i didnt get to start building my bird boys

What do Pathfinder/Fire Warrior bodies look like with Kroot heads? Hmmm

they really did the kroot dirty when they made their glorious beaks smaller

The Kroot look interesting, hope they get rules for boarding actions and combat patrol in a future issue of white dwarf

I also came to the conclusion that Skyrays pair well with a kroot heavy list.

SO how did the tau get the kroot to join the empire? THEY RE-KROOTED them!? I really hope/wish they add a little more to the kroot and yes I'm sad no Knarloc/GREAT KNARLOC?! I also like the idea of running them with maybe a unit of steelwing and then like strong anit armor from tau suits. LIke maybe something like Ghostkeels, riptides or even hammerhead? I'm thinking of trying like 500pts of like big mechs really liking the idea of Riptide and Ghostkeel.

Why are you using pre-codex points for Kroot carnivore and Kroot farstalkers and not codex points?

Still hoping for the greater gnarloc to eventually get a model

Hopefully Kroot sell well. Then we can get some good anti tank Kroot models

And another faction that gets the "outside of 12 inches" stratagem, while CSM is the only one getting a highly limited 18 one..

I think the Lone Spear needs its wounds upping for 110pt (I know the points aren't set in stone yet) or needs its point dropping Lone Op isn't that much of a game changer

give me the KROOT MAN. dude this would be insane next to a few broadsides with 60 inch guns next to there ambushing and frontline defence with a few fire warriors to provide more firepower with a few breachers and devilfish to continue the ruthlessness of the forward pressure. im just saying it would be INSANE

still disappointed about lack of the knarlocks ;/

Remember the kroot are technically mercenarys for the tau they are being paid. They are also smarter than people think but hide they tech

You ehard it here first, folks, Auspex used the word "Jazzy".

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Space wolves unit tier list when?

Im so sad at the fact that they didnt add back again knarloc riders and great knarlocs

They are still lacking a lot of firepower. I was hoping that as detachment rule they will get something like AP 1 to theirs weapons or something in that manner. Currently you can't play them as Kroot army. I wish they were something like sub factions, that you get access to their abilities if you spend X points on them. It would be great for example that you could play them along other detachment if you use 50% points on Kroots.

I just wished kroot melee was given AP

If only they actually redone the knarloc riders and the two greater knarlocs aswell and fleshed there kindred out a little more with some flyers

Nice!!! Still elder were great first and i hatte that tau have better weapons😂😂😅

I feel like Pathfinders can do a lot to support Kroots: rather independent, same 7" Scouts move, each can guide two Kroot units while providing Ignore Cover with Markerlight, partially provide the needed anti-tank fire with rail rifles, can either Infiltrate and add extra shots against light infantry or stay safe behind Kroot lines with the pulse accel drone (the anti-charge one isn't needed with the massive Kroot screening), and adding Darkstrider to one can make the backfield safer and the anti-tank fire more reliable. I mean, lack of dedicated Strats in the Kroot detach aside, this honestly feels pretty synergic

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For the most part, I think o like what Kroot have got. My biggest complaint is, definitely, their lack of anti-armor, and/or anti-large, and I really did hope for their Greater Knarloc, but I have a reason I'm good with this; I DON'T want Krot to get their own book. It would have been nice for Kroot to get even more stuff, but I fear that would have been at the risk of making them effectively standalone within their own codex, and then people would push for them to get their own codex, which THEY DON'T NEED. I was actually rather happy when the Votann got their own book, but I might've been just as happy if they had been added as another flavor of Guard; a neat way to add more variety to how they play, and what tech they can bring to the field. More factions can be nice, but I also frequently feel like they weren't necessary, or didn't get enough extra stuff to really justify it. How many World Eaters models are there? Do they really need four separate detachments, instead of one of tbe seven CSM will already get? Do we REALLY need a whole Emperor's Children Slaanesh book? Does Deathwatch really include enough of their own flavor, or the benefits of drawing from the beliefs of multiple Chapters, to need their own codex? I'll miss that Kroot missed out on a few things, but I'll be glad they can stay firmly nested within their book, and not branch out like Knights, AND THEN Chaos Knights, or like some people feel Dark Mechanicum needs to. My feelings wouldn't be hurt by them needing some Tau support; they are Tau support. They aren't quite Koronus Expanse Kroot, concealing from the Tau a this time that they already had warp-capable World Craft, so I'm fine with them remaining firmly a part of, instead of struggling to be alone. That's me, though.

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The tau are fish people.

Do you sleep?

34 minutes dedicated to talking about Kroot....

The whole kroot and tau together thing still feels kind of stupid after all these years. But these models look so great I haven’t met anyone who doesn’t agree

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Kroot suck. 20kroot vs 4 wardens.... my money is on 4 wardens.

not space marine? BORING

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