Kroot - Army Overview in 10th Edition Warhammer 40K- Kroot Hunting Pack + Units in Codex T'au Empire
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- Let's talk carnivores, krootox and mercenaries with an overview of the Kroot army in Warhammer 40K 10th...
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0:00 Intro
1:02 Lore
2:47 Miniatures
4:08 New Kroot Range
5:06 Unit List
6:15 Kroot Hunting Pack
8:22 Stratagems
12:03 Enhancements
14:31 Infantry Units
17:11 Krootox Units
19:26 Kroot Hounds
20:21 Character Units
24:55 Overall Thoughts
27:12 Move Blocks
28:35 Greatest Weakness?
30:17 Army List Idea
33:52 Outro - Ігри
CORRECTION - Tri-blade for the War Shaper is D3+1 attacks, not D6 sorry (it averages VERY slightly attacks less and is less swingy)
Another correction, both montka and kayoun could get a greater gnarloc in dow
Still missing the Great Knarloc!!😡
I'd say I'm still hyped that it may come out, but the codex was the nail in the coffin for our beloved greater knarloc
I think a plastic Great Knarloc is too risky for GW because they don't quite know how many people want to play Kroot. So this box serves as a way to gauge demand for further development.
If this release goes well enough, I can see forgeworld reissuing the greater knarlocs and knarloc riders. I do wish they would've made them in plastic though.
Fingers crossed they do a one off made to order at the very least if kroot sales are good.
I really hope for Knarloc and greater knarlocs
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
I'm all for more xenos
We need more of that in 40K. Tired of just getting extremely safe choices like 10th's "Terminators are back!".
I hope we get a vespid kill team, with how good the kinband and the other new kroot look I'm excited for more modern auxiliaries
@@HighEffortUsername I was really hoping the upcoming rumored kill team with the swooping hawks would have vespids opposite to them, but it seems like its probably gonna be jump pack scions.
@@DominatorLegendWish they'd make Necrons a niche army again instead of their current boring different colour shade of Eldar thing.
_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.
would be nice to get some new vespids aswell
I hope this release does well and GW continue to expand the auxiliaries range
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 ran a list like this. Was so much fun. Me and my friends were really young players at the time and they hated all the special rules the kroot got as they were used to them just being chaff. Was a good time. Ordering custom bits form GW was a huge pain so getting vulture wings to make winged kroot never came to fruition. You could mountkroot to the old hound kit relatively easy to make riders though. Also, their elite kroot squad was just carnivores posed differently.
Armor was handled by the shapers deep strike and eviscerator hit. I put a melta gun on another shaper as they could also have looted weapons. I miss that level of customization that WH used to have.
I remember winged Kroot but I thought I was making it up haha
It feels as if GW has some more ideas in the pipeline but first wants to test their demand.
You know what me and a couple of guys have said that for sure. Like it just feels like it's almost everything like 80-90% done.
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.
Those vulture kroot were super handy, caught alot of people off guard. Can't forget the 20 kroot and 20 Hounds in a single squad, haha 300ish points for an absolute tarpit of a unit
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.
It's in flavour to have a contingent of Kroot and a pair of borrowed tanks.
Or with a bit of kit-bashing you could have a pair of kroot piloting a Stormsurge.
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
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
It’s incredible! I adore his Sproot. 😂 Such impressive talent. Every time one was teased, you could guarantee he’d have a sproot version the very same day. An unsung hero for sure and I’m glad I’m not the only one who sings his praises.
haha, thanks for the shoutout! :D My Sproot are even scarier with these awesome new rules- i'm so hype!
@trethalis you are a legend! I hope you keep it up and continue to grow
I do love the look of a kroot horde list in hunting pack, just an absolute mountain of 5++ bodies with stealth.
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.
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
Agreed
War shaper free stratagem has to target its unit though, that means either the attached unit or the lone war shaper. This never lets you get a free use of join the hunt on the the 20 kroot as it is the bodyguard unit that would be the target of the stratagem, not the attached unit.
@@epiktrojan311 wrong - the unit and the shaper only split AFTER the killing attack is completed. Meaning you can interrupt after the death of the last kroot, but before the spillover damage into the Shaper.
Only caveat is the rare case when there is no spill over damage - as now there isnt an INTERUPT window.
@@AA-pg7xe read my comment next time. The attached unit is not destroyed here so is not a valid target...
@@epiktrojan311 my bad, didnt realise you were brain dead
Birds from planet Pech.
Birds peck, they had to know what they were doing 😂
Thank you, oh ! shaper, for our daily Kroot content :)
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!
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
Devilfish don't allow kroot, vespid or battlesuits to embark on them as per the codex unfortunately
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.
About time iv been waiting on this ever since the old Chapter approved army roles from White Dwarf.
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
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
Does the hidden hunters stratagem mean they enemy unit can re-select targets?
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
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.
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 ❤
Sadly my ethereal has requested vespid be feed to kroot. To get some flying kroot
@@harley4683just have them eat some gargoyles don't tell the kroot since they hate fighting nids
Why are you using pre-codex points for Kroot carnivore and Kroot farstalkers and not codex points?
Man, Kroot look like a lot of fun! (Don't mind me, watching to learn my potential enemy's tactics.😅)
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.
What's your favourite kill team squad auspex tactics?
The Kroot look interesting, hope they get rules for boarding actions and combat patrol in a future issue of white dwarf
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
It would be hilarious if the kroot start eating style ethereals replicate their hold over other Tau and usurp the tau empire
they really did the kroot dirty when they made their glorious beaks smaller
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.
I also came to the conclusion that Skyrays pair well with a kroot heavy list.
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 😭🙏
Hopefully Kroot sell well. Then we can get some good anti tank Kroot models
Still hoping for the greater gnarloc to eventually get a model
What do Pathfinder/Fire Warrior bodies look like with Kroot heads? Hmmm
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.
i thought the box came out today. i was very sad i didnt get to start building my bird boys
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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 ;/
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Space wolves unit tier list when?
And another faction that gets the "outside of 12 inches" stratagem, while CSM is the only one getting a highly limited 18 one..
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.
Remember the kroot are technically mercenarys for the tau they are being paid. They are also smarter than people think but hide they tech
I might be wrong, but aren't they full-fledged Tau allies (or at least their sole 1st class employees) and mercenaries "only" to all others?
Kroot owe Tau their existence thats why they fight for them, and they have advanced tech because they devoured billions of orks that have innate tech knowledge built in to them from absorbing their genetics, they actually cant share their tech because even they dont know how it works, the Tau only developed their own from reverse engineering kroot tech... cmon dude thats all in the wiki. The kroot are not serfs to the Tau empire but will answer the call of the greater good when requested to.
@@shinkiro403 yes exactly
@@Dexter_Solidok thanks
@@shinkiro403the lexicanum quote is "loyally for the tau and greater good as long as they receive sufficient payment"
Their detachment got gutted a bit with today's reinforcement strat nerf
I just wished kroot melee was given AP
Nice!!! Still elder were great first and i hatte that tau have better weapons😂😂😅
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
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
Wait can kroot be included in tge FtGG Rule now?
@@zacdalsanto3511I don't see nor I remember seeing any pre or post-codex exemption for Auxiliary units beside specific Strats so they definitely can. And to be fair I'd say it would have been bottom-tier bad design anyway to have the main army rule (namely the one that carries over between detachments) to be discriminatory even just to niche units
Kroot can not guide or be guided, they lack the rule on their data sheet.
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.
I don't mind them becoming a faction, as long as they get support, and you can still make a percentage of your t'au army be kroot.
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The tau are fish people.
Goats
space marines are virgins
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
What? Why
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Kroot suck. 20kroot vs 4 wardens.... my money is on 4 wardens.
You comparing guardsman-chicken with demigod
So, 110pts worth of Kroot would lose to 200pts worth of Custodes? Wow. Wild take. Are you slow, my guy?
@mu1ticam166 well... thats what your going to fight in a tournament setting.
Must people play games for fun not tournaments.
Old games of Titanicus was never better than you kill the final unit and he blows up and takes out yours.
if wardens are charging kroot then the tau are probs winning the battle.
not space marine? BORING
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