Comments on: Kroot Mercenaries Tactica

By: Kroot Mercenary

Kroot Mercenary — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:50:53 +0000

wll first off mon’tyr you can produce a full kroot mecernay army with effectiveness. good tatics. i’m a tau player myself and recently ive been adding to my kroot to make my army more effective in CQC.they hav been underused and i think gamesworkshop should actually create an officail codex for them

By: Deathjester

Deathjester — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:54:05 +0000

does anyone know where i can get a copy of the gw version of the kroot mercs codex? i was looking at starting an army but its not on their websites anymore

By: mon'tyr

mon'tyr — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:34:30 +0000

I am an avid fan of what Kroot bring to the Tau army and feel they are a sorely nderused resources, particullarly given the ability to “outflank” in 5th ed. I just placed 3rd in a 20 man tourney with a Tau-Lite army that focused on Kroot and Stealth Suits outflanking the enemy. The only issue I have with your master plan is that you are required to take at least one Firewarrior team by the Tau Empire codex, so five squads of Kroot is the most you can field. Also they do not have the staying power of fire warriors since they don’t have armor, and need to be more carefully moved to keep them from being anniliated by small arms. 5 kindreds could make this difficult. I personally run 3 teams of 15 models and think that is a good mix for my army.

By: Soothsayer

Soothsayer — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:14:04 +0000

I have been an avid Tau player for many years, and though I am loath to admit it, I didn’t care for the Kroot in my beginning, as they didn’t seem to fit in with my tactics. It was not until playing in the ‘Ard Boyz 2008 tourney that I saw just how wonderful they truly are… and that was just using one squad of Kroot!

As I play more games, I have been slowly turning away from fire warriors and building up my Kroot, so that I can get more experience with them. It is with every intention that I field all 6 troop choices with Kroot (plus shaper and full amount of hounds) by next ‘Ard Boyz; think about it, that’s 66 attack dice for one initiated CC! How many Space Marine squads can effectively deal with that?

However, as much as I like the idea of a Kroot Army, my gut reaction is rather “ehh”. This kind of army really wouldn’t behave any differently then an Imperial Guard, or perhaps even (in a lesser extent) a Tyranid .

My suggestion (and I know this deviates away from the Kroot Army), is to max out the Troops with Kroot, Shaper, and Hounds… no Krootox, as you want to infiltrate, and then utilize Crisis Suits for the HQ, Elites, and then some Hammerheads with the Rail Gun. You’ll field an excellent CC army supported with some of the best anti-vehicle and hard hitting ranged weaponry around.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:55:59 +0000

Extremly good guide helped me alot building my Kroot Mercenary army. I love the Hunter Kindred & Vulture kindreds. They’re slayin everything within a minute of gameplay. Unfortunaly I didn’t make wings on my Vultures. I just bought some Space marines with jump packs and cut them all up so they look like they’ve hijacked the suits from some dead space marines.

don’t really know if I can concur about the hound squads but everything else is awesome. Not alot of people have ever seen a whole army of just kroots walkin up on the gametable.

Thx alot! // Ante