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Why don't I see anyone building Armies with Kroot? In the new Codex they are MUCH better (can move and still fire through 12" of terrain, get hounds w/o being a F.A. Slot) And at 7pts each are a real bargain.

I plan on having 2-3 Units of Kroot in my army, probably 14-16 + 8-10 hounds, a bit of an unweildy unit due to size but with 3 S4 I5 attacks on the charge with the hounds you have a crazy powerful HTH unit since you can infiltrade and travel through all wooded cover pretty easily and quickly until you hit an enemy. Only real problem is watching out for Templates.

I don't know. All I'm hearing lately is people wanting to get as many Kroot hounds as possible. I am also one of those people! Maybe around here people are more jazed about the new dex, but it seems to be all sniper drones and kroot here. To be fair though, I think people are just doing the minimum kroot to get the maximum hounds.

Another thing too might be the sheer number of cool things to take to the dance if you are a Tau player. It's not as bad as a Guard army yet, but it's getting so that there are a lot more interesting ways to combine things together with the Tau. So, even though Kroot are a much more viable option now, there are a lot of other things that people are still picking instead.

-Hans

Where are all the kroot you say?

Well I have over 80 of them on my shelf so I guess the reason your not seeing many is because I own all the models

I will be running 2 kroot squads myself (10 strong) later I want to try dropping some other things to run 2-3 squads of 20!

Kmart blue light special.

my 200 models are still sitting in my tool box, working on my VIRUS army.

agreed, i think kroot got bumped out of people's recent lists in preference of all the new gimmicks. i dont think theres still any point in using the hounds even if they're I5 and from the same slot

but, i do think kroot are still valuable for the same reasons like infiltrate pushback, cheeky objective taking, and pillbox shooting. not glamourous roles but still important ones.

also, i think now that broadsides are good with drones and ASS, kroot are important to protect them... broadsides are still really slow and not able to ignore combat threats like JSJ and skimmers can, and kroot fix a lot of those problems imo.