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Well I scoped it out and didn't see anybody having mentioned this yet. (I may just suck at the search tool, mind you.)

From BoLS:

You heard that right bird lovers, here’s the latest info doing the rounds on your favorive killer Tau Allies.


via Voices in the Trees

– New Kroot miniatures have been physically sighted in various staged of the development process

– Multiple new kits are coming in what looks like a “full army (aka Harlequin sized) release.

– Many of the units from the old Kroot mercenaries list will reappear.

– The army will receive at least one large centerpiece kit that hails from the Kroot homeworld of Pech

– This new army is believed to be scheduled well past 9th Edition, so look for it at the very end of this year, or shortly thereafter.

These rumors are rated above average coming from known sources.



TAU-kroot-02
For those of you keeping score the following “new armies” have been identified by rumormongers in the last month:

- Harlequins (duh)
- Adeptus Mechanicus Skitarii (said to be Q2)
- Genestearer Cult (no timeframe given)
- Kroot Mercenaries (Q4, or Q1-2 2016)
We will be tracking all of these going forward to see which ones pan out.

Eh...I'd take anything from Taco Bell of Lost Bowls with a big heap of salt. That site and naftka are notorious echoing chambers for rumours.

Still, my friend would be happy if they did this given he's a big Kroot fan. Would be nice for the shaper to actually do something for his unit.

I'd be down for new Kroot.

If GW keeps this up I will be in deep trouble with the wife. I don't even really play 40k any more, but burned my wallet to death with this Harli release. A Kroot army would pee on its ashes.

I think youre safe from divorce. This rumor says kroot won't happen for a year, ie very dubious it'll happen at all.

A Kroot release where they maintained the aesthetics of the old plastics and sold them at a fair price and didn't try to wedge any silly giant robots into the list is one of the few things that could get me back into buying GW products. The original Kroot Carnivore plastics were a rare excellent unit from that era of GW's history.

I look forward to being thoroughly disappointed by an $8/figure box where the multi-part plastics make the body connections look unnatural and where everybody carries an entire buffet's worth of meat hanging off of them at all times because under this brave new world of GW aesthetics we must never have a flat empty surface on any figure to offend the eye and threaten newbie painters. Perhaps they can all wear trench coats and style their headquills into long bangs like all the kiddies do.

A Kroot army would be amazing.
though i think the only rumour not floating around at the moment is Squats.

Would be cool if they had rules for effects of eating various races. Not sure though if they can eat Tyranids?

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Would be cool if they had rules for effects of eating various races.

I hope we live in a world where Kroot get bonuses based on their food before Chaos get Legion rules.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Not sure though if they can eat Tyranids?

They consider Tyranids "inedible", which is a much bigger insult from a Kroot's perspective than one might think.

sort of makes sense. FW have removed all of their kroot and I got this reply when I inquired about it:

"These models are no longer available through Forge World so sadly you will not be able to order them from us. We do of course appreciate your interest. They may return to the range in future but it's not something we have information about at the moment."

I did notice the other day that the main kroot box has now gone direct only according to the GW webstore, so I was wondering if this was a lead up to an update/replacement.

Of course it will be immensely annoying if they release a cool plastic Knarloc riders kit when I've just finished kit-bashing some out of lizardmen cold ones. >

@HBMC: A little off topic but which of the Traitor Astartes would actually GET Legion specific rules?
The World Eaters are all off doing their own things.
Not sure about Death Guard.
Thousand Sons- merc themselves out or work with Ahriman.
Emperor's Children- seem to be off thrillseeking.
Iron Warriors- measuring contest with the Imperial Fists
Alpha Legion- God knows.
Word Bearers- Fighting amongst themselves- Team Erebus or Team Kor Phaeron
Luna Wolves- pretty much the only Legion that's united in their cause.
Night Lords- Seem to be just giving the middle finger to anyone and everyone

I would actually love a kroot army. I hate the vast majority of Tau aesthetics but love the Kroot and was sad when FW pulled the plug on Kroot models. :/
Furthermore, it would finally give me an excuse to use the scenery kit + bases from SWM :

http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=13&products_id=263

would be cool
Kroot fit s a theme in sci-fi that 40k hasn't filled yet, the savage noble techno barbarian.

I'm usually not a fan of cavalry in sci-fi, but I really want GW to release some Knarloc riders.

I rate this rumor at Unicorn level.

Beautiful and majestic?

 nels1031 wrote:
Beautiful and majestic?

And Mythical.

 pretre wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:
Beautiful and majestic?

And Mythical.

And if upset, it will charge you and impale you with its horn?

I thought Kroot were going to stay a "Tau Support" unit. It seems kind of silly for them to become mercs in the 40k Universe.

Specially since the Tau would dislike the Kroot fighting against them and against the "Greater Good."

 Vanguard-13 wrote:
I thought Kroot were going to stay a "Tau Support" unit. It seems kind of silly for them to become mercs in the 40k Universe.

Specially since the Tau would dislike the Kroot fighting against them and against the "Greater Good."

Umm. Something tells me you aren't familiar with 40k history. Kroot were already mercs in 3rd.

 Grimskul wrote:
Taco Bell of Lost Bowls

This made me laugh.

I wouldnt put it past dubs to work on kroot things.

 Vanguard-13 wrote:
I thought Kroot were going to stay a "Tau Support" unit. It seems kind of silly for them to become mercs in the 40k Universe.

Specially since the Tau would dislike the Kroot fighting against them and against the "Greater Good."

The Kroot are actually harmed by fighting only at the behest of the Tau, as it risks lowering their pool of potential prey, and their evolutionary adaptations require diveristy. Just being railroaded against a particular foe(s) would possibly put them into an evolutionary dead end. That's the fluff justification for them being mercenaries.

 JOHIRA wrote:
A Kroot release where they maintained the aesthetics of the old plastics and sold them at a fair price and didn't try to wedge any silly giant robots into the list is one of the few things that could get me back into buying GW products. The original Kroot Carnivore plastics were a rare excellent unit from that era of GW's history.

I look forward to being thoroughly disappointed by an $8/figure box where the multi-part plastics make the body connections look unnatural and where everybody carries an entire buffet's worth of meat hanging off of them at all times because under this brave new world of GW aesthetics we must never have a flat empty surface on any figure to offend the eye and threaten newbie painters. Perhaps they can all wear trench coats and style their headquills into long bangs like all the kiddies do.

So of course because you said that the new Kroot will all use vehicles of some kind and come in boxes of 3 for $40-50.


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 pretre wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:
Beautiful and majestic?

And Mythical.

And only tameable by fair maidens?


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 Desubot wrote:

 Grimskul wrote:
Taco Bell of Lost Bowls

This made me laugh.

I wouldnt put it past dubs to work on kroot things.

Especially with word of them hitting up other Chapter Approved armies like the Genestealer Cult and Deathwatch.

Seems like some grade A++ pandering to vets. But hey, I won't turn down a chance to play more varied army types.

 katfude wrote:
If GW keeps this up I will be in deep trouble with the wife. I don't even really play 40k any more, but burned my wallet to death with this Harli release. A Kroot army would pee on its ashes.

Sometimes, I really wonder if my salary of 120 000 dollars per year as an Orthodontist is enough for my hobby.

 Vanguard-13 wrote:
I thought Kroot were going to stay a "Tau Support" unit. It seems kind of silly for them to become mercs in the 40k Universe.

Specially since the Tau would dislike the Kroot fighting against them and against the "Greater Good."

AFAIK, they keep their mercenary ways a secret from the tau.

Hm... on one hand, Kroot sounds just like another plastic thunderhawk with SoB and Genestealer Cult inside.
On the other hand, I would have considered Harlequins standalone to be just as much of a joke before the last release, so it's really hard to judge on the plausibility.
With Codex: Knights and Codex : Stormtroopers there seems to be no lower limit of what GW can consider a separate, codex-worthy faction, so what the hell? Why not Kroot and Mechanicus and maybe even Genestealers?

@angelofvengeance:
Death Guard - definitely Legion-worthy
Word Bearers - also Legion-worthy
Black Legion - uuh, kind of have their thing through the supplement allready
Night Lords - why not, actually?
Iron Warriors - also a pretty coherent Legion
1k Sons - Actually prime material. All marines become rubricae that can take heavy weapons and autocannons and all bolter types get inferno bolts etc. I'd actually love to see that.
Emps Children - sure, a bit hedonistic, but that should not prevent them from getting legion rules
World Eaters - the only really fractured to smithereens legion. I for one think that the Crimson Slaughter sup does a decent job for that part, but might be developed into good stock for general khornate warbands.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Would be cool if they had rules for effects of eating various races.

I hope we live in a world where Kroot get bonuses based on their food before Chaos get Legion rules.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Not sure though if they can eat Tyranids?

They consider Tyranids "inedible", which is a much bigger insult from a Kroot's perspective than one might think.

I thought I read somewhere that Kroot feared eating Nids because they feared doing so would cause them to fall under the control of the hive minds.

 Co'tor Shas wrote:

 Vanguard-13 wrote:
I thought Kroot were going to stay a "Tau Support" unit. It seems kind of silly for them to become mercs in the 40k Universe.

Specially since the Tau would dislike the Kroot fighting against them and against the "Greater Good."

AFAIK, they keep their mercenary ways a secret from the tau.

Yeah, the Tau keep Kroot armed and funded. If they found out about their moonlighting they would be forced to deal with them and they still are unsure of their full force, AFAIK.


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I would really like Kroot get the Harlie treatment. I think it would be cool for them to get a bonus against Tau if used against them to represent their secret merc work.

I always understood that the Kroot merc operations were a bit of a "don't ask, don't tell" arrangement with the Tau; the Kroot keep it low profile and the Tau turn a blind eye because they're too useful as allies. Partially because they're willing to get the hands (claws?!) dirtier than the Tau.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
@HBMC: A little off topic but which of the Traitor Astartes would actually GET Legion specific rules?

All of them. The "All the Legions are broken up!" argument doesn't hold water 'cause Marine Chapters are often smaller and so many of them get their own rules.

 pretre wrote:
I rate this rumor at Unicorn level.

Above or below Codex: Deathwatch/Codex: Genestealer Cults?

 ClockworkZion wrote:
Seems like some grade A++ pandering to vets. But hey, I won't turn down a chance to play more varied army types.

If "Grade A+++ pandering" leads to Codex: Ad-Mech, Deathwatch, Genestealer Cults and Kroot rather than another rehash of Codex Marines, then pander away GW. Pander away.

Bloody hellfire. This has done something that I thought was impossible now: make me excited about a 40K release.

'Course, it's 'excitement' on this level...



... but still. If they do new knarlocs, new krootox, new anything, I hope they will/have put Seb Perbett on them. And not charge stupid goofy gaga prices for them. Which is more of a unicorn hope than the kroot rumour itself. And on that note...

pretre wrote:

 nels1031 wrote:
Beautiful and majestic?

And Mythical.

http://www.pbfcomics.com/103/

pretre wrote:Umm. Something tells me you aren't familiar with 40k history. Kroot were already mercs in 3rd.

Some of us even set up yahoogroups about them.