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After reading the "why orks suck thread" and carefully analyzing everything a certain poster has written, I've decided any success I've had with my orks has been a statistical aberration resulting from a string of imbecile opponents and orks actually are horrible. I've decided to sell them all and start a tau army.

Nevertheless, I have a certain fondness for the models, and I'm also not particularly a fan of the Kroot range. Would it be acceptable to use converted blood axe mercenaries as kroot in a renegade tau/farsight type army? I'd also want to use squigs as kroot hounds, and I might even replace the tau themselves with human models (dark age human tech or gue'vasa tau allies)

I am not sure in a farsight army,I thought he hated orks(perhaps I have gotten my fluff confused).

I say though that if your local gamers and people tou play with are ok with you doing this then go for it.i certainly wouldn't have a problem with it.

Assuming you're not using Farsight himself (obviously, no allied races) I wouldn't have a problem with it - Tau regard Orks as brutish and stupid, but maybe they have developed some kind of control implant/helm not unlike the communicators they use with the Vespid?

I wouldn't be using farsight. I might not even make them tau. I was thinking of using Tau rules to substitute for Dark-Age tech humans, like the kind Macharius steamrolled in the 35th millenium.

No offense, but I'm not sure selling your orks and buying tau will make for a more powerful army...

The dark-age humans sound cool though. Blood Axe mercenaries would be interesting; Kroot are only T3, but everyone knows Blood Axes are weedy like that anyways. They certainly wouldn't be confused for anything else (both being barbaric close combat specialists in an army of hi-tech shooters).

I really wouldn't call Kroot "close combat specialists," but shoota boyz would make for good Kroot counts-as. Maybe something akin to Knight Titans for suits. An entire count-as army off the Tau..? Ehh, sure. I'd probably play it if it looked good, but I think one slip up might make me reconsider for such a huge project.

And yes, Farsight hates orks to the point that all his soldiers have prefered enemy against them (turning Tau into actual fighters against orks).

No, I'd just use orks for the kroot. The rest of the army would either be Tau (with ork mercs) or dark age humans-as-tau (with ork mercs)