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Is it worth buying the 6+ armor for kroot?

No, most ranged weapons ignore it, you'll fail 5/6 of the saves in cc anyways, and it raises the cost of the kroot. One of their best aspects is to be cheap and annoying, infiltrate them someplace to cause trouble and don't worry about it when they get flamed or assaulted and killed.

I second Viper, the only time you ever give kroot armour saves is in apocalypse games where those few points just don't matter.

never give it to them, your way better off spending the pts on more kroot or even kroot hounds also take 2 X 10 man teams reather then 1 X 20 because 25% of 20 is 5 but 25% of 10 is 3 and if they do run you only lost 7 kroot not 15

on a side note i play orks and if i could drop the gak 6+ save to make orks 1pt cheaper i would.

yorkskargrimironklaw wrote:on a side note i play orks and if i could drop the gak 6+ save to make orks 1pt cheaper i would.

Half the time I forget they even have an armour save as nearly every long ranged weapon ignores it. I wouldn't say the kroot armour is worth it.

Everybody says it isn't worth it because most ranged weapons ignore it.

Beyond that fact,

You have a 1/6 chance of making it if you get shot.

That means, if 6 kroot are hit, only one will survive.

You may as well take of the 6+ save from them, saving 6 points, and getting another kroot spending one more point.

You are getting one more wound in your unit, which is effectively as good as the one kroot to survive. Beyond getting an extra wound, you are also getting his attacks, which makes getting more kroot far more useful than getting them a 6+ save.