1500 Kroot (Counts As New Orks)

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**Oaka**

So rather than spending more time pouting about how I know my Kroot army list will eventually be labelled 'illegal' for tournament play, I thought it would be more constructive to redo my list as a new-Ork army. I just looked at the Kroot models that I have and came up with their best representation in the new Ork codex, this is what happened:

Old Zogwart

Weirdboy Warphead

9 Kommandos, 1 Nob w/ power klaw, bosspole

10 Lootas

12 Ork Boyz w/ shootas, 1 Nob w/ power klaw, bosspole

20 Gretchin, 2 Runtherds w/ grot-prods

10 Ork Boyz w/ shootas and stikkbombz, Nob w/ power klaw, bosspole

3 Deffkoptas

Deff Dread w/ big shoota, dreadnought close combat weapon, grot riggers, armour plates

Total comes to 1496. I don't have a clue how well this will do, but I could actually represent this list straight from the case with the Kroot models that I currently have. I guess the strategy behind this list would be to pray I get Waaagh! first, second, and third turns, and assault with everything, hoping my boyz don't get shot to pieces by distracting the enemy with kommandos and deffkoptas. My only gripe is that I have to use Kroot hounds as gretchin, I think that's a $4 model for a 3 point model.

**dumbuket**

use the kroot hounds as stormboyz

**Boss Salvage**

use the kroot hounds as stormboyz

Not a horrible idea, keeps them mean and fast.

I like the idea Oaka, some good corrolaries between your kroot and new orks. How do they match up?

Zog, Warphead -> Master shapers
Kommandos -> Headhunters / Carnivores
Lootas -> Hunters?
Boyz -> Carnivores
Grots -> Hounds, as you said
Koptas -> Vultures?
Dreads -> Gnarlocs?

Some are a little weird, like the lootas = hunters and the koptas = vultures, though maybe your models are WAY up gunned and beefed up than the typical conversions for those two.

Definitely like the idea though!

- Salvage

**Oaka**

Old Zogwort -> Anghkor Prok

Weirdboy Warphead -> Master Shaper

Kommandos -> Headhunters

Lootas -> Hunters

Boyz -> Carnivores

Gretchin -> Hounds

Deffkoptas -> Knarloc Riders (thinking they should be warbikers, I don't like the idea of them being a jetbike rules-wise)

Deff Dreads -> Bolt Thrower Great Knarlocs

Now if there were an Ork special character that allowed kommandos to be taken as troops choices I'd be GOLDEN, but using two weirdboys as my HQ choices should let me keep an all-infantry force that can close in pretty quickly with a pretty good chance for a Waaagh! multiple times in the early game. I also like the idea of not having an uber-character in the army. While I agree that using hounds as stormboyz would be far superior in-game, it is too much of a stretch for me. I plan on using them as gretchin and 'forgetting' that they have ranged weapons. Another option is to make them my unit of 'ard boyz and also forgetting that they have any ranged weapons, if only to make myself feel better about the threat of the hound models.

I would like some ranged anti-tank weaponry (although lootas are now the new falcon-killers) so I may just try and pass off the bolt thrower knarlocs as having a kustom mega blasta rather than a big shoota. I will also most certainly convert three more Kroot to be carrying scavenged missile launchers so I can add a rokkit launcha to each boyz unit.

As for lootas, I hope passing sniper rifles off as deffguns will fly well with opponents.

**Longshot**

You need much bigger squads of boyz, man. 10 and 12 is going to be a morale nightmare.

**Oaka**

A much more Krooty-feeling list:

Wierdboy Warphead (Kroot Shaper model on a 40mm base)

Wierdboy Warphead (Anghkor Prok on a 40mm base)

15 Kommandos w/ 2 rokkit launchas, Nob w/ power klaw, bosspole (Standard Kroot, eviscerator as power klaw)

11 Kommandos w/ 2 burnas, Snikrot (Ninja Kroot)

15 Boyz, Nob w/ rokkit launcha, bosspole (Kroot Hounds, Nob will be a standard Kroot)

1 Deffkopta w/ big bomms (Knarloc Rider)

Deff Dread w/ big shoota, dreadnought close combat weapon, grot riggers, armour plates (Boltthrower Great Knarloc)

That comes to 1501 points, and has a much more unified strategy to it. Lots of infiltrating boyz and scouting deffkoptas, with a chance for the two other units of boyz to be deepstriking rather than footing it across the board. If there is no infiltrate in the mission, at least I have a chance of getting Waaagh! more than once per game to make up ground. The dreads are absolutely useless, but are the only model I could substitute great knarlocs for. They will probably hoof it across the board only to show up when the game is over, but they will look good doing it. I only need to build eight models and I'll have this army ready to go, and it will be fun to build Kroot with rokkit launchas and burnas using scavenged weapons. There are very few ways to deal with vehicles, only a lucky rokkit shot/ psychic power/ power klaw will do it, but that fits my style perfectly seeing as I've been using Kroot Mercs. I might be putting too much stock in bosspole to have my units so low on model count, but I think Ld 7 rerolled is superior to Ld 8, which is what I'm used to.