Kroot

The Kroot fricking flopped. GW should've just given us Melee Battlesuits or Hover Tanks instead of this shit.

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  1. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    First of all; shut up. Secondly, there is nothing else, shut up.

  2. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    maybe they should hire some decent sculptors, you think they would learn after the votan disaster
    Still at least there are no black kroot

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      The VOTAAN LOOK PERFECTLY FINE

  3. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I love the Kroot
    >in the context of being a small part of a TAU army
    Never worked for me as a solo full army.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Possibly? I knew as soon as I got an email on monday from GW asking if we want more Kroot boxes due to "unprecedented demand", I knew they either produced too much or didn't sell enough (probably the latter, because GW is always overly cautious with overproducing. I never got this email or option to increase my order during the Dark Angels release which was far more anticipated and sought after at my lgs). My lgs did well with the box tho, but I also know my community well enough to know how much to order. I only ordered about 20 and have 3 left. But with all GW resculpts and expansions on subfactions, they're just too late. The hype is either gone or people have found alternative ways to get what they want or those alternatives are becoming far more reasonable/accessible like 3dprinting. And in some cases they deliver inferior products. That plus a still mixed reception of 10th.

      Personally, I was not sold on the box. It's just not enough. Like paying 220usd for just a hand full of ork boyz. And it's blatantly obvious the "premium" "limited edition" "sexy" codex (that's only got about a few months before its inevitably changed in some intentionally moronic rebalancing act) is absurdly overvalued.

      In it's current version I still don't think they're a fully realized army. But they have ALL the resources to make it so had they simply added FW options into the plastic line and maybe even winged carnivores.

      >220 dollars
      Yeah I'll pass.
      I would have considered it if it had a great knarloc tbh

      Same. Also I'll take Kroot Knarloc Riders over that homosexual AoS lizard any day.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >In it's current version I still don't think they're a fully realized army.

        They have one less datasheet than the Leagues of Votann.

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          Oof so no. GW really should have made plastic FW models. Maybe even give Anghkor Prok a Datasheet.

  4. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >The Kroot fricking flopped.
    Of course they did. They’re a shit subfaction of a shit faction, and are only enjoyed by a vocal minority of secondaries who don’t buy models in the first place.

    What did you expect?

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >faction is about using sleek, high-tech battlesuits, hover tanks and long range firepower
      >lol let's make an entire box about ugly green bird people using low-tech garbage!

      Fricking Guevasa would've been a better pick. Admittedly, Guevasa squads would just be human Fire Warriors or an IG squad using pulse weapons though

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >a vocal minority of secondaries who don’t buy models in the first place
      I feel so seen

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >faction is about using sleek, high-tech battlesuits, hover tanks and long range firepower
      >lol let's make an entire box about ugly green bird people using low-tech garbage!

      Fricking Guevasa would've been a better pick. Admittedly, Guevasa squads would just be human Fire Warriors or an IG squad using pulse weapons though

      >flopped
      It sold out instantly here. Are you just fiending for your latest primaris lieutenant or something? Or is this like Ganker's TORtanic obsession where every boxed set needs to become the next SELLING FAST?

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >It sold out instantly
        Funnily it's still not sold out on GW's site in the UK.
        That's pretty much a flop for a 40k pre-order.

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          Forgot the pic like a moron.

          • 1 month ago
            Anonymous

            lmao I just went to check how it was in australia, what the frick is this? This is a fricking joke of a box.

            • 1 month ago
              Anonymous

              Those are australian prices

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                I know, I'm australian. 370 dollarydoos for 26 minis and a book is an absolute laugh.

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                Well, australian prices in general are a whole comedy show

            • 1 month ago
              Anonymous

              Poor colonial-prisoners, still paying their debt to society.
              UK price makes sense though since it's pretty much just Combat Patrol of Kroot + Codex.

            • 1 month ago
              Anonymous

              Holy shit you could get a good 3d-printer for less.
              >Australian
              Wait one second...
              ˙ssǝl ɹoɟ ɹǝʇuiɹd-pƐ pooƃ ɐ ʇǝƃ plnoɔ noʎ ʇiɥs ʎloH

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                The stupid laugh you got out of me, anon

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                Mate. Don't do that. My monitor is upside down.

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          >in the UK
          Okay? It sold out tons of other places. Hardly a flop of it sells out.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >Or is this like Ganker's TORtanic obsession where every boxed set needs to become the next SELLING FAST?
        Yes.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      I see I need to add secondary to my filter

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      plus the elite kroot killteam has been available for like 6 months at least.

      anyone that wanted kroot infantry bought that and used it to either proxy as normal kroot, or kitbash the spare bits onto old kroot.

  5. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >bros we NEED a kroot codex
    >kroot could blow up they just need a chance
    >tau shouldn't be just about the mechs anyway
    Here's to 20 more years of mechs.

  6. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Good, I'll get it for my partner at half price.

  7. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    The cost to produce one box is probably like a few bucks even if they produce too much it's still better and more profitable to safely meet the demand.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      But GW are at max capacity production-wise, so spending that precious time and resource on something that isn't going to sell out is wasteful

  8. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Neither you nor some youtuber have any real proof of this.

  9. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    You know what subfaction deserves an actual Tabletop release?

    Auxiliaries for Imperial Knights (and Chaos Knights too). Think 40k Men-at-Arms. Or dismounted Imperial Knights on foot, and not in their mechs. Give Imperial Knights Damsels and shit.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >You know what the giant robot faction needs? Imperial Guard.
      Frick you.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        make a rule of 0-1 squad of imperial men-at-arms, or darkmech per knight.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Have you considered just throwing Imperial Guard allies into the mix?

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Frick that. I don't want DarkMech to be fleas hanging on to Chaos Knights; frick knights.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >Auxiliaries for Imperial Knights
      Skitarii already exist

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      If someone needs their Auxilleries turned into a faction, you know it'd have to be the Ultramar Auxillia. They're the main foot-soldiers of a Human stellar Sub-Empire that's equivalent to the whole Tau faction in size.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      You mean, Agents of the Imperium? Sure, you can't take a lot of points of them, but when you have like 5 models, even 1 Voidsmen at Arms triples the size of your army.

      Have you considered just throwing Imperial Guard allies into the mix?

      If you're stuck with people playing 10e, then you can only attach 1 Knight or 3 Armigers to a Guard list if you want them working with Guard. For some reason, this does not scale with game size when even the Agents of the Imperium Quasi-Faction intended for being Allies does scale with game size.

  10. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    A flop would have not sold anywhere. The fact that it sold out in some places and not others is actually an indicator they're in the goldilocks zone for production on that product (a little bit of overstock, but not enough to get in the way of the production of other products).

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Let's not pretend GW is bound to 20th century industrial fabrication. They can shit these models out for pennies using foreign slave labor, the only actual effort is what goes into the design of the model before it is ever produced, which obviously doesn't cost them anything extra whether this shit flops or not. GW is like the old tobacco companies, they've managed to victimize a certain subset of the population and addict them to paying regular installments for something they neither want nor need. GW could design a product that only dozens of whales will buy and turn a profit because there's almost zero overhead and it literally doesn't matter what the substantive content of the product is, the whales will fork over hundreds for it. I think we should probably criminalize this kind of business now that 3D printing exists.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >They can shit these models out for pennies using foreign slave labor

        Brother, all mainline plastics are still made at Warhammer World in Nottingham

        Just some terrain and some Warhammer Underworlds stuff made in China

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          Why are they making their plastics in a place about ejaculation in pigs?

          • 1 month ago
            Anonymous

            nah, David Cameron was born in London

            • 1 month ago
              Anonymous
        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          GW chooses to do this because it's not a serious business, it doesn't face real competition or anxiety about satisfying its customers. I know several GW employees, they're all very sheltered and their workplace is like an adult daycare. There was this one Swedehomosexual GW employee I had in my group once, he was describing how he was robbed and assaulted, to which everyone in my group is immediately like, "you got robbed by a rapefugee lol" and his response was genuine shock, he simply could not understand how they knew it wasn't a fellow Swedehomosexual who did it. That's the kind of limp-wristed morons working for GW corporate.

          • 1 month ago
            Anonymous

            Take your meds before posting

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >They can shit these models out for pennies using foreign slave labor
        Not as well as you shit out dumb posts.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >the only actual effort is what goes into the design of the model

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Tards like op shout FLOP anytime a box doesn't immediately sell out on release

  11. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    It really is a small miracle GW does so well when every single thing they put out is apparently a FLOP MASSIVE FLOP IT'S OVER IT FLOPPED.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      According to the business experts of /tg/, GW should have gone bankrupt something like a 100 times by now. Real "two more weeks" energy.

  12. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I don't understand? Isn't a product being available a good thing? Why would anyone WANT it to sell out completely?

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      No, clearly if GW isn't immediately selling out a product within 5 seconds of it hitting the website, it's GAME OVER, GW IS DEAD, POINT AND LAUGH.

  13. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    The new Kroot were designed by a lesbian furry which is why they're so feminine and sexualised.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      As a man that wants a strong Kroot Huntress to dominate me I say they aren't sexualised enough!

  14. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >CA$239 ~ US$ 150
    Why the hell would I pay $150 for, what, 24 minis?

  15. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >The Kroot fricking flopped

    The image you posted yourself suggests that they sold out overseas and GW likely printed more boxes in anticipation of them being a more popular release than usual.
    How could you possibly extract the conclusion that they flopped from that?

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >and GW likely printed more boxes in anticipation of them being a more popular release than usual.
      I'm personally praying that they had intern-kun sit down look through order histories and blacklist any addresses that were receiving more than, say, three of any of the high demand preorders to finally sort out the scalper question.
      I mean they probably didn't but one can dream.

  16. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I'm actually collecting Kroot but not getting the box because it it's overpriced as frick.

  17. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    homosexuals who ask for the Tau to be more like the covenant dont play tau

  18. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >GW sold out in its largest market (NA)
    >didn't sell out in countries about to be wiped out by Russian nuclear fire
    I don't see an issue

  19. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >GW gives kroot a new range despite being so niche
    >CSM and Admech get jackshit for this edition

    Wowwwww

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >CSM who got 4 new armys in the past edition get only potentially a entirerly new army this edition

  20. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >sold out in US and Canada
    NA is a literal majority of GW sales period, if they're sold out in NA that means it sold well. The entire rest of the fricking world buys less plastic than murica and its hat does. Check the investor reports if you don't believe me. They were likely able to actually have more supply because it's been long enough since Leviathan completely fricked their supply of everything besides Leviathan boxes, remember around launch of 10th there were entire ranges going months without restocking because they were doing nothing but making Leviathan shit.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >if they're sold out in NA that means it sold well.

      No, it just means that the number of boxes allocated to the NA webstore were preordered. As we do not know the size of the various allocation we don't know if GW underestimated the interest in NA or overestimated the interest elsewhere.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        They ain`t sending 5 to NA and 10,000 to some islamic ghetto in europe, dimwit

  21. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >220 dollars
    Yeah I'll pass.
    I would have considered it if it had a great knarloc tbh

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Real blunder on their part to not only not have the Great Gnarloc but then also their “big centerpiece” is some guy riding a NON-Kroot kin lizard thing. Like their whole thing is Kroot riding other Kroot but then also apparently they sometimes ride this random ass salamander thing I guess

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >Like their whole thing is Kroot riding other Kroot but then also apparently they sometimes ride this random ass salamander thing I guess
        Well the whole point of the lonespears or whatever they call em is that they're kroot loners and hermits that only show up when called to war, so it kinda makes sense and I feel like conveys that they're not "part of the pack", as it were. That said, I still would've preferred a kroot mount instead. It's also a bit silly that they're supposed to be loners but iirc they come in squads of 3.

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          > the loner is actually a buffing support piece

  22. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    The problem is the selling point for these boxes is that they're basically a combat patrol+the codex. But the Tau codex already leaked and everyone knows it sucks. So anyone buying it to get the tau codex early cancelled their preorder.

  23. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    kroot were a mistake from the start. someone who likes tau because of the robots isn't going to appreciate having to use naked morons just because they're meta, and likewise someone who likes naked morons probably isn't going to appreciate having to use robots. I think someone at gw is just obsessed with inserting naked morons into every faction he can. he must be pretty high up in the company since he has been getting away with it for decades.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      I think kroot might have even kneecapped the whole "mixed alien empire" concept from the start. All the fanstuff is aliens wearing tau tech. Kroot don't look like auxiliaries, they look like random tribals with no relation to the conflict at hand.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        you won't be able to unsee it but kroot are gungans from star wars episode 1 while tau are the trade federation

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        Haha, this will kill any chance of more Tau auxiliaries being added. RIP in piss those few Anons that keep wanting them.

        Tau auxiliaries are so underrepresented that they might as well not even be in the Tau army. It'd be better if Tau auxiliaries were their own army. While Kroot would be a major part of it, it would let them show off the other aliens that supposedly exist under Tau rule.

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          The problem is that they started with Tau as being the Chinese/Russian Communist empire that have visible auxilary units. But ended in manga-esque Japan mech techs.

          • 1 month ago
            Anonymous
            • 1 month ago
              Anonymous
            • 1 month ago
              Anonymous

              The problem is that they started with Tau as being the Chinese/Russian Communist empire that have visible auxilary units. But ended in manga-esque Japan mech techs.

              For legit, Vespids are underutilized the most, they've got such a specific aesthetic that is just being wasted as a footnote in someone elses gay lil army.

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                Indeed. The whole special units by other alien races is under utilized!

          • 1 month ago
            Anonymous

            The giant robots were fun when they were niche Forge World models canonically made by one senior engineer going off the reservation and embezzling resources from a new stealth suit project to build increasingly outlandish new prototypes, but then GW just had to go and do it in plastic as well.

            • 1 month ago
              Anonymous

              The problem is they didnt stop and made more and more mechs.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      In the 3rd Ed codex you could pay extra for them to have armour but the models never reflected that. The idea was that you could pay them extra in universe currency as Mercs and they would be better equipped.
      Most just fielded them as DietOrcs or expensive conscriptstho

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      They were literally part of the army FROM the start you fricking homosexual- back when Tau were envisioned as 'good guy alien coalition with mecha' instead of 'mecha the faction.'

  24. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >Webstore sold out
    >Still sells like hotcakes
    >LOL FLOP
    have a nice day OP.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THEY ONLY MADE 5 BOXES FOR NORTH AMERICA OF COURSE IT SOLD OUT

  25. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Haha, this will kill any chance of more Tau auxiliaries being added. RIP in piss those few Anons that keep wanting them.

  26. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >lots of new kroot
    >BIG YES
    >forced to buy with data cards and codex which will be obsolete after 1 dataslate
    >fricking dropped
    It's GW's own fault. I'll get some hounds and rampagers as people part out the box, but frick buying the whole thing.

  27. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Was thinking about starting a kroot army. Not for winning (ofc) but mostly to play with sth I like.
    Would that be a bad idea, seeing how things have gone?

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      how have things gone?

  28. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    tau gays are racist. its time for Kroot allies!

  29. 1 month ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous
      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        The Tau became too much “just Tau“

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous
  30. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >box sells out
    >GW IS FAILING THE SCALPERS WON THEY HATE THE FANS
    >box doesn't sell out
    >HAHAHAHA SELLING FAST GW IS FINISHED
    Every single box, every single week. How many years do you plan on keeping this hobby of yours running OP?

  31. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Just give me Mini-Farsight suits with swords

  32. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Nah, they should just get rid of that homosexualy Gundam shit and have cool aliens. Tau don't fit 40k, they're the worst army in terms of cool factor.

  33. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >b-but muh heckin Tau auxiliaries!!!

    Frick off back to Mass Effect or Halo if you want a multi-racial alien coalition.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Or Infinity. Combined Army is a pretty damn fun evil multispecies fascist faction. Come on down, we've got
      >hermaphroditic skinwalkers!
      >human turncoats!
      >edgy artichokes!
      >brooding space demons!
      >bioweapons!
      >gorilla warfare!
      >Dr. Worm!
      >ancap israelitebugs!

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        anon that sounds as fascist as an ork sniper

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          Well, blood axes DO enjoy their Hugo Boss LARPs

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          >ork sniper

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >youwillneverbeabattlesuit
      bet you put katanas on yours.

  34. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >even scalpers don't care about kroot

  35. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    I mean, they didnt put the coolest kroot mini they revealed in it so, yeh...

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Why, is one of them piloting a big robot?

  36. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    GW give me the shits pretty regularly but if you haven't had your mini refreshed in the last 10 years - isn't the plan to more or less do that with about half the catalogue in the future or did they figure out people will just buy whatever lol

  37. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    You have to be on some military grade copium to not think this looks good

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous
    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      could have done without all the friendship bracelets tbqh senpai

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        But they ARE friends. It's lore accurate.

  38. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >£135 for not even 30 cannon fodder grunt minis
    Cheapest I’ve seen for this box is £120. The fact it’s sold out anywhere reminds me GW drones really are fricking pathetic paypiggies

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous
    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Got it for 140€ sold the codex for 35€ the cards for 8€ and one of the carnivore sprues for 35€ I will maybe sell the other squad too. The price of GW products only becomes reasonable if you exploit nu hammer gays.
      I use the models to play 4th edition or taros. The new krootox will fit nicely as knarloc riders.

  39. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >releasing a close combat-focused army amidst the decades of ranged meta
    Perfect way to guarantee DOA status

  40. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >posts image saying it's selling really well but for once GW seem to have made enough to actually meet demand with a bit of stock left over in some regions
    >HURR DURR SELLING FAST

    Weeb butthurt his animu pooftermecha didn't get any new models, or siggypigger butthurt even a minor part of a minor xenos faction in 40K can dunk on the main edition starter for his shitty game? Either is fricking lolarious tbqh.

    Personally I didn't buy the box because I have no use for current edition codexes and I don't want any of the Angry Krootox, but I can wait a few weeks until the proper release. Do come back and seethe at that as well, it's always good to have something to laugh at.

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Pretty sure it's just marinegays upset they didn't get an equal attention primaris lieutenant, as usual.

  41. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Why did this have to be its own thread? What makes this topic so special that you couldn't have posted this in the 40k general? Let me guess: You were worried your post would get lost in the crowd in 40k general, so you wanted it to be its own thread because you're an attention seeking b***h. Do I have that about right?

  42. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >Kroot sells out in US and Canada
    >Still sells well in UK, Europe and Australia.
    >moron OP somehow thinks this means Kroot flopped.

  43. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    We need Katana Battlesuits, that's it

  44. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    who cares about sales?

  45. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >tau are a confederation of multipul races in a common effort. Like the 40k version of advent or the covonenet from halo.

    >99% of the range is gundams and blut vegana faces with the other 1% of the range split between shitcast bugs and chicken lizards.

    Frick the tau and frick gw for wasting them

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      >blut vegana faces

      This is peak Tau woman physique.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        Still more attractive than your average SoB

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          Fact is this is true

          Also Kroot box is a really good deal if you can manage to sell the data cards and codex for the full price or even more. im even thinking of getting a second incase they dont all sell and go on sale.

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