The Gaming Kingdom

Hi all,

I am sure you all know about my love affair with the Kroot, since the run up to 5th ed and all the work I put in to doing an update for the codex I have wanted to build a new Kroot Mercenary army and even went out and spent a stupid amount of money on Forge World stuff just to put in the army.

The thing was that with the 40K Radio World Wide War event coming up and the stupidly good fun I was having building up my Goblin army they kind of got pushed to one side. 

I finished off my Dark Angels for the World Wide War and then got board painting Common Goblins as I wanted to do a Warhammer Fantasy army to take to a few tournaments and didn't think an all Goblin army would cut it (although I may well take them to a few events next year if I can find some comp friendly ones).  So with the release of the Warriors of Chaos and the tactica that I wrote for them I ended up doing a Slaanesh Army to take to the tournaments for this year. 

This thing is, in an attempt to finish armies I had slowed down in the building side of things and was only building things in manageable chunks and painting those up before moving on to the next block.  Now this did lead to lots of fun small games and other people got on board and made smaller armies and we are even planning a 600point mini 40K tournament in the club in April it was just not getting me inspired to do my Kroot. 

Enter the tale of gamers; finally I had a reason to do the Kroot justice.  I would have to do them properly and put the effort in to them.  So we are now two months in to the tale and I have put up my articles for both months and although I was inspired to do the army and all the cool plans for conversions were forming I still was not as into the army as I wanted to be. 

That brings us up to Friday night and after a mind numbing painting session of applying scorched brown to 15 Kroot carnivores to finish off my 500 point army I thought, what the hell, I can build a couple of test models for the other squads that I have planned. 

And that brings us up to now, Sunday evening and I have been a little more productive than I intended to be.  Well what happened was I thought that as I had mixed up some greenstuff there was no point stopping at the one Kroot Fire warrior that I had built to be my mock up so I built another one, and a third.  Before I knew it I had the full squad of twelve done and the squad of 6 Kroot Sting wings half done, and the 20 Kroot to go with the Kroot Hounds were all built.  

I had assembled a good chunk of my army and was having cool ideas that could go in to my various army plans and was actually looking forward to putting some paint on them to see how they came out. 

Unfortunately my painting desk is covered in Kroot with bits of Harpy wings here and the odd Tau shoulder pads there.

Not to mention that there are still 15 scorched brown Kroot carnivores staring up at me that need finishing. 

It was a fun weekend though. 

Kris