Wow, this Lost and Damned section is silent like a graveyard, I hope this works...
I'm slowly coming to somewhat of a completion with my latest army (Space Pirates, argh!), and am getting close to needing to start the next. I really like/miss the old Kroot mercenaries. To start I should say that I'm aware that the Chapter Approved article is no longer valid/outdated, also a (somewhat satisfactory) Apocalypse datasheet for Kroot Mercenaries exists, and the occasional wayward unofficial fandex ("I have a 200 model Kroot army... that I can never use"[sigh]). However, I want something a bit better and more likely to get more play, possibly even take to the local tournaments (Mates at my LGS wouldn't care, provided it's GW stuff and makes sense; just no AT-43 IG armies, know what I mean?).
So without further ado, here's the questions...
-Anyone know of, or have opinions concerning, using the Kroot (maybe even Vespid or similar outcast races) model line as counts-as for another army?
-what units were/could be counts-as what?
-Thoughts as to each army? (e.g. DE... no, Nids... maybe, Orks... oh, yeah!, etc)
-Rundown of common units within another army would be nice too (e.g. termagaunts=Kroot carnivores, etc)
I mean, I do have a wild imagination and could probably come up with a satisfactory solution by myself, but would like feedback from the community as to their ideas towards this concept. I would like keep the Kroot relatively legal; e.g. for the most part, the majority could be fielded with a Tau force as a normal unit of Kroot, or used with the Apoc datasheet (not interested in a dust-collecting army comprised of 95% of models that I could only use with house rules); so lets say that the majority of the models should remain normalish(?) Kroot. I can understand having to have an oddball here or there to count-as a certain sarge or independent character, but I don't want to model three, red-painted squads of Kroot with boltguns and power armour, riding inside a "Redeemer Land Rhinox". I would also like the army/build to reflect Kroot too; you can't really justify Kroot as a counts-as Grey Knights army.
Inspirational pictures might not be a bad idea either (I've seen the "Kroot that have taken a Tau cadre hostage" army, and I don't want to make this army project to count-as a Tau force, because that would be silly).
I appreciate any feedback concerning this project...