"You are what you eat," the old saying goes, and it's an adage that the Kroot are a lot more committed to than most. Among the crowd of iconic Warhammer 40,000 armies—your space marines, orks, tyranids, and more—these bird-like aliens are often overlooked. But I think they're secretly the coolest faction in the game.

They've always been unfairly overshadowed. Starting life as a little one-off piece of art in the 1998 Warhammer 40,000 rulebook, their real introduction was in 2001, as a subfaction of the then brand-new T'au Empire. The anime-inspired T'au grabbed attention with their mech suits, drones, and giant railguns, but even back then I was enchanted by the humble Kroot.

Unlike most factions in Warhammer 40,000, the technologically-advanced T'au would rather absorb than destroy—they

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