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Go for "Da Thunda-Kopta". Bomba don't suit it, if its armed with lascannons.

Lightning Hammer!


Thunda thumpa

But I like Thunda bomba the most out of yours

Air Force 2, those grots have got at some imperial ancient history from the 20th century!
Still love it!

How about Efff Orks One.

Call the flying flashlight of doom "Thunda-kopta"


showed this thread to a few friends the other night who know little of 40k but they still got a major kick outta this army.

We do yearly votes on stuff cause this one is Army of the year in my book.

I agree with 1-i!

DA AIR-EADZ R ERE!
Well at long last the grots have got some air support and just in time for the Throne Of Skulls tournament this weekend, I’ll start off with an old favourite…

Originally the old Heli-Cooka models that were deep striking sentinels from the previous guard codex were going to gather dust in my bits box, however someone at the Open War tournament was disappointed when they found out that they weren’t included in the new army.



So I decided to rebuild one and add it for the Thunda-Kopta’s base. At first it was just for scenery but then I decided to arm it with 2 heavy bolters so I could have the option to arm my Vendetta with heavy bolter sponsons when I wanted to use them. I saw him again at the Throne Of Skulls tournament this weekend and he was pleased to see them back in the army.


“Stripbolt az made da old Heli-cooka’s betta by armin dem with heavy shootas and givin da more
powa so dey can fly higher. Dey iz are main air fightaz and often help out da bigga Thunda-Koptas!”

At long last I finally got the Vendetta completed; taking a good week to build and paint, I managed to finish it off at midnight on Friday before the Throne Of Skulls this weekend. Sadly despite turning it into a twin-bladed choppa it didn’t look very groty compared to the rest of the army, So I decided to paint the plates metal to give it a more ork looted Valkyrie feel, plus I gave it some teeth.
I was going to use Dreadnought lascannons for both sides so I could swap them for missile launchers (for the rocket pods) but instead I used the same bits that I used for the Dakka Tanks with Lascannon barrels. The blades were a simple plasticard build with magnets.


“Diz iz da best tank in da grot rebellion, diz iz da Thunda-Kopta! We’z only got a few of dem, cause
we ad to nick dem from da humies cauz ya can’t turn a humie fighta grotty aftar it’z crashed see!
Dey av lotz a zapp guns for tank bustin and can swoop in and save sum da
boyz after dey lost da Doom-vee. Now Stripbolt’z workin on da Thunda-Squig gunship!”

I also got a photo of the pilots before I glued the cover down. Overall it’s a great centre piece and I like how it completely overshadows the Grot-kopta escort.

As you can tell I’ve just been to Throne Of Skull’s tournament this weekend and had a fantastic time. So tomorrow I’ll will upload a small report on the grot’s first day and their battles with the Imperial Guard, Deathwatch and Orks.

Lookin forwards to seein the reports.

Also, you should be glad to know that the Thunda Squig.. er.. I mean Stormraven is due for an early February 2011 release.

THRONE OF SKULLS TOURNAMENT REPORT
Well the grots got stuck into their first weekend tournament on Saturday and I had a great time with lots of fun and close games, interesting people and a good overall atmosphere.

“We av one goal boyz, da beat da humies!”
There was one award I wanted in the entire tournament which all the players are told it to wished me luck on and that was ‘The Best Guard Player’. Due to the new system averages would be calculated for each race after every game and the person who got the highest margin from the average score would be the best player of that race and would have a chance of winning the overall prize.
The seer irony of an army of gretchin winning such an award was just too tempting.

“So diz iz wat da Kolonel az givin me ay!”
Here the 1500pt list for the weekend, I made a last minute change, replacing my useless Leman russ with the bane wolf and some other upgrades. Cause lets face it if it can’t make 1 kill against a deep striking Blood Angels army it isn’t doing the job right!

Squigsceam’s Command Squad: 4 Meltaguns
Chimera: Heavy Flamer
Veteran Squad: 3 Plasmaguns
Chimera: Heavy Flamer
X3 Veteran Squad: 3 Meltaguns
X3Chimera: Heavy Flamer
Banewolf: Heavy Flamer & Smoke Launchers
Hellhound: Heavy Flamer & Smoke Launchers
Vendetta: Heavy Bolter Sponsons
2 Hydras
Manticore

“Why dey keep callin us Orks Boss? We’z not orks we’z grots!”
The army was well received by both the tournament officials and other players who loved the character of the army.
However they were a few people who took a while to recognise it as a imperial guard army despite the Valkyrie and hordes of tanks with chimera turrets on. 1 player asked if the Thunda-Kopta was a Deff-kopta; gotta say that’s one huge and expensive deff-kopta! Most bizarre of all was when I came back on Sunday to find that the organisers had listed me on the line-up sheet as a ork player, I asked them about it and they said they had looked at the comic and not the army list.



ROUND 1 “Humie Fighta kuming in fast boss!!!”
Mission: Capture & Control
Setup: Pitched Battle
Opponent: Imperial Guard

The worst opponent for my army to face would be one with lots of long ranged anti-tank, and sadly for the first round I was against an army that featured 4 vendettas, 1 Lascannon heavy weapon team and a hydra… Ouch!
He choose to go first so I put the whole army in reserve knowing I would have more of a chance of getting into melta range if I drove on full belt with smoke launchers. I had also put one of the veterans squads into the vendetta and had an empty chimera to act as a shield.

I was dreading having to run this gauntlet of 15 lascannons, but then my opponent did something I didn’t expect. He turbo-boosted all his Vendettas and Valkyrie to my side of the board! In my 2nd turn 3 melta chimeras drove on to the board; 2 went after the vendettas closest to the board with the hellhound and empty chimera shielding them, while the other drove on with smoke launchers looking to go after the other 1. Meanwhile the vendetta outflanked dropping the metla vets behind cover. My shooting phase was brutal; the melta vets destroyed the Hydra, 1 Vendetta from a squadron was shot down and the other was shaken, the occupants burnt to a crisp by the chimera’s heavy flamer, the other chimera killed 1 lascannons team sending the other running. Plus a lucky lascannon shot from my vendetta got a shaken result on the 2nd squadron, leaving my opponent with 1 vendetta able to fire next turn.

This had a large impact on the rest of the game; as the rest of my force arrived the other vendettas and valkyrie was shot out the sky with the hellhound and bane wolf making toast out of the surviving occupants. I lost my command chimera but the squad survived and finished off the enemy vets that had survived my flamer attacks. My opponent did have a pask punisher but with all the armour 12 in my army it only managed to get 1 round of shooting killing 2 of the veterans in cover on his objective before being killed by the chimera with metla vets inside.

The last turn had me finishing off the rest of his force with my plasma veterans killing a command squad that had destroyed my manticore and a poor infantry squad that has been running for most of the game after their vendetta has been destroyed being mowed down by both the hellhound and bane wolf on either side!

“ENEMIE WIPED OUT BOSS WE AV VICTORY!”

“LETZ EAT!”
Setup my army for judging and went for lunch, but while in previous tournaments a full meal was provided greedy GW didn’t include one thing… NO PUDDING! (or morning tea & coffee)

ROUND 2 “Dem greenskin hatin beakie‘s trying a sneak attack on us boss!!!”
Mission: Annihilation
Setup: Spearhead
Opponent: Space Marines

I was now up against a Deathwatch themed space marine drop pod army with Pedro, 2 Sternguard and 3 tactical squads all armed with lots of combi-meltas, Meltaguns and multi-meltas.
This setup worked to my advantage allowing me to setup a solid defence with my units packed closely together with the flame tanks at the side and chimeras at the front, he choose for me to go first so I fired the smoke launchers on the outlining vehicles.

Then 2 stern guard and a tactical squad with pedro leading the way arrived. They clearly didn’t like the boss as one stern guard unit blew up his chimera and the other used rounds that ignored cover saves to gun down the 2 survivors. The tactical squad’s drop pod scatted off and they only mangered to get a shot on the Hellhound which bounced off.
The grots clearly didn’t them killing the boss as the two stern guard were fired upon by everything in the army with the exception of 1 chimera and Hellhound that went after the tactical squad. The Banewolf doing the most damage with it’s chem cannon afterwards 1 stern guard was running away and pedro was left with only 3 stern guard and the tactical squad had also lost half it marines but passed it’s leadership test.

Next turn and the 2nd tactical squad arrived, can’t remember what they shot at thou? Meanwhile Pedro went in at close quarters and blew up another chimera and the 1st tactical squad immobilised another chimera. Again the returning volley was nasty; the bane wolf moved in and killed 8 of the tactical squad that had arrived with the veterans from the chimera that was smashed by Pedro gunning down the last two. The other tactical squad was also wiped out by plasma vets and the hellhound and to finish it off I fired on Pedro and his last stern guard with all the Vendetta’s weapons. Sadly he allocated all the lascannons hit on the stern guard but then rolled 1s and 2s for his armour so that was him dead.

Now my opponent had 1 tactical squad to deploy against a 3rd of my army in the end he decided to go on a glory charge and deep striked right into the heart of my army. Meanwhile the fleeing stern guard had regrouped and was hiding in terrain. He destroyed the bane wolf and despite the barrage from my army the remaining sergeant and melt gunner went on to destroy a chimera and assault it’s occupants killing 3 of them but the grots held fast.

The last turn was spend destroying the drop-pods and killing off that one cowering survivor, I tried to get another squad into the combat but they failed to scramble over the bane wolf wreck, but the squad didn’t really need the help as the marine seragent and melta gunner were beaten down by 6 guardsmen. Nice try Deathwatch.

“ALL DEAD BOSS… BOSS? OH YEAH I FORGOT!”

AN UNEXPECTED VISIT?
During the 2nd break I was wondering round and after coming down from the miniatures hall and one of the events team came up to me and asked I could put some infantry on the table.

He then told me that one of the guys from the ‘What’s New Today’ crew from the GW website had come to photograph some of the armies and wanted to see the infantry models that went with the tanks. The guy took some photographs of my grots before asking me about what inspired me to build them and how I constructed the Doom-Vees.

So with luck the Grot Rebellion may appear on the GW website!

ROUND 3 “DIZ IS IT BOYZ, TIME FOR PAYBACK,!!!”
Mission: Seize Ground
Setup: Dawn Of War
Opponent: Orks

Hurray, the grots first ork opponent, he was a great chap we had some friendly greenskin fightin talk about who was better as we started. His army was a ork horde with Warboss on a bike, 2X30 Sluggas boyz, 30 shootas boyz, 20 storm boyz, 10 bikers and 9 Killa Kans. He wasn’t too keen to fight my army of tanks with his only real anti-tank being the war boss and nob’s power klaws.

So the slaugter began with both our armies arriving in turn 1, I was 2nd and used my searchlights to light up his killa-kan shield allowing my vendetta to destroy 2. My army remained where it was as I had no intention of moving towards the horde, first killing off the storm boyz and then the killa kans. My opponent main concern was my Manticore charging his bikers from the other corner of the board at it, turbo-boosting them through two bits of terrain however my firepower wasn’t enough to stop them and the warboss made it to the Manticore with 1 wound left. Defenceless my Manticore was surely dead then he rolled his penetration results; 2 shaken, 2 stunned, 1 weapons destroyed and immobilized it was unbelievable there was a grot god, he was then gunned down the next turn by a multi-laser!

I then went on the offensive with the Banewolf moving 12 and firing both templates into the shoota boyz killing 18 of them, I then used some other units to whittle the rest of the squad to 5 but they passed the leadership test.

He then went on the offensive with the survivors assaulting the Banewolf and the other squad of 23 assaulting the Hellhound, destroying both tanks. But units can’t consolidate from combat with a vehicle so 2 of my chimera with their heavy flamers moved in for the kill on the hellhound’s closely packed destroyers, wiping them out. Meanwhile another chimera wiped out the Banewolf’s destroyers.

Soon all 130 orks were wiped out!

“REVENGE FEELS GUD DON‘T IT BOSS!”

So with Saturday out the way and with 3 opponents completely wiped out my chances of winning the best guard general were pretty good. But how will the Grot Rebellion fair against the Death Guard & Chaos Daemons on Sunday, find out tomorrow?

great battle report! cant wait to see more!!!

Sageheart wrote:great battle report! cant wait to see more!!!

Second that!

^Agree.

Woot! Go Grot Rebellion!

Seriosuly, I wouldnt mind gettng wiped off the board by sucha good looking army.

That's awesome. Way to score a GW spread too.


Viva la GROT!

Best of luck!

very nice work. I enjoyed looking thru this thread. Keep it up.

THRONE OF SKULLS TOURNAMENT REPORT PART 2
After a mass killing spree on Saturday I was looking forward to getting back to the tournament and after clearing up a matter with the judges about my army being listed as orks not guard I was ready for round 4. Just 2 more round to win and my grots could go all the way!

ROUND 4 “DIZ BEAKIES SMELL A BIT RIPE!”
Mission: Seize Ground
Setup: Pitched Battle
Opponent: Death Guard

This looked to be an exciting match fighting, playing against 3 units of death guard with rhinos, Ahriman, a Winged Deamon Prince, 3 Obliterators and a greater daemon, being a former Death Guard player I knew that they’d be a pain to put down.

We both setup our armies with him going first and despite all my jokes about the chances of my Vendetta being shot down in the first turn I didn’t put it in reserve and sure enough it was destroyed. Ahriman used bolt to immobilise the Banewolf and the D.Prince advanced behind 2 of the rhinos with the dread while the other moved towards an objective on the other side of the board.
I moved up my forces and returned fire the mutli-lasers and hydras shots bouncing off the Obliterators the command chimera moved at full speed towards the massed death guard. My Manticore unleashed a full 3 templates on the closely packed Death Guard vehicles stunning both rhinos, shaking the dreadnought and causing a wound to the D.Prince.

Next turn Ahriman and his Death Guard got out of their stunned rhino and the dread moved through some woods towards an objective while Ahriman fired 2 bolts into a chimera immobilising it. The Obliterators shot at the Hydras causing them to lose 1 auto cannon each. 2 Doom-vees went a full speed towards the obliterators as I felt I needed to bring them down. First the Manticore fired upon the stunned rhino which Ahriman had just go out of and with 3 sgt 10 templates exploded both rhinos and caused another wound to the D.Prince. I then used the Hellhound and command squad to decrease the squad to 3 death guard with Ahriman whilst the immobilised Doom-Vee Meltaguns shot off the dreadnought’s multi-melta...

Sadly there is far too much to write down in this round so I’ll get to the crucial last turn.

By the 6th turn the 2 chimeras and their squads I had sent after the obliterators has been destroyed by a death guard squad and Greater Daemon leaving 2 Death Guard on that objective. Another chimera had be destroyed but the crew was now safe in the wreckage holding down an objective but had both Ahriman and the Obliterators closing in on them. Kaptin Squigscream had charged into combat with the last death guard from the 2 squads holding him up for a turn but now he was moving towards the third objective. If the game had ended there I would have won but instead went on to another turn.

Ahriman burned the squad on the 1st objective to a crisp while the obliterators and the last Death Guard blasted the squad holding down the 2nd objective luckily they passed the cover saves and remained where they were. I had also took my own measures by driving the Hellhound through a piece of terrain and a wreckage to contest the 3rd objective. The game would have ended in a draw if my opponent hadn’t choose to rapid fire his Death Guard’s plasma gun instead of running him a extra 4 inches.

That was by far the closest game I’ve ever had!

“DANG DAT WAS CLOSE, BUT WE‘Z WON!”


ARMY JUDGING
My army had been nominated along with 9 others, the more interesting ones included; a Tyranid Mechanicus army funnily enough, 2 very well painted Eldar armies and a nicely converted Daemon army that featured 4 lots of 1 Big Daemon, an Elite and 1 Troop for each books of chaos. That got my vote. They was quite a lot of people gathered around the grots which made me happy, I could walk away with 2 awards.


ROUND 5 “WE GOT DEAMON TROUBLES!”
Mission: Capture & Control
Setup: Pitched Battle
Opponent: Daemons

I had fought this opponent in the Yorkshire Doubles back in August, but back then he was allied with imperial guard and I had orks both of which took most of the beating.

Sadly my dream of winning best guard army came to an end here as his fiends teared through my tanks like they’re were paper and that was before the daemon prince, fate weaver and Bloodthirster had arrived. I’ve never seen so many 5&6s lol! By turn 5 all my tanks were either destroyed or had no weapons and mobility. 3 of my 4 troops were gone with the last ones cowering in their bunker on the far side of the board.

But despite the clear loss I continued to have a good time. Now there was no way to kill off his troops I was focused on beating the Fateweaver in combat with Squigscream as he only had 2 attacks and if he lost combat there was a chance he would disappear. All the time he was trying to turn Squigscream into a squig with Bolt Of Change. A 30pt commander beating a 355pt daemon would have been awesome and I nearly did it but he passed his invulnerable save so it was another draw. Then the Bloodthrister came in a spoilt the fun by landing on the poor guy. After which I surrendered.

“ALL GUD DINGS DO COME TO AN END… NOW RUNAWAY!”

AWARD CEREMONY & CONCLUSION
The weekend had been fantastic with 4 wins and 1 loss I had the time of my life, if had gotten a draw instead of a loss I would have won best guard player being just 2pts behind! Oh well always next time.
Sadly I didn’t win Best Army, The Eldar army won it but I can’t say I’m not surprised it was painted to a professional level. But at least I got a certificate for being nominated.

Now I plan to return to another Throne Of Skulls tournament perhaps in the Spring, but for the moment my next tournament will be in January at Maelstrom games and after this weekend I‘m looking forward to it.:evilgrin:

Jeez That is so cool and I think you should have gotten most original...Daemons are disgusting on the field!

SEE ALL DA BOYZ!
At last a good pic of the whole army (well 1500pts anyway), taken from the Throne Of Skulls tournament.



and another one...

Dat'z a big rebellion boss!

GJ!

More!

Da rebellion looks pretty damn cool all in one place

lol i was at throne of skulls saw it in person and it was beautiful to behold

"IZ IT OVER BOSS?... NOT TILL DA FAT SQUIG FLYS!"
Well it looks like I'm not done with the Grot's yet. After 2 months of games Squigscream shot the Leman Russ crews dead since they rubbish and probably couldn't hit a ork Gargant titan! I then replaced it with the Banewolf for the Throne Of Skulls and it preformed brilliantly, however this meant I’ve had to scrap the Squig Tanks at 1750 so I’m now taking Marbo AKA Grot Agent Spookums!



However I’m unable to use characters at the Uprising Tournament in January so I’ve obtained all the bits needed to create a third Dakka Tank body so I can field my Mega-Lobba with my Dakka Tanks!



But that’s not all I’m now looking to create a 2nd Vendetta and while I was thinking of using the Storm Raven I much prefer helicopter conversions as they look more like something that can hover and move sideways. So I’m now thinking of either building another twin-bladed Thunda-Kopta or converting a Valkyrie into a something a bit different; Any suggestions or ideas?

Why not chop the wings off the valc and put some heli-blades on top? It looks pretty good:

A goodle search lead my back to Dakka and this thread: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/284112.page
A nice renegade, city fight style army.
... and this dakka thread, too: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/237397.page

But the helicopter conversion looks good. Baring something like that, I would look to fallen foes for inspiration... after all what's better than looted gear.

Great batreps; good to hear the rebellion is still alive and kicking!

I was thinking about that idea 'The Good Green' I just don't like how the weapons and wings looked slapped on at the sides.

Also some further feedback on my first Thunda-Kopta might help me a great bit on coming up with ideas for the 2nd?

I was thinking along similar lines to GG, maybe with double-rotors like this:


edit : ahh, beaten whilst I searched for the image


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Howabout if you kept the wings, maybe shortened them, or inverted them and had rotors on the ends, kinda like the Osprey

Oh my, I hadn't realized that I had forgoten to comment on the Thunda Kopta... I like it. I like the grot pilots a lot. I don't think it matches the level of conversion of the rest of your army, though.

I don't really me the wings/weapons mount to be the point of what I was getting at, either. More the lack of wings and the rotor to be on the top, or sort of attached to the sides, ala the old ork kopta with the two rotors off set.

The weapons could be grot turret pods all over the hull, like old WW2 B-17 (or something) planes.

The Good Green wrote:Oh my, I hadn't realized that I had forgoten to comment on the Thunda Kopta... I like it. I like the grot pilots a lot. I don't think it matches the level of conversion of the rest of your army, though.

The problem was that the only way to convert it was into a helicopter version like the one above which is used quite a lot, so instead I tried a small conversion based on the heli-drones in an old cartoon I watched: (skip to 2:24) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkGnLWRp0j4&feature=BF&list=PL7D66F7128C71B2B3&index=55

So unless you guys can find an valkyrie conversion I could use, I might have to build a copy of the Thunda-Kopta.