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What does Dakka Think?

Ork Droppa: 50 Points
AV 11, 11, 11, BS 2
Weapons, 2 Rokkit Launchas
Capacity: 21 models, Mega armor models count as 2

Ork Droppa Assault: Ork Droppas always enter play using the deep strike rules from the mission special rules section of the warhammer 40k rulebook.
At the Beginning of your first turn, You MAY select any number of Ork Droppas equal to the troop choices you have that have an ork Droppa and make a Ork Droppa assault.
Units making Ork Droppa Assault arrive on the first turn. The arrival of the rest comes as per normal.

Shock Absorption: Some Ork Drop pods are fitted with lots of tires on da bottom to make landing softa, While this is not as fun as a ard crash it makes it easier for assaulting right from pod. When the Droppa lands roll 1d6, on a 1-2 the unit may assault after debarking, on a 3-5 they act as normal after debarking, on a 6 they may not debark until next turn as the shock absorbers have failed and knocked them silly, if the unit includes a Mek or Big Mek then it may reroll this die.

Red Paint Job: 10 points, May re-roll reserves for this unit.
Checkers 20 points: +1 to die when determining the reserves roll.

Immobile: Cannot move once it has entered the field but respects as a vehicle that has suffered an immobilised damage result (Which cannot be repaired in any way)

Not orky enough. Should have some sort of drawback to represent the harshness of ork tech.
Like, when it lands it suffers an automatic penetrating hit.

hmm...Than what if that pen was a roll?

Like on a roll of 1-4 its fine! 5 is a glancing hit and a 6 is pen and if it explodes when penned than the Orks come out as normal under a little crater cannot assault that turn and count as being pinned?

Vasarto wrote:hmm...Than what if that pen was a roll?

Like on a roll of 1-4 its fine! 5 is a glancing hit and a 6 is pen and if it explodes when penned than the Orks come out as normal under a little crater cannot assault that turn and count as being pinned?

Its better, but it should be the other way around

1 - pen
2 = glance
3+ = Absolutely fine

OK, I guess that would be better lol!

I wanna make a Ork Fan Dex so I wanna come up with a bunch of new stuff for it and when I am finished I wanna see what everyone thinks!

This is a vast improvement over the last one. I still like the one I posted in your old thread, but I admit to a bias there.
The addition of the chance to be damaged above would be fine, but I don't know if it is really needed.

Would the Glance and Pen roll be seperate from the Shock Absorbers roll?

If so, the Shokk Absorbers (which should be called Skwishy Stuff or something more Orky) whould have a 'roll of 6, re-roll the Scatter dice, using the arrow if the result is a 'hit'.

And they're called Rokks, by the way.

hmm.
I dunno I didn't think about that. Well @ Pano - The Wreck thingy is more or less kinda like the oops something "has gone wrong" which exists all around the codex here and there. Like Looted wagons dont press dat!

The Shock Attack guns Double 1's. There should be something that could go wrong with it and its an idea.

The idea for changing the name to Skwishy stuff is awesome!

Unless there could be something else that could go wrong with the pod rather than it becoming damaged?

It refuses to open, and counts as Close Topped while not allowing the Orks to disembark at all?

Would that be for 1 turn or indefinably? Maybe the orks could make a CC attack against the hatches to Burst it open the turn it arrives that that happens but dont get to disembark until the movement phase of next turn?

Roll a Die each turn and on a 4+ it opens?

utter worst case scenario, the pod device smashes into the ground and vaporizes and is more or less a really big artillary shell that does alot of damage in a good radius.


heck how about Dah Boyz Kannon? an utter absurd weapon that fires these pods filled wif boyz to get to da fight fasta! the waagh field would allow the shells filled with boyz to land (reletivly) safly or just smash into the ground.

or a smaller trukk mounted version that slings boys (3 at a time) an long distance and with a good roll he lands hard and enters combat or with a bad roll they go face first into the ground with a splat cause landing with control like a stormboy is for wusses.

Are you suggesting a cross between the Angry Marine's Angrinator and the O&G DoomDiver?

Because if you are, that's Brilliant!

the...WHAT?

IN pure honesty i wasn't thinking of that.

i was thinking of the Man Cannon from Metal Gear Solid 4, but instead of guy it would be much much more orky and insane and would lob trios of orks or the bigger one would shoot small drop pods sized shells filled with boys (like the OP's pods only shot from a Kannon and slightly smaller). What said Boyz Kannon would be mounted on is a mystery, but don't put it past them to some how mount it to a Battle Wagon, or a large Super heavy platform.


smaller BoyZ Slinga insperation.

the larger BoyZ Kannon would lob a full squad of orks. (i dunno a decent size. maybe 7 or 8 orks maybe more crammed into a shell)

Vasarto wrote:the...WHAT?

The Angry Marines (a chapter of really, really angry Marines- I think their chapter master is Angron or something- oh, they're still Loyalist, though) have something called the Angrinator that launches Angry Marines into combat. They also have a Titan version that launches Land Raiders.

The Doom Diver is from Fantasy Orcs, and it's a giant slingshot that fires Goblins fitted with bat wings. They kamikaze into the enemy ranks after shouting down 'taktikal infermashun'.

They must have been rather pissed all the time.

the only IG equivilant would be if they were so pissed they used troops for ammo in the Earth Shaker Cannons. and had a Titan that launches Leman Russes.

Both are amusing....

I think with an ork they have enough trouble with driving normally, let alone a piece of scrap falling from the sky. you should have less control over here it lands, mayby 4d6 scatter.

- ironhandstraken

Difficult one to balance I feel.

I would immediately shy away from the idea that on landing it can take any sort of penetrating hit and potentially because of that be destroyed.
Its a unit delivery system, nothing more and having your units taking casualties and losing the pod itself isnt mirrored in any other vehicles in the game (that I can think of at the moment)).
Taking into accounts its 50 points, making it more expensive than trukks, rhinos and other transport vehicles only reinforces this point I feel.

Fully acknowldge needing to bring an Orky element to it with some sort of mishap trait but having it go boom isnt it imo. KP games become a run the dice-gauntlet scenario and for what its supposed to do (deliver Orks) makes it quite unreliable (which is fluff Orky but not game balance Orky).

If you are set on this however, I'd change it to a glancing hit. So it can be destroyed but it'll take a 6 to do it and perhaps have the shock absorbers (tyres on the bottom LOL, great idea!) allow a reroll too.

Im interested in IHS idea of a scatter but I think 4d6 is a lot, with a bad roll you could be scattering over 20 inches away, which again, whilst fluff Orky affects game balance/playability.

Perhaps 2d6+4 or something like that? Meaning you have a min of 6 making charge range a little bit dodgy or 16 which is bad but not unrecoverable.

I'd be very much against these rules complications of it not opening and the Orks having to blast their way out on 4+ etc.
Theres no BRB precedent really, its overly complicated and potetially crippling if the dice go bad. No rule should over compensate for dice rolls imo.

Also 21 is a very large transport capacity for the 50 points. You could have over 80 Orks in an opponents deployment for 200 points. Perhaps think about lowering its capacity somewhat/upping the points?

Fun idea overall though

Couple fun mechanics that you might want to add.

1.) rolls 3d6 for scatter
2.) If it lands on a unit (friendly or foe) the affected unit takes 1d6 str8 ap- hits and then is forced to move the minimum distance as to make room for the Droppa. The droppa then takes 1d3 str 8 hits as well.

Ok so what about this for balancing it?

I changed shokk Absorbs


Ork Droppa: 50 Points
AV 11, 11, 11, BS 2
Weapons, 2 Rokkit Launchas
Capacity: 21 models, Mega armor models count as 2

Ork Droppa Assault: Ork Droppas always enter play using the deep strike rules from the mission special rules section of the warhammer 40k rulebook.
At the Beginning of your first turn, You MAY select any number of Ork Droppas equal to the troop choices you have that have an ork Droppa and make a Ork Droppa assault.
Units making Ork Droppa Assault arrive on the first turn. The arrival of the rest comes as per normal. Ork Droppa ALWAYS Scatters and scatters 2D6+4 inches. However if there is a Big Mek
On the field the droppa may land 1D6+4 inches away from the big mek instead.

Shokk Absorption: Some Ork Drop pods are fitted with lots of tires on da bottom to make landing softa, While this is not as fun as a ard crash it makes it easier for assaulting right from pod. When the Droppa lands, roll a D6 and on a 1 it takes a glancing hit. If the drop pod would land on a enemy or friendly unit, that unit takes 1D6 STR 9 AP - Hits and it "bounces" off of them and moves the minimal distance to avoid mishap and also applies when running into dangerous, difficult or impassible terrain.

Red Paint Job: 10 points, May re-roll reserves for this unit.
Checkers 20 points: +1 to die when determining the reserves roll.

Immobile: Cannot move once it has entered the field but respects as a vehicle that has suffered an immobilised damage result (Which cannot be repaired in any way)

Vasarto wrote:
Shokk Absorption: Some Ork Drop pods are fitted with lots of tires on da bottom to make landing softa, While this is not as fun as a ard crash it makes it easier for assaulting right from pod. When the Droppa lands, roll a D6 and on a 1 it takes a glancing hit. If the drop pod would land on a enemy or friendly unit, that unit takes 1D6 STR 9 AP - Hits and it "bounces" off of them and moves the minimal distance to avoid mishap and also applies when running into dangerous, difficult or impassible terrain.

I see what you're going for here, but I think it's a little bodged due to quick editing or something. It's hard to understand as it's written. How about this?

"Shokk Absorption: Some Ork Drop pods are fitted with lots of tires on da bottom to make landing softa. While this is not as fun as a 'ard crash, at least da boyz can get back on their feet after hitting some rough ground. If the Droppa scatters into another unit, or into difficult, dangerous, or impassable terrain, roll a D6. On a 1, the Droppa takes a glancing hit. If the Droppa scattered onto an enemy or friendly unit, that unit takes 1D6 STR 9 AP - Hits. The pod then "bounces" off the unit or terrain and is moved the minimum distance to avoid mishap."

Other than that, I think it's a brilliant unit!

Actually, what would be fun is if you just re-rolled the scatter afterwards. That way, with terrible (or amazing) luck, you could just have one bouncin' around th battlefield squishin' stuff.

And the d6-if-one shouldn't be in the Shokk Absorbaz part unless that's a non-upgrade that all Droppas have, like Ramshackle.

Re roll it again from where it lands? Brilliant!

Ummm 21orks is alot of models for a drop pod....
How about 12 orks can ride in it, and it causes a str8 large blast where it hits(friend or foe). And for the special roll, on a 1 they are trapped and must make all their cc attacks vs. Their rokk(until they are free). and any result of 5+ on the vehicle damage chart frees the orks from it(blowing it up) On the roll of a 6 they can assault and get fleet for this turn only(even if the waaggh isn't called) due to flying out the door upon impact. And the price should be comperable to an ork truck.... So 35 pts?? And maybe only boyz and grots can take it.
Fixed!!

I like the idea of it bouncing. That'd be hilarious! After initial landing it scatters 1d6 + 4 inches every turn, or until it is destroyed. 1d6 Str 9 Ap - per bounce if it hits a unit. Or maybe lower the strength after the first impact to show its slowing velocity. Maybe a Str 6 blast instead. Then just remove the rokkit launchers, lower the carrying capacity and you got a great unit I would take in every army list I ever built.

Couldnt this end up being broken? Like What if you Had an army of drop pods landing and bouncing everywhere and this could even take out tanks. idk thats my opinion

Im with Tot on this, whilst the bouncing is a very fun idea, the damage they could do might be a bit OP.
Maybe one bounce with a very short scatter distance and leave it at that?

You bounce only if you don't roll a 'hit' on a scatter die. That's generally going to mean one or two bounces- if you limit it to a single d6, that'd be fine. Also, say it loses 1 strength after each bounce, and is only Str. 8 on the first one.

I would recommend making it 9 for the initial hit, 6 for the first bounce, 3 for the third, and if it makes a 4th bounce for some INSANE reason it is down to strength 1.