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So I had about 45 minutes with the new codex and came up with this for a possible 1850 Speed Freaks army.

Wazzdakka Gutzmek
joining a unit of 3 Warbikes

4 X 5 Ork Warbikes
Nob with Power Klaw in each squad

3 Scorcha Buggies

2 X 3 Dethkopta's
1 Twin Rokkit Launcha in each
1 Bigboom in each

3 Battlewagons, all have the following:
Killkannon
ZZap Gun
4 Big Shootas
'Ard Case
Deff Rolla's

The list seems wierdly balanced for a mobile army without foot troops. I might have to proxy and see how it ends up. Anyone with thoughts?

It's got being different going for it.

Ork Warbikes are not the best from my experience. It's just a general failure among most bikers in 40k.

Stelek wrote:It's got being different going for it.

I get that alot with my lists

The warbikes suffer from moralitis. :(

Its fast and hard, hitting but I can see one flaw with it and that is it will suffer from leadership issues. With such small numbers due to points cost you will have some trouble keeping units that do get shot from running away. In general you are going to have to deal with at least a single round of shooting with everything (besides the coptas) before you get to tie your opponent up in assault. Because of that I would say you are going to be taking a lot of leadership check due to loosing one or 2 bikes.

The other issue is the high points cost on the battle wagons. I have found that they are better as mobile pieces of terrain rather than gun trukks. With this in mind I would lower the points cost on them to add some more threats and possibly a unit of Trukk Boyz to your list. Against Voodoo's KoS list I was able to either imobilize or destroy all the battle wagons on the first turn. I do think how ever that the game would be diffrent if he had gotten the first turn. That should be something else to keep in mind. When deploying always deploy as if you are not getting the first turn.