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Ok,now my local gaming group has been in contact with John Spencer from GW.

This is the response post from the leader of our group:

So I posed the question/situation to John:

According to the rulebook, "a vehicle with a wreckin' ball causes a strength 9 hit upon one un-engaged enemy unit within " 2" of the wreckin' ball at the beginning of the assault phase on a roll of 4+"

Within 2 inches of the "Wreckin ball" not the vehicle carrying it....
So what happens if someone does a modification need to make a crane with a 10 inch long arm? Or what happens if someone makes a wrecking ball that is 6 inches in diameter on mounted on a 10" arm that can rotate 360 degrees? How do we interpret the rules here?

John Spencer from GW wrote:

There is no way, aside from verbal abuse and threats of bodily harm, to stop someone from doing this. We don’t really worry about it.

I'll leave it up to you to see if you guys try to play it straight up, or build your model to take advantage of this.

what is *your* take on this?

Yak's #1 rule: Use modeling to your advantage.

Yep, nuthin' new.

Like a whole LOT Of things in 40K you can use modeling to your advantage if you feel that you need or want to.

I win!

Use the wrecking ball model provided in the Trukk vehicle box. Don't use 'creative' modeling to cheat.

Nurglitch wrote:Use the wrecking ball model provided in the Trukk vehicle box. Don't use 'creative' modeling to cheat.

Cheating shmeating its totally legal, GW said so.

gentlemen; I present you, the beauty of toybashing:
and yes, it rotates

Hahaha waaaay cooler than my MS paint concept art

In my group, it wouldn't be an issue.
The person attempting to violate the SPIRIT of the game would be verbally bashed, harrangued and possibly slapped in the back of the head Orky style.
They he would be told "no."

Eric

Not sure I really see a problem. You are allowed to turn your facing in any direction at the end of your move and a Trukk is AV10 all around. Since Trukks are the only models that currently come with a WB in their kit, you have to model your own on everything else anyway. For a battlewagon, I can see an issue for the player who doesn't want to turn his rear to the enemy- so model your Battlewagon's WB so that you can use it from either side, the front or the rear. As for how big/ how far it can reach... well I'm not going to make some asinine and subjective statement about that since no guidance is given, but I think you would probably be safe if it reflected the reach/dimensions of the WB on the Trukk no matter what facing it protrudes from.

Just my $.02

*sees a tournament game with a hefty prize taking place between Orks and Guard....*

*watches in horror as the Ork player pushes a lever on a remote and slowly lowers his Hasbro-Battlewagon-hybrid-3-foot-crane-thingy over a building and some trees to land delicately on the tip of a hidden Basilisk*

*Ork player then smiles wide and screams, "WRECKINGBALLSNIIIIIIPEEEEEE GOOOOOOOOO!!!"*

x.x.... is this the world you want to live in?

If I get to hear that from across the room, then YES.

I would just mod the ball to rotate.. seems fairenough. if someone was pulling more than that I'm sure they would get dinged on sportsmanship.

NaZ

As funny as it would be, I think I would like to keep my friends, and im pretty sure in a tourney scene that would tank your sportsmanship fast. Mabye we wil see some for ard boyz tho.

I raised this point a month or so back with grabbin klaw and the ability to mount it on an externded rotating boom.

Itys more topical because the grabbin klaw is a very good way of taking down eldar grav tanks. You move your battlewagon 13" and have the radius of the boom to add to that. Falcon catching made easy.

Needless to say this could make some Eldar players howl, loader than victims of wrechking balls. Especially as there is no official grabbin klaw representation.

Orlanth wrote:I raised this point a month or so back with grabbin klaw and the ability to mount it on an externded rotating boom.

Itys more topical because the grabbin klaw is a very good way of taking down eldar grav tanks. You move your battlewagon 13" and have the radius of the boom to add to that. Falcon catching made easy.

Needless to say this could make some Eldar players howl, loader than victims of wrechking balls. Especially as there is no official grabbin klaw representation.

*...buys a G.I.Joe action figure with net gun attached to barrel by string*

so, if i can aim my net correctly and hit your falcon, i win, right? ^^;;

Platuan4th wrote:If I get to hear that from across the room, then YES.

Seconded.

That would be totally worth it.

Even if it was being done to my army!

Orlanth wrote:I raised this point a month or so back with grabbin klaw and the ability to mount it on an externded rotating boom.

Itys more topical because the grabbin klaw is a very good way of taking down eldar grav tanks. You move your battlewagon 13" and have the radius of the boom to add to that. Falcon catching made easy.

Needless to say this could make some Eldar players howl, loader than victims of wrechking balls. Especially as there is no official grabbin klaw representation.

Actually there is.



I don't know if you can find it anymore, but there used to be one. It still could be changed a bit and mounted on a swivel of some sort.

I'd also like to take this oppertunity to mourn the loss of my Painboss, Cyborks, and their groovy ambulance trukk. They will be missed.

wreckingballsnipe

Mr. Bombadidaloo wrote:*Pete then smiles wide and screams, "WRECKINGBALLSNIIIIIIPEEEEEE GOOOOOOOOO!!!"*

I was totally joking about doing this as i really do think it would be excessively cheestastic if done to anyone but your friends but this convinced me. I fixed the quote btw.

FearPeteySodes wrote:I win!

If thats wrong then I don't wanna be right!

OTT-love the new dakkacons by the way

Okay, all pvp-dickery aside, Ork Dreadnoughts should really have access to Grabbin' Claws as an option to replace a Dreadnought Close Combat Weapon.

Nurglitch wrote:Okay, all pvp-dickery aside, Ork Dreadnoughts should really have access to Grabbin' Claws as an option to replace a Dreadnought Close Combat Weapon.

That would be very cool, although i dont see it coming into play often.

While we are dreaming about making dreads useful- Dreads could be transported in a BW (taking up all its transport capacity) then they might actually make it to combat once in a while.

Apparently they'll be able to run in the next edition.

Nice!