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Hey Folks! I've been experimenting with a couple variants of my mobile Orks, and finally decided that I didn't like Ghazghkull and nobs in the battlewagon. This list has proven to be very competitive for me, and it won me the quarterly RTT in my FLGS.

HQ1: Ghazghkull Thraka
HQ2: Mad Dok Grotsnik

Troop1: 10 Nobs in a Trukk (Red Paint/Boarding Plank)

1. Painboy
2. Bosspole
3. Waaugh! Banner
4. Powerklaw
5. Powerklaw / Ammo Runt
6. Skorcha
7. Big Choppa
8. Big Choppa / Ammo Runt
9. Big Choppa / Kombi-Rokkit / Ammo Runt
10. Normal Nob

'Eavy Armor on all. (Ghazghkull Thraka is attached to this unit)

Troop2: 19 'Ard Boyz, Nob, Powerklaw, Bosspole (Mad Dok Grotsnik is attached to this unit, and they are inside the battlewagon)
Troop 3: 12 Trukk Boyz, Nob, Powerklaw, Bosspole, Trukk, Red Paint, Boarding Plank
Troop 4: 12 Trukk Boyz, Nob, Powerklaw, Bosspole, Trukk, Red Paint, Boarding Plank
Troop 5: 12 Trukk Boyz, Nob, Trukk, Red Paint

Elite 1: Snikrot+14 Kommandos (2 Burnas)

Heavy 1: Battlewagon (Red Paint, Kannon, Big Shoota, Boarding Plank)
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THat's 1850 points. A few changes from what I normally do: I'm no longer taking a Deff Rolla because there's no consensus on it and whether it works against vehicles. Also, my 5th troops choice Nob doesn't have enough points for a Powerklaw, so I removed the Boarding Plank and stuck those 5 points into a second weapon for the Battlewagon (Big Shoota)

In every game I play, when I'm able to place terrain, I go with a lot of forest (dense) so that my vehicles will get cover saves, and when I don't control terrain, I use buildings, whatever, other vehicles to screen. IE, my Battlewagon will screen Ghazghkull's trukk for example. Given the way the points break down, I'm somewhat tempted to take those 12 boyz out of my 5th troop choice, take the trukk out, and substitute in as many boys(or perhaps gretchin) as I can to provide screening for the trukks. I know that boyz are at least 1/2 as tall as a trukk, I don't know about gretchin.

My army has a general 27" assault range, and I am virtually always in assault turn 2. If I'm playing against an assault heavy army (I played against assault Nidzilla last game of my RTT) I tend to either hang back and let them advance so I can surprise them with my assault range, or I'll split off Ghazghkull and go deal with them in my Waaugh!

Boarding planks deal with vehicles if I'm still mobile, and they're great for killing drop pods that deliver dreadnoughts behind my lines. Thoughts?

Bumping back to page 1.

If you've had luck with boarding planks then I salute you. I have never been able to use one. I would, in fact, recommend you take reinforced rams on everything--especially since you are playing with so much terrain. The ability to reroll the DT test for your vehicles is essential. Also giving your trukks the ability to tank shock makes them useful after they have delivered their payload.

I came to that realization the other day, then totally forgot that I had planned on doing it. o.O

I don't think you're going to get cover from boyz in front of a trukk from most things, especially things taller than the boyz. The boyz may be half as tall as the trukk or more, but two or three boyz standing base to base don't actually obscure half the trukk, you can see a lot of it between them, etc. I guess you could model them holding protest signs "Don't shoot Dis Trukk, Trukk Boyz on Strike".

Not sure how this army has a 27" assault range...13 inches for trukk, +2 disembark +6 charge is only 21. I guess the Waaagh move but you only get that once.

Anyway, I don't really have a lot to adjust. Everything here is fine, give them rams, and expect to win since, well, it's orks.

lambadomy wrote:I don't think you're going to get cover from boyz in front of a trukk from most things, especially things taller than the boyz. The boyz may be half as tall as the trukk or more, but two or three boyz standing base to base don't actually obscure half the trukk, you can see a lot of it between them, etc. I guess you could model them holding protest signs "Don't shoot Dis Trukk, Trukk Boyz on Strike".

That just put the biggest grin on my face. I'm going to see if its even possible!! That would be the funniest thing. I already have some corny things in my army - the battlewagon model comes with a gretchin manning a big shoota (or kannon). I painted him bright colors and the hatch that he's in has concentric red and white circles to denote a target, so that when people shoot at my battlewagon, their fire will be drawn to the gretchin first. =p