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Basically as above? Are they worth anything, or should I drop the idea of 'em?

I use them in my 2250 orc list. For the points, they are as effective as most other armies' basic missile troops. And they can surprise people in combat with the choppa rule. I don't take any upgrades at all for mine and they work out fine that way. I believe 10 boyz are 60 points. so I have 2 units for 120 points that are effective most of the time. Animosity is just one of those things you have to deal with with playing orcs, it happens sometimes. Otherwise, to answer your question, I feel they are a good addition to an orc army.

You can't argue with toughness 4 either.

Don't think they 're worth it, but why not gibe them a try?

Also they allow you to keep a quadrant capturing unit back with you spear chukka (you do have 4 spear chukkas don't you?) fire base.

I've not used them myself, but I'll give them a go as I move from my NG horde into general O&G.

The only problem I see is the deployment size of a 10 man block/line. Playing O&G your deployment space is precious, as it is with any horde army, and sometimes they will get in the way more than they will help. That is why most people I know use Bow Gobbos instead. There is even a local guy who runs blocks of 20 naked bow gobbos.

Kej wrote:The only problem I see is the deployment size of a 10 man block/line. Playing O&G your deployment space is precious, as it is with any horde army, and sometimes they will get in the way more than they will help. That is why most people I know use Bow Gobbos instead. There is even a local guy who runs blocks of 20 naked bow gobbos.

Hills help.

I run 2 units of 25 night gobbo archers with musos and run them 5 wide then as the game progresses I splay them out into 2 ranks to add more shots.

Also NG archers, although they do have shorter range, they do have fanatics. so make excellent firebase protection units.