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I think it depends on the shoota boys job in your list. If you are running a gunline ork list or have them as obj holders I put big shoota's with them for firepower and range. However if not I like rockets with my shoota's. I would argue they aren't wasting the shoota shots since the only time you would be shooting a vehicle is when there are no soft troop targets, or your going to assault the vehicle next turn anyway. For a light transport its always a nice pay off when you can blow it up with rockets and then charge the troops inside instead of charging the vehicle to kill it and letting them get out and deal with you next turn.

For choppa's I will agree that nothing in a squad on foot is the better choice. If nothing else it means you don't have to decide if running is a better option than being tempted to shoot rockets at a vehicle. If they are in a truck I will stick a rocket guy with them sometimes. To take a pop shot from inside the truck. I haven't done enough testing with trucks to say if this is a good option or not though.