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Quoting is making the post huge, so I'm not going to bother

Forceride: Your list looks solid, but I agree that against a list like invasion fleet maybe flame trukks would have been better. Beastbosses can be pretty swingy, but when the devastating wounds go off, they go off I honestly don't know what I'd remove from my list to squeeze in a burna Trukk or two, it's very tight at the moment.

I also agree that I'd like the Waaagh to last longer, even if with a diminished effect on subsequent turns. It's nice that we have a fairly potent army rule rather than one that doesn't really do anything, but I would also like our data sheets to have more oomph on non Waaagh turns.

The Kill Rig's shooting is pretty good, but I agree that the melee profile isn't ideal and needs more AP, even if just on the horns and hooves.


Jidmah: I've tried the Hunta Rig and it's really kind of meh. It doesn't have the output of the Kill Rig, and Butcha Boys doesn't really do anything as I'd be getting more out of just disembarking the boys inside. If you're really tight on points and can't afford a wagon for your snaggas then take a Hunta Rig, but it's generally worse than a wagon or kill rig in my experience.

While I do run a kill rig and enjoy using it, it's purely so I can keep using my FW Squiggoth if I didn't have that particular model I'd take another wagon or some more trukks instead.

Had my first game of Freebootas krew this tuesday.

I won pretty hard but:

1: I had turn 2
2: He played world eaters with a lord of skulls and angron, so take what you want from that list.


MVPs were my Deckfragger truck running around with 10 flash gitz and my Lootas that came in with reserve and shot berzerkers to pieces also.

I had the ignore cover SAG with my tankbustas and they didnt really perform as well as i thought they would. I jumped out and shot at Angron, who did not stand on my looted objective, so i had no sustains. I gave him a total of 6 damage and the tankbustas would lose their lives in the next round.

Ghaz went in a circle kicked Angron in the teeth with his Mega Nobz. Then everyone but him got shredded by zerkers, and he kicked their teeth in, in the clapback. He had 6 wounds left and survived being charged by the lord of skulls. He failed all his attacks except for 2 wounds, where i saved both. Then he put the lord of skulls down to 12 wounds. Ghaz was an absolute giga-chad.

Im not sure i want to use Tankbustas in this detatchment, definitely just put the lootas with the SAG next time for ignore cover. If i had used them better, maybe. But tankbustas are too expensive already.


Things i take from this game is:
How would i have fared if i went second? I cant even begin to think how utterly gak it would be to pick an objective marker at the start of the battleround, while NOT going first. Since i went first the entire detatchment made sense, but if i go second? The detatchment will stop making sense.

Flash Gitz in truck with a mek giving +1 to hit with deckfragger were really good. Killed a unit of goremongers and held an objective, shot off berzerkers afterwards, then jumped out and destroyed a helbrute that couldnt claim cover and charged Kharn who had gotten up after being shot to pieces earlier.

I also got to reroll wound rolls with my snagga boys, and despite being charged so i didnt get devastating wounds on the beastboss, the unit still destroyed a helbrute by interrupting and using reroll wounds, and then they took off the last 12 wounds of the lord of skulls when he came to threaten my objective, again with rerolls and devastating from the beastboss. He alone took out all 12 wounds before any of his friends got to attack.


Fun fact: You can have deckfragger on a gargantuan squiggoth who transports 20 flash gitz, since it has firing deck 20. Competitive? Probably not.
Fun? Hell yea.

Didnt do this though, but its definitely up there with things i want to try for fun.