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O.K. so I was thinking about the armaments for my stompa, and I'm leaning towards lifta droppa and supa gatla. I don't really see myself going to close combat with a huge firebase, (plus hurling stuff is awsome) and my thinking on the supa gatla was that on the first turn it will cause mayham shooting an average of five times seven each. Plus since it's coaxle I don't think that gigashoota targets and dethh cannon targets wuld be the same. Your thoughts?

I really wish I had a Stompa so that I could participate in this chat. ><

Even theoretical, what would you choose? and why?

I'd make a Stompa a big shooting platform. I'd fill it up with Big Meks and bunches of grot oilers.

That way, it can sit still and shoot all the guns every turn. Should you happen to suffer any weapon destroyed results, you'll have a plethora of Big Meks to repair the damage every turn.

I'm not actually sure you can do that. There an upgrade that you can buy that allows you to repair, but the mek's tools talk about "vehicles" and technicaly a stompa is a "super heavy vehicle" it's the same for a KFF, it only works on smaller vehicles. Otherwise it would be soooooooooo unfair.

I used to think the claw stompa was the end all be all but unless you got like 3 or more of them with mega nobs in them, and a big mek I wouldnt suggest t it. Its like everything else orky if you get it in close combat its amazing, BUT if you dont its bad very bad. I have seen 2 stompa and a whole mess of battlewagons destroyed on the second turn so. Go Range.

Thats pretty much what everyone has to do. Melee is kind of an illusion in appoc. Sure your units are big and sexy. Sure they got X and can do Y, however if they never get to use X on Y, its absolutely useless.

No apoc games are all about fun and not about tournaments style play. Even though everyone plays to win. If you keep that in mind to just have fun and do something fun. Do what ever you want. Its Apoc.

If you want to win. Cause more saves on the other army than yours. I.E. Use one of the million Pie templates and Apoc. Templates.

My strategy. Use them at range. Make them uber shooty, and use as many fighta bombas as you can.

I like pie templates better with orks, because in apoc. Even if it scatters 11 inches you will probably hit some gak and kill it.

Jerry, is an Ork version of a tactical genius................... wow nothing, go figure



Crap

kustom stompa

deff arsenal

take the precision strike asset

go get'em tiger.

in all seriosness the kustom stompa with gigsshoota, deff arsenal and lifta droppa is crazy fun, thats what i run, especually when im hitting up a reaver on the turn i use precision strike.

But why the giaga shoota? Does it not have to used against the same target as the deth cannon?

Having seen a few stompa apoc games I say use the lifta-droppa. One time it dropped a land raider on a squadron of Leman Russes. d6 glancing hits on all vehicles. The Ig players face was just priceless.

Another time a stompa lifted a land raider onto a squad of Templars. I think the quote was "its raining land raiders".

The stompa is not an auto-win but for a fun game you can't beat the laughs as vehicles go flying around.

giga shoota is better at stripping void shields. im looking at totalling a warhound or severly hurting a reaver from my kustom stompa.

i advocate the lifta droppa as well simply for icing land raiders. i like it more on my GG so its pens, but yeah, even glancing a LR helps out.

Can stompas get Strength D weapons? If so load up on them. Apoc seems to be spam as much Strength D as you can.

Other then that Lifta dropa sounds really good.

no D weapons for the stompa. strength D is very rare for orks in general. i can get it on ny great gargant, but its just a 5 inch blast, so nothing earthshaking like the other races.

So we have all decided that lifta droppa is a good idea, but the question now is supa gatler vs giga shoota. I go supa gatler beacuse stompa will die soon anyways, and the you could target things with it that the deth kannon could also want to shoot at.

A few things to note...

What's wrong with just taking the default Mek Stompa? I think the giga-shooter is better than the supa gatla because the supa gatla can run out of ammunition and be done the rest of the game. The giga-shoota has 6D6 shots....it can rain some lead.

Also, it can use D-strength weapons; the profile for its "gaze of mork" is STR2D6 AP2 Heavy 3. If you 2D6 and roll 11 or 12, it becomes D-strength.

I played in a 10,000 point per side apoc battle today; I brought 10,000 points of Orks (much proxying was done). My army was basically 5 Mek stompas and 6 Battlefortresses. There was a lot of death dealt.

A big mek has mek tools that can repair weapon destroyed or immobilized results on any vehicle. A super heavy vehicle is *STILL* a vehicle. The same applies to the KFF. Adding an adjective to a noun doesn't stop it from being the noun. A piece of chicken doesn't stop being a piece of chicken when you grill it. C'mon. As for overpowered...its APOCALYPSE.

Can the big mek stompa take a supa gatla?

No.

Check the apocalypse boo; the Stompa and Mek Stompa are across pages from each other.

I love the Mek stompa, you save lots of points. You pay an extra 25 points for 50 points of upgrades, and a force shield. You do however get stuck with a giga shoota, and loose the supa skorcha.