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It's a very simple squad that I have in mind and it is as follows

11xburna boys+1xmek w/grot oiler
w/trukk,stikk bomm chukka

This squad costs about 225 points and before people complain about the trukk but there is a squad of boys foot sloggin' in my army list and that is how the trukk is found.

My main concern is that is the squad too small or is the mek worth it (the sole purpose of the mek is to ensure the trukk reaches it's destination!)
I am curious to see if people have run similar squads and had success or failure.

All help and suggestions are appreciated
(And remember the funniest sight in the galaxy is a guardsman doing ''the burny dance'' )

Battle wagon or nothing if you were taking them, Open topped AV10 wont survive, regardless of how many you have.

I would agree on a wagon here.
Throw 15 burna boyz in a wagon with a big mek with KFF + burna and enjoy

If thats not enough, add in 4 big shootas on the wagon, red paint and a deff roller to make sure it will work.

Id agree big time on the battlewagon. And if youve got the points to spend, deffinetly throw a rolla on there as well. That way after the burnas part, you can just run things over and use the wagon as a shield until it parts this Earth.
Trukks are far to fragile to carry troops like the burna boyz. Trukks are reserved for regular boyz, you know, those guys that you dont really care to much if half of them die before they get what ever you want to kill

BW all the way, but dont give it the upgrade that takes away open topped, you need all your burnas to be able to fire. FIRE!
Also I would not take the mek, just another burna boy, big mek w/KFF, he'll fix the trukk and cover it all the while. I run an identical squad and it preforms really well, for people I play alot they always try and take out that BW first, of course they don't know which one it is intill it's too late.

the BW is the obvious choice but all of my heavy slots are full and I felt this was the only other viable option,I am taking into account what you are saying but I feel that if I screened it with the battle wagons and other trukk in the list it could very well survive,or am I still just plain wrong on the matter

(P.S.There is a KFF in one of the battle wagons)

Whats running in the 2 wagons unit wise?
You will need a real threat to make them ignore a trukk full of burna boyz.

In the first battle wagon is a 20 boy squad with nob PK and 2xrokkits.
In the second battle wagon is a 10 man flash git squad with badrukk,a painboy and more dakka.
Both of the battle wagons have 2x big shootas and a deff rolla,a KFF Mek is in the flash git wagon aswell.

(also the flash gits cannot be gotten rid of)

Flash gits not worth it,too expensive, especially with badrukk, he is just to expensive and is not really effective. Only take gits if your playing 3000pts or more and even then theyre not that good. If you are fielding flash gits they do not need to be in a wagon.

But theyre soooooo fluffy for bad moonz!

Something to keep in mind that trukks have restrictions about what they're allowed to come with. The only way that you may put a trukk onto the battlefield is if you have a squad of ork boyz numbering 12 or less that take it as a dedicated transport.

If you do so, you may start the game with the dedicated transport on the field, deployed with the boyz who are not in it, and instead put the burna boyz into it on turn one. The process of doing so is sort of gimping you for all those games when you don't have first turn, or for Dawn of War games.

Worse, you're leaving a small sized squad of trukk boyz in the rear of your lines, far away from anywhere relevant, with no means of getting up to the fight.
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So let me answer you this: You say that you can't take a battlewagon for the burna boyz because your heavy support slots are full. Of what? If they're not full of battlewagons already, then burnas in any form don't belong in your list. Burnas don't belong outside of a mechanized list, and if that's not what you're running, this unit isn't for you anyway.

Cut the Flash gitz, put Burnas in their place. Fluffy or no, they aren't worth taking this edition. If you must use them, use them in a loota/shooty army.