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So I'm kinda new to the green tide and I really like it and so far my Ghazkull is runnin 1-1 we punked lysander and a avatar one game and in another game got chumped by a libarian.... so usually what i run him with is 9 meganobz in a battle wagon anyone have suggetions to what i should be running (side note most people at the place i play at are running either chaos,eldar and S/M)

Yes.

Enough said.


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Actually, let me elaborate.


This one game, Ghazghkull Thraka killed Shrike, Logar, and a C'Tan in one round of combat. The following combat he was multi-charged by a unit of over NINE THOUSAND genestealers and he wiped them. Shortly thereafter, photos were taken of him in a compromising position with a Leman Russ. THE Leman Russ. Ghazghkull was not the one in front.

Oh, and he also gave $3.50 when the game was over.

Good ol' Ghazghkull, payin a fellow ork back his tree fity...

Ahhhhhhhh...hahahaha

Someone got the reference. My day is made.

Woman! Don't be giving dat damned Loch Ness monsta no tree fiddy!

Yes. Simply: Yes!! i will correct it: YES!!!!!

Dashofpepper wrote:Ahhhhhhhh...hahahaha

Someone got the reference. My day is made.

Woman! Don't be giving dat damned Loch Ness monsta no tree fiddy!

It was very cute

Dashofpepper wrote:Ahhhhhhhh...hahahaha

Someone got the reference. My day is made.

Woman! Don't be giving dat damned Loch Ness monsta no tree fiddy!

"Well I just gave him tree fiddy da week befo"

"WHAT?! YOU GAVE DAT MONSTA TREE FIDDY? Well no wonder he keeps comin back you keep givin him tree fiddy!"

Love that episode.


And simply put, yes Ghazghkull is a monster on various levels.

Yes.

Why? He's Ghazghkull, nuff said.

Anyway, little detail for you.

Ghazghkull does a few useful things:

1. In a mechanized list, Ghazghkull adds a 6" Waaaugh! movement. He does that anyway, but in a mechanized list, that gives you a 28-29" charging threat radius. NO ONE expects it. Even when they know its coming, people don't expect it.

2. Ghazghkull makes your entire army fearless for a turn - if you can make that Waaaugh! also when you're bashing into the enemy, you're all set in close combat.

3. On the Waaaugh!, Ghazghkull's 2+ armor save turns into an invulnerable save. You can fairly say that on the Waaaugh! Ghazghkull Thraka is the deadliest model in all of 40k.

I use him for things I don't want to lose boys on. He's a force multiplier.

Not to mention you can call his WAAAAGH! at any time (as long as its not the 1st turn) meaning if hes in a bad spot, being shot at with lascannons or about to get hit with alot of thunder hammers, you can say "HEY IMCALLING A WAAAGH!" so he gets that 2+ inv right then! Thats another GREAT thing about Ghaz. And yea, Ghaz on a charge, is just scarey, he can kill just about anything right then.

Dashofpepper wrote:This one game, Ghazghkull Thraka killed Shrike, Logar, and a C'Tan in one round of combat. The following combat he was multi-charged by a unit of over NINE THOUSAND genestealers and he wiped them. Shortly thereafter, photos were taken of him in a compromising position with a Leman Russ. THE Leman Russ. Ghazghkull was not the one in front. !

I saw gazzy charge 4 fire warriors, deal no damage, take 2 wounds, and promptly die last weekend.

I grappled the shoggoth wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote:This one game, Ghazghkull Thraka killed Shrike, Logar, and a C'Tan in one round of combat. The following combat he was multi-charged by a unit of over NINE THOUSAND genestealers and he wiped them. Shortly thereafter, photos were taken of him in a compromising position with a Leman Russ. THE Leman Russ. Ghazghkull was not the one in front. !

I saw gazzy charge 4 fire warriors, deal no damage, take 2 wounds, and promptly die last weekend.

That's clearly because Fire Warriors are the best CC units ever.

Lets be realistic. The chances of Ghaz dying like that often is pretty close to impossible. Ive literally seen a game where a lone guardsmen kill GK grand master. Is it likely? Hell no its not, but it happens.

99.99999% of the time, Ghaz is a steamroller, strapped to the front of a train, going downhill, with spears on the front of said steamroller train, that have been sharpened......and then DULLED ON PURPOSE!

KingCracker wrote:Lets be realistic. The chances of Ghaz dying like that often is pretty close to impossible. Ive literally seen a game where a lone guardsmen kill GK grand master. Is it likely? Hell no its not, but it happens.

99.99999% of the time, Ghaz is a steamroller, strapped to the front of a train, going downhill, with spears on the front of said steamroller train, that have been sharpened......and then DULLED ON PURPOSE!

And then some sneaky guardsmen outflanked the tracks, and they arent there anymore

You said it was Firewarriors before! Keep your facts strait sir

Hey guys, could anyone tell me... what was it again that makes Gaz so good?

It's OK, I'm joking, I already know it's his adamantium skull. Reason? Simple. Built-in beer helmet... OF DOOM!

If I'm running a list under 2k I don't use him, but at 2k or higher, I'll usually put him with a unit of 5 nobz w/a painboy, and equip em different, etc. all in a battle wagon as well. But my sucesses lately have been a big mek/warphead hq combo or a big mek reg ole warboss combo. But I roll with 2 bw's and 4 trucks and 6 kans, etc.

Ghazzgull is like the 3rd Ork God . . . He is the love child of Gork and Mork . . . If he met the Emperor he might finally have to use the Golden Toilet . . . Chuck Norris is a Guardsman compared to Thrakka . . . I don't think I need to say anything else . . . except maybe . . . WAAAAAGHH!!!!

Oshova

at 1500 he's hard to justify unless you take one very small HQ like a Mek w/KFF or a Warphead I'd guess. At any point cost he's
rough to stop. Battlewagon parades at any point cost with him in it are sick.

Ghazghkull is the reason why the Necrons went dormant and the Eldar are dying.

(Ugh can't think of more )

I've got a question about the 28" - 29" charge range you mention Dash. Running through the math real quick here I see 12" move (since you can't disembark from trucks moving further than 12"), 6" fleet run (as guaranteed by his waaagh) an then a further 6" charge move. Then adding the max distance you can disembark from a vehicle of 2" and I get 26".

I respect your info I'm just curious what I'm missing here.

You can get out 2" from the vehicle.

With RPJ its 27" I do believe thats the maximum.

And the disembark only requires that a part of your base is within 2" of the vehicle hull (BRB p 67), so the 40mm base adds a bit more. So that's 30.5+" if you cheeze it :-)

Ah, thanks. I missed the RPJ and I'd been keeping the outer edge of my bases within 2" of my vehicles. Disembarking had been driving me nuts as 20 boys tended to wrap down the sides of the wagons that way.

There's a very clear example in the rulebook for you to follow on disembarking and keeping a part of the base touching the 2" mark. With Ghazghkull's 2" base and a 2" deployment, that's an extra 4"

Honestly though, in reality an ork sits on a 1" base. So you can stack your boys 2 deep around a vehicle, with a third ork out in front edging in between the circles, kinda like the olympic rings.

Or, if you are not sure on a godo way to put THrakka in a game under 2k, you can check out this army list http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/278444.page
Jud scroll down to the bottem of the page