Kan Wall -- Is it competitive?

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**NidMaster40000**

With the recent swing to mech armies, is a Kan wall still competitive? How would you go about making a list?

**CatPeeler**

Haven't seen one in person, but I've heard Good Things. Plus, it would look completely bad ass...

I'd run 6 kans with grotzookas, 3 kans with rokkits, 2 big meks w/kffs, 2 deff dreds, four units of gretchin, and then as many koptas as i could cram in.

*drool*

Oooh--and meganobs in battlewagons!

**Elric of Grans**

One of my most regular opponents has been running the Kan Wall since the day the current Codex came out. Locally, at least, his win:loss ratio is something like 5:1. I have never personally beaten the Kan Wall with my Sisters, but I have never beaten any Ork list with them, and I am hardly the world's best player

I would not expect it to win a tournament, but it definitely seems to be a nasty list.

**NidMaster40000**

I've never played in a tournament, and to be honest I don't really plan to. I usually only play in a garage where we can smoke and drink and have a nice laid back game.

New plastic Kans make me wants them.

**Skarboy**

CatPeeler wrote:Haven't seen one in person, but I've heard Good Things. Plus, it would look completely bad ass...

I'd run 6 kans with grotzookas, 3 kans with rokkits, 2 big meks w/kffs, 2 deff dreds, four units of gretchin, and then as many koptas as i could cram in.

*drool*

Oooh--and meganobs in battlewagons!

You'll see one soon enough...

**olympia**

Kan Wall is competitive but will struggle against Mech IG and Mech Eldar (witch blades will kill a unit of kans a turn). I dismantled a dual lash list with a kan wall list in a local tournament a few years ago. It's a pretty fun list to play as well with the exception of dawn of war deployment.

**NidMaster40000**

As I said I don't play in tournaments, so "Mech meta" won't be a problem. All I'll have to worry about is Space Marines in Rhinos and the possibility of Fishies of Fury or a Wave Serpent and Falcon.

**Da BLUE orks**

If you have a lot of boys runnin' behind them, then yes they are extremely effective, especially with grotzookas.

**WarOne**

Kan Walls effective give Ork boyz a walking, shooting shield that moves with them and can be tricked out to be very effective versus horde armies or combined to field anti-tank dakka. As pointed out, Mech lists and lists with tons of anti-tank dakka are going to wipe Kans out quickly.

**Ronin**

Kan Walls also provide a valuable BS3 platform for rokkit launchas, one of the more reliable Ork long-range anti-tank firepower. Imo, if you're running the full 9 Kans, have 2 squads with RL, and one with Grotzookas. Or vice versa if you often face more hoardey lists

**QuietOrkmi**

Target Saturation... Does it have it?

3 Units of 3 Walkers that are obscured.
2 Units of walkers that have over 5 S10 attacks again obscured.
2+ units of 30 boyz that cannot be shot at without giving them a 4+ cover save.
A Single SAG off in the distance, launching templates of death.
A KFF with 30+ wounds.
All for less than 1300 points!

**Ronin**

Bah, give that second Mek a KFF too and you're set to go. Lets you extend your Kan Wall/Dred Bash a lil further, I think. Unless you plan to add more Shootas/Lootas with him.