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I received a box of Tankbustas for X-mas, and I have one left in the box to paint. It is the big, Nob-like character. My question to all the Ork Kommanders out there is this:

In a squad of 10 Tankbustas, is it worth my while to upgrade one of them to a PK? I would use them strictly for tank hunting, if at all. They have the Busta-Bombs which give 2D6+6 pen against tanks. Do I really need to spend the points to give one of them a PK?

Did you give any of them Tank hammers?

If so don't bother with the Klaw.

Yes, one of them has the Tank Hammer. I assumed a PK is overkill.....

A klaw can be very useful if they lose their transport. Or more to the point, if they are ever out of their vehicle for any reason (voluntary or otherwise), you place a lot more survivability into their squad with a klaw than you do without it. The klaw can also add a great deal of umph when fighting tyranids or the like and you find yourself assaulting a monstrous creature to take advantage of those tankhammers when there are no tanks around.

Personally, I don't. I run them as part of a horde, so getting into CC is difficult anyway, but I need to milk as much shooting out of them as possible. Once the opponent realises that even at BS2, 15 rokkits do demolish vehicles, I'll probably lose the squad.

However, if you are running Mech, I'd take a PK instead of any rokkit hammers. You want to pop transports ASAP, so you've got to shoot them.

I don't like Rokkit Hammers. I find Tank Busta Bombs to be more than sufficient anti-tank, so all you are doing with the Tank Hammer is losing your ranged attack. That's lethal for a squad who'll get top priority.

Tankbustas do best meched up, I sort-of agree with Dark Hound. I think the tankhammer is worth having, but you shouldn't have more than one. Nob with PK is good, and he can have a bosspole. This lets the squad do more than simply break tanks, and if you decide to charge marines, unless you have a PK you don't have a power weapon.