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A pask-punisher will put 20 S6 shots into your buggies at BS4, which will pretty much pulverize them. As rokkits are 24", he will always be in range of them if you shot the punisher during your previous turn.

However, buggies can move 24" a turn, which will enable you to get sideshots on those leman russes hugging the board edge. Any guardsmen left behind to protect the russes (called "bubblewrap") will have trouble to do anything about your buggies, as they cannot harm them with lasguns or close combat - S3 can't harm AV10.

Ok, it's very clear

Thank you very much for your wise words! WAAAGH!

Very sage words given in this thread.

I wish to add: The buggies are TL which is awesome against flyers, whereas the lootas shoot at half the rate when shooting at flyers, plus st8 is pretty nifty.

The punisher is st5 and BS3 and 24'', just do not see this as a big threat to your army. All your infantry models should be in cover, out of range, or in a vehicle. I think the buggies should not worry too much about them, the tank is heavy so slow, the buggies can get in and get the first shots hopefully.
However, given the buggies can fly past the first russ to the nearly better one behind which you seem to be worried about go for it

Given this is a friendly campaign, I think you could do with some iconic unit choice. Something to make your list stand out and be remembered. I guess luck, fluff, good tactics and modelling helps

MFletch wrote:
The punisher is st5 and BS3 and 24'', just do not see this as a big threat to your army.

We've been over that multiple times now, the punisher is manned by pask, making it BS4 and S6 against vehicles - which makes it quite a threat.

 Jidmah wrote:

MFletch wrote:
The punisher is st5 and BS3 and 24'', just do not see this as a big threat to your army.

We've been over that multiple times now, the punisher is manned by pask, making it BS4 and S6 against vehicles - which makes it quite a threat.

And now, that bad boy can move 6" a turn and still fire everything at full BS, which means that thing will start hunting you down if you don't come to it. I think this may be the biggest change. Used to be it couldn't do much unless you came to it. Now, it's an actual assault tank like a demolisher.

Add in glances, and that ork vehicles are made out of paper and hope, and this thing is definitely a threat to an ork army.

Agreed. Volume of shots is a very painful thing. Anyone that has faced an Ork shooty army can attest to that

May Gork and Mork guide my rokkits!

They need all the help they can get

Rokkits are awesome, but they don't hit often..

"Not often" is still a lot more than I can ever expect. If I field nine kanz, as many buggies and koptaz as possible and another 12 rokkits across trukks, boyz, battlewagons etc, I'm lucky if I down a single vehicle with them. If I field a unit of tank bustaz though, I mange to get like 10 hits per volley Oo

Fething rokkits.

Are tank busters worth it now? I know they're a lot more controllable now than they used to be.

if they are, they may not be a bad choice what with all the vehicles running around.

I think they can do pretty well now, but you need to make them survive until they are in range...
How? Trukk? BW?

Battlewagon. You need a full unit, and hijacking trukks isn't cheaper anyways.

 Jidmah wrote:
"Not often" is still a lot more than I can ever expect. If I field nine kanz, as many buggies and koptaz as possible and another 12 rokkits across trukks, boyz, battlewagons etc, I'm lucky if I down a single vehicle with them. If I field a unit of tank bustaz though, I mange to get like 10 hits per volley Oo

Fething rokkits.

Thats the same reason I stopped spamming rokkits, I just couldnt hit jack and gak with them. Since spamming the bigshootas, well, my ration has soared