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Simple answer......yes

Just like fish need water.

I reckon they're overrated. They're real glass cannons, so any idiot with a "hit anywhere it likes with an S10AP1 pie plate with no meaningful penalties" barrage weapon is gonna wipe them off the map no sweat

"Dies to shooting" is a quality that every single unit of our codex has.

If that S10 AP1 blast isn't hitting your lootaz, it will blow away nobz, tank bustaz, a battlewagon or whatever else you got for those points. That is, unless the blast scatters off, or fails to wound enough. Or you simply spread out well enough, so even a perfect hit with a large blast can get no more than 5 lootas at once. The ten left standing will still be fearless and easily be able to take out a vehicle, a monstrous creature, light infantry or (with luck) a flier.

On top of that, orks have no other reliable way of getting first blood, and that one VP has decided more games for me than any other victory condition in 6th.

So, is it possible to play with out lootaz? Sure. It is also possible to play without boyz as well, though. I'd argue that lootaz are just as important to an ork army as boyz are.

 General_Chaos wrote:
I run battlewagon lists and don't use Lootas. It depends on what list your going for. I see so many Ork list that are just a random list of units with no synergy.

Ditto, 3-4 x BW + 2-3 Dakka Jets = mork & gork lov'n