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With I2? Good luck with the initiative test!
At least you can sweep the boyz with I2 vs I3

Kangodo wrote:
With I2? Good luck with the initiative test!
At least you can sweep the boyz with I2 vs I3

I wasn't serious

If you assault a horde of Ork Boys, you're a bad player and deserve to lose.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 skoffs wrote:

 Gangrel767 wrote:
The only thing it really fears in close combat against a STR 10 opponent

Oh come now, sir, there's got to be more than that!
How about getting stuck in combat with a mob of 30 boys or zombie cultists?
They might not be able to kill it, but they'll certainly make sure it can't kill anything else more important.

"Yo, Zahndrekh, can I have some Hit and Run please?" ;D

Exalted.

Sigvatr 607774 7075772143e30eaa2b1f83bf89eee1359542fc8.jpg wrote:

I wasn't serious

If you assault a horde of Ork Boys, you're a bad player and deserve to lose.

But I did the math! You would absolutely win that fight :O

The smart play for a large ork squad now is to include a mek as a 15pt character to absorb the challenge, leaving the power klaw alive to smack the barge at I1. Keep the klaw a row or two back into the squad both to prevent wound allocation from shooting and to keep him out of base contact for MSS and he's got a much more decent chance of popping the Lord than your math allows for.

Resilient HQs are nice, as always, especially in maelstrom where there are a few ways to rack up points killing the warlord (as well as slay the warlord).

It's also very mobile (at least when I played against it), making it a hassle throughout the fight (especially for Long Range anti-tank sitting in the back field). That makes it fairly worthwhile, in my eyes, even before looking at the stats