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Has anyone got much spearhead play in yet? I was wondering what spearheads would go good with orks? I was thinking about the mechanized assault spearhead taking 2 trukks and 1 battlewaggon. The ambush spearhead might be good but would deffdreads or kanz be better? It seems like for spearheads you don't have too many options besides spamming battlewaggons and looted vehicles.

At a glance you'd think the Orks would be great in Spearhead (they are, but hang on). The problem is that very little is actually a "tank," which a requesit for almost every formation. The tanks they do have are the Battlewagon and the Looted Wagon. What is great about Spearhead is that it breathes life into the Looted Wagons!

Crusher Spearhead: 3 Looted Wagons with Ard Case, Red Paint Job, Grot Riggers, Reinforced Ram, 205 points total. Run your tanks into the enemy. Suddenly Don't Press That! doesn't seem so bad, eh?

Tank Hunter Spearhead: 3 Looted Wagons, Boomgun, 375 total. S9 Ordnance is tasty.

Archeotech Spearhead: 3 Looted Wagons, Skorcha, 180. They are cheap enough to ignore the odds they'll explode. And they will explode. It'll be glorious either way.

Then of course you have Infiltrating Killa Kans, and/or an Outrider Spearhead with groups of Killa Kans protecting a Deffdread. Now the point isn't so much to keep the Deffdread alive, but to give them all shoot and run so bring ranged weapons. I'd Mechanised Assault with 3 Battlewagons full of Boys. And you can do some of the above and take a Mass Attack Spearhead of Grots and Boyz and Nobz.

Oh, don't forget about the Bikes! Take a Seek and Destroy Spearhead with some Warbikes. TL-Dakkaguns are tasty, especially when you can touch someone 42" away with them. Or if you have a lot of Warbikes you can take Wazdakka and give them the Mass Attack Spearhead.

Thank you darkhound you gave me a reason to play spearhead

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Then of course you have Infiltrating Killa Kans, and/or an Outrider Spearhead with groups of Killa Kans protecting a Deffdread.

Spearhead makes Kan walls ridiculous. I'd gladly add the 50 points to give all my kans 3+ cover saves and infiltrate. Instead of dawn of war screwing me, it would be a massive boon.

Oh, you know what would be fun (and only fun)? Archeotech Killakannon and a Zzapp gun (Spearheads are allowed to fire a second weapon at a different target so long as they don't move Flat Out) Battlewagon filled with a Big Mek and Lootas with more Meks. This Battlewagon will be in a Spearhead with two other Looted Wagons with Boomguns and Grot Riggers. You have to roll tons of dice to get the gun battery working, and it might explode, but then again you can fix it, and your battery might just drive off into the sunset if it doesn't explode, but if it does it'll be funny as hell.

The Mechanized Assault is just wrong. Having 3 trukks full of boyz with a Warboss outflank turn one is just game over.

BATTLEWAGONS, not Trucks.