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Seemingly a dozenth entry in C:Grots, come the Zooom Boats..

Gretchin have bsessions for few things during their generally short lives. One of these however, is to fly like the larger Orks. These Gretchin often spend time salvaging aircraft and spacecraft whenever possible, showing an uncanny instinctual knowledge of how to pilot aircraft. These aircraft, nicknamed "Zoooom Boats", exhibit various weapons and payloads. Much to a Guardsmen's surprise, when a Grot falls from the sky, landing and crushing him as though it were a projectile. Small fleets of these craft, are packed to the brim with all manner of lethal and experimental looted weaponry. Luckily, these aircraft do not support heavy armor, and can be taken down with relative ease, however, it is not unknown for a Zooom Boat to be shot down, only to crash into the weapon that destroyed it.

Fast Attack: Grot Zooom Boat...75 Pts.

BS: 3 (Armor Values) F: 11 S: 11 R: 10

Transport: The Zooom Boat may carry up to 20 models. Note: 'Eavy 'Arma Grots count as 2 models.

Access points: Zooom Boats have one access point point on each side, and one at the rear.

Unit Type: Vehicle (fast, skimmer)

Wargear: 2 Big Shootas, Searchlight
Special Rules: Scout, Weez goin' down!!!, Droppin' Da' Load!

Weez goin' down!!!: The stability of the craft is highly questionable, as Zooom Boats are highly inconsistant in design. Because of this, the Zooom Boats often combust upon destruction, smashing into their destroyer... If a Zooom Boat is destroyed in any way, roll a D6 and consult the following table:

1: Kercrash!: The Zooom Boat crashes in an extremely loud noise and fire. All transported models are destroyed, and the Zooom Boat, are destroyed.

2-5: DarBoooM!: The Zooom Boat's passengers bail out, landing safely where the Zooom Boat was destroyed. The units within the Zooom Boat suffer D6 wounds, saves allowed.

6: Take Em' Wid Us!: Mark the location of the Zooom Boat, and place all passengers at the given point. If they cannot be placed due to interfering models, the transported units are destroyed. If the unit which destroyed it is within 24", and in LoS, the aircraft crashes into the unit. Place a large blast template over the unit, roll to scatter as usual, without subtracting the BS of the Zooom Boat. All units under the final position of the template suffer a Strength 7 AP 3 hit. Vehicles are hit on the side armor, and open topped vehicles automatically suffer a Penetrating hit to represent the crew being hit with a massive explosion, with shrapnel imbedding itself within them.

Droppin' Da' Load: When the Zooom Boat is to deploy it's cargo, use deep-strike for the units inside, measuring the scatter from the access point of the Grot player's choice.

Options:
The Zooom Boats may take ONE of the following in addition to the Big Shootas...

2 Twin-linked Deffguns...30 Pts.
2 Rokkit Launchas...25 Pts.
A Kustom Mega-Blasta...25 Pts.
An additional 2 Big shootas...30 Pts.
A Zzap Gun...30 Pts.

Questions? I know the weapons are a little odd... I just figured they would be Grotty.
Anything that you see fit, feel free to post it.

I like it.

Great! I like them

I like it! Gretchins FTW!

Any suggestions? Think they're OP? UP?

I like the unit, but personally Id change the 'Take 'em wid us!' to somthing along the lines of;

'If the enemy which destroyed the Zooom boat is within X inches, place a Str 6/7 large blast ap 3 template on the unit, and roll to scatter (not subtracting the BS of the Zooom boat)


Other than that, no complaints ^^

Something like the update?

Perfect

Love it.....
very innovative.

Really funny, and sounds like lots of fun to play, but shouldn't an extra 2bigshootas be 10pts, seeing that the base cost for bigshootas everywhere else is 5 pts each?

Sounds real fun, i would like to see a model of it!