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I'm currently working on a list that I'd like to bring to vegas in june. I have some of it mostly set in stone (minus some wargear/upgrade tweaking), but I have about 150-200 points free-floating.

Here's what I have so far, and note that this is 90% set in stone. I might add or remove a model or 2 or change some wargear, but I'm taking these units for sure.

Warboss
-bike
-attack squig
-kombi skorcha
-cybork
-power klaw

5 nob bikers
-3 klaws
-waaghbanner on a klaw
-big choppa
-mad doc
-all cybork
-4 kombi skorchas
-bosspole on a klaw


12 boyz
-nob
-klaw
-bosspole
-big shoota
Trukk
-Red paint
-wreckin ball

12 boyz
-nob
-klaw
-bosspole
-big shoota
Trukk
-Red paint
-wreckin ball

12 boyz
-nob
-klaw
-bosspole
-big shoota
Trukk
-Red paint
-wreckin ball


8 waaghbikes
-nob
-klaw
-bosspole


Now this leaves me with around 175-200 points to spend, So far I have 2 ideas

Idea 1:
Big Mek
-KFF
-Bike
-Klaw
-Kombi skorcha

put him in the normal biker squad, add 1-2 to the squad for volume.

30 twin linked str 5 shots and 2 power klaws is nothing to laugh off


Idea 2:
2 Deffkoptas
-buzzsaws and/or rokkits

3 warbuggies

These would be purely used to run interference/annoyance around the table.


Idea 3:
............ Something with more tankbusting power.


Anyone out there have any ideas to flesh out the list? Trying to keep it to a speed freaks theme too.

Also considering either...

A) deffdredd and 2 killa kans

or

B) Kommando squad with nob

Idea 2 would would do you better methinks.

Vegas in June....

Are you looking for a competitive list or one comprised of models you like? Did you win your golden ticket for generalship, hobbyist, or are you buying one?

The answer to those sort of dictates the advice I can give.

Won my ticket in a 44 player event for having top overall score over 6 games, which was a pretty even mix of painting, generalship, and sportsmanship. Generalship-wise I think I was around 10th-12th.

I don't need a super competetive list (I want my opponents to have fun too), but I need to be at least capable of winning games. I also already have this entire list plus some extra.

I'm also considering a deffkopta squad with buzzsaws to give me a lot more tank busting/dev squad turfing power.

OP:

Rather than trying to convince you of why warbikers aren't a good competitive choice, I offer you two threads.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/348949.page

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/347713.page

Something to note, is that you cannot have a KFF AND a Warbike on a Mek. They both replace the same bit of wargear. (I think. Might be talking out my @$$ with that one.)

If you can, I wouldn't actually bother much with it, unless you're that concerned about your trukks, since the Warbikers all get a better save anyways.

Maybe take a Battlewagon bringing up the rear? Wouldn't even need anything inside it, just a Deffrolla, paint, grots, etc., use it against tanks or as a backup transport if any of your trukks get blasted on the first turn.

I'm still taking the bikes, and I may bump them up to 10. They work for me in my list with my playstyle. I didn't just arbitrarily pick them, I've used warbikes in almost 2 dozen games. Hell my 1750 list is currently 15-2-2, and I take a 10 man squad in that. Even though on paper they seem brutally ineffective at shooting and awful in combat, it all depends on what you use them for and where.

I'm not the greatest general in the world, but gak I don't care. I want to have FUN. And while winning is nice it's rarely, RARELY ever what makes the game fun for me. Getting stomped turn 3 however isn't really any fun at all, which is why I want to tweak this list.

So my very simple question here is....

for my extra 180-200 points, do I add Buzzsaw koptas for tank popping, a kommando snikrot squad for back edge pressure, or something else.

And dash, it's not that I don't appreciate the effort to help me with my list (really, I do. You've come in here offering advice to help make my list stronger), but you and I are completely different kinds of gamers. Winning is not the be all and end all for me, this is a game I play in my spare time to have some fun and laughs and not much else. When I want a real tactical challenge to wrap my brain around, I play fantasy.

Okay, I looked over it again, and I KNOW that you can't take a KFF and Combi-scorcha. They're both Slugga replacers, which your mek only has one of.

Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I'm thinking a Battlewagon would be useful for those last points. With bare minimums, you'd even be able to afford a KFF mek to ride in it, providing cover saves and repairs, and a backup transport for any trukker boyz that lose their ride without a good Karreeem. It'd also give you a good, big target that most enemies would be conditioned to shoot at, giving your trukks a better chance of survival.

But yeah, 200 pts easily gives you KFFmek, BW-rpj,rolla,big shoota, with about five or ten points left over for Cybork or another shoota or a rokkit upgrade or whatever.