Ork boarding planks

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**cgmckenzie**

I am building a speed freek army and am putting 2 boarding planks on all the trukks because they look awesome. They do raise a couple questions though:

1)Do I pay for 2 boarding planks or just 1?

2)Can I only 'board' enemy vehicles within 2 inches of the plank or anywhere on the hull?

3)Can I attack 2 different vehicles at once with 2 different planks?

I ask about the 2 inches from the plank because the wrecking ball only gives it 2 inches from the ball, so I was unsure about if the same thing was applicable.

-cgmckenzie

**Ghaz**

I don't believe you have the option to purchase more than one boarding plank.

**Ascalam**

You only get one plank, but can measure from either one on the model, as far as i know.

It may be measured from the hull. I don't have my orkdex on me. Some ork upgrades are from the upgrade, and some form the hull... It should say in the rule.

You can only make one boarding plank assault (one model gets to assault via the plank) per trukk, so no double-vehicle smackdowns.

**cgmckenzie**

It doesn't specify in the codex as to where it is measured from. It merely states that a vehicle within 2 inches gets the privilege of being boarded by orks.

-cgmckenzie

**insaniak**

The Ork Codex isn't really clear on whether vehicle upgrades can be taken more than once.

In the case of the Boarding Plank, though, there would be no point taking more than one. Having a boarding plank allows a single ork to make his attack... Which drops into the same category as all of those Banner bonuses and other related items where having 17 of them is the same as having 1 of them. Either way, you 'have' the item, and so get the bonus... but you don't get the bonus for each of them.

So points-wise, only one plank.

Model-wise, slap as many on there as you want. Measurement is from the vehicle's hull, not the plank itself (because the plank rules don't tell you to change the normal rules for measuring distances from vehicles like the wrecking ball does) so it makes no difference how many planks you model on there or where they are positioned.

**cgmckenzie**

Thanks, insaniak. That's what I thought, but the orks are a bit on the bizarre side and I didn't want to guess wrong once I field it next week.

-cgmckenzie

**Anvildude**

Speaking of which, does anyone else find the 2" limit on the Wrekkin' Ball to be stifling? And just asking for Modeling for Advantage, too?

**Ascalam**

Stifling, not really..

Asking for a 48'' boom on the thing.. somewhat

Especially since they aren't on the battlewagon sprues, just the trukk ones..

**Anvildude**

Well that's why I made my own. I think I may have made it a bit too short, though...

**Sam__theRelentless**

What, shorter than 2"?

**Jidmah**

I just used the trukk ones and glued them to that small diagonal part of the hull on the right side of the wagon. It's really hard to place it so it can reach a vehicle you deff rollad without obviously looking like modeling for advantage. Your best bet is probably using a turret variant, like the grabbin' klaw.

**Ascalam**

I mounted mine on a swivel on one of the side bays, where the big shoota is normally placed. It looks pretty good there, and if i drive the battlewagon right it lets me swing

**Leigen_Zero**

It's 2" from the trukk, so despite the wrecking ball being a turret on one side of the thing, you can still make attacks with boarding plank/wrecking ball even if the other unit/vehicle is nowhere near the actual wargear, just within 2" off the trukk/wagon/etc

**cgmckenzie**

That's not right, not for the wrecking ball atleast. The wrecking ball explicitly says that you measure from the ball. The boarding plank has no such restriction, though.

-cgmckenzie

**Jidmah**

The grabbin' klaw measures from the klaw itself, too.

**Leigen_Zero**

Ah well

, I play footslogging so never use the upgrades that much, but I knew the boarding plank was correct...

**Kommissar Kel**

Yeah.

Boarding plank= 2" from hull of the vehicle(because rule specifies the embarked Ork is making the attack on a vehicle within 2"; so that would be within 2" of the ork, or rather the hull per Embarking rules on page 66 of the BRB).

Wreckin ball is within 2" of the wreckin ball per it's rules on page 93 of the Ork codex

The "any of the following" would be 1 each, as many as you want as with all other upgrades in all other Codices, similarly Loota/Burna Meks can only purchase 1 Grot oiler/Mek.

**cgmckenzie**

Thanks for the help! Can't wait to play them tonight!

-cgmckenzie

**Anvildude**

Which makes me wonder... If you modeled more than one Wrekkin' Ball on a vehicle (or Klaw for that matter) could you measure from any of the balls?

I'm pretty sure the rules keep you from buying more than one Wrekkin' Ball (or at least, keep you from making more than one attack with a Wrekkin' Ball) though, unfortunately. Maybe you could buy more than one, to put one on each corner?

**Jidmah**

You can't ever buy upgrades more than once unless they are worded that way. You can't buy four attack squigs for your warboss either.

**Murrdox**

What if you take the time to model a turret for a wrecking ball, such that you can rotate it around your vehicle to any facing, etc? Legal?

**Anvildude**

Thing is, it's not "May buy one of these items", it's, "May buy any of these items."

You actually can buy four Attack Squigs for you Warboss. It's just that "A model with an attack squig gains an additional CC attack", not "An attack squig gives an additional melee attack", meaning those other squigs would be useless.

Similar with the Wrekkin' Ball. There's nothing saying that you can't buy more than one, but the way the rule is worded seems to suggest that you can only make one Wrekkin' Ball attack, no matter how many Balls you buy.

**cgmckenzie**

I would love to see a warboss modeled as a squig walker; a whole herd of them running around in front of him on leashes.

-cgmckenzie

**Kommissar Kel**

Anvildude wrote:Thing is, it's not "May buy one of these items", it's, "May buy any of these items."

You actually can buy four Attack Squigs for you Warboss. It's just that "A model with an attack squig gains an additional CC attack", not "An attack squig gives an additional melee attack", meaning those other squigs would be useless.

Similar with the Wrekkin' Ball. There's nothing saying that you can't buy more than one, but the way the rule is worded seems to suggest that you can only make one Wrekkin' Ball attack, no matter how many Balls you buy.

"Any of the following" is analogous with "up to 1 each of the following";

After all would you allow me to add 20 Storm bolters to my Land raider Crusader?

How about 10 Hunter-killer missiles on my Sentinels?

Or better yet a Chaos Daemons Daemon Prince with 5 unholy mights(thus S10)?

**Anvildude**

How much do they cost, and how are the rules worded?

**Kommissar Kel**

Anvildude wrote:How much do they cost, and how are the rules worded?

"X" may take any of the Following:

The points are generally Upgrade.....y points.

In other words the wording in all those cases is exactly the same as the Trukk, warboss, or nobz upgrades. The rules for Unholy Might is a simple "the model has +1 Strength" The Pintle weapon upgrades and Hunter-killer missiles just add the weapon to the vehicle.

The wording "Any of the Following:" is the same as "up to 1 each of the following:", any other format would make Marine/IG vehicles rolling walls of fiery death.

**Anvildude**

Still think it'd be fun...