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Are they worth the points?

I have the points spare for them in my current list (which includes 2 Battle wagons and 2 Trukks)and i just wanted to know what others thought of them

good way to take a swing at somethign without getting out... if you have the points go for it, just remember to use it

I find them rather situational, but they are great for getting Powerklaw attacks onto a Deff Dread without fear of retaliation... Until the next turn, that is, but at least the dread will need 6's to hit the trukk if it moves 12". But then again, one hit is all it needs.

Ultimately, I've only ever used them twice, and only wished I've had them... three or four times.

Generally, it's preferable to keep your trukks/wagons as cheap as possible, with only one or two upgrades. The Reinforced Ram takes the top spot, with red paint following afterwards. I toss in some Planks if I've got spare points, but not enough to do other changes.

I personally love boarding planks, but as G00fy said: if you do take them, remember to use them.

Maybe not worth it for trukks, especially as you're running alot, but with battlewagons and KFF, you'll probably be in situations where you wish you had them, and even when you do, you'll completely forget you have them. So be sure to use them cause its a great way to bust vehicles without your boyz piling out.

I have a mek in a battlewagon who only gets out if the BW is destroyed. He has a PK, and combined with a boarding plank it's a great additiional means of vehicle destruction

Boarding planks have long been a staple of every Ork vehicle in my army. Sometimes the Deffrollas don't quite get into base contact, so you can boarding plank instead. Sometimes getting out means you'd be subject to assault or flamers. Dreadnoughts are a particularly keen example of where a boarding plank is great.

Dashofpepper wrote:Boarding planks have long been a staple of every Ork vehicle in my army. Sometimes the Deffrollas don't quite get into base contact, so you can boarding plank instead. Sometimes getting out means you'd be subject to assault or flamers. Dreadnoughts are a particularly keen example of where a boarding plank is great.

I can vouch for this. Last game I played, my Dreadnought took a nasty hit from a plank-assisted 'ard boy with a PK. Almost lost him, but the damage die was cocked (Him on Terra be praised). I wound up settling for loosing the DCCW with built-in heavy flamer.

Yes and then he piles out ans shreds the Dread.
I would say use them, perfect for getting rid of Tanks with a Nasty suprise in them. You don't want to kill the Tank only to be Assaulted and wiped out.

No one has mentioned skimmers. Skimmers laugh at your deathrollers but not your boarding planks.

Teln wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote:Boarding planks have long been a staple of every Ork vehicle in my army. Sometimes the Deffrollas don't quite get into base contact, so you can boarding plank instead. Sometimes getting out means you'd be subject to assault or flamers. Dreadnoughts are a particularly keen example of where a boarding plank is great.

I can vouch for this. Last game I played, my Dreadnought took a nasty hit from a plank-assisted 'ard boy with a PK. Almost lost him, but the damage die was cocked (Him on Terra be praised). I wound up settling for loosing the DCCW with built-in heavy flamer.

Spoiler:

Fat lot of good it did the Ork player though, because in my next shooting phase I blasted the Trukk with the Dreadnought's multimelta, resulting in a glorious 6-inch explosion that took out four 'ard boyz.

who takes ardboys? ... srsly

unless that was a high points match then waste of points

MFletch wrote:No one has mentioned skimmers. Skimmers laugh at your deathrollers but not your boarding planks.

Generally speaking, I wouldn't agree with this. Skimmers dodge deffrollas on a 3+, but if they moved more than 6", you need 6s to hit them, even with a boarding plank.

My battlewagons are all armed with a boarding plank, deffrolla, big shoota, Armour Plates, and a Grabbin' Klaw - depending on points, possibly grot riggers too.

The single big shoota is there to let me survive through a weapon destroyed result.
The armour plates are there to make stunned go down to shaken - speed is the key, and not having it is doom.
The Boarding Plank is there for me to get free swings on vehicles without getting out.
The grabbin' klaw is there because if the boarding plank PK doesn't work, I've got a 50% chance of holding them still so I can try it again, auto-hitting next time!
The Deffrollas are there to ram vehicles of course.

Picture this: My battlewagon rams 8" into the front of your wave serpent full of fire dragons. We both take a STR8 hit, not likely to do any damage, which is fine. But then I also take D6 STR10 whacks at it. And during assault I drop a boarding plank on the wave serpent - and depending on the battlewagon, it's either Ghazghkull taking 7 STR10 swings, or a Nob making 4 STR9 swings.

And in case none of that works, at the start of your movement, I'll stop you from moving on a 4+. If that works, your fire dragons can only disembark from their hatch without the benefit of the wave serpent moving them into position, so they'll only get to shoot at front armour (14), likely not all will be in 6" range for 2D6 pen, and I've got 50% cover against whatever hits and gets through.

Good odds anyday. =D

G00fySmiley wrote:

Teln wrote:

Dashofpepper wrote:Boarding planks have long been a staple of every Ork vehicle in my army. Sometimes the Deffrollas don't quite get into base contact, so you can boarding plank instead. Sometimes getting out means you'd be subject to assault or flamers. Dreadnoughts are a particularly keen example of where a boarding plank is great.

I can vouch for this. Last game I played, my Dreadnought took a nasty hit from a plank-assisted 'ard boy with a PK. Almost lost him, but the damage die was cocked (Him on Terra be praised). I wound up settling for loosing the DCCW with built-in heavy flamer.

Spoiler:

Fat lot of good it did the Ork player though, because in my next shooting phase I blasted the Trukk with the Dreadnought's multimelta, resulting in a glorious 6-inch explosion that took out four 'ard boyz.

who takes ardboys? ... srsly

unless that was a high points match then waste of points

It was a casual match--2v2, 500 points per player, 1000 points per side. During that same match, we also learned a valuable lesson about the KFF: If the Boyz blob the Big Mek is attached to winds up moving through cover for half the match, the darn thing is a waste of points--especially when your Mek gets his head taken off by a chainfist the first time he's assaulted. After the match, the Ork player was heard to say that he'd have been better off going with a Warboss instead.