Viability of Trukk rush in 1250pts

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**JohnnoM**

How good is trukk rush in a 1250pt game?

**Ratius**

Depends on who you are facing, what you plan on taking for the list and whats available to you.

More info needed Im afraid.

**junk**

Right, I'm interested in seeing where this goes; map out your plan for us.

**kaiservonhugal**

I would say - hell yes!

A Warboss with PK, cybork
A Big Mek with KFF

5 Meganobs with combi-skorchas in a truck (counts as troops)

and

5 units of Boyz with a PK nob with a BP in trucks

You can do all that for 1250.

6 Trucks and plenty of killing power. Fast too

**sn0zcumb3r**

Yes, certainly viable.
Better questions get better answers

**JohnnoM**

More info:
Gonna be versing predominately vanilla marines, just need something thats competetive.

**MFletch**

I would bring antitank/anti 3+ so something like:

170 2 kff
315 9 rocket buggies
602 4 lots of 12 boyz with nob Pk, bosspole in a trukk with rpj, minus one boy to make room for kff.
160 3 meganobs in a trukk

**sn0zcumb3r**

Warboss bike,cybork,PK
Big Mek KFF BP(to go with MANZ when necessary)
5x Lootas
2x Trukks Reinforced ram with 12 Choppas Nob PK BP
2x Trukks Reinforced ram with 12 Choppas Nob PK BP
1x Trukk Reinforced ram Meganobz Scorcha,Rokkit (for allocation)
10x Grots Runtherd
2x 2Warbuggies Rokkits

That should add up real nice and crump face.
6 very fast killy units, range support, survivability through KFF and an objective holder.

**junk**

Those lists are pretty nasty at 1250. If you manage to seize with Sn0zcumb3r's or Mfletch's list, you're going to ruin someone's face, no doubt, but counter-deploying to a truck list is kind of a no brainer.

Personally, I like going up against truck lists with all four of my armies; it's a fast paced game that needs to be handled with some very finesse-y defensive work. At lower points, like 1250, I think that horde style makes more sense because most armies have to struggle at that level to put out enough firepower to avoid getting swarmed, but everyone can wreck trucks; the only trick is wrecking the right trucks.

5 trucks usually means something is getting close enough to start your assault chain reaction, but the question of how to deploy them becomes paramount. Do you cluster them to ensure delivery to center field, or do you spread them out to force your opponent to play a less mobile game?

**Jidmah**

I'd rather go mit MFlech's list, as your don't really need gretchin with trukks. One unit of boyz will always get stranded in your backfield anyways. In addition, MFlech has more AV10 targets, resulting in more of those reaching the enemy.

**kaiservonhugal**

Agreed - MFlech's list looks solid.

**Ratius**

Prefer Snooze list tbh. 5 scoring units vs 4, lootas at 1250 points shouldnt have too much trouble neutralising troops or light AV, Warboss on a bike will be hard to hit (assuming a decent terrain and hitas dam hard). In addition 2 KFFS imo is s waste.
You can simply deploy 2 trukks behind the others and still get a save
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Y is the WB ready to boost.

Find 15 points and you can have a 5 man Nob squad with some hitting power rather then the Manz. Suggest you drop reinforeced rams and maybe the Cybork. WB is a hard hit suiciede/backup unit.

**Jidmah**

Why would you ever want to drop reinforced rams from trukks?

**Ratius**

Need points from somewhere if the Nob option is to be used.
The ability to tank shock is nice but not mandatory.

**Waaaaghmaster**

Don't let anyone tell you that Trukk lists are not viable.

**Jidmah**

Ratius wrote:Need points from somewhere if the Nob option is to be used.
The ability to tank shock is nice but not mandatory.

How are you going to break any bubblewrap at all without tank shocks?

In addition, 3 MANz are just as likely to do some serious damage as 5 nobz are. There really isn't much point in putting even more points in a cardboard box.

**Lovepug13**

I played at a tournament where a guy run a trukk rush list at 1250 or 1500 (cant remember exactly)

From what I remember it was...

Big Mek KFF
10 boyz
Nob, pk, bp

Warboss - PK, BP, Cybork Body
4 or 5 Complex Nobz
Trukk - Reinforced Ram - Red Paint Job

3 x Deff Kopters, buzzsaw

boyz, nob, pk, bp, trukk, red, ram...

boyz, nob, pk, bp, trukk, red, ram...

boyz, nob, pk, bp, trukk, red, ram...

It was something like that and it was very competitive.....I saw an Eldar player move forward with a ton of wraithguard and it was a turn 1 assault for the greenskins

I remember it caused a lot of headaches but it sort of run out of steam if some of the models didn't arrive due to wrecks etc

I have a few trucks and might run it out at some point