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Hi guys

Got a quick question regarding the rules for the ork flyers in the imperial armour books.

The fighta just has 2 twinlinked big shootas

However the fighta bommer has 4 hull mounted big shootas with anti aircraft mounts (that are not twinlinked) and a twinlinked big shoota turret with anti air mounts.

Now this makes the fighta bommer a much better fighta than the dedicated fighta!

Am I missing something?

Nope, you're not missing anything.Virtually no flyers have AA mounts or the Interceptor rule - why the bommer has it I have no idea...

You're assuming that because the fighta isn't also a bommer that it should be superior in it's role. The fighta-bommer is much larger so it has the ability to be a better fighta (apart from speed it says) and also act as a bommer. It all comes down to size. Might be that the fighta-bommer is intended to do everything, that might be why i've never heard of anything that wasn't a fighta-bommer.