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Fellow Meks, what I am about to present to you is highly top-secret (Except for the title of this thread). I wish to create a squig/squid/robot hybrid monster that swims... ON LAND!!! MWA HA HA! I would love to see suggested names for this beast please post below. My idea for a name would be Da Great Land SQUIDDoth! Boo Yah! Terrible word play! Top that!

Here's a base:

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1180080_Ork_Datasheet_-_Submersible.pdf

Perhaps model the squid's beak as a drill of some sort, then instead of an aquatic entry, it pops up from the ground!

To make it better, have it come in from reserve, but stay underground (it just arrived under the battlefield). Then, each turn, roll a D6, on a 4+, it pops up from the ground.

Perhaps as an added effect, when it pops up, the ground it has passed through (since coming in from reserve) becomes difficult terrain as the tunnel collapes and every model that was on top of the tunnel (friendly or not) takes a hit of SD6 (that's the impact from falling down into the tunnel.

Hmmm... clever. iwas thinking the top of its head would be the drill, and its mouth could be the 'exhaust' of some kind of furnice *koff koff super one use flamethrower koff koff*. Food for thought. And I like terrain and way it comes to the battlefield ideas. I thought of a new name the L.A.N.D (Large Arse-kicking Nuclear Destroyer) Squiddoth. note: squiddoths are a sub-species of squig that are big, look like squids, and are big.

how about a Deff-Squigd, or possibly a git-skweeza (due to its tentacle-power claws ALL 8 OF THEM )

Dear Gork an' Mork! 2 posts not by me in less than 5 hours? Yowza! Love the git-skweeza, I shall the weapon, Da Git-Skweeza!

have you, by chance, created an army profile for this? i want to know all the weapons and rules that need fun ork names

Well, the reason I started this thread was because i wanted to a group project. But, some weapons might be...
Big Flamethrower
Possible Drill Weapon
and some kind mumbo-jumbo with its armor.
In my personal opinion, I wpuld rather have more ways to hurt people than good armor.

group projects are great! i want in
and what about (since it IS orks..) some kind of, squig torpedoes?

Sweet guinea pig of Winnipig! That is an AWESOME Idea! I can picture it now... “Right you lot! Boss Blitzbad want us tah fire da torpedas so load dat oil in! Dos gits are gonna get wots comin to em..."
Bwa ha ha ha!
Also if your innerested, check out my other proposed rules!

its not very detailed but heres a quick sketch i dun right up on paint

feel free to edit on your CPUs paint program, its there for us to throw around until its orked up enuff

Awesome that is. Needs royal navy-like orks and a squig in a navy hat. Then I love it.

Looks great! I fink it needs eyes though, to scare enemy gits out of their power Armor.


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I Was also thinking, what about Grot Driven Land-Shark-Squigs?
That would be an interesting alternitive to Warbikers

eyes... hmm thats interesting. THEY SHALL BE A WEAPON! they are shokkattack guns!

and the grot driven land-shark-squigs.. that would be hilarious.grots riding blue finned squigs on wheels with a jet on their back munching people who get in ther way

Lols! epic idea!

We have to make models and starlings for these and then find someone to play against and put it in the 40k batrep section

K, I have no idea were to get cheap squigs though...

How about da land oktopus

Good, good, but needs a squiggish touch.

This project has earned my seal of approval.
please continue.

I was thinkin' it's BS would be 2. Cuz it's an ork shootin'.

WS: 6 BS:2 maybe?

How about WS 5? That's around ork level.

that is, but its not JUST an ork. its also part squig, part squid, and part machine.

True, true, but you have to consider the "close combat weapon" is 8 flailing arms.

so how about WS 5 but because it is 8 arms/attacks and there flailing randomly, they always hit on a 4+ as well as you have the option to take less attacks and you get to reroll 1 dice for every less one you take, for example, you attack, you only take 6 attacks, you roll a 4,5,5,4,2,1. but because you took 6 instead of 8 you have two rerolls so the 2and 1 get rerolled to a 4,5 then you have 6 hits there

Good! Although, what if you could use 4 attacks and turn them into 1 big "sweep attack"?

How would this sweep attack work?

I dunno, probably some kind of high strength, initiative test involving attack that hits everyone in base contact in like, the front of it or something.

Hmmmm... to toss my hat in here, I would suggest that because only half of the vehicle is visible at a time, the vehicle itself can only suffer ever suffer a glancing hit since all the explosive stuff are kept below the ground. Toss on 4 hull points (it's supposed to be massive), and only make it armor 12 all around.

As for the "big sweep attack idea" how about instead we do this-

Flailing tentacles- The Git-skweeza's tentacles are a massive flailing ball of fury that people are afraid to get too close to. During the shooting phase the git-skweeza may use a special flailing tentacles attack. All units that have a model within 12" of the Git-skweeza suffer D6 S5 hits AP- hits. Vehicles are hit on the armor facing that is in a straight line from the center of the git-skweeza model. However such is the difficulty of shooting through this writhing mass of tentacles, all shots from the git-skweeza's weapon are snap shots. A unit that is hit must immediately take a Morale test, if they fail they count as pinned until the end of their next turn, models that are picked up and flailed by the tentacles are unable to do anything after all!

First off, the Git Skweezas is the name of the tentacles, and secondly, these are really good rules.