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The removal of difficult terrain made these guys decent to play again. They had a decent performance in my last game.


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and waaagh! giving fleet to reroll charge they are even somewhat fast.

If you checked the big ork tactics topic, theres quite a bit of discussion about MANz...

Cool, i will look again, in all honesty i didn't find much value in the first couple pages so i quit reading.

2+ armour
2 wounds (still instant death though)

Check

Add in Grotsnik for +1 charge attack, feel no pain and purchase cyborg bodies.

Ready to roll

grotsnik doesn't grant anyone +1 attacks when charging. I think you are confusing his "one scalpel short of a medpak" rule with the rage USR.

rage = +2A on charge no movement penalties

medpak = fearless always no +attacks and must move as fast as possible torwards nearest enemy

the other nice thing about them is they are not characters, so you you can always count on full beatdown, or it could be a negative since it also prevents them from protecting the mad dok.

im always hoping the dok dies... so the MANZ can sit on an obj after winning whatever combat he dies in. ha.

he always lives long enough to dragthem away from anything they were supposed to do, aside from be dead-killy.

tgf wrote:the other nice thing about them is they are not characters, so you you can always count on full beatdown, or it could be a negative since it also prevents them from protecting the mad dok.

Aren't All nobs Characters?

Gangrel767 wrote:

tgf wrote:the other nice thing about them is they are not characters, so you you can always count on full beatdown, or it could be a negative since it also prevents them from protecting the mad dok.

Aren't All nobs Characters?

back of BRB lists nobs as characters, but not meganobs.

so from what I understand, and have been playing by is... that meganobs do not benefit from look out sir, cannot be challenged, and do not get precisions shots/strikes

precision strike power claws x 10 put that in your pipe and smoke it. It may have been intentionally done that way to prevent some pretty BS stuff from going down.

Mega-Armored Nobz are not Nobz, just like Heavy Bolters are not Bolters.

skyfi wrote:

Gangrel767 wrote:

tgf wrote:the other nice thing about them is they are not characters, so you you can always count on full beatdown, or it could be a negative since it also prevents them from protecting the mad dok.

Aren't All nobs Characters?

back of BRB lists nobs as characters, but not meganobs.

so from what I understand, and have been playing by is... that meganobs do not benefit from look out sir, cannot be challenged, and do not get precisions shots/strikes

Great catch. Thanks for pointing it out. I play against Orks fairly frequently, but just from this thread I learn two important things. Mad Dok does not have Rage, and the Meganobs are not characters. Thanks guys!

and yes, skyfi - this means they do not benefit from those rules.

if meganobz were characters it would be sick for sure.

Well, living in a world of nob bikers, and paladins... it's not that crazy to think they'd do it. I'm almost stunned they aren't.

Gangrel767 wrote:

skyfi wrote:

Gangrel767 wrote:

tgf wrote:the other nice thing about them is they are not characters, so you you can always count on full beatdown, or it could be a negative since it also prevents them from protecting the mad dok.

Aren't All nobs Characters?

back of BRB lists nobs as characters, but not meganobs.

so from what I understand, and have been playing by is... that meganobs do not benefit from look out sir, cannot be challenged, and do not get precisions shots/strikes

Great catch. Thanks for pointing it out. I play against Orks fairly frequently, but just from this thread I learn two important things. Mad Dok does not have Rage, and the Meganobs are not characters. Thanks guys!

and yes, skyfi - this means they do not benefit from those rules.

the mad dok rage thing is pretty pervasive myth I have to say!



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Gangrel767 wrote:Well, living in a world of nob bikers, and paladins... it's not that crazy to think they'd do it. I'm almost stunned they aren't.

I think it will be faq'd eventually. /shrug

who knows!

So here is what I am thinking for Meganobz in a 1500-1850ish game.

Mad Dok, 6 MegaNobz all Cybork in a Battlewagon.with red paint.

28 S9 PK attacks on the charge. Not to bad for dealing with a problem.

tgf wrote:So here is what I am thinking for Meganobz in a 1500-1850ish game.

Mad Dok, 6 MegaNobz all Cybork in a Battlewagon.with red paint.

28 S9 PK attacks on the charge. Not to bad for dealing with a problem.

i run 5 meganobz with the dok and a MA warboss and warboss breaks off to kill something else whenever they jump outta da wagon

works nice

i put 4 big shootas a rolla armor plates riggers red paint etc on the wagon though. that way if it survives them hoppin out and charging its still a viable target to detract fire from the dok n crew?


edit: well aside from the dok not dying sometimes and meganobs never capturing an objective >.<

Can;t the doc just leave the squad and go chase something by himself?

tgf wrote:Can;t the doc just leave the squad and go chase something by himself?

No, his "One Scalpel Short of a Medpack" prevents that.

ive allways used them when i used to play 40k, even in 5th ed, never had any problems

Gangrel767 wrote:Well, living in a world of nob bikers, and paladins... it's not that crazy to think they'd do it. I'm almost stunned they aren't.

them and flash gitz really should be characters

Flash gitz would be ridiculously good as characters though. Maybe finally worth taking.

lots of called shots would be decent.

Called shots ignoring cover and probably armor nonetheless.

I hope someone sells a metal badruk on ebay soon