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Which one to go for? I am a newb greenskin

The bikers have less chance of not making it to assault but ppm is lower on mega nobs (if you want all pk's).

Thoughts?

One PK lets you flip a tank most of the time

Ten PKs will flip the tank every time, but are ten times more expensive. Thats inefficient.

If your running Nob Bikers all with PKs, thats not a very efficient use of points IMO

I run 2 or 3 naked nob bikers in the front to take the wounds as I am turbo-boosting to my targets. This keeps my waagh banner/pks and painboys safe

I had a game allied with someone who ran meganobs in a trukk. they were delivered to a terminator squad and lost that combat. although there were only 3 meganobs and a meganob warboss against 7 termis

i ran a nob squad of bikers against a terminator squad with belial and won.

I was more impressed with the mobility and power of the nob bikers.

They have different jobs in my opinion. Nob Bikerz hit hard, provide a healthy screen for your other units, and can rapidly react to what your opponent does. They run around and do a few different things fairly well but are not the end all, be all of their respective roles. They hit hard in Combat, but Toughness aside are a little squishy. They can shrug off enemy shooting fairly well however with their Warbikes, and their Dakkagunz mean they are actually hurting any deployed enemy infantry.

Meganobz in a Battle Wagon on the other hand just hit hard at a single point in close combat. Preferably somewhere your opponent really doesn't want several bruisers with a 2+ save and multiple wounds to be. They aren't very mobile. They'll get stuck in, and probably prevail, but once they are somewhere that's basically it. You use them to break the enemy line.

So really, it depends on what else you are doing with your Army List.