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I see lots of lists that (I think could benefit with kammando's a lot, but I never see them in any lists. Why don't people ever use them, also if I decide to use them what tactics should I follow?

Essentially, they're just Boyz with Stikkbombs, Scout, and Infiltrate. There isn't really anything special about them to justify their cost.

They're normal, sucky Orks with infiltration, and they're pretty expensive in terms of points and money.. For an Ork... I could rapid fire them with one SM squad and they'd die immediately :S

They arent that expensive in terms of money. Take a few gubbinz and bitz put them on da regular boyz and you can make quite the kewl looking kommandoz. I have build 5 so far out of regular boyz each with a different theme and all with cheap parts off bitz box (spare bolters/voxcaster backpacks) with another 10 to go.

But the are pricy in terms of pts coming in at over 2x the cost of a regular boy (whom they are equal to statwise). They used to be useful with snikrot but with the changes in 6th snikrot took a massive hit. The ability to stick 2x burnaz with them is nice...but difficult to justify pts wise. I try to squeeze them in now and agian...but I will admit...its quite difficult.

They're gak because they can't assault out of infiltration or outflanking with Snikrot. Sadly, 6th edition is kind of gak like that.

If they could I would totally be taking them every game.

Wait until the next Ork codex - maybe then they'll become useful again. At the moment, they're just not as useful as they could (and deserve to) be.

Only use I can think of for them atm is as spotters for a hail of turn one Grot Bomms

I run a squad or two with big shootas if i do a themed Bloodaxe list (sometimes i do).

They go for rear armour shots on vehicles.

Shame to say, though, they really are kindof gakky right now. If they actually HAD the tankbusta bombz the models show they would be a shade more useful. They used to, but haven't for a long long time now, much like tankbustas and the Tank Hunter rule

In 5th ed. they were one of my favourite units, I'd always run them with snikrot and come on behind something. Anything near the table edge was dead. But now you can't assault out or reserves, they seem pointless. Such a shame as I love the models too.

I just got a few Kommandos in a bulk Ork buy today, and I also have Snikrot. God I wish these guys sucked just a little bit less.

I suppose they'd be good for inserting a Bikerboss behind enermy lines and then flaming some fodder troops on a backfield objective. And then dying.

With boss snikrot you can choose where you infiltrate. put a full squad of kommandos and put Old Zogwart with that group. Now youve got Ol' Z near the enemy where he can blast them with his curse. Toss a couple burnas on those kommandos to flush out any objective holders as well.

Getting a crazy IC behind enemy lines is the most common use now.

Can you buy a truck for them? If you could that'd give em a bit more survivability, and they can still lay down some decent dakka. I honestly never looked at kommandos long enough in my own codex to see. Roll em up near a squishy scoring unit and watch em take linebreaker.

Nope.

No trukk for them, or half the other folk in the dex that could really use a ride.

Last edition with snikrot, yes. This edition so far, no.

The only half-viable way to play them is to use Snikrot as a third sort-of-Warboss. Infiltrate him out of sight somewhere near squishy targets(or near a place where squishy targets would want to move and go from there. As he is a beast in challenges and his unit brings two burnas, they are pretty good at assaulting.

However, I would only suggest this if you are running a Blood Axe theme list or you really like kommandoz and want to play them no matter what. After all, you are paying more than you would for 30 boyz.

We knocked a point off of them and allowed them to Deep Strike via para-shoot or glida'. Otherwise they were pretty tough to use effectively for their cost. Also gave the nob an option to take a tankbusta bomb.