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I was just messing around with building lists, but I want to walk away from those Lootas for a while and try out Tankbustas.

HQ
Warboss - Bike, CB, PK 135

Elite
3x MANZ - 3xKombiScorcha 175
-> Trukk - Ram

15x Tankbustas - 2xBombSquigs, 2xTankHammers 235
15x Tankbustas - 2xBombSquigs, 2xTankHammers 235

Troops
12x Shootaboyz - 1xBigShoota - Nob, Bosspole 132
-> Trukk - Ram
12x Shootaboyz - 1xBigShoota - Nob, Bosspole 132
-> Trukk - Ram
12x Shootaboyz - 1xBigShoota - Nob, Bosspole 132
-> Trukk - Ram
12x Shootaboyz - 1xBigShoota - Nob, Bosspole 132
-> Trukk - Ram

10x Gretchins - Runtherder 40

3x MANZ - 3xKombiScorcha 175
-> Trukk - Ram

FA
1x Deffkoptas - TLBS 35

HS
Battlewagon - DR, plank, 2xBS 125
Battlewagon - DR, plank, 2xBS 125


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The idea of the TB's are quite simple. Mount the battlewagons, drive 6"/12" around and shoot at vehicles while the squigs do their thing. Potentially, the two units could actually pop 4 vehicles a turn! If the wagons die, I could just kick out some boyz from the transport and have the TB take that instead. This also goes for the MANZ. They have priority over the boyz regarding transport. The grots are there for moral support, cheerleading and goof around at home objective.

Possible changes could be to remove the troop MANZ and maybe even the warboss, and add a KFF Big Mek and 6 buggies for screening purposes and even more distractions. What do you think?

A BS 2 STR 8 AP3 rocket doesn't bust too many tanks, despite the name. While this list might do decent against light armour, you're still fethed against anything better than AV 12-13. You're spending a ton of points for a pretty terrible unit

I find trukks are much better off with slugga boyz, you can pretty much guarantee a turn 2 assault with them. Much better than trying to do some shooting with a few Orks. Also, unless you have somewhere out of LoS to plop those grots, I'm not sure they'll last long

If the Loota shoots an average of 2 shots, they win just slightly on the lower end of the AV scale. 3 shots they will ofc out-preform the TB's, but at one shot TB will come out on the top. I would say with the added squig bombs the average 2 shots is then equal to TB's ability to kill stuff.

I've never had a really good experience with Lootas, even 20 of them can't do what they are supposed to do. If they can't kill rhinos and big creatures, even spacemarines is a big task for them, why should I then take them? TB can, on average, be just as good choice, especially when dealing with 3+ saves.

I'll add the sluggas to the trukks.

Grots will ofc come in from reserves, and the 10 of them have served me greatly in many games.

What about the Buggies vs MANZ? 1 trukk or 6 buggies?

tybg wrote:
A BS 2 STR 8 AP3 rocket doesn't bust too many tanks, despite the name. While this list might do decent against light armour, you're still fethed against anything better than AV 12-13. You're spending a ton of points for a pretty terrible unit

I find trukks are much better off with slugga boyz, you can pretty much guarantee a turn 2 assault with them. Much better than trying to do some shooting with a few Orks. Also, unless you have somewhere out of LoS to plop those grots, I'm not sure they'll last long

Do remember that tankbustas got Str 6 melta grenades(tankbusta bombs)

Agreed with phatonic, tankbusta bombs are actually quite good at busting up any vehicle, the problem is that once you assault that vehicle you can pretty much kiss those tankbustas goodbye. I think it might be worth trying a more suicidal approach to them, for 105pts you can get 5 tankbustas with 2 tankhammers in a trukk with a reinforced ram. That's giving you 6 str10 attacks and 3 busta bombs on the charge which should blow up or strip pretty much any vehicle in the game of its hps. This is what DE players like myself do with haywire grenade wyches, and a 5 man squad of them in a transport cost 20pts more, and are still worth it when you blow up that pesky landraider.