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so i'm building up some truks to give myself a deviation from my usual lists of battlewagons, and i was wondering how many people use to be effective, and what they put in 'em.

I know that i can wreak havoc with an opponent by 'throwing rocks' on the first turn (flat-out a trukk of nobz/meganobs and sit it in front of their army, whatch them go nuts to wipe it off the board), and i'm thinking this, with an entire army, could cause a lot of players hell.

currently i have 4 trukks, i'm working on another 2, so should be able to bring enough to have full troops in trukks, backed with bikers, dakkajets, battlewagons or boomwagons. i want to bring at least 1 unit of toughnuts, either nobs or MANz, with a warboss. the boyz will probably be shootas, as they have the drive-by flexibility.

so does anyone use this, is it still at all viable, and what should i back it up with? I'm usually against plague marines, eldar and nids, i figure having more units than they can cope with should hold me in good stead against the first two.

cheers!

The trick is to move your trukks and other vehicles in a way to manipulate LOS. Who cares if the truck of shoota boys gets shot down? The truck full of Manz behind it has cover.

Also, give your opponent something else to shoot at, target saturation is the key to the trukk rush.

Sounds fun, let us know how it goes for you.

Yeah I agree with having a couple trukks in front full of boyz to get blowed-up first before you deliver the cargo of MANZ.

I have only run with my trukks a couple of times and essentially I expect them to get blown up. They play the same roll as a rhino, except when trukks blow up, they mar kareen in to your enemy and blow them up instead.

Ive always had horrible horrible luck with trukk lists. I ran 2 BW, 4 Trukks (1 with MANz), and 2 groups of duo deffkoptas before. This was against BA. Literally every trukk exploded turn 1 and he immobilized one of the BW. I went second, btw.

Not quite to that level of carnage but i usually have bad luck like that. S6 weapon hits vehicle, pens, explodes. I love the idea of the tactic, in fact i want to build some "hovertrukks" conversions (since i stole their wheelz to make kannons lol) but i just cant shake off the 10+ games ive done with bw/trukk lists always ending by turn 3 due to horrible luck.

Had success with trukks of Slugga boyz. Haven't used MAN trukks yet, and Shoota Trukks seemed to defeat the purpose

Haven't yet pitted them against Tau so I'm a bit wary as to how well they perform as a TAC list.

Love that Throwin Rocks idea. Three MANz in a Trukk is 160pts, but the scare factor is priceless!

Trukks aren't working for me in 6th, since the mobs inside are too small to shift anything. The MANz missile is still viable, due to 2+ armor getting such a huge buff in close combat. Parking a trukk right between an enemies units and forcing him to blow it up is awesome, no matter where you kareen, you are going to kill something.

I can't seem to make trukks work either in 6th. With the addition of Overwatch and Challenges, it's really hard to kill anything once the Trukk gets blown to pieces...

Trukk boyz have always just been ablative wounds for the Nob. Now that the Nob can't fight 9 times out of 10, they suck...

Trukk boyz are pretty good for getting your shoota boyz close. Also, a tukk full of burna boyz is HILARIOUS. Always will be.

I'll be running a 5 trukk list tonight, he wanted me to bring competitive but screw that, WAAAGH! da speed freeks!

i've brought 3 trukks before, thrown them flat out turn 1. this was against an eldar army which didn't know what to do, he was planning to charge towards me XD

5 trukks will probably do the job, there's not much chance he'll be able to kill 12 units (5 trukks, 5 units inside and 2 biker mobs) in one turn, and as long as i bunch the trukkas together for the charge, only one should die to overwatch.

maceria wrote:
Trukk boyz are pretty good for getting your shoota boyz close. Also, a tukk full of burna boyz is HILARIOUS. Always will be.

Hilarious as in hilariously ineffective. Burna boyz can't take a trukk, so you need to pick up a useless unit of boyz on top of the trukk, and open yourself to long-ranged shots at your burnaz during turn one. A battlewagon will always be the better choice.


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some bloke wrote:
I'll be running a 5 trukk list tonight, he wanted me to bring competitive but screw that, WAAAGH! da speed freeks!

i've brought 3 trukks before, thrown them flat out turn 1. this was against an eldar army which didn't know what to do, he was planning to charge towards me XD

5 trukks will probably do the job, there's not much chance he'll be able to kill 12 units (5 trukks, 5 units inside and 2 biker mobs) in one turn, and as long as i bunch the trukkas together for the charge, only one should die to overwatch.

Also keep in mind that you can have your bikers with their T5 and 4+ cover draw the overwatch and then charge in with your boyz without taking casualties.

2 trucks of boys, either setup is fine, cover your main line but make sure you can cover for quick units trying to get round them to delay your attack. So keep rapid response or long range close to your lines, bikes just behind the trucks would be good. I'd also advise some AT support to deal with blasts or heavy guns, preferably with blast options maybe to deal with other blobs and/or units with lots of S4