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So first of all, the basic gun costs 18 points comes with a grot. You can field 1 to 5 of them. You can buy 2 more grots and a ammo runt for 3 points each. The upgraded guns end up running you 30 points.
Unfortunatley GW has decided you will pay 46 dollars American for your 30 point unit.

A 150 point unit, for 230 dollars. More than a knight or a baneblade. Let that sink in.

They look like awesome weapons! I can see why you think thats a lot of money but remember you're playing Orks, just build your own ones.

That cost is phenomenally stupid. It must be one of the worst pounds-to-points ratios in the game, if not the worst. it's about £2 per point before upgrades, and £1 per point with them.

This gunz look fun actually. Grots are still bs3 and i feel those gunz are gona be used quite frequently. I'll scratchbuild a squad of those for sure.

Not sure about bubbachucka and Traktor though. d6 str is quite meh even with a large blast. And anti-air...Not sure if orkses really need those. Sure, it's great anti-air, however do orkses really need that anti-air unless we fight crons?..

If you order from Darksphere, you will end up paying 21GBP which, isn't as much of a hit in the wallet compared to the 28GBP from GW direct.

I'm thinking *maybe* using the Kromlech field cannons I have already and buying one of the new kits for the variety and a 'special' gun.



I'm considering getting an AA gun from Kromlech as it looks more functional compared to the new gun.




Maybe use the GW official models on occasion for the special guns - but proxy the rest

Alternatively remember this: Forgeworld is now cheaper than GW for many items.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Orks/ORK_VEHICLES?filter_reset=1

Or you could buy some cheapo gunz from a local toy store.

That's one of the advantage of Ork stuff; with plasticard, cheap toys and some spare time, you can make anything! At a guess, you could get 3-4 gunz at least for the price of 1 official kit.

It's still sad that GW actively discourages people to buy those pretty awesome models.

I wont be paying these stupid prices that's for sure. Someone told me I was being paranoid when I thought the new meganobz will be 60 for 3. Now I am wondering if it will be 60 for 2.

I'll buy some certainly. I don't know how much I'm going to spend. Ebay doesn't do exact pricing very well...

That's insane

Still most Ork players could buy one and then bash the rest together with a few bits and pieces, so you could get 7 (?) guns out of it and then just use regular grots for crew and say they were whatever guns you'd like. I don't get the price point myself, it's up there with the Centurians for stupid, only even worse value points wise. It's a shame as it's a great looking model IMHO.

It's cool they're redoing the Shokk Attack Gun - or as I'd like to call it, the SHAG.
I've been thinking of picking one up but now that it's coming out in plastic I'll just wait.

I used Kromlech guns and FW grots for 5th/6th edition

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Going to have to sell some blood to afford five of these

I think for some of the more advanced guns, I'd rather use this model instead:

That's the first thing I thought of when seeing that mek cannon. I already own 3 warp lighting cannons for my Skaven army so why not use them

Its so funny that orks are revered as the best army to pick if you like kitbashing, as theyre technically the easiest to kitbash out of all the races, and GW decides to jack the price on their new toy to insane levels. Nobody bought Big Gunz in the past (afaik anyway, i know i didnt) because the cost was insane to field enough to make them do anything. I usually bring 4-6 if i bring them at all, with the old models thats like 100-160USD for a cheap pointswise model.

Now they release new ones, give them epic rules and possibilities, and double the price? Who the hell is going to pay 46USD for a model you want to bring in groups of 5 or multiple groups of ~3+? Nobody lol. Those without kitbashing skills are just going to deal with not having them. Even buying 3 Broadsides for 50USD each felt like a shotgun hit my wallet.

Orks are the last army you want to skyrocket the prices for, because we have to spam them and theyre usually easy to build ourself. Brilliant idea GW lol. I'll buy ONE for authenticity and comparisons on the table, but im kitbashing the other 4-9 i'll use

 Paradigm wrote:
That cost is phenomenally stupid. It must be one of the worst pounds-to-points ratios in the game, if not the worst. it's about £2 per point before upgrades, and £1 per point with them.

They aren't the worst.

You know we already have a thread on the ork releases, right?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/585556.page

 illuknisaa wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:
That cost is phenomenally stupid. It must be one of the worst pounds-to-points ratios in the game, if not the worst. it's about £2 per point before upgrades, and £1 per point with them.

They aren't the worst.

Who are?

 pretre wrote:
You know we already have a thread on the ork releases, right?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/585556.page

rumors are for talking about rumors, they happen to post units coming out too, but the main discussion is what people think or have heard the rules will be like. This is specifically about ork mek guns.

oh snap!

 Wulfmar wrote:
If you order from Darksphere, you will end up paying 21GBP which, isn't as much of a hit in the wallet compared to the 28GBP from GW direct.

I'm thinking *maybe* using the Kromlech field cannons I have already and buying one of the new kits for the variety and a 'special' gun.

Spoiler:

I'm considering getting an AA gun from Kromlech as it looks more functional compared to the new gun.

Spoiler:

Maybe use the GW official models on occasion for the special guns - but proxy the rest

Alternatively remember this: Forgeworld is now cheaper than GW for many items.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Orks/ORK_VEHICLES?filter_reset=1

Wow, GW has out priced FW.............

I only going to buy one, after make some arrr job to complete my squad juar juar juar

Looks like the teeny tiny Ork warbuggies might be usable here. Just yank off the dwarf orks inside, and bolt on a spare Big Gunz bit instead of the pointless twin-linked big shoota.

We're orks. I have no doubt that every gun can be manufactured somehow.

1 Mek Gun box + 1 Trukk box = 4 Mek Gunz

 adamsouza wrote:
1 Mek Gun box + 1 Trukk box = 4 Mek Gunz

For not even the price of 2 Mek Gunz, at that.

And so far still no reason to bring trukks, might as well kitbash them into usefulness! Which is exactly what a big mek would do

"Dis thing not killy enough. Time ta fix 'er up!" *loud sawing and drilling noises* "Dere! It damn killy now!"

HOLY CRAP that Traktor Cannon is good. BS3 on the Gretchin might be the lousy, but the rest of that profile is tremendous.

 ace101 wrote:
. BS3 on the Gretchin might be the lousy.

Compared to who ? Space Marines or Tau ?

Orks are BS2 brotha, Gretchin might as well be called Ork Marksmen

BS3 is not bad. Its a 50% hit chance. Kinda blows on a single shot but given that the shot is a S8 AP3 Skyfire shot that automatically immobilizes on hit its fair. The ability only affects fliers and FMC but the strength is enough to hurt ground things in the end.....problem is skyfire instead of a special rule so snappage time!

Not sure if i'll bring any though. Unless thats our only viable AA that is, which i hope not. Bring a battery of those theyre going to get focus fired like hell - and big guns arent really hard to kill, they just take dedication you usually dont want to put towards them because they arent worth it. Traktor guns WOULD be worth the attention lol.