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Ok so I used a Dakka jet in 6th as a way to get rid of anything that was givin da boyz a hard time. Now without the ability to put down 18 shots they don't seem worth the points. I am thinking about painting up da bombs and making a blitza bomba. Any thoughs on how effective it will be now? Is it even worth the time to convert?

Thinking the same thing armour bane sounds good and two bombs isn't bad


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Not to mention now bs3 and not 4

The chances of getting off more than two bombs would be slim anyways. Guess I need to find some bombs since I already kitbashed the ones it had.

Ignore that last thing about bs4 it still has strafing run

Dakkajets dont seem very interesting anymore. They were more of a gimmick to me in 6th because once you Waaaagh'd! they were kinda meh since they were so easy to kill/force a jink.

Burnabomma looks as dull as before imo. Missiles scatter like normal blasts and its on a BS2 model....and expensive as gak..no thanks

Blitza Bomba actually seems pretty good now. S7 AP2 Armorbane pi plates are going to cause damage, and lets face it we actually DONT want this thing to crash now. Snakes you crash and burn....lame...small chance of you both take S9 AP2 (which thankfully has a much MUCH slimmer chance to explode you now) but has a large chance to actually do its damn job with a bomb that can actually kill vehicles like it was intended to do.

And the interesting thing about the wording for getting to shoot rear armor as well - it doesnt specify which guns, meaning you shoot both the bigshoota and supa shoota at rear armor. Thats kinda significant since vast majority of things are armor 10/11 rear, which both bigshoota and supashoota can glance the gak out of easily.

"Its worse now its useless" fallacy.

9 TL S6 AP4 shots a turn at BS3 is still quite good anti-infantry firepower for strafing things like Firewarriors, Necron Warriors, etc and for a price tag that isn't eye wateringly bad. They're good at filling in the gaps. Need to gun down some artillery? Need to put that extra glance on? Need to put another wound or two on that MC? They can try that and they have the potential to do quite well at it.

Against flyers with 12 shots you still have a reasonable chance of doing considerable damage on the Waagh turn, though you're more likely going to need to gang up two of the Dakka Jets against another flyer if you want reliable odds. Is this that bad really though, when your flyers are only ~130?

If you're fielding an Ork Warband, they're way better than they used to be, because you're getting 12 shots every turn.

Blitza Bommers are fairly good AT and on the odd chance your opponent screws up and presents you with a fat ideal target with power armour that you can laugh at, maybe you could consider them efficient anti-infantry. Fact is, since you're not taking Dakkajets, what else are you going to take for AA? The only other reasonable choice I can think of is the Traktor Kannon, which is garbage against everything else. Loota's aren't reliable AA as there is the potential to roll bad on the D3 when you really don't need it. In addition you need them firing at other targets that pop up, not trying riskfully to shoot a flyer out of the sky on the side.

The Burna Bommer actually looks desirable because it is very effective at killing dug-in light infantry and pouring wounds on everything else. You can actually fire 4 weapons at a time now with no restriction on the number of missiles, so the moment you zoom on you can throw down 4 S5 AP4 small pie plates at an infantry squad to cause some hurt, and then in the following turn drop a Bomm on them.

I always loved the look of the Blitza Bomba. Those two big, fat orky bombs hanging off the sides, ready to krump on kontact. Good to hear they got a bit of a buff. I think hard AV and dug in infantry are what have always plagued orks. Least for me since I started in 5th edition. The burna bomba and blitza seem to take care of those things far more reliably now. Look to be great additions to either a footsloggin' or mechanized force. I'll still probably model the extra shootas from the dakkajet because I love shooty gubbins pouring from every orifice.

I think Orky fliers focused lists might be even funner in 7th.

You've got the WAAAGH!!! every turn thing to play with, and now theres the landing pad you can have a flyer doing stuff nearly out the gate.

So while I think the nerf hurt them, I don't know that its rekt them.... I might have to model Killboy, on the Ork Bomber

Never said theyre useless, just not as great. They werent rendered unplayable by any means, its just for 130pts (the bonus supa shoota doubled in price...) for an AV10 model that only shoots S6 whether its 9 or 12 and twinlinked isnt THAT great anymore considering our army is riddled with that strength.
Ive never used my dakkajets as AA because at best they only glance whatever theyre seeing. Barely anyone uses non AV12 fliers these days. Its significantly easier and more reliable to have bikers just get rear armor with their twinlink snapshooting S5 guns, since only the Stormraven has better than AV10 rear (and in my FLGS nobody even owns that far as i know or even likes the idea of it)

Should you want to field them, they will find a way to work. they just wont be the HOLY CRAP THE DAKKA once per game anymore and theyre a tad more expensive.

I always take a quad gun with a squad of grots for AA.