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I was looking for some input on which is better.

Warboss
Pros
+ 1 to all stats except for BS.
WAAAGH!


Big Mek
Pros
KFF
SAG
Mega Blasta
Cheaper by 25 points.

Neither. One is a support/range role, the other is a mid-level beatstick. It all depends on what you want to do.
Did you buy 5 Kustom Mega Kannons? You'll be attaching your Big Mek and his Shokk Attack Gun to that.
Does your enemy have some tanks with artillery that need busted? One biker boss, please.
Footslogging 30 boy hordes? You'll need a Kustom Force Field and a Painboy.
Preparing a Trukk Missile to kill tactical squads? A 100-point Warboss in Mega Armor will do you good.

Waaaghpower wrote:
Neither. One is a support/range role, the other is a mid-level beatstick. It all depends on what you want to do.
Did you buy 5 Kustom Mega Kannons? You'll be attaching your Big Mek and his Shokk Attack Gun to that.
Does your enemy have some tanks with artillery that need busted? One biker boss, please.
Footslogging 30 boy hordes? You'll need a Kustom Force Field and a Painboy.
Preparing a Trukk Missile to kill tactical squads? A 100-point Warboss in Mega Armor will do you good.

^This

For me it boils down to how impactful WAAAGH! will be in the army list. Shooty units don't need it and bikes don't use it (but bike bosses are awesome anyways).

I honestly don't like KFF or Shokk attack gun, The new KFF rules are pretty damn restrictive. The 4++ one is pretty nice but still its competing against painboy, biker bosses and mega armored warboss with lukky stikks. Yes the change ot invuln from cover is nice but I feel like where the KFF costs you isnt in how many poitnts it is, but rather in taking up one of your precious ork HQ slots.

If you need cover for your BWs, boyz, trukks, bring 5x rokkit buggies. The 6 inches is only so far and can only cover so much, I don't think its worth it.

The problem with buggies is that they leave DT on the way there and have s4 explosions.

Would you take a SAG or a KFF on a big mek on a bike?

 felixcat wrote:

Would you take a SAG or a KFF on a big mek on a bike?

afaik you can only take a KFF on a bike.

Nothing says he has to be on a bike. He replaces his Slugga for either a SAG or a KFF, the only thing he cannot do is take a SAG with Mega Armor (he is given another option to take KFF if he takes Mega Armor).

If playing small point games then a KFF BikeMek with Killsaw. Same price as an old BikerBoss.

Larger games I'll add in the new BikerBoss.

I give the KFF Biker Mek a Lucky Stikk as well. Then my other HQ can be a Pain boy on bike for a super killy bike unit.

I've been shifting to a more Dakka army. Which makes me think the SAG would be a better fit, that gun looks Dead Killy.

I am afraid my boys will get smashed in melee, without a Warboss.