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Im considering buying a stompa. I like the look of the model and such but the large price tag kinda scares me haha!! How often does it really get used? Id imagine more so now that the rules are in the codex? My FLGS runs up to 2000 point games on a regular basis. Could the stompa be used well in a 2000 point game? Or am I better off just buying more orks for the horde, heres a list off the top of my head of what I have....

Gazzy
Weird boy
2 warboss's
Big mek KFF
Bik mek shock attack
150 or so slugga boyz
40 shoota boyz
30 lootas
15 burnas
15 storm boyz
4 Trukks
1 battle wagon
3 killa kans
1 deff dread
10 warbikers
6 nob bikers
30 or so nobz
2 dakka jets
10 tank bustas
5 kamandos
10 deffkoptas
5 flash gitz (new kit)
1 looted wagon

Probably more that I cant think of at the moment

The use of a Stompa would be up to your local group and if they want to allow Super Heavies.

As for the Stompa itself, the core GW one is considered fairly tepid. The Forgeworld variant is way scarier, but also a larger points investment.

Compare the price of it to the Gorkanaut.

There's your answer.

If you want a stompa, buy one, comparing it to a gorkanaught says to me its gonna get price hiked sooner or later. Darksphere sell them for 50+change.

I have two. They are absolutely beautiful kits, both to assemble, paint and kitbash. How often they get used is....to be honest not a lot, although I havent got a chance to try them in 7th yet.
As usual depends on your meta, gaming group, "fun values" and general army build.
You have a great Ork army there so why not get a center piece?
I have used them a few times and they are tough, do decent damage output and are great fun in a 2x Gargant only VS regular army fight.

Good to know. Ya im more in it for the fun factor so I thought this defiantly would be fun to run even at 2000 points. Just run the stompa and a a bunch of boyz. Toss in some bikes and lootas, maybe a warboss and bam a 2000 point list!!!

I guess it depends. I've heard varied results on its combat effectiveness. It seems to die quickly though in the Apoc games the local store hosts once a month. Hard to keep it alive with so many enemies so close. In a one on one large game, it might do just fine. I plan on getting one myself now that I've got a Morkanaught, to kind of round off my collection. There's still a few things I want to patch up in my army (Such as more Manz, as I only own 3, Mek Gunz which I'll buy third party, Tank Bustas, Planes). I doubt I'll get a lot of use out of him though, which is why I'm saving his purchase for very last, due to the LoW hate. (Myself included a lot of times)

Well I just picked one up. Second hand I should say. Got it from a buddy, it was just opened, not built or painted. Got it for $70 CAN, retails at like $140ish. Was a deal I couldn't pass up!!!!

tell your gaming group when you want to field it.

A friend of mine and I did a game where I just took a stompa and Mek boyz. He got it down to 1 HP before they all rolled 5&6s to repair. He was almost back to full HP.

Was probably the better games I played. I allowed him to take anything he wanted barring troops(They couldn't do anything to it) as long as it kept to the force org.

Just got a Stompa in an Ebay lot I just purchased. I'll get to test it out during the Apoc game this Sunday See how the bad boy works/fails to work!

All the ork players I see on here and all talk of Lords of War... It really scares me as a casual player. I don't like Stompas and other LoW units, or even some of these 8W Riptides and Wraithknights, but that's the way the game is going. I'd say buy one, people can complain if they want. Because I know for a fact that I'm buying Super-Heavy tanks for my 1500pt army now so I have a chance against anything.

 SharkoutofWata wrote:
All the ork players I see on here and all talk of Lords of War... It really scares me as a casual player. I don't like Stompas and other LoW units, or even some of these 8W Riptides and Wraithknights, but that's the way the game is going. I'd say buy one, people can complain if they want. Because I know for a fact that I'm buying Super-Heavy tanks for my 1500pt army now so I have a chance against anything.

I'm only an Ork player at this point and I generally HATE LoW. I plan on playing the Stompa in ONLY Apoc games, where I feel they belong. I don't think you've seen a lot of Ork players on here then, because a lot of us don't like to face units our army has very little answer for.

LoW in general games is overpowered, and imperial knights should be under this category as theyre only a sliver behind LoW status anyway.

Once you hit 3k or more games, they become more acceptable since if you dont have an answer for a super heavy at 3k points, you shouldnt be playing that high.

I find it funny Ghazzy is a LoW and the Knights aren't.

 TheKbob wrote:
The use of a Stompa would be up to your local group and if they want to allow Super Heavies.

Doesn't matter anymore. It's in the Ork Codex--it's a valid choice.

Doesn't matter, though.

If your local group won't play against Superheavies it doesn't matter where their rules are written

40KNobz11 wrote:
Im considering buying a stompa. I like the look of the model and such but the large price tag kinda scares me haha!! How often does it really get used? Id imagine more so now that the rules are in the codex? My FLGS runs up to 2000 point games on a regular basis. Could the stompa be used well in a 2000 point game? Or am I better off just buying more orks for the horde, heres a list off the top of my head of what I have....

Gazzy
Weird boy
2 warboss's
Big mek KFF
Bik mek shock attack
150 or so slugga boyz
40 shoota boyz
30 lootas
15 burnas
15 storm boyz
4 Trukks
1 battle wagon
3 killa kans
1 deff dread
10 warbikers
6 nob bikers
30 or so nobz
2 dakka jets
10 tank bustas
5 kamandos
10 deffkoptas
5 flash gitz (new kit)
1 looted wagon

Probably more that I cant think of at the moment

Why not? If you can swing the price, you can use it in smallish games, as well as large point total ones. If the "cool" factor can overwhelm the "jeez thats pricey!" reflex...well life is short. Kiss the girl, buy the overpriced model, yadda yadda!

 Vineheart01 wrote:
LoW in general games is overpowered, and imperial knights should be under this category as theyre only a sliver behind LoW status anyway.

Once you hit 3k or more games, they become more acceptable since if you dont have an answer for a super heavy at 3k points, you shouldnt be playing that high.

I recently played a 5K apocalypse game free of superheavies. If someone had brought a Reaver to that game, it would have been an absolute curbstomp.

 Ascalam wrote:
Doesn't matter, though.

If your local group won't play against Superheavies it doesn't matter where their rules are written

how many people refused to play against fliers when they where the brand new "awesomeness" in a codex?

super heavies by and large aren;'t that bad, thats a lot of points for a fire magnet. often it may have been better to put those points into more.. conventional units. I mean for the price of a bane blade you could get three Lemen Russes for example

Super-heavies are alright. I've never tried a stompa before, but its stats on paper certainly look nice. Is it dead 'ard and killy? Sure, but it does cost 800 points, so it really ought to be. Like any other vehicle, it'll still die to mass melta fire, but it's gonna do a lot of damage before that happens.

I like the model, it's one of the best kits GW has made right up there with the knight. I probably wouldn't buy the box myself, if I wanted a stompa I'd most likely try scratch-building one - I have a few big flower pots I could use for the base shape.

Including a stompa in your list is definitely a good way to shake things up. I'd suggest grabbing a unit of 7 lootas and embarking them on the stompa. If you change 3 lootas to meks, you'll get 3 5+ repair rolls per shooting phase and you'll have 4 deffguns pointing out of your big rustbucket! If you're short on HS slots you could use burnas in a similar way, although they are slightly more expensive points-wise. Maybe add a KFF big mek for a 5++ save and you're good to go!

At the end of the day, getting all that will cost you over 1000 points. It does get you a nearly unkillable super-heavy walker that has almost enuff dakka, so if that's your thing, go for it! Or you could just use the stompa bare bones and let your opponent shoot everything he has at it, while the rest of your army advances on him!

BrianDavion wrote:

 Ascalam wrote:
Doesn't matter, though.

If your local group won't play against Superheavies it doesn't matter where their rules are written

how many people refused to play against fliers when they where the brand new "awesomeness" in a codex?

super heavies by and large aren;'t that bad, thats a lot of points for a fire magnet. often it may have been better to put those points into more.. conventional units. I mean for the price of a bane blade you could get three Lemen Russes for example

Didn't say they were. But you aren't going to be able to field them until your local group is ok with that.

Most of them are fine. Transcendent Ctan not so much It's them more than anything else that have killed the use of superheavies at my local flgs.

I am think when people see Lord of War or Super Heavy, they immediately associate that with D strength pie plates. The stompa is a perfectly reasonable unit in a 2k point game.

 ClassicCarraway wrote:
I am think when people see Lord of War or Super Heavy, they immediately associate that with D strength pie plates. The stompa is a perfectly reasonable unit in a 2k point game.

yeah, so far the two "codex" super heavies we've seen are the stompa and knights. both of which aren't all THAT insane for the points being put down. but yeah I'll agree things like the transcendant c'tan are a bit... much

 ClassicCarraway wrote:
I am think when people see Lord of War or Super Heavy, they immediately associate that with D strength pie plates. The stompa is a perfectly reasonable unit in a 2k point game.

This. Have a look at battle reports when one faction brought a stompa and the other didn't. The stompa is a good model, a huge point sink and not game winner at all. It's in no way comparable to the three to four big game-skewing choices.