Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Hey! I have an upcoming ~750-850 game. I'm gona have a footslogging 'eavy armored boss, a painboss, 30 choppaboyz, 20 shootaboyz backed with 5 big gunz spread in 2-3 smaller squads (have just made them myself using plastic clay - modelled them all to look like lobbas but the opponent will be fine if i proxy them as any big gun, so, i'm thinking of 3 lobbas, KMK and ZZAP for fun) and that's all the things i'm gona field 100%. If there are gona be leftover points, i'll go with a squad of grots or will just live them to man the gunz cause i actually don't have enough grot models for both manning 5 gunz and forming a squad but have some ig ccs guyz that will be fine with helping out da grots fire dose fings...otherwise da boss ain't gona be happy with da umiez and ye don't want to make da boss not happy!

Thus said, i really like the fluff of blood axes! And they're one of the orkses who field kommandoes quite often. But i still can't figure a way to use commandoes offensively with any decent effect other than Snikrot formation which obviously won't fit in such low pt games. What i was actually thinking of is a small squad of 5-6 kommandoes with 2 rokkits or bigshootas infiltrating cover close to the desolate point in no man's land. So, Dakka, what are your thoughts about such use of kommandoes? Would you rather go with bigshootas or rokkits? Would you prefer to outflank them? What's the optimal size for such mission? Would you bother to take a nob for better chances with the mob rule?

Two rokkits are much more likely to shift something than big shootaz, so there's your answer.

If you manage to infiltrate them in a ruin with 24" of your enemy, those rokkits are going to annoy your opponent all day long, while the can go to ground for 2+ cover.

The +2 cover save is only for one turn. Then its +1..and that's only with snikrot... but you really think 2 bs2, rokkits are going to be a deterrent in any way?? I'd rather then burnas for the power weapon option I. Assault...especially if in not taking snikrot.

You get 4+ cover from a ruin, stealth and going to ground improves that to 2+.

He is thinking about running 5-6 komandoz, the only thing that they are going to kill in combat is themselves. Obviously, there are better things to do with those points, but that wasn't his question.

Double burna delivery wagon with Snikrot.

Hit a ruin if you can and clear that mother right out. Then next turn threaten to assault something and yoive got 6 shiny power weapon attacks.