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Anyone have experience with placing a unit of 4 lootaz and a mek with a grot oiler inside a gorkanaut? I want to know if it's good tactics and if da grot oiler counts towards transport capacity. Also open to anything else to put into a gorkanaut, but this seems to be my best bet personally.

Armymutt22 wrote:
Anyone have experience with placing a unit of 4 lootaz and a mek with a grot oiler inside a gorkanaut? I want to know if it's good tactics and if da grot oiler counts towards transport capacity. Also open to anything else to put into a gorkanaut, but this seems to be my best bet personally.

Haven't tried that, but at least I can answer that the oiler is not taking up any transport slots.

Personally I'm running burna boyz and a mek in my morkanaught.

I don't have my codex to hand, and I don't use a gorkanaut... but I would advise against this loadout.

Five lootas on their own aren't going to do a lot of damage at the best of times, especially if they are (1) stuck inside a gorkanaut and (2) forced to snap fire (if they are allowed to fire out at all - again, don't have the codex to hand here).

IMO the better option, if you are going to use a gorkanaut, is a big mek with KFF and da fixer uppers and a meganob or burna bodyguard. Probably the latter so that you don't turn it into too much of a fire magnet.

Also, I second what Tehenhauin said about the grot oiler - it doesn't count as a model per se, just an item of war gear, it's just that the actual model is on a base!

if i remember correct, the naut has no firepoints so the lootas won't be able to fire unless you unload them first..

i take a squad of 5 burnas, make 3 of them meks and with that you have 4 iwnd dice each turn. only worht it in big games offcourse

I see. Didn't realize there were no fire pts. I do, however, own an additional mek to stick in there for now until I get a unit that will work better. Burnaz maybe, tankbustaz?

BTW both meks have killsawz and kustom mega-blastaz

I would put the mek there with a squad of burnas (since meks are not supposed to run alone. 2burnas and 3mekks make a squad i think). Tankbustas have no use in a naut. They kick ass in 7th imo and must be used in a trukk or bw to have mobility, some protection and all rokkits can fire.
burnas i think are less effective so its better to use them for that purpose.

I think lootas aren't the best source of meks, because they are Heavy Support ant this slot could be used for some other purpose.

The gorkanaught wants to get to CC. however, if a unit disembarks after he's moved, he can't move any further - including assault. so whatever unit you put in there mustn't be expecting to get out next to the enemy.

best bet is the cheapest unit (lootas or burnas, I forget which) to take 3 meks and a big mek, to try and keep it alive. but it can be one-shotted, so this itself is still somewhat useless.

I don't rate either of the 'naughts very highly. the times I've run them they didn't get to use their multiple hullpoints, they got blown up or mass-thunderhammer'd or mass-carnifex'd after only 1 previous hullpoint was lost.

you're far better off getting a real transport (IE one that can flat-out move after a 12" move) and a dreadnaught, and let the 2 units do their things seperately.

Surely, if all you are after is a bunch of meks inside to fix the vehicle as it goes along, the most cost-effective option is to take a big mek and a couple of slotless meks (assuming you have at least one other independent character elsewhere in your army)?

 Krusha wrote:
Surely, if all you are after is a bunch of meks inside to fix the vehicle as it goes along, the most cost-effective option is to take a big mek and a couple of slotless meks (assuming you have at least one other independent character elsewhere in your army)?

the slotless mek (quote rules)" if possible be assigned to any unit with infantry or artillery type in their detachment. He cannot leave the unit and is part of it for the entire battle"
So i think a unit of slotless meks is against this rule.
But solution: squad of 5 burnas, up to three models may be upgraded to meks.

With 80pts its expensive but if you got some spare points it can keep a bulletmagnet alive. Lootas are 10pts cheaper but take the heavy slot...

For the rest, i think the transportcapacity of the nauts is useless. Unless someone else knows any other meaning for this

i typically use a burna squad with three meks and two burnas and a big mek with fixxa uppas. Other than being one shotted, it pretty much keeps the thing alive for a long long time.

For fun....1 big mek+3 meks (the non slot hq ones)

Make the big mek a mega armored guy with the tellyporta blast thing.

If you can't do that then 1 meganob+ 3 meks.

As mentioned;
The slotless Mek has to be assigned to a squad, with troops/artillery before anything else.

So in any standard CAD or ork detatchment, 2-3 slotless meks will typically only be able to go with your 2+ required troops choices.

Burnas/lootas upgraded to meks are the only way it seems to get meks inside.

fill it full of boys and run the detachment in waaagh ghazkull, you might get a deepstrike gorkanaut (at least based on my potentially crude understanding of the tellyporta strike rules)

 ionusx wrote:
fill it full of boys and run the detachment in waaagh ghazkull, you might get a deepstrike gorkanaut (at least based on my potentially crude understanding of the tellyporta strike rules)

nope. boyz has to be with 10. transportcapacity of nauts is only 6. Deepstrike would only work with a lucky 6 on the start of the game in waaagh ghazzy supplement(only troops get DS on a 5, but they don't fit in)