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So.... I had a thought, a while back, about using two Gorkanaut Krushin' Krews as a 1500 point army - sort of an Orky version of a Knight Lance.
It's not as good, for a whole slew of reasons (mostly relating to Gorkanauts not being superheavy walkers), but I still wanted to try the idea and see how it worked.

I also had another idea, looking at other formations - throwing in air support in the form of Skyboss Wingnutz' Air Armada - because they've got that wonderful Deff Skwadron feel.
(Hands up anyone who remembers that comic . If you've never read it and you're an Ork player, go find a copy. Now.)

Anyway, unlike two Gorkanaut Krushin' Krews , which leaves me only enough points to put Armour Plates and Grot Riggers on the warlord trait-less 'Boss 'Naut', this pair of formations has a few options to spend its last few points on. Plus, it means I don't have to be concerned about any event not letting me take duplicate formations.

In their basic form:
Gorkanaut Krushin' Krew
- Gorkanaut
- Gorkanaut
- Gorkanaut

Skyboss Wingnutz' Air Armada
- Dakkajet with Flyboss
- Dakkajet
- Dakkajet
- Burna Bomma
- Blitza Bomma

That's 1330 points - leaving me with 170 points to buy extra upgrades:
- Extra Supa-Shootas for the Dakkajets seems like a given. A pittance change in cost for a 33% increase in firepower. I've never understood why the third gun is optional...
- A full load of Skorcha Rokkits for the Burna Bomma. Some people say two - given that you can fire two, plus the Supa-Shoota and Big Shoota, but the advantage of Wingnutz' formation is the ability to fly on, dump off all the one-use weapons, fly off and reload, then come back on and do it again - which suggests that maxing out the ordnance loads of my bommas is a good plan. Besides which, I have plenty of shootas but limited access to burny stuff; the ability to put four skorcha rokkits into someone playing silly buggers with a 2+ cover save could make my life a lot easier.

That leaves 100 points left. The upgrades open to me are:
- Armour Plates and/or Grot Riggers for the Gorkanauts. This is probably my preferred option.
- Flyboss upgrades for the other two Dakkajets - Maybe, but it'll mean giving up Armour Plates on the 'Nauts. It'd depend how many flyers and skimmers I see - I'm not convinced it'd make that much difference compared to not having a Gorkanaut stunned for a turn.
- A Fighter Ace upgrade for one of the flyers - the Ork table's not great, especially since I won't have any infantry if I roll the 6+ feel no pain bubble. +1BS is okay but most of my weapons are either twin-linked or bombs, and +1 armour isn't much to write home about when you start at armour 10. I guess the unit best placed to take advantage would be the blitza bomma - -1 scatter on a Boom Bomm is nice when you only get one shot against an important target, and +1 armour might help if you clip someone on the dive bomber table...

Thoughts on the best upgrades? Has anyone used the Leviathan aces table for orks?

I'd say 4 Rokkits for the Burna Bomma. The 2 missiles restriction is gone now, you just have the 4 weapons at full BS.

So fly on, fire all 4 Rokkits (snap shoot super shootas) next turn fly off (dropping a bomb as you go).

I'd like to see this list in action.

As I said, that's a given. The fact that I effectively get to ignore "One Use Only" makes them too tempting in my eyes to pass up.

The question is what else to take...


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 koooaei wrote:
I'd like to see this list in action.

Definitely. It has clear weaknesses - mainly that 50% of it starts in reserves and I get no rerolls or bonuses, but on a nice clear day where 3-4 fightas turn up on turn 2 it should do okay.
Thoughts on the upgrade options?
As I say; my default reflex is Armour Plates and Grot Riggers - the flyboss upgrade for the Dakkajets is nice, but I figure 1 is probably enough - most targets in any given game will be vulnerable to Strafing Run, and the Ork Fighter Ace table seems a bit fail (especially compared to the Tyranid one).

if your worried about reserve rolls you could take a CAD with min gretchin squads to shove in the naughts, and then take a big mek with da finkin kap? would get 2 strategic rolls and you can re roll for being CAD, so you should get something helpful more often than not. and then you can also help heal a nught every turn AND you wont have to choose a warlord from a naught, you can choose the big mek instead?

Firstly, I was hoping to just use formations, not a combined arms detachment. More importantly, I'm pretty sure even minimum sized grot mobz won't fit in a gorkanaut (only a 5-ork capacity, remember).

Not sure how this fits with your stuff because it clearly wouldn't fit in any of the formations but what about a Big mek with the Fixer upperz and a mek boy to accompany him. shove him in one of your Nauts and its got a 4+ and a 5+ at the end of every turn. Plus it can leave the naut its in and run to any that are messed up....you might lose him that turn though :-p

^^^

i agree with Gazzy

and sorry, i forgot naughts can only take 5 capacity :/ maybe just deck out your units and hope for good reserve rolls?

would personally stick riggers on the naughts and get the fighter ace