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I was wondering which one people usually use on their vehicles. For a TAC list, which one do you use mostly on different squads:
Some Mathhammer:

I'm always using rokkits. Don't feel lack of mid str shooting in my lists. And rokkits tend to make some people jink. Even single bs2 rokkits.

As much as I respect everything Kooaei says I owe at least one game (tie became a tie on secondaries) this month to a Big Shoota on a trukk getting slay the warlord turn six on Belial from 30+ inches while securing my own objective.

Keep throwing dice, they will fail.

Eh. Anecdotal, and Belial was down to his last wound.

 koooaei wrote:
...And rokkits tend to make some people jink. Even single bs2 rokkits.

True, some opponents will ignore a big shoota but work harder to avoid or kill a rokkit, which can be tactically useful to you, if only as a diversion.

Range isn't really an issue for trukk weapons, as a trukk is likely to get within 24" of the enemy by the time it's wanting to shoot anything anyway.

I use rokkits because they can damage anything. while the big shoota is more reliable at hitting and taking out infantry, the main struggle i personally have is shooting and destroying enemy vehicles before my units hit their lines. My tank bustas sure do strip some hull points, but they often just need that one more point to strip. so I will sometimes fire the rokkits from trucks into enemy vehicles before my tank bustas fire to secure that tasty 2 point first blood.

I have also had some experience with big shootas, and there is no question that they can be good vs infantry. Sometimes they can be more valuable than rokkits, but for that one game where you need that extra hull point stripped to take down that super heavy or that knight to deny them another turn on the table, i go with rokkits

All rokkits all the time.

Orks infantry can handle infantry well enough as it is imo.

Now that rokkits are the same price there really is not contest.

My only exception would probably be a big trakk from IA8.
6 big shootas on a single vehicle means you get to roll a lot of dice and the model looks nice.

I go for majority for example , tank bustaz in trukk rokit on trukk, shoota boyz in bw all bigshoota and bigshootas on bw , I don't like to mix weapons for example rokits in boyz squads is a waste since , usualy I want that rokitz on some av targets and my 18 boyz just skipp shooting .

 darkflame182 wrote:
I go for majority for example , tank bustaz in trukk rokit on trukk, shoota boyz in bw all bigshoota and bigshootas on bw , I don't like to mix weapons for example rokits in boyz squads is a waste since , usualy I want that rokitz on some av targets and my 18 boyz just skipp shooting .

Rokkits are not worse than bigshootas vs heavy infantry. And regular shootas are allready enough to hurt light infantry to make this tiny difference between rokkits and bs matter vs this very type of foes.

Rokkits on everything. Spread out dat anti-vehicle threat, the orks need more transport popping help not more anti-infantry help.

Well a random rokkit from a squad of boyz never helped me against some vehicle , but big shootas saved my orks so many times even against armor 10-11armor skimer or bikers and other fast and pasky units, I realy actually use tankbustaz or pk as an solid av hunterz , boyz pop it with pk ! Just my opinion on this.

 darkflame182 wrote:
Well a random rokkit from a squad of boyz never helped me against some vehicle , but big shootas saved my orks so many times even against armor 10-11armor skimer or bikers and other fast and pasky units, I realy actually use tankbustaz or pk as an solid av hunterz , boyz pop it with pk ! Just my opinion on this.

problem with letting your klaws take out the vehicle is that they will have another round of shooting with the unit inside their transports because you have only destroyed the transport. If you pop the transport and charge the unit inside instead, then your orks should be fine, let the enemy have another turn of shooting however, and your orks might not live to charge. The difference of upgrading to a rokkit my friend

having said that, tank bustas are a solid choice for anti vehicle. but sometimes that vehicle has just 1 more hull point to strip, and if i have 2 units of bustas, which i usually do, then i dont wonna unload another volly into that vehicle just to take out 1 hull point, so i will shoot all the trukk rokkits and wagon rokkits etc into it to take out that last hull point. If you have rokkits everywhere on trukks and wagons and in boy units etc, then you will have enough to reliably take out that last hull point and use the second unit of bustas to shoot (and possibly kill) a whole other vehicle.

Rokkits on a squad of boyz is usually a waste - but then again so is a big shoota.

Rokkits on vehicles though are usually the better choice.

Last game I played Orcs vs Tyranids and my trukk with rockit was the star of the show.

It shot a rocket at tyranid warriors and killed 1 outright.

Then late in the game it was assaulted by a lictor, luckily survived and then 1-shot and killed it with a rocket.

I will always take rockets on my trucks and battlewagons now.

 chaosmarauder wrote:
Last game I played Orcs vs Tyranids and my trukk with rockit was the star of the show.

It shot a rocket at tyranid warriors and killed 1 outright.

Then late in the game it was assaulted by a lictor, luckily survived and then 1-shot and killed it with a rocket.

I will always take rockets on my trucks and battlewagons now.

Wou that's some work for a trukk hehe

Nothing on Boyz, occasional BS on a shoota unit I know is not going to be playing aggressive.

Rokkits on any vehicle from the current codex, cheap and high Str is really nice.

On any gunwagons or such (as I really like gunwagons) you get a TL BS, which is really sweet imo. The TL helps so much and with a squadron you can add some more BS's cheaply (5pts each I think?) and simply pour out the dakka. This is also where my shoota boyz who aren't playing aggressive tend to go, because I have flash gitz in the gunwagon behind. So the shoota boyz are a buffer unit and to help with overwatch.

Secondly, rokkits on IA8 stuff is still 15 pts per rokkit, so obviously a no no.

Orks don't really need more anti-light infantry shooting. But rokkitz can be used to pop medium/light vehicles, take wounds off of 3+ save monstrous creatures, or splatter a 3-4+ save infantry unit if there's absolutely nothing better to shoot at.

Either are wasted on boyz, but feel free to slap rokkitz everywhere on vehicles. Make every turn a macross missile massacre.

For 7th edition the price of rocket launchers and twin linked rocket launchers are the same as their big shoota and twin linked big shoota. In vehicles that come with the big shoota already the swap is free. As others have mentioned, Ork army is already filled with anti infantry. I see no reason not to take advantage of the free rocket upgrades on vehicles. I'm into putting Big Shootas in Shoota Boy squads.

I haven't used special weapons on Boyz mobs to keep things cheap and not confusing their role. If i were to do it over again, I'd probably add rokkits to my trukks instead of big shootaz, but eh....

Rokkits 99% of the time but I will easily say the Big Shoota always looks better!!