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If I'm going to run say 3-4 mobs of 10 boys bare bones to make up the 6 needed for a decurion is there any point in...

A) boss poles?
B) a nob?

Thoughts people coz I'm just thinking that they'll die to a stiff fart without a large mob or a trukk/bw anyway.

In the particular list I'm thinking of I don't have enough vehicles to protect 6 mobs or enough boys to run 6 mobs of 20-30. Besides its only a 2000pt game and I want other toys other than just the boyz

Probably no point throwing good points down the drain if they're just being used as chaff anyway... Run them bare bones, in front of your other stuff to provide cover saves or force the enemy to waste shooting on them.

But then you need to ask yourself if taking the Decurion is worth it in the first place if you're wasting all those points on the mandatory boyz?

You could run a trukk spam with Ghaz council in a wagon so that the whole army would get fearless. It's not super effective just cause of how expensive and vulnerable Ghaz council is.

If you want to run this every turn WAAAGH formation without Ghaz council - don't use decurion. Use this formation out of codex, so that you won't have to deal with Ghazcurion "benefits". In this case you'll have some space for more bodies and even a cad with painpoyz and ranged support which would be invaluable. Also, VSG. It's golden for orkses.

You see, Ghaz council is a very niche thing. Yes, 2++ and army-wide fearless is good. But when a single footslogging unit costs 600 pts, you expect it to have some reliable delivery at very least. And all they have is a battlewagon. They also can't take fortifications without an allied CAD, so you'll need CAD annywayz.