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So I have a good amount of foot slogging boys. The problem is none of them ever really make it into the fight. Would I be better off having them all run in trukks or spend the points and get the wagons?

When it comes to trukks vs. battlewagons, let's take a look at the pros and cons for holding melee troops.

Cons:

-Flimsy: Only AV 10 means even bolters could glance them. Not super hard to destroy.

-Lack of space: You only get 12 seats, as opposed to a battlewagon's 20 seats.

Pros:

- Cheap: 35 points gets you a fast, open topped transport, with the reinforced ram and a gun, as opposed to the 115 points for a open topped transport with reinforced ram and no gun.

- Fast: Those extra six inches of flatting out help a lot when you've got to get in your opponent's face fast.

- Utility: Once your boys are out of the trukks, your opponent is tempted to ignore them, seeing as they're not that much of a threat. This is a mistake. Don't expect to out-shoot your opponent, but get creative and the trukk is very useful even when your boyz are out in the field. Use it to tank shock (ram required) your opponent off of an objective and steal it for yourself. Use it as mobile line of sight blocking terrain. Block guys from charging you. You never feel bad about suiciding a trukk for a greater purpose.

I vote for trukks, with the caveat that they work best if you've got some good line of sight blocking terrain to hide them behind so you don't get shot down turn one. I used to have a battlewagon in most all of my lists holding a boyz mob, warboss, and painboy. The problem I had with this is that the further up the field you go, the easier it is to kill that battlewagon. And when you got melee troops in there, you want to go up the field.

Honestly, when it comes to boyz, you get the mobs for the power klaws, especially if you're facing against high armor armies (ehem! Space marines. Ehem!). So stuffing them in a battlewagon gets you more boys, but boys attacks aren't the ones you're really counting on. And if you want to put somebody with a trukk, you can make it a min squad with a powerklaw nob (so 9 boyz, and 1 nob) and that gives you two seats in the trukk. You can stick a mega armor warboss in there for a perfectly filled trukk of death

That's my two cents anyways, trukks are just cheaper, faster, and perform similarly in survival when they get up close. Your metta may very.

That was incredibly helpful! Especially since having all those trukks means some of them should make it where they need to go.

Glad you found it useful! One last thing, if you do go with more trukks, don't be afraid to have multiple units charge a single enemy unit. Being orks, we play the numbers game, and if we can't get a giant swarm unit, swamping with multiple small units a good way to go. Trying to go 1-1 against an enemy will typically end in us getting krumped.

Also, you'll get more powerklaws in on one enemy unit!

Personally I favour wagons for the "core" of my force and trucks for special rapid response units, e.g. Meganobz or 'ard boys to storm objectives.

Boys can be used as a meat shield for a power klaw nob and this can be effective. However, bigger mobs are more versatile and they can really wreck face through weight of attacks even before the klaws come out to play.

The core of almost all of my ork lists is 2x20 boyz in battlewagons with only 2 upgrades, a ram and a big shoota.

I do pretty well with this list, but i dont play against highly competitive or armies either.