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So I see that Stompas are in the codex... My Question is, Are there any special rules as far as fielding a Stompa i.e. What gametypes can I run a Stompa?

I'm new to super-heavy units.

No rules at all. If you have the points, you can take one.

If you are playing against a new player, common sense tells us you may want to warn him, or just not take it, or offer to adjust your list if he has very optimized units.

If your opponent has D weapons, most likely the stompa gets one-shotted (or 2 or 3) anyway, so it's as good as not having it except you are out the 770 points.

Hey thanks! Stompas look fun! I just feel like 770 points is a lot for a unit that can be 1 hit K.O.

It is. Stompas are not really considered OP.

If you want to use a stompa but are put off by the ineffectiveness of the rules, then IA8 allows you to field a kustom stompa which can be equipped similarly to the codex stompa for fewer points.

yep totally going to run a Kustom Stompa.
So I keep seeing the special rule "it will not die" what does that mean and how would it effect my Stompa?

Just what the special rule says on the BRB , just another way to regain Hull points on it's own.

Brilliant! thank you!

IWND on a Stompa is pretty much a non-entity. Getting back a hull point, 1/3rd of the time, on a 12hp vehicle, is very rarely going to come into play - Most of the time, if someone kills you, it'll be because they shot at you with overwhelming firepower and got into overkill. (Using a bunch of Melta guns, or a couple D shots, or whatever they happen to have.) You're rarely going to get knocked down to only having a single point left, and even when that happens it's rarely going to be because you got that 5+ roll last turn to get the HP back.