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Has anyone seen Burna's used....as a full unit....in anything but a friendly game? I am wondering what hope there is for this unit.

Nope, only seen them used in friendly games. They die so easily and since their flamers are only D3 hits it seems like too big a points sink to be useful in all but the most casual of games.

That said, I do really like the look of the models and wish that they could just have D6 hits like most other flamers in the game, at least then they could be somewhat scary.

I think the last time I used a full unit was 6th edition. I just don't think they fit any particularly useful role that isn't performed by another unit more efficiently and more safely. I don't write lists for peak efficiency but they're juet too expensive for a squishy unit that absolutely needs to put itself directly in harm's way to get the job done. I'd love for them to be more useable though.

About only use I can come up with them is min squad with kmb spanna's as death skull. 2 such squad+2 mekw/kmb(if index allowed) in trukk w/rokkit(if index allowed).

That's 4 S8 -3 Dd6 and 1 S8 -2 D3 shots each rerolling to hit, to wound and damage roll.

Not convinced 264 pts is worth it and as index is generally banned here haven't felt motivated to assemble and paint one.

And obviously even here the burna boyz are more of tax for kmb's! Without rule of 3 6 mek's and trukk for 6 kmb shot would be where I would be going instead.

It’s a shame they are basically useless, because the models are great. Would love to be able to load up a mob in a Trukk and go and set stuff on fire, but they do very little damage, die to a stiff breeze and cost way too many points.

As long as they don't have proper flamers with D6 autohits, nope, they'll be shelved forever, probably even in friendly games. They're the only models in my collection along with bubblechukkas that I haven't fielded yet after the codex dropped, barring flyers, zaggy, the squig buggy and the stompa because I don't have the models.

Last time I saw them used was early 7th edition when my main opponent rushed a trukk with a full mob of Burna Boys up and flamed my infiltrated Eversor assassin to death before I got to move him...still a little salty about that one. lol