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I've made the neccessary incantations to search the subforum, but the omnissiah privileged me to no epiphany. As such, it is with due reverence I approach you, the forum elderseers, for assistance.

I wish to take part in a build off challenge for ork kill tanks on the Facebook ork group. Naturally this imbibed me with the excited impetus to start list building.

While calculating points I came across an oddity.

The ork kill tanks have the abilities 'grot riggers' and 'reinforced ram'. These abilities do not appear in the tank's wargear entry. It seems other dataslates have the option to take wargear upgrades named similarly to these abilities (also named 'grot riggers' and 'reinforced ram').

Should the kill tank pay the wargear price for it's abilities even though they aren't listed as wargear in the tank's dataslate? Or as these abilities aren't listed as wargear for the kill tank are the abilities already baked into the starting price of the kill tank?

Are the wargear grot riggers/reinforced ram completely different rules to the kill tank's abilities and they just happen to share the same name?

Bonus question, the stompa has an ability called 'grot rigger crew'. Does it need to pay for 'grot riggers' (again missing from the dataslate's wargear entry) or is this ability also considered something separate to 'grot rigger' wargear too?

The "Grot Riggers" rule for the kill tank does not have anything to do with the "Grot rigger" form the "Battlewagon equipment" list on P. 83 of the Ork Dex.

I do not see a "reinforced ram" anywhere in the Ork Codex.


Bonus question, the Stompa, on P. 117 of the Ork Codex, has an ability called "Stompa Rigger Crew" not 'grot rigger crew'.

The Kill Tank is a FW Index Xenos unit.

It has those abilities included and they don’t cost extra points. They’re not listed as optional wargear in this instance. Or maybe you do have to pay for them as they appear in the points list? FW wrote these books in a lunch break and they are NOT well proofed!