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Panic wrote:

bravelybravesirrobin wrote:Can anyone give me a rough idea of how these work ruleswise? ...

yeah,
Squadrons of 3-6 tanks.
Fast attack choice in the IA dread list.
Added to codex orks as a elites choice

They are basically the same armour and cost as buggies.
They move 2D6" and fire all weapons.
or move flat out 3d6" fire no weapons.

They don't have TL weapons but they are BS3.
Same weapons as KillaKans (Scorcha, Rocket, BigShoota, GrotZooka, mega blaster)...

They do have a 5++ save against damage.

this for me is a cool little unit.

Panic...

edit:
you can also buy a 15pt upgrade to make one tank in the squadron the CommandTank. he gets to have a second weapon from the List and allows a reroll on the random movement dice.

Wow! That sounds fairly amazing for my kanwall list. That's a really tough choice between them and more lootaz.

You could scramble together 18 grot tanks, 9 kanz and 9 buggies in a 2K list easily. With 2 Big Meks that's a hell of a lot of mobile firepower.

How much are they points wise in a game of 40k?

So.

85 bucks for these 4 little guys, or 90 or 100 for a Stompa?

I'm impressed, I guess

@Grot: How much are 4 IG Sentinels?

JohnHwangDD wrote:@Grot: How much are 4 IG Sentinels?

$100.

I just wish I could field them in squadrons of 3-6

Precisely my point.

Silence you!

What? Grot Tanks? Better give me a proper Gutrippa or Bonebreaka!

What kind of a mek would make tanks for grotz anyway.

Also that price is kinda incredible.

what kind of big mek would make Killer kanz for grotz

yeah

ergotoxin wrote:What kind of a mek would make tanks for grotz anyway?

Fluff says that grots steal from the big mek and make the GrotTanks in a dark corner of the meks workshop. He often turns a blind eye to the grots projects since they make good cannon fodder!

Panic...

man that is awesome.. I love them.

Those Grot tanks are the bomb!

I hate to ask again but does anyone one the points cost to the grot tanks in a game of 40k?

30pts + weapon

I;m getting some. Simple as.

JohnHwangDD wrote:@Grot: How much are 4 IG Sentinels?

LOL, you're price or when I first bought them?

I have about 6-10 of them. They were about 15 bucks when I got them.

whats you're point?

That they are expensive? pfft.

As said...

Stompa or Grot tanks?

Wait, which Sentinels are we talking about here Grot?

Because the only one that was $15 was the one with the multilaser, open canopy, and heavy flamer.

Boom, roasted!

NOW do you feel like you've been cheated? LMAO!!!!!

Considering that I've got armored canopies, autocannons, and all the trimmings as plastic...I'm okay with the $22 I spent on mine

@Grot: If you're talking about current Stompa and current Grot tanks, you need to use current Sentinel (over-)pricing.

If I had to spend the money on GW, on 4 small or 1 big, as I'm not an Ork player, I'd get another Shadowsword with the money.

9 x kanz with rokkits - 450
9 x buggies with rokkits - 315

18 x grot tanks with rokkits, leader and another rokkit 675

2 x big Meks with KFF - 170

in total - 1610

you could trim some points obviously because you'd want some grotzookas in there as well as the rokkits and maybe not max out every squad so you could actually afford some boyz but there is serious potential for an army there.

Especially if you play rebel grots, the addition of 6 maxed grot squads to that army comes out as only 2,270 pts.

30 BS 4 rokkits
9 Bs2 twin linked rokkits
198 warm bodies and 36 vehicles to kill (most of which have a cover or invulnerable save).

Any one fancy taking that to ard boyz?

Another easy modelling option to make a grot tank is the Wartrakk model - just leave off the bike front, replace the hole with smome plasticard armour, and build a little turret to fit onto the crew compartment.

Of course, that's only economic if you have a cheap source of wartrakks - I knew I was right to grab those discount boxes of Gorka Morka back in the late nineties

Oh that army is wrong.

Yep army is wrong.

Wrong on so many levels.

Now wait what am I missing to build that.

If it wasn't Forgeworld, I'd be all over this.

malfred wrote:If it wasn't Forgeworld, I'd be all over this.

This. Love the models and ~$20 isn't so bad, but I've already made buggies...

On a side note, why don't they come in groups of 3 and/or 1? Leads to funky math if you COULD actually field these things in normal games.

@Skarboy: Just buy 3 sets, and the math is easy.

Love the Grot "Tanks". Kind of remind me of junky versions of tanks from Advanced Wars.

These are the kinds of models and conversion opportunities that makes one start up an Ork army....damn you GW/FW crack.

bravelybravesirrobin wrote:9 x kanz with rokkits - 450
9 x buggies with rokkits - 315

18 x grot tanks with rokkits, leader and another rokkit 675

2 x big Meks with KFF - 170

in total - 1610

you could trim some points obviously because you'd want some grotzookas in there as well as the rokkits and maybe not max out every squad so you could actually afford some boyz but there is serious potential for an army there.

Especially if you play rebel grots, the addition of 6 maxed grot squads to that army comes out as only 2,270 pts.

30 BS 4 rokkits
9 Bs2 twin linked rokkits
198 warm bodies and 36 vehicles to kill (most of which have a cover or invulnerable save).

Any one fancy taking that to ard boyz?

how would this work out for a 1500p Army...