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I'm using a mostly Nob army. I don't want to use Boyz as my required troops. I was wondering if I can just use Trukks instead.

Do you mean trukkboyz, or just trukks? I doubt that you can purchase trukks as a separate troops choice. They are a dedicated transport for certain units and must be purchased with said units.


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I thought you got nobz as troops with a certain HQ choice...

You can't just take trukks. They can only be purchased for a unit.

Taking Ghaz as your warboss lets you take a unit of Nobs as Troops.

You could also include a Big Mek, and then take a Dreadnought as your other compulsory Troop unit.

Well, I'm trying to make a mostly cybork army. I don't want to use Mad Dok and have to pay an extra 5 pts. I want to use Nobz instead of Boyz. Is there any way to do this?

Yes, you need to use Ghaz and a generic Warboss as your HQ options. That lets you take two Nobs mobs as Troops.

 insaniak wrote:
Yes, you need to use Ghaz and a generic Warboss as your HQ options. That lets you take two Nobs mobs as Troops.

Okay thanks a bunch!

 insaniak wrote:
Yes, you need to use Ghaz and a generic Warboss as your HQ options. That lets you take two Nobs mobs as Troops.

Or just 2 standard Warbosses, as Ghaz is quite costly and isn't so effective due to the FAQs/Erratas.

I strongly suggest taking atleast 20 Boyz to use them as cannon fodder to shield your Nobz. If you dont do that the nobz will get deciminated from focused fire from most of the other army in turns 2-3.
You can put them in a battlewagon but then you still need a unit to capture the objectives. The nobz will be able to hold 2 at most. And if the game has 6 objectives...
And dont even think of taking grots as cannon fodder. they are probably the weakest units in the game.


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Dr. What wrote:
Or just 2 standard Warbosses, as Ghaz is quite costly and isn't so effective due to the FAQs/Erratas.

Yeah, I was misremembering the wording there... had thought it worked like the Waaagh banner, where having more than one gave no additional bonus.

So yes, two regular Warbosses will achieve the same thing if you don't want to invest in Ghaz.

Just to reiterate another point - dedicated transports can only be purchased alongside a unit of legal size, not by themselves.

You will see, if looking through the Ork Codex, that there is no way to purchase a trukk by itself.

You either have to buy the boyz to into the trukk, or put the Nobs into trukks.

But yes, get Warboss, make Nobs troops, solve your problems.

 Kharrak wrote:
Just to reiterate another point - dedicated transports can only be purchased alongside a unit of legal size, not by themselves.
You will see, if looking through the Ork Codex, that there is no way to purchase a trukk by itself.
You either have to buy the boyz to into the trukk, or put the Nobs into trukks.
But yes, get Warboss, make Nobs troops, solve your problems.

"Legal size" for orks can be a unit as small as 3 boyz if you read the codex carefully
Same for most other units, one biker can be a biker mob etc.


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 Daemonhammer wrote:
"Legal size" for orks can be a unit as small as 3 boyz if you read the codex carefully
Same for most other units, one biker can be a biker mob etc.

Well, yeah, but considering you can't purchase a unit consisting of less than 10 boyz, it's kind of a useless point to make

Essentially, a unit of boyz larger than 12 can not purchase a Trukk as a dedicated transport.

 Daemonhammer wrote:

 Kharrak wrote:
Just to reiterate another point - dedicated transports can only be purchased alongside a unit of legal size, not by themselves.
You will see, if looking through the Ork Codex, that there is no way to purchase a trukk by itself.
You either have to buy the boyz to into the trukk, or put the Nobs into trukks.
But yes, get Warboss, make Nobs troops, solve your problems.

"Legal size" for orks can be a unit as small as 3 boyz if you read the codex carefully
Same for most other units, one biker can be a biker mob etc.


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I don't have the ork codex but I'm pretty sure you're 100% wrong.

According to the Ork codex Boyz are bought starting with 10 boyz and units of up to 12 may take a truck. Bikers and Nobz are a min of 3 models.

rigeld2 wrote:

 Daemonhammer wrote:

 Kharrak wrote:
Just to reiterate another point - dedicated transports can only be purchased alongside a unit of legal size, not by themselves.
You will see, if looking through the Ork Codex, that there is no way to purchase a trukk by itself.
You either have to buy the boyz to into the trukk, or put the Nobs into trukks.
But yes, get Warboss, make Nobs troops, solve your problems.

"Legal size" for orks can be a unit as small as 3 boyz if you read the codex carefully
Same for most other units, one biker can be a biker mob etc.


Omnisiah protect.

I don't have the ork codex but I'm pretty sure you're 100% wrong.

He is.

Boyz are min 10 in a unit

Bikes are 3 +

Nobz and meganobz are 3+

Deffkoptas are 1+ but they are the exception.

Tankbustas, lootas, burnas etc are 5 ..