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Well, they could allow two trukk boy squads per troops slot. Or they could make the trukk a little more survivable. But otherwise, unless there is a serious buff to the squad leading nob, I doubt that trukkboyz will ever get viable for this edition. The very basic rules cemented that charging with 8 unarmored models is supposed to fail.

 Jidmah wrote:
GW always puts a huge tax on mobile units, so I would expect to see them below 9 points. However, they might get the option to assault fliers, as seen in THQ's game "Space Marine".

I would like to see a suicide attack from stormboys on fliers. You can choose how many you want to sacrifice from the squad. They assault and attack rear armor but die no matter the result. Make it an automatic glance, but you still roll to pen. str9 because of the pack exploding.

Oh dude if they could assault fliers but they remained as they are now i would SO start using them more.

Even if against facing armor since its an aerial combat, the PK nob (or Zagstruk) would wreck any flier if he can get it, which is possible with 13-18" movement and 12" charge.
Then again it might be normal movement and fleet charge, i could see it being illegal unless you didnt use your rokkit packs yet.

 Icculus wrote:

 Jidmah wrote:
GW always puts a huge tax on mobile units, so I would expect to see them below 9 points. However, they might get the option to assault fliers, as seen in THQ's game "Space Marine".

I would like to see a suicide attack from stormboys on fliers. You can choose how many you want to sacrifice from the squad. They assault and attack rear armor but die no matter the result. Make it an automatic glance, but you still roll to pen. str9 because of the pack exploding.

In the game, they actually jump onto the valkyries and start smashing the cockpit with a choppa

The often quoted stormboy who flew into the engine did so purely on accident. Not hard to build a rule out of this:

"During your assault phase, stormboyz may use their rokkit pack to assault fliers as if they were non-flier skimmers. If, during this assault, a stormboy rolls a to-hit roll if one, remove it as casualty and roll a d6. On a 6+ the assaulted flier suffers a penetrating hit."

By the way, the game is really worth playing if you manage to get it cheap, especially for ork players. Fighting a Warboss up close is an awesome experience.