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Hey All, I have another unbuilt ork kit, this time, the dakkajet kit, I've heard a lot of mixed opinions about the various aircraft, but what would be your favorite choice for a competitive/dakka list? I was thinking something like a dakkajet for pure...dakka...or a blitzabommer, because i have a lot of marines at my local meta so i thought it would be nice to blow em up or kamikaze trying Thanks if anyone can help

Pretty much the only competitive one is the Dakkajet, BS3 and 3 TL supashootas will give any bomb a run for their money against horde lists and lighter vehicles. It's much harder to get multiple hits with the bomber so most vehicles tend to survive, and everyone just imagines the burna-bomber to not exist.

The bitza-bommer is absolutely terrible. It was made for 5th edition rules, in 6th our "anti-vehicle-bomber" even struggles to kill trukks.

I'd advice magnetizing it though. The forward supa-shootas and bombs are easily magnetized, even if you have no modeling skills whatsoever. The rear gun can just be left unglued and switched on the fly. If you're mad like me, you could also magnetize the skorcha missiles, or you just glue them on and ignore them when not using a burna bommer.

I think there might be some use for a Burna Bommer to weed out scoring units on objectives like Firewarriors, but otherwise the Dakkajet is hands down the go-to option.

Triple Supa Shoota Dakkajets all the way. Fighta Ace isn't a terrible use of points either if you're in a metagame with a lot of AV11 fliers and skimmers.

Blitza-bomma is the saddest vehicle of them all. Its designed to take out armor, and it sucks at it. They even FAQ'd it to make it WEAKER for some reason. Before, the best way for it to destroy something was to roll snake eyes or double 2s, both caused an S9 AP2 hit on your target (double 1s destroyed the blitza-bomma, double 2s did S9 AP2 to both you and your target) because that had a WAY better chance than your lame bomb did. Bomb was what S6 AP-not-good-enough but had a 2D6 pen? so what? and it usually misses anyway.
Incidentally if curious, the FAQ i refer to is snake eyes result is now just a Crash And Burn as per the BRB rather than just be removed and cause an S9 AP2 hit on your target automatically. Why they nerfed that i have no idea. Kinda makes sense that a plane loaded with BIG bombs crashing might cause a bigger explosion than normal lol

Burna-bomma, some people claim theyre awesome and swear by them. Personally ive never had them work for me, but i could just be using them wrong.

Dakkajets are the go-to. Their only real downside is AV10 all around (really wish at least the nose was AV11). Theyre the most reliable ork dakka unit thanks to 9 BS3 twinlinked shots and are S6 (wounding infantry on 2s) and Pinning. Ap4 is also nice but face it most armies are either t-shirts or 3+ saves lol.

The odd part is not only is the dakkajet more capable than the other two at killing something, its CHEAPER than the other two lol. Burna-bommas are ~160 depending on how many missiles you take, Blitza-bomma is even worse (forget off the top of my head). Dakkajets? 120pts with the supa shoota upgrade, 130 fully loaded (BS3 against all targets not just non-skimmer or fliers)

Dakkajet all the way for competitive play. Burna-bommer is a bit of an odd unit, not quite sure what its supposed to be doing, but I could see it being used effectively against nids, guard and other orks. Blitza-bommer seemed to be the orks general anti-armour fighter, then just as Vineheart01 says, GW nerfed it for some reason.

Burna Bomma has weapons that ignore cover. I can't understand why everyone sells it short. It's comes stock with one less supa shooter for a big shoota instead and can't upgrade to a 3rd like the dakka jet. However, it comes with small blasts that ignore cover and if you want to go kamikaze into a heard of infantry (with just a 135ptish model) you can try to drop a cover ignoring bomb.

Ought to be good at shooting deckchair units with little armor and lots of cover saves. A certain hellturkey does the same thing.

 Rismonite wrote:
Burna Bomma has weapons that ignore cover. I can't understand why everyone sells it short. It's comes stock with one less supa shooter for a big shoota instead and can't upgrade to a 3rd like the dakka jet. However, it comes with small blasts that ignore cover and if you want to go kamikaze into a heard of infantry (with just a 135ptish model) you can try to drop a cover ignoring bomb.

Ought to be good at shooting deckchair units with little armor and lots of cover saves. A certain hellturkey does the same thing.

Hahaha, Hellturkey Well then i think i'll go for the dakkajet then, a quick read on 4chan describes it as being a great dogfighter behind the vendetta so i think my mind is set

The issue with the burna bomma to me is its by default more costly than even the upgraded dakkajet, and thats with NO missiles attached. The bomb is great but you only get 2 and you gotta fly over your target to bomb them.

Its just too expensive for such a squishy S5 twice-use-only bomb that usually puts it in a funky position afterwords.

 Vineheart01 wrote:
Its just too expensive for such a squishy S5 twice-use-only bomb that usually puts it in a funky position afterwords.

This. Manoeuvering in order to perform a bombing run means you normally get to use either bombs or missiles, rarely both. The burna bommer has a lot of potential, but sadly you never get the chance to use it. A true pity, as it is one of the few 40k planes that actually works like a close support aircraft should - but the rules punish that and favor fire-belching fething dragons instead...

Dakka Jets rock, I use 2 w/ 1 Burna bomber. Key with the Burna bomber is to buy 4 skorcher rockets. Fly on the board, drop bomb(if you can), fire 2 rockets + TLSS at different target. If it lives, fly off the board and drop a bomb. Rinse/repeat. Once you have dropped both bombs, fly around the board w just a TLSS. It is over priced just a tad for what you get. Never ever buy for than 4 rockets.

 Agent_Tremolo wrote:

 Vineheart01 wrote:
Its just too expensive for such a squishy S5 twice-use-only bomb that usually puts it in a funky position afterwords.

This. Manoeuvering in order to perform a bombing run means you normally get to use either bombs or missiles, rarely both. The burna bommer has a lot of potential, but sadly you never get the chance to use it. A true pity, as it is one of the few 40k planes that actually works like a close support aircraft should - but the rules punish that and favor fire-belching fething dragons instead...

Agree. In addition, unlike the dreaded helldrake, it does not have AP3. This results in the burna bummer either being ridiculously awesome at killing your opponent's army (orks, nids, dark eldar, IG, certain necron builds) or utterly worthless (MEQ, eldar). Dropping the bomb, firing two missiles and the supa-shoota into a unit of necron warriors is completely going to murder them. Shoot the same weapons at a unit of space marines, and they are going to bounce of power armor.

Unfortunately when i proxied a deffkopta to try the burna bomma, it did stuff all, all of its missles missed, and it got shot down immediately after by bolters :/ I really do fancy modelling one mind you, but i think a dakkajet is the way to go!