Orks - Our Gretchins will blot out the sun!

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**Matthew**

I just came up with a crazy idea: Grots suck, but a 10 man unit is 10 wounds. What if you drown your enemy in wounds...
My plan would be to have at least 40-50 Grots, field them all, and use them as cover/floodwave to give cover for my more heavily armed troops. Does it sound like a good tactic? Note: I am not going for fluff or competitive here,I'm just doing it for the laughs.

**Ratius**

Two words. Break tests :(

**Glitcha**

I did Grot trench warfare. It was fun but break test were the worse. Thank good for putting a runt herders and meks in every unit. I ran 6 groups of 15 grots.

**Frozocrone**

For fun, yeah, just be prepared to fail a lot of Ld tests.

Competively they are good for three things, backfield Objectives, ADL w/ Gun placement and absorbing Overwatch so the boyz can get stuck in

**vercingatorix**

This strategy could only possibly work a little bit with a stompa to make them all fearless.

**Ratius**

Pop the Stompa though and thats one big explosion ripping through your Grot units.

**vercingatorix**

haha, you're worried about your 700 point model explosions killing your 3 point models in front of it? Really?

**Ratius**

Well, yea if thats your entire army. Im assuming the OP wants to run some sort of full Grot army.

**Matthew**

No, I want to do a normal army with a huge Grot blob.

**Clang**

If there was some way to make the unit fearless, then it could be a very useful tar-pit/roadblock...

**Matthew**

Attach warbosses to blobs of 30?

**Kain**

Matthew wrote:
Attach warbosses to blobs of 30?

Why on Earth would you do that?

The point of Gretchin is that they're cheap. Sticking warbosses onto them is a points sink.

**HawaiiMatt**

Played against a guy who used a bunch of gnoblars and grots.
He had something like 5 units of 30 grots, along with lots of mek gunz and some grot tanks, a grot mega tank, a lord of war battle fortress, and a big mek for the HQ.

The 180 grots served as a massive bubble wrap, completely taking up all open space anywhere near the more valuable targets. Sure they were only Ld7 (with re-roll from hound), but if you were shooting at grots, you were doing it wrong.

**FratHammer**

Also, if you have the warband, and can waaagh every turn, and roll the 1 on your warlord table... Fearless grots are a side effect.

**koooaei**

Stompa + a lot of grots is a time-proven effective combo. Everyone's underestimating lil gobbos.

**Lord Corellia**

But it just feels wrong to use nothing but weedy little gitz...

**Frozocrone**

You know, now I want to see 71 Gretchin Mobs vs Warlord Titan. 13 Big Meks barebones for Objective Secured.

Come at me brah, my runttide is ready

**Krusha**

I like using Gretchin as a cover save/bubble wrap for mek gunz.

My opponent ends up exert disproportionate effort taking them out.

IMHO gretchin are too bad to even work as a tarpit.

To the OP, a large gretchin screen doesn't sound like a bad idea for a footslogging list.