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I was thinking about writing a few dataslates for ork vehicles based on the classic epic ones and just wanted to brainstorm a few ideas here before settling on how to proceed.

The spleenrippa is basically a gun with an engine and some wheels attached to it. It should probably have a profile fairly similar to a trukk, but with no transport capacity and a big weapon. Not sure if the killkannon would be powerful enough, so may need to write up a new gun or just use the standard Battle Cannon. Somewhere around 40-50 points with a killkannon seems right to me.

A mekboy speedsta is like a larger warbuggy with mek guns. A 10-10-10 fast vehicle with twin linked bubble-chukka seems like a good start. Not sure if the lifta-droppa variant is best handled as a lifta-droppa, a smasha gun (possibly twin-linked) or a trakktor kannon. The rokkit variant can just have supa-rokkits, I think. Should be slightly more expensive than the spleenrippa for the bubble-chukka variant.

The bonebreaka and bonekruncha were both tanks with deffrollas. One had a single large gun, the other two smaller ones. I'd probably go with Leman Russ equivalent hull, with the guns as a killkannon (possibly with option to upgrade to KMK) or twin-linked kannons (possibly with an option to upgrade to zzapp guns). Points value around 140, maybe?

The braincrusha was a fairly large vehicle with a single huge gun. I'd say a battlewagon with a deff kannon would be a pretty good match. I'd price something like that in the 250 points range.

The bowel-burna was a wheeled vehicle with a huge flamethrower. I think 11-11-10, fast and armed with an Inferno Cannon seems good to me. Maybe around 90 points?

Gobsmashas were heavy wheeled vehicles with large hull-mounted guns. Fairly small, but well-armoured. I'm tempted to make their gun an indirect-fire weapon simply because orks don't have any indirect-fire vehicles and there's otherwise little to distinguish it. 36", S 8, AP 4, Large Blast, Ordinance 1, Barrage, maybe? Depending on the armour, that could be worth anywhere from 100 to 140 points, I guess?

Lungburstas are the ork version of a classic tank-destroyer/assault-gun setup; a tracked chassis with a single long-barreled gun in a hull mount. Seems like a prime opportunity to give the orks a serious anti-tank weapon. Stat it like a vindicator but with a longer-range, small-blast gun, for around the same points.

What do you think of those numbers? Any other classic vehicles that I'm forgetting about?

weirdboy tower from epic

I think some of those would almost be possible to create using the bigtrakk profile from FW no?