Re: [Epic] Ork Vehicles

From: Mark A Shieh <SHODAN+_at_...>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:12:07 -0400 (EDT)

duckrvr_at_... writes:
> At 01:05 AM 4/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
> > I'm considering starting up a cheap Ork army if I can get away
> >with fielding scavenged Imperial vehicles and Mega Gargants.
> >Unfortunately, Blood Axe vehicles don't seem to have stats any more
> >(Rhino has no guns, Land Raiders have 2 Anti-Tank shots? Yowza.
> >How's my poor Falcon supposed to compete?)
>
> Use some old wagons for bitz, add scrap towers and brush cutters/roller to
> the rhinos and LRs and voila!, you have Ork tanks. There is a picture of a
> good rhino conversion int he Battle Book for E40K.

        Thanks for pointing out the conversion. Currently, I have 2
Mega-gargants, 12 Battlewagons, and the E40k box set. I am now
drowning in battlewagons, since our gaming group may have extra
plastic Land Raiders and Rhinos. Also some Stompas.

        I gots me some more questions!

        I think I know how to make a Flakwagon (Just shove three
turrets together at roughly the same angle as the Firestorm and
Thunderfire, and add bits until sufficiently orky)
        Does anyone have ideas on how to scratchbuild or convert some
other vehicles together from these sort of plastic parts?
Specifically, a Skullhamma or other Battle Fortress, and Mekboy
vehicles? I know what a custom cannon and bubble chukka look like
from the Warlords book, but cannot find any other pictures of mekboy
vehicles.
        Am I just going to have to buckle down and shell out real
money for bikes or cavalry, or does anyone have ideas? There isn't
any Imperial or SM player drowning in extra bikes around here, and
Jetbikes are just too, err, Eldar looking.
        Orks get Ogryns?!? Is this new or am I blind? (Ork Warlord
bodyguard)
        Is a Wierdboy in a Battlewagon just the WBBT? They're cheap
now. (Battlewagons in general) They're pretty comparable to cheaper,
faster Space Marines, oddly enough. Silly GW.

Mark
Received on Fri Apr 11 1997 - 18:12:07 UTC