Ork Trukks

When I first got the Ork army I was told that Ork Trukks were the be all and end all of the Ork army, this was before I figured out the advantage of a fully mech force and the meta game in general.

The advantages are pretty clear to see, you can get an effective 22 inch charge with them (13 inches with red paint, 2 inch deployment from the vechile, 1 inch as 40k bases are 25mm wide plus the 6 inch charge) which goes up to 28 inch when Waaagh is called.

The disadvantages are also on the table too, they are only armour 10/10/10 and open topped so they can be wrecked by small arms fire (well bolters at least but given the number of power armour players these days that is pretty much small arms fire). This is kinda offset by the Ramshackled table as it gives me a 1 in 3 chances of the destruction of the Trukk unharmed and another 1 in 3 chance of having the vechile move before it blows up and sometimes that gets your closer to the enemy. Finally they are 35 points a pop, which is the same price of a rhino; which while not a fast vechile (unless your blood angels) but is immune to most of the issues I brought up.

It used to be though that to make them effective you had to have lots of them with a Kustom Force Field, I'm seen some early armies that consist of a half dozen trukks. However in my experience that doesnt work, it basically means you have a 50% chance of avoiding destuction when it and thats not good odds comparesd to the anti-mech out there. I use mine at the moment to transport a 12 man mob of 'Ard boyz with stikkbombz to dislodge peeps off objectives or do rapid strikes on vechiles. I only have 1 at the moment, I used to have 4 but I took them appart to make something else (you'll see those later)

When I first got this vechile it was fully built with the side panels for armour, I removed all that so the vechiles profile is as low as possible and it looks a bit like a GorkaMorka Trukk (remember those) I modelled it with the only two upgrades I use which is Red Paint Job and Re-enforced Ram. I might make more but I dont know how to use more of them, I'm kinda hooked on Battlewagons at the moment, the other idea is to pick up some Big Trakkz from Forge World for friendly games as I seem to remember they are harder to kill.