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Yes. It's a new Burna Boy. It appears they're going to be given Skorchas instead of Burnas though. Skorcha boyz?

I did state that.

skorcha boyz? the guy i play with call them burnna boyz

Not even sort of DE, I'm curious where you got the idea from. Grots are Wargear unless taken as a Mob, and then they are a troop choice. The only piece of wargear a Grot gets is actually an upgrade for the wargear, not the other way around. Any Ork character who buys a Pole/Banna/etc. can spend 3 pts. to upgrade that to a Grot carrying it, or can just give it to any model in their Mob. That Banna' Wava' counts against that character's 3 Grot/Squig limit however. If you've seen a Grot with a Stikkbomb or a grenade it's just modelling extras given it to differentiate that grot from his thousands of identical friends. He might be an Ammo Runt holding stuff for his master, or just plain cooly modelled. However Ork armies are very bad for WYSIWYG as any gun can be called anything else and it's actually legal because there isn't any standard for Ork weaponrt according to GW. A player could model a Super Stikkbomb from his Mekboss onto one of his Grot Oilers pretty easily tho, maybe that's what you saw.

I know I'm an anomaly, and that I've said this before, but Orks aren't that hard to win with. True they have a serious penalty in being probably the oldest Codex, and point for point are easily the most fragile infantry models in the game, but they are also the most fun army to play and have the highest potential for re-modeling (short of a custom mutation Nurgle army). I've only played 30 matches, but I won all but one of them (I was double pointed by Craftworld Iyanden... which I just misspelled I'm sure). And easily 4 of 5 of those were against Tau, and they were -far- easier to defeat than the Marines or the Necrons. I have one army list that I use, never tailoring for any enemy, and it serves me very well. The only real challenge to winning comes in the form of how much terrain the 3rd party places on the field of battle and how well my dice are treating me that night. My Warboss has never even taken a wound people, so I find it hard to believe that you all just get rolled over effortlessly every time you battle Tau. What's more I play a shooty Ork army using standard codex rules; I don't even use a Klan! You people who keep having trouble, please post for me the army lists you're using and let's take a look at why you are effectively out-pointed. Does your Warboss have a Nob Retinue? STOP! DON'T DO THAT! How many Power Klaws are in your army? Do you get max. Heavy Weapons? Let's look over this here.

Well yes, there is always a way to work around it...I mean especially if you've got plenty of bling on hand. Anyone can make any army terminate pretty much anything and theres not way Ork players can't beat space marines players. Unfortunatley Orks just have so many things worse than space marines, at only 6 points less, that they are led to a slight disadvantage, but not an unworkable disadvantage. I know that as a DaemonHunters player I will deffinately have a hard time takeing out tank heavy armies. Although I guarntee you I'll do it.

Yes, I actually think the orks themselves would be the only people who don't hate those things. stare
(Hey Honda, yes I am also active on this guild as well. Small world I guess...or we both just love 40k discussion. I'll go either way. wink )