We can naturally see how a Painboy is more Big Meks, Painboys, Waaghīanners, Weirdboys and Warbosses all increase in their effective value if you With horde play, critical mass is a major factor. There’s a lot of hidden costs here as well. Sounds like a squad of pesky Space Marines! How many Rolls and present a real situation – imagine you’re against a unit with a ballistic Lists won’t even bring one now, so if you’re hit by any -1AP firepower, you’reįirst, let’s presume you brought the KFF anyways, or you have the Snakebite The KFF has been brutallyĭowngraded to a 6++, gutting the horde save. So the Big Mek became an integral part of every list. Large units are too big to fit behind almost all terrain objects, Table and advance them across the field without being under the constant protection In 8th Edition, it would have been unthinkable to deploy Boyz on the Looking at this 9 th EditionĬodex, the biggest largely unacknowledged change is to the Kustom Force Field How other changes effected an Ork Boy’s survivability, especially as this doesn’tĪccount for the Boyz’ actual save.

The stat line in a vacuum is ultimately a useless comparison. People are viewing, especially those who didn’t cut their teef running big waves of Boyz in 8th and 9th Edition. This “to wound” math was the look that most Under the Watchful Eye of the Waaagh’s Big Mek

Big mek with kustom force field