Ork Specialist Detachments from Vigilus Defiant

[toaae]

From today's Warhammer Community post:
 

 
The table of contents! For us greenskins, the interesting bit is in the top left:
 
Stompa Mob
Kult of Speed
Dread Waaagh!
Blitz Brigade

We had rumors of the Stompa one, with it making the Stompa a character, so it can get a warlord trait and relic, and we've seen solid rumors and images of the Blitz Brigade:
 

Someone analyzed the video for the Vigilus book for one of the Detachments, an ork one that seems to focus on bikes and battlewagons.

 

BLITZ BRIGADE (UNLOCK COST) - ?CP (Hard to read)

Use this stratagem at the beginning of the game. Pick an ORK detachment from your army to be a Blitz Brigade Spearhead detachment. WARBIKERS, BATTLEWAGONS, BONECRUSHAS and GUNWAGONS in this detachment gain the BLITZ BRIGADE keyword.

 

Warlord Trait: Back-seat driver. When your Warlord is embarked within a BLITZ BRIGADE TRANSPORT, add 1" to that transport's move characteristic. In addition, while your Warlord is embarked within it, the transport gains the "ere we go" ability

 

Relic: Da Blitz Shouta. At the start of your shooting phase, if the bearer is embarked within a BLITZ BRIGADE BATTLEWAGON, pick an enemy unit that is visible to the BATTLEWAGON. Until the end of the phase, reroll hit rolls of 1 for attacks made for friendly BLITZ BRIGADE units within 6" of that BATTLEWAGON that target the enemy unit you picked.

 

Stratagem: 2CP - Hold on, boyz! Use this stratagem during your movement phase, before moving a <CLAN> BLITZ BRIGADE BATTLEWAGON in your army. Pick a friendly <CLAN> INFANTRY unit wholly within 3" of that model and remove it from the battlefield. After the BATTLEWAGON has moved, set the <CLAN> INFANTRY unit back up on the battlefield, wholly within 3" of the BATTLEWAGON and more than 1" from enemy models. (Note that the infantry unit is not placed within the Battlewagon and does not count towards the number of friendly models it can transport). The infantry unit cannot move further this phase, and counts as having moved this turn for all rules purposes and it cannot charge this turn.

 

Stratagem: 1CP - CRUSH YA! - Use this stratagem when a BLITZ BRIGADE BONECRUSHA from your army is chosen to fight. Roll an additional D6 for the Bonecrusha Ram ability and choose the highest result.

 

Stratagem, 1CP - Opening Salvo

Use this stratagem in your shooting phase in the first battle round. Choose a BLITZ BRIGADE GUNWAGON from your army. Double the range characteristic of that unit's ranged weapons until the end of the phase.

 

 

If all the Detachments are to this level, I can definitely see what they meant by it being more balanced - the only thing you get without paying more CP for is a warlord trait and relic, and the rest is stratagems.

So, a Kult of Speed and Dread Waaagh! is also incoming. Hopefully they will sate the hunger many of us had had for a proppa' Dread Mob and a follow up to Armeggedon's KoS.

What do you all think?

[FlamingDeth]

All I know is that there's a relic shokk attack gun which is going to be an auto take for me regardless of whether or not it's actually any good.

[Brother Casman]

I'm damned curious to see what the book brings to the Orks - I've got enough of the ladz that I could probably try each of the detachments. Though maybe not a full Stompa mob... we'll see!

[Brother Casman]

So, on the off chance y'all haven't seen the news thread, there's a preview of the Kult of Speed detachment today.

[toaae]

Such a tantalizing tease. Lets see:

Warlord Trait: "Kult of Speed units within 12” of your Warlord immune to Morale tests provided they Advanced"

 

Relic: "Deffkilla Wartrike only. Add 1 to the bearer's Toughness characteristic. In addition, the bearer gains a 5+ invulnerable save."

 

Stratagem: "Turbo-Boostas Stratagem that enables a unit to double its Move characteristic instead of Advancing for 2 Command Points"

Very interesting. I just wonder if the stratagem will have the "can't charge this turn" line, which would be deflating. Still, that's a lot of speed. And I bet theres at least one more stratagem, hopefully two.

[MithrilForge]

Such a tantalizing tease. Lets see:

 

Warlord Trait: "Kult of Speed units within 12” of your Warlord immune to Morale tests provided they Advanced"

 

Relic: "Deffkilla Wartrike only. Add 1 to the bearer's Toughness characteristic. In addition, the bearer gains a 5+ invulnerable save."

 

Stratagem: "Turbo-Boostas Stratagem that enables a unit to double its Move characteristic instead of Advancing for 2 Command Points"

 

Very interesting. I just wonder if the stratagem will have the "can't charge this turn" line, which would be deflating. Still, that's a lot of speed. And I bet theres at least one more stratagem, hopefully two.

 

You see...that should have been the Deffkilla's normal stats  instead of an FAQ they used a relic in a book to fix it... don't get me wrong i like it... just shoulda been a codex fix ,not a relic.

 

Double move stratagem...evil sunz will be racing across the table now!!  

 

Mithril