Battlewagon

Type: Tank, Open Topped

Crew: Orks

Weapons: The Battlewagon is armed with three twin linked big shootas.

Transport: A Battlewagon can carry up to twenty Orks.

Options: A Battlewagon may replace any of its twin linked big shootas with either twin linked rokkit launchas or twin linked scorchas for free.

The Battlewagon may replace up to one of its twin linked big shootas with a Lobba, Zzap gun or Kannon for +15 points.

In addition the Battlewagon may be equipped with up to five bolt-on big shootas at +10 points each. These must be fired by the Ork mob onboard.

The Battlewagon may be given any of the following upgrades from the Ork Codex: armour plates, big grabber, boarding plank, grot riggers, searchlight, red paint job, reinforced ram, spikes n' blades, stikkbomb chukka, turbo-boosta, wrecker ball.

Krusher: The Battlewagon may be given a Krusher for +10 points. If the Battlewagon makes a 'tank shock' attack on an enemy unit and the enemy don't fall back, then roll a D6 for each model forced to move out of the way of the vehicle. On a D6 roll of 4+ they are caught and crushed and suffer a wound. Armour saves are taken as normal.

Heavy Support: The Battlewagon is a Heavy Support choice for an Ork army.

Battle Fortress Upgrade

To an Ork there is no clear line between a Battlewagon and a Battle Fortress. To them a Battle Fortress is simply a larger and more impressive Battlewagon with more guns. However, for the sake of the rules we have had to make a distinction, and the following rules can be used to represent a smallish Battle Fortress using the Battlewagon model as a starting point.

Any Battlewagon may be upgraded to a Battle Fortress for an additional +150 points. Apart from the changes described below the Battle Fortress has the same armour, weapons and upgrades as a Battlewagon.

The Battle Fortress upgrade gives a Battlewagon the following:

• It turns the Battlewagon into a Super-Heavy Tank with two structure points.
• An Armoured Top, so it no longer counts as open-topped.
• The upgrade includes two gun towers, each fitted with twin-linked Big Shootas.
• The Big Shootas in the gun towers may be replaced with twin-linked Rokkit Launchas, or a Scorcha at no additional cost, or with a Lobba, Zzzap Gun or Kannon for +15 points.

All the options listed for the Battlewagon above still apply to the Battle Fortress.