Fighta-Bomma!

this is a forgeworld fighta-bomma which i bought at games day a long time ago (i was 11 :0)

i remember hoarding my money for months to afford this thing. it was one of my life goals to have one you see

so i painted it up in classic red speedy colours, even gave the flames a go!

played with it a few times over the next 5 years or so, mainly just liked the model. apocalipse came out and i decided i really needed to make a base.

i made this by cutting a circle of MDF out with a bandsaw. drilled a hole through the centre (wide enough to fit coat-hanger wire) and glued a circle of plasticard to the base. cut two 6 inch strips of coat hanger wire (incase one got bent/lost) and drilled a hole into the centre point of the fighta-bomma.

 

done!

Lootaz!

well, these guys are a really great unit, and the new models for them are also ace.

rules wise they are brilliant. they can take down almost any vehicle, and are especially good at destroying skimmers like land speeders and falcons. they can still hurt infantry, though marines and the like with 3+ armour are pretty resiliant to them. they arn’t very expensive at just 15pts each. i usually use a squad of 6-8 including a mek.

tactics wise i stick them in iether one corner to dominate half of the board, or on the board edge in the middle. make sure you put them somewhere where they are not blocked by friendly units and terain. keep these guys in lign of sight and they will pay their points often many times over. the best thing about these guys as well as their firepower is that the opponent never shoots them. they always have too many other threats like orks in trucks and battlewagons coming close to them to worry about the 6 guys in the background. but when it comes to the end of the game, you will always have a full scoring unit comfortably sitting out of reach of enemy firepower.

a great unit lootaz.

the squad i photographed here was the box set plus three lootaz i built from normal boys. their dakkaguns were made from lots of other guns from my bitz-box, and i made their harneses from plastic rod and other bitz.