Monday 11 September 2017

Flash Gitz and Sneeky Gitz

Kommandos
Kommandos are a cool concept in theory, but in practice they were little more than overpriced ork boyz that could deploy in range of enemy guns. They often cost something insane like 15pts per model, but at the end of the day they were fairly weak 6+ save models. But with the coming of 8th edition and the introduction of 'open play' and the power levels system, I feel like kommandos are finally worth taking. At only power 6 for 10 (with no added cost for the much-needed burnas and nob) they're actually a viable choice.

I had a bunch I converted a while back, and decided they were finally worth my time to paint them. I went for purely dark colours. Having bright orange decorating these supposed sneeky gitz wouldn't make much sense, even to the orks, so their clothes are predominantly black with a bit of brown thrown in for variety. I really like my converted nob. I almost gave him the obligatory power klaw, but thought he looked much cooler without it. For some games I may even use him as Snikrot if I have a spare 4 points, but for now he's my Kommando nob.

Flash Gitz
Another unit that are cool in theory, but pants in practice, are the flash gitz. In previous iterations they were little more than over-priced nobz with subpar guns. Now with the nice buff to their snazzguns they actually seem like a half-decent choice. Plus, they are different for me. I've never used them before, always preferring to opt for the more choppy and (much) more killy nobz mob, so using the flash gitz will be a breath of fresh air.

I converted the 4 'lesser' gitz a few years ago to start off a Bad Moon army, but that never came about. So instead, I converted them a boss nob (needed as the mob was illegal with only 4 models) and painted them in my usual Big Teef orange scheme.
For the boss nob I wanted him to stand out a bit, so rather than give him another big snazzgun I gave him 2 'kustom supa-sluggas', his own invention. In game terms they function exactly the same as snazzguns, though.