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I don’t have a rational argument for Stompas, but what was wrong with them? Were they too strong? I haven’t been able to make them work in the generic Ork list… are there lists in which they work well (but not too well)?
Well, Ghaz's Orks have Big and 'Uge Stompa formations available these days, making them a bit more useful. The basic price probably slightly overpriced though IMO.
Ultimately my philosophy of list building is to focus very tightly on the core themes, and in the case of the Gargant Bigmob list, those themes are "Gargants" and "Mad Meks". I stripped a lot more out of the Gargant Bigmob army list than just Stompas in persuit of this core theme, which I think was getting lost under layers of "this is cool" ideas.
Now, those ideas often
are/
were cool, but IMO they do/did not reinforce the central theme of the army list: Gargants & Mad Meks.
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I also get the impression that E&C never liked the way Stompas were portrayed differently in 40k and Epic (40k Stompas are roughly equivalent to Supa-Stompas in power and durability).
Aye, the Stompy Onslaught list is partly my attempt to make an Ork list that represents a more modern aspect of the Orks in 40k (in this case, modern representations of their "walking stuff" like Stompas, Mega Dreads, etc).
