The Ork cuts are official; Burna Boyz and Lootas have Legends rules, while 15 other Ork units are Legendary Proxies with “counts as” replacements.
If you’ve got a Loota mob painted, based, and waiting on the 11th Edition codex, the contents page GW just posted isn’t exactly what you wanted to see. Burna Boyz and Lootas that have been in basically every Ork codex most of us can remember are officially Legends now.
Both kits went last-chance-to-buy on the webstore a few months back, and normally you’d read that ahead of a codex release as a pretty decent sign that new sculpts were coming. GW had also said during the Big Summer Preview that Burnas could ride along inside the Ork Boyz unit again. Add that to everything else arriving with the Armageddon wave, and a refresh looked like the obvious answer, but apparently not.
GW’s new Legendary Proxy list tells us the rest now. Those 15 units don’t use Legends rules of their own and instead count as the specific replacement units GW listed for official events, just like their plans for the Space Marines Legends.
- What happened: Burna Boyz and Lootas have officially moved to Legends rather than getting refreshed.
- The evidence: Neither unit appears on the Codex Orks contents page, while Burnas have been folded in as a weapon option on the Ork Boyz datasheet.
- What is confirmed now: Four named buggies are Legendary Proxies for Warbuggies, while 11 more Ork units also received official counts-as replacements.
- Two Lists, One Legends: Burna Boyz, Lootas, the Mekboy Workshop, and Warboss on Warbike are Legends. The 15 units in the new list are Legendary Proxies instead.
The 40k App Confirms 15 Ork Legendary Proxies
Article updated on August 3rd, 2026 by Rob Baer with the confirmed Ork Legends Units
GW didn’t put this one in another WarCom article either; the update quietly showed up in the Warhammer 40,000 app under Legendary Proxies, where 15 older Ork units now have specific models or datasheets to stand in for them.
- Boomdakka Snazzwagon: Warbuggies
- Kustom Boosta-blasta: Warbuggies
- Megatrakk Scrapjet: Warbuggies
- Shokkjump Dragsta: Warbuggies
- Attack Fighta: Dakkajet
- Big Gunz: Mek Gunz
- Big Mek with Kustom Force Field: Big Mek in Mega Armor equipped with Kustom Force Field
- Fighta-Bommer: Blitza Bommer
- Kannonwagon: Gunwagon
- Mega Dread: Gorkanaut
- Meka Dread: Morkanaut
- Nobz on Warbikes: Warbike
- Squiggoth: Gargantuan Squiggoth
- Ufthak Blackhawk: Warboss
- Wurrboy: Weirdboy
That’s a pretty brutal cleanup list, but at least there isn’t much room left for guessing now. The four named Speed Freek buggies all funnel into Warbuggies, Kannonwagon becomes Gunwagon, the two old Dreads point at the Nauts, and the rest get similarly direct stand-ins.
The Burna Boyz, Loota Box May Have Been the Problem Itself
The old Burna Boyz / Lootas kit had one annoying problem that may have contributed to its downfall. You could only buy the unit as a box where one model had to become the leader upgrade, so a single kit couldn’t simply build the squad of five models you actually wanted. If you wanted more regular Burnas, you bought another box, built another model you didn’t really need, and dealt with it.
Fixing that properly would’ve meant doing something with the kit itself, not just rewriting a datasheet. Looking at the contents page now, it seems like GW decided that job wasn’t worth doing.
That also changes how the Burna option looks on the Ork Boyz datasheet now, too. Back in June, before all these new Ork pre-orders hit, it felt like GW might be laying the groundwork for a new Burna kit. Now it looks more like they simply moved the flamer into a unit that’s sticking around so the Lootas and Burnas could disappear, because the new Boyz sprue already has plenty of options to make that work.
GW can still point to that Boyz datasheet and say Burnas remain playable and aren’t only Legends. Fair enough, but having the weapon survive isn’t the same thing as keeping Burna Boyz around as their own unit.
Ork Lootas don’t even get the Burna-in-Boyz fallback. They’re confirmed for Legends too, which pretty much closes the book on that old dual-purpose kit sticking around as a normal codex unit.
The Missing Ork Buggies Are Legendary Proxies Now
We don’t have to squint at the contents page anymore. Boomdakka Snazzwagon, Kustom Boosta-blasta, Megatrakk Scrapjet, and Shokkjump Dragsta are all listed in the app as Legendary Proxies for Warbuggies.
So the generic Warbuggies entry wasn’t just some weird naming clue after all. GW has now explicitly pointed all four missing named buggy kits at it through the Legendary Proxy system.
The Rukkatrukk Squigbuggy is the odd buggy out, and this time that’s actually useful. It isn’t among those four Legendary Proxies and kept its own codex entry, so GW clearly didn’t just toss every Speed Freek vehicle into the same bucket.
So for now, the buggies stay firmly in the book for the most part, because the Speedwaaagh and Blitz Brigade detachments already lean hard on that vehicle pool. The rest of the detachment lineup doesn’t really give them an easy place to appear, especially with the new army rules pushing Orks up the table faster.
The Gunwagon Coming Back Is a Win
There is at least one nice surprise on the page. The Gunwagon has its own datasheet again, separate from the Battlewagon, and it’s back in the book.
The older Kannonwagon has landed on the same Legendary Proxy list, and counts as a Gunwagon now too.
The timing fits too because new codex releases are where GW tends to clean up a faction’s roster, and there’s nothing on the 11th Edition roadmap suggesting Codex Orks was going to get a pass just because Orks have more weird old kits lying around than most factions.
Final Thoughts on the Ork Codex Cuts: RIP Lootas & Burnas
We’d still rather have been wrong about Burna Boyz and Lootas, but that ship has sailed. Both are confirmed for Legends, and another 15 Ork units have now been handed Legendary Proxy assignments in the app instead of keeping their old standalone spots.
Now that Burna Boyz and Lootas are officially in Legends, that still doesn’t mean the models suddenly stop being Orks. Keep painting them, and use them where Legends rules are welcome, or proxy them for other models.
Ork collections have never exactly been known for throwing away perfectly good scrap, anything, including models.
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What do you think about Burna Boyz and Lootas moving to Legends, plus 15 more Ork units becoming Legendary Proxies?
