Exciting times may be ahead for Ork enthusiasts to use Kustom looted vehicles in their army starting with the 2018 Chapter Approved.
Reddit had some insight on what’s coming for next year’s Chapter Approved. It looks like all the Orks will be getting content in October, November and now December!
Games Workshop also dropped a preview about looted vehicles coming earlier, but Reddit actually had an inside look at the magazine to come.
Orks Looted Vehicles Rules: Nov White Dwarf LATEST
Just as last year’s Chapter Approved featured rules for customising your very own Land Raiders, this year’s edition contains rules and guidelines for fielding pretty much any kind of Looted Wagon you can dream up for open play.
Looted Vehicles Spotted in White Dwarf
Take a look at the pic! Looted vehicles are going to be a thing again in the next Chapter Approved. The Orks got their mits on a Leman Russ and made it better. Mankind doesn’t know how to do dakka quite like the Orks do.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen vehicles getting the spotlight in Chapter Approved. Check out last year’s book and what it had to offer, but be aware these types of rules tend to not be for competitive play:
These are only playable in Open Play, they cannot be used in match play. With that being said, Power Levels are the only thing you’ll need to worry about, there is no point values for any of these.
Would You Like to See a Build-Your-Own VDR?
Looted Ork Repressor by Hobby Maniac Darin Brown
Instead of making insanely Kustomized looted vehicles just as proxies for base-Ork units, wouldn’t you like to be able to have a unique set of rules for your creation? Something like Build-a-Bear…except it’s for a plastic crack conversion.
A user on Disqus commented in reference to these rumors:
If you are playing narrative you are doing this already. How about a reworked VDR system rather than drips and drabs.
Its as simple as list of vehicle chassis to get your starts W T sv etc then providing a list of weapons priced to go with the BS value of the crew.
My group plays a lot of narrative games so we see iron warriors basilisks, a space wolf army that uses a leman russ tank with the space wolves keyword and some old VDR vehicles that still see service. and we’d like to see a system for open play that would give us more accurate updated points costs.
They might be onto something. If GW came out with a book dedicated to looted things, there could be charts for picking out a chassis and its basic stats. I.e Toughness, Wounds, and Saves.
It could then break down into what kind of guns are allowed on whichever chassis you choose etc. It sounds like it would start a fire and get people excited in the hobby community once again, but this is all just wishful thinking.
Take a look at the original rules set from the early 2000’s that started the VDR craze!
Are you going to start looting some things in preparation for Chapter Approved? Would you like to see a book solely dedicated to looted/ VDR rules from GW? Let us know in the comments of our Facebook Hobby Group.
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