The plan is to run an evil sunz army with a speed freak focus. Which will require wazdakka gutzmeg on his bike (as the speed freak character I can’t leave him out of the list) and mad doc grotsnik (to give units the cybork upgrade which I will use to count as a ‘jink’ save).

The plan is for the force to be lead by a big mek on bike, a second mek will be included with a shokk attack gun in a truck or similar. I may switch this for a mek with a kustom field. Mounting the second mek in a vehicle would mean the kustom field would be exactly where it needed to be to give added protection to the troops.

Supporting these characters will be my lead unit made of nob bikers who take the lead in the charge and hold the centre of my battleline. I may add a second unit if points allow later on. (and deploy them next to one another only to split them after breaking the enemy line. ;-)

Fast attack is always going to be deff koptas to help consolidate victories and to give a rude shock to enemy players who feel safe behind impassable terrain features.

Add in some trakks, buggies and skorcha units and the troop heavy weapon support is sorted.

Troops are always going to be ork bike units and as many as I can field!

There will be one or two gretchin units left up the back to do the protecting of flanks and hold/contest objectives. (but might be dropped as they don’t fit the speed freak theme too well)

Then comes the fun big guns. Although I would be happy to keep a unit of artillery in the list I just feel it doesn’t fit the theme. Which leaves me with battlewagons and plenty of other nice big options from apocalypse. Upgrading a few wagons to proper gun carriers might be fun (expensive, but fun). Especially if I go for some of the crazier weapons.

Alternate options are a mekboy unit in a trukk to zoom up close and use their nice kustom weapons in support of the bikes, a few trukk boyz units to capture and hold objectives and some dredd and kan units to follow up behind the bikes and destroy any pockets of resistance encountered. I have thought about adding mobs to battlewagons but I just don’t see the value in it. The only other unit I am keen to get is a looted Imperial Guard vehicle partly for the rules but more for the conversion work. The new hellhound looks good and fits within a fast moving army like the one I am building.

The other factor in the army is that I plan to ‘ape-up’ the units so instead of being orks and gretchin they are all primates. Gorillas and chimps would allow me a much greater flexibility in style of the army, I had intended to do it in a Somali warlord style with semi uniformed models on slapped together vehicles with their icons also including bananas. A little silly but a well thought out conversion style could make for easy building of the units. I swear the chimps with bananas would look hilarious in the back of a battlewagon or adding bananas in crates on vehicles.

This leads to other ideas like converting the battlewagon to be a catering truck. Change it so it has a little kitchen built in with price boards and a few steps to get to the ordering window. Kebabs and bananas! Banana milkshakes and banana liquer shots.

It would almost be worth sculpting up an ammo pouch stuffed with bananas to cast up and add to random models.

Red berets would be an easy way to tie the army together along with a consistant camoflague scheme (a bright red, yellow and orange one could work with black berets).

It would be time consuming but would turn out quite nicely! Future apocalypse units could be added with the same theme.

The downside would be the response to a large mob of nob bikers, in a tournament it could mean a reduction in the points awarded for army selection, but in my opinion what other choice do I have? I can’t take a standard nob unit without transport or a meganob unit without a battlewagon. I just don’t see the speed freaks wanting to be used as foot infantry when they could be going so much faster on a bike.

Any feedback on the ideas outlined above would be great! I am still trying to decide if it is worth my investment of time to start building the whole themed army or if it would be better to hold off till the buggy/trakk/skorcha kit comes out and put together a strong list and build the army all at once.

With the new spearhead expansion rules just hitting, the idea of bringing a stompa to the table is just SO tempting. I would of course have to remodel it so it was a mek-stompa with a ramp up to a refuelling platform so the boyz could still be on a moving vehicle even as they refuel or work on their bikes! Crazy stompa conversion aside, there are plenty of imperial vehicles like the baneblade that would supplement a speed freak army quite nicely. Anyone have a favourite that they are bringing to spearhead games?