Weirdboy Battle Tower - Help needed

Ti Pouchon

Ti Pouchon

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I'm looking for background info on an old epic Ork vehicle; to wit, the Weirdboy Battle Tower.
Afaik, it appeared in the Ork and Squat Warlords supplement for the epic system "Space Marine"; there also was a preview in WD 150.
Unfortunately, I have neither of these sources available.

So, what I'm looking for is any background info on the battle tower. How is it supposed to work, what's the armament - basically, what's the idea behind it?
Every vehicle used to have a short description along with its stat line. I don't care for the stat line, I'm looking for the description.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
I have the Warlords box you can have if you pay the postage
Not sure if it is complete as it was included in a job lot.
Seems to be just full of cards and stuff ;)
 
Weirdboy Towers are modified Battlewagons used by the Orks. Manned by Weirdboyz, they amplify the Psyker's psychic powers and has a inbuilt copper rod to stop the weridboyz head exploding.

Bit of fluff:

Weirdboyz draw their power, not always voluntarily, from the psychic activity of orks around them. The more orks there are, and the more excited those orks get, the more power pours into the Weirdboy's already-overheated head. The problem is that they then have to vent off all the buildup or have their heads explode. That's why you'll normally find an ork tribe's Weirdhouse stuck at the top of a tree or on tall stilts: to keep them away from other orks. (A popular way to segregate Warpheadz is to chain them to the top of a fifty-foot copper pole well outside the camp boundaries, and even that doesn't always work.)

Weirdboy towers are an extension of the same principle. Putting a Weirdboy in a huge mass of worked-up orks is horribly dangerous - at the very least the Boss will shortly find himself out one Weirdboy and a couple of Minderz. So the tower, as well as giving the usual sorts of advantages a big war engine gives (armour, mobility, better line of sight), also hopefully puts enough distance between the Weirdboyz and the rest of the army that they acquire power at a non-lethal rate and can survive long enough to throw some of it at the enemy.
 
@Aiteal: Thanks a lot for the generous offer, I really appreciate! However, I think it should go to somebody else, somebody who actually plays epic and doesn't just want to look up some description. I don't think I'm fit to take the box off of you.

@Chico: Thanks! I really appreciate.
Does that mean that the armament of the battletower consisted just of the weirdboyz 'shooting' spells? Or did they have some sort of focussing device attached? Or extra guns?
 
Ti Pouchon":3g12uzyy said:
@Aiteal: Thanks a lot for the generous offer, I really appreciate! However, I think it should go to somebody else, somebody who actually plays epic and doesn't just want to look up some description. I don't think I'm fit to take the box off of you.

@Chico: Thanks! I really appreciate.
Does that mean that the armament of the battletower consisted just of the weirdboyz 'shooting' spells? Or did they have some sort of focussing device attached? Or extra guns?
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Basically it shoots a number of attacks based on the number of boyz mobz nearby. They were pretty horrendous in the hands of an exploitative general (like me :grin: ) I have a copy of Warlords at home I can check but I would assume that the Net Epic rules are the same thing: http://www.netepic.org/netepic.html

Fluff wise the tower is there to keep the Wierdboy safely away from the mass of boyz to prevent a headbang. The tower can contain "focusing devices" for the raw waaagh energy but there is no gun on it save for the fact that a Wierdboy is actually a type of warp cannon.

I can scan in the section from Warlords for you later on.
 
@Bismark: If you could do this, I'd be very grateful and never ever mention the famous guy with a c in your name ever again.
 
No relation ;)

Here we are:

wierdboy.jpg


wierdboytext.jpg
 
Hooray! This is ace. Exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you very much! Now I know... and knowing is half the battle. Or the building.
 
Sorry, I should have added:

These two (non sequential) pages from Ork and Squat Warlords are used without permission for informational purposes. Copyright 1992 Games Workshop Plc.
 
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