As an Ork player, I was hoping for more out the flyers. Orks are weak when it comes to anti-armour, I was hoping this would fill that hole, but it doesn't.
I like the DakkaJet. Looks cool. The ability to have 3 TL moderately long range guns firing at BS 3 is awesome. This will be a really good light tank/transport hunter. The Waaagh Plane ability makes this even better. I seriously will start playing with a Warphead just for this. A little too expensive for an AV10 vehicle, but I am assuming 6th ed is going to make this flyer a little more survivable.
The BurnaBomma is the least useless of the Bommers. Great, AP4 bombs and 1 gun. Come on GW, for that many points for one shot bombs, can you give me an AP3, so it is useful against space marines. It is like you want to fill my codex with stuff that nobody wants to take.
The Blitzbomma is the worst. I love the idea of a dive bomber like the Stuka (WW2) but this thing is terrible. Another roll table for Orks that does nothing but punish them (like stormboyz, looted wagon, etc). On a roll of 2-5 on 2d6, my expensive bomma becomes a one use bomb. Yes I know that only on a 2 does the thing crash, but come on, hitting an AV10 vehicle with a S9 hit is basically going to wreck it. on a 6-9 (I think), it drops the bomb, but it can scatter 1d6 inches, so it can still miss. And to top it all off, yes it does get 2d6 for armor pen, but still is only str 7, so you need to roll a 7 to glance AV14. Still no where near as good or cheap as a melta style weapon. At least with a Shock Attack gun, the variability runs from suck (everything around the shooting unit dies) to awesome (everything around what you are shooting at dies). This just runs from suck to sorta ok. So the blitzabomma can attack, but it is basically a melee attack, that you have to successfully roll on a table to not insta-die, and then roll to scatter to make sure you hit, then have to roll better than average to get 1 pen hit all with a vehicle with a high price tag. GW could have made it cheap to make up for some of this, or could have made the bomb really powerful to justify all this, or could have made the random table have more positive for the ork player, but they decided to stack ton of really negative stuff on this one unit to make sure it is never or very rarely used (You, blitzabomma, get over there with the flashy gitz and tank bustas).
What I don't get is why the Ork flyers are basically more expensive and worse than the space marine flyer. I am used to being worse, but cost and numbers usually make up for it. I still love the models and I will get 2-3, but I think the DakkaJet is the only one of them worth playing.
