Originally Posted by
Power Klawz
I don't think making ork boys even more dependent on getting the charge off would bode well for orks overall. Overwatch all ready gave them a fat lip, not having the flexibility to take a charge with shoota boys and still pump out a respectable number of attacks would make it much more difficult to hold objectives in my estimation. What you end up with is an overall nerf for no particular reason, its not like your standard boy is overpowered. They die about as fast as guardsmen.
Want to make choppas more desirable? Give them an ap value. Probably something like ap5/4 on the charge. It's not going to make them all MEQ killers, but anything less than that is going to have a real bad day. Would probably warrant a points increase though. 7 point boys don't seem unreasonable, although more expensive infantry is not something GW seems keen on doing ever.
Khorne berserkers pay 3 points for chain axes, but that's on a WS5 power armored platform, and its always ap4. Making the ap4 dependent on the charge combined with the much lower survivability and accuracy of an ork would probably only warrant a 1 point cost.