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Hello all, I am curious about the objective markers in a tournament setting. Now, I know you need at least 5 for tournaments(to my knowledge). I have come up with an ingenious design for my ork objectives! I will be running a Meganobz/Ghazghskull list. The Obj markers will be named characters such as Boss Snikrot, Kapt Badrukk, Boss Zogstruk, Nob of my own fluff and maybe a grot commander or something an so on. Now the reasoning behind this is, being Ghazghskull, he is rallying the known orks worthy of a WAAAGH! So it makes total ork sense to make these as objectives. Also having the mini is sweet too! What do y'all think of this? Would it be allowed(of course they are not going to be played as characters) in a tournament?
Any ideas would be cool, tell me what you think of this idea. As said in other posts I am going for golden demon standard for this army and everything inside including the objectives. I have Snikrot almost finished painted. i will post pics up soon.

Gotta Catch 'em ALL!!!
The explanation seems a bit silly but i am sure it will look great!

No way! Orks mob up and launch a huge WAAAGH!! Ghaz style! Haha in my head it seems normal

Sounds kinda cool but for what reason would the other team not look at that lone guy and say "hey is that an ork? lets shoot it with mini rockets!" and why would they capture an ork SC?

Well, I would not put my ork objective in the open. To scale yes it is an ork just on a base. But fluff wise, it could be the location of said name ork. Captured, the enemy can find out information, then kill the ork. I think orks chasing after bullets is silly since we can just kill the enemy and take theirs. So I think it's great for both sides =D

Some of my Ork objectives are simply big piles of guns; space marine guns, imperial guard lasguns, ork guns (you get LOADS of spares with the ork kits), just a big pile 'o gunz that the Orks have piled up as loot.

Also have a couple of heavy bolter side sponsons mashed together with rhino parts and other gubbins to look like Mek Boy designed gun emplacements.

Simple and effective.

I think it could be a bit confusing that some of your Ork models aren't models, but are instead objectives. You might avoid this confusion by basing them differently, but I think it would still be a bit odd. Unless the 'heroes' are painted as statues or something, then they would appear to be regular orks, so why aren't they fighting like the rest of them?

I'm sure that well painted objectives will go over well, but I always like objectives that make sense within the game world. If the objective isn't a real ork, but the location of that ork, then why does it look like the ork? On the other hand, maybe you could paint them like holographic projections of the orks in question, with an emitter on the base. Then the model would represent Ghaz's communication links with other important orks.

It's all personal preference anyway, but that's my 2 cents.

Ooo I like that idea Da Butcha! Eh I just thought it would be a cool idea and I have the mini's laying around. I would hope that who I am playing is not that slow to mistake the objective for a regular ork in my army ...

Here is Snikrot so far.


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I still have his backpack to do, and his base(sorta). Oh and fix that damn red smear on his forearm, howd that get there =(

because this army has Ghazghskull in it, i would use chopped up bits of commissar yarrick

Using Ork models as objectives is confusing. Why don't you just use those Ork models as, well, Orks? That Snikrot is seriously boss, and he'd be way better off infiltrating behind enemy lines. If I'm playing a game and there are 5 random Orks scattered around the field, my first instinct is going to be to shoot the crap out of them, not try and capture them as objectives. Objectives are a great opportunity to do some fun and wacky stuff with painting and modeling. Make little Orky ammo dumps, casualties, stray bosspoles, and what have you. It'll be more fun and less confusing than wasting some perfectly fine Ork characters on objective markers. Let me tell you, if I bought Thrakka, I would want him leading the charge instead of muckin' about as an objective marker!