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This is my first army for 40k as I've decided seeing as its the most played game in my local GW that I'd start playing it as well as my Warhammer orks. The idea around the army is to build it for fun around my favoutite minuatures that GW produce and these are the Nob's. This is also good because the proposed army can be fitted into the same bag as my Warhammer army and so means I'll always be able to play a game. Competitivly its going to fail big time but hey it'll be funny to see my opponents face when I deploy a Ork army contianing 37 models.


Anyway heres the list.

HQ:

Ork Warboss
Power klaw, Eavy armour, Cybork Body, Bosspole, Twin linked shoota
pts 110

(my main guy and will lead my assualt element of the army towards the enemy objectives or just beat things up)

Ork Warboss
Uge' Choppa, Twin linked shoota, Eavy armour, Bosspole
pts: 78

(my 1st mate. This guy will stay back and help defend objectives with the shoota based Nob squad)

ELITES:


6 Ork Nobz,
1 Power klaw. Eavy armour, Stikbombz, 1 rokkit combi, 1 skorcha combi, 2 Bosspole, Painboy, Cyborks
pts: 256

6 Ork Nobz,
1 Power klaw, Eavy armour, Stikbombz, 1 rokkit combi, 1 skorcha combi, 2 Bosspole, Painboy, Cyborks
pts: 256

(The idea behind these mobs are that they can do everything. Fight in Close combat witht eh bog standard choppa and slugg guys and the Power klaw, while the combi weps can be used depending on targets as they close.)


TROOPS:

10 Nobz,
4 Power klaws, 3 Uge choppa's, Eavy armour, stikbombz, 2 bosspoles, Painboy, Waaagh banner
pts: 425

(My main guys unit this is geared for close combat and delivering large number of attacks to clear objectives as well as the Pk's smashing aside vechiles.)

10 Nobz,
1 Power klaw, 6 Combi rokkits, 2 combi skorcha's, Eavy armour, 2 bosspoles, stikbombz 5 ammo runts, Painboy
pts: 375

(my unit designed to stay back and blast anything that moves be it big or small. The unit itself can pump out 22 (with the second Warboss) shoota shots a turn and has 6 rokkits with rerolls thansk to the grots to take out big targets and if it does get into combat, is still pumping out 34 attacks with a PK and a uge choppa.)

1500

So yer thats it. Really small but will be fun and infuriating to use. Much like orks should be.

Waaaaaagh!

If you want infuriating to use, get a Painboy in each of those squads... Extra 150 points needed for it, but it'll be awesome with every guy in your army with FnP. Your weakness would be high strength weapons, like battlecannons, which would insta kill anything they hit on a 2+, no saves allowed!!! FnP and possibly Cybork bodies across the board would make this a lot more fun, tho might push you to nearer 2k points!!!

Well I could drop a squad for it but the moneterie cost of buying 4 painbiys would be quite high unless I converted them.

Hmmmm so I could drop one squad of 5 and add painboys to each unit then have the squad of 6 as cyborks. Fluff wise using them as the oldest and therefore more battel damaged ones and giving me more variety model wise.

Waaaagh!

(EDIT: When I said infuriating thoguh I meant for me when it all goes wrong which as a fantasy Orc player I'm more than used too lol)

(EDIT: Just read up on FNP and it woudlnt help against battlecannons at all would it or other high ap weaponary just against anythign with ap 4 or 3? Thing is would losing a extra squad be worth it for the FNP? I will say however I hdont have the actual rulebook so this is going by what I've read FNP is on forums.)

You really need the painboyz, even if you condense down to 4 units.

The majority of fire will be from lower AP weapons, so the FnP will always pay off. Unless you're playing against a 1500pt guard army with 5-6 Leman Russ pattern tanks, or the equivalent, you should be fine. From experience I know what a pain in the ass differently equipped Nobz with Cyborks and FnP can be.

Was the idea to go for a 1500 list?? It looks about that!!!

Yer it was and yer thats cool I can drop it down to 4 squads as it'll mean a bit of conversion work but should make it cheaper than having to buy another box of Nobs.

I edited the above list to represent the painboys.