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I just want to say awesome post. This advice will help a lot if i ever end up building my orks

Nice article. Admittedly I have read very few, but this caught my eye and, while tuned for orks has ideas that can go for other hordes as well.

This is great stuff. Especially for people starting Orks. It is nice to have the big picture in mind while you are starting out so, for example, you can paint each Ork Unit a different color from the getgo. Or, as the article suggests, you can paint your bases to indicate units - that's a good way to go as well.

The tray idea is a very good one I've not heard before. I am going to look into picking some up for this purpose. I suppose that one could even magnetize models if you are able to get metal trays, for example. Then drop the trays in the car and go to the tournament. Why bother with boxes? Magnets will hold your models in place and allow you to stay organized throughout the game. Not really that important for low-model count armies, but for anything approaching horde sizes, could really maximize your game time!

Is there anything in particular you use for dice management? You mention the shoota boyz example, but in practice it isn't as simple as keeping 30 white + 3 green dice.

For example, I run a lot of sluggas. On a charge a mob of 20 will get 80 attacks, but if they don't charge they get 60. Counting out -20 dice isn't the fastest thing in the world. Also, by the time your mobs get to the opponent, they're not all going to be at 20. Some may be at 19, 15, 10, etc. Some things I'm thinking of trying:
1. Keeping an active, easy to access on-paper count of models left in a unit.
2. Creating something for easy counting out dice. E.g. glue 10 dice horizontally and vertically to a piece of plastic, in the shape of an L. This should make it easy to count out dice in groups of 10.

In these sorts of examples (rolling 80+ dice), do you prefer to roll them in batches rather than all at once?

What I do for dice, is during the opponent's turn, i put all my dice into piles of 5 sorted by color. That way it is very simple to get large numbers of dice counted fast.

need 33 dice? 6 sets of 5 then three more.