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Well a new league is starting in my area and it is 1500 points. I am not use to this size of game so I figured I would post my army. These are the models I left 10 bikes, 30 grots, 2 slavers, about 13 slugas, 4 big shoota orks, 3 rockit laucha orks, standerd boss, 8 nobs, 1 nob with waaagh banner, 3 def dreads, and 3 killa kanz. As you can see I have alot of models but not as much veriety as I would like. At the end I had a few extra points so instead of a kitted out war boss I gave him mega armor. The two meks in the burna mob are also filler also a little extra tank hunting does not hurt. Oh I do have a unopened box of 16 ork boyz and a broken battle waggon. So what do you think?
HQ: 195

Warboss, Mega arm, cybork

Big Mek , KFF

Elites: 180
12 burna boyz , 2 meks mega blasters
Troops: 1017
11 boyz , nob , pk , ard boyz, b pole
Truck , RL
12 boyz , nob , pk , bpole
Truck , RL
12 boyz , nob , pk , bpole
Truck , rl
12 boyz , nob , pk , bpole
Truck, rl
20 shoota, 2 big shootas, nob , pk
20 sluggas , 2 rl , nob , pk

Fast: 105
3 buggies (separate units) , RL

The Meks in the Burna mob are awful. They hit things only twice as often as they overheat (which usually means they fry themselves)--this is good how? Stick to burnas.

Speaking of which, how will you get the Burnas where they need to be? I doubt they'll ever do anything but die walking.

Well the meks are more there because I dont have any other burna models. They will walk with the other 41 boys under the KFF. If they die cool then my larger mobs are getting shot less. But what ussualy happenes is my oppenents are too worried about the truck boyz. Still that is 30 points, its just with waht I own 30 points is hard to fit in. Any thoughts?

ok realised I could only have 10 boyz in the truck with the boss so I removed one ard boy. Also removed the mek boyz. Leaves 43 points
HQ: 195

Warboss, Mega arm, cybork

Big Mek , KFF

Elites: 150
10 burna boyz

Troops: 1007
10 boyz , nob , pk , ard boyz, b pole
Truck , RL
12 boyz , nob , pk , bpole
Truck , RL
12 boyz , nob , pk , bpole
Truck , rl
12 boyz , nob , pk , bpole
Truck, rl
20 shoota, 2 big shootas, nob , pk
20 sluggas , 2 rl , nob , pk

Fast: 105
3 buggies (separate units) , RL

Well the meks are more there because I dont have any other burna models.

Why not just leave those Meks out, then? You could always just add a few more boys to your footslogging squads instead.

They will walk with the other 41 boys under the KFF. If they die cool then my larger mobs are getting shot less.

But they cost twice as much a normal Ork and aren't any hardier. If their role is to get shot instead of the larger mobs, it would make far more sense to just use those points to add numbers to those large mobs instead. 12 Burnas is enough points to max out the two foot mobs with change to spare for special weapons (including some for the Trukk boys).

Or you could drop them down to a 5-boy squad and add the BW.

Double-post.

what about adding a killa kan to escort the big mek and boyz? With a big shoota it is only 40 points?

Have you thought about a Biker Boss, rather than one in Mega Armour? He'd probably compliment your fast stuff better.

Dont have the bike boss plus I realy like the mega armor model. Though the drawbacks suck. He is very killy and cool.

at the risk of sounding like the majority of ork players posting...

why not Lootas? replace the burna boyz with some dakka dakka....

lootas are very good at hunting light tanks and and killing armfulls of infantry...

use your 43 extra points and drop one buggy and you can max them out to 15 (which is how I prefer to play them)


I like burna boyz... don't get me wrong, but I have had a few games where they did nothing all game
especially when I didn't give them transportation...

I have NEVER had a game, where my loota did nothing... maybe they didn't win the game for me every game, but they always were able to affect the battle


if you stick with the burna boyz, give the mek boyz rokkit launchas... that allows them to at least attempt to help every now and then