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Hello Dakka!

I've decided to make a change from Orc to Ork. With the way WHFB is headed my Greenskins are just having a hard time keeping up. Not wanting to give up on the Greentide I've decided to give Green a go in the 40k realm.

The last time I made an army for 40k, 3rd edition was pretty new so its been awhile. I know alot has changed and I could use some help with list creation.

My first question comes from my troop selection. Currently I'm looking to have 2 units of 30 boyz with another 2 units of Trukk boyz that come in as reserve. Since the only way to claim an objective is via your troops choice should I look to adding a 5th unit of boyz? (trukk ones I would asume)

I plan on having a battlewagon with a Bigmek w/KFF in the list but I have a question as to gear. Should I put a killkannon on it or go with a lootedtank and buy a boomgun?

Any other Ork tips would be wonderfull!

boyz boyz and more boyz. im not an ork player but that seems to work pretty good these days i dont think they have a bad list out there but there a few that dont work so well.

Well, you don't need a ton of troops, but you should go either all transports or no transports. No targets or a lot of targets. I'd take like, 4 Trukks with Sluggas for a start.

As for the Battlewagon, think 2+ instead of 1. Cheap is better, discard Killkannon and stuff for a Deff Rolla, a Big Shoota or two and maybe a Kannon (can fire a Big shoota and a Kannon (frag) on the move). Comes to about 120~125 Pts. Take em with Nobs, or maybe Burnas.

In my experience against orks, it seems the more transports they have, the closer they get and the faster.

Transports can have 12 boyz if I am not mistaken, either way take as many as you can into one transport.

Roll the Nobz into the battlewagons with painboyz, put your warboss or whatever HQ in with 'em, and just rush your opponent.

Since gretchin are very cheap to buy money-wise now, fill in the gaps of points with them to hold an objective. you can easily just block an objective with one big mob of those guys for at least 2 or so turns guarenteed