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I am Playing an Apoc game 10,000pts and I play a badmoons ork army. I have been asked to play with a variety of evil players and they all play a pretty good army. Which one should I ally with?

A lot of sides can work well, but I'd probably say go for either one of two things.

-An ally with lots of shooty support for you while your boyz get in there and krump some stuff.

-An ally that's also a ton of melee or close-in fighting that will advance with you in a massive tide of death and plastic models.

Best ally for orks is ig (if that would ever happen) as they are both technically swarm armies except ig are ranged and orks are cc so they complement each oter nicely.

The Acolyte wrote:Best ally for orks is ig (if that would ever happen) as they are both technically swarm armies except ig are ranged and orks are cc so they complement each oter nicely.

They work really well together, I am playing in a team campaign right now as orks with an IG teamate. Orks backed up by tank-killing is full of win!

What about a deepstrick Daemon army.
Means your opponent has to choose betwwen a wall of Green death or getting shocked in his midst by appearing daemons, you'd lack a lot of shooting but the HTH could be decisive and daemons inserted at the right moment a game winner.

You have absolutely no control over when your daemons appear, so "at the right moment" won't happen as much as you'd like.
Also both armies don't do well against armoured targets and those are harder, more common and (even more) game winning in Apoc. All in all a pretty bad matchup.
I'd say IG, preferably Mech Vet. Both armies excel at short range, meaning you can keep your armies together and thus most effective. IG also have some long range support elements which will help allot. Ork boyz are great for (counter) charge and torrenting, Nobz are great for killing big scary things.

I think though OP said he was playing with "evil" players so IG et al arent an option?

Orks have worked with IG in the past in the storyline. Bloodaxes or something like that if I remember correctly would work as mercenaries and work with IG sometimes.

But, yeah IG works well with Orks.

Tyranids.

Isn't watching your opponent stare at 500+ models charging at his gunline what Apoc is all about?

i would say necrons
extereme firepower with extreme melee just sounds scary

Endless Swarm out in front of a Green Tide. 4+ Cover saves for the Orks, huge unit to be brought back later to capture backfield objectives for the 'Nids (optionally with a 5+ cover save from a KFF Mek attached to the Tide), and you can't kill them all!

As an alternative, I've had a lot of success teaming up with either Marines or Tau for their mobile anti-tank abilities.

But the absolute best ally for Orks... is more Orks!!!!

If you ally with someone they need to bring anti tank and AA weapons. Most things that dominate apocalypse games are flyers and super heay tanks. Orks lack the ability to dead with these threats when they are prodominantly infantry (stompas, flyers and other ork super heavys being the excepting to this)