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i have officially defied all laws of 40k .

i was playing a game at my FLGS against SM. 1100 points small for me and it ended on the second turn because the other player conceded i was playing 70 boys 30 shoota 30 choppa 10 ard in truck (they were never used)
15 lootas and a bw oh and a warboss. we were playing spearhead seize ground. i set up shoota boys on my objective sluggas near the middle lootas with a clear shot at his entire army.

he infiltrated scouts and set up everything else pretty close to his objective

1st turn lootas slaughter a ten man sm unit hitting three fouths of there shots scouts are left with one man (sergant) by shoota mob who missed 26 of sixty shots battle wagon shrugs off melta bombs and shakes drednaught and he depp strikes 6 man unit of termies. his dreadnaught mm kills a loota.

turn two deepstriking termies are killed by shootas killed ten man sm tac squad again by lootas bw takes out dred other player concedes

Wait, Lootas and Shootas are good? You just blew my mind.

Iron_Chaos_Brute wrote:Wait, Lootas and Shootas are good? You just blew my mind.

Lol I hear ya


Thats the thing, yes Orks have terrible BS but they almost make up for it in the fact that they can shot ALOT. And running a full mob of shootas like that is the only way to use them properly.

I AM however surprised that you killed his terminators so fast. Personally I dont play shooty Orks, Im a CC guy myself, but nice win

once again proving that orks can do anything when you throw enough dice at it. Even defy the laws of probability

I salute you luck sir!

yeah, i was kinda suprised when i saw what GW did with orks during my time off from 40k (took 4th edition off). ork shootas IIRC are 6pts and kill 1/9 MEQ, the same as the standard guardsmen at 0-12". from 12-18", the orks are SHOOTIER THAN GUARD! and the guard have a slight theoretical advantage at 18"-24" since the ork weapon is assault 2 18". i say theoretical because it's assault and the orks WILL be moving that 6" closer while the guard have to stay still to shoot that far. obviously, once they close, the orks win. i honestly can't see a reason to take slugga boyz any more.

@ king cracker

killing the termies wasn't my luck it was the lack of his

Holy gak, Gork and Mork truely were with you.

You'r not the only one who has really shooty orks. One of the guys at my GW has an extreamly shooty ork army that ruined my chaos in two turns as well. All my marines gone. That teaches me for not using rhinos

Sounds like an interesting battle. Next time you should take your time and write a turn-by-turn battle report.

I've said it since I first saw the ork codex that going all out shootie is a valid strategy, just for the sheer volume of led they can pump out. Something gotta hit. I just never honestly believed it. Now I can say it with more confidence.

If only you could give ork weapons to other races. A big shoota held by a space marine would be awsome.

My fav is the Big Shoota. I ALWAYS take big shootas. Those things are somewhat like a HB, but assault instead of heavy.

i always take full sluggas and shootas. give the shoota boyz big shootas, both units moves up to enemy, slugga boyz run, shootas shoots and whatsoever. that always work, cuz the sluggaz get stuck in fast cuz dey run instead of shooting.

Just proves the ork belief: If you shoot something enough times one bullets bound to hit.