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Hello,

I've been trying to make a competitive ork list in 5th edition and I've had some success. However, I am looking to buy myself a mean nobz squad and warboss, so I've got a few questions. I don't want nob bikers so I think I'll run 10 nobz in a battlewagon, so all my questions will pertain to this kind of nobz. This is a squad that I'll field in full for 2500, 2250, and maybe even 2000 point games, and maybe drop it down to 6-7 nobs for 1500 or 1750. I'll fit my questions into three parts, so feel free to comment on whichever questions you want, any advice will be appreciated!

1) What would be the ideal nob unit? I recognize the opportunity to abuse the wound allocation rules, so I'd like to make it so every nob is armed differently, or maybe at least there are 5-6 different groups to put wounds in. Is it worth it to make every nob unique by throwing a couple bosspoles or ammo runts around? The nob squad I am thinking of where every model is unique is something like this:

(all with 'eavy armor and cybork bodies)
-painboy with grot orderly
-power klaw and waaagh banner
-power klaw and bosspole
-power klaw
-big choppa and bosspole
-big choppa
-slugga, choppa and bosspole
-slugga and choppa
-kombi skorcha
-kombi rokkit and ammo runt

This unit is around 450 points, will it be worth it? Is it worth it to have 3 power klaws or would 2 be enough? I was thinking if I had 3 power klaws in the nob squad, I might just give the warboss a big choppa, that way its harder for someone in combat to pick off a power klaw by singling out my warboss. Maybe this will make the warboss a lower target priority. Is this a good idea or should I just give the warboss a power klaw?

2) How should this unit be used effectively on the table? Whats the best way to get the most 'urt out of this unit? Should I zoom their battlewagon towards the enemy as fast as possible and get them stuck in as soon as possible? If that's the case, should I just give them a trukk? Should I be more conservative with them since they are a scoring unit? What units should I avoid? I recognize the fact that power fists, especially terminator squads, would drop nobz like flies in close combat, so I guess that's something to avoid. I also know that they're going to want to stay away from things like demolisher cannons, and hopefully the rest of my army can take those out before they do some real damage to my nobz.

3) Any suggestions on how to make my nobz look great? The plastic nob box set is fantastic and I will definitely use them, but I want to spice them up somehow. I was thinking of giving all of them black ork heads. I found some cool gas mask heads for regular orks that I use for my 'ard boyz, anything on the internet along those lines for nobz? Also, are cybork bodies something that need to be WYSIWYG? Does every ork need to have some sort or cybork looking thing or can it be assumed that they have cybork implants and stuff like that?

Sorry for the very long post, but maybe this post can become a thread where people can just discuss ork nobz. Thanks in advance!
-Jeff