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I am having difficulty picking units for my Blood Axe army. Should I get 1 trukk and a squad of boys, a squad of kommandos, or a squad of tank bustas? Think Blood Axe.

Kommandos are very fluffy in Blood Axe armies. Without Snikrot, though, they're not very competitive in the least.

It would help to know what is in the rest of the army.

Kommandos or Boyz & a trukk

Blood Axes are the orks most "influenced" by exposure to the Imperium, meaning they work more tactically than other ork armies. Kommandos are clearly from the Blood Axe line, but obviously, you can't take just kommandos.

IMO, you should take units that rely more on cunning rather than brute force or head on confrontation. To me, this means the following units seem more likely:

Shoota boyz (more tactical/versatile than sluggas)
Tankbustas (trained specialists with specific objectives)
Lootas/Big Guns (fire support)
Battlewagons, both as gunship tanks (fire support) but also as assault vehicles to launch boyz into the thick of it without getting shot to pieces
Deffkoptas (scout/recon vehicles)
Kaptin Badrukk (fluff says he's a great tactician)
Warboss (need someone to plan the attack)

Of course, you can justify most anything if you come up with a good backstory. Basically, just paint 'em like Blood Axes, do your best, and have fun.

Isn't Badrukk, fluffwise, a badmoon tho? Also, the ostentatious nature of Flash Gitz - aside from them being really bad gameplay wise - don't seem to really mesh with the overall Blood Axe feel.

The rest I agree with, tho I'd have to add Looted Wagons to the list (even though they - again - aren't the most competitive choice).
Maybe Stormboyz too because of their fascination with military discipline?

Personally, I'd probably go with the units you want and THEN make them look Blood Axe:y, rather than force yourself to not use a unit you like for fluff reasons. This also lets you build a competitive list without being locked into a tiny number of choices

number9dream wrote:Isn't Badrukk, fluffwise, a badmoon tho? Also, the ostentatious nature of Flash Gitz - aside from them being really bad gameplay wise - don't seem to really mesh with the overall Blood Axe feel.

The rest I agree with, tho I'd have to add Looted Wagons to the list (even though they - again - aren't the most competitive choice).

Maybe Stormboyz too because of their fascination with military discipline?

I think he is a Bad Moon, they are the rich orks after all. But I guess I was thinking he has the most in common with the Blood Axe love of tactics, etc. Maybe a natural ally/mercenary/advisor or something. Maybe some day they will offer different clan-based lists we can use.

I would be happy with just "Marks" for your HQs.
I.E If you take a Warboss with Blood Axe mark you get +1 to reserve rolls, or maybe a re-roll/bonus to the roll to pick sides.

Maybe Kommandos become scoring. Those type of changes.

Either that, or having one special character per clan (this seems more like the modern GW solution, tho it's a little less flexible).

And yeah, fluff wise Badrukk would work well as an ally - you are right.

Well, they kind of have the basis for different clan based lists in how some HQ choices lets you take some special units as troops. If they expand that (different types of warbosses, meks, painboyz, etc.) and then even have some specialty units that can only come with a clan (or improved versions for some clans and "regular" versions for others), then you're cooking with gas, IMO. We don't need whole codexes for all the clans (though I wouldn't complain), but different force organization charts would be fun. You could always just have a "waaagh" list that draws from all clans, sort of like what we have now, and then variants for each of the major klans.

Bah, you get the point. Just babbling now.

I plan on getting all of these eventually, except Badrukk. I dont like him. So far I have 10 Ard boys, 18 boys, 5 nobs, a warboss, and 3 deff koptas. Im gettin like 20 boys from my friend this weekend...












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And snikrot from a store.

Convert your own Kommandos from Ork Boyz and various parts from other Ork kits. For example, my kommandos are made from Ork boy bodies, heads with bandannas, goggles and gas masks from the burna and stormboyz sprues, and lots of grenade arms from the stormboyz sprues. This way you can avoid the regular issue with kommandos, which is that they all use the same handful of sculpts. As good as those sculpts are, they'll get repetitive pretty quick.

Go for kommandos and snikrot