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I have saved up about 100$ to go spend on some orks.

My current ork army consist of...
AOBR Boyz 20
AOBR Warboss
AOBR Nobz 5
AOBR Deffkopta 3
Gretchin Mob 10 Gretchins 1 Runtheder
Stomboyz 5


Now I was wondering what should be my next addition.
I know I need more Boyz so I was thinking of grabbing 2 boxes of boys. Then Im not sure what to grab. I was thinking of saving 45$ for the new Killa Kans.

You could go and get the Ork battleforce. I don't remember exactly what you get but I think it is something like 20 boys, some bikers, and some other stuff. I would check, but GW's website isn't exactly working.

Iron Gryphon wrote:You could go and get the Ork battleforce. I don't remember exactly what you get but I think it is something like 20 boys, some bikers, and some other stuff. I would check, but GW's website isn't exactly working.

I was going against a battle force as the bikes I heard are ineffective with only 3.

I thought it was just my PC is why GWs website wasnt working.

The battleforce is 3 bikers, 20 boyz, and a trukk

if you have the extra money, save if for da kans or lootas I'd say

Before you go spending $100, lemme ask you an important question.

What kind of ork army do you want to play?

Get a box of boyz to boost that 20 boy mob to 30. Then get a box of nobz to boost those 5 nobz to 10. Then get a battlewagon to put the nobz and boss together in, and roll some stuff over. If the wagon's not to your liking, I suggest getting another box of Stormboyz to bring them up to 10, and 2 boxes of Gretchin so you can have 30 in one unit.

And again....I would encourage you to tell us what kind of army you'd like to play before taking advice on what to buy.

Something I wrote elsewhere that I hope you find useful:
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Here's a quick take on those various lists. Please remember something important: Every list needs to be tailored for point allocations. What I'm putting down here is an "optimized" list where you get the maximum ability from it, so if you're playing a 1,000 point gunline, three full squads of Lootas + supporting units and troop choices isn't really what you're going to play. You'll have to tweak to match your needs.

Green Tide:
Green tide is actually an apocalypse battle formation, but is a common name for a foot-slogging ork army list. It consists of mobs of 30 shoota boys, a nob with a powerklaw, and either a unit of gretchin or a unit of boyz or 'Ard Boyz (maybe even with Mad Dok) screened across the front to give the rest of the army a 4+ cover save as they advance up the board.

Mechanized Assault:
12 slugga boyz+Nob/PK stacked into trukks, perhaps some battlewagons in the mix, covered by a Big Mek with a KFF...an elite unit or two (kommandos, lootas, burnas) tacked into the mix depending on your personal playstyle - they get into close combat as fast as orkishly possible; with Ghazghkull leading the mix, that's usually turn2.

Mechanized Shooting:
Instead of slugga boys, you have shoota boys, preferably in battlewagons, with a KFF screening them, rolling around the battlefield pouring firepower into enemy units. Alternatively, (and one of my favorite setups) this is 3 Loota squads inside battlewagons sitting on the back table edge, Big mek with KFF in the middle one in a trident formation \|/ to present front armor across the battlefield, surrounded by a unit of gretchin to prevent assaults on rear armor.


Ork Gunline:
Three squads of Lootas form the backbone of this, either sitting in cover or with a screening unit to give them a 4+ cover save, heavy support of big guns or some dreads/kans to provide long range firepower, with the obligatory shoota boy squads.


Kan wall:
One of the current meta-game favorites: Three squads of three killa-kans, protected by a KFF mek (or two) marching up the field screening mobs of shoota boys behind them.


Dreadz of Fury:
Three DeffDreads for Heavy Support + 2 Deff Dreads for troop choices, with a KFF mek screening them for a 4+ cover save, set for either long ranged fire support or close ranged pwnage; I prefer the STR10 DCCWs.


Kult of Speed:
Straight out of your codex! Boyz in trukks, mechanized element + Stormboyz. Ponder this for a moment: 6 trukks full of boyz screened by a Mek with a KFF, in turn screening 3 units of Stormboyz who can move as fast as the trukks moving flat out...that's a lot of fast moving destruction.

Outflanking Goodness:
Kommandos as elites and Deffkoptas as fast attack, as many of each as you can fit in, often with Deffkoptas equipped differently for wound allocation spread outflanking (unless you get turn1 and put your deffkoptas out for a turn1 turbo-boost).


Rebel Grotz:
Instead of six units of boyz, you get.....gretchin! Bwah ha ha. Not particularly scary in themselves, but using covering units or terrain, able to go to ground for a 3+ cover save, making them incredibly difficult to remove from an objective, especially with other gretchin (inside killa-kans) are krumping around the battlefield.

Nob Bikers:
Two warbosses + 20 nobs = 2HQ + 2Troops. 22 models = 1750. Diversified wargear and weaponry let you spread wounds around instead of removing models, and the unit is incredibly tough, has the ability to get anywhere fast, and kill anything fast.

Super Units:
Similar to Nob bikers in having an army with a low model count: Warboss Krumpmaster and the Megaboyz; a couple units of Meganobs, or my personal preference, units of regular nobs with diversified wargear for wound allocation magic - in vehicles!


Orky Burnas:
Start with three units of burna boys. Put them in battlewagons if you like. Mek with a KFF to screen if you do, and you have an army of combination templates / power weapons. Alternatively, a warboss makes nobs a troops choice, and you can give them all kombi-skorchas for some real carnage.


Battlewagon Spam:
Did you know that you can field 8 Battlewagons in a single army list? That's right...eight battlewagons. Three Heavy Support, Three dedicated transports for elite unit nobs, and two warbosses making two units of nobs troop choices so that you can take two more battlewagons. I think any time you have vehicles, you should have a KFF floating around, so I wouldn't advocate going for 8....but you can do a lot of things with a list of Battlewagons.

2 boxes of boys. An army without hordes of boyz isn't much of an Ork army at all. The warlord (could never spell his name) ghagskull thraka or something. I have him and only hordes of termies as succeeded in killing him. Even all the tau railguns have trouble do 2 his invulnerability to instant death. Never mind the waaaaagh invulnerable and usual inv. So boyz and warlord is what I'd recomend.

The Gate Keeper wrote:

Iron Gryphon wrote:You could go and get the Ork battleforce. I don't remember exactly what you get but I think it is something like 20 boys, some bikers, and some other stuff. I would check, but GW's website isn't exactly working.

I was going against a battle force as the bikes I heard are ineffective with only 3.

I thought it was just my PC is why GWs website wasnt working.

The battleforce is your best bet, and the bikers are not useless, especially at your pionts. Your also definitely going to need at least one trukk, so make sure you include that in your purchase ( I think its in the battleforce).

Boyz.
Regardless of what kind of army you're going to play, you need boyz.
Get 2 or 3 boxes (I'd say 3).

Even better - since you aren't against AoBR, look in the Swap Shop here (or visit www.bartertown.com). You can ALWAYS find people trying to offload more AoBR models.

Eric

You cant go wrong with more boyz. When in doubt, by more boyz

...with one caveat... If you're NOT building an Apocalypse army, and you have 174 boys (with 6 Nobs to match), you have enough boys.
Since Mobs can only go to 30, and you have 6 troop choices (6x30)... That's your max in an Ork army.

Eric

But what if you want to be able to field 180 shootas AND 180 sluggas?

You mean "Shootas OR Sluggas." Right?

That, too, is an easy call.
You model them with a shoota in one hand and a choppa in the other.
When you want them as shootas, they count as shootas. When you want them as sluggas... they're just REALLY BUG sluggas! LOL

/problem

Eric

Before you buy boyz, if you're just gonna get slugga/choppa boyz, get more AOBR boyz off eBay. Way cheaper.

But I concur with Dash in that you need to decide what kind of army you want. If you want to be mechanized at some point, start picking up battle wagons. If you want the dreadbash/kan wall, wait for the new kans and dreads. If you want horde, stockpile one type of boy (shoota or slugga) and go from there.

That choice will decide what fast attack, heavy, elite, etc., choices to build around it.

I would pick up some more boyz from AoBR via eBay ($10), a box of Nobz ($25) to make some Power Klaw nobz to put in units and fill out your Nob squad and a Trukk for Nobz to ride in. That leaves you a little money left over. The next purchase should be based on what direction you want to go, but this base of boyz and Nobz is a great great start.


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I would pick up some more boyz from AoBR via eBay ($10), a box of Nobz ($25) to make some Power Klaw nobz to put in units and fill out your Nob squad and a Trukk for Nobz to ride in. That leaves you a little money left over. The next purchase should be based on what direction you want to go, but this base of boyz and Nobz is a great great start.

Definately a box of Nobz to start for those oh so fun Power Klaws and another box of Boyz... for giggles!
Another thought is to score another AoBR box set to effectively double your army... i've found deffkoptas to be a blast and they've worked out nicely for me!, plus you'll have a marine army kicking about for your freinds if they wanna play!
Down the road perhaps the Ork battleforce for even more Boyz (LOL), a Truck (a must), and a squad of bikers!
Also the new Deff Dread & Killa Kans due out early march may catch your eye!

Experiment and have fun!

I would say 3 killa kans.

They are cheap enough to fill in any army.
yet hit hard enough to be a threat.