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Orks baby! Orks. Nothing is more epic and intimidating then a horde of greenskins with only one purpose! KILL AND WAGE ETERNAL WAAAAARGH!!!

The Imperial Guard

Massive infinity formations, supported by squadrons of heavy tanks, flanked dropships, commanded by men who are more metal then flesh, tactical geniuses and the ork's version of the boogie-man.

The orks have the IG version of the boogieman too

Snikrot

Chowderhead wrote:You can fit over 180 Orks in a 1500 point game.

I've done it. It makes you feel like a god.

Yes and it is glorious. The look on your opponents face when he sees your entire deployment zone filled with bloodthirsty warriors that are gonna rush forward in a never ending tide is priceless.

Personally I run a list with around 120 orks and 10 walkers, as well as some helicopters. At 1750. Footslogging.

And yes, it DOES make you feel like a god. Or an unrelenting force of nature. I almost simpathise with my opponents.

I often run this against IG, and THAT is really epic. I would actually say IG is the most epic, as an army, but it does not really work when you are mostly playing against SM armies half your number and then shoot them to death. Alteast with a melee horde has some buildup.

Generally epicness seems to happen much more often if you are playing the evil horde army. So yeah, I vote orks.

Tyranids.

I love putting down 6 troops choices (3 of them Tervigons), and a few Tyrants with T6 Tyrant Guard... Maybe a couple of Trygons as well, if there's room. Raveners seem to keep people in fear of the 24" threat bubble they possess.

But having 4-6 regenerating T6 creatures backed up by hordes of small, expendable creatures is pretty intimidating. Makes target priority very difficult for my opponent...

Any army entirely consisting of fast-moving transports. Just to have get first turn and run them all up in their face.

Massive drop-pod rain (Dawn of War comes to mind)!!

haha i can imagine faceplowing a chaos space marine with a tank XD (thats sounds wrong lol)

Also i love DOW although never saw a point to droppods, as soon as there down there stuck in one place :/ (if this sounds stupid its becuase i have no idea how drop pods function in the game)

Want epic models? DE or Death Korps of Krieg.

/conversation

im2randomghgh wrote:Want epic models? DE or Death Korps of Krieg.

/conversation

Death Korps of Krieg, i wanna have some money left over when im done buying models lol


cant aford their models prices.

AtomicEngineer wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:Want epic models? DE or Death Korps of Krieg.

/conversation

Death Korps of Krieg, i wanna have some money left over when im done buying models lol


cant aford their models prices.

hehe then go with DE.

Sometimes I kinda forget price is a factor for some people (I own 2 mantas)

Git

The rest of us just struggle along

im2randomghgh wrote:

AtomicEngineer wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:Want epic models? DE or Death Korps of Krieg.

/conversation

Death Korps of Krieg, i wanna have some money left over when im done buying models lol


cant aford their models prices.

hehe then go with DE.

Sometimes I kinda forget price is a factor for some people (I own 2 mantas)

A Blood Angels army with nothing but Dant, The Sanquinare, and Sanquinary Guard.

Epic poses with angelic wings, golden armor, and power weapons!!

You own TWO MANTAS!!!!??? I didn't think that they even had made 2 of them, much less somebody actually bought them! You, sir, officially have too much money.

-cgmckenzie

I have an army with two squads of assault termies and term Libbies with SS and GoI/VoD.

Twenty shunting thunderhammers creates some epic fear... so far they're just pure fun (even if I lose with them)

Orks. For what other army has there own variation on the name of an expansion. Nothing beats 20k of Orks massing for an ORKOPALYPSE. See how awesome that is. Now imagine having guys that send round reptillian kirbies with bombs strapped to them into the enemies. You cant possibly go wrong. Not to mention (this is serious portion) just how much of a blast it is to put together ork kits. Of all the armies I have Orks are hands down the funnest to build and paint.

Aside from Space Marine (Epic), i assume you mean

But yes, Orks is bestest ! No other army can make imminent mechanical faliure look so good

TheNewMexicanGeneral wrote:Orks. For what other army has there own variation on the name of an expansion. Nothing beats 20k of Orks massing for an ORKOPALYPSE. See how awesome that is. Now imagine having guys that send round reptillian kirbies with bombs strapped to them into the enemies. You cant possibly go wrong. Not to mention (this is serious portion) just how much of a blast it is to put together ork kits. Of all the armies I have Orks are hands down the funnest to build and paint.

The only thing I enjoy painting more than orks are kroot, crisis suits, and railheads.

I think i must be the only person to not like painting crisis suits lol

I love collecting orks. converting orks and playing orks. I hate painting the little bleeders!

And i hated painting Crisis suits when i still played Tau

im2randomghgh wrote:

Sometimes I kinda forget price is a factor for some people (I own 2 mantas)

...How do you get those in a game? Aren't they like, 2000 pts each?

a chaos space marine army charging across the battlefield shouting the praises of the dark gods while being covered by a towering defiler is pretty epic

Ascalam wrote:I love collecting orks. converting orks and playing orks. I hate painting the little bleeders!

And i hated painting Crisis suits when i still played Tau

You hate painting crisis suits? They are fairly easy IMHO, Because they are big and not TOO detailed, it's the itty bitty guys I hate painting, especially because literally every non-sergeant FW pose has their arms over their chest, which makes it hard to paint the details they have there. Plus I run Sa'cea, so I have a mixed colour as my primary, and every warrior has to be EXACTLY THE SAME COLOUR or else people at my FLGS will nerd rage -________-


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CthuluIsSpy wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:

Sometimes I kinda forget price is a factor for some people (I own 2 mantas)

...How do you get those in a game? Aren't they like, 2000 pts each?

I mostly play apoc, with a little bit of 1500 pts on the side.

My Black Templar painted gk army wears shades in the night time!

im2randomghgh wrote:

Ascalam wrote:I love collecting orks. converting orks and playing orks. I hate painting the little bleeders!

And i hated painting Crisis suits when i still played Tau

You hate painting crisis suits? They are fairly easy IMHO, Because they are big and not TOO detailed, it's the itty bitty guys I hate painting, especially because literally every non-sergeant FW pose has their arms over their chest, which makes it hard to paint the details they have there. Plus I run Sa'cea, so I have a mixed colour as my primary, and every warrior has to be EXACTLY THE SAME COLOUR or else people at my FLGS will nerd rage -________-


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CthuluIsSpy wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:

Sometimes I kinda forget price is a factor for some people (I own 2 mantas)

...How do you get those in a game? Aren't they like, 2000 pts each?

I mostly play apoc, with a little bit of 1500 pts on the side.

I just didn't like painting them. Not sure why, besides the tendency of the feet to snap off while i was working on detail. (i would shift my grip to holding a leg while i painted some other part, not paying attention, and suddenly have a mecha-hoof fall into my water pot.. )

The orks are worse, for me. I have 17000+ points of orks, and baout 1000 pts are painted, if that. I HATE painting orks.

They are, IMO, the easiest army out there to play, and the hardest to paint well. Tons of fiddly little straps, teeth, buckles etc .. They look awesome when done, but it take sme ages to pain a squad to a decent standard.

Remulus wrote: My Black Templar painted gk army wears shades in the night time!

Corey Hart army? Awesome!







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Ascalam wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:

Ascalam wrote:I love collecting orks. converting orks and playing orks. I hate painting the little bleeders!

And i hated painting Crisis suits when i still played Tau

You hate painting crisis suits? They are fairly easy IMHO, Because they are big and not TOO detailed, it's the itty bitty guys I hate painting, especially because literally every non-sergeant FW pose has their arms over their chest, which makes it hard to paint the details they have there. Plus I run Sa'cea, so I have a mixed colour as my primary, and every warrior has to be EXACTLY THE SAME COLOUR or else people at my FLGS will nerd rage -________-


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CthuluIsSpy wrote:

im2randomghgh wrote:

Sometimes I kinda forget price is a factor for some people (I own 2 mantas)

...How do you get those in a game? Aren't they like, 2000 pts each?

I mostly play apoc, with a little bit of 1500 pts on the side.

I just didn't like painting them. Not sure why, besides the tendency of the feet to snap off while i was working on detail. (i would shift my grip to holding a leg while i painted some other part, not paying attention, and suddenly have a mecha-hoof fall into my water pot.. )

The orks are worse, for me. I have 17000+ points of orks, and baout 1000 pts are painted, if that. I HATE painting orks.

They are, IMO, the easiest army out there to play, and the hardest to paint well. Tons of fiddly little straps, teeth, buckles etc .. They look awesome when done, but it take sme ages to pain a squad to a decent standard.

Buckles and gak kill me, believe me, I feel your pain à la kroot. My KM army took my AGES to paint (I usually take about a day to finish a FW)

It took me a year (albiet with interruptions due to newborn in the house) to paint a 31 ork squad (2 nobs, one with PK, one without).

At this rate i'll be 90 before they're all done

10 Leman Russes at 2000 points from the Armored Battlegroup list.