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First of all, i suggest you reading Codex: Orks 4-th edition fluff. It's magnificent.

"Badly wounded and out of cigars, Kaptin' Badruk had to withdraw" ©

The entire codex has it's fun crazy spirit which the new 7-th one lacks if you ask me.

Tabletop orks are quite fun to play and have a good ammount of functional lists. But note that orks often require more cunnin' tactix and strategy to have a chance of winning than most other armies if you got to play competitively. So you'll have some challenging games also!

It's also very important that orkses are the undisputedly best choice for a 'self-made' army! Conversions, scratch-builds or even purely self-made models...and they'll all look awesome and as intended. Cause propa meks just take a bunch of random parts, slap them all together and eventually it starts shooting and killin' stuff! The crazier and more crude it looks - the orkier it is!

Oh, and people love playing vs orks! Maybe cause we don't have obviously broken overpowered stuff. We can be decent and even devastating at times. But never broken.

 Chumbalaya wrote:
Units removed: Wazdakka, Zogwort, Looted Wagon (unless you pay extra and can track down a random issue of WD!)

Army builds invalidated: Troop Nobs, Troop Meganobs, Troop Dreads, Troop Bikes

For a new player, they aren't losing units, but they do have fewer options available for making their army.

Those aren't builds, those are army lists. You are picking an army list and crying about it no longer working after the codex hit. Which is totally surprising, really.

The actual builds behind those army lists still work, some better than ever. Bike lists are awesome now, better than they have ever been with Wazdakka around, Meganobz have become one of, if not the best elite choice and even have got a formation for spaming them, nobz no longer compete with lootaz for elite slots and can score all the time, deff dreads can still be combined with kanz by simply doubling up on detachments - or picking the dread mob formation and finally enable them to use a Waaagh!.

What you are complaining about is change, not the loss of options, because we have more options than ever before.

^^^ THANK you.

Tabletop orks are quite fun to play and have a good ammount of functional lists. But note that orks often require more cunnin' tactix and strategy to have a chance of winning than most other armies if you got to play competitively. So you'll have some challenging games also!

You mean... having to think of strategic tactics in a tactical strategy game? THE VERY IDEA

I'm late to the party, but I have to throw in a bit of extra on this.

Orks are AWESOME.

No, they aren't an upper-echelon army. You can still win games with them, though you might struggle with seriously competitive armies. Whatever. You're Orks. You can still have fun. And Orks never lose, anyway. (Seriously, you need to know that whole phrase, it's important.)

Even as my Orks are at a disadvantage with a lot of armies, I still play them because I have more fun than I do with armies I know I can consistently win with. Whoever's winning or losing, the game is almost always fun. (The one exception recently was a game I tried to see if a horde could beat a Tau gunline... it was a slaughter, and against someone who isn't exactly fun to play against normally anyway. But to be fair, that was also just a game to test things.)

Modeling is great. You can convert all kinds of crazy stuff. And it's not that hard to paint, really. I've done a lot of different styles over the years. Since I needed to paint an entirely new army of Orks in order to be able to field all Blood Axes (so I basically now have two Ork armies I can combine into one super-army), I settled on the idea of painting base colors and washing the model with Agrax Earthshade. It shades all the colors, tones down metal, just works really well. There's no way I'd have been able to paint what I did in the time I have if I tried other techniques, but this looks really nice on the table all together. (I'd post pics, but I keep forgetting to take some.)

Heck, I have non-Ork projects waiting for me to get started, and yet I see stuff and it makes me want to jump into painting more Orks. They are just that fun.

And seriously, go for the random stuff. It's fun. It might not be that reliable, but you can laugh when it fails, and when it works well, ho boy does it work!