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 vim_the_good wrote:
I'm in the same boat. The way I look at it is. We will always want lots of Boyz. So I'm starting with building and painting lots of Boys until the Codex drops then I'll work out what to surround them with

Unlikely to be bad decision. GW would have to be pretty awesome in level of stupidity to screw up boyz enough for them to not be viable option in the codex in edition of hordes. Maybe they won't be only viable build and maybe you don't need to spam 200+ of them but say ~120 of them is unlikely to be waste of money with codex.

Buy lots of boyz, they've nearly always been Orks most competitive unit.
After that pick what you like, lootaz, bikes, nobz, stormboyz etc aren't top tier at the mo but fun to use.
Have a painting method in mind, you're gonna be painting a lot. My system for bad moonz is white undercoat, yellow base coat, green wash for skin, sepia wash on the clothing, and then a bit of detail work in black. They look like a swarm of bees

Stormboyz ARE top tier for orks. They along with boyz and KMK's are one of the 3 units we actually have that can do anything. Dakkajet is also fairly decent currently. Who knows with codex.

Thanks for the replies so far guys. I currently have around 20 Boys and a scratch built Mek sitting around and started painting them for SWA. However now that we know different clans have different rules, will be holding off the armour for now. More Boyz are definitely on the list. Also been tempted by the idea of a Gorkanaught to ferry Da Boss around.

Gorkanaut is fun but alas seriously overcosted and if you are up against plenty of lascannon style weapons it will struggle to get anywherre. But when it does the 18 attacks can make short work of almost anything.

But the transport capability is pretty much a trap alas.