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helllo everyone, how is everyone doing today? i just had a quick question to ask all of you, if you have the time ? I Am planning on starting a ork army. I would like to know what all of your opinions on what would be the best things to start off my 40k ork's army with only 200 dollars at hand. Also i have one more quick question to ask all of you. I am also planning on starting a imperial guard army at some point aswell. I would like to know what all of your opinions on what would be the best things to buy to start off my 40k imperial guard army. If i only have 200 dollars at hand aswell.

thank you for your time.


ps: i updated the grammar... sorry i was in a rush i had to leave for work.

Go for Imperial Guard. They have many different styles of play which are all equally enjoyable.

Air Cav: Load up on Veterans and Valkyries. Use them to outflank and corner the enemy, targetting weak points.

Treadhead: Load up on armour and bombard the enemy while most of their armour bounces off your AV14.

Mass Infantry Blob: Take many Infantry Platoons with few armour. You defeat the enemy through mass firepower and numbers.

I think you should use proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar in your posts.

As Orks, get Black Reach, sell off the Marine half (or split the cost up front), get a codex, a box of Nobz, and 3 boxes of boyz to make into shoota boyz. Alternately, load up on a battlewagon with deffrolla for the nobz, or get some lootas for the fire support. You'll also need paint, but the scheme is your call.

First off the codex. Then you've got to decide what sort of army you want- shooty or killy or lots of trukks, battlewagons etc. Ork Boyz are reasonably neccesary for all of these. A Big Mek, from what I've seen, is rather useful too.

Therefore, I'd start with Boyz. If you can find someone who wants to start SM, see if he'll go halves in AoBR with you, as you get a lot more boyz per dollar.

Edit: Also take paints into account, thinking about it.

Imperial Guard is a very expensive army. If you've only got $200, there's a website called apocabitznow that sells the AoBR box set with just Orks or Space Marines for $72. you'll end up with around 1000 points of either army for $72. You can also buy the codex at %20 off. I'd suggest going with one of those.

Valkyrie wrote:Go for Imperial Guard. They have many different styles of play which are all equally enjoyable.

Air Cav: Load up on Veterans and Valkyries. Use them to outflank and corner the enemy, targetting weak points.

Treadhead: Load up on armour and bombard the enemy while most of their armour bounces off your AV14.

Mass Infantry Blob: Take many Infantry Platoons with few armour. You defeat the enemy through mass firepower and numbers.

A VERY interesting way of starting up Orks.... Truely, that is an Ork army that has never been seen before.

/sarcasm.

Right off the bat, OP, assuming you have the core rules, I would get the Ork Codex, Ork Boyz, and an Ork HQ, play a few games, and then see what you like. Get two units of Ork Boyz, don't put them all the way together yet, but play a small game with one unit counting as Shootas and the other counting as Sluggas.

The Wife's orks: $406 total, USD

Aobr Orks(cost was split with a SM player): $45
Ork Battle Force: $90
Ork Mega Force: $200 (no longer available through GW, can be found via independent online retailers, or FLGS)
1 Box: Lootas/Burnas: $24.75
1 Blister: Ork Wierdboy: $20
1 Blister: Painboy: $13.25
1 Panzerkampfwagon model: ~$13(got it from a Model shop on sale; use it as a looted Wagon)

Armylist:
Warboss: w/PK, CB, EA, Attack Squig, TL-Shoota
5 Nobz: 3t-lshootas, Kombi-scorcha, Cybork bodies, 4 PKs, Waagh banner, Bosspole, 4eavy armor, Painboy
20 Slugga Boyz: 2 big shootas, Nob, Bosspole, Big Choppa
20 Slugga Boyz: Nob, Bosspole, Big Choppa
20 Shoota Boyz: 2 big Shootas
10 Slugga Boyz: Nob Power Klaw, boss pole
2 trukks: Red paint, Armor Plates, Boarding Ramp, Wreckin ball
Looted Wagon: Boom gun, 2 big shootas, ard case, armor plates, red paint, reinforced ram
10 lootas: 2 meks w/KMBs(both Meks will be replaced with lootas sson)
10 Burnas: 2 meks w/big shootas(both Meks will be replaced with Burnas sson)
11 Bikers: Nob, PK, Bosspole
Total comes to 1845 points


The Warphead and another Nob gets added for 2000 point games.

2 stompas

Orks Codex $20
AoBR (Orks) box $72
Ork Battle Force $72
Killa Kans $39.60
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$201.60

For that price you get a rulebook, codex, dice, templates, 2 Ork Warbosses, 60 Ork Boyz, 3 Ork Warbikes, 1 Ork Trukk, 10 Ork Nobz, 3 Killa Kans and, 6 Ork Deffkoptas.

That's a pretty awesome army for $200.