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I will need help building this

my army of the year started back in 2008

when I played 32 chaos terminators all year. people were really surprised on how good. I was at winning with the list since I played it all year.

2009 was a berzerker horde

2010 was blood crusher spam

2011 will be horde orks.

so I spent some money recently and have
11 boxes of boyz
6 boxes of lottas
2 trucks
and 2 battlewagons.
I also have a mech with shock attack gun that has been sitting around for almost 15 years painted by my father in law.

a starting list would be something like this
2000 Pts - Codex: Orks Roster

Troops: Boyz (20#, 175 pts)
19 Boyz @ 175 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 40 & 100); Unit Type: Infantry; Choppa & Slugga; Rokkit Launcha x2; Furious Charge; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)
1 Boyz Nob ((C:Orks, pp. 40 & 100); Unit Type: Infantry; Slugga; Power Klaw; Furious Charge; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)

Troops: Boyz (20#, 175 pts)
19 Boyz @ 175 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 40 & 100); Unit Type: Infantry; Choppa & Slugga; Rokkit Launcha x2; Furious Charge; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)
1 Boyz Nob ((C:Orks, pp. 40 & 100); Unit Type: Infantry; Slugga; Power Klaw; Furious Charge; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)

Heavy Support: Battlewagon (1#, 120 pts)
1 Battlewagon @ 120 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 55 & 102); Unit Type: Vehicle (Tank, Open-topped); Transport Capacity: 20 models; Armour Plates; Deff Rolla)

Heavy Support: Battlewagon (1#, 120 pts)
1 Battlewagon @ 120 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 55 & 102); Unit Type: Vehicle (Tank, Open-topped); Transport Capacity: 20 models; Armour Plates; Deff Rolla)

Troops: Boyz (11#, 95 pts)
10 Boyz @ 95 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 40 & 100); Unit Type: Infantry; Choppa & Slugga; Furious Charge; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)
1 Trukk ((C:Orks, pp. 41 & 100); Unit Type: Vehicle (Fast, Open-topped); Transport Capacity: 12 models; Big Shoota; Ramshackle)

Troops: Boyz (11#, 95 pts)
10 Boyz @ 95 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 40 & 100); Unit Type: Infantry; Choppa & Slugga; Furious Charge; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)
1 Trukk ((C:Orks, pp. 41 & 100); Unit Type: Vehicle (Fast, Open-topped); Transport Capacity: 12 models; Big Shoota; Ramshackle)

Troops: Boyz (30#, 245 pts)
29 Boyz @ 245 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 40 & 100); Unit Type: Infantry; Shootas; Rokkit Launcha x3; Furious Charge; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)
1 Boyz Nob ((C:Orks, pp. 40 & 100); Unit Type: Infantry; Slugga; Power Klaw; Furious Charge; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)

Troops: Boyz (30#, 245 pts)
29 Boyz @ 245 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 40 & 100); Unit Type: Infantry; Shootas; Rokkit Launcha x3; Furious Charge; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)
1 Boyz Nob ((C:Orks, pp. 40 & 100); Unit Type: Infantry; Slugga; Power Klaw; Furious Charge; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)

HQ: Big Mek (1#, 95 pts)
1 Big Mek @ 95 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 34 & 97); Unit Type: Infantry; Mek's Tools; Choppa; Shokk Attack Gun; Furious Charge; Independent Character; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)

HQ: Big Mek (1#, 85 pts)
1 Big Mek @ 85 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 34 & 97); Unit Type: Infantry; Mek's Tools; Kustom Force Field; Choppa; Furious Charge; Independent Character; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)

Elite: Lootas (10#, 150 pts)
10 Lootas @ 150 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 43 & 100); Unit Type: Infantry; Deffguns; Furious Charge; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)

Elite: Lootas (10#, 150 pts)
10 Lootas @ 150 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 43 & 100); Unit Type: Infantry; Deffguns; Furious Charge; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)

Elite: Lootas (10#, 150 pts)
10 Lootas @ 150 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 43 & 100); Unit Type: Infantry; Deffguns; Furious Charge; Mob Rule; Waaagh!)

Heavy Support: Big Gunz (9#, 99 pts)
3 Big Gunz @ 99 pts ((C:Orks, pp. 51 & 103); Unit Type: Artillery; Zzap Gun; Ammo Runt x3)
6 Gretchin


Total Roster Cost: 1999

good, bad, ugly?

Looks good. Would be better if you could shave some points to include ghazghkull and get trukks for all the boyz but that would probably cut down the 'horde' theme.

I also like your idea of a new army every year sounds fun. I foresee you winning a lot of games this year as this list is pretty competitive.

I don't know too much about Orks or 40k at this point other then reading the forums but the list looks like a lot of fun. The one thing I have read up on though that you may want to change is the Rokkit Launchas on your shoota boyz. You have a ton of anti armor between the Lootas, Deff Rollas, Shock Attack Gun and Zzap guns. I believe Big Shootas would be more beneficial to them and give you 30 extra points, also dropping Rokkits from your sluggas in the Battlewagons will free up some points. I would try and get Ghaz in there even if it means dropping some lootas or big gunz his waaagh is so nice with mechanized/foot slogga which you appear to be running. To free up an HQ slot you will have to drop a Big Mek and I recommend the Shock Attack Gun, it's a fun guy to have around but the chance to "misfire" is there, it also scatters and to be really effective you need to be rolling an 8+. If you have some left over points gretchin would be great, they can sit on objectives and protect your big guns and lootas from being deep strike attacked, plus it's great to hear stories of victories of the little buggers taking down things worth many more times the points then they are.

It's a good list. I congratulate you sir on being able to play a single list all year. I personally have the attention span of a gnat and generally run 2-3 different armies from different books all year long.

And the list is solid.

The internetz are gunna go crazy on you about combining Mech with Horde. So get ready, but me personally don't have a problem with it IF you use your Mech wisely. I have been experimenting with Mech/Horde list myself and so far it's been working out good if the dice roll your way. What I have been doing is reserving the Trukks/Battle Wagons. Marching the Horde forward. Then having the Trukks/Battlewagons come in off the backside to fill in where I think I need them. I just wish we had a IC that allowed us to manipulate the reserve rolls (Hive Tyrant, Master of the Fleet, etc).

Couple problems I see-

Lootas - You need to either go max'd out or min. 10 Lootas get shot once, loose 3 models, take a leadership test and they you run (well there's a good chance you will) Take either 5 or 15.

Big Guns - Zapp Guns really suck for a couple reasons. They are random, they have to have LOS, they are crewed by Gretchin. Lobbas are awesome. You can hide them because you don't need LOS, they are barrage (curse or blessing depending on where you land), they cause pinning.

Trukks - Standard eqiupment for trukks is a reinforced ram. It's nice to get the re-roll of DT tests but being able to tankshock units is awesome.

Other than that it will be a fun list to play

Replace the gunz which are near worthless with about 6 kanz for the walkin boyz.

rivers64 that's limited and almost pointless advise. First he'd need to find 36pts just to field 3 kanz where would he find them? (honest question, when advising changing of the list explain where things should come from and why). To field 6 he'd have to completely rearrange the list.

I'd prefer kannons of zzap guns personally but that's because they perform quite well for my buddy. If you deploy aggressively you might get to use the Zzap guns.

I think it looks like a lot of fun to play. I played mixed horde/mech last summer when I first got into the game with moderate success. Lootas are my favourite unit in the entire 'dex. I would suggest dropping the zzap guns for kannons. Lobbas are alright, but the increased versatility of the shell/frag option really pays off in my opinion. Big Meks are so awesome.

Boring. It's the only word that can descripe this list. Sorry mate. I don't see any holes if you wanna make a Green Tide army then it works perfect. But boring. Orks have so meny awesome units so it's a shame you only take Boyz :/

the zap guns are about to become kannons if ebay goes my way today. good advice on the rams for the trucks.

my thinking on the lootas are that with the trucks and wagons rolling up. there will be little left to shoot at the lootas.

I was going to run with no vehicles but I like the truck and wagon models too much


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as far as boring
i see that 1 take 8 different things
shock attack custom
cust force field
truck
wagon
big gunz
lootas
shootas
sluggas

I tend to go one sided in my lists and like to play that way. what is boring for one is anothers paradise

they are great models, as for the big guns i normally stick with kannons...
although the randomness of zzap guns is always fun!

It's still 2010. Please properly post at corresponding dates with what you're talking about. I vote to ban this post until January 1st 2011 on which date I will be more than pleased to look at your list.

Yes but i still need to paint it for january events


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ok so it is three kannons got my auction win from e-bay