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Okay, I'm getting ready to join an upcoming escalation league and the first week we are starting at 250 pts, min 1 troop.

I've got 4,000+ points of Nids, Orks, and SM's and cant even remotely decide what would be fun at 250 pts.

What are your suggestions for lists, and what builds should I look out for?

250pts is pretty damn small!

for 'nids i'd think something like...

HQ) Prime, LW & BS, Deathspitter
Elite) x2 Hive Guard
Troops) x10 Termagants

You got a terrible scoring unit, a good CC unit, and a good anti-tank platform. stick the Prime in with the Hive Guard and march forward taking pot shots at transports while getting screened for cover by your gants.

CageUF wrote:Okay, I'm getting ready to join an upcoming escalation league and the first week we are starting at 250 pts, min 1 troop.

I've got 4,000+ points of Nids, Orks, and SM's and cant even remotely decide what would be fun at 250 pts.

What are your suggestions for lists, and what builds should I look out for?s

250? Seriously? That's silly.

Anyway, your orks will dominate until 750, unless there's a DE player in the pile. I rather think that no one will be playing tau (250 can yield 3 FireStorms with the mandatory FWs!).

*But* don't you have to use the same army throughout?

So i think Im going to be as silly as possible.

Big Mek
Deff Dread with +1 DCCW +1 Flamer
3x Killa Kans with Flamers
=250pts

Replace flamers with grotzookas.

What does the list build to + are you sticking with the same army throughout?

At 250 space marines don't give you many options. Min Sized scouts (75) + dread, maybe shooty upgrade (115) + Land speeder (60ish) = 250. Could be a fun starter mix.

Orks!
Weird boy(55), 20 shoota boyz(130ish with big shootas), 2 buggies or 2 koptas.
I do enjoy a weird boy in low point games. It'll at least make it fun.

Spellbound wrote:Replace flamers with grotzookas.

no points, id have to find another 15pts to do so. Which is kinda hard considering I only start with 250

Closest option would be:
1x Deff Dread with x2 flamers
2x Grotzookas Kan
1x Flamer Kan

I've been running:
9 Kans
1 Deff Dread
3 Nobs w/ Battlewagon
3x 30 shoota boys
1x 14 Burna/Loota
1x Big mek w/ KFF