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hey guys,
Im i the process of creating a 1300 point Space marine army to take out my friends orks. Any suggestions for units that do really well against orks?
Ty

What strategy does he use for Orks? Letting us know about that will change how we respond.

Predators with heavy bolters do damage, flamers are great, Vindicators kill everything. Tactical Marines can kill Orks easily, since your bolters ignore their armor saves. Getting the charge on Orks goes a long way too, since they lose so much punch when they don't charge.

If he uses alot of boyz, use flamers

Landspeeders with heavy flamers are really good at torching boyz too!

Use a landraider, will be hard to kill

He uses quite a bit of heavy support and fast attack so his army is actually quite well equipped shootingwise for orks. He tends to run his orks/fast attack up the battlefield using cover while giving them cover fire with his heavy support.



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What about dreadnoughts? are they any good vs orks?

IBringtherayne wrote:He uses quite a bit of heavy support and fast attack so his army is actually quite well equipped shootingwise for orks. He tends to run his orks/fast attack up the battlefield using cover while giving them cover fire with his heavy support.



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What about dreadnoughts? are they any good vs orks?

If he swarms a bunch of Boyz, dreadnoughts are great since they can't be touched. You only have to worry about the PK from the Nob at that point.

What units does he specifically use? Kans? Bikers?

Brother has the best ideas for a Green Tide list.

Dreadnoughts are pretty good, but the problem is he'll have a nob in any given squad with a power klaw. This will wreck a dread without much effort, and you'll have to punch through 30 or so boyz to get to it.

A Land Raider crusader is amazing against Orks. They have almost nothing that can even touch it from range, and power klaws need to get the charge, and you'll be moving anyways. It can shoot tons and tons of bolter fire that can just cut right through Orks like nobody's business. Land Raider redeemer is good too.

I have a land raider and it generally does really well.

He has a bunch of warbikes(not sure exactly how many),
1 warBuggy, 3 wartracks, 1trukk, a battlewagon and some other ork tank that I can't remember the name of. And a bunch of 'Boyz and 'Ard 'Boyz

Template weapons hurt the most, demolisher cannon from the vindicator is lethal. And clever charging with terminators or a kamikaze squad to prevent us from the charge bonus gives the boyz the lethality of a 13 year old school girl.