Trying to decide.

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**y0disisray**

Well myself and 4 other friends are banding together to start playing a lot more 40k and i'm looking at trying to prepare myself for competitve play. Currently I play Orks (Battlewagon spam) and my other friends all play: Space Wolves, Imperial Guard, Deathwing, Necrons, Wraithguard spam Eldar, and Nids. I am trying to decide which army I should purchase to have a second army that is competitive to help prepare ourselves for the tournament scene or if I should just expand my ork army to include kan wall or nob bikers for some variety. Any suggestions?

**Tri**

... Start collection SM ... paint them a neutral colour and you now have ... a blood angels, black templar, dark angels and not to mention SM army which can be easily tweaked to fit the current climate ... model on some spikes and skulls and you can get away with space wolves and chaos space marines.

**WarOne**

Battlewagon Spamz is probably your best bet as an Ork playa.

Until a codex update, other Ork builds are good, but BW spam (with support) works well enough.

I second Tri's suggestion for a SM army, as they are always competitive (if somewhat bland as vanilla/same models normally for troops) and can field all sorts of fun things with different codexes.

**gpfunk**

I'm a fan of orks so I would always suggest adding more to them

If you wanted to work on your ork army, i'd suggest adding on a squad of diversified nob bikerz for wound shenanigans with a biker boss. The biker boss is secondary though, seeing as I assume you'll be running a big meks with kff for your battlewagon spam. It's nice to have a fast moving unit that can hit the flanks hard, just watch out for them templates.

SM armies are always competitive. An army where the basic troop choice has a 3+ armor save is always a plus, and they make great all comers lists from what I hear and see. I'd suggest getting either the standard space marine or blood angels battleforce and painting them whatever you want. The normal bf has a bigger diversity of troops, and the BA bf has more assault marines.

You could do IG if you want to drop a lot of cash on getting some vendettas and leman russ.

**Monster Rain**

If it were me I'd just buy more Orks.

**bagtagger**

Monster Rain wrote:If it were me I'd just buy more Orks.

Absolutely agree

**PraetorDave**

Stick with Orks. IMHO, the best codex overall.

**y0disisray**

Well thanks for everyone's opinion. I believe I will be sticking to orks since I pretty much already have everything except for kanz and nob bikers. The vanilla marines concept is a good idea considering it covers many different types of space marine varients and brings out a lot of different game play but i've seen a guy at my FLGS with that and I didn't personally care for it.

**Galador**

*cough* Dark Eldar *cough*

**y0disisray**

Lol dont act like that hasn't crossed my mind but I would have to drop some serious cash for raiders/ravagers.

**Galador**

You can always do a foot DE.... contrary to popular belief, Warriors standing in the back of the board in cover are VERY hard to kill!!!

And then there is always the webway portal army....

And seriously, how much more can a Ravager or Raider or two cost when compared to a BattleWagon????lol

**y0disisray**

True but I already have 3 battleagons

**Monster Rain**

What you need is a Stompa.

Then you can kick some ass in Apocalypse.

**Galador**

yeah but DE can curbstomp in both regular 40k and Apoc.... I know your an Ork player, but I have had a wych squad wipe a 30 boy mob out in turn one..... granted, that was a rarity of good rolling from me and bad rolling on his part, but the possibility is always there lol

**Orkymike**

Stick with the orks. never turn away from the orky goodness

**loota boy**

Orks all the way. If you already have 3000 points, you should start investing into Apoc. Get a stompa and a couple fighta-bommas and whatever else appeals too you.

**Galador**

I will admit, my most fun games are always against Ork players. I just love some of the awesome things that your guys can do that make the game so much more fun...... such as using the shock attack gun to basically impale your Mek onto my Talos' ichor injector!!!! Or when the Shokk attack actually works and I have to remove 2 Raiders on turn one with two 10 man Bloodbride squads embarked from a lucky RAARGH!!! shot that hit dead on target...... yeah, that game hurt lol