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How viable would this idea be?

Ghazzy, Warboss, 30 Nobs and 3 battlewagons, with other stuff.

Viable as in competitive?

Extremely...un.

As in, uncompetitive.

*edit* And in case you're not actually sure why:

1. Without a Big Mek and a KFF, Battlewagons aren't so hard to pop.

2. Without any ranged anti-tank, enemy anti-tank is going to blow you apart.

3. Nobs on foot don't get far fast. But they are a very expensive unit - and exposed to prolonged fire (like crossing a table on foot), they will crumple after a turn or two.

I'm not talking competitive. I'm talking, "Could I possibly win with something like this?"

Against..bad armies, I guess?
Even then it'd be iffy, I'd say. Depends, though, on what you're playing against, what the other stuff in the army is, battle type, individual players' skill/tactics, etc, etc.

I'm going to guess it'll be an uphill battle because of your army already starting a bit behind by handicapping itself.

put them on bikes. Then you should be good to go.

Chowderhead wrote:I'm not talking competitive. I'm talking, "Could I possibly win with something like this?"

Aren't those the same things?

Can you win with that? Well, that really depends is the only answer. I can see you roughing up someone who is new to 40k and putting models on the table for the first time with no idea of how to build a list or what tanks are. I'd say against anyone else, you're probably done for.

The one time it works, it'll work extremely well.

However, this will be balanced out by the huge number of times that your opponent destroys your non-KFF battlewagons and then mows down your footslogging nobz. I suppose that with KFF support you would at least get to the enemy but a kitted out 10-man nob squad would be what? 300-ish points? Depends on how PK happy you get.

For 300 points, you opponent could be getting:
7 TH/SS terminators
A frickin' C'tan!
6 destroyers, which you would find very hard to counter.

I'm not saying that it's hopeless, but if you compare it to the other competitive Ork builds, it doesn't stand out.