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Only have a few minutes, but thought I would throw this out there to check out later. Is a very shooty ork list possible, or more accuratley not just a throw away list?

Was thinking about 2 big meks with shokk attack guns, some lootas, burnas in a battlewagon, deffdread, killa kanz, koptas, wartracks, and shoota boys galore?

Workable or dont bother, you wont hit on 5s?

Depends on what you want to get out of this type of list.

Fun? Absolutely Yes - especially when your SAG kills himself on the very first shot
Competitive? Depends on your competition.
Everything hits on a 5? No, Grots and Kanz hit on a 4!

If your just looking to have fun but not loose the game before it starts, go for it. If your looking to win tournaments, you might want to look at other builds.

A Mini Dreadbash is a good place to start. Just run 6 instead of 9 Kans (for cover) and buy more Lootas. -- 2 Loota Mobs, 3 x 30 Shoota boys and Rocket Kans are a good shooty base. Add some koptas to sally forth and get some tanks. Maybe even add Grot artillery & an SAG. Definately get a KFF Mek for the 'front line'. Yeah, maybe not uber-competitive but you get to roll a lot of dice before you die.

Good shooty Ork stuff list:
Lootas
Kans with Rokkits
War Buggies with Rokkits

Bad Shooty Ork stuff list:
Everything else.

^^^ Shoota Boyz aren't on the Good list? What's more dakka then 30 boyz firing 2 shots each? I love dropping down 60 dice at a time.

Twin Linked weapons on a BS of 2 hit 55% of the time. That means that any twin-linked weapons you have are slightly better than a grot.

The rest of your shooting comes from volume of fire. Take an average roll from 15 lootas. Sure, you might only hit on 5s, but your throwing out 30 STR 7 shots. 10 on average will hit.

So this is the list I have come up with. A combination of fun (casual list here, I have a go for the throat list thats fine for tourney play) and models I have heh. For straight shooty was thinking along the lines of:

HQ:

Big Mek, shokk attack gun 95

Big Mek, shokk attack gun 95

Elites:

7x Lootas 105

7x Lootas 105

10x Burna boys 150

Troops:

Deff dread 2x skorchas, armor plates, grot riggers 100

10x gretchen grot herder 40

20x shoota boyz 2x big shootas, nob, bosspole, p. klaw 170

20x shoota boyz 2x big shootas, nob, bosspole, p. klaw 170

Fast attack:

3x warbuggies twin linked rokkit launchas 105

Deffkopta twin linked rokkit launcha, buzzsaw 70

Deffkopta twin linked rokkit launcha, buzzsaw 70

Heavy support:

Battlewagon, ard case, killkanon, ard case, armor plates, grot riggers, big shoota, deffrolla 185

3x killa kans grotzookas 135

7x Flash gitz Kaptain Badrukk, painboy, cybork bodies, More dakka, shootier 405

2k points even.

Yes flashgits are no good, but I have wanted to try em for a while now. The only diffrence I might consider is dropping a SAG for a KFF to get my kans, dreads and flash gits across the field. Other than that it should be a fun nice change of pace for orks.

ALSO I purchased badrukk seperatley as it looks like his cost is +135. Does that mean the 40 points I pay for a flash git PLUS the 135 for him, or he is seperate. 135 points for a leader upgrade seems a bit pricey for anyone.

Just one last check to see if someone has run something like this, or has found a unit to be super good in a setup like this. Seems like combining the lootas or dropping the burnas for kommandos with snikrot would do good too.

Ork Shooty lists are competitive, they just rely on numbers, search for anything by Dash Of Pepper on the subject, he use to post some really good advice on how Orks should be run.

I'm not sure how competitive this is:

But I run a list consisting of

3 x 30 sluggas.
3 x 30 shootas.
3 looted wagons with boom guns.
2 x 15 lootas.
sometimes a buggy or two
sometimes a deff kopta or a few
sometimes a mix of Nobs in Trukks or Bikers
sometimes burnas or nobz in Battlewagonz

point is with my base of shooting - by sheer numbers I come out on top more often then not in a casual environment.. I just have some words of wisdom:

Don't charge a furiouso dreadnought with blood talons
And stay away from Salamander Marines.. HeeHee!

Dident have money to buy a shokk attack gun, and dunno if its worth it to buy it when I might use it just a few times, so I looted my bits box and made one. Dosent suck up snotlings but it came out...interesting.