IG vs Orks

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**FourCartridge**

I got utterly raped the last 3 times against Orks, particularly footslogging hordes. Is there any way IG can best these types of Orks? I could really use help here.

**Luke_Prowler**

As an Ork player, there' nothing I hate more than artillery batteries or Leman Russes and being drowned in pie plates. I'm actually kinda confused if he's having such an easy time. What kind of list do you use?

**HoverBoy**

Foot orks you say, that might call for barrage colossus, bassilisk, manticore and even mortars can be a great help against such armies. Screen with blobs featuring commissars and just blob the zog out of the greenskins.

**Leigen_Zero**

As an ork player that has only won 1 game against IG, templates are your friend...

**Almarine**

*cough* GRIFFONS *cough*

**halonachos**

*cough* IG Bakery*cough*.

IG can make pies in all flavors; Collosus, Basilisk, Griffon, Medusa, etc. All of which are deadly to Orks. Use template weapons like the hellhound and banewolf to help you out. Multilasers on anything, CS Goto the place up. Heavy bolters with grenade launchers or flamers.

**gpfunk**

Hell man, I don't know how that guy pulled out three wins against you in a row but I'd like to see that tactica.

Aside from pie plates, lots of heavy bolters, and autocannons can help thin out the horde. And maybe a small vet squad kitted out with flamers.

**halonachos**

I can see where he could lose against foot slogging Orkz. If the deployment is done lengthwise on a table using the long sides as deployment area then the Orkz have an advantage as there's less space in between the two armies.

I know that happens to me whenever we deploy that way.

**Dashofpepper**

Foot slogging orks? *giggles*

Put your army into chimeras. Put flamers on the chimeras. Put flamers on the guys inside flamer toting chimeras. Feed your flamer toting guys in the flamer chimeras jalepenos before the battle so that they can breathe out flamer templates.

Take a couple of Hydras and a manticore for good measure.

Unless your Ork opponent is Dashofpepper, I wouldn't put my money on them. In fact, I'd probably not even put money on me, I'd bet on you and take a dive. =D

**Gavo**

2 easy steps.
1.Take Hull Heavy Flamers on almost all your vehicles.
2. Take a Manticore and laugh maniacally as you pulp his army.

Protip: Hellhounds are nasty too.

**BossBrainDigga**

Dude, as an ork player who regularly plays against IG and can at BEST only ever come up with a draw here and there, Executioners with all plasma templates. 3 Lemans I think it is each with an Executioner and 2 pintle-mounted plasma templates. Thats 15 pie plates per turn instakilling anything they touch. I utterly cringe at the very sight of those things when I run my horde army against them. By the time i get to his lines, half or more of my army is gone...not to mention the Valkries...oh god...

**Volkov**

Foot Slogging orks were the army Guard were designed to fight. I think 9 hellhounds and 9 griffons ought to do it

**whembly**

FourCartridge wrote:I got utterly raped the last 3 times against Orks, particularly footslogging hordes. Is there any way IG can best these types of Orks? I could really use help here.

What kind of list does your Ork player run?

I run a speedfreak list (bikers/mass trukk/deffkoptas)... and it's very good against IG list. But I fear the flamer chimeras and that plasma battle cannon (executioner??).... Just about the only way orks can routinely succeed against IG, is if the Orks can get to your backline by turn 2 (in fact, thats just about every ork list).

I agree with others... cooking some pies with flaming chimeras should counter most ork list.

ninja'ed by bossbrain... yeah... that list is evil...