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Do you guys gave a ork list to suggest for 1500 pts.

I want an elite army with only a few really powerful elite models. I does not matter if the list is not super competitive.

Cheers

2 warboss and 20 or so nob bikers is the standard low model count ork list.

I would try something like 2 warboss and 3 BWs with about 5-7 nobz in them.

The deffrolla on the wagons is really helpful if you find something tht PKs wont kill (like a LR moving 12" every turn)

Mega Armoured Warboss. Mega Nobs. nob Bikers. 20 Ard Boys Deffdread or 2 And a battlewagon. Lots of powerklaws in there. make your own Wazdakka Gutsmek to lead Nob Bikers!!

Ghazghkull 225
Big Mek -KFF 85

Lootasx5 75
Lootasx5 75
Burnasx15 225

Nobzx9 -Painboy, Waaagh! Banner, PK & BP, PK & Kombi-Rokkit, Big Choppa, Big Choppa & Kombi-Rokkit, Big Choppa & Kombi-Rokkit & Ammo Runt, Slugga/Choppa, Kombi-Rokkit/Choppa Cybork Bodies, Warbikes 388

Ork Boyzx16 -Nob -PK -BP 136
Gretchinx10 -Runtherdx1 40

Battlewagonx2 -DeffRolla, Big Shoota, Boarding Plank, Armor Plates 250

1499

Pomyboy wrote:Mega Armoured Warboss. Mega Nobs. nob Bikers. 20 Ard Boys Deffdread or 2 And a battlewagon. Lots of powerklaws in there. make your own Wazdakka Gutsmek to lead Nob Bikers!!

Is it possible to actually win battles with this kind of army?

Any competitive list would take an army like that out with relative ease IMO. If your looking for a fun army that fits what you've posted, that will work, but don't expect to win a lot of games with it

I love Mech Orks and my standard 1500 list is a Warboss w/the trimming, Big Mek w/KFF, two battle wagons w/ deff rollas, three squads of trukk boyz, and a couple deffkoptas w/buzzsaws. Pretty straight forward tactics. Set up in a block so everyone gets a coversave and charge forwards and punch people in the face.

I have almost never played an opponent who had fewer models than me, and I mostly play against Marines!

Big Mek, KFF

MaW or MaBM, or BCWB, with trimmings, depending on the game's points.

Squad of Meganobz, ~ 5 or so, depending on points.

Shenaniganized Nobz squad, with dok, Big choppas, cybork, etc.

20 'ard Shoota boyz

1-2 squads of 3x Kanz w/KMB (depending on points)

1-2 Deff dredds, each with either dual KMBs or dual DCCW (depending on points, and how many Big Meks I'm taking)

Battlewagon, RPJ, Deffrolla, Armour, Grots, Big Shoota, Zzap gun.

Battlewagon, Killkannon, 'ard Case, 4x Rokkits, Armour plates, Grots, Kanon.

I'll switch up my list a little, depending on if I want the MaNz or the Shenaniganized Nobz as the troops (they go with the warboss with similar gear), or if I feel like taking extra walkers that day.

For whatever reason, this list seems to absolutely murder Deathwing, though it's fairly mediocre otherwise.

Anvildude wrote:MaW or MaBM, or BCWB, with trimmings, depending on the game's points.

What heck is a MaW, MaBM, or a MCWB??

Mega-armoured Warboss, Mega-armoured Big Mek, and a mistake. Should be a BCWB, Big Choppa War Boss. with trimmings, of course.

I'd consider a Kan Wall:

1 Big Mek
1 Waaghboss
3x 20 Boyz - replace some Boyz by a (scoring) Nob mob
9 Kanz
2x6 Lootaz

Anvildude wrote:Mega-armoured Warboss, Mega-armoured Big Mek, and a mistake. Should be a BCWB, Big Choppa War Boss. with trimmings, of course.

Who the heck takes a Mega-Armoured Big Mek? You can't have a KFF if you take Mega-Armour, kinda pointless aint it?

A Big Choppa Warboss? Seriously????? Shheesh! this is why the internet thinks Orks are not competitive!!!!

Jubear wrote:The deffrolla on the wagons is really helpful if you find something tht PKs wont kill (like a LR moving 12" every turn)

Noob-ish question of sorts, but how dangerous is a Land Raider moving 12" every turn? It can't shoot, the passengers can disembark but can't assault (but can shoot as if they have moved, i.e. no heavy weapons etc.) meaning that if they deploy anywhere within 12" of a unit (for them to assault next time), they'll be assaulted in orks next turn.. I'd say the biggest danger it has would be to tank shock units? Or is there something I have overlooked?

elchristoff wrote:

Jubear wrote:The deffrolla on the wagons is really helpful if you find something tht PKs wont kill (like a LR moving 12" every turn)

Noob-ish question of sorts, but how dangerous is a Land Raider moving 12" every turn? It can't shoot, the passengers can disembark but can't assault (but can shoot as if they have moved, i.e. no heavy weapons etc.) meaning that if they deploy anywhere within 12" of a unit (for them to assault next time), they'll be assaulted in orks next turn.. I'd say the biggest danger it has would be to tank shock units? Or is there something I have overlooked?

Overlooked? Yes, please: A LR can move 12'', fire one weapon (thanks to machine spirit), and the unit transported can disembark and charge in the same turn. After all, a LR is an assault vehicle.

General_Chaos wrote:

Anvildude wrote:Mega-armoured Warboss, Mega-armoured Big Mek, and a mistake. Should be a BCWB, Big Choppa War Boss. with trimmings, of course.

Who the heck takes a Mega-Armoured Big Mek? You can't have a KFF if you take Mega-Armour, kinda pointless aint it?

A Big Choppa Warboss? Seriously????? Shheesh! this is why the internet thinks Orks are not competitive!!!!

It's all points stuff, and whether I want that second Deffdred in my army or not. I always take both Nob squads, so the Battlewagons are Dedicated Transports, and I'll take anywhere from one to three squadrons of Killa Kans (though I don't run Kan Wall, I just like Walkers). If I want a whole lot of walkers, I'll want the extra Deffdred having another Mek as HQ gets me, but I still want some more combat use from my second HQ, so I'll put him in Mega Armour, Cybork and an Attack squig (maybe Burna) and attach him to the Meganobz squad. You'll note that I always have a KFF Mek as my primary HQ.

the Big Choppa Boss is more useful than you might realize, especially against enemy walkers, since he gets to hit at Initiative, and charging gets Str 8, with a LOT of attacks.

Both of those HQs are cheaper than a MaWB, if necessary.


Also, I don't play primarily for competition, I play primarily for fun and fluff. The OP wasn't asking for super-comp lists, or else he'd just go with one of the 'basic' ork lists; he was asking for something with few models, that wasn't horribly underpowered.

Thanks guys. Looks like it is possible to field a Ork army with few models! Cheers.

elchristoff wrote:

Jubear wrote:The deffrolla on the wagons is really helpful if you find something tht PKs wont kill (like a LR moving 12" every turn)

Noob-ish question of sorts, but how dangerous is a Land Raider moving 12" every turn? It can't shoot, the passengers can disembark but can't assault (but can shoot as if they have moved, i.e. no heavy weapons etc.) meaning that if they deploy anywhere within 12" of a unit (for them to assault next time), they'll be assaulted in orks next turn.. I'd say the biggest danger it has would be to tank shock units? Or is there something I have overlooked?

POTMS allows it to shoot 1 weapon even if it moves 12" also PKs need a 6 to hit in assault with a veh that moves over 6" meanig you better be throwing alot of PKsat it to do the job with any chance of success (normal nobs are ST 9 on the charge meaning that they need 5 to just glance it) A deffrolla gets around this by just dealing a simple D6 ST 10 hits and all you gotta do is ram the LR =)

ghaz 225
warboss in mega armor 100

7 mega nobs 280
7 mega nobs 280
6 mega nobs 240


battlewagon w/ rpj deff rolla and 2x big shoota 125
battlewagon w/ rpj deff rolla and 2x big shoota 125
battlewagon w/ rpj deff rolla and 2x big shoota 125

1500 points on the nose

25 models

Could replace the 2 big shootas with Kannons, so you can fire the Frag round while you move.

you could take a single cannon yes... but i mostly once a BW drops off its payload try to go around raming and tank shocking everything i can i run 2 big shootas because they are cheap and i have 2 weapons for weapon destroyed resulrs to soak them up and make them last longer

That's an elite force but not really competitive. If you fought my army, I'd kill the transports first turn with my lascannons (if they fail the manticores would do it). By turn three you would be dead probably. Depends how good you are at rolling 5+'s.

Sorry for the spiky bit now for the helpful side
The best elite ork army I've ever fought was something like
Mek w/ shokk attack gun
10 biker nobs, painboy, pk's
20 hardboyz in battlewagon
12 boys in trukk
15 lootas
9 deffkoptas w/ pk's possibly rokkits

Can't remember it exactly but it was along those lines. They used cover and the deffkoptas infiltrated and caused me one hell of a problem

wait, 5+? Are you confusing Meganobz with Terminators?

And 69 models is not an 'elite, few model' army.

Nob Bikers take a beating now with the amount of Missile spam

'eres one for ya........

MA warboss
KFF Big mek

2 crazy nob squads

20 ard' boys

3 BW
would be funny to see

[HQ]

Warboss
-Mega-Armour

Big Mek
-Kustom Force Field
-Power Klaw

[TROOPS]

Nob Squad
-All 'eavy armour
-All Cybork Body
-All Power Klaw
-All TL Shootas
-Painboy

'Ard Boyz squad (20 boyz)
-Nob with 'Eavy Armour, Bosspole and Power Klaw)
-1 Big Shoota and 1 Rokkit Launcha

[HEAVY SUPPORT] ('Ere comes da krump-convoy!)

Battlewagon
-'Ard Case
-Armour Plates
-Deff Rolla
-Killkannon
-4x Rokkit Launcha
-Zzap Gun

Battlewagon
-'Ard Case
-Armour Plates
-Deff Rolla
-Killkannon
-4x Rokkit Launcha
-Zzap Gun

Battlewagon
-'Ard Case
-Armour Plates
-Deff Rolla
-Killkannon
-4x Rokkit Launcha
-Zzap Gun




Now THAT is how one does DAKKA. It probably will never win any games ever, but it will be an absolute blast to play.

the above doesn't play Orks... ignore their "advice"

General_Chaos wrote:the above doesn't play Orks... ignore their "advice"

Obviously. Not even diversified nobs...

Ghaz 225
Big Mek -KFF -'eavy Armor 90

6 MANZ 240
6 MANZ 240
6 MANZ 240

BW -Big Shoota -Deff Rolla -Kill Kannon 175
BW -Big Shoota -Deff Rolla -Kill Kannon 175
BW -Big Shoota -Deff Rolla 115

1500

And I believe that you can actually fire Kilkannons after moving 6(7) inches. Might be wrong about that though.