To go or not to go - Orks

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**bctheredninja**

I play a footslogging ork army and i'm wondering, given the choice, do you guys go first or deploy first

**DX3**

I go first. Push forward with the Green Tide!

I'm talking 200+ Orks @ 2000 points moving forward to Victory, Waaaaagh!

**bctheredninja**

yeah thats what i figured...and exactly how i play 2.5k full of boyz

**Guaiwu**

You think an Ork is going to wait for the enemy to move before running at him to bash 'is 'ead in? Going first is the only Orky thing to do!

**King Pariah**

Don't forget to paint them red.

**Leigen_Zero**

If your playing footsloggers, you want to be as close as you can, as quickly as you can, so always take the first turn (if you win to choose of course). Because otherwise the opponent is going to use that first turn to:
a) move further away from da ladz!
b) open fire!

**G00fySmiley**

as an ork i usually go first. however if i'm playing wanna be IG orks (i have a backstory for why, they are on an IG training planet and got used to trench warfare stuff) then i usually liek to go second... but htat's a fluff list, for most viable ork lists you wanna go first

**Juvieus Kaine**

In reality Orks would always want to go first. Deployment mostly doesn't matter if you've got the army to compensate

**loota boy**

Well, bikers may often want to reserve everything against lists like dark eldar.

**Jidmah**

I usually only go second when playing more than two objectives against armies that have lots of skimmers/jump infantry/etc. Denies them the possibility of last-round objective grabs. First at all other times.

**Green is Best!**

If you're footslogging a green tide, more than likely your deployment zone is jam packed with orky green goodness.

Moving first is good for all of the reasons above, but it is also good to help your orks spread out in case your opponent has template weapons. Usually, if they have blast weapons my 1850 list (of about 160 models) is taking up the entire deployment zone. If they have zero blast weapons, I am now bunching all of my sluggas and shootas as close as they can get to the deployment line without going over.

**Jone96**

Go first! You have Waaaaaaaaaaagh! So... you get easily in combat before enemy.