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Hello, I am new to Dakka Dakka, and just got back into Warhammer after leaving when third edition came and destroyed alot of my space marine army.

I have aquired multiple armies through friends or just by repurchasing them...My question is making a good ork army with what I have...I have ready pretty much every army list for orks and will not be willing to destroy anything that is already created to reduce costs or make it competitive. I will be playing with friends and my child, so fun is our goal.

I have...drum roll please...lol


Gaz
Kustom Wazdakka

FW Warboss on Bike
3 warbosses
2 Big Meks with KFF
1 Big Mek with PK and KMB
1 Big Mek with Shokk
2 Weirdboys

10 Nobs with 2 handers
10 Nobs with generic close combat and sluggas
9 Nobs with PK and a Painboy
10 Nobs with Twinlikned shootas/Combi Rokkit
8 Nob Bikers and a Painboy Biker

3 kustom Nobs in Mega Armor

10 Lottas (one Mek with KMB)
10 Burnas (one Mak with KMB)
10 Kommandos and a Snikrot
12 Tank Bustas

30 Axe boys
30 Chain sword boys
30 Sword boys

50 mixed in sets of 10

30 Shoota Boys
30 Shoota boys

each of the above has a Nob with PK
10 nobs incase I want to break up the boys into groups of 10's

15 Deff koptas (TL rokkits)
2 Kustom Deff Koptas (TL Shootas)
14 Stormboys
10 Bikers

4 Trucks with Planks, Ram, and big shootas, 2 with Wrecking ball
2 BW with Claw, Ram, 3 Big Shootas
1 unbuilt Truck and BW
1 Kustom Looted Wagon with Boomgun

2 Kans with Scorchas
2 Kans with Rokkits
2 Kans with Grot Blastas

1 Deff Dread (Magnatized)
1 Unbuilt Deff Dread

1 Warbuggy (TL Big Shoota)
5 Flash Gitz

30 Gretchen with Runthearders

also a Kustom Fighta Bomma and a Kustom Stompa


Thank you and any help would be appriciated (hope I didnt forget anyone)

I find stormboyz to be fun and ok to use also a big mek with snokk gun is loads of fun

You been playing at all? I don't know about waaaaay back in 2nd edition, but Orks in 5th really don't have any set game plan or army list. There's plenty of common lists, (or rather, list types- Orks aren't big on conformity) such as Kan Wall, Battlewagon Bash, Green Tide, Bikerspam, Nob Bikers, Trukkboyz, etc, but those aren't in any way the 'only' way to run Orks, successfully or not.

Kingkracker runs a Battlewagon/Trukk hybrid, chock full of Rokkit spam, I know, and he does alright with it.

I know a guy at my FLGS that runs a sort of mini Battlewagon Deathstar bash (like Nob Bikers, but using Battlewagons full of the Nobz instead of putting them on bikes)

I run a really, really wierd list with Walkers galore, Gunwagons, a Close Combat Wagon, and recently Tankbustas and Flash Gitz, which most people will say are complete rubbish (they're kinda right, but they're fun rubbish! And actually really nice for psyching your opponent out)


Play a few games, use as many legal combinations as you can think of with those units, then figure out how you want to run them. But mostly, find out what's fun for you.