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I'm starting a new ork force, and I'm aiming for about 750 points. This works out 680, so does anyone have any suggestions for changes/additions for it? I've never written an army list before, so any help is appreciated


Army List – 750 pts
HQ
Warboss w/ Power Klaw and Bosspole – 90 pts
Elites
5 Nobz w/ Power Klaw, ‘eavy armour and Trukk – 150 pts (not including Trukk)
5 lootas w/ Mek and Kustom Mega Blasta – 75 pts
Troops
20 Boyz w/big shoota and Nob leader w/ power claw – 160 pts
20 Boyz w/big shoota and Nob leader w/ power claw – 160 pts
Dedicated Transports
Trukk w/ Armour plates – 45 pts

It's A Death Skulls Force, if that helps

First off welcome to the green team WAAAAGGGGHH!!!
now that thats out of the way lets see about your list.



Army List – 750 pts
HQ
Warboss w/ Power Klaw and Bosspole – 90 pts
Elites
5 Nobz w/ Power Klaw, ‘eavy armour and Trukk – 150 pts (not including Trukk)
5 lootas w/ Mek and Kustom Mega Blasta – 75 pts
Troops
20 Boyz w/big shoota and Nob leader w/ power claw – 160 pts
20 Boyz w/big shoota and Nob leader w/ power claw – 160 pts
Dedicated Transports
Trukk w/ Armour plates – 45 pts

It's A Death Skulls Force, if that helps


Ok first lissue I have is that orks are best used all at one speed. So that lone trukk with the nobz is gonna be the first target of your enemy and then they are stuck walking which would be very bad for them. Trukks are only good if you have a bunch of them and maybe throw in a couple of battlewagons for your boyz to rush up and smash stuff. Also if you are gonna use nobz they should also be set with each of them having different gear so that you can take advantage of wound allocation. Take the mek out of the lootas and just make them all lootas as their basic guns are better anyway. If you have the mek most of the time it's gonna be out of range so it's pretty much a wasted shot. Since it seems you are going more footsloggers(which is my personal favorite and what I use all the time) I would drop the boss and get a big mek with a KFF. You need something to cover those boyz be it a KFF, grot meatshield, kan wall, or a combination of all these things. Also the boyz(which I am assuming are shoota boyz) need a bosspole to help keep them from running. Yes they are fearless as long as you are above 12 but you are not gonna be above 12 the whole game and ld7 is not the greatest. Things to consider adding to this army would be another 5 man unit of lootas, kans or grotz for said reason above, and maybe lobbas. Now I know that almost nobody uses lobbas but for me they are seriously underrated. First off they have a very long range and do not require LOS so they can just sit behind a building or hill and lob shells all day. Second they are cheap a hell, a maxed out squad with 6+ crew and slaver is only 103pts. They have a decent strength so they have no problem wounding and can even pin enemy units. Yeah they are vulnerable to flankers but so what they are wasting a unit that most likely cost more points to take out some cheap artillery. All in all they are a perfect edition to a footsloggers force to add some long range fire to cover da boyz as they rush forward.

Thanks for the welcome-waaagh!

I've been told about the Big Mek with KFF before, and it sounds pretty useful, so I'll definitely swap that for the boss. Kans are a definite also, and I hadn't really considered Big Gunz but some lobbas sound like they could be worth adding! As for vehicles, in true Death Skulls fashion, I wanted the majority of those included to be looted, how would these play in games? I've heard mixed opinions on them, but I'm more interested in having fun than winning

Thanks for the advice!

I actually have a couple of looted wagons with boomguns that I sometimes use. They can do a lot of damage to the enemy with their massive cannons but they basicaly die if someone throws a tin can at them. Think of it this way they are basically rhinos with a big gun strapped to the front, and we all know how easily rhinos die. They are really cheap though so it can be fun to throw in one or two and see what happens. Honestly I have yet to see anybody else use big gunz and I didn't use them for the longest time either. One day I decided to scratch build some with spare bitz I had just for the fun of it and tried them out in a battle. Now I love them and use them all the time they are very underrated in my opinion for their points. Although they do have a problem in night fighting since indirect fire rolls 3d6 for scatter and you don't subtract ballistic skill but night fighting doesn't happen too much. If anything maybe proxy in some stuff to use as big gunz to try them out before you commit to them.

Looted wagons sound fun, I might have to throw in a few just for a laugh

Well, thanks for all the advice, I'll look over my army list and add in some bits, raise it to about 1000 pts

Thanks again

No problem and when your ready to expand your army I'm sure us ork players will be there to give some good advice. Good luck and stomp da ooniverse for Gork an Mork.