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Hello everyone...I was thinking about doing an Ork army and have just wanted to know what a good 1850 list would be...I want it to be mainly infantry with maybe a trukk or two... also really wanted a deff dread and killa kanz. not sure how to use them though...Thanks for any help.

You could do a kan wall. This uses several units of killa kans and a several mobz of big boyz. The kans go in front, providing a cover save to the boyz behind. You include a kff mek or 2 to add some more cover, and you just run across the field pushing for cc.

Trukks are many or none unfortunately. They are so easy to kill, one or two is not going to do anything except blow up. You can go speed freaks with ll your boyz in trukks with bikers, and some battlewagons as well. You want to try and put down a lot of AV if you do go with trukks, that way they can't kill them all.

There's lots of good 1850 Ork lists you could possibly do. Your currently philosophy with the Orks is wrong though. The best way to go with Orks is to pick a theme and then go nuts with it.

If you're interested in Trukks, then you're going to want at least 4 or 5 of them, and Kans or Deff Dreads will NOT fit very well into your list.

If you're insterested in Kans / Dreads, then go for a Kan Wall and pick up 9 Kans and 1 or 2 Dreads.

A couple other viable lists include:

Battlewagon Bash: 2-3 Battlewagons w/ Nobz and Boyz

Green Tide: 4-5 groups of 30 Boyz with support vehicles and elite troops.

Anyway you do it, if you decide to get into Orks... start buying Boyz!

Murrdox wrote:There's lots of good 1850 Ork lists you could possibly do. Your currently philosophy with the Orks is wrong though. The best way to go with Orks is to pick a theme and then go nuts with it.

If you're interested in Trukks, then you're going to want at least 4 or 5 of them, and Kans or Deff Dreads will NOT fit very well into your list.

If you're insterested in Kans / Dreads, then go for a Kan Wall and pick up 9 Kans and 1 or 2 Dreads.

A couple other viable lists include:

Battlewagon Bash: 2-3 Battlewagons w/ Nobz and Boyz

Green Tide: 4-5 groups of 30 Boyz with support vehicles and elite troops.

Anyway you do it, if you decide to get into Orks... start buying Boyz!

Very much this. If you only have one trukk it will get wrecked in an instant. And let me tell you, a kustom force field REALLY RULES! It wins battles, and your opponents are gonna HATE it! It fits in with any list, so go and get one. Now!

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let me explain what it does

it grants everything within 6 inches a 5+ cover save, and 4+ for vehicles. thats a 15inch bubble of saves. And remember, only one guy has to be within 6" for the full mob to get the save

I run a good mix but the main theme is BW Rush.

I run 3-4 Battlewagons
2 Trukks

Only 1 nob squad, rest are Boyz

Warboss + a KFF mek

and weee

I say 6-9 trukks because of things like lance weapons and melta. BW's are great against everything else tho. I have 6 trukks myself and I will probably get 3 more from my elite choices. Ramshackle is a very kool rule and has saved by bacon with the golden 5+ mean of the Ork army. KFF's help for sure but my luck with them has been not so great so YMMV. If you can get 9 warbuggies than you would have a total of 18 vehicles on the board albeit AV10.

Boris420 wrote:I say 6-9 trukks because of things like lance weapons and melta. BW's are great against everything else tho. I have 6 trukks myself and I will probably get 3 more from my elite choices. Ramshackle is a very kool rule and has saved by bacon with the golden 5+ mean of the Ork army. KFF's help for sure but my luck with them has been not so great so YMMV. If you can get 9 warbuggies than you would have a total of 18 vehicles on the board albeit AV10.

yep, that'd ruin everyones day for sure!

Boris420 wrote:I say 6-9 trukks because of things like lance weapons and melta. BW's are great against everything else tho. I have 6 trukks myself and I will probably get 3 more from my elite choices. Ramshackle is a very kool rule and has saved by bacon with the golden 5+ mean of the Ork army. KFF's help for sure but my luck with them has been not so great so YMMV. If you can get 9 warbuggies than you would have a total of 18 vehicles on the board albeit AV10.

Albeit AV10 and open topped. Whats that you've got in your hands, bolters? Crap.

I'm also working on building a kan wall list, I'm wondering do you put any big shootas or rokkits in your boyz mobs?

With a Kan Wall I would say that Big Shootas are probably your best bet. Give all your Kans rockets (boosting their already fair AT)and you're ready to roll.

That being said, I roll almost exclusively with Rokkits. They may not hit very often, but when they do, it's cause for celebration. More exciting than a couple extra hits with your glorified shootas..

Yah I would say go for a Kan Wall.

The models for them are pretty cool too...

If your thinking about the kan wall get 2 Big meks ,2 Deff Dreads with burnas (for close up warfare(go into troops because of Big Meks )) and 9 Killakans,
at least worked for me .