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Hello all im new to orks and have a pretty good understanding of them but I would like to make a better informed decision on what I'm about to do...
I want to run some nob bikerz, preferably 2 units of em at 10 strong but they get really expensive at this many. I want to run one squad with wazzdakka or a warboss (only have the WB right now). how many PK should I run with this many. I've noticed that if I were to equip them all with a PK they'd be really expensive and a really big target even though they were before the PK.
Or what I was leaning towards was 1 unit with wazzdakka/WB and just have a nob unit in a BW.
Right now I have 15 stormboyz with a Nob. should I get more or just use something else.
Thankyou for any helpfull advice that could be given.

I'm not exactly sure but I think you outfit them the same way you do the regular nobs squad. 3 to 4 power claws depending on what your facing. Waagh banner, painboy, and the rest with combi weapons and big choppas. I haven't been able to find the nobs bike squad myself. Only the regular bikes. Not sure if you have to convert them all or not.

i know it sounds rather lazy but i was gonna use regular mob with nob upper torso's

Actually, that's not lazy at all. The biker box comes with two nob torsos, and you can get additional ones from boyz boxes. I have also heard that the nobz from the nobz box fit on bikes, but I haven't done that myself, so try that at your own risk. Forgeworld also sells some awesome nob bikers, but they are expensive as hell.

As for nob bikers, equipping them isn't they really much different from equipping regular nobz, you'll find plenty of threads on that.
Basically you need a Waagh! banner(so good, it's mandatory), one or two boss poles to make sure your extremely expensive unit doesn't run away. For close combat weapons, 2-3 PKs are more than enough to handle any armored target, you can then add some(3-4) big choppas for diverification and some hitting power against walkers, leave the rest of your nobz with just slugga and choppa.
A painboy is mandatory for big units, as well as cybork, as you need something to counter close combat weapons that ignore armor, as you don't have any other options when fielding all nob bikers.
Finally, add combi-weapons of your liking until you have no two identical nobz left, done. Keep in mind that all bikes come with a twin-linked dakka gun, so a TL-shoota isn't exactly useful.

One point of advice though: Nob bikers are extremely vulnerable to S8+ shooting, which includes meltas, rockets, lances, lascannons, railguns and psybolt-empowered autocannons. As these weapons are found in great number in almost all current armies, you will have games where you have no choice but rely on dice luck. Also keep in mind that bikes can not climb ruins, so you can not assault shooty units or claim objectives on higher levels.
You also need a second unit of troops, you only get to have one nob unit as troops per warboss.

As for your stormboyz: They are quite fragile, and will be shot by anything that can not reliably hurt your nobz, thus probably killing them turn one or two. You'd be bett off using small units of bikes instead, thanks to Wazzdakka, they would even be scoring units.

Just to comment on what Jidmah said, be sure and try to exploit the 3+ cover for Turbo-Boosting on a bike as much as possible, this will really help.

I don't know about that. A unit that's turbo boosting is not shooting or assaulting, so you are not killing anything. I'd rather take my chances with a big multi-assault and hope to stay in combat.

yes, unless you move into a very aggressive position, usually when I turboboost, the opponent will simply ignore the nobz and shoot something else.
Unless you are thinking about using wazdakka turbo boost ability ?

By the way, for the OP, if you want to use Wazdakka : note that he makes "bikers" as troop, I don't think this extend to nobz bikers...

Along the lines of turbo boosting...remember that warbikes still maintain a 4+ cover save from shooting at all times anyway...so turbo boosting will only improve that save by a little.

Actually, Stormboyz could be just the thing to alleviate the troubles you'll have with high strength shooting and upper-floor units. Remember that they can Deep Strike if you want, and even if they don't, they're still some of the fastest Jump Infantry in the game. Take Zagstrukk and assault right after Deep Striking, and you'll be able to tie up at least one if not more of your opponent's Str. 8 shooters, and later in the game you can use them to work on upper-level enemies.

But if you're going Nob Bikers, well, pretty much all your army is going to be Nob Bikers, with 2 Warbosses allowing them both to be Troops. It's a strong, dangerous list, and is pretty much one of the reasons current meta now has so much Str.8 shooting.