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Hello everyone, I'm a fairly new player of WH40k, and plan to begin playing as soon as my entire army is put together. I would like to post my army list here for people to review it. This army is a 1000-point army, with no real theme as far as troops and vehicles. However, my army name is called the Red Orktober, based on Lenin's October Revolution, and the "red" nickname for Soviets. Without further adieu, allow me to present my army list.

Warboss-Bosspole, Mega Armor, 105 total points.
Warbuggy-Red Paint, Armor Plates, Grot Riggers, 50 points total
Grots-Runtherder, 40 total points (10 Grots, 1 Runtherd)
Stormboyz-5 troops, 60 points
Stormboyz-5 troops, 60 points (second squadron)
Ork Trukk-Red Paint, Armor, Grot Riggers, Wreckin' Ball, 65 total points
Looted Wagon-Red Paint, Grot Riggers, 'Ard Case, 50 total points
Ork Boyz-28 troops, 1x rokkit launcha, 2x Big Shootas, Nob w/bosspole, 203 total points
Deffkopta-3 koptas, 3x TL rokkits, 3x Buzzsaw, 210 total points
Nobz-3 troops, each with 'eavy armor, 75 total points.

Total points: 923.

Please tell me what to improve, but note I am tight on funding and cannot really add too many units for the moment, but I may be able to work something out.
Thanks,
~MastaDakka

You definitely want more boyz. They are the backbone of every ork army and should be taken in large numbers. I would cut some of the stormboyz to add regular boyz. If you're just starting out I would aim for 3 units of 15-20 boyz

Let's see...
-warboss needs more punch. i would kit him with mega armour, attack squig and cybork body, with total of 125 points.
-you need more nobz. one of the bright side of them is that you can make them to a deathstar(!!). start from six and, in time, reach to the optimal ten.
-ork shoota boyz are very versatile, cabaple of both shooting and close-combating efficiently. i would recommend to use them, with big shootas. don't use rokkits, 'cause shoota boyz are meant to shoot infantry. also you've got to get them more, and when i say more i mean M-O-R-E
-grots are good meat shields and objective holders, but that's about that. you have to have a lot of them
-trukks are meant to be cheap. i kit them with red paint job, reinforced ram and rokkit. rokkit because it becomes a threat to the opponent's forces.
-combine stormboyz to one unit. units of 5 get blasted away in an instant.
-use buggies as a squad of three, with t-l rokkit launcha.
-i use deffkoptas the same way as you do
-looted wagons have boomguns, strongest ordnance weapons available to the orks. use 'em.
if i had to put it bluntly, i would do like this:
Warboss
-mega ramour
-attack squig
-cybork body
=125p.
10 Nobz
-3 big choppa
-3 power klaw
-3 shoota/skorcha
-10 'eavy armour
-2 bosspole
-Waaagh! Banner
--Painboy
--10 cybork bodies
=460p.
30 Ork Shoota Boyz
-3 big shoota
--Nob
--power klaw
=230p.
29 Gretchin
-2 runtherd
=107p.
Trukk
-rokkit launcha
-red paint job
-reinforced ram
=50p.
20 Stormboyz
--Nob
--power klaw
--'eavy armour
--bosspole
=285p.
3 Warbuggies
-3 twin-linked rokkit launcha
-3 red paint job
-3 wartrakk
=135p.
3 Deffkoptas
-3 t-l rokkit launcha
-3 buzzsaw
=210p.
Looted Wagon
-boomgun
-2 big shoota
-'ard case
=125p.
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=1727p.
yeah, sorry. this one here became abit more than 1k but this is what i would suggest with those troops you're holding. and getting these shouldn't prove to be too costly, i think