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Right guys for christmass i got a certain amount of cash, so i tought spending some of it on orks and would ask you guys what would be the best way of growing my army?
So imma start by writing up what i got so far and i would love your input what i should get to grow my army

HQ: Weirdboy
Warboss on foot for either 'eavy armor or mega armor
Big mek with Kustom force field.

Troop: 10 gretchin with runthred
100 boyz (shoota/slugga&choppa) allot of proxies
(includes nobz with bosspole&powerklaw)


Ellite: 15 nobz (various weaponary with waagh banner n stuff)
3 Meganobz with kombi skorchas
20 lootas
10 burna boyz

Heavy Suport: 2 looted wagons with big shootas, boom gun, ramshackle
(also avaible to make for transport use)

1 Battlewagon made for transport (big shootas and deff rollah)

3 killa kanz with magnitized weapons

5 flash gitz

Fast attack: Boss zagstruk (oddly enough not any stormboyz yet!)
2 dakkajets with additional supa shoota
3 deffkoptas TL rokkits.
9 warbikers (some converted to nob bikers but proxy proxy)


And at last two normal trukks

So heres my list of what i got so far... as you might allready know i do mostly footslogg here but any pointers would be great! Merry christmass aswell!

This would probably be better placed in the army lists sub forum but as it's here I'm going to say boyz, lots of boyz, then after that I'd pick up some big gunz.

Loottas. Hands down the best unit in the ork codex, if not all Of 6th Ed. They take out I fan try, light tanks, and flyers. I know, they don't have sky fire, but going to BS 1 from BS2, not an issue.

After that, boys.

Dakkajets are fun too.

Great model, great in-game, rules are in a WD though, so might be hard to get.

 martin74 wrote:
Loottas. Hands down the best unit in the ork codex, if not all Of 6th Ed.

Yes, they're a fantastic unit, but although I think that their dubbing as best unit in the codex is arguable, there is no chance that they are the best unit in 6th ed.

Besides, as the OP already has 20 boyz are a more pressing issue.

 Ascalam wrote:
Dakkajets are fun too.

Great model, great in-game, rules are in a WD though, so might be hard to get.

This is an issue I've had; my SM scout army would benefit from a Stormtalon, but the WD is nearly impossible to get for a reasonable price. Hopefully a supplement will come out, or they'll start packaging the rules with the model.

Bought the white dwarf at once when the dakkajet came out, as i heard from some GW employees they wont be updated untill a new codex come, And you know Space marines get one for each eddition so not far away for your scout army

To start with, I would write out a more detailed list of what you want. Just try to write up a 1000 point list, and play a few games with it. Then, after playing for awhile, see which units you enjoy using the most, and go from there.

 loota boy wrote:
To start with, I would write out a more detailed list of what you want. Just try to write up a 1000 point list, and play a few games with it. Then, after playing for awhile, see which units you enjoy using the most, and go from there.

Kinda decided i wanna try out more biker themed army for once, i heard allot of good going for guys taking warbikers as troops along with da boss nobz on bikes. got 9 so far hehe so imma need like what.. 24 more? ^^
Also, love your profile pic^^

phatonic wrote:

 loota boy wrote:
To start with, I would write out a more detailed list of what you want. Just try to write up a 1000 point list, and play a few games with it. Then, after playing for awhile, see which units you enjoy using the most, and go from there.

Kinda decided i wanna try out more biker themed army for once, i heard allot of good going for guys taking warbikers as troops along with da boss nobz on bikes. got 9 so far hehe so imma need like what.. 24 more? ^^
Also, love your profile pic^^

Thank you, sir. It was shamelessly stolen off google images.

But yeah, bikers. Pretty darn good this edition, only problem is that the models are worth their weight in gold. It's what, $41.25 for three? Preposterous. If you have the patience and skill, you could purchase some blackreach koptas on ebay, and look up a tutorial on how to convert them into bikes. It'll certainly run you cheaper.

If you want to go full bikes, you will need to scratchbuild a Wazdakka gutsmek model to take them as troops. Just make a boss on a really bitchin' bike. Nobs and bosses are hard to do on bikers, because they need to look bigger than boyz. Just give them some heads from the nobz box and make sure their weapon arms are quite huge.

Everyone disagrees with how many bikers you should bring in a squad. I've heard everything from 6 to 12, but the most popular seems to be 8-9. I'd start with about three squads of 8-9, a mob of nob bikers about 6 strong, and waz. For fast attack, start with koptas, buggies or jets. Buggies should be mostly sacrificial and used for area denial. Koptas can be run suicidal (really popular last edition) or in large mobs with a biker boss. Dakka jets are awesome for blowing out light vehicles and med-light infantry.

If you know somebody (or lots of somebodies) that bought dark vengeance, you can usually get the bikes off them dirt cheap. I got 21 bikes for dirt cheap a few months ago, and have been just sticking ork torsos, arms, and heads on them. Stick some ork scrap metal and other bits on the space marine legs, and you're golden. I can send you some pics in a PM if you'd like to get an idea of what they look like.

Also, look up Ailaros's Ork Blargh. He's building an ork biker army as well and he's been buying the chassis off a bitz site for 2 bucks a bike, then scratchbuilding everything else that they need. As for the riders, turns out regular ork boyz fit on them just fine with little to no modification. So all you'd have to do is buy the bike chassis (and maybe wheels) by the truckload, and boxes of boyz, and you're set.

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
If you know somebody (or lots of somebodies) that bought dark vengeance, you can usually get the bikes off them dirt cheap. I got 21 bikes for dirt cheap a few months ago, and have been just sticking ork torsos, arms, and heads on them. Stick some ork scrap metal and other bits on the space marine legs, and you're golden. I can send you some pics in a PM if you'd like to get an idea of what they look like.

this all day, people are alway having trouble getting rid of those bikes. easy conversion too.

if you can still find it I would imagine assault on black reach must be super cheap now. I would get a couple battle forces and a dakkajet personally