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Hey guys!

I've read quite a bit about the Orks in the lower pts games and how they will do great regardless if you have a large horde which you can just mass , and about the time you get to the enemy you can whale them down in close combat.

I am attempting to play a game this Wednesday of around 500pts , against a Dark Angels player.

Here is what I prepared, bare in mind this is 1st time ever making ANY warhammer list

HQ
Warboss (stuck with AOBR)
Power Claw
Twin Linked Shoota
Cybork Body
100pts

Troops
20 Boyz
2 Big Shootas
1 Nob (Big Choppa , Evy Armour)
150pts

20 Boyz
2 Big Shootas
130pts

Elite
Komandos 10x
Rokkit Launcha
Burna
1 Nob (stock)
135pts

Total: 515 Pts

let me know what you think, I got a few NobZ laying around I could adjust it for them instead of the Komandos because they might not be a good idea to run without Snirknot ?

As I said , 1st list ever ! just going to casual play, nothing too competitive!

bump because I feel neglected due to 0 replies

Not a bad list overall ..thou if you have it drop the rokkit for another burner ...Are your boyz Shoota or Choppa ..(shoota would be better ..but ehh both can be worked thru )

I don't kknow much about orks myself, but i suggest you at least take less kommandoz.

Replace them with more boys.

Kommandos are expensive boyz that can outflank. 33% of the time, they will be useless (wrong table edge), and they can't charge out of reserves. They're only effective in getting 2 burnas into a group of squishies, which your boyz blobs can handle anyway.

Try some rokkit-loaded deffkoptas instead. Durable and threatening to everything. Can scout move and outflank too, if necessary.

You have a lot of expensive units orks are very good at low point games since they are so cost effective i just started as well and Ive been doing games of 700 points haven't lost yet. i usually run two mobs of boys with a warboss and the other with grotsnik 3 coptas and a deff dread i use my Koptas to tie up long range shootas to move my boys up to cover my dread. hope that helps a little

Moral of the story:

Ye needz moar boyz fer yer WAAAGH!, Itz so puny small. And don't ye bother wiv dem' pathetik grotz either!

I would loose the kommandos, in 6th they're not that good with the changes to infiltrate. Then the best option is probably just to get another unit of 20 like the others, then with 60 boys anyone would struggle.
Alternatively:

Big mek - 100
KFF, burna,
Weirdboy - 55

20 shoota boys - 170
2 big shootas
bp, pk nob

20 shoota boys - 170
2 big shootas
bp, pk nob

Then it makes your squads a bit more universal as they each have a pk rather than just 1 loaded up on your warboss. Also gives a blanket cover save and the weirdboy brings his usual tricks, hopefully teleports them up field.
If you do want to field kommandos, just take 5, no nob or anything and chuck on 2 burnas then use them as a first turn suicide unit.

 rahxephon wrote:
I would loose the kommandos, in 6th they're not that good with the changes to infiltrate. Then the best option is probably just to get another unit of 20 like the others, then with 60 boys anyone would struggle.
Alternatively:

Big mek - 100
KFF, burna,
Weirdboy - 55

20 shoota boys - 170
2 big shootas
bp, pk nob

20 shoota boys - 170
2 big shootas
bp, pk nob

Then it makes your squads a bit more universal as they each have a pk rather than just 1 loaded up on your warboss. Also gives a blanket cover save and the weirdboy brings his usual tricks, hopefully teleports them up field.
If you do want to field kommandos, just take 5, no nob or anything and chuck on 2 burnas then use them as a first turn suicide unit.

Listen to him.
He knows what he's talking about.

Hey guys !

Thanks so much for the tip, yes everything you've written applied, inflitrate did NOT work well, I actually had to match him on PTS so I just "threw" something together. So I had that list plus two defkoptas. Too Long to get into spectacular details, needles to say he as Dark Angels player had some ok psychic powers and pretty much stayed back and shot his assault cannons. Thirty boyz got caught on a "venerable" dreadnaught .... shakes head