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Well I still have not played a 6th edition game yet lol. Life is still in the way and between work and stuff. I can never find time to get a game in and it looks like my next few years will be like that.

But I still like to paint and stuff and eventually I want to build up a good ol' orky army. So far I got lots. Plus lots of Space wolves, Tau, Eldar and Necrons lol.

I have three main ideas in mind but I wanna know which would be a better idea to go with so I know where to put most of my money.

1. Idea one is speed freaks. Probably with one nob biker group. A couple of biker troops with Wazdakka and some filler like storm boys and some Gretchen Guns or whatever they are called. Probably a boss biker too from Forge world.

2. All shoota boy squads with three full squads of lootas. three looted wagons with boom guns, Three Dakka Jets. My HQ's would be two big meks. Most likely either Two Shock attack guns or one shock and one KFF.

3. One squad of like 25 boys and 5 fully loaded squads of gretchen. With Gretchen Gunners as my heavy squads and basically. Load it up with as many models as I can. I dunno what the full list would be like just yet.
My HQ would be Zogwart.

Either way I want my ork friends to be fully painted.

Also, since I do not know a lot of the back fluff and story. What would a death skulls army look like? I am using a Hoards and Warmachine "troll Bloods" paint scheme for my orks skin. So they are this light blue color with grey white chins and high lighting. They also use checker boards and a bright pale yellow a lot!

My experience with looted wagons has been... not inspiring to say the least.

If your going speed freaks and dig forgeworld, I cannot recommend the Junka enough.

Never heard of the junka. I even looked in forge world and its not there. What is it?

This, this is why I'm spreading the word.

For 65 points you can get a deff rolla equipped, 3 big shootas or skorcha, 12 front armour and 10 carrying capacity tank in an elite slot or as a transport for the Big Mek. You can up-gun it *considerably* from that point - rokkits or KMB instead of shootas, grot big shoota sponsoons with BS 3, a variety of forgeworld big guns, and even Big Mek gear like the KFF and Shokk attakk gun

See Imperial Armour 8, Orks section, and get ta killin

looted wagons are primarily for the lawls. They are to allow you to build the most wacky, off the wall vehicle for your orks and legally field it because its too awesome to shelve for life.
Going looted wagons for competitiveness is stupid, as they are minutely cheaper and heavily weaker IG Russes. For about 400ish points you can ally in a BS5 Lord Commisar to operate a quad gun behind an ADL, some random troop, and 2 naked Russes with AV14/13/10 armor and 72" Str8 AP3 pi plate attack instead of 36inches (and no pressin' dat bullcrap). Way more deadly and durable, not much more expensive.

However, fielding a good Looted Wagon is way more fun/awesome than russes lol. Another ork player showed up at my group and he has this massive walker he converted into a looted wagon. Its a bit big but its damn awesome so who cares.

 Vasarto wrote:
What would a death skulls army look like?

Well, their specialty is stealing everything that isn't nailed down, so it'd look like some other ork army's stuff, all hastily painted blue.

If you're doing blue skin on your orks then you can't really do a good Deff Skull infantry look. They're distinctive because they wear blue war paint. But if you're more interested in the theme than the look, your second proposed list is pretty close. Lootas and Looted Wagons are their specialty. Boomwagons aren't super great though, so I'd recommend cutting back to one and adding some battlewagons for the shoota boyz to do drive-bys. The dakkajets should probably have places where red paint and Evil Sunz iconography is showing through, to illustrate that the Deff Skullz raided their airfield.

OK so what if I used just one looted wagon. Then opt out two of the dakka jets for burna bombers? I like how they look are imo are the second best choice.