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I'm getting back into Warhammer 40k with a few friends after a brief hiatus (since around 3rd edition). I'm trying to plan out what exactly I'll be building and painting first, so I put together a list from what I've learned so far by browsing other Ork lists online.

996 POINTS

HQ
Warboss
-slugga
-power klaw
-attack squig
-cybork body
-stikkbombz
-bosspole

Big Mek
-kustom force field
-choppa
-cybork body
-mek's tools

TROOPS
6x Nobz
-slugga
-4x big choppa
-1x Waaagh! banner
-cybork body
:painboy upgrade
-doc's tools
-'urty syringe
-cybork body
battlewagon
-big shoota
-deff rolla

12x Slugga Boyz
-slugga
-choppa
:nob upgrade
-slugga
-power klaw
-bosspole
trukk
-big shoota
-reinforced ram

12x Slugga Boyz
-slugga
-choppa
:nob upgrade
-slugga
-power klaw
-bosspole
trukk
-big shoota
-reinforced ram

12x Slugga Boyz
-slugga
-choppa
:nob upgrade
-slugga
-power klaw
-bosspole
trukk
-big shoota
-reinforced ram

As much as I like the idea of a big scary unit of Nobz with my boss and mek, I feel like having fully half of my army mounted in the battlewagon might be a bad plan.
Some comments and criticism would be greatly appreciated.

You just answered your own question.

Not even I, as reckless as I may be, would not put a deathstar like that in a small point game like this. Too many eggs in one basket with not enough support.

Split that into more slugga-trukks perhaps, or put a whole lot of shootaboys into the battlewagon instead w/ big shootas all over the place. You will need them for being awesome and for shooting aircraft, because Imperial Guard and every other army can take a nasty flier at 1000 to harass the heck out of your army.

Most armies can take a lot of simple counters with the amount of points you put into those nobz and have the rest of their army overkill the boys. You really need to save the nobz for bigger games and take more boys.

I speak from experience

Cheers,
DaK

Hrmmn ditch the Nobz ..two more trukk loads of boyz and one group of Deffkoptas TL-BS .or one group of Warbikers ..no nob...for the Warboss to command..I find this is effective as a nice shooty backup to a ton of boyz ..

I think going with shoota boys is the right way. Which saves me a ton of points. I'm thinking a unit of lootas or a pair of deffkoptas instead.