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My local gaming group follows the same general rules as Warhammer Work events. So Escalation, Stronghold Assault and ForgeWorld are all fair game.
However ranged Str. D weapons are absolutely destroying this game (close combat Str. D isn't that bad, it can be avoided).
So we're trying to introduce a house rule called "levels of engagement" where the players agree on what sort of game they're playing, from Full-on where nothing is banned (Str. D is allowed), non-D where ranged Str. D is barred, and standard 40K.

Games with ranged Str. D weapons have been pants. It's "Go Imperium/Eldar or go home". Games rarely last 2 turns, with little enjoyment.
The Non-D games have been absolutely great! And I really recommend them.

So far I've only been using a Stompa, and without ranged D weapons it really is the Power-house it's points suggest. But it doesn't leave much points for other things (our standard is 1500pts).

Has anyone made use of the other Ork Super-Heavies? Mainly the ForgeWorld tanks?
I'm considering buying a Kill-Krusha, the model is amazing and the random rules are very Orky! The Kill-Blasta is also worth considering.
Lots more points for other units.

So what Ork Super-Heavy tactics are out there? Or how would you deal with Super-Heavies?

The kill-krusha is totally awesome, I was lucky enough to have one on my side in the battle for Armageddon campaign. The multiple fire modes allow for a lot of utility and loader gubbins is great for a laugh without actually making your 350 point investment useless. Being able to transport some units of burnaz around also allows for the famous mek shenanigans, while still being able to stack templates like a burna wagon does. Having extra flat-out distance also helps with that kind of plan.

Both the kill blasta and kill bursta are kind of lackluster. The former is pretty much just a unit of lootaz, while the later brings a belly gun which you can also get on the much better stompas. The bursta kannon isn't bad if you want D weapons, but as you've already described, the IoM is king here.

yeah I'm pretty sold on the Kill-Krusha, it's transport option is sweet.
Just need to be careful of that rear armour.

How about do the thing from the Horus Heresy FW books and say Lord of War choices can account for no more than 25% of your total army. Pretty hard to shoe horn a titan into anything but an apoc sized fight at that point.

a 1500 point game would give you only 375 points to work with. I don't think that's enough for D weapons? Any idea what the cheapest D weapon is?

Eldar can get one for pretty cheap, I think.

Eldar Revenant is around 800 points I think. That would make a 3200 point army list requirement to take it.

 Kriswall wrote:
a 1500 point game would give you only 375 points to work with.

That rules out almost every Super-Heavy there is. There is only one in Escalation that cheap (Obalisk).

The Lynx is 420pts in Imperial Armour: Apocalypse
I think that's the most recent rules for it.

A Kill Bursta tank with nothing but a bursta kannon is 400 for a 7" destroyer blast.

True it's one of the cheapest out there.
But the point is to avoid ranged Str. D weapons as they are really destroying this hobby.

I agree.

But there really is no reason to dance around the issue by making arbitrary rules that randomly ban super-heavies with and without destroyer weapons.

If destroyer weapons are ruining your game, then ban destroyer weapons. All weapons that have strength D are not allowed, period. Anything else is just a clutch.

As I said in the original post, it's a club house rule. No ranged Str. D weapons. It really works well and leads to some very enjoyable games.

You still have exploding Super-heavies causing D hits, and the close combat weapons aren't that bad.

The points limit idea is just too restricting. Not a good way to go.

One variant is to allow strength D with some caveats.

Strength D melee, template and RoF weapons
Strength D weapons resolve attacks at S10, but if you roll a 6 to wound you get the Strength D benefit.

Strength D blast weapons.
Blast weapons with Strength D count Strength D only for the central hole in the template, otherwise S10. This makes a lot of sense because lasers (which accounts for most ranged strength D) are not area effect weapons. This is self policing because of scatter.

This makes a lot of sense because lasers (which accounts for most ranged strength D) are not area effect weapons.

You really should buy the game Space Marine and play the mission where you make a titan fire a laser which is four times the hight of the protagonist.