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In my opinion (and I speak from experience), running foot orks is absolutely miserable. Rolling bricks of dice for shooting and CC as Orks is one thing, but when you have to move 100+ individual boy models every turn (often times twice a turn if you want to run) a game of Warhammer can quickly go from fun to being a complete chore.

As such my recommendation would be a battlewagon or two. They'll (arguably) make the game more fun because he won't have to move near as many models, and you can work together to just scratch build or heavy convert somethings instead of just investing in the vanilla kit.

That's just my opinion though, and doesn't lend itself much to what's 'good' against Eldar. Generally speaking, Eldar are going to stomp Orks into paste with little difficulty.