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I might be playing a game this weekend, and if I am it is against a local Eldar player. I haven't played him before, all I know is that he's probably taking a wraith knight. What is the best way to deal with Eldars as an ork? I am open to any strategies here (hopefully from experience and not only theory)


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Specifically unit selection as per title

In my experience, stay away from trukks. They get eaten by the serpent shield. Battlewagons are fairly solid and so is just throwing 120 boyz down on the table.

Well, what models do you own? There is little point in suggesting units you don't have

How does your opponent usually field his army? Tons of vehicles? Phantoms? Blobs of infantry? Jetbikes? Does he have seer council?

What is the best way to deal with Eldars as an ork?

Chop their player, jump onto the table and stomp every single eldar model as if you were Mork himself. (Dont Forget to shout WAAAGH!) --- sry, couldnt resist

Green tide with KFFs and Painboy

 Jidmah wrote:
Well, what models do you own? There is little point in suggesting units you don't have

How does your opponent usually field his army? Tons of vehicles? Phantoms? Blobs of infantry? Jetbikes? Does he have seer council?

As per my original post I have almost no idea what he fields. And I have a couple trukks, a BW, some Nobz, about 50 boyz, a mek, some lootas, burnas, Kommandos, koptas, bikers, buggies, looted wagon, and of course a Warboss. (Obviously there are a couple things I am forgetting and don't be afraid to suggest stuff I don't have so I have a plan of what to get)

2 battlewagons 1 of which is full of 13 tankbustas and a nob/w powerclaw.

The other battlewagon is full of lootas with a Big Mek/w KFF

2 full squads of 29 boyz and a nob/w PK

2 squads of stormboyz to but the fear in him.

Its hard to tell you what to bring without knowledge of his list.

Well, I guess the only thing you can do then is prepare for the worst.
1. You need some way to reliably handle wave serpents, falcons and fire prisms, meaning taking 3HP off AV12 vehicles. Tankbustaz, Koptaz and Buggies with rokkits can do that for you. Mek gunz work as well, just don't bank on exploding any of those vehicles.
2. Eldar have extreme volumes of fire everywhere. Make sure to offset that somehow via KFF, docs or battlewagon transports. Bikers are also pretty survivable against eldar shooting.
3. Most eldar infantry isn't strong in combat, if you manage to catch them. Bikers and transports help with that.
4. You need someone strong and robust (preferably a warboss or two) to handler their tough stuff, like the seer councils, phantoms or striking scorpions.
5. Due to the shuriken rule everywhere, MANz tend to die an early death.

As many BattleWagons full of boyz with some powerclaws as you can get your hands on. With the Ghaz supplement, you can get 5 BWs with scout. Best thang EVAR!

As said above :
- 2 large mobs of Boyz with Painboy and Nob PK. A KFF won't hurt.
- Koptas (or Buggies, according to what you have) for tank hunting
- If you want transports, forget about Trukks and go for BW
- Mek Gunz are good in case of WK/Avatar
For me, Eldars are among the strongest opponent I can deal with, so I would keep it simple (more Boyz, less Toyz), unless you really want to test something special.

So, did you beat Eldars?

From my experience, it's not wave serpents or wraithknights that's the main problem when you face eldar. Even though, they're both quite effective, i'm more afraid of warp spiders and warwalkers. A Wraithknight can be killed by pretty much any pk nob squad. Serpents are very tough and boast nice cover-ignoring dakka that's gona ruin your trucks, kanz and buggies but it's not super-killy vs regular boyz and can be frightened into jinking. Warp spiders and warwalkers on the other hand just eraze full squads and jump back behind blos.

Focus on them first. Don't get tricked in shooting knights or serpents before the real big hitters.

Serpent full of template-Wraithguards is quite scary for Orks as well.
Meh hate those Eldar/Tau things.

 Madness! wrote:
As many BattleWagons full of boyz with some powerclaws as you can get your hands on. With the Ghaz supplement, you can get 5 BWs with scout. Best thang EVAR!

+1 for this. Dakkajets are also quite good against eldar infantry. But will die real quick if he eldar bring their flyer