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I've been doing the homework on allies for my Chaos forces, and I've found that Orks would probably be the best. My Chaos are mostly shooty, so Orks would be perfect to swarm with. Anyone wants to say I'm wrong?

What about your Renegades of Osmodoro? Have you checked out the Renegades and Heretic codex in Imperial Armor 13?

Is taking 3 big squads of Lootas ideal?

Daemons do it better

It's better the other way around. Orks are not an army with: "Throw in something and it's gona work". On the opposite - you need target saturation, proper character support and positioning to make orks work. Which is gona be hard with one-eye open and points dedicated to csm shooters.

You DO NOT want to come in waves and spread focus with orks. We're an army of bullies. We hit hard against stuff that's weaker. We tarpit what's stronger. We're easy to kill and rely on numbers and positioning. Numbers won't work if you're all around the place - you need to get multiple threats simultaniously. The more - the better.

If you go blobbing, one blob won't work. You'll need at least 2-3. They'll require a warlord warboss to be effective and a painboss is mandatory for at least the central blob.
If you go for a wagon rush, you'll need at least 2 wagonz with boyz and characters inside supported by other fast stuff - doesn't work all that great when you have a gunline standing behind - simply not enough points for a solid strike.
If you go for a biker star - you need a boss + painboss in there and it still needs other fast support to do the job.

However, if you throw a squad of, say, Biker sorc + spawns/bikers they'll fit great in an ork wagon rush + biker rush. If you throw in oblis, they're great as they're versatile and can both hold the line and oppress the enemy with a deepstrike + take little space to avoid one eye open.

If you want a blob, why don't you go for a Helcult?

I'd take Daemon swarm. They can summon all kinds of Daemons, make great swarm and DSing targets and are much more deadly than Orkz.

ally orks can still work, the orks still have good untis that work well bythemselves. try the morkanut with kff, put some meks in it, and a blob of boyz within the shield (also maybe try a squad of 30 stormboyz right behing that ready to pounce when everyone is engaged). its such a huge target that your opponent will have to shoot and attack it instead of your mainforce, and the mrokanuat is surprisingly brutal and survivable with a kff.

i play orks and i have often thought of ally spacemarines, but i would use ork models done up to look like chaos and flavor them as some wierd helspawn orks that the demoninc summoning weirdboy brought in...also maybe try a weirdboy (maleific) as another psyker for allies and those demons he summons would help support your boyz (and if you keep him within 12inch of at least 10 boyz he would gain an extra warpcharge).