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So I have this crazy idea for an Ork army based entirely on grots all in stolen great coats and pickelhaubs with support in the form of various kannons and mek guns with a full compliment of wartacks modeled as little grot tanks. One of the crazier ideas I have is to model a Fortress of Redemption as either a massive land based Ork ship (though it seems to me that there would not be enough dakka for that to be a suitable stand in) or as a Mek shop that has a partially built Gargant (modeled to match the footprint of the building).

Any thoughts on this insane bit of rambling?

Never put anything past what an ork will do.

The grots will count-as grots (not boyz)? Tactically a problem, as they'll run away a lot - you'll need some boyz as well. Or if you mean they'll count-as boyz, how will you 'correct' their height to close to boyz height (stilts? standing on rocks?) and boyz stats (exo-skeletons or bionic limbs?)

Grot tanks counting-as wartrakks seems fine - be sure to make the dimensions close to wartrakk size.

I like the Fortress of Redemption ideas - either a broken-down/half-constructed land-ship or stompa could look great, so long as you can keep them close to Fortress of Redemption dimensions.

The grots would be grots, hopefully the runtherds will help mitigate that to some extent. I have ideas for grots in mega armor as well for the HQ section. If I do boyz, I would be doing a couple units of cyborks, essentially making Clockwork boyz.

Grots in mega armour seem 'sensible' enough (for grots) - fluff-wise it's just a mini-Kan. So yeah, in theory an even smaller and lighter exo-skeleton would do to count-as boyz, or cyborks or 'eavy armour boyz.

Tactically, I suspect you'll struggle without some boring old cheap boyz, regardless of how you choose to model them. But a whole ork army with all grot models and no ork models would certainly be a cool modelling project.

Sounds like a awsome idea, hope you go through with it.

You could also go for something along the lines of the "runt bot" model. I think it's FW, maybe Kromlech? anyway, it's pretty much just a grot with a remote, controlling what is essentially a robotic warboss in mega armor.

You could take the same idea to add some boyz but make them all junk bots with a grot controlling them from the back.

Proiteus has a great P&M blog on something similar. may help with inspiration.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/513143.page