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Hey dakkadakka, my mate has quite a collection of orks, and was wanting to construct a 1850 competitive list sadly neither of us know much about competitive orks so we've decided to plea for assistance, compiled below is his collection.

Ghazkull
Weird boy
4 Warbosses
1 mega Warboss
Big mek
145 boys
10 trukks
3 battlewagons
30 lootas
5 burnas
60 nobs
10 bikes
24 deffkoptas
2 dakkajets
5 deffdreads
Stompa

I hope you guys can help, thanks in advance

Nothing is particularly competitive for Orks, and it depends on the environment, but I would start with

stompa

trukk + 10 choppa boys with nob and PK (4 of these)
weird boy
3 single defcopta units (cheap fast objective grabbers)
3* 9 lootas

which leaves you with a bit of wiggle room. From there you can start substituting the units that don't perform for others.

 RFHolloway wrote:
Nothing is particularly competitive for Orks, and it depends on the environment, but I would start with

stompa

trukk + 10 choppa boys with nob and PK (4 of these)
weird boy
3 single defcopta units (cheap fast objective grabbers)
3* 9 lootas

which leaves you with a bit of wiggle room. From there you can start substituting the units that don't perform for others.

Aren't stompas like 500 points overpriced???
Does the weird boy go with a boys units?
Wouldn't a mek fit better?

That at least gets you to semi competitive, sure you could go double CAD MSU

Big mek, Weird boy,
8 trukk units as above
6 single deffcoptas
6 units of 5 lootas

but that is a lot of units.

Weirdboy will go in with a trukk. I think the psychic powers are underrated, and give some useful AP

Some tankbustas would be nice (if you have some boys armed with rockets they would work)
you could replace some of the trukk units with larger units of shootaboys without nobs.

If you are planning on taking this list to an ITC event, Buzzgob's Big Mek stompa is now cheap (they are allowing the forgeworld misprint since it is technically RAW.)

Even at 770 points the stompa can often get its points back, except against ranged D, which is basically auto-lose anyway.

 JimOnMars wrote:
If you are planning on taking this list to an ITC event, Buzzgob's Big Mek stompa is now cheap (they are allowing the forgeworld misprint since it is technically RAW.)

Even at 770 points the stompa can often get its points back, except against ranged D, which is basically auto-lose anyway.

Do we have a link to where GW's allowed Buzzgob's stompa at 500 points? I took a regular big mek stompa to an apocalypse game but didn't realize it was less than 830?

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/Warhammer_40000/Ork_Dread_Mob_Army_List_Update.pdf

Buzzgob dataslate.

ITC ruling - https://www.frontlinegaming.org/2015/11/29/3rd-quarter-mid-season-itc-update-poll-results/ (question 5/6)

Running a green tide with 90 boyz 10 nobs a painboy and the fearless relic from the ghazkull supplement is fun too

If the bigmek has a kff, put him in the stompa.

hiveof_chimera, lots of good advice here:
Making Orks Competitive- Gather the Council, Prepare to Waaagh!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/643980.page

If you are looking for a fun list then you can get or proxy Mad Dok Grolsnik and take Council of Waaagh! with Battlewagon. Ridiculously overpriced unit but super funny