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So long story short, I played Orkz back in 5th a bit, collected and then kinda dropped out of it as life took a turn. Bought the new codex and the Ghaz supplement and decided to get back into it. My question is does anyone have a direction from what i have to go in, it seems i need to drop a huge lump of teeth to get even close to any of the formations that are working half decently. Next game I play is Sat, 1500 points no unbound but everything else pretty fair game and I have no idea where to start. Sorry for the wall of text.
What I have modelwise after some sold off/lost.
HQ
2 Warboss- regular
1 Warboss- on a bike
1 Wierdboy
4 Meks
1 Big Mek with KFF
1 Big Mek with SAG
2 Painboy-one old one new
1 Painboy-metal one on a bike
1 Mad Doc Grotsnick
1 Kaptain Badrukk

Troops
123 Boyz - 79 Slugga/Chop, 25 Shoota,9 Big Shoota, 10 Rokkit
21 Gretchin
2 Runtherds

Elite
11 Burnas
5 Tankbustas(homemade)
22 Nobs-various
4 Nob bikers - 2 BC, 2 PK
2 Mega Nobs

Fast Attack
2 Trukks
4 Stormboyz
12 Deffkoptas
3 Warbikers
5 Warbuggies

Heavy Support
1 Battlewagon
2 Deff Dreads(1 unbuilt)
3 Kill Kans
16 Lootas

Lord of War
1 Ghazgkull Thraka
2 Stompas

Also an old forgeworld plane not sure which. Sorry for the wall of text but appreciate any help/suggestions of what I should field for now or what I can work towards that works.

With only 5 tankbustas, no mek guns, not enough Manz for a unit and only 1 bw I'd say you are lacking in high str options that are severely needed this edition. With what you have available I'd take the stompa and use lootas and burnas as means to get the most meks inside it plus the kff big mek creating a regenerating stompa. Grots as troop tax. Then I'd try to fit in as much deffkoptas inside the fearless bubble.

Could you post a picture of the plane?

 ProwlerPC wrote:
With only 5 tankbustas, no mek guns, not enough Manz for a unit and only 1 bw I'd say you are lacking in high str options that are severely needed this edition. With what you have available I'd take the stompa and use lootas and burnas as means to get the most meks inside it plus the kff big mek creating a regenerating stompa. Grots as troop tax. Then I'd try to fit in as much deffkoptas inside the fearless bubble.

Thank you both so much for the quick reply, I will be getting some more tank hunters and kommandos at least from kitbashing some boxes of boys I have coming, I'll try to see about some Mek guns as well. MANZ will have to wait and BW I will try and look into some more conversions on the site, but buying them is SO expensive real $ wise. I will look at the stompa, would you field the defkoptas in one big unit or smaller ones?

Could you post a picture of the plane?

I will try in a bit, later today. Never done before so a bit of patience(writing this from my phone)



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A HAH it worked

Check out the competitive ork analysis article. Fa and hs need to be finished but it should point you in the right direction. It's in my sig.

Ah, it was only a fighta bomber: thought it might be one of the bigger superheavies.
Still, it is a nice model and not a bad flyer for 170pts. If you get some dakkajets/blitzabombas you could make a rather nice Ork squadron for dropping bombs and blasting other flyers as soon as turn 2 comes around.

If the deffkoptas are fielded within the fearless bubble and kept there as a screen for the stompa then they won't need to worry about poor leadership so being together as big units is OK. Single deffkoptas away from fearless bubbles is the best way to field deffkoptas otherwise. Nothing wrong with having a few as one unit screening the stompa and one or more solo deffkoptas doing their distraction magic.

Thanks guys for the responses going to try it maybe show a battle report if I get enough time.