Need help with ork Troop choices because I can never decide myself.

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**Cat_astrophe**

Look, I'm going to try and keep this plain and simple. I have a small-ish ork army. It's got some flash gitz, some shoota boys, 2 mobs of Gretchin and some burna boys, as well as some lootas converted from some spare parts from the two boxes. I've played a couple games with these guys and I really enjoy the firepower the boys put out. The problem is, I'm going to add some things to the army, and I need recommendations on what to buy. My main opponent plays space wolves and he's essentially got the start collecting box plus a storm wolf, some extra grey hunters and some termies. I've narrowed it down to a few things, but I need a bit of help and maybe some more suggestions. Because I enjoy the mass firepower, my top 3 are either truck boyz (the set), killa kans or a battle wagon. I know the last one might not have such a good fire rate but my friend tends to get scared by the biggest model on the board. I'm also considering a 'naut for the scary appeal alone.
I have come to know that you people frequenting dakka are very helpful regarding this kind of stuff so any help would be amazing.

Cheers,
Cat_astrophe

EDIT
One thing I did notice was that because I'm an irresponsible player I tend to get my shoota boyz right up in their faces because waaggghhhh, so maybe a quick escape route or fast moving backup might be useful

**SpinCycleDreadnought**

Yo Dawg, I heard you liked dakka, so we put dakka in your dakka so you can WAAAAGH!!! while you WAAAAGH!!!

Bearing in mind I'm waiting til 8th to hop back into 40k, I'd say go with the Mork (or possibly Gork) -anought given it can house a small unit of Orks such as Nobs/burna boys and such.

**Cat_astrophe**

SpinCycleDreadnought wrote:
Yo Dawg, I heard you liked dakka, so we put dakka in your dakka so you can WAAAAGH!!! while you WAAAAGH!!!

Bearing in mind I'm waiting til 8th to hop back into 40k, I'd say go with the Mork (or possibly Gork) -anought given it can house a small unit of Orks such as Nobs/burna boys and such.

Thanks for the suggestion SpinCycle. That's one for the big boi so far. Anyone else got any ideas?

**Lord Xcapobl**

For fast moving backups, have you considered Ork Bikers? Added Toughness and speed, with the Orkish assaultiness...

Just go Fasta in da WAAAAAAAGH!!!!

**Blackie**

You want ork firepower? Warbikes, tankbustas, lobbas, KMKs and lootas are the only decent shooty ork units. In small games and against an army that doesn't throw many mid strenght shots also kannons and killa kans with grotzookas can be effective. Avoid the 'naughts.

**NoiseMarine with Tinnitus**

I too will vote Gork/Mork - anaught.

If you really want to go full on scary, for a few pounds more get a Stompa. Distractionfex +1, as long as your opponent doesn't realise it is naff for the points.

**Cat_astrophe**

Hey everyone thanks for the responses. I was just wondering which of these units would be the best against an aggressive storm wolf or other flyer aside from the traktor cannon

**Unyielding Hunger**

Have you though about large squads of Grots? They make good speedbumps and when they actually kill something, they can make their points back with little effort.

**MechaEmperor7000**

My thought process:

Do I have enuf Boys?

No -> SHUT YER GIT AND GET MOAR BOYZ!
Yes -> NEVER ENUF BOYZ! SHUT YER GIT AND SEE THE NO OPTION.

Last time I checked, I was at 120 boyz. I think.

**Cat_astrophe**

MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
My thought process:

Do I have enuf Boys?

No -> SHUT YER GIT AND GET MOAR BOYZ!
Yes -> NEVER ENUF BOYZ! SHUT YER GIT AND SEE THE NO OPTION.

Last time I checked, I was at 120 boyz. I think.

Should I get trukk boyz or just twice as many boyz

Unyielding Hunger wrote:
Have you though about large squads of Grots? They make good speedbumps and when they actually kill something, they can make their points back with little effort.

Grots are already something I will purchase a steady stream of

**usmcmidn**

Grots... just keep fielding them.... your opponent will rage when you field 500 of the little buggers!

**MechaEmperor7000**

Cat_astrophe wrote:
MechaEmperor7000 wrote:
My thought process:

Do I have enuf Boys?

No -> SHUT YER GIT AND GET MOAR BOYZ!
Yes -> NEVER ENUF BOYZ! SHUT YER GIT AND SEE THE NO OPTION.

Last time I checked, I was at 120 boyz. I think.

Should I get trukk boyz or just twice as many boyz

Unyielding Hunger wrote:
Have you though about large squads of Grots? They make good speedbumps and when they actually kill something, they can make their points back with little effort.

Grots are already something I will purchase a steady stream of

I field the Green Tide (10 units of boyz as a mega-unit with a warboss) so my response should be pretty obivous.

Boyz.

**Cat_astrophe**

So far it's between nauts, kans, grots, bikes and boyz (fancy boyz included), with one battle wagon suggestion. I think from the suggestions so far more shoota boys are a must, leaving me with about 75 aud left, so chances are I'll also get some kans or a trukk. Probably kans though given everyone's suggestions

**Blackie**

I'd go with two boxes of bikers and I would try to scratch build a few vehicles. Convert one bikes to be a biker boss maybe, I don't see any HQs among the units that you own which are listed in the first post.

You already have 2 mobs of grots which are certainly enough. Naughts are extremely expensive (in terms of points but also money) and not efficient at all, kans are on the same spot, expensive and not reliable.

If you don't want to convert/scratch build vehicles I'd suggest a couple of trukk boyz boxes, as trukks and boyz are always useful. You can even convert 10 of those boyz into tankbustas, it's an easy conversion, just equip as many orks as you can with the rokkit launchas included in the boyz' set and convert some shoota with kombi rokkits or other bitz.

**stroller**

More boyz. Then more boyz. Then more boyz. Then more boyz....

**koooaei**

Depends on what you wana get. Boyz are not required for competitive play nowadays. You can easilly field a successful list with 0 boyz. For example, the last tourney i participated in, i had 10 barebones boyz in a trukk and it went good.

**G00fySmiley**

I like dakka jets take em in 3's one dies easy, 2 is decent, 3 if difficult to deal with for most. always take the extra super shooter and you have 9 str 6 ap 4 tl shots hitting ground targets on 4's on non flyers/skimmers. compared to the rest of the codex that is a decent deal

**davou**

definately dont get any of the naughts if what your looking to have are transports.

They're 200+ points.
THey have a transport capacity of 6.
They arent open topped.
They arent assault vehicles.
they can only move 12 a turn, and that's if they roll hot on their run move.

People who suggested trukk boys were right.

**JimOnMars**

It's hard to say so close to 8th ed dropping.

If I had to guess I'd pick up trukk boyz (sometimes these kits are fairly cheap on fleabay).

Who knows what 8th might do though. If they make all dreadnaughts MCs then Nauts might even be good.