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Hi I am making my first 8th edition army to play my first game of 40k ever. I haven been collecting orks now for a solid 8 months and have a sizable number of models. Im looking to field a competitive esq army.

1500 pts.

HQ

Thraka 215 pts

troops

29 boyz choppa slugga -1 nob with power klaw 205pts
29 boyz choppa slugga -1 nob with power klaw 205pts

Elites

Nob with WAAAGH banner 75 pts
3 x Mega nob 75 pts

Heavy support

3 Killa kans 1 has rokkit launcha 165 pts
20 lootas 340 pts

Battle Wagon wtih defrolla and kannon and 4 big shootas 219 pts

1499 points any and all advice is welcome

I would suggest you get more transport options for the boyz also you might need some more anti-tank stuff.

I could drop points of the big shootas and maybe lose a few lootas to give rokkits to the boyz. but i was kind of hoping the battle wagon of lootas would be a good distraction up the flank while the boyz and thrakka and the nobz foot slog to the enemy

To field a competitive ork army you have two paths: you can go with hordes of boyz or a mechanized list.

In the first case you need 120-180 boyz, a couple of painboyz and a couple of weirdboyz, a warboss, and the nob with waaagh banner is quite helpful too. Then complete the list with kommandos or shooty units like lootas.

If you go with transports 2-3 wagons and 1-3 trukks are the way to go. A biker big mek with KFF is a great add too. Ghaz in a wagon, shielded by the KFF, with 18 boyz is pretty solid.

Generally speaking warbosses, boyz, tankbustas, kommandos, painboyz, banner nobz, weirdboyz, meks with kff and stormboyz seem the best options available. Trukk, BWs, deffkoptas, some big gunz/mek gunz, nobz with big choppas and lootas are effective too.

Other units like dakkajet, the walkers, flash gitz and maybe buggies may be useful but not the best ones.

FW meka dread and zhadsnark are solid too.

With your models I'd go with 2 mobs of 30 boyz, a banner nobz and a painboy near them (take mad dok grotsnik if possible), a BW with 18 boyz + ghaz, 2x10 lootas. You just need a dok and 18 boyz, maybe a dakkajet or a couple of deffkoptas to reach 1500 points..