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I am looking to create an ork list that will take out any list I might encounter. From Flyrants to Centurionstars.

In my FLGS we have mostly space marine or blood angels players with the occasional nids or necrons player and me with my kinda new orks.

I have in my collection:
Garruk face rippa (or a 'eavy armor boss)
Mega armor boss
Big Mek with Sag
Mega armor mek w/ Kff
Painboy
Kaptin Baddruk
Mega Nobz w/ kombi-skorchas x 9
8 lootas
50 boyz
2 battlewagons
3 trukks
10 flashgitz
3 killa kans
1 deff dread
1 blitza bomma
etc.
Have fun dakka naughts!

Orks have a hard time with a TAC list. That's the biggest issue with them. They really require you to know what you're going up against so you can bring enough counters without bringing dead weight along. Each Ork unit is really good at dealing with specific threats. They aren't like Marines where they can multi task and do it with enough efficiency.

The base though of an Ork army you have covered fairly well. Mega Nobz can fit in most any list, and they do well in small squads of 3 and sitting inside of Trukks. So, if you're doing a TAC list, you might as well bring those guys along every game. They can deal with quite a bit, and if they don't get to do their job, they at least take a lot of gunfire for you.

Since you're Mega Nobz are in Trukks, you might as well stick with a transport theme and bring Boyz in Battle Wagons. Fill the Wagons right up to the brim.

You're Boss and Painboy can either tag along with the M. Nobz, or they would probly better serve in a Wagon with the Boyz. You want enough threats that they have a hard time choosing what to fire at. Do they waste some shots and pop the trukks, or do they focus down the Boyz and the Mega Boss within who will single handledly destroy units with his rerollable attacks/wounds/saves when you give him The Lucky Stikk, along with the ever annoying Painboy to keep the mob around for longer than anyone could hope?

From there, it's all about covering bases. You'll want high strength weapons to really wittle down the Marines, blasts to mash Nids, and both to hammer Necrons. I recommend scratch building some Mek Gunz which have SO much versatility. You can make them anti air (Traktor Kannon), average strength barrage weapons (Lobba), or S8 Ap2 blasts (Kustom Mega Kannon). I'd recommend the Kustom Mega Kannonz in a TAC list as they threaten vehicles, infantry and MC alike. I'd take squads of 4 Gunz. Each squad consisting of 3 Kustom Mega Kannonz and 1 Traktor gun, just in case.

I wouldnt take a traktor kannon, no point if you bring lootas. At the same time I hate Mega Nobz so :-P but you have the makings of a good list, I would cram the boyz into the BWs and drivem straight down your opponents throat, load the Nobz in the trukks and do the same. Get some bikes to be outriders for your list and your all set.

I despise lootas in the Heavy Support slot. I'd much rather have the Traktor Kannon for a far more reliable shot that can insta kill the plane or insta force landing for MCs. Lootas are still far too unreliable. He only has 8 of them, and must rely on 6's. And while that isn't that bad considering our normal shooting, the Grots getting to pop shots at full BS is too good.

Honestly, if I were to make a TAC list, I'd take a small battery of just Traktors just to be safe, especially against fricken skimmers.

My ignorance unveiled, do skyfire weapons hit skimmers at full BS?

Yep

 Ghazkuul wrote:
My ignorance unveiled, do skyfire weapons hit skimmers at full BS?

yes, but they can declare to shoot ground units and snap fire instead

I know they can hit ground targets with snapfire but what I meant was do skimmers count as Skyfire targets or snap firing ground targets?

 Ghazkuul wrote:
I know they can hit ground targets with snapfire but what I meant was do skimmers count as Skyfire targets or snap firing ground targets?

Yes, you fire at full BS against Skimmers as well as flying stuff with Skyfire.

looks good to me.

if only we had more Skimmer armies in my area :-( ohh well lol. I do like the look of Mek gunz and I want to purchase a complete battery but I just dont have $200 to spend on 5 models :(

Dollar store army men. Invariably some of them some with big, goofy guns of some sort or another.

Lootas are nice because they can multi-purpose. Sure, a traktor gun can really murk a flier, but those lootas trump when it comes to light AV or MCs. Plus, who doesn't love spamming 24 shots at something, because ORK

I love lootas but they should have gotten a buff or something or maybe GW should have created a new unit for us to play with that can actually do dmg to High AV vehicles from range.

 Ghazkuul wrote:
I love lootas but they should have gotten a buff or something or maybe GW should have created a new unit for us to play with that can actually do dmg to High AV vehicles from range.

Smasha Gun. Sadly, its so random, you can spend half the game doing nothing, since you don't roll STR until AFTER you choose your target.

Yup. they need to buff that with +2 strength to make it a bit more lucrative to bring.

The best part of this thread is about how it turned into one about skyfire. lol. Anyway mek gunz will be bought eventually so those are plan B. I also plan on making another painboy so I have two of them.

now if your going to play for S&G ($hits and Giggles) you need a weirdboy with a bunch of demon models, a Big Mek with a SAG and your Fighta bomba. Weirdboy summons demons from demonology table every turn because wtf not right? and maybe he turns into a demon prince and hooray

now if your going to play for S&G ($hits and Giggles) you need a weirdboy with a bunch of demon models, a Big Mek with a SAG and your Fighta bomba. Weirdboy summons demons from demonology table every turn because wtf not right? and maybe he turns into a demon prince and hooray

I have like 10 plaguebearers and 3 nurglings and a herald... i would make it work. Sag are a thing I need to test out in a game sometime and my blitza-bomma is a requirement on my lists now.

I have used my blitza bomba 1 game now. Turn 2 he blew up a Rhino, turn 3 he crashed into a dreadnought :-P

SAGs are awsome but finicky, I never got lucky enough to roll high or roll doubles :-(

Supprisingly my bomma has never crashed and almost always gets dakka-dakka-boom.

Tank Bustas are very nice for take all comers. The assault rockets with a built in melta bomb is pretty nice in all of your open topped vehicles. Good against vehicles, good against marines, good enough against MCs.

And it has been said enough, lootas are invaluable for TAC.