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Hi everyone, so I'm playing in a tournament involving random teams of two each player having 500pts.
What do you think about this list?
HQ:
Big Mek SAG, x2 Amo runts, gitfinder
Troops:
10 Shoota Boyz, Trukk-Rokkit,Ram, Nob - Bos Pole
10 Shoota Boyz, Trukk-Rokkit,Ram, Nob - Bos Pole
Fast A:
Rokkit Buggy
Heavy S:
9 Lootas

So what do you think?
Thanks.

At 500, a SAG may not be your best bet. Likely, your opponent will have already brought something that's packing a lot of dakka. Focus instead on making a single theme and push it, rather than making an inherently "balanced" list. Pick your favorite aspects of ork kultur, and rock that out big and proud. Wanna be a dakka hound? Sure, blast away with 40 lootas. Truck rush? Nice. Get in there and get swinging.

500 is rough though. Super tiny.

I don't care how tiny the list is, don't deploy ork boyz squads without nobz BP/PK! you need that S8/9 Ap2 to kill things in tin kanz.

Also I completely agree with bossmakk, stick with a theme. But ditch the big mek, at 500pts your better off with a painboy or a Warboss in eavy armor/PK

If your going fast then change out the lootas and buggy and the mek for a big squad of warbikers with nob/BP/PK.

A lone rokkit buggy isn't going to do much but explode from amused glances. If you're going with the mek as a must then swap the SAG with a KFF to help get at least one of those trukks into assault. Then drop a few lootas and throw in either a bike squad or some mek gunz, a trakor kannon will help a lot if anyone brings flyers, and i'd argue the Smasha gun is the best anti-tank weapon you have available (at least for only 30 points)

haha, if you have mek gunz I would bring a full battery, 5 KMK's for like 150 pts is unbelievable.

Thanks for the feed back, how about this then:
HQ:
Painboy, Warbike, Amo Runt, x2 Grot orderly
Troops:
10 boys, Nob -bp, big choppa, trukk - rokkit, ram
10 boys, Nob -bp, big choppa, trukk - rokkit, ram
Fast A:
Rokkit Copta
Rokkit Copta
5 Warbikers
Should I take big shootas on the coptas instead?
Thanks :-)

You need PK's for all your nobs, even for non-existing(temporarily, i assume) warbiker nob. Drop coptas and maybe painboy's grots and runts.

I managed to get those PK's but I'm two points over, any way to refine this?
Painboy Warbkie
10 boys, Nob -pk, big choppa, trukk - rokkit, ram
10 boys, Nob -pk, big choppa, trukk - rokkit, ram
4 warbikers, Nob - pk

Hm. Painboy on bike 75 points
10 boys inc. PK; BP nob and truck - 130. So 260 points in Troops.
5 warbikers inc PK;BP nob costs another 130 teeth.
Total 465 pts, givin' us 35 points for upgrades and/or buggy. Or copta.
Or some bodies for truck boys and reinforced rams(this way you end up with 499 points total).

No! You had a great thought. The sags are essential against an eldar 500pt list I had problems with. I say your first list was good till the buggy. I'd replace the buggy with 2nob upgrades with boss poles. Otherwise I think it's great

FratHammer wrote:
No! You had a great thought. The sags are essential against an eldar 500pt list I had problems with. I say your first list was good till the buggy. I'd replace the buggy with 2nob upgrades with boss poles. Otherwise I think it's great

So something like this:
HQ:
Big Mek SAG, x2 Amo runts, gitfinder
Troops:
10 Shoota Boyz, Trukk-Rokkit,Ram, Nob - Bos Pole, big choppa
10 Shoota Boyz, Trukk-Rokkit,Ram, Nob - Bos Pole, big choppa
Heavy S:
10 Lootas

You can try to run 2 looted wagons instead of trukks ( at this point level they dont steal youre hs and give you some solid armour ) 10 shoota boys with big shoota and nob with bp , more big shootas on the wagons , and then youre mek with lootas ,mayby ul have to drop 2 lootas , bigchopas . And I guess you should fitt .

Put the big mek with the SAG on a bike to give him a 4+ save. it is also good for he fires himself clean across the board you can use it to turbo bust away or if scouts get to close use the bikes dakka guns instead of the sag.

I would drop the lootas and go pure speed freaks and get a looted wagon in there with a killkannon. Or a trukk of Ard boyz.

Oh and a big shoota in each shoota mob 36 inches of dakka loving if you can find room.

I'm digging it dark flame. The big mek on a bike is how I run mine for larger games. At this point level, just hide them in the lootas.

I can't help but think Boyz before toyz.
At 500pts, you want a low cost but effective HQ - probably Wierdboy which would give you access to psychic phase.

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Weird Boy, psyker lv 2

10 Boyz and 1 PK Boss Nob
Trukk, reinforced ram

11 Boyz and 1 PK/BP Boss Nob
Trukk, reinforced ram

11 Boyz and 1 PK/BP Boss Nob
Trukk, reinforced ram

in 500 points? boys before toys is the way to go. Almost no army has the wound output to clear the board of that many bodies. I think i'd go with a large blob of boys lead by a nob /w PK and BP backed up by a couple of loota's/ rokkit copta's/ trukk nobs and a cheap ass HQ. if you want to go battleforged, take a cheap gretchin unit for 35 points or a minimum boys unit for 60 points