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I am starting a Ork army and would like to have a fun/ competitive list to play against my friends. This list would normally be played against SM and DA armies with the occasional Tau, CSM, or Eldar.
This is also not my primary army so I am trying to keep the list as cost effective as I can. I have searched some and put together what I think is a list that meets my needs.

Here is where I am at now

HQ: 213

Big Mek - KFF, Cybork, Choppa
Warboss - Mega Armor, Cybork, Bosspole, Ammo runt

Elites: 180

6x lootas
6x lootas

Troops: 477

17x Shoota Boyz, 1 nob BP PK
18x Shoota Boyz 1nob BP PK
19x Shoota Boyz 1 nob BP PK

Fast Attack: 120

Dakkajet

Heavy: 510

BW with Deff Rolla, 4X Big Shoota, rpj, grot riggers, kannon, killkannon
BW with Deff Rolla, Grot Riggers, Kannon, RPJ, 4x Big Shootas
BW with Deff Rolla, Grot Riggers, Kannon, RPJ, 4x Big Shootas

Is there anything you would change?

The Big Mek would ride in one BW, The War boss in another.
I have already purchased 60 boyz, 5 lootas and 10 nobz most are from AoBR bits bins.
I plan to convert 2 Nobz into 1 Warboss and 1 mek. 6 of the boyz with Big shootas will be Lootas with the box of 5 Lootas and 1 nob with a heavy weapon will be a Loota
and I plan to scratch build the Battle Wagons.

One question I have is about everyone saying that Kans are no good any more. What has changed to make them bad?

Hurray scratch building! That's gonna be a fun project, and the internet is filled with excellent and inspiring battle wagon examples.

For a second I was excited Kans might be good, thanks to vehicle squadron rules letting you leave folks behind. But with AV 11, and only 2 hull points, it's just too easy to glance whole units of them to death I'm a single round of shooting.

Hi,

looks pretty good so far. You might wanna consider a fourth BW as a dedicated transport for the nobz, this way it´s not a heavy support choice i think.
This way you can roll over everything like crazy but don´t forget about the scoring nobz inside while you do that!

If you want a killkannon you have to buy also a ´ard case, which makes this stuff very expensive and the range is just 24"!
The ordinary BW loadout is deffrolla, RPJ, 1 Big Shoota(so if the weapon destroyed result comes up, its not immobilized) and maybe some grot riggers.
Ammo Runt on the Warboss is a waste of points IMO.

Converting a nob into a Big Mek is really a good thing - i´ve done this myself.
Also most of the time the big shootas or rokkit boys of my army are played as lootas, together with a box of 5 real lootas - so thats a good plan.

Kans in 6th edition just have 2 Hull Points and AV 11, so they´re easy pickings- but walking behind a mob of boys who provide cover and shooting with grotzookas above their heads still works for me.

I´m sorry for my bad english, anyway have fun playing orks!

I'd drop the ammo runt and add an attack squiq on the war boss. IIRC the mega armour gives him a twin linked shoota so there's your reroll. The squiq gives you an extra attack!

Best way to run BWs I find is literally barebones, 4 big shootas, deff rolla and grot riggers. Cheap and still pretty killy. If you're gonna put your warboss with a unit of boyz, you can drop one bosspole, 2 in a unit is pretty pointless. Kans are only generally effective in a Kan wall list, i'd just steer clear of them until we see what happens to them in the new codex.

Good list so far though!


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Also, this is just me. I always take a full mob of gretchin to camp on a home objective just to be safe!

Looking at your list with 3 Battle Wagons I see only enough room for two groups of Boyz ..to ride with the third on foot (remember the kill kannon takes up troops space and really is not effective very effective due to it s reliance on orky Ballistic skill)..I prefer to run my wagons ..2 BS , Deffrola , GR , and RPJ..thou the RPJ is optional ..and the Grot riggers are not needed on the Wagon with the Big Mek in it ..Better to have those extra Big shootas in with the Boyz as opposed to on the wagon ..more effective that way ...

Awesome, thanks for the help.

So here is a modified list

HQ: 225

Big Mek - KFF, Cybork, Choppa
Warboss - Mega Armor, Cybork, Bosspole, attack squig

Elites: 180

6x lootas
6x lootas

Troops: 722

3 x Boss Nobz in mega armor in battle wagon w/ Deff rolla, 2bs, gr
18x Shoota Boyz, 1 nob BP PK
18x Shoota Boyz 1nob BP PK
18x Shoota Boyz 1 nob BP PK

Fast Attack: 120

Dakkajet

Heavy: 250

BW with Deff Rolla, Grot Riggers, 2x Big Shootas
BW with Deff Rolla, Grot Riggers, 2x Big Shootas

a bit more custom work to make the Mega Nobz but I do already have some extra Nobz models. I see the reasoning behind wanting to put the big shoota in a squad rather than on the BW but for now these are the models I have.