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Hello folks, this is my first post to the dakka forums, so I hope my formatting is alright. I am a new player who is looking to make a foot slogging ork army, I will be playing against a group of friends who run imperial guard, tau, and eldar. Which to my understanding might make it difficult to have a green tide. Here is my first attempt at making a list.

HQ

1.Big mek/kustom forcefield 85 pt

2.Big mek Mega armour/kustom forcefield 130 pt

Elites

5xTankbustas/W Trukk 95 pt

Troops

29xBoyz/W boss nob PK , BP 215 pt

29xBoyz/W boss nob PK , BP 215 pt

Fast Attack

3x Deffkoptas 90 pt

Heavy Support

10xLootas/W Trukk 170 pt

Tactic: I was planning on having the big mek with forcefield tag along with the lootas in the trukk, to help keep the afloat and also something about a snap firing rule?
Was going to have the big mek w/ mega armour tag along around the 2 groups of boys just plowing up the field.
Tank bustas for dealing with some of the heavy units.
And use the Deffkoptas for help with objective control.

Any advice on what I should change or swap out. Or just the way I'm thinking about the tactics of having a foot slogging army. Would be much appreciated, Thanks!

Lootas ..Lose the trukk split into two groups
one Megaarmoured boss = Big Juicy target
Better to have two plain jane Big meks with KFF Each in a group of boyz

Leftover points now got a second group of tankbustas with trukk

(may need to lose a few boyz to make this work )

if your using the big mek specifically for the KFF your better off getting rid of him and getting a painboy and a warboss with a PK for about the same price. You get more PK attacks and gain a 5+ FNP for your entire unit instead of a handful of boyz.

Then doesn't one group of boys get shafted? Since the warboss and pain boy can only be part of one of the groups?