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I recently put together my AoBR orks and threw them into a few games. As my friends play only Tau (focus on FW, Suits, and vehicles), I'm having trouble dealing with those Tau at the 500pt level. I wanted to know if there was any advice to be had.

To not make this a purely personal thread, I would like to further discuss potential tactics of a mostly footsloggin force of orcs vs Tau in general.

Over the past week I've put together a 1500 pt list based around this. 3 21-man units of boyz (with nob/power klaw) slog their way up the field screened by 2 18man units of grots. There is fast attack support via a few units of deffkoptas with rokkit launchas, and a unit of nob warbikers accompanied by the warboss on a bike. The koptas and bikers speed ahead to take out priority targets early on and tie up enemy forces, while the bulk of the troops advance on enemy positions or objectives. I also have a unit of Lootas in there to give em hell as well. I would like to point out though, I did not design this list to be anti-Tau. It was more a force that will be used in any case, but I would like to know how this might fair against Tau.

Any others have interesting strategies?

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There's nothing worse than slogging it a full 36" into the enemy zone, just so they can load up in Devilfish and fly off, laughing.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/635644.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/635644.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/635657.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/635657.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/635663.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/635663.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/635677.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/635677.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/640486.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/640486.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/640520.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/640520.page GMT
Tau are simply MADE for massive fire-zone trapping. An enemy who can't respond other than to keep running slowly into the trap is exactly what they want.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/641072.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/641072.page GMT
take full units of boyz.
a mek with KFF in the middle of the army.
ghaz is great for this due to the extra 6 movement you get from him.

with this you just need to go heavy on boyz and cover, with enough the tau wont be able to kill everything, all it will take is a single unit of 10 boyz to ruin a tau gun line.

snikrot also works great against tau, since they will deploy far back against orks to maximise shooting snikrot becomes even better.
max out a unit of kommados, 2 burnas and snik, they should do more than enough to either kill a large section of the gunline, or atleast draw some shooting.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/641088.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/641088.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/641112.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/234623/641112.page GMT