Clthomps wrote:Do you still have the SM part of the black reach boxed set? If so its easy to swap it for orks. I would do so, and double your army.

After that get $5 and head to the hardware store and pick up 18 1/2" pvc pipe fittings. Glue them together and you have the start of 9 killa kans. while your there look for other bitz like screws and such that would make good weapons or parts to trucks.

Grabzak Dirtyfighter wrote:Wow those aren't too shabby looking!

An ork army can't have enough boys! at least two squads of 30 each if your going for a footslogging army.

You also should decide on what type of force you want, you can go boys heavy, speed freaks, mek heavy.

They are all valid choices, it is just a good idea to focus on one theme at first to get some synergy in your army.

Grabzak Dirtyfighter wrote:There isn't really any must haves or perfect ork list, it all comes down to personal tastes. I personally like an in your face list so I run a lot of bikes and wagons

Here is some of my units and how I feel about them then:

Loota's are pretty standard fare for orks. I run a squad of 15 myself but I have seen lists where people run 3 squads of 5 to shoot at mulitple targets, you just have to be careful as they, like most orks have a crappy leadership.

Kommando's led by snikrot are pretty nice as you can attach your warboss to them and walk on the enemies deployment zone and krump some heads. If you have any foes that like to sit on the back line and shoot this is their nightmare.

A Nob squad in a battlewagon has been my MVP unit for a long time running, just give it a big shoota, deff rolla and armor plates you your GTG. but, if your going to run any vehicles you need more than 1 or it will be a pile at the end of turn one. Attach a mech with a KFF and your nob wagon gets a 4+ cover save

I don't care what anyone says I LOVE LOVE LOVE my ork bikers! 4+ cover all the time, 5 toughness and 3 TL shots for 25 pts a pop and you can get them anywhere in a turn with turboboost.

A biker boss and Wazdakka work out pretty well also, they are both 6 toughness 4+ cover powerklaw delivery engines and I get a lot of success out of them.

Nob bikers are on my to do list...can you see where my armies going?

I personally don't do well with ork walkers so I don't field them, but YMMV

Funnyguy2112 wrote: lootaz are great but always run them in squads over 11 for mob rule.

zilegil wrote:

Funnyguy2112 wrote: lootaz are great but always run them in squads over 11 for mob rule.

That is precisely what you do NOT do with lootas, as the lootas have to take a morale check at 5 wounds. Meaning they are LD 5 if you use mob rule, so you have to resort to your LD 7. Get them in sets of three units, three units of 5 are amazing. If the enemy gives one unit 8 wounds them the extra three are going to waste, and if one fails a morale check then you have ten left to play with. Also it meand they can divide fire between the large numbers of light vehicles the lootas are normally firing at.

Kan wall is said to be a very good list, it is very effective and practical painting wise too. If you use your kans to shield your boys then they get a 4+ cover save, rather than resorting with the 5+ KFF save or the 6+ armour, then the kans can get a 4+ KFF save, as they are vehicles. Then your whole army has effectively a 4+ cover. Also kans are BS3 meaning that rokkits are actually worth it. Plus having 27 str 10 power attacks on the charge if you take the full nine. It is the cheapest list there is, also tactically very good. Although a bit boring.

I would not advise green tide unless you have a flat colour filled paint scheme and a paintbrush hand of steel. As a green tide normally has 100+ miniatures at 1500pts.

BW spam is scary and fun, for you anyway. And scary yet easily countered by your foe. It is not the most tactical list in the world, but it is not quite Taued yet either.

Nob biker lists were the original cheese, with their hit and run, picking off lone targets in assault, dakkagunning the foe to pieces. It was a nightmare before GKs and DA. But still puts up a fight on the cheesed nightmare list front. Although don't be expecting to be making many friends.

They pretty much the only lists anybody uses these days, and IMO the best lists out there.

Nice to see another new ork player, though common now they are getting rarer with the GK threat and GWs high prices. Good day to ya', and mork let your krumping be good.

Darkninja107 wrote:An easy way too add a nice Heavy Support for a good amount of points is to convert the SM Dreadnought from AoBR to a Deff Dread! I did that for my orks and since I play Death Skulls it fit the fluff.

Trondar wrote:

Darkninja107 wrote:An easy way too add a nice Heavy Support for a good amount of points is to convert the SM Dreadnought from AoBR to a Deff Dread! I did that for my orks and since I play Death Skulls it fit the fluff.

Yeah, I did the same! If you buy the Deff Dread kit you get lots of great bits aswell, check my blog (link in sig) for pics of my looted Deffy.

Also, collectionwise I would recommend getting atleast 90 Boyz, that's a great number for alot of fun lists (except Green Tide lists). I second the general consensus of Loota groups of 5 or 15, but basically any group with their leadership in mind works OK, not good or great, they work OK.

Kan-Wall is a very scary list at games up to 1500 pts, after that it starts to have problems scaling up where the BW-spam lists really start to shine.

Also, how competitive are you aiming for? That is something that really affects an Ork army IMHO.

And finally a fun tip: For fun modelling buy a box of gretchin and box of Imperial guard heavy weapons team and let the Big Gunz begin

Disclaimer! Big gunz are kinda meh in the game, but realy fun to model.

Oh! And buy a Big Mek with KFF (Kustom Force Field) or 2. They rock in almost any list.

Not sure how competitive I'll be in the end. I like the painting and will likely just playing with my friends who are also playing 40k in the near future. There is a local game shop who hosts games fairly often and I will eventually participate.