Current state of the Orks?

[royalecheez]

So I've been pondering jumping back into 40k with a new army. Orks are pretty appealing to me. They were actually one of the first armies I ever collected way back in 3rd edition. I just love the masisve customization options I get from them.

So what are some current Ork players thoughts on where the race stands right now?

I'm worried it seems they will be last to get a new codex, power creep and all that. And I've also heard the only viable competitive option is Boyz en masse. My group is only semi competitive at the best of times but I do like to hit the occasional tourney every now and again so I never like investigating in something that has no real competitive options.

Let me know what you guys think.

[Overread]

Power Creep isn't really present in the current codex. Yes they do get somewhat better, but its nothing like the previous editions where each new codex was "THE BEST EVER POWERHOUSE". So you shouldn't expect to see your orks suddenly become hte best army just because their codex is last; if anything it should be a bit more balanced upon release.

The other aspect is that, from what I gather listening to ork players, orks are in a poor spot right now. So right now they are underplayed. However there are rumours (fairly strong ones) that the ork codex will come with new models as well. Orks are an old army (one of the big original ones) and they've got quite a few older sculpts that really show their age. So there's room there for relaunches as well as new models to be added to their ranks. Of course this time around new models are NOT released with every codex and even some almost dead certain releases (eg biovore/pyrovore combined plastic kit) have not appeared. So they could still not get any new models or might only get one or two.

Any newer kit is likely totally safe so you could safely start building a core force of newer kits to build from.


I would say slow build right now with some core choices, if the codex is like many others then most things should be viable at a decent level (internal faction balance has, in general, been a huge improvement). Wait around for the new edition to drop and see the new shiny stuffz