Orks?

[ijworcester]

Has anyone ever played with an Ork army? Are they fun? I'm thinkin about makig an ork army because of AoBR, i'll try to find someone to trade me their orks for my marines and then i'll have like 1000 points of orks for 60$

[Folken]

Okay, firstly whats AoBR? Secondly, Orks are pretty cool and fun to play. We have all seen LOTHR and know what they can do. They run, they chop, and if they feel like it try to shoot at the broadside of a dragon's ass. But anyway I digress, Orks are really the ONLY army that can hope to stand up against a CC made 'Nid army and not be made to counter that. They also have cheaper,stronger, unites then us and come in mobs the same, or in most cases, bigger then ours.

They also have this and this and this and blah blah blah WAGH!...

Yes..well I could go on for some time ( or page length in this case) about what Orks have that makes the fun to play. But then I would have to list the things that Tyranids have over Orks and at that point I may instantly develop carpoltunnel....so I think I'll stay away from that.

Search the site and see what you can dig up, I'm sure there are some old battle reports and tactica liying around here collecting digital dust. Hope this helped...sorry if I went off....

[ijworcester]

AoBR is assault the black reach, the new 5th edition starter set. It costs 60$ in the US and gives you i think 480 pts of space marines and 580 pts of orks (somethin like that). If you and a space marine friend each buy one and you swap your marines for his orks then you have 1000 points of orks for 60$ =D, thanks for the tips

[Folken]

Oh, so thats what it means....Damn you young kids and your fancy abrrivations...!!

[lookatmybiglongnam]

$60? That's like £30. What are they going to sell it for in the UK?

[gael]

Aug 24, 2008 13:31:13 GMT ijworcester said:

AoBR is assault the black reach, the new 5th edition starter set. It costs 60$ in the US and gives you i think 480 pts of space marines and 580 pts of orks (somethin like that). If you and a space marine friend each buy one and you swap your marines for his orks then you have 1000 points of orks for 60$ =D, thanks for the tips

Me and my friend should do this. Thanks.

[ijworcester]

It's 40 (insert english money symbol here) in the UK i think

[Assimilator]

40 is correct! me and my freind are going halves on it so i can the orks and start da waaagh!

[SicariuS]

Well, from the many times I've looked at my friends codex, the orks are a simple army to play as, and whether you find that fun or not is up to you. They really only have one strategy: go towards the enemy. My opponent never really makes any difficult choices other than how he is going to move his 100 boyz.

[WestRider]

The Orks are a short ranged army, yes, but they have a great many variations on that theme. Footsloggin' hordes, both Shooty (Orks can kick out an obscene amount of firepower at shorter ranges if they want to.) and Choppy, Kult of Speed, either Bike or Trukk based, longer ranged forces with lots of Lootaz and big Gunz, Dredd Bashes, Armoured Krumpanies, DeffWing, there's no end to the variations.

I was talking with a friend down at the store the other day, and we both concluded that the biggest problem with the Ork Dex is that you can't fit all the cool stuff into one army. Every Unit in that book is both useful and cool.