By Monday -- thanks to a trade -- I'm gonna have the following NIB Ork ships ready to serve as the foundation for a new Greenskin fleet.
Here's the first batch:
Gorbag's Revenge BB
Kill Kroozer
Kill Kroozer
Three each of Onslaught, Savage and Ravager escorts
The first game with them comes that weekend. Based off some advice from an Ork player, I was think of this approach.
Gorbag's (with a warboss & 1 re-roll), looted torpedoes and boosted to carry torpedo bommerz.
Kill Kroozer
Kill Kroozer (warboss, 1 re-roll), boosted shields
My 9 initial escorts
Putting me a bit above 1,200 points
The logic from the Ork player was that an Ork fleet doesn't have to just ram ram ram. It can spit out a ton of ordinance if used properly, and thus weaken the opposition when it comes time to use the heavy gunz and think about slamming hulls together.
Gorbag's Revenge can launch up to 8 squadrons of torpedo bombers, and each of those would produce a strength 2 salvo (Depending on the size of my attack craft waves that could mean anything up to a single S16 salvo). The BB launches a fair number of full-blown torps, too, especially when helped along by the "looted torpedoes" addition. So one ship could spew a frightening number of warheads.
The longtime Ork player was calling to have the Kill Kroozers converted into torpedo platforms, but I'm thinking maybe not for the first game, especially as I have escorts that can launch a fair number by themselves.
2 weeks from now (it takes the local shop that long to fulfill orders), I'm going to be able to add a Terror Ship and two blister packs of brute ramships. And I have some arts and crafts supplies (read 3" styrofoam balls, an exacto knife and a handful of Chaos and Imperial weapon sprues) -- so I was thinking of trying to build a couple of Roks just for fun.
What do folks think
Matt