Random question but around how many Kommandos and Stormboyz might an aspiring Ork general want in his 5,000-10,000 point army? (I've not done the maths for what I have but it's probably somewhere between there)

I've just ordered 3 x Ork Warband boxes from GW purely for the bases with them (curse GW's silly basing prices that makes this cheaper than buying that many extra bases individually!). I plan to ebay the Orks then with older square bases to get some money back (yell if you'd like to buy / trade for some instead) but I'm wondering if I should take the opportunity to keep some of the Kommandoz and possibly some Stormboyz from the boxes too.

I reckon I've got plenty enough Nobz, Grotz and Boyz already, but only around 10 stands of Stormboy and a meager 5 stands of Kommandoz. Since I want to sort this out and sell off the excess a way in advance of gaming again I thought I'd ask peoples advice on how good they are and how many I might want. Thoughts?

I'll take the grots off your hands! I've picked up a load of older boys but have very few grots.

Twelve units of Stormboyz is decent, that gives you the basis for two Stormboy Warbands.

As to the Kommandos, unless you're playing Blood Axes, they rarely seem to be used at all, as other options tend to be better.

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Thanks Chroma! I'll aim for 12 Stormboyz then, or possibly push it to 18.
I'm aiming it to be an all-round Ork army which can also be used as Cult of Speed, Ferals or Orkemedies Gargant Bigmob. If Kommandos are not so hot I won't bother stocking too many of those then - unless anyone else comes on and says the opposite - and I could always proxy them as something else if I fancied trying the Blood Axe list in a friendly one time (though there are a long, long list of other lists I more want to play with first if I ever do).

Should the 40 stands of grots I have be enough for a large army? - taking into account a load of those will be needed to decorate vehicles, crew big guns, etc. I also think I have a greater than average proportion of basically everything else Orky you can get to how many Ork infantry I have in the army as whole (e.g. 120ish gun/battle-wagonz, 12 Squiggoths, 11 Gargants, ect).

I could trade you some/all of the extra 24 stand from the new boxes if you like Mephiston - though I'd have to factor in that they are probably the most valuable bit of the boxes and that splitting up a box's contents could lowers the value I'd get for the rest. Open to offers though - PM me a fair price and / or things you have to trade.

People are perennially short on grots.  The sprues have the boyz:grotz ratio of 3:1 like the Warbands, but Boyz/Grotz upgrades are 1:1.  If you add any substantial amount of them, you run out of Grotz long before running out of Boyz.

On Kommandoes/Stormboyz, I agree with Chroma.  Kommandoes are good in a general sense, but their abilities don't fit very well with the Ork formations that can attach them.  Unless you have a dedicated formation of Kommandoes, they are rarely seen.

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Well, if you would rather take offers on whole boxes I'd be up for one box. No need for bases here.