Hi,
we had 6 or 7 games orks against ig and the ig only came out winning once. The following things were quite effective:
1) Fightabommas, typically our Ork player has 2 squadrons a 5 fightabommas. They have a good chance of disrupting IG artillery batteries or at driving away the rough rider screen of the artillery or tank companies in a single action.
2) Mobile warbands. Battle/Gunfortress plus some battlewagonz or gunwagonz to deliver a warband with some extra nobz, boyz and gretchin.
Using a march action on the first turn you should be able to bring them into charge range in the first turn (deployment 15 on table + 90cm move + 5cm loading out troops = 110cm). The gretchin screen and hiding behind the battlefortress (warengines block los) helps surviving the one or two rounds of punishment, the nobz help removing the blast markers.
My opponent (Mark) typically uses gretchin in the first, then boys and then nobz in the third line to protect the nobz. I typically mix in some nobz in the first and second line to use the save against enemy fire and to increase the chance of getting them into close-combat.
You could add some stormboyz to the mob, with their 30cm move they don't even need a transport vehicle and increase your charge range. Dont forget you can charge the battlefortress into the enemy and push troops aside. You should see that it is in cc as you can then assign the first hits to the battlefortress and hope for the saving throws.
3) Deth-Koptas
good gun (for an ork), skimmer, fast, acceptable saving throw, very disruptive
prefer them very much to gunwagonz
4) Stompa mob with Soopastompa (how whats the exact name):
great firepower but because it is so slow you can usually not really fire before the second or third turn. But this mob usually draws unproportionally high attention from e.g. the leman russ companies and can sustain 3 turns of punishment from one leman russ company (if they stay at range > 60cm, if they don't, they risk a 6 barrage point macro weapon attack).
not effective:
we had a nice looking stormboyz mob with 2 skorchas in almost all ork games, they never did any damage and were killed/broken very early. but at least they drew some attention to themselves
warbands on foot -> simply to slow
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