Hey guys I decided to sort out my next painting project as me Necrons are almost completed (or at least at gaming standard). I have two boxes of Orks that I was given and counted out what I have of each.

After a bit of browsing at the Ork list I remembered why I didnt start playing EA when it first came out... The Ork list is utterly overwhelming. All the formations can basically take anything from any other formation.

If i put down what I have then maybe you guys can advise me on making a list and putting together an army.


50+ stands of Orks (Probably even more than that)
8 stands of commandos
5 stands of storm boys
18 stands of gretchin
15 stands of nobs
10 scorchas
12 buggies (also maybe 10 of the old plastic buggies that are smaller than bikes... I might use them as bikes)
15 big guns
6 wartrucks
4 flakwagons (could easily convert more)
6 mekboy speedstas
3 wyrdboy towers
maybe 5 stands of bikes (some boars too)
20+ gun wagons (I could probably convert up another 30+ from all the old bits)
6 stompas
12 Dreads
2 gun fortresses
1 great gargant
12 fightas (I need to find 9 of them as I set them aside for AI)


Ideally I dont want to spend any money on the army. Maybe get some boarboys to represent bikers and double up for a feral ork army. I think i could convert an ork landa as those seem to be so hot right now.

I think I could convert up pretty much anything else in the list from what I have here. so I would like to try and put together a 3000pts list and then add the gargant and junk to make it to 4000pts. Any suggestions?

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There are a ton of good formations to make with this:

Warband + 4 battlewagons (wartruks) + flakwagon - 375
Big Warband - 350
Warband + 2 Stompas + 2 Dreads - 420
Warband + 2 Gunfortresses - 450
Big Kult of Speed (all Skorchas and fill in with Buggies) - 350
Zzap Brigades - 1 wagon w/ Oddboy (Mekboy vehicles), 2 flakwagons, 1 Gunwagon - 200 each, take several
Stompa Mob + 4 dreads (or more) - 365
Uge Gunzmob + 3 Nobz + 3 Oddboyz - 580
Great Gargant

I'd split the Fightabommas 9/3. The formation of 9 can brave nearly any flak and still put a lot of firepower on stuff. The formation of 3 can pick off targets of opportunity or be used to intercept enemy air.

That's pushing 5K of useful formations and the only thing you'd need to convert would be flakwagons. For explanations of how the formations work, check out the "Ork General Strategy" thread. Most of the formations up at the top are hitting a midground between being so large that their cost gets to be a problem and being large enough to be very durable. You might end up wanting to pare down some of the larger formations up a bit to boost activations and provide a little more flexibility, especially if you're playing down around 2500-3000 points.

Hey thanks alot Nealhunt! I tried looking at the Ork summery topic but it had about a line or two of writing on orks and then wis a big block 'tags' (EA NECRONS, EA ORKS, SPACE DOCKING) those kinds of thing... What is that? I see it all over this forum and it just cuts pages off in the middle of someones post?



I think I will try and build a trial army to get a friend of mine into Epic either 1500pts or 2000pts I am unyet decided.

From what I have read gunwagons dont get much love at all... Also I think I am going to need to build myself a Lander, is the preffered loadout a mob with two extra stands of boys with grots inside? You have the four grots as sponges for combat res and the boys to do some fighting.


As for oddboys.... Are they basically just a giant gun attached to a vehicle? I think I could probably convert those up.

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Somewhere in the conversion from the old board software to the new, something got mangled so that in a few posts there's an html comment that isn't closed properly. There's a bit that goes <!--QuoteBegin> and presumably should be <!--QuoteBegin-->. Consequently a huge chunk of the rest of the page gets commented out.

(In case that makes no sense: in html, anything written <!--like this--> is a comment that your browser is supposed to ignore when rendering the page. If you don't put the proper closing tag on the comment, then a large part of the page gets misidentified as a comment and ignored.)

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Just in case... I reposted the thread a few days ago.

Edit: Also, there's a "Making Orks Work" thread that seems to have survived the board re-build mostly intact.