Nobz > everything in the game, imo. They own you, your mom, and your grandma as well. But, I digress.
Sluggas are your typical unit of choice. Upgraded, they do some good damage up close, and they are cheap.
Shootas are typically support units for the orks, but some people like building hordes of them...I think they suck for your primary army, but hey. They're good for some extra damage at range. Burnas and Rocketlaunchers are a must, if you're going to use shoota squads.
Mad Doks are necessary, if you care about your army. They have fightin' juice, for god's sake. What more do you want?! Some thing that sounds that cool just has to be used.
Tankbustas are fun...if not a bit expensive. They bust tanks, in case you were wondering.
Both Big Mek and Warboss are necessary. If anyone disagrees, I'm still right. Warboss is truly the biggest, and the best.
VEHICLES
Wartraks are your bread and butter, once you can produce them with efficiency. You can be severely outnumbered by SM heavy bolter/sniper cheese and still kick the crap out of em with a handful of these. They tend to give Eldar issues, too, if they don't build enough brightlances.
Kans are your best friend. You should always have a few up, as they are very versitile. Meat shields...anti vehicular...anti hero...stomp! stomp! stomp!
Looted Lemun Russ tanks are difficult to use correctly. They're the most inaccurate tank in the game, bar none. Even when you have 6+ up, bombarding a general area, they still misfire terribly. If you need something to break morale fast, though, it usually does the job with its machine guns. If a shell finds its mark, multiply that by 10.
Squiggoth - on par with Nobz on the ass-kicking scale. It eats infantry (really, it does). Who are you to say it's not worth building?
In the end, as long as you have enough crap on the battlefield, you should do fine. Orks have strength in numbers, but don't buy into the whole "If you don't have more than your enemy, you're not playing orks correctly". It's very easy to win while outnumbered. Just gotta have some smarts, and the greenskins can be your best friends. Really, though...Nobz are great. I pair them up with Warboss, and they tear through mostly everything. -------------------------
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thanks for the info but you miss my meaning, the sub races within the acutal orcs genre, is there a difference? Post edited by Men$_Re@$ at 10/28/2004 3:11:45 PM
Learn to make mass squads of sluggas or shoots, and DON'T reinforce. Then deck them out with heavy weapons and nob leaders. Then when the battle starts, put all ur squads on overwatch. Next all you have to do is watch your massive army kill everything. This works vs all the races but Eldar. Oh yeah, without fast upgrades orks are trash.. so build a Pile of Guns to upgrade your choppa and armor fast. For 1v1 games as orks, the game should only last 4 to 9 minutes max. If not, get a new build order and learn to micro. Post edited by «ß»Blitz at 10/31/2004 1:02:14 AM
I've lasted in games where my rush didn't work immediately. Those were the "fun" games. All others just feel like clockwork. Almost like playing a game of warcraft...not 'fun', but more like "yay! I didn't mess up my build!" -------------------------
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