Editing Warhammer 40,000/3rd Edition Tactics/Orks (section)

==Army Building==

=== Models ===

Whilst you can use your modern Ork army and just adapt its composition to 3rd Edition rules, truly nothing beats the nostalic feel of a new millennium Ork army in all its awkward grinning glory. Most models from this era have been mothballed by GW, with the Deffkopta the last Ork standing [[Fail|thanks to its intended replacement being integral to a now-OOP box set]], so you will have to scour eBay to find them in sufficient numbers unless you want to spam helicopters and have an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_assault air assault].

You will also want an authentic new millennium board to play on, complete with card terrain and aquarium plants. There are plenty of [https://biwin.co.uk/warhammer-40k-papercraft papercraft terrain templates] available online for everything from bunkers to tanks of various scales and quality, and with a [['Eavy_Metal|good paint job]] some can even be indistinguishable from the real plastic.

=== Composition ===

The tried and true approach to making a balanced army list is to first grab your compulsory choices, one Headquarters and two Troops. Your army has to be lead by a Warboss, who can be on foot or mounted on either a Warbike or a Boar depending on the army list you use, so that's that taken care of, but you have far more options when it comes to your 'Boss's followers.

For the Codex list, Slugga Boyz and Shoota Boyz are more generalist, whilst Burna Boyz and Tankbustas are anti-infantry and anti-tank specialists, and Gretchin are cannon-fodder. If you are using the optional rules for a specific Clan, you HAVE to fill your two compulsory Troops with that Clan's Core Mobs, picking from Flash Gitz, Kommandos, Lootas, Skarboyz, Huntas, or Warbikes, and these units all play to that Clan's strengths. Flash Gitz are shooty, Kommandos are sneaky, Lootas are light-fingered, Skarboyz are tuff, Huntas are traditional, and Warbikes are fast. The Kult of Speed list also uses Warbikes, Burna Boyz, and Tankbustas as Troops, but also gives you Trukk Boyz and Warbuggies as well, giving you an array of vehicles to choose from for your motorpool. The Feral Orks list meanwhile also uses Huntas, but introduces Wildboyz and Madboyz, who're exactly what they sound like.

A good approach to take when first expanding your army beyond the compulsory core, is to choose one each of Elites, Fast Attack, and Heavy Support. This lets you try out the various different units and learn how the army works, until you get a feel for which style best suits your favoured tactics. Units that work well at this entry level include Warbuggies, Ork Dreadnoughts, and Skarboyz.

=== Painting ===

When first starting out with an Ork army, the sheer number of models you need to paint can be quite intimidating, but various tricks have been developed over the years to help make this process go along more smoothly. In particular, washes and drybrushing are your friends. The former is a heavily-diluted paint that goes on over the first green coat after the black basecoat, and sinks down into all the crevices to create shading effects, whilst the latter is a style of painting where most of the paint is removed from the brush with a tissue before painting, and grazes the raised details of the model to highlight texture. Drybrushing can also be used to paint rust and dirt on vehicles and equipment, whilst washes give weathering. Teeth and other light-coloured areas can often be tricky if you are using a black basecoat, so it helps to layer them up with first a dark brown or grey coat, and then a light brown or white coat.

Grots and Nobz can be done a little differently to regular Orks to make them stand out, by using lighter or darker colours for the first coat respectively, and age can be signified by skipping the drybrushing to leave individuals darker overall. And there are also transfer sheets that come with most boxes of miniatures, which are basically stickers for your models that can only be peeled off the backing paper once immersed in shallow water for about 30 seconds, a saucer will do nicely (you have a tea set, right?). For more tips, go see the [[WIP#Painting|Painting Guide]].

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