Gazhnikk's Gitz-blog of a returning Ork player

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I've finally returned to Orks after a lengthy hiatus. After starting the hobby in 2nd ed with Blood Angels (which I still have and need to work on) I turned to Orks as a second army in 3rd ed. They haven't had as much use as my BA over the years due to lack of funds and my terrible painting skills so stayed fairly small.

 

Finally got lured back in via some inspiration from Bloodbowl (with an Ork team, naturally) and then challenged to a game of Heresy at Lenton with a group of mates. Plans for a Death Guard army came and went (again due to funds) and to mix things up I decided to take Orks to fight all the shiny Marines.

 

With the army mostly just basecoated and anything painted needing a complete overhaul I had a month to get stuff tabletop ready. After a pretty huge painting marathon I got the following ready for the trip:

 

Warboss (3rd ed metal model)

5 Nobz retinue (AOBR set)

Mad Dok Grotsnik (here proxied as a painboy)

30 sluggas with Nob (mix of 3rd ed and AOBR)

20 shootas with Nob (3rd ed with AOBR big shootas)

12 Gretchin and Runtherd

5 kommandos with Nob (guys are really old 2nd ed models with the beanie hats, love them)

3 deffkoptas (AOBR)

 

Game was basically Custodes/Fists/Smurfs/Eleysian Drop troops vs Word Bearers, Alpha Legion and renegade Guards. As I couldn't compete points wise the Orks had a custom sustained mob rule meaning everything bar Warboss and his Nobz came back on after being wiped out. Only Ork objective was to cause maximum carnage!

 

In true Orks fashion things went awry. Warboss killed one Alpha Termie before he and his whole retinue got smashed. Shootas averaged 1-2 kills per turn but on last turn riddled the Loyalist warlord and finished him off (much hilarity for me). Deffkoptas absolutely clobbered Eleysians in CC. Highlight though was Gretchin killing an Alpha Termie and causing the squad to flee for 2 turns (right into path of Custodes which just walked through everything in their path).

 

Game ended in a draw (Loyalists probably would have won if I didn't 'snipe' their Commander).

 

Got a load of stuff to get assembled/painted and will probably have 2500ish points when it's all done.

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As soon as I remember how to post pics will get a couple from the battle up and some ongoing WIPs.

Hoping going forward that the boyz will get some more regular games.

 

Still in my pile of shame:

Baneblade to loot

Battlewagon

3 trukks

2 zapp guns

2 wartrakks, 1 buggy

The Start collecting box (acquired whilst I was at Lennon)

10 boyz

Couple of Burnas (got them when they could still go with sluggas)

Fighta-Bomma

5 tankbustas

10 boyz with eavy armour

And 20 Orks/40 Gretchin from 2nd ed if I get all that done.

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Sounds like quite a paintathon! Will keep a lookout for pics.

 

After playing 8th for many months, the thought of a unit of Terminators fleeing from grots is both weird and hilarious.

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After a lot of tinkering I've finally managed to work out how to upload some photos (I'm a little bit of a dinosaur)

 

The whole army is basically WIP so these are some of the things that have actually seen a game.  Plenty left to do on this stuff as well! It's fait to say my painting skills need some work.  I've played since 2nd ed. but my old stuff was truly terrible. All my other painting has been this year.

 

Kommandos

 

Warboss Gazhnikk himself (his old paint job was over 15 years old and pretty bad so I'm doing my best to rescue it)

 

Some of the shootas (old 3rd ed box)

 

 

Some of the AOBR Nobz (2 others in similar state plus 5 that still require everything after a basecoat)