Below is a snippit of Kirby's thoughts from the other day's Ork review...
...since my last article on Orks they have been given a boost through Deff Rollas being FAQ'd to damage tanks during a ram. This isn't a fix. Orks are not now competitive. They still rely on their Elite and FA slots for some kind of semi-decent anti-mech. Lootas and Buggies for those who aren't in the know. However, this does give the Ork army some reliable ability to damage AV14 (nothing likes D6 S10 hits) but with AV12 side armor and a narrow front facing they need the hard case upgrade. Without it every pen has a 5/6 chance of stopping it from moving and the Ork player wants them moving. A 1/6 chance isn't much but we'll take it even at 15pts (it especially makes glancings less eepy!). Now ya this means you can't assault out of it. Big friggin woop. You don't want Boyz in this tank. Why? It becomes a huge target. Something that is transporting 20 guys into your lines, is scoring by just sitting around, is a tank and has D6 S10 attacks on the tank shcok is a big target. Drop the 20 boyz and it isn't so much. Put in a small crack unit like Nobz w/combis or Gretchin to make it scoring (like DAVU for Eldar) and the opponent has a choice to make between the less valuable but dangerous BW, valuable but not dangerous Troops (we'll go into that next) or the really dangerous Lootas/Buggies. That is the making of a good list, when the same weapons of your opponent have multiple targets. Target Saturation and the whole forcing your opponent to make lots of choices. Unless you're facing a list which is spamming small units which can contain guns (see RBack spam) you'll overload those guns with targets...
- Kirby in Armies in 5th Edition: Orks Part 3
This post is sort of like a preface for the next one which will look at the Deffrolla...
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