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| It has Blood Talons? Huzzah! |
I played vs. Hive Angel last night & suffered my first defeat in 6th ed. (four games in, I suppose I had it coming). He stole the initiative (always seems to do that, I think he has a loaded die somewhere...) and from the start, orks started dying in droves. Such is the fate of pretty fluff bunny armies I suppose. Indeed as I have a trukk mounted speed freaks army, usually at some point in any game where I use this army, the following tirade (or some similar variation thereof) takes place:
'According to this book here (brandishing the Ork codex) Orks are nigh unstoppable in close combat! Yet when they charge Blood Angels (or Space Wolves, or whichever SM chapter is in front of me at the time) they get wiped out almost to an Ork before ever getting to roll a die! I shouldn't have to rely on hiding in battlewagons with deff rollas, KFF shenanigans, and using boom gunz to win a game! I want the old Ork codex back when choppas were actually good for something! Changing your armor save was too confusing apparently, they were 'going in a different direction' with the Codexes they said, but now there are deathmasks, scarabs, and all sorts of stuff that change the enemies' stat lines. Meanwhile aside from great fluff and models, Orks just have a t-shirt, strength THREE and a choppa that hits like a guardsman in close combat! Its the WORST hand to hand army that supposed to be a hand to hand army, and ya know why? Cause Matt Ward had to make all spess mahreenz AWESOME!!!'
...sigh...
Never have I loved and hated an army so much. Ya know I named the blog after this army as it was almost fully painted at the time, and I was (and still am) so dissatisfied with the codex I waited a FULL DECADE for, that they were about to go the way of ebay. Can't sell em though, cause da blog is named after them...
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| Upon victory, the kans fell to the firing line behind that furioso... |
Anyways, (rant off) it was the same relic/weird, 4th ed-like triangular deployment. The relic as you may have read is 'delicate' (yeah Orks are good with delicate). Speaking of which, in the first photo, notice that red kan on the right, the one that's standing at an angle? Yeah, its on an angle cause it was standing on the relic...
Da kans, despite losing one member of da skwadrun did manage to kill the furioso (can't recall when I last saw an all dreadnought [well sorta] close combat slug fest), which added to my total tally of about 6 Blood Angels prior to getting tabled. That said, Da Boyz held out to turn 6, when it had originally looked like they'd get wiped out in turn 3. Speaking of wiped out...
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| Were it not for the last stupid meltagun shot, Masta Blasta would have survived all of that firepower, the other two, not so much... |
Above you can see my big mek Masta Blasta, screaming obscenities at their current situation while behind him da Warmasta (the shoota boyz nob) sifts thru the squashed flat wreckage of the relic. You should also note that the Blood Angels were apparently drawn to the Temple of Khorne, funny that...
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| Grot tank mob, who needs it? Da Megatank is WAY cooler! (and no less ineffective) |
Prior to this debacle (such things happen I suppose when speed freaks enter a bombed out city) da boyz all posed for a group shot in parade ground formation.
...and with that, the pretty army goes back on da shelf. :-/
9 comments:
I came, I gave you battlemechs, I crushed your Orks. :)
It was fun to see the Dreadnought actually get into combat.
Crushed...fine I'll bring the two boom gunz next time. ;-p
Figured I'd get to the BM's in the next post. Da Boyz rarely get a post on here, much less one all to themselves.
Was good to see a dread not get pasted in one turn (like when there's an by a MC on the table). Not sure if their chances are any better in that situation in 6th though.
Actually playing Orks causes more sound effects. :)
Orks don't need no cow belz, they need more blades and saws.
We need ...
More "Clippy Clippy".
More "Buzz Buzz".
Maybe we should put the Orks up against the Tyranids at the 1,000 point level as well.
2 armies that reek of failure,hmmm...
Nah, someone can only seem to build MC/Psyker spam lists. Fluffy lists need not apply, lol!
I feel your pain, brother. My old fluffy Goffboyz army only had two wheeled things in it (a trukk and a Gobsmasha). Everything else was footsloggin' to glory! I got tired of picking them up by the handful every time my friend rolled dice and then maybe getting one or two hits back. I finally caved and went tank-heavy Guard and now I'm wondering how well they hold up, what with being glanced to death, etc.
Here's to us old Orkboyz who remember Da Choppa and those like us. Damned few left.
lol, I think Neveness has a gobsmasha or two still laying around somewhere. I mean, we all know its basically 'Space Marine 40k' and I do have SMs, but I just don't see why the orks seem like they're designed to disintegrate in HTH.
As for the Ig, my gun line horde has so far fared well, however it was vs a mech IG army< i may take them out to play again this weekend. I know transports got hit hard in 6th (though as frail as ork trukks always have been, that point is moot).
But my main complaint with orks, is when I charge a squad, it shouldn't be all but guaranteed that a trukk mob will get wiped out BEFORE I even get to roll an attack. And its prettymuch been that way with orks for years now.
So yes, here's to da orky old timers out there who still remember the good ol' days!
I remember the good ol days as well, but I miss my 2nd edition ork artillery (Pulsa Rokkits! Traktor Kannons, etc.), Awesome Psyker powers (Squish! lol!) and Kommandos that didn't suck, and a Shokk attak gun that could turn terminators to jelly. Hell yeah!
And for the record, I have played 3 games in 6th edition and lost each one using my over-powered Space Marines...
Well I think your atrocious die rolls had a lot to do with that. Have you sling-shotted (is that a word?) them yet?
No, they sort of redeemed themselves tonight, or at least, got a new lease for life. So how well did you do in Newport?
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