{"id":267,"date":"2008-08-27T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2008-08-27T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T22:06:00","slug":"ork-speed-freeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/ork-speed-freeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ork Speed Freeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SLXP-wjYUVI\/AAAAAAAAAx4\/g23JatBB-oY\/s1600-h\/dethkopta.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239322418607575378\" style=\"CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SLXP-wjYUVI\/AAAAAAAAAx4\/g23JatBB-oY\/s320\/dethkopta.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suck too bad at miniatures battles to NOT have fun while I&#8217;m playing.<\/p>\n<p>If I was serious about it, I think I&#8217;d be miserable.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a kind reader sent me this army list, which I think it pretty keen:<\/p>\n<p><em>Saw your recent note on orks vs eldar on your blog.Didn&#8217;t know if you were aware of this but you can pretty much have your cake and eat it too with the orks.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>My list at 2k:<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>H.Q.Wizdaka (special character on bike)<\/em><br \/><em>Fast attack:<\/em><br \/><em>2xsquads of 5 deathcoptas, each with buzsaw and rocket launcher.<\/em><br \/><em>Elites:<\/em><br \/><em>8x nobs:4 with power claws, 1 pain boy, 2 war banners, all with cyborg bodies and heavy armor.<\/em> [on bikes I presume]<br \/><em>Troops:<\/em><br \/><em>3x squads of 8 bikers, nob with power claw<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>All bike army, 10 models are actually jet bikes&#8230;and man&#8230;dem boys can move. The entire army turbo boosts, has great anti armor, and has a 4 up basic armor save, a 5 up invulnerable save, and when moving a 4+cover save.Let&#8217;s not forget the feel no pain on the nobs.Just an idea, I&#8217;ve found the all bike eldar army less than impresive and the truck based ork army ends up as too many models for me.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/><em>enjoy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><span style=\"font-size:180%;\">Alternate List from someone else:<\/span><br \/><em>2k list HQ: Warboss w\/ Power klaw, warbike, cybork body and Heavy armor 140p<br \/>Warboss w\/ mega armor, cybork body and boss pole 115p<br \/>Troops:4 mega nobz. Trukk w\/ reinforced ram 200p<br \/>8 Nob bikers w\/2 powerklaw, painboy, cybork, waaaghh banner, bosspole 525p<br \/>11Boyz 1nob\/w powerklaw and bosspole.Trukk w\/reinforcedram 152p<br \/>11Boyz 1nob\/w powerklaw and bosspole.Trukk w\/reinforcedram 152p<br \/>11Boyz 1nob\/w powerklaw and bosspole.Trukk w\/reinforcedram 152p<br \/>11Boyz 1nob\/w powerklaw and bosspole.Trukk w\/reinforcedram 152p<br \/>Fast atack:<\/em><br \/><em>5 deffkoptas w\/rookitz 225p<br \/>5 deffkoptas w\/rookitz 225p<br \/>Total: 2001p<\/em><br \/><em>hold the mega nobs and the mega warboss as reservs so they have one safe moment twoards the enemy. outflank with deffkoptas. This one is better than a biker army trust me. hope you beat those dark agnels.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m really confused.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SLXxsm34vII\/AAAAAAAAAyA\/mtqDMuHCFH4\/s1600-h\/beardy+nerd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239359490166930562\" style=\"WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 175px\" height=\"208\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_XxdgU-mVbm0\/SLXxsm34vII\/AAAAAAAAAyA\/mtqDMuHCFH4\/s320\/beardy+nerd.jpg\" width=\"166\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Bearded Company Grognard<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>This was an unheard-of innovation in the gaming industry, where rules questions were usually answered by whatever bearded company grognard opened the fan mail on a given day, and only then if you included a SASE and made an intelligent reference to Robert Heinlein.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the rest of a very interesting article about <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.salon.com\/tech\/feature\/2001\/03\/23\/wizards\/index.html\">the rise of a geeky company.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s a good article, or that I like it, just that it&#8217;s there. It&#8217;s&#8230; interesting.<\/p>\n<p>OK, changed my mind. It&#8217;s a good article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suck too bad at miniatures battles to NOT have fun while I&#8217;m playing. If I was serious about it, I think I&#8217;d be miserable. Anyway, a kind reader sent me this army list, which I think it pretty keen: Saw your recent note on orks vs eldar on your blog.Didn&#8217;t know if you were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}