Category: warhammer 40k

Ork battleline

I am quite pleased with my Ork army and it seems to play well as well.

Here is part of my Ork army at the start of a game.

There are a couple of Killa Kans which are now more effective in the shooting phase as they are crewed by grots who have a BS of 3 compared to the 2 of regular Orks.

A couple of trukks and my Squiggoth. In front of the trukks are a flight of Deffkoptaz.

The Battlefield

In a previous post I talked about a game I had played and promised to get the pictures online soon. Well still have that to do, so in the meantime here is a photo of the battlefield.

The boards are large polystryene tiles (4′ x 1½’ or 120cm x 45cm) which have been covered in GW’s grass mat. I have four of these tiles, and GW’s mat covered all four. Generally though in a game I only use three as my table is not big enough for all four.

The hills are purchased and I got them from a company whose name I can’t recall, whilst the trees are K&M and the lichen is from a model railway shop. In the middle you can see my Looted Ork Rhino which I used as terrain in this game.

It was a typical game for me with my Orks versus Simon’s Imperial Guard, though different in another way as my force was very mechanised and his was very much infantry based with a Hellhound and a Medusa. Okay to call a Squiggoth mechanised is probably going a little too far, but I did have Wartrakks, Trukks, Killa Kanz, Dethkoptaz, a Gunwagon and a flying Ork Fighter-Bomma as well as the Squiggoth.

Metric Imperium

Had an excellent game with Simon today, in the end it was a draw, but it could have gone either way.  I have taken a fair few pictures and will post a battle report at some point.

However we did have one problem, I couldn’t find my tape measure.
Well I could find a tape measure, but not my usual one. Why was that a problem, well my usual one has inches on it, the one I had found didn’t.
Well rather than abandon the game we played with cm’s!

It was interesting, move 15cm instead of 6″, soon got the hang of that and the ranges (as they are in multiple of 6 usually). Difficulties did arise when we had to measure 5″ or 17″ and then life got a little more difficult, but we both managed the mental arithmetic and got through.

So not the end of the world, and a good game was had.

Ork Army Box, Deal or No Deal

Details of the pre-release Ork Army Box is now available on the GW site. It will be available to get on the 22nd December, whilst the general Ork range will not be on sale until January.

Ork Army Box

It contains a fair few new miniatures.

The Ork Spearhead contains a selection of the new Ork releases and is available in hobby centres of from Games Workshop Direct before the official release date. These sets are available in strictly limited numbers, so get ’em while you can! This box set contains: 10 Ork Boyz, 5 Ork Lootas or Burna Boyz, 5 Tankbusters, 2 Bomb Squigs, 3 Ork Warbikerz, 1 Ork Trukk, 1 Ork Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun and 1 Ork Weirdboy.

However unlike other army deals it does not contain the new Ork Codex. I was considering getting the box, partly to save money and partly to get the Codex early. Now I am not so sure.




Grot with Toolbox

Grot with Toolbox, a nice little model, not available much longer…

As well as the Ork Stormboyz Nob and Grot Oiler which I got at Warhammer World last month, I also got a Grot with Toolbox which is from the collectors range.

As you may now already GW are changing their mail order procedures and ranges which means that these older collectors’ models may no longer be available in the future.

Get them now while you can, this is one of my favourite models from that range.