New Ork list for your consideration

External Since: Jan 21, 2007 Posts: 145

Blackheart wrote:
> On Jan 23, 7:02 pm, Richard Busby <richbu... DeleteThis @hatespam.bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
>> C&C welcome. Considering this for a tournament list @2000 points.
>
> little light on troops aren't you?

Yeah but then again I'm not trying to max comp scores. I'm going for the
"Death and Destruction" route. The choices made were to either provide
shooting capability from turn one or maximize fast assault potential.

Considered more troops but it didn't seem to make much sense:

1. Another Boyz mob would lack mobility and add to model count.
2. A Gretchin mob, while flavorful, would be near useless.
3. There are no other troop choices.

External Since: Dec 27, 2007 Posts: 162

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:34:32 -0500, Richard Busby
<richbusby.TakeThisOut@hatespam.bellsouth.net> wrote:

>Erik Setzer wrote:
>> On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:17:36 -0500, Myrmidon <imnot.TakeThisOut@home.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmm, while I've only just picked up the Ork Codex, I might
>>> suggest that you're going to be at a disadvantage in a tournament with
>>> this list. If you haven't looked at the tournament scenarios, do so -
>>> they should be available in PDF format from GW.
>>
>> More than that, if they're using those silly RTT rules still on GW's
>> site, there's a good chance he'll get ripped on composition score
>> because of only having two Troops choices, one of which is a Heavy
>> Support choice being used as Troops.
>>
>
>There's been a decided de-emphasis on the comp scores around these
>parts, though the opponent does still usually have some input in any
>event. That usually turns into "Oh I creamed you, here's a consolation
>good comp score" or "You beat my ass, you dickwad, your army is cheese!".

That last part is the main problem. There's no way to prevent score
tanking, and I've seen the nicest guys getting tanked on sportsmanship
and composition because they won the game. People claim it's to
prevent people from being jerks, but the biggest moron in town still
shows up to tourneys, acts like a complete twat, uses horrible looking
armies (he once had a Wood Elf "tree spirit force" which was nothing
but twigs on bases!), cheesy lists, and breaks the rules while using
questionable dice.

Even GW stopped bothering with that recently. In the 2006 GT and GD
tourneys, they went 1500 points with no comp and sportsmanship was a
simple check mark for -5 points if it was a really bad game (and they
wanted an explanation if it was). I was able to watch a lot of those
games, and everyone there had fun, proving it can be done in a true
competitive tourney.

Unfortunately, most people roll with the pansy non-tournament
tourneys. "It's not supposed to be a competition!" Come on, people,
look up the definition of the word tournament!

Ahem, sorry. That little point still irks me and gets me to throw out
random rants from time to time.

--
Erik

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