Countin‘ headz! Doing inventory.

We’re back to normal boys!

My dice have decided to behave more like Ork dice again. Meaning: from 24+ dice shooting only a small portion hit and even less wound.

Also the only weapon capable of wounding the Chaos Dreadnought got knocked out in turn 3 and subsequentially the Dreadnought ran around slaughtering units.

On the plus side: rules start to get a bit easier. Though some question still pop up that we couldn’t find a rule for in the core rulebook.

• What happens when a fast vehicle (wartrukk) needs to go through enemy infantry. Can it go through? It can’t do tank shock. Does it need to go around enemy infantry?

Well, we stopped without having reached any result but it was more or less inevitable that he would win in the next turn.

Maybe next time I’ll bring Space Smurfs? Or Chaos? Or Tyranids?

Who knows!

I…

Well…

Uhm…

So I won again. With the new list.

My Shooty Boyz killed the Chaos General in turn 1.

My Trukk killed his dread in turn 1.

And even as my Slugga Boys got decimated and ran off the table: I still won.

Again a combination of me rolling great for shooting attack and my friend failing to save anything and not hitting anything in his shooting phase.

In the last turn I still had my Wartrukk and most of my Shooty Boyz. And the last standing nurgly deamon ran away… it ran AWAY!

There must be something wrong! XD

Let’s try this again:

Orks (1999) – Second draft – [655 pts]

## HQ [273 pts]
Warboss [273 pts]: ‘Eavy Armor [8 pts], ‘Uge Choppa [10 pts]
• 1x Wartrukk [35 pts]: Rokkit Launcha [5 pts]
• 1x Nobz [48 pts]: ‘Eavy Armor [8 pts], Waaagh! Banner [20 pts]
• 4x Nobz [28 pts]: ‘Eavy Armor [8 pts]

## Troops [382 pts]
Shoota Boyz [184 pts]: 16x Shoota Boy [8 pts], 3x Big Shoota [8 pts]
• 1x Nobz [32 pts]: Big Shoota [12 pts]
Slugga Boyz [198 pts]: 16x Slugga Boy [9 pts], 3x Big Shoota [8 pts]
• 1x Nobz [30 pts]: ‘Uge Choppa [10 pts]

Short reminder: we’re using the points values from the core rulebook. This is still a “635 points” list to match my friends 635 points.

Last night we played the first game of 40k 3rd. Well technically his first 40k game ever and my first 40k game for about… 20’ish plus years.

To say we had some trouble with getting the rules right would be an understatement.

630-something points on each side. His Nurgle Chaos vs my Sp’Orks.

And it went badly. For Chaos. Right from the start. I won the initiative roll and did the first move. Then he moved. Then I shot. (With Orks, mind you). I scored 5 hits with 11 boys. Orks! Hitting by shooting! Well, 5 hits on Chaos Space Marines. What could happen? 3 hits wounded and he saved 0 (zero). His 8 CMS went down to 5. That meant a moral check for chaos. With a 10 or less on 2D6.

Chaos rolled 11.  ELEVEN!

Nurgles chaotic Marines FLEEING!

Because of Ork shooting! A bloodbath.

After that (in later turn 2 and 3) my Boyz slaughtered his Champion HQ, my Waaaghboss and his 5 nobs (all6 in Mega Armour) shredded his Dreadnought Bloat Drone proxy to bits. And his remaining 2 troops choices (daemons) failed to be summoned in turn 2 and where shredded after their arrival in Turn 3.

3 hours of chaos, shooting, wondering what happened to the dice and much MUCH reading of old pages.

Did we have fun? Yes, kind of. Will we play again? Probably. Will I use a different list? Maybe.

Now where to get more boyz on the cheap? XD

Using and army builder I have never heard before I came up with the following list:

Orks (1999) – First Try – [632 pts]

# ++ 1-Standard Missions ++ [632 pts]

## HQ [365 pts]
Warboss [365 pts]: Mega Armor [30 pts]
• 5x Nobz [55 pts]: Mega Armor [30 pts], Kombi Shoota/Rokkit Launcha [5 pts]

## Troops [267 pts]
Shoota Boyz [117 pts]: 10x Shoota Boy [8 pts], Rokkit Launcha [5 pts]
• 1x Nobz [32 pts]: Big Shoota [12 pts]
Slugga Boyz [150 pts]: 11x Slugga Boy [9 pts], Rokkit Launcha [5 pts]
• 1x Nobz [46 pts]: Power Claw [25 pts], Slugga [1 pts]

The army builder in questions is https://www.newrecruit.eu/ and it looks like they have almost all games ever XD

So after almost a year of Frostgrave we’re now venturing into Warhammer 40.000 3rd edition.

Why 3rd? Because we (my friend and I) both own that rulebook. Combined we also have 4th, 5th, 8th and 9th edition. Which is an odd mix. So we are going to use 3rd and only core rule books for now.

He’ll be fielding what was in the 8th edition box on chaos marines. Of course some things weren’t a thing in 3rd edition core rule book (Bloat Drones, Poxwalkers) so we will „count as“. 635 points on his side. Though I haven’t seen his list my guess is 1 general, 1 elite unit of 8 plague marines with 1 leader, two squads of 10 demon hordes and the bloat drone as Dreadnought.

Coming up with a list is harder than I thought it would be. Mainly because I have *zero* ideas of what I actually currently have.

So letz be countin‘ headz boyz!

It was late, I couldn’t be bothered to get them all out and in some cases (83 grots) I simply forgot to take a picture. So here is the list.

16 Orks Choppa und Shoota
16 Orks shoota
56 Goff Orks
2 Orks Rokkit Launcher
4 Megawummen (2 Zzap, 1 Schleuda, 1 Kanonö) 8 Grots
1 Grot
14 Stormboyz
6 Snakebite Boarboyz
10 Snakebite Boyz
1 Snakebite Runtherd
8 Kommandos
1 Weirdboy
1 Garghkul & Makari
83 Grots (not pictured)
2 Pick Ups
2 Buggies
10 Waaagh bikes
5 mega armour knobs
1 copta (not pictured)
6 knobs
1 waaagh knob
4 mekz
3 runtherd
1 atack squig
1 doc
3 shokk attack guns
2 Gargbots (non GW) (not pictured)
2 tanks (non GW) (not pictured)
2 flyers (non GW) (not pictured)
8 Rogue Trader Space Orks

Is it inconsistent naming? Yes. Why? Because I only have the German Kodex (yes with a K for the Orks) and I’m too lazy to dig out „the real names“. Deal with it! 😉

I still need to make a list. And while I’m at it, I might as well do inventory of the other 40k minis I have flying around the place. Some ’nids, a bit of Chaos, Necrons and (of course) Space Smurfs.