Help withs sons ork army

[stev]

Hello, so I have been advised to post this here as well. 

 

This is a follow on from my previous post that I was advised to ask here.

 

To summarise quickly, my 3 boys have recently gotten into the hobby and started armies, I haven't really played the last 5 or so aditions so was hoping for some advice as they build their armies).

 

We have Chaos Space Marines, Orks and Dark Angels. Ideally trying to get the all to 1000 points, while keeping things fairly balanced...the ork player is the youngest and will get very upset if he is constantly tabled by his brothers.

 

The ork army at present consists of:

 

+ Character +

 

 

Beastboss [80pts]: Warlord

 

Painboss [60pts]: Grot orderly

 

+ Battleline +

 

 

Beast Snagga Boyz [105pts]

 

. 8x Beast Snagga Boy: 8x Choppa, 8x Slugga

. Beast Snagga Boy w/ Thump gun

 

Beast Snagga Boyz [105pts]

 

. 8x Beast Snagga Boy: 8x Choppa, 8x Slugga

. Beast Snagga Boy w/ Thump gun

 

+ Mounted +

 

 

Squighog Boyz [160pts]: Bomb squig

 

. 1 Nob on Smasha Squig and 3 Squighog Boyz

 

. . 3x Squighog Boy: 3x Saddlegit weapons, 3x Squig jaws, 3x Stikka

 

++ Total: [510pts] ++

 

Created with BattleScribe

 

I have no experience with orks so need most help with this.

 

My though had been maybe transport, or something heavy/ranged (dread/killa kans?)

 

His brother both have terminators and one has a redemptor dread... I imagine his difficulty will be getting close and the surviving when he gets into combat.

 

As I said I have no experience playing orks so maybe this isn't how it will work out. 

 

I guess the question is how to expand this to 1000 points in a way that will be effective against marines/terminators so he gas a fighting chance and enjoys his games.

 

Thanks

[Mithrilforge]

I play Orks but not currently, I’d have put a couple artillery pieces in the army for some heavy but  fun firepower… I’ll look at some stuff more and comment again 

 

cheers Mithril 

[The Neverborn]

There’s a lot of things that can lead to him getting tabled constantly his army list is not the only one of those things.

 

Experience, understanding of the rules, understanding both armies strengths and weaknesses, board layout, direct match ups, bad/good dice rolls and more will play a much larger role who tables who.

 

It’s not a cheap hobby so it’s probably not worth buying more stuff to not get tabled until he’s enjoying it.

 

finally there’s two more parts to the hobby along with “play” which are build and paint which he might enjoy doing. Some of the best painters I’ve known were terrible at playing the game.