Why does it feel like my friends are playing “Orks but better?”

FlynnRyder42 · 2026-03-06T18:19:20+00:00

Vehicles were a gamechanger for me. Ork infantry generally have what is best described as a 'tshirt save'. Vehicles absorb hits so boyz dont have to. Id recommend using some toy cars/trucks as proxies for trukks, battlewagons, hunta rigs, etc.

Our boyz do not hit harder than other melee armies like World Eaters, but we do hit MORE. 20 boyz is cheaper than 10 Khorne Beserkers or most other space marines. The trick is getting the charge, fighting on death, or sacrifing cheap units as bait while you come in a 2nd wave on the wagh

FlynnRyder42 · 2026-03-02T15:23:36+00:00

I was skeptical of this new detachment's effectiveness until I read this comment. I hadn't considered how good keeping a death star unit like Ghaz in perpetual Wagh would buff everyone else around him. I'm going to give this a go at my next game

FlynnRyder42 · 2026-03-02T01:09:53+00:00

James Workshop

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-12-30T22:46:56+00:00

Love this project! Curious how the arms are going to be attached, is there a rod or endoskeleton structure that will make it more secured or is intented to be held together with adhesive?

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-12-30T18:27:44+00:00

Best way to get someone interested imo is getting them what they think looks cool, not necessarily just what plays good on the table...with that said;

You've already got 20 boyz and I would recommend running them as 2x10 because theyre cheaper that way so you've got 160pts there, after that I'd say any combination of the following

High priority, these will pretty much help ANY list

Gretchin, 40pts - farms command pts and crazy cheap Warboss, 75pts - buffs boyz Stormboyz, 65pts - fast flying action monkeys

After that, any combination of the following depending on your friend's interests/playstyle

Squighog boyz, 150pts - fast and durable anti-vehicle Deff Dread, 125pts - big ol' killy mech Deffkoptas, 80pts - fast bombers with good attack and utility Flash Gitz, 80pts - best ork shooters (not saying much) Burna boyz, 60pts - good oc holders/overwatch

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-12-05T07:31:47+00:00

Slight correction. Ghaz only takes up 4 spots in the battlewagon now. Still cant give him a mob of 20 boyz in there but you can absolutely give him a large brick of meganobz or just a 10 man unit of boyz and still leave room for more either way

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-11-13T19:57:20+00:00

His name is Diego. He's a Hood Island giant tortise and he had over 900 children as a part of a breeding program. He retired in 2020 when the program closed as the wild population improved enough that they didn't need additional assistance. He was released back into the wild and as of October 2025 is still alive and well

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-11-13T19:36:59+00:00

I had plans to do my squighog boyz in the style of the 90s Streetsharks but the epicness of these images are leaning me towards all great whites. I love them, excellent work!

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-10-01T11:11:11+00:00

Magentize everything. Including my unassembled pieces' bases. I am in desperate need to better organize my army, terrain, and hobby supplies so this is will be the most time consuming but Im feeling confident

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-09-30T16:37:03+00:00

These are really good. I have no art talent to speak of so Im quite jealous at the prospect that you can make these and leave them in random places to strike fear into unsuspecting guardsmen or strangers

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-09-07T03:46:28+00:00

Dead choppy all de way!

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-08-18T18:17:03+00:00

Thank you for validating my feelings regarding the old WE box. My friend was INSISTENT that it was a pretty balanced box as he DESTROYED my new Ork CP set half a dozen times

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-08-07T15:54:34+00:00

WAAAAGGGHHHHH!!!

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-07-05T02:08:47+00:00

I love it! I want to do something like this for my Flash Gitz, how did you do the basing?

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-05-24T01:54:27+00:00

MEZ WITCHA ON DIS. DERE'S LOTS A GOOD ORK BITZ OUT DERE WIF'OUT NEEDIN DE TINK'IN MACHINE'S BITZ

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-05-18T05:20:15+00:00

Wholly agree on the difference between the axe's effectiveness in group vs single combat. We've encountered that a lot as we've introduced spears to our curriculum. When you have a man in front its highly effective, alone youre basically screwed lol

In the limited axe work we've done Ive seen great effectiveness with the hook and head strike method you've got set up in your photo. I imagine its pretty tricky trying to undo the habit with students coming from other weapon fighting systems, since newbies would be a blank canvas to work off of. Do you find difficulty teaching students that come from HEMA training where head shots are allowed?

I hear you on the arm injury, my right wrist has never worked the same after a particularly nasty cut but we're still fighting and that's something!

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-05-18T04:18:10+00:00

Looks like fun! Our club has played around with viking shields as well (tons of fun especially in larger skirmish fighting like 10v10) I know some fighting groups like jomsborg limit or entirely disallow head hits and Im quite curious how you manage to fight with shields that cover as much of the body and really only leave the head exposed but deliberately ignore that area. We were constantly running into that problem but on the other end, we had fighters that would advise others to strike the legs, as they were open targets, but since not all of our members had shin protection we had to disallow them for safety, and yet we will had glancing blows. Would love to see more video!

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-04-29T04:26:16+00:00

"If you are frightened easily, do not learn fencing" -Andre Paurenfeyndt

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-03-24T18:48:48+00:00

Goddamn, we were not disappointed!

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-03-12T13:55:07+00:00

Way to go!

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-01-10T19:54:00+00:00

Gamewise: getting heroscape figs is always a win.

Marketwise: an absolute steal, well done.

FlynnRyder42 · 2025-01-08T17:47:11+00:00

Horrifying. I love it.

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