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too many battlefortresses.
mintroll
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:56 pm 
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I'm a fan of the Ork Fortresses - more becuase I have 15 (3 BF and 12 GF) of them (they were cheaper in the old days - and you could have fortress mobs (wish they'd left them in)).

Still, I've taken BF and GF to OpenWar6 and Call to Arms, and I managed alright.

Formations I use:

Blitz Brigade (4x Flak) [150]
+ GunFortress with Supa-zzap [185]
335

good for supporting other formations with massed flak cover and very good in FF as supporting unit.

Big Blitz (4x flak, 4x gun) [250]
+ 2x GunFortress with Soopa-gun [370]
620

Solid mechanised unit, pass a Sustain Fire with that and you opponent will weep.

Warband + BattleFortress [200+125]
325

Have two or three of these zipping around making oppurtunity assults and grabbing objectives and buildings.

Warband + 2x GunFortress [200+270]
+ 2x flak [70]
540

I've tried this and found it to be only useful in larger games (>4000pt). The above you can usually put into a 3000pt game, I love to theme my forces - even if they're not perfectly optimal.

Ever seen an Uge Warband riding towards you in six GunFortresses - three of them with oddboyz? Managed it in a 12k game we had once. I lost terribly, but still brings a tear to my eye.


I agree that lots of Fortresses, say more than 6, are only really viable in larger games. There was talk at some point of changing the 4+ save to 5+ Reinforced... never tried that personnally - I tihnk the idea was dropped sadly.




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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:31 am 
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(mintroll @ Oct. 30 2006,09:56)
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Ever seen an Uge Warband riding towards you in six GunFortresses - three of them with oddboyz? Managed it in a 12k game we had once. I lost terribly, but still brings a tear to my eye.

Actually, I used something very similar in my 17,000 point game. ?It was only a Big warband, upgraded with Big Gunz and extra Nobz, and it was 5 Gunfortss with 1 Battlefort. ?It pummeled a Reaver (51 7's and 15 6's -- yowza!!!) provided support fire for an assault against intermingled Warhounds, the Reaver, and some tanks.


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:46 pm 
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Hi Guys,

I ran a BF-heavy Ork army early in the E-A playtesting and loved it... the lists became more restrictive later.

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:23 am 
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Nice pic ! :D

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 5:24 pm 
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I hate to butt in (not really) :)
For fun games, just make an army the way you want it and forget about list restrictions. How about an all infantry ork army? Not to orky but would be a lot of orks! :)
As a solo gamer I do it all the time.
Just wondering?

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Suvarov454
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 1:06 am 
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I had forgotten that the Speed Freeks list included a Fortress Mob! ?While the points come out of the Aircraft allocation, and you have to invest a huge amount of points to get the multiple WEs at a discount, but I think it's a great excuse to field a large amount of Fortresses.

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