Nob Painted

After a long hiatus from WH40K and orks, I have once again immersed myself in it (eventually I hope to find a middle ground between hiatus and immersion, but that’s another topic completely). I recently painted my Ork Nob. For those who don’t know, a Nob is an ork who is bigger and more important than a regular ork, but not as big and important as a warboss.

This is only the 9th ork I’ve ever painted, and it was a significant paint job because this is the first time I ever tried painting:
- Checker patterns
- Chipped/battle-damaged paint (most notably on his power klaw and boss pole)
- Highlighting on the skin rather than drybrushing
It’s not perfect but I’m really happy with the way it came out!

Here is a picture of the Nob:

Here he is a little closer up:

Here he is from the side so you can see his beat up power klaw:

Here he is leading da boyz into battle:

Orks vs Chaos 1000pts (with new Ork codex!)

There is a leaked version of the soon-to-be-released ork codex circulating on the internet and I decided to put it to the test. Viper and I got together and played a 1000pt Ork vs Chaos battle on my 6×4 table with some improvised terrain. The mission was Seek and Destroy with no victory points (the player with the most scoring units on the table at the end wins). It was very exciting and fun!

Ork forces:

Warboss
15 lootas
24 boyz
12 boyz in a trukk
3 killer kans
Battle wagon

Chaos forces:

Chaos Lord
2 obliterators
10 plague marines
10 devastators
10 chaos marines in a rhino

The game quickly split into two fronts:

On the eastern front I advanced my trukk and my lootas, and viper advanced his rhino and plague marines.
On the western front was my wagon (with the warboss inside), my boyz and my kans, and viper moved in his obliterators and his lord.
Viper’s devastators hung back in the deployment zone.

The first two or three rounds went something like this:

On the eastern front

All hell brook loose right away. The marines inside the rhino hit my trukk hard and most of the boyz inside were killed and the rest were pinned. The explosion even took out a few of my nearby lootas! But then the handful of lootas who had LoS past the wreck returned fire and popped the rhino so a bunch of chaos marines were pinned!

Then my remaining trukk boyz and Viper’s plague marines got into a big scuffle and the only ones left standing were the plague marines. Meanwhile the marines who were in the rhino crossed over to the western front…

On the western front

There wasn’t too much action at first. I wounded an obliterator and viper kept stunning my kans. Some boyz were shot down from long range by the devestators.

Then things heated up. Viper managed to pop my precious wagon (my warboss made it out alive thanks to his mega armour). My kans and boyz charged his obliterators and massacred them. His lord engaged my kans but was no match for them. His rhino survivors engaged my boyz and finished them off.

Who will win?!?

So at this point we both had two scoring units on the board. Viper had his devastators and plague marines. I had my kans and lootas. Viper also had some non-scoring marines left and I had my non-scoring warboss. It was still anybody’s game!

But not for long. The plague marines got the charge on my lootas and took them out. The kans make a run for the devastators but get gunned down. A few quick rounds later Viper finished off my warboss and it was all over.

Post-game thoughts

The orks definitely felt empowered with the new codex. I didn’t win but I feel like I could have with some better tactics and better rolling. On the other hand, the fact that I lost seems to indicate that the new codex isn’t overpowered, which is good.