Warhammer 40k Tabletop IX: "Mech is king? I never voted for it."

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I thought orks were at least a tier 2 army. Their codex was pretty good when it was new.

Whilst not top tier, I believe that are still quite competitive.

Orks are now a T3 army with the introduction of Dark Eldar now properly into the mix. Orks are only competitive in very specific instances now, as Blood Angels, Tyranids and - now - Dark Eldar can do pretty much everything Orks do, better.

With Dark Eldar now properly in the meta-game, Tau get shafted into T4.

A good thing about the Orks is you don't really need synergy to be effective.

This is not true at all. Every army excpet for Space Wolves and Blood Angels needs to have units that synergise.

On Boyz: I find that, unless you're running a Green Tide army, Slugga Boyz should always be in a transport. AoBR and two Boyz gives you 23 Shoota Boyz w/Nob and 19 Slugga Boyz w/Nob (perfect size to go in a Battlewagon with an IC).

"Unless you do [...]" means your army must synergise or be useless. Well done for contradicting yourself.