STARTING AN ORK ARMY IN 11TH EDITION: BUILDING YOUR FIRST WAAAGH!
Orks are the most forgiving faction in the game for beginners and the best for kitbashers: rust, dents, looted bits and paint slapped on with joy. This page covers the Boyz and Gretchin to start with, the Trukk, and the Gorkanaut.
Da core
Boyz first, always Boyz first. A mob or two of the classic slugga-and-choppa lads is the foundation of every Ork force ever built, and painting green skin in batches is where you find your scheme. Alongside them, a box of Gretchin gives you a screen of cowardly little helpers and some of the most characterful sculpts in the range for pocket money. The current Combat Patrol usually hands you both plus a Warboss, which is why it should be your opening purchase. On the table the army plays exactly as advertised: a green tide that runs forward laughing and hits like a falling building. Nothing else comes close on fun per box.
Gettin' there faster
An unaccompanied green tide is a slow green tide. A Trukk, cheap and ramshackle and endlessly convertible, is the traditional third box, and it is the kit where Ork hobbying clicks: glue on spare bits, weather it brutally, and no one can tell you it is wrong.
Da big stompy one
For a centrepiece the Gorkanaut is hard to argue with: a scrap-iron colossus that towers over the mob and turns any shelf into a Waaagh!. Meganobz in their clanking mega-armour are the smaller-scale alternative if a walker feels like too much desk for now.
Wot not to loot yet
- A third mob of Boyz while the first two are bare plastic. Even Orks finish a krumpin' before starting the next.
- The weirder clan-specific buggies. Brilliant later, distracting now.
- Duplicate Warbosses. One boss. Dat's da point.
Keep da tally
A proper Waaagh! knows its own size. Note every kit as it joins the horde and label its state without kidding yourself; "gonna build it soon" is not a build state. That is how a pile of sprues becomes an army wot's finished. The full mob list and lore are on the Orks faction page under Data.