Sho-T BigHed's Blood Axe army
Patrick Eibel is my best friend and has been my primary 40K opponent over the years. He and I play about once a month or so and usually split victories. Pat began playing 40K when I did, in 1987, and has had several armies in the past. 

Currently, Pat has a Space Wolf army, a Speed Freek army, and a  "regular" Ork army (described below), which he used in the Blood Deserts of Auros IX Campaign.

Back in 2nd Edition, this army was a mixture of Goffs, Blood Axes, and Evil Sunz (with a few Snakebites and Deathskulls) led by Ghazghull Thraka, with Sho-T BigHed as one of his underlings. When 3rd Edition came around, Pat decided to make the bulk of the army Blood Axes and put Sho-T in charge. In typical Blood Axe fashion, most of them wear uniforms taken from Imperial Guardsmen: Sho-T's reasoning is that "den we can sneek up on dem cuz dey won' notice we'z Orks."

Pat's mobs usually number between 12-15 Boyz; he usually takes a Nob with 'eavy armor, a shoota and a power claw or choppa to lead each mob that can have one. Gretchin number 30 to a mob.

Pat, by the way, has been playing Orks since First Edition, back when Orks were definitely more humorous than they are now: hence the funny names 

Strengths
This army has a LOT of figures, can cover a lot of the board, and can take an enormous amount of casualties. I've found (the hard way) that the toughest, most effective units in this army are Sho-T's bodyguard, the Kommandos, the Stikk Bommas, the 'Ard Boyz, and "R2Ork2." Pat has geared his army for fighting Space Marines: his mobz pack plenty of burnas for taking out vehicles and carving through power armor. Pat also believes in lots of big shootas: after all, if you make your opponent roll enough dice, eventually he'll fail an armor save.

Weaknesses
Not many anymore! When he first started this army, parts of it were so fast that sometimes they got too far ahead of the main force and were easily destroyed. Pat has been working on balancing his mix of fast and slow units and better coordinating his attacks. 

Best Moment vs. Fighting Tigers
Orks swamp Tigers in a Cleanse mission during the Blood Deserts of Auros IX Campaign and easily massacre the Marines in hand-to-hand combat. 

Worst Moment vs. Fighting Tigers
Sho-T and his slow-moving main army are caught in an Ambush and suffer terrible casualties from Marine Tactical and Devastator Squads.

HQ
Ork Warboss: Sho-T BigHed

	Points	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Sv
Sho-T	115	5	2	5	4	3	4	4	9	2+

Mega armor, mega boosta, bosspole, iron gob, Kustom Shoota (S5/Assault 2).

Sho-T's Bodyguard: 7 Nobz with mega-armor, shoota, and power claw. Mek with kustom force field, shoota with more dakka. Total: 385 points.

Kustom Wartrukk: 

	Points	Front Armor	Side Armor	Rear Armor	BS
Wartrukk	45	12	10	10	2

Armor plates, 2 big shootas, grot riggers. Uses Vehicle Design Rules in White Dwarf #251.
 

Elites
Kommandos: 9 Boyz + Nob with slugga, choppa; frag, smoke, and tankbusta stikkbombz. Total: 160 points. 

Flash Gitz: 9 Boyz + Nob. 4 Boyz have big shootas, 5 have shootier shootas. Nob has a big shoota. Total: 155 points.

Goff Skarboyz: 16 Boyz + Nob. 14 Boyz have sluggas and choppas, 2 Boyz have burnas. Nob has ‘eavy armor, iron gob, big shoota, choppa, and tankbusta stikkbombz. Total: 230 points.
 

Troops
Goff Slugga Boyz: 16 Boyz + Nob. 13 Boyz have sluggas and choppas, 3 Boyz have burnas. Nob has ‘eavy armor, power claw, big horns, shootier slugga. Total: 208 points.

Shoota Boyz: 19 Boyz + Nob. 16 Boyz have shootas, 3 Boyz have big shootas. Nob has a big shoota, ‘eavy armor, choppa, tankbusta stikkbombz. Total: 221 points.

Stikk Bommas: 14 Boyz + Nob. 11 Boyz have sluggas and close combat weapons, 3 Boyz have burnas. All have frag, krak, and tankbusta stikkbombz.  Nob has ‘eavy armor, big hat (counts as iron gob), slugga w/blasta, choppa, frag, krak and tankbusta stikkbombz. Total: 229 points.

Gretchin Mob: 30 Gretchin + Slaver. Gretchin have Grot blastas. Slaver has a grabba stik, slugga with blasta, and a squighound. Total: 113 points.

Gretchin Mob: 30 Gretchin + Slaver. Gretchin have Grot blastas. Slaver has a big shoota and a choppa. Total: 113 points.

Super Gretchin Mob: 20 Super Gretchin and Zodgrod Wortsnagga. Super Gretchin have Grot blastas. Zodgrod has ‘eavy armor, slugga, and grabba stik. Total: 120 points. 
 

	Points	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Sv
Gretchin	5 each	3	2	2	3	1	2	2	5	--
Zodgrod	20	4	2	3	4	2	3	2	7	4+

Zodgrod is a special character from White Dwarf #227.

Dr. Huji-Bob Jeep: Weirdboy (see page 254 of the main rulebook). Total: 40 points. 

	Points	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Sv
Jeep	20	3	2	3	4	1	2	1	7	6+

Psychic Power – Stomp. Range: Guess 24"  Strength: 5  AP 3   Assault 1 Blast

Fast Attack
Trukk Boyz: 9 Boyz + Nob. 8 Boyz have sluggas and choppas, 1 Boy has a burna. Nob has ‘eavy armor, slugga, power claw, bionic arm. Two units of these, each 170 points (including trukk). 

Boar Boyz: 10 Boyz, with sluggas and choppas (see page 254 of the main rulebook). Total: 160 points. 
 

	Points	WS	BS	S	T	W	I	A	Ld	Sv
Boarboyz	16 each	4	2	3	4	1	2	2	7	4+

Heavy Support
Lootas: 4 Boyz + Nob. 2 Boyz have lascannons, 2 Boyz have plasma cannons. Nob has a big shoota and a choppa. Total: 215 points.

R2Ork2: Dreadnought with two rokkit launchas, two Dreadnought close combat weapons. R2Ork2 is painted like his Star Wars counterpart but has a personality like an evil Tweekie from the early 1980s TV show Buck Rogers. R2Ork2 is an absolute terror in hand-to-hand and seems to have phenomenal luck shooting. Total: 80 points.

Killer Kans: Two with big shootas, one with rokkit launcha, each with a Dreadnought close combat weapon. Total: 135 points. 

Battlewagon: With two twin-linked big shootas and one zzap gun. Total: 135 points.

Related Pages
Blood Deserts of Auros IX: Tigers vs. Sho-T
Pat's Speed Freek Army
Pat's Space Wolf Army
 

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© Copyright Kenton Kilgore April 2001
 

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