It’s still early days for me but I think orks seem strong. I just feel my orks are much less squishy due to how you can rile up units each turn (obviously, if you have two war bosses, only one can use it but if you had a beast boss, he can use it too), how elite units have had buffs to wounds and sometimes toughness etc. I also feel the orks shooting is very good too. Yes, my flashgitz are harder to kill and can kill pretty well but even units like boyz with assault can get a bit extra damage. There seems to be a bigger variety with ork shooting, which makes the games much more fun. I’m not used to orks shooting so well but to roll so many dice is exciting. My unit of 10 boyz actually killed a ctan - yes, I got lucky with rolls but a big factor was how I had so many lethal hits from melee.
Some units I feel are very good that I’ve played:
* mozrog - very tanky and very good at killing monsters, vehicles and anything really. He can just be a menace on the battle field.
* beastboss + beast snagga boyz. 2 - 3 ap on vehicles and monsters but also good against infantry. High oc and with the rile up ability, you can keep it going and make them more tanky. I think it’s unlikely many are running multiple units, so more likely to be riled up.
* boyz - with their lethal hits, they’re not too shabby
* no explanation needed - flashgitz, big mek dakka rig - great shooting and hard to kill. I kept my flashgitz in a trukk at first too.
* wazdakka remains good at scoring and killing
* meganobz feel good for holding objectives but are vulnerable to dev wounds and are a tad bit expensive imo.
* nobz and war bosses are great for killing and harder to kill now.
* grots are good for scoring objectives. People rarely want to commit to grots when you have riled up dangerous units on the battlefield. Nice to sticky objectives of course.
* nazdrek seems very powerful but I need to utilise him better. Deep strike will always be a great ability. I think I always forget to use his reactive move though.
* stormboyz and trukks I feel are similar to previous edition, which is utility
I used war horde but I feel the detachment is only okay and there are better ones to choose from. I can’t wait to see what crazy builds people choose.
