Plan to spend mucho dinero on metal grots after finding the plastic ones have been cancelled long ago, even though they may be the mainstay of your army.
I'm not sure what the codex costs, but make sure to get some of the leaders. It's been a while, so I don't have any names, but the codex provides what you need to play. There's some sets of pretty basic infantry out there, too. [ 05-18-2003: Message edited by: Where's Waisz? ]
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This one time, at Where's Waisz? camp:
WH:40k is notoriously expensive. $80 will get you started, but, sorry to bear bad news here...it won't get you too far.
I've known this for a while, that's why I asked what I should get to start off with, the most important part of an army that no one should go without, I can flesh out the rest later with the codex.
Buy the Codex first and thumb through it to see which units you'll need to get a playable force together. Then, buy 'em!
I'd just like to make the point solid that even in a speed freekz army, you STILL NEED YOUR BOYZ. A strong warboss isn't just important, it's REQUIRED, which is why i suggest a warboos on a warbike. You might want to pick up a nob or 2 on warbikes for his nobz retinue. 2 mobz off either slugga boyz or slugga trukk boyz is needed for any hope of success with an ork army. Fleshing out from here, you'll probably want to look into some burna boyz and warbuggies or wartrakks. [ 05-18-2003: Message edited by: DS ]
It's a good artillery piece, or was in 2nd ed.
I was always fond of Goff Ork Scarboyz.
And when it comes to painting, don't let your troops fall into poor detail simply because they aren't an important character. The lovely thing about ork armies is there potential for character. It really says a good thing about your army if you spend time and dedication to give detail and personality to each model. [ 05-18-2003: Message edited by: DS ]
2. Buy from warstore.net if they still have the discount.
3. Don't buy gw paint and brushes. While they have 40k names for the colors they cost too much and you get too little. Stop by a craft store or a hoby store for water based paints and primers.
4. Orks will be a very very costly army. But I'm pretty sure 80 bucks is enough for a orc box set.
http://www.thewarstore.com/acatalog/Orks.html has a list of stuff.
When it comes to paint, i've used several generic hobby-brand acrylics and they have never worked as well as citadel paints in this particular area, so I suggest seriously that you simply bite the bullet and get citadel in the paint area, however, when it comes to paintbrushes, you have free reign. Citadel brushes are on par with any other brush on the market (i have a couple in my collection of many).
On the subject of ordering online, when it comes to discounts, you got in at about the time they cut them off. I believe it is.. as of july 15th, Games workshop will bar online retailers other than themselves from peddling GW items. So, pretty much, no discount online stores. However, until than, i suggest www.megacg.com
I've had a good track record with them and you can probably get some pretty good prices in their GW sections death throes.
When it comes to paint, i've used several generic hobby-brand acrylics and they have never worked as well as citadel paints in this particular area, so I suggest seriously that you simply bite the bullet and get citadel in the paint area, however, when it comes to paintbrushes, you have free reign. Citadel brushes are on par with any other brush on the market (i have a couple in my collection of many).
On the subject of ordering online, when it comes to discounts, you got in at about the time they cut them off. I believe it is.. as of july 15th, Games workshop will bar online retailers other than themselves from peddling GW items. So, pretty much, no discount online stores. However, until than, i suggest www.megacg.com
I've had a good track record with them and you can probably get some pretty good prices in their GW sections death throes.
If you want to fool around with point costs of units download army builder.
http://www.wolflair.com/rightframe.php?context=army_builder&page=downloads
You can only do 500 points at a time but its much easier than doing it by hand.
You must play Necrons instead! 
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DS thought about the meaning of life:
///When it comes to paint, i've used several generic hobby-brand acrylics and they have never worked as well as citadel paints in this particular area, so I suggest seriously that you simply bite the bullet and get citadel in the paint area, however, when it comes to paintbrushes, you have free reign. Citadel brushes are on par with any other brush on the market (i have a couple in my collection of many).
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What sort of paint have you used? Thinned out applebarrel cheapy craft acrylics work fine for base coats and large areas. I would avoid Testor's acrylics, cause quite franky they blow, Taymia work well, cept they can be hard to find, and often not the right shades. If you do paint alot of these things, the cheapest what to buy paint is to go to an art store, and by artist acrylics in tubes and thin them down.My problem with citadel paints is the bottles, they are not condusive to storeing the paint well.
