Steel Legion VS. Ork Speed Freaks

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I have a question. I am going to play a 2000pt game against an Ork Speed Freak player. I have (5) Chimeras, (1) Leman Russ Battle Tank, (1) Leman Russ Demolisher, (1) Basilisk, (5) Sentinels, (1) Hellhound, And (2) Large Platoons of Guards.
Out of what I just listed what should I field against him this coming Sunday?

His Army usaully consists of (4) trucks loaded with orks, (1) looted Leman Russ, (2) Scorcha Buggies, (1) Zappa Tank, A bunch of orks with jump packs, (5) bikes, (2) Death Copters.

Now so far this guy has been undefeated. So, if you guys could help a soldier of Imperium I would greatly appreciate it.

SPC Bob

[jklod]

well my bro is orks too and see im not too sure if they are alike but he was saying for the next time we play to charge him instaed of waiting for him to charge at me and shooting him down with my tanks until my infantry of 70 guys can shoot at him. but never go in close combat because u will get raped in close combat. instead of going into close combat charge at him but run when he gets too close and shoot. think of it 70 shots if in 24 inches or 140 shots if in 12 inches and trust me ur gunna have to at least hit and wound 40 guys with 140 shots and each turn too holy shiz.

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In all honesty, Steel Legion has a number of advantages against Speed Freakz.

1. Mobile Firepower: Multilasers and Heavy Bolters are the ideal weapons against Speed Freaks. Consequently, Chimera are really, really good against them. I would suggest 3 Heavy Bolter Chimeras with two Multilaser Chimeras. Multilasers are awesome against trukks and boys, and Heavy Bolters deny most of the troops available to him any save. And if you mess up deploying you can still apply your firepower to where it needs to go. Your Sentinels could be armed with anything except a heavy flamer and still be useful. I suggest Autocannons or Multilasers. You need one squad of two sentinels with Lascannons to take down the Looted Leman Russ, I'd suggest using the sentinels just behind your Chimeras.

2. Range: Almost all of your tank mounted weapons outrange his fairly drastically, the exceptions being the heavy bolter and the Demolisher Cannon. But with Battlecannons and Autocannons and multilasers being fairly common armaments in your lists, he will have to come directly at you, or be taken to pieces by your heavier weapons.

3. Points Denial: Chimeras are fairly difficult to pop for Orks, particularly when they're not in Close combat. If you keep the Guardsmen inside the chimeras and avoid engagement, it's really difficult for Speed Freakz to handle. Even though they have the raw speed edge, The transports themselves aren't too tough. Good Fire Discipline and a bit of planning will allow for to pretty much vaporise most of his transports in the first two turns. Then you can just move away from his infantry and deal with his bikes and Leman Russ.

You want to dilute his anti-tank firepower. I'd suggest bringing A small platoon and an Armored Fist Squad, all armed with missle launchers or autocannons, in Chimeras, an HQ in a chimera (Focus on Anti-Middle-weight infantry, mostly Grenade launchers and such), The two Leman Russ (The Bassie is regretably almost useless in this scenario other than as a slightly stronger battle cannon that doesn't have the Russ' survivability), And as many sentinels as you can fit in, plus the hell hound.

To prevent assaults, build tank walls with your chimeras, but stack them at a slight angle, to present the front armor to the enemy, but provide maximum protection to your intrantry and pop smoke. Then move the tanks out of the way of the infantry and use the combined forces to smash the enemy. If your enemy's troops get too close after you dump your infantry, tank shock them. IIRC you can Tank Shock bikes, so by all means do that. If you break any of his squads, use your sentinels to "escort" the enemy from the table.