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More Dakka: +15% attack bonus to all turrets

Orky Fort Add-On: +4000hp, and double the turrets (and an armour change?)

Even More Dakka: +20% attack bonus to all turrets (total +38%)

It's yer 'eadquarters, stoopid!

Can be build anywhere.

Generates +20 Req income.

Generates +1 Ork Resource income.

Regenerates +5hp/sec when left alone.

Its armed!

Armament doubles in Tier 3!

Strangely extra-strong after Orky Fort Add-On.

Regeneration ceases in battle or under fire.

You only receive 10% of its build cost when voluntarily demolished.

Extremely slow to build.

Additional HQ's become increasingly (and rapidly) expensive.

Ork LP3's don't become available until Tier 3, which can seem like forever when your waiting for your Orky Fort Add-On to finish. You'd be silly not to invest the resources into fortifying and improving your economy early on.

The upgrade to an LP3 sees the Big Shootas being replaced by a Rokkit turret. The Ork LP3 is the smaller brother of the Waaagh! Banner Rokkit tower. It does ten times the damage as the twin Big Shoota version, but at about one tenth the rate. It has enough kick to possibly bowl over a single trooper, and I think its damage might be dissipated over a small area, unless it hits a big target like a vehicle or structure. Direct hits seem solid enough.

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Bigga Listenin' Post Add-On (LP2): +600hp, +50% Req income on that point; and anti-infantry twin Big Shoota turret.

Biggest Listenin' Post Add-On (LP3): (Tier 3) additional +655hp; +33.33% Req income on that point; Big Shootas replaced by an anti-Vehicle Rokkit Launcha.

When completed, you score a 50 Req rebate!

Good defence against infantry, Bosses and later on, vehicles.

LP2 has four times the firepower of an LP1!

Increases Requisition Income by +6

Regenerates +5hp/sec when left alone.

Tends to completely fall apart to any AV units or massed infantry.

Regeneration ceases in battle or under fire.

Weapons unaffected by any Orky upgrades.

Grots are armed, but with what only could be described as sharpened toothpicks and toy cap guns. About the only thing they might overpower is a seriously weakened Heretic; and Eldar's Bonesinger can put them all to the sword. Its a tough old world out there fer yer 'umble Grot - they die en mass to even bolters and pistols, and one nasty area-effect spell can evaporate an entire squad before you have time to blink. If you ever see the FarSeer or the Sorceror nearby - garrison the tykes, or run awaaay!

They're best attribute is their cloaked base building and repairing skills. They can throw buildings up right in the middle of a messy firefight, and repair them under fire too. They can invisibly fix vehicles and even the mighty Squiggoth. Grots are probably the reason why Orky Buildings are all made of plywood. With a gang of cloaked Grots, a Listening Post or a Waaagh! tower can last for whole minutes against some heavy early-game assaults. But there's absolutely nothing to be gained assigning more than one Grot squad to a job. A squad maxes out its build speed after the second Grot, and maximum repair speed is reached after the third.

Settlement

Gretchin Infiltration Skill

Can build and repair whilst cloaked!

Can repair the Squiggoth!

Doesn't use Ork population cap.

Free reinforcing.

Excellent scouting units - move 50% faster than regular Boyz.

Funny to use as cloaked anti-Heretic units.

A fully filled Grot squad can obstruct enemies whilst cloaked.

Limited to no more than 4 squads.

Armed, but pretty useless in a fight - except for laffs

Very slow to reinforce.

Wiped en mass out by everything when discovered; entire squad will be utterly annihilated in an eye blink by any nasty area-effect spells.

Build speed maxes out after 2 Grots in a squad.

Repair speed maxes out after 3 Grots in a squad.

Grots don't contribute to the Mob Bonus.

Revealed and destroyed by flamers and disruptive explosions.

Apart from Infiltration, Grots are completely unaffected by all upgrades.

Squad Details Squad 4-15 Boyz + Nob Leader + attachable Boss Can have up to 3 Burna Boys Cost 120 base squad 0 base squad (Free Sluggaz) 30 to reinforce (max 450) 30/10 each Burna (max 90/30) Build times 18 seconds to build (Settlement) 15 seconds to build (da Boyz Hut) 6 seconds to reinforce Armour class 250hp Inf_high (infantry armour) 333hp ('Eavy Boy Armour Research +33% hp) 443hp (Super 'Eavy Boy Armour Research: +33% hp) Morale 300 Restores at 150. Breaks at 30 broken for at least 10 sec Charge 7 range

These Boyz are basically nothing more than expendable cannon fodder. Don't be afraid to lose whole squads of them. A single turret can wipe out most of a squad if you're not careful. A huge horde of Sluggas is not likely to worry an opponent who knows what they're doing. Even the heavy weapon version, the Burnaboy, seems to have little or no discernable effect on a fight simply because they tend to be killed too fast for their damage to be noticeable. Burnas are fairly cheap (at 30/5 each), and can actually be used in hand to hand combat (although they lose their area effect), so there's no reason why you shouldn't pad your Sluggaz with a few, especially if they're chasing units all over the map. But Burnas, like their near-useless "Slugga" Pistols do bugger-all damage, unless you have crowds of Boyz and they're all focus firing on one target. Only then do their minimum damage values stack up.

Sluggaz have two cards up their sleeve: they're one of the fastest flag cappers in the game, and they breed like rabbits. They will break low end unit morale at the start of a game, especially with Burna Boyz, but won't do much damage unless the Big Mek, a Nob Leader, and/or some ranged backup is at hand. You can set small squads of them to pursue enemy squads all over the map and keep your opponent constantly on their toes. You attach them to the Big Mek to act as a disruptive flak jacket, or use them to tie up early shooter forces.

A squad of overwatched Sluggaboyz are great to tie up an pursuing force, and their sacrifice allows you to get clear or do something else behind your opponent's back. They'll have a tough time damaging buildings or actually killing off any decent infantry, often get mown down in waves before most anti-infantry counters, especially vehicles, but without them life becomes singularly difficult for an Ork player. They are always to be used in conjunction with other forces in an attack, be they static turrets or a line of Shoota Boyz.

But Sluggaz finally come into their own in Tier 3 with the More Slugga tech found at the Pile'O'Gunz. For the small cost of the upgrade and some extra Boyz Huts for spammin' with, you can unleash an endless torret of expendable Sluggas and overwhelm just about anything this game can through at you. By the time all those modest Orky upgrades have accumulated, you wind up with a basic close combat unit thats slightly more beefier than a Tier 1 Space Marine. There's more the sufficient health points and choppin' power to wear away and erode any defence or army. Its the nearest Dawn of War gets to that great old StarCraft tactic, the Zergling swarm. Its actually very hard to field, but I must confess of all the ways to get wiped out in Dark Crusade, this must be one of the most entertaining ones - even if it is spam. You're probably going to be destroyed by it eventually, but not before you've taken down a satisfactory number of Orks with you.

Settlement or da Boyz Hut

More Dakka: +15% ranged attack

'Eavy Boy Armour: +33% hp

More Choppy: +35% melee attack

More SLuggaz: FREE Slugga Squads!!

Even More Dakka: +20% ranged attack (total +38%)

Super 'Eavy Boy Armour: +33%hp (total +77.2%)

Cheap.

Fastest flag cappers in the game.

Great against light infantry.

Reasonable splattage with their Choppas.

Great at disruption and stalling tactics.

Can use their Burnas in melee.

Choppas aren't chopped that quickly, and miss a lot of the time.

Die easily under most kinds of anti-infantry fire.

Has trouble in Tier 2 keeping up; rendered obsolete by Stormboyz and Nob Squads.

Overpowered by Bezerks, ASM's and CoW Banshees.

Gets annihilated by Vehicles and Tier 3

On their own, can barely scratch buildings except in vast numbers, or with Nob Leaders.

Slow moving, except when charging at the last second.

Burnas don't score an upgrade or any extra bonuses.