The smell of Burnt Ork

Got a chance today to make the trip to XMAX games today and I was really impressed by the store. Very friendly staff, (Greeted me at the door, without felling like they were hovering) and the Space. No purchases but that was really hard as I just feel guilty anytime I play and don't pay.

Having said that on to the game. It was a 400 pt combat patrol. I drew a space marine player who was nice enough to walk me through the game. It helped that he also played orks and knew the rules. Gave me a lot of hints to prevent the but whooping I got from repeating. Did I say but whooping, more like a complete domination.

My army was the following:
Big Mek with KFF
Deffkopta with twin linked rocket launcher
11 slugga boys with rocket launcher, Nob with powerclaw
11 slugga boys with rocket launcher, Not with powerclaw

I pretty much hosed myself in the first round. I charged forward with the truck and Kopta leaving the Mek and other group of boys to slog there way in. the marines drop pod landed right by the truck and unloaded a dreadnought. which proceeded to blow up the truck which was followed up with a deathwind missiles from the pod and a few bolter shots from the combat squad the jumped out of the rhino. when the dust settled all that was left was 1 Nob who refused to run. And this was the way the game went. Final score the orks were completely wiped out and the marines had suffered a single Immobilizing effect to the dread. No Marine bodies for the orks to claim as a moral victory.

So the question is then what did I learn.
1) add heave armor to the Nob to help them say around longer
2) having 1 rocket per group was pretty useless, never got a hit
3) think about adding boss pole to prevent units from breaking
4) Need to get another truck and mobilize the whole force or leave the truck and kopta at home and bring more boys.
5) paint the lootas to bring some bigger guns.

Hey looks like I learned a lot so not a bad result after all.