So, I've just started a new campaign of gothic with my friends (none of us have played gothic before) and I decided to use Orks. I've been using the revised rules and I've been reading various tacticas across the internet and I've decided to take a balenced, short ranged fleet list.
My 1500pts consists of:
Dethdeala battleship
+ upgrades
Killkroozer
+upgrades
killkroozer
+upgrades
killkroozer
terror ship
terror ship
6 Savage escorts
Basha class light cruiser.
But here's the problem- I'm not tactically retarded in any way (i think), but I can't seem to win any games. Every game I've played so far, I've ended up being massacred and I'm on 1 renoun after 5 campaign turns.
Al my friends think that the only way I stand a change is to max out on terror ships and have a gorbag's revenge etc, but I really don't want to do this because we already have a ordnance heavy 'nid player and it's always a boring game to play against his MANY ordnance.
When I played my friend's Eldar (using MMS rules), I can't even begin to predict where he will move because on the first tunr he makes sure he is out of range, then on the second turn a get volleys of about 24 torpedoes that tear through my fleet and he is then already behind me with his broadsides at my rear. This ended in a massacre. Twice.
When I played the ordnance heavy 'nids I thought I stood a chance when I flew just out of range of his ordnance and many escorts and killed all the ordnance and a few escorts, but it seems futile to try shooting the ordnance as he has so much more coming my way in the next turn (Ld 9 hive ship
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). The ended horribly for me as his plethora of boarding torps and assualt boats caused horrific critical damage on my ships. My battleship alone has 13 criticals (8 of them were fires) and was destroyed the next turn.
All my other games seem to have gone sort of the same way.
The trouble is, I've now started to disengage early, but this seems really boring to do and when I don't disengage straight away, I try to in a few turns, but by then I can't because his ships are so close.
In the last game I played, all of my ships were wiped out (1200pts) and thus everything in my fleet is now Ld5
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What an earth do I do? Is there any tactics or help that you guys could give me beause I'm on the verge of switching fleets I'm so sick of being tabled.
Thanks,
scar