Tips on fighting the Orks as the Imperial Navy?

[Foul Energy]

So I've decided to stick to the imps based off of liking torps and how the ships look and play but I just can't seem to do well against orks.

As of right now it seems like the orks do everything the imperial navy does but better. On the faction selection page the navy's perks are strong prow armour, nova cannons and many ships being able to use torps. As far as I can tell the orks have pretty much all of this and more save for their nova cannons being more likely to explode.

I've been relying on my strategy of "focus fire on one ship and hope the others run away" but that only gets me so far. Kiting them doesn't worth either since they can just BRB into taunt to select a ship to kill and for me to do any damage I need to face my cannons or lances to them which slows me down and usually hits their front armor anyway.

Can any ork players out there tell me your secret weakness?

[Karl]

Bad turning rate, try and hit their backs if you absolutely have to be close. Try to stay at least in the 6k range and preferably higher if possible, don't ever get to the 3k range with orks because they will ruin you. Their back armor is weak, keep that in mind.

[Lovenought]

An Ork without engines is the same as a destroyed Ork. Always prioritise that component.

Your ships can actually get amazing range. Beyond Visual Range combat against orks is entirely possible. Remember that escorts cannot be Taunted, and can safely be used as spotters. You could wipe out an ork fleet with 15k lances if you were patient enough.

My general idea is that in order to have a good Imp fleet nowadays, you need speed and range. You need to be fast enough to get into knife-fight range with chaos, amd fast enough and long-ranged enough to kite orks.

I've taken the Armour Piercing upgrade off of every single one of my ships, and replaced it with a range upgrade. All my ships also have the speed buff and combustion bar increase.

Of course, all of this only applies to Cruiser Clash where you have the luxury of infinite time. I still have little idea how to beat them in other missions.