How to you beat Orks with SM?

[Driftking Mubbel]

How the hell do you beat some of the Ork provinces with two AI´s? Rushing them early even with a big Honorguard is almost impossible since they already try to rush after a couple of minutes. I can hold them of but everytime i seem to beat of an attack they are already sending the next wave,so i have to constantly manage my Marines and keep building new Vehicles...

I´m playing on normal. my Marines all have 3 Heavy bolters,rocket launcher and a flamethrower.

[fr3aksh0w]

oh my, where to start. you should learn all hotkeys for buildings (there aren't that many) and cycling through builders. and very handy information: if you right click the icon to produce units/reinforce squads/buy heavy weapons, the action will be queued and execute when you have enough resources - this way you can automate your production and reinforcements to plan ahead without having to manually do everything yourself and free your focus for the big picture.
you can queue up orders with shift key - queue up strategic point captures and buildings. that way it will save you a lot of time and concentration. if you're watching a servitor build a building you're NOT doing something else more important.
don't be idle - always attack or defend something. if you turtle, the enemy will always outproduce you.
don't hoard resources - buy more soldiers and attack/capture more points. you want to grow your economy so you can afford big ticket items so you don't cringe when your predator tank blows up. always know what you want to spend your resources on and do it.
mostly you'll want to grow your economy to the point that you can set a rally point in your enemy's base and spam dreadnoughts in there.
while growing your economy you want your military to do area denial - take away or even just un-capture their strategic points if you're in the middle of a battle. try to grow towards your enemies and keep a scout unit to capture out of the way strategic points.
if you're loosing a battle shift the front back to a secured strategic point and reinforce. this will give you enough time to regain morale and reinforce to renew the attack.
it's cheaper to reinforce than to buy a new squad.
specialize your sm squads. İ go for 4 sm squads all with heavy bolters sometimes 1-2 with a flamer and plasma guns and 2 squads with full missile launchers. keep them on seperate ctrl + num groups so you can target the enemies effectively - rockets on vehicles bolters on infantry. when I play 1v2 or 2v3 against harder AI this army composition is already enough to kill one of the enemies.
practice these strategies and you'll go up against insane campaign in no time ;)

[Driftking Mubbel]

Thanks for the thorough answer. I´m already using the que option. My problem rather seems to be that i cant really leave the base. i tried it yesterday again and as soon as i upgraded my honor guard,qued some servitors and scouts,they´re already attacking me. Can´t remember how tf i beat the game like 10 years ago.

Thogh i admit that i´m not really using makro´s and not the best at micro managing. and mainly use my tanks to destroy other vehicles and my marines to kill the infantry(if there are so many enemys i have to split my force on different targets)

Next time i try i will hire my entire Honorguard and all stormbase buildings,seems a bit overkill for a lvl 7 province and hope that i can be more aggressive in the beginning!

I hope i can beat those bloody green mushrooms

[fr3aksh0w]

i can send you a replay if you like then you can compare to what you're doing

[fr3aksh0w]

i just remembered the honor guard for SM is terrible. I only ever used them for defense and the assault marines as point capture. give the veteran tactical marines rocket launchers to defend against vehicles and that's it for the honor guard. use regular troops to attack and kill them off one by one. don't bother with vehicles until you're killing one of the opponents. you can kill a harder AI in skirmish in under 10 minutes with just 4 SM squads (2 bolter 2 rocket) and your force commander. you just need to ebb and flow your attack and defense so you don't loose any squads. don't forget to tech up their health and heavy weapons at armory (do this while you're attacking - don't wait for it). everything else is a distraction.
EDIT: they're terrible in hard campaign, they're ok in normal. in hard campaign they all have half hp

[Driftking Mubbel]

Finally managed to win the attack. Played a lot more agressive and a complete stormbase from the start made that quite easy. But the AI seemed to be a bit more chill today.

Didn´t really have any situations where i was under some significant pressure,

Only 2 Provinces left and the Base of the Orks and Necrons. Seems a lot easier to do after trying some of your tips.

Thanks!