Dwarf King’s Hold: Let’s Talk Orcs
July 20, 2011 by crew
Let’s talk Orcs...
Have you ever noticed the difference between Orcs in fiction and Orcs in games?
Whenever you read any fantasy background about Orcs they’re always described as big, burly, dangerous monsters with a high tolerance for pain and a low tolerance for everything else. They are stronger than this and angrier than that: top of the pile in the human-sized "Vicious Thug" department. Oddly though, when this translates to the gaming table they suddenly go all shy and need to hold hands with 50 of their mates to get anything done. Somewhere between imagining and tabletop they go all feeble. Well not on my watch. Not in Dwarf King’s Hold. Oh no. Here we have the real deal.
The Orcs that make up the Green Menace are not cuddly and nice. They will hurt you and they will enjoy themselves doing so. Each one of them is entirely capable of stomping you to jelly on his own, thank you kindly. Of course, he might decide to bring a couple of his buddies along so they can all have a laugh at your expense, but he can more than hold his own in a fight if he needs to. On a one-to-one basis he’s a match for anyone.
This is where I start all my designs – an exploration of what image I am trying to conjure up. The rules follow this vision.
Jake Thornton
For more info. from Jake visit our Dwarf King's Hold forum or check out his blog!
If you can’t want to hear more of the detail on how Orcs play in Dwarf King’s Hold: Green Menace, then take a look at yesterday’s video, here on Beasts of War.
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Ah, an orc according to my heart !
BoW Romain
That’s some bad ass Orcs. Can’t wait to try them out in Green Menace 🙂
Jake hits the nail exactly on the head. They are meant to be rough, tough and bad enuff for anything that takes them on. Yet they have to be in enormous squads / groups in most games to hold any chance of winning a fight? Go figure? Well glad to see that they are being represented correctly here at last! Kudos Mr Thornton! Bravo Mantic! ROOAAR @ BOW! Loving the DKH coverage thus far. Have Dead Rising and my son & I love it! Although I have yet to win a game on either side!! lol So can’t wait for… Read more »
Thanks @glarion. Glad to hear you’re having fun with it. Must be perfectly balanced if you can’t win with either side 😉
Now thats bunch of good looking orcs.
Nice to see they’ve avoided the tendency of Orcs to be used as disposable mooks for the “good” races to plough through.
Hmmm, just try saying “disposable mooks” to one of these guys. You’ll end up with an axe where your neck was before you finish the moo…urk!
My post mans just called 😉