40k Charted: Orks – Part One
May 23, 2016 by warzan
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DA BOYZ ARE BACK IN TOWN ♫
WARGH! You boyz should read the old comic Deff Squadron 😉 Oh and great show by the way.
Looking forward to hear more about the diffrent tribes !
Its been re-released by black library a few weeks ago…
I read somewhere that Mekboyz inherit their knowledge of engineering through genetic memory. That it’s passed on through Ork spore’s, the same way genetic information is passed on through blood, and only certain Orks (in this case Oddboyz) can access it.
Not sure if it’s still cannon, but I still think it’s interesting.
Yep. Odd boyz get their “knowledge” thourgh genetic memory. They are born that way just so the ork society can hrive and grow by itself.
Refering to the very first codex for the orcs (waaaaarrgh orcs-late 80’s, early.90’s) that the snotlings had a vast empire and the orcs were there slaves and thier superior intellect came from their brew made with some kind of fungus. The orcs decided to try it to become as brainy as the snotlings, it didn’t work and the orcs rebeled leading to the civilization we have today with them at the top and the once clever snotlings now no better intellectually than thier larger cousins. First GW book i ever got along with the first box of plastic boyz(plasma canons… Read more »
The Brainboyz inadvertently became very smart because of the fungi they ate. They bred Gretchins and then Orks to do their work for them, and set the Orks to cultivating the fungi, which they didn’t realise was the source of their intelligence. The Orks ate the fungi as they worked, got smart, overthrew the Brainboyz, stopped cultivating the fungi, and they all regressed from there. The Brainboyz became the Snotlings and as the Orks remained in charge.
Isn’t there also an ork legend saying that maybe the snothlings were the brain boyz at the very beggininng and they created orks – by thinkering with genetic – to defend them? It’s in the 5th edition codex but it is presented as “just another theory”…
I’d quit 40K long before then so can’t comment on that. The version presented in WtO is from the Imperium’s point of view, and is speculative rather than definitive, which would be in keeping with that.
The Ork accent isn’t Cockney. It’s based on the Mansfield accent.
Always read it as bristolian/west country, although that could well be my own accent bias coming into effect, either way cockney orks are just wrong, would sound far better if they got “phil” from timeteam to voice them…
To be fair I’d never have picked it out as a Mansfield accent if Bryan hadn’t told me he and Nigel based it on that when they were writing Waaagh the Orks. I suspect it might have been a sly regional dig at their neighbours up the road. I can’t understand how anyone can think it’s Cockney, though, as the vowel sounds are much harsher. Maybe it’s just that the Cockney accent is one of the most famous ones so people default to it unless it’s obviously something else.
my guess is that any of the other british accents that get used in film sterotypes didnt fit, west country = pirate
eatonian = snob/posh
midlands = ozzy
anything north of brum = sean bean
At least they didnt go with a dudley accent for the sporks, could you imagine yam yam sporks…
The more I think about, the more hilarious I find the idea of Cockney Orks. Dressed in their pearly suits, eating jellied eels, gathered around the Joanna* singing ‘Roll out the Barrel’, chanting ”Ere we gow’, telling each other to ‘shut your maaaaufff or I’ll knock you ahhht’. All we need now are Geordie Eldar and Scouse Tyranids lol.
*Bit of rhyming slang there lol
So the first flying ork was something more or less: I believe I can fly…. 😉
Oh great, now I’m going to have “I believe I can fly” as done by an ork stuck in my head for days…..Curse you!
when it comes to a history of the universe, can’t go wrong with this episode of ‘If the Emperor had a text to speech device’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyeoBm5QFnA just skip to 8 mins 30 seconds in if you’ve not seen the rest of them.
I think I may be the one to have first mentioned that quote from the eldar guy… In fact, that’s my favourite quote and the main reason why I love orks so much… Unfortunately, the “fungus” bit of their backround has been removed from the latest codex. Now, the ork origins are simply “mysterious”. I think it’s a shame as it added a lot of dimension to them… But if we consider it is stil part of the fluff (and I do), the spores are actually released when an ork dies. The creatures born from those spores are actually fully… Read more »
Also when an ork head is seperated of its body, the head still lives on for several hours.
Maybe that’s why the imperial guard veterans were cutting the ork’s heads after the fight. So that they couldn’t be retrieved and the half destroyed orks couldn’t be made into cyborks!
ORKZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! at last i been watin fer dis!
Me an da rest of Waaaaaagh! Grimtuff apruuv!
Waaagh! Grimtuff? Are there any pictures somewhere on BoW? Maybe warboss Bloojaw could fetch a few ideas from there…
😉
WAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!
gorkamorka “da uva book” is full of really cool origin story and glyphs 😉
Also some good fluff in the digganob book…
Snotings are ammo/bullets for a lot of the heavy guns.
Squig sound like bore/pig green blood may be a good painting tutorial for Romain?
As far as I know, @zorg , the snothling are used as ammo for the shokk attack gun only (one funny invention @aj89 may like to talk to @warzan about)… But maybe earlier fluff was different.
Squigs (or squiggly beasts) have many uses. Some are pressed to make the jelly the ork use in their flamers and as gas in their vehicules, some serve as a food source and nothing else, the biggest can be used as mounts like war elephants (squiggoths) and their favourite pet is the attack squig which they use as guard/attack dogs.
I think that’s the only gun that still uses live ammo now?
Yup… They’ve taking a turn towards the more teknikal stuff now. Orkimedes and his gubbins are slowly replacing the old ways. The great Waaagh! is upon us according to the new fluff…
The orks are restless. Gazghkull Thraka is on the rampage and the whole galaxy trembles as Gork and Mork gain more and more power in the warp
What about the hair squigg? Very important fluff there 😀
obligatory WAAAAGH! Anyhow, two minor corrections here, one is that by the time the orks where made, the Necrotyr had already unleashed the C’tan and become the Necrons. Seccondly, Orks don’t regenerate limbs, if an ork loses its arm it won’t grow back, and a bisected ork is going to die, it’ll just take some time. However if an Ork does lose its arm, it simply needs to be stapled back on and eventually it will be reattached biologically. They are very resistant to permanent damage, but they do take permanent damage and said permanent damage is very easy to… Read more »
You making me wanting to paint my BB Orks again. Now I have a new respect for this Cuantic green thinking. I guees it´s all about mind over matter.
By the way, the new fantasy Orks with wargear look awesome. .
Great to see the Orks getting some overdue attention in the gaming space. Thanks – I love you guys!
there was so much background for first edition orks – ‘Waaargh Orks’ has a whole section on ork culture focussed around the ‘Drops’.
and the big rulebook had multiple mood tables for da Madboys…
I thought the original orks talked like 80s Manchester Soccer fans?
If Orks are plant/fungus based shouldn’t their blood be yellowish/translucent? That could be interesting to paint using glossy varnishes.
The Ultimate Ork fluff book is ‘Ere We Go’ from 1991. Do you guys have it in the studio?
It’s one of my fav books in my collection, right next to Slaves to Darkness and the Lost and the Damned
The Orks keep Commissar Yarrick alive by believing him to live as he is one of their greatest adversaries and they want another good fight another day. Aparently they do this so they can fight him again and again. I believe from the fluff he died a few times but the orks said NOOoo and so was found to still be alive and able to fight another day. there is a mutual respect that possibly Yarrick is even aware of that without the Orks he would be dead and buried.