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In the ork codex it isays

The greenskin regenerative process itself is so powerful that an Ork who has been hacked to bits can simply be stitched back together

so does that mean that you could graft a limb onto an ork? thanks.

Sure.

An Ork with an extra arm? Sounds quite plausible but the arm might not be too happy about being on a different body and try to fight the body to assert dominance.

You'd be amazed what a Dok can pull off. An extra arm seems more than likely.

In sanctus reach morgrok lost his head to a spacewolf, but the local dok reattached it to another nob (who was missing his), and thus morgrok still lives. It's in the fluff.

hmm... that seems pretty legit. I honestly need to start converting multi armed orks. They would be radically orky orks.

 xofox wrote:
hmm... that seems pretty legit. I honestly need to start converting multi armed orks. They would be radically orky orks.

Dunno - Da uver Boyz might fink dey is wrung un's like dem genesneakers and bash 'em

Orks are pretty set in their ways about what is and is not "Orky"

 Mr Morden wrote:
Dunno - Da uver Boyz might fink dey is wrung un's like dem genesneakers and bash 'em. Orks are pretty set in their ways about what is and is not "Orky"

But it's very Orky to have the Doc screw on a few things. The Docs sew together Orks that any human medic would have left for dead (if they were human) without any ill effects at all after every battle. An extra Ork arm to hold a weapon or a pint of fungus ale is just something to be envious of!

Not to mention the classic PowerKlaw, or Mek Blag's Mk 1 Exploding Leg.

 xofox wrote:
In the ork codex it isays

The greenskin regenerative process itself is so powerful that an Ork who has been hacked to bits can simply be stitched back together

so does that mean that you could graft a limb onto an ork? thanks.

There's fluff in the 5E codex for painboyz doing brain transplants.

Orks are fun.

I'm pretty sure a Dok has put more the two limbs on orks before and I'm just as sure the patient was killed by others for being unorky.
As long as a pain boy is nearby orks can be beheaded and still sown back together for more fighting.

How about an orktipepede

Centipede > Orktipede > Orktipepede

I would bet my left grot that a painboy'z tried it, and I'd bet my uvva left grot dat it kud wurk.

I loik brain transplantz.

The Ork body knows no limits.

dannydakka wrote:
How about an orktipepede

I shall explain wiv a fort eksperiment.

Emajin that you'z got a really big meal. Roast Squig, wiv fungus beer, an'a roit proppa boiled snotling.

*sounds of stomach rumbling*

But it'z too much fer yerz. Wadda ya do? Can't just leave it fer da grotz, they'z get all uppity. Can't give it bak to da cookah boy, coz 'e'll slap ya. Youz gotta pass it on to da next boy. But wat if it'z too much fer da uvva boy? Well, 'e'z gotta pass it on too. It'z a lotta effurt fer nuffink. But wat if youz ate it all insted? You'z get reel bloated, yer, but it all getz passed out autumnatikly frew yer bum. But dat'z a waste, coz it'll go to da uppity grotz. An' we kan't 'ave dat.
So wat if youz could autumnatikly pass it on to da nekst boy?

Datz were da ORKIPEDE kumz in.

*pulls down projector screen, and a power point presentation full of complicated diagrams and mathematical equations appears*

Az yoo can see, da roast squig goez in fre yer mouf, and out frew yer bum. Da bum stuff is leftover squig, roit? So what I've dun is attach anuvva boy to this boy'z bum, to pass da food on. Bu da point of this iz not to get it on da floor, for dem uppity grotz, so every toime it starts komin' out, I attach anuvver boy. The model ain't perfekt yet, but I've only lost about...

*attempts to count*

Erm... about...
Not enuff to feed tha Squiggoff. I'm gettin' dere. The only fing left to do iz stop tha ladz frum dyin' on it, an' I'z can sell it to yerz.

Just wanted to point out not only can a Painboy swap limbs and organs of boyz at will, he can do it on a motorbike to a patient on another motorbike and can do it a dozen times before the battle is over.

On the other hand...

A boy with multiple arms isn't completely unorky. Think of the 4 Klaw deffdredds. All ork walkers are in some stage of paying homage to all things orky, or in some cases in homage to mork or gork. A deffdredd is right an proppa orky all right with its 4 killy limbz.
And besides, a boy might not have asked for an extra arm, but it ain't up to him. A dok is always experimenting.

 Xenomancers wrote:
The Ork body knows no limits.

and ork technology is limited solely by their imagination

Orks with extra arms? Sure, it means they can hold more shootas. More dakka is more Orky.

You can even graft an extra head, although they do tend to argue with one another. In fact, graft on an extra head and two more arms and you've got an Ork that can fire two heavy weapons at once.

I am not, by the way, making any of this up.

The old Gorkamorka had rules for just like this.


Orks can have brain transplants done and walk away with nothing more than a rampant urge to kill....

If you have an ork called AARGH and you give him a brain transplant, he is still AARGH, just with a new brain. If you swap AARGH's arms, he is still AARGH, just with new arms. If you swap AARGH's legs for a caterpillar track, he is still AARGH, just with new movers. If you replace AARGH's torso with a big mekanic suit, he is still AARGH, just with a tougher body.
But now no part of AARGH is the original, so is he still AARGH?

I think that a Dok definitely could add an arm, but i don't think it would work properly though.


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I guess if they believed it would work it would, even if it shouldn't.

The background given for orks is that they are super-resilient, experience little pain, and virtually no issues with tissue rejection, as well as healing from even significant injuries quickly. It doesn't suggest that their limbs defy the laws of physiology (and physics).

If an ork loses a limb, a doc can graft on another limb. He may need to do little more than some stapling. That shouldn't be read to suggest that the doc can just staple a limb on in any old place and despite no points of attachment, or related muscle groups, or joints, or tendons, it will just magically work. I'm not sure how anyone reasonably jumps from one to the other.

We can transplant some organs and limbs using anti-rejection drugs. Does that mean that we can just stick extra arms on somebody if they take those drugs?



I can't understand (and have trouble stomaching) the fact that a cool idea like the Anzion effect can be bludgeoned into a blanket statement like 'if orks think it works it works'. It was posited by a Genetor and is still a subject of debate. If it was so grossly obvious and intractable, then it wouldn't be a debated idea. If every single time any ork thought anything was possible, it was, the entire 40K canon would be dramatically different.

I mean, are Orks immune to surprise attacks? They didn't think they would get blown up by a bomb, so they don't?

Page 58 ".....especially when a Dok successfully re-staples a prominent Nob's head mid-battle...:

You are going to love the fluff behind squig brain transplants.

Da Butcha wrote:


The background given for orks is that they are super-resilient, experience little pain, and virtually no issues with tissue rejection, as well as healing from even significant injuries quickly. It doesn't suggest that their limbs defy the laws of physiology (and physics).

If an ork loses a limb, a doc can graft on another limb. He may need to do little more than some stapling. That shouldn't be read to suggest that the doc can just staple a limb on in any old place and despite no points of attachment, or related muscle groups, or joints, or tendons, it will just magically work. I'm not sure how anyone reasonably jumps from one to the other.

We can transplant some organs and limbs using anti-rejection drugs. Does that mean that we can just stick extra arms on somebody if they take those drugs?



I can't understand (and have trouble stomaching) the fact that a cool idea like the Anzion effect can be bludgeoned into a blanket statement like 'if orks think it works it works'. It was posited by a Genetor and is still a subject of debate. If it was so grossly obvious and intractable, then it wouldn't be a debated idea. If every single time any ork thought anything was possible, it was, the entire 40K canon would be dramatically different.

I mean, are Orks immune to surprise attacks? They didn't think they would get blown up by a bomb, so they don't?

I would cut the quote down, but my phome sucks.
The belief of a single ork is not considered sucficient to achieve this sort of effect. It is supposed to be mass belief that does all the orky things like red wunz are fasta.

That doesn't stop the possibility of mutated orks from exsperimented sporz or a dok accidentally creating a new mucle and nerve structure for the new arm.

I may be working on old or scotched information here, but aren't Orks fungoid organisms? because if so, it might be a lot simpler to graft limbs etc. I say that because it's common practice to graft bits of different plants together (such as roses). Obviously that's plants, not fungus, but the idea of adding extra arms does sound somewhat plausible. Especially if your Dok is particularly creative.

And especially if orks have a lot of stem cells, like plants/fungi.

All I know is that if given enough time and scrap, a dok can make anything work.

 xofox wrote:
In the ork codex it isays

The greenskin regenerative process itself is so powerful that an Ork who has been hacked to bits can simply be stitched back together

so does that mean that you could graft a limb onto an ork? thanks.

Hold on...which page is that on? 7th edition or 5th edition? Or earlier than 5th?

Yes you can graft limbs on an ork ..however currently it has zero effect in game just a nice cosmetic ..an ork boy with two heavy weapons is called a Loota and utalizes those rules

On Mad Dok's Pain Bosz and Pain boyz

Codex: Orks (7th Edition), pp. 15, 24-25, 74, 76-77, 102, 127-130
Codex: Orks (4th Edition), pp. 38, 43, 59
Codex: Orks (3rd Edition), pp. 9, 42
Codex: Orks (2nd Edition), pg. 24, 65
Red WAAAGH! Campaign Supplement (7th Edition), pg. 69
Rogue Trader: Koronus Bestiary (RPG), pg. 75
WAAAGH! Ghazghkull: A Codex Ork Supplement (7th Edition), pg. 7
Gorkamorka: Da Uvver Book (Specialist Game), pp. 78-79


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The Fluff is consistant with what he wants to do however its in game affects are limited..to the rules of the edition being played..



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There are references in forge world as well but ehh