Its a bit silly but i just dont get where savage alien beasts get these pants and how they keep them up to such great standards. I mean they must suck at sewing and what not so its ridiculous that billions of them have pants!.

I see why the models have them but its silly as i don't think fungus has a giant dong.

They're not really that savage, they just like killing stuff. They can build machines and weapons, which require mining for metal and some grasp of technology (other that that ork technology works by willpower alone). They also dont have genitalia singe they reproduce like fungi do. Being orks they like to be as loud and colourful as possible so they probably get grots and slaves to make things for them that arent designed for killing.

To funny

Presumably they have the knowledge of how to create those pants built into their DNA (because genetic code totally works like that). Pantboyz.

Bizarrely, for some reason they don't have rules for them on the TT.

Pantboyz!! LOL!

OK, that made my morning...

Every Ork settlement has a row of pants factories with a workforce of grot tailors whose tiny hands are perfect for such work...

I agree I should make a new special IC called Da Tayla, with special rules having something to do with clothing and a sock cannon.

But uh yea, few things to clear up, Orks are part fungi, not entirely fungi. And they are brutal, not savage. They can easily have clothing made, infact its most likely the grots that make the clothing. And think about it, they sack planets and space barges as easily as you breath, so after they kill everyone, and the looting starts, Im sure the clothing are included in said looting. So really its not too hard to explain where they get the clothing and such. Its almost insulting, as an Ork player, to hear someone think they are too stupid to stitch a shirt together, when they create something as complex as a SAG or a Stompa for that matter. I mean they have the KFF, it generates a force field man... wheres the force field in the Imperium? Or the Tau and Eldars force field?

And the material for the pants comes from Imperium Hive world "volunteers" who "voluntarily" supply the "material" needed for the pants.

How else would they get their 6+ armor saves?

Orks are all about status. They need boots, with iron in them for kicking people's teef in. And they would look ridiculous if they were running around in boots without pants. So, any Ork that wants to order around a gretchin finds/steals a pair of pants.

Pantboyz!

Sounds like the answer to me.

Anythinig at all, really, that doesn't have us talking about "fungus" and "giant dongs".

Pants? That's what's keeping you up at night? Not their guns, forcefields, teleporters or gigantic-intergaltic-plasma-powered-battleships?

Orks have designed a device which creates a temporary wormhole through the warp.

They can figure out pants.

Knowledge is power! thye have clothes!

but... that's what i think, and i like to know other's opinion, if orks are resistant to nearly all class of environment, their only interest is to fight, and they have nothing to hide... why they annoy themselves using pants and shirts? question is in the air!

EXACTLY sure they have the ability to make the pants but why bother? and why are they always in such a good state of repair?

And even crazy savage orks have pants and they live in the jungle.

Through the sheer power of something in an alternate universe called Parental Outrage. This dark force seeps across universes, seeking out anything remotely dangly and forces something to conceal it, all with the purpose of "For the Children."

Although Orks do not have various dangly or bobbily bits, the dark forces of PO can not comprehend this, and thus demand that if it resembles a human, it requires pants.

Naturally, because units of Combined Parental Outrage tend to follow the Intelligence to Mob ratio, the entity tends to be more stupid that a lobotomized grox visiting Doomrider after payday, it's only orks, and not anything else.

Either that, or it's something intended just to warp your mind. And you'll spend hours trying to figure it out. Staying up all night. Trying to figure out where, and why they wear pants. Until you remember one thing: Even orks like their Levi's. What do you think the Emperor and Sanguinius wore under their armour?

Because pants are good.

Maybe the pants are part of their actual body, and they just resemble humanoid pants. This would give me prime excuse to follow up with saying, "Da Orks iz Pantz!"

HMMM so they have different coloured cloth skin? And how come they all tuck them into the also universally worn BOOOOTTTSS

Boots are simple.

If you can make it more shooty or more choppy, the better.

Boots allow for spikes and such. Therefore, make Ork feet more choppy. Or, in one unfortunate instance, more shooty. But it was generally agreed that he was a git anyways.

would you really prefer it all the orks in the game were running around as naked as dante and his sanguinary guard?

I don't think orks wear pants. We see them wearing trousers, but they might not wear underwear.

Its the ol Alantic pond thing tt.

Stateside Pants = Trousers

Definitely Grots, dems da only gitz wif small enough hands to sew Ork skivvies.

So you have Pant Grots wahay!
Sounds like klegnuts/winnits/klanker/klingons.

If the celts could weave its well within the abilities of grots to do so.

Interesting idea for a diaorama could be here somewhere.

I would never take an Ork serious unless he was wearing pants, because if the Ork took enough care to put some fiber on his leggings, he is taking enough care to make you hurt as much as possible.

Orks aren't as savage as all that. If they can build and maintain something as complex as Mega Armour, pants pose no problem.

Also, because they saw humans wearing them and decided that anything humans can do, they can do better (and preferably with more explosions.)

Orks don't actually make pants. They just believe they have pants, and the pants appear! (Whether they're just made purely out of Warp stuff or mysteriously teleported from Imperial clothing factories is another matter...)

dey dos it the looks surfistikated

I think we need to remember that the fluff has Orks being an artificially created race. I know if I created something like that I would want to give them a genetic predisposition to wear pants.

DaveL wrote:Orks don't actually make pants. They just believe they have pants, and the pants appear! (Whether they're just made purely out of Warp stuff or mysteriously teleported from Imperial clothing factories is another matter...)

So that's where my other socks are disappearing to.

Luke_Prowler wrote:

DaveL wrote:Orks don't actually make pants. They just believe they have pants, and the pants appear! (Whether they're just made purely out of Warp stuff or mysteriously teleported from Imperial clothing factories is another matter...)

So that's where my other socks are disappearing to.

Are you telling me that Mister Bumpy, that old monster who lives under your bed and eats socks, is really an agent of the Orks, sending them socks, pants and all other gettups through the warp for them? Mind = blown....

To an extent.

Because under the bed is a natural location for the monsters of children to hide, the fear espoused by such an area permeates it. As such, it bears a greater link to the Warp. While there may or may not be monsters under the bed (Depending on how scared you are naturally, and if you are a psyker.), the process of a machine that sucks things through the warp has a greater chance of sucking stuff up.

Therefore, no. It's not Mister Bumpy. It's the Mekboy on the other side of the Sock Cannon. And, occasionally, when the Cannon explodes, it sends socks to all locations it has stolen from, due to warp signatures staying for a certain time frame within the memory of the machine. And thus, that also explains how you have socks which you've never seen before in your laundry.

And occasionally some ork bitz and teef.

Luke_Prowler wrote:

DaveL wrote:Orks don't actually make pants. They just believe they have pants, and the pants appear! (Whether they're just made purely out of Warp stuff or mysteriously teleported from Imperial clothing factories is another matter...)

So that's where my other socks are disappearing to.

Holy crap I think your onto something. Im missing more socks then I care to mention. And a dvd that disappeared under my truck seat once. So somewhere dem Orkses got a dvd of mine.

You wouldn't want your junk hanging out for some snotling to come along and bite onto. Pants FTW!

WHERE DO ORKS PANTS COME FROM!

In the UK it would be Primork

Also alot of the pants are coloured like leather and i dont think the orks have the time and/or skills to cure hide for billions of dudes.

And even savage crazy clanzs like the snakebites wear them. i mean come on like they give a crap

Nakis wins the thread.

Yes Kudos Nakis That is so so true

Pants were looted of course

who the hell wears pants that fit an ork? and they keep growing so they need new pants after a battle

This whole thread is pants-tastic.

ChocolateGork wrote:Also alot of the pants are coloured like leather and i dont think the orks have the time and/or skills to cure hide for billions of dudes.

And even savage crazy clanzs like the snakebites wear them. i mean come on like they give a crap

Well my tankbustas are a WIP of orks wearing the remains of pinstriped suits so there

ChocolateGork wrote:who the hell wears pants that fit an ork? and they keep growing so they need new pants after a battle

that's easy, just fight against an Ogryn... then the Ork loot the pants, thinking the Ogryn is a lot larger than a common ork, the pants will come wide.... as the ork grows, the pants will be adjusted...

Clearly none of you have heard of Pantsreava and his Freebooterz...

There is a little-known clan of orks. They call themselves Da Stitchas. They roam the galaxy looting raw materials to create ever more stylish clothes.

I have seen the Tanna Boys fell entire herds of indigenous creatures to create their leather.

I have seen dreads with great sewing machines for arms.

I have seen the great tailorwagons belching smoke and leaving a trail of stylish yet practical trousers in their wake.

Query: Would a WAAAAAAGH be the orkish version of fashion week or sommat?

Only, instead of going to the end of the runway, pose, turn, walk down the runway, it's yell, shoot while running, use yer choppas ya gits, and chase the fleeing 'umies. Armageddon: The Orkish version of that big French runway show.

ChocolateGork wrote:who the hell wears pants that fit an ork? and they keep growing so they need new pants after a battle

The humble Elastic Waistband comes into play here, I believe...

MekanobSamael wrote:Clearly none of you have heard of Pantsreava and his Freebooterz...

At least we now know, where their free boots come from

"Pantz? PANTZ!? In da name o' Mork, dere's a whole Galeksy o' 'Umies ter krump, and yer worried 'bout were yer PANTZ iz commin' from!? PANTZ IS JUST FER LUCK! You iz muckin' about! Get ter shootin' an' choppin' and stop bein' un-Orky! Uvverwize, I'll be puttin' yer 'ead up 'dere on me bosspole! "

But Pants are very Okry as you can see by how they all wear a pair

ChocolateGork wrote:But Pants are very Okry as you can see by how they all wear a pair

Not so much orky, but an imposition on the species.

In fact, that's probably how kommandos are started. One ork just likes to wear more and more clothing and trying different things until he knows how to look like a 'umie and whatnot. Or like a bunch of bushes. Or, in the example of one of the revered ork kommandos, dressing up as a fully functional looted tank.

Pants squigs.

Its amazing how popular a thread about pantz iz.
Orkzes just shout "Dem bigga humies wear lotz a' big pants 'n' metal stuff n' dayz iz tuf, so we needzes to wear big panzes to get bigga dan dem! Iz a genus! Get da tayla boyz, dayz got a job ta do! But, wait... How come wez got dem big space stompaz and big shokk gunz, but we aint got no pantzes?"

NAH! DA ORKS IS TUFF ENUF WIVOUT DEM SQUISHY HUMIES STUFF

metallifan wrote:"Pantz? PANTZ!? In da name o' Mork, dere's a whole Galeksy o' 'Umies ter krump, and yer worried 'bout were yer PANTZ iz commin' from!? PANTZ IS JUST FER LUCK! You iz muckin' about! Get ter shootin' an' choppin' and stop bein' un-Orky! Uvverwize, I'll be puttin' yer 'ead up 'dere on me bosspole! "

this is going in my Sig


this thread is win

Excellent. I think that makes me an essential part of 5 nutritious sigs to-date.

Gitzbitah wrote:How else would they get their 6+ armor saves?

Orks are all about status. They need boots, with iron in them for kicking people's teef in. And they would look ridiculous if they were running around in boots without pants. So, any Ork that wants to order around a gretchin finds/steals a pair of pants.

This made the entire topic worth reading alone.

You sir, truly understand what it is to be an Ork

I'm guessing the pantzboyz told the grots to make something they can mount a spikey/knobby kneepad to... but perhaps the project wasn't followed through with, leaving several orks with the mounting for it, just not the extra choppiness... hence pants. And I'm pretty sure underwear is a foreign concept to them but it would be funny if someone sculpted a Nob in "Looted Tighty Whities".

ChocolateGork wrote:who the hell wears pants that fit an ork? and they keep growing so they need new pants after a battle

Those would be called sweat pants. I mean it works for the Hulk, and he grows something fierce

LOL when i first saw this thread i was thinking "oh great its another elevatus thing that has completely torn apart the 40k world from the seams and will destroy everything ive worked for in a paridox eliminating vortex of doom, and chaos, chaos everywhere, but not the good kind OH NO the sorta chaos that a toddler with a sledgehammer brings to your minis, DEATH LOTS AND LOTS OF DEATH"

however after the brain meltdown i figured they would just steal em or use squig skin or somthin

then i loled

Pfft, who "makes" pants.

It's obvious you can just loot 'em, hahaha.

I believe that some Orks have adapted to a slight evolution where their bodies changed to where they do have dongs for raping female prey.
Of course thats all crazy gak that I heard was all speculation based on certain fluff somewhere.

Orks get their Pants from themselves. You know that Cotton Grows from Plants and Pants are made From Plants and Mushrooms are Plants so their pants and boots grow with them.
When a Ork Baby Grows out of the Ground they are grown off of a stem that has a large green mass like a mushroom that is the baby ork. The Pants grow up from the Stem
and when the Ork baby is Ripe the Ork falls off...takes the pants and puts them on and a Ork that designates itself as the parent takes the Ork Baby and raises it for a short time
until it grows into a adolescent Ork. The Pants...being a part of the Ork and a Growing Fungus just like them also grow and continue to grow along with the Ork.

So the Plant is made from the strong Fibers of the Stem of the Mushroom the Ork came from...you see!

Orks aren't immune from fashionable desires. They sometimes wear hair squigs, paint their weapons and vehicles in colours that appeal to them and, indeed, wear pants and belts.

But that means if the orks pants grow from wagghh if they got lost in the middle of an ork camp they would get massive

There are too common theories when it comes to the topic of ork pants.
1st. Along with tanks, pants are looted from defeated enemies.
2nd. That the pants are actually elaborate squids that have placed over the orks nether reagions. SUffice to say the squig doesn't last long.

ChocolateGork wrote:Its a bit silly but i just dont get where savage alien beasts get these pants and how they keep them up to such great standards. I mean they must suck at sewing and what not so its ridiculous that billions of them have pants!.

I see why the models have them but its silly as i don't think fungus has a giant dong.

Those aren't actual pant, they're a special kind of squig.

When in any doubt about the the minor day-to-day details of the Orks, always defer to the squigs.

hmmm wouldnt the orks eat them or they would drop off in battle if shot?

Hmmm...very interesting question. I think that pants are most likely looted. Orks tend to follow the broad-at-the-shoulder-narrow-at-the-hip musculature of most cartoon characters (and the most intimidating physique, in my opinion) so I don't think looting the pants of other races would pose too much difficulty. I think they appear in such good repair because players paint them as such. Just like Space Marine armor is almost never depicted with bullet holes, burns, rents, or other damages. It could easily be modeled or painted as such.

As to WHY orks wear pants, I don't know that it was ever established that they DON'T have genitals. A) If they do have man-bits then wearing pants only makes sense. B) If they don't then I suggest the possibility that they wear them for comfort. I know I prefer pants to nudity strictly for a comfort basis.

And oh, this just hit me! Best reason for orks to wear pants: Pockets! Pants have pockets, and orks love to carry stuff around. The more pockets, the better. Teef, spare bullets, loot, bits of string, shiny rocks, and any other thing that an ork could and would conceivably carry necessitates pockets!

Course it could be some other reason.

Well thats a new take on it but surely they could just carry bags? and not many of the pants o the models have pockets.

Also ho wcan their be billions of undamaged pants that happen to fit orks and happen to be where they loot?

Is ther just like a size whatever pants warehouse on every planeta?

Okay, consider this: orks do have organs, obviously. (They have eyes, and teeth, and something approximating lungs.)

First, I see no reason they might not have genitals. They wouldn't be used for sex, necessarily, but that's not all I use mine for. And since orks do drink (at least alcohol, in any event) I presume that they exude waste. So if they got 'em, they might be as sensitive or vulnerable as ours, and thus require pants.

What's more, since orks are alien life forms, perhaps they have some kind of alien organ (like a vent for gasses or something) on their legs that they are covering up for some reason (so they don't get mud in them).

Finally, consider this. With all the upper body strength they have, their legs look disproportionate. Perhaps they wear pants to hide their (comparatively) scrawny legs.

All possibilities.

Just a quick point:

These guys build firearms, not everything is looted.

Is it so hard to believe they managed to stitch together some rags during early life?

Pantboyz. Hilarious!

They pay lots of teef to the pantboyz to make snazzy pants with lots of pockets

Jimsolo wrote:

First, I see no reason they might not have genitals. They wouldn't be used for sex, necessarily, but that's not all I use mine for. And since orks do drink (at least alcohol, in any event) I presume that they exude waste. So if they got 'em, they might be as sensitive or vulnerable as ours, and thus require pants.

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yes.

Orks do exude liquid waste from that general area(SW omnibus, Ragnar gets hosed while hiding in a bush )