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I have a theory why red ones actually go faster. I now believe that the Empire (in their twisted religious ignorance) is wrong in their "psychic" theory.

Everything the Orks have is somehow locked up in their DNA and all of the knowledge they possess functions more like instinct, especially the Oddboyz. When an Oddboy Mech builds a vehicle, it is from instinct and a type of sub-conscious racial memory (the closest thing Orks have to evolution and is a psychic ability). When a Boss, vehicle driver or the Mech himself decides to paint a vehicle red, it triggers a deep rooted subconscious memory that compels the Mech in a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy to tune the vehicle one last time. Without even realizing it, he is tweaking the carburetor, fine tuning the intake and exhaust and basically squeezing every once of Squig-Power out of the engine and transmission. In the Mech's conscious mind, he's just giving it a once over, but somewhere instinctively he's perpetuating the legend of why red ones go faster.

Anyway, that's my B.S. (uh, I mean my version of the fluff) and I'm sticking to it.

Trying to predict orks is like trying to predict a dog, who cares. simply purge the Xenos!

but in more seriousness i always felt that something similar. like if it was a red truck when the mech came to repair it he would "give it da gud stuf cus itz red" and orks being so idiotic would think "da fasta uns deserv da betta parts" rather than "da betta parts make et go fasta"

Actually, I kinda prefer the "we believe!" thing.

You know what they say! Give an Ork a stick and convince him it's a gun, and it WILL shoot bullets and make loud noises.

reports say that no one can fire a shoota unless its an ork using it.
it seems to work on the same basis, so im happy with the "its red so it goes fasta" theory

Brother Captain Andrecus wrote:Actually, I kinda prefer the "we believe!" thing.

You know what they say! Give an Ork a stick and convince him it's a gun, and it WILL shoot bullets and make loud noises.

JD21290 wrote:reports say that no one can fire a shoota unless its an ork using it.
it seems to work on the same basis, so im happy with the "its red so it goes fasta" theory

Again, biased and superstitious propaganda based off of an ignorant and uneducated Imperial population. The average IG guardsmen couldn't read See Spot Run let alone service their own Lasgun. Orks instinctively know how this stuff works on an unconscious level and can clear a jam in about three standard seconds from even the worst shoota in the great big "Pile o' gunz!"

And no, an Ork can't make a stick shoot bullets, but that Ork can figure out the fastest way to kill something with that stick, it's kinda like Jason Bourne.

Orks are the ultimate field soldiers. A term we used to use when I was in the US Army for any rag tag dirt bag in garrison but out in the field they could soldier as if possessed by Audie Murphy himself.

About the comment about how only orks can use their weapons, in the Ciaphas Cain novels Cain saves some slaves that used captured Ork guns to fight and it worked out well (though they apparently jammed a lot).

Except the whole part in the codex where it explicity states in a form of memo from a researcher type that ork weapons almost never work unless its an ork using it.

kill dem stunties wrote:Except the whole part in the codex where it explicity states in a form of memo from a researcher type that ork weapons almost never work unless its an ork using it.

Yes, but it's almost never, not "never-ever-so-help-you!". The people in that novel might have just been very lucky.

There is really no other way to explain it. Trillions of Orks believe that red ones go faster, so their latent psychic energy makes it that way.

End of story.

My personal little piece of theory is that the orks evolved on some planet with several species of boar. They could have had fur the colour of grey, brown, yellow, and of course red. And the Red were faster. Or, there was just one species of red boars which became gray and slow when old. In this way, from day one, It was common knowledge that red boars were faster. And orks being orks having an ork's sense of logic, this also went for vehicles. That is just my idea of how red got that symbolic value to it.

My father on the other hand stays to waaagh! the orks and that there is no such a thing as ork telekinetic unconcioss (how was that spelled now again?) psychic ability, and that the Mek boys always as routine finish a repair and going thru of the vehicles with a new coat of red paint, thus making them outperform the rest of the ork vehicles.

GoFenris your theory actually makes logical sense.

how dare you bring logic in to this. how dare you.

diablarist wrote:how dare you bring logic in to this. how dare you.

I second this, whenever I try and Bring in logic to the fluff I get t3h Flamzor!

Paul Atreides wrote:My personal little piece of theory is that the orks evolved on some planet with several species of boar. They could have had fur the colour of grey, brown, yellow, and of course red. And the Red were faster. Or, there was just one species of red boars which became gray and slow when old. In this way, from day one, It was common knowledge that red boars were faster. And orks being orks having an ork's sense of logic, this also went for vehicles. That is just my idea of how red got that symbolic value to it.

My father on the other hand stays to waaagh! the orks and that there is no such a thing as ork telekinetic unconcioss (how was that spelled now again?) psychic ability, and that the Mek boys always as routine finish a repair and going thru of the vehicles with a new coat of red paint, thus making them outperform the rest of the ork vehicles.

Except the old ones created the Orks.

Maybe the red boar meat gave Orks horrible diarrhea which made the Orks "go" faster? The rest is history.

The Revelator wrote:

Paul Atreides wrote:My personal little piece of theory is that the orks evolved on some planet with several species of boar. They could have had fur the colour of grey, brown, yellow, and of course red. And the Red were faster. Or, there was just one species of red boars which became gray and slow when old. In this way, from day one, It was common knowledge that red boars were faster. And orks being orks having an ork's sense of logic, this also went for vehicles. That is just my idea of how red got that symbolic value to it.

My father on the other hand stays to waaagh! the orks and that there is no such a thing as ork telekinetic unconcioss (how was that spelled now again?) psychic ability, and that the Mek boys always as routine finish a repair and going thru of the vehicles with a new coat of red paint, thus making them outperform the rest of the ork vehicles.

Except the old ones created the Orks.

Actually according to the Codex: Orks fluff the orks were created by a superior race called BrainBoyz

Goliath wrote:

The Revelator wrote:

Paul Atreides wrote:My personal little piece of theory is that the orks evolved on some planet with several species of boar. They could have had fur the colour of grey, brown, yellow, and of course red. And the Red were faster. Or, there was just one species of red boars which became gray and slow when old. In this way, from day one, It was common knowledge that red boars were faster. And orks being orks having an ork's sense of logic, this also went for vehicles. That is just my idea of how red got that symbolic value to it.

My father on the other hand stays to waaagh! the orks and that there is no such a thing as ork telekinetic unconcioss (how was that spelled now again?) psychic ability, and that the Mek boys always as routine finish a repair and going thru of the vehicles with a new coat of red paint, thus making them outperform the rest of the ork vehicles.

Except the old ones created the Orks.

Actually according to the Codex: Orks fluff the orks were created by a superior race called BrainBoyz

The brainboyz were a race of supervisors also created by the old ones

corpsesarefun wrote:

Goliath wrote:

The Revelator wrote:

Paul Atreides wrote:My personal little piece of theory is that the orks evolved on some planet with several species of boar. They could have had fur the colour of grey, brown, yellow, and of course red. And the Red were faster. Or, there was just one species of red boars which became gray and slow when old. In this way, from day one, It was common knowledge that red boars were faster. And orks being orks having an ork's sense of logic, this also went for vehicles. That is just my idea of how red got that symbolic value to it.

My father on the other hand stays to waaagh! the orks and that there is no such a thing as ork telekinetic unconcioss (how was that spelled now again?) psychic ability, and that the Mek boys always as routine finish a repair and going thru of the vehicles with a new coat of red paint, thus making them outperform the rest of the ork vehicles.

Except the old ones created the Orks.

Actually according to the Codex: Orks fluff the orks were created by a superior race called BrainBoyz

The brainboyz were a race of supervisors also created by the old ones

But i don't believe in "ork inventions". Orkzez just copy what they see, therefore i blame the Blood Angels. Its their fault. Turboboosting all day and such.....

...or World Eater's going crazy and charging with bloodlust...

Well, the old ones or the brainboys or whathaveyou, who ever they were, It is canon that they evolved the orkoids on a desert world.

Paul Atreides wrote:Well, the old ones or the brainboys or whathaveyou, who ever they were, It is canon that they evolved the orkoids on a desert world.

Yes, because the old ones made them evolve on it. Are you seeing a pattern here?