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My wife has a themed Ork army (pictures in my gallery) and we were talking about background for them last night. Her name for them is "Purpleanium Predilection." All of her choppas across her army are painted purple, and are made of a strangely powerful metal called "purpleanium."

So here's what we came up with....

The ork tribe unikornz led by Ghazzy heard about good fighting in the south eastern galactic sector (Tau space) and boarded a passing space hulk to go find the action. After months of interminably boring drifting broken into segments of monotony (hey! yous stop wif' da big wurds!) the boyz crossed into Tau space and entered the system Krooton to find out if deze dreadlocked skinnies were any match for da strength of da unikornz. Chaotic fury broke out across the system as da boyz devastated the planets one at a time. After landing on the jungle world Krooton III (having devoured Krooton I and II) a warp storm settled into the system, adding demonic lightning storms and raging winds to the sheer violence of the fighting below.

In the middle of the fight, as Bundok lifted his choppa to take a living souvenir from the Kroot he was disembowling, purple lightning flashed down to his upraised choppa, crackling across the metal and scoring it before following its predictable path into Bundok, vaporizing him on the spot. As the fighting raged on, another ork snatched up the abandoned choppa and laid about, discovering that the now purple metal seemed "choppier." It was only moments before he announced his discovery, with the result of a nearby nob taking it away and pulping him to test the theory. "Diz is da choppiest!" the nob roared. Suddenly, gretchin were popping up around the battlefield holding choppas as impromptu lightning rods to create more of the purple metal.

The rest is history...

I like it, it's pretty cool

Great idea i like the use of grots by any chance has your wife got any other purple weapons like powerklaws and wrecking balls becasue it would amzaming

I think my wife is posting here in a minute (if she doesn't beat me to it), but here's some other purple weaponry:

oldone wrote:Great idea i like the use of grots by any chance has your wife got any other purple weapons like powerklaws and wrecking balls becasue it would amzaming

Yep, pretty much all the metal is the purpleanium. The power klaws are all purple. I didn't paint the wrecking balls purple, but that's an idea I'll have to consider. It would make them crunchier and smashier.

Not to shamelessly bump, but we're trying to flesh this out, and wouldn't mind some input.

I like the idea.

And boy, I hope that if I get married it'll be to a woman willing to talk about this kind of stuff all day

Haha! Love the idea of the chaos spawned metal.

Sounds like the rainbow clouds in one of the 40k books which reform anything they touch and make them multicoloured (or destroy them ).

Is anything else "changed" (such as armour) or is it just the weapons?

Perhaps a big mek could give his snotlings purple helmets (hur hur) before he feeds them into his SAG?

i had an idea for a themed ork army in which some or all of the orks would be a deep red colour due to their interaction with a red jungle planet on which all of the plantlife is a deep red. The plantlife on the planet cross pollinated with the ork fungal strains turning them red (and slightly more durable)
this confusion created a small war with the red orks on one side and the green on the other which ended quickly after they all realised they were the same except different colours, so they head off to krump a nearby imperial world

BAN wrote:this confusion created a small war with the red orks on one side and the green on the other which ended quickly after they all realised they were the same except different colours, so they head off to krump a nearby imperial world

That would be a nice little history to read. "And so the race war ended as if written by Dr. Seuss, and the next war started as if written by an ork (da propa way, hear?)."

Do the red orks "go fasta"

lol yeh racial equality for red and green orks everywhere

That, is a very orky background. Now you need a pile of about 20 grots holding regular colored choppas up to the sky :3

Agreed. That's plenty of back story, and the grot lighting rods are a most!

The army does look a little like a gay rights parade but dare to be different. What if it is an effect of the warp and psykers abilities are completely different as well e.g. blessing orks by turning their skulls, claws or teeth to purpleanium but on a fail the whole ork becomes purpleanium. Purplanium hailstones could be nassty as well.