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**Blood Raven 5th Company**

yer buck can a battle wagon be any other WH40K tank?

**MekanobSamael**

I don't see why not.

My friend has an orkified land raider. He uses one sponson lascannon as a zzap gun and replaced the other with four big shootas. The kannon sticks out of the HB slot at the front and the entire assembly basically has the top ripped open (i.e. to make it open-topped).

**Melissia**

Any Ork vehicle can be converted from any vehicle that can feasibly exist in 40k.

**Blood Raven 5th Company**

So i could pass of a land speeder (give it wheels) and call it a buggy (of course make its wepons fit)

**svendrex**

sure why not?

I would suggest that you browse the gallery for ork stuff if you want some ideas. There is a lot of cool stuff there.

**the_scotsman**

Yeah, the "looted wagon" "battlewagon" and "trukk" can be really any model as long as it's Orky. there's a few upgrades, any big gun on a model can become a boomgun or Killcannon, you can add things like boarding planks and wrecking balls for fun.

What's the fun of playing orks if you have to have vehicles that look the same, I ask you? it's much orkier to get a massive hodgepodge of vehicles, tack some metal bitz on them, make them choppier and shootier, and drive em out on the field!

**Formosa**

my blood axe army uses nowt but chimera's for trukks, hellhounds for super skorchas, russ tanks for big trakks etc.

god i love orks

**Blood Raven 5th Company**

Are orks from WH related to the ones in WH40K?

**Gorskar.da.Lost**

In theory, there is no real link between them in terms of fluff (ie the Old World, though it's theorised to exist there, has never been mentioned in current 40K mythos bar the existence in both of the Old Ones). However, it's a reasonably certain assumption that Orks and Orcs are pretty much the same race.

**alexwars1**

It has been supposed that the planet of Fantasy could je=ust be a feudal planet in the 40K universe.

**Gorskar.da.Lost**

Exactly so. Personally, I like the idea of it existing in the 40K universe, as a sort of old testing ground for the Old Ones that was left to it's own devices after they vanished.

**Melissia**

Orks are far better designed than Orcs, however.

**Gorskar.da.Lost**

Well, they certainly have better access to technology. I wouldn't say it was to do with design, though. After all, 40K does not have access to the Black Orcs, which are arguably better than the average Ork.
Still, the point still stands; orcs are essentially feral orks.
Unless you're referring to game mechanics, of course. In which case I couldn't possibly comment.

**Melissia**

Black Orcs = Nobz.

Only without access to mega armor.

**Blood Raven 5th Company**

okay and who is Mork and Gork?

**Gorskar.da.Lost**

Melissia wrote:Black Orcs = Nobz.

Only without access to mega armor.

Not quite, though you're right in some respects. Black Orcs are actually a whole subspecies of orc, whose toughness and militaristic ideals as well as their very dark skin mark them out as more powerful fighters. Nobz are just regular greenskins with combat experience. They still don't have access to mega armour though.

As to Mork and Gork, they're the Orkish gods. one is Kunning yet Brutal, and the other is Brutal yet Kunning.

**KingCracker**

Blood Raven 5th Company wrote:okay and who is Mork and Gork?

Dont hear that asked to often. They are easily the most powerful of all the gods that exists. They are twins. But as mentioned one is cunning yet brutal and the other is brutal yet cunning. So they are the embodiment of how Orks are. Supposedly the reason they dont kill the other gods, is because then they wont have anything to play tricks on and beat up

**Gorskar.da.Lost**

Ever practical, then.

**ToBeWilly**

Do fantasy Orcs reproduce like 40k Orks? I remember female Orc cheerleaders in Bloodbowl.

**Gorskar.da.Lost**

They used to have females, but were later retconned so as to reproduce like Orks do. Keeps it family-friendly, you see; kids couldn't ask how half-orcs were made, then, thus embarassing the staff.

**Asgeirr Darkwolf**

Orkses are the toughest race yet. They don't need no girls- they spore once they die, and then spread that way as well. That's why flamers work so well against them. Fluffwise, they're the most fun to play.

**Melissia**

Technically Orks don't need boys, either. They are neither male nor female.

**ToBeWilly**

Ok, so when an ork dies, he releases spores. These spores then grow into a full grown ork? Like a pumpkin or watermelon? Meaning growing on top of the ground. Or, do they grow like carrots? Meaning underground.

**marauder6272**

Orks release spores throughout their entire lives, it's just that when they die, they release a mass of them all at once (provided the corpse isn't burnt up)
These spores are capable of producing Orks, grots, snotlings and squigs, regardless of which of the subspecies dropped them.
When the spores find a suitable place to grow, the Orkoid develops in a cocoon underground while the only thing marking their existence above ground are mushrooms that sprout up (which also acts as a food source for the faster developing snotlings and squigs)

**Gogsnik**

It's also worth mentioning that in area where there are no-longer any orks but spores have taken root, any of the more sophisticated orkoid creature which may have been growing, like orks or gretchin for example, can be killed by the mushroom from which they are growing.

Since all orks are connected psychically ork 'shrooms are able to tell how concentrated that psychic presence is, so when it is weak they produce what is most necessary to establishing an ork population.

So that would firstly mean more mushrooms, then squigs, then snotlings, then gretchin and then orks. This ensures that all the basic fundmentals that ork society needs in order to function effectively are present at the right time.

**Gorskar.da.Lost**

ToBeWilly wrote:Ok, so when an ork dies, he releases spores. These spores then grow into a full grown ork? Like a pumpkin or watermelon? Meaning growing on top of the ground. Or, do they grow like carrots? Meaning underground.

The orkoid itself, if any are produced, grow underground in a membrane not dissimilar from a womb in terms of purpose. When the orkoid reaches maturity, it will then break free of the underground sac and begin life on the surface.

**stompydakka**

dude, were like, giant green buff mushrooms. of course we can loot tanks and dont need chicks!
only way to cleanse a planet of orks is to exterminatus the crap outta it.

**Blood Raven 5th Company**

Okay, what is the best paint scheme for orks?.. what is the one with red hair?

**Gorskar.da.Lost**

In theory, there's no "best" paint scheme - it depends on the Klan and preferences of the player. You can paint your orks pretty much how you like.
Red hair, you say? Sounds like Evil Suns!

**Blood Raven 5th Company**

Well when i said best i meant biggest warrgh (sorry if spelling is off) what are the orks in assult on black reach?