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 Dakkamite wrote:

 Kain wrote:
Blatant self endorsement

You got that book on dakka somewhere mate?

No it's a book about an Ork freeboota waaagh going to loot a forgeworld contested by the Imperium and Chaos, but then the Tyranids arrive to make everything more fun.

It should include nobz bashing their power klaws into biotitans like sticks on a drum and shoving chaos lords off buildings tall enough to reach into the mesosphere.

Essentially more to appeal to the inner child than offer something truly cerebral.

Ahh, Space Pirates. A freeboota story would be fun in and of itself. Don't Say it's a Waaagh! that means your freebootas have joined the fight with no end. So they wont be very good at ransacking a forgeworld. Waaagh! in the game is very different from a Warboss crying Waaagh! in stories. If an Ork hears a Waaagh! they will drop everything and go to battle and they will fight until they are dead. The only way a Waaagh! ends is with the death of the Warboss that cried it.

Freebooters wont even whisper the word.

But as I was saying doing just the adventures of a Freebooter crew can make for very fun stories, You don't have to throw in all the different races fighting - this might make your story too battle driven instead of story driven. Battles are fun, but if we don't know their back stories why would we the reader care if they are victorious or not. For a story I'm always interested in what lead up to the battle and what happened to the survivors afterwards.

I've written several stories about Orks and (I'm bias) but they are always the most fun to write, even when I have everything go wrong for them, which for some reason always happens.

Allies are a good excuse to sell more models to people who have all the models they need for their current army. Why would GW stop this from happening by making allies completely noncompetitive?

Shok, I agree with you whole heartedly. Though as an Ork player, they have no battle brothers, so basically they are out of GW's grand scheme to make me buy more figures. Then again, I have Blood Axe units from different armies - maybe they assumed that I would not be buying new figures anyway so they made it more difficult to ally with Orks.