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Hi guys! First time poster here. My friend and I bought the Battle for Black Reach a while back as our introduction to the game and I'm almost done painting my army (I took the Orcs, he took the Space Marines). I'm pretty happy with the fluff I've come up with for them, so I wanted to post it here to see if you guys could give me any advice on it or inform me if it contradicts anything in the established setting.

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THE SCAR VALLEY FREEBOOTAZ

On the far Eastern Fringes of the Galaxy there was a planet swarming with countless numbers of Orc. With no enemy planets in close proximity and no Warboss charismatic enough to have yet started a proper Waaaaagh the conflict on the planet's surface was confined to Orc versus Orc since, well, they had to fight someone. By some bit of chance there happened to be a near equal amount of representation from all the clans, and so the planet was chopped up into five territories controlled by the Goff, Blood Axes, Deathskullz, Bad Moonz and Evil Sunz. This was the closest thing the Orcs had to leadership against one another, and so the Clan Wars went until the planet was a pockmarked, blasted remnant of what it once was.

Around the equatorial line of the planet stretched a single long canyon, curving like a belt across the landscape. Known as Scar Valley to the Orcs, it was a constant battleground due to vying control over the rich metals harvested at the bottommost reaches of the valley used primarily to fuel more warmachines and ammunition. One day Warboss Dakkachomp, the leader of the Goff Clan on the planet, took to the field and marched his army through the canyon, his retinue of Boyz and Nobz laying waste to any foolish Orc that stood before them. As he entrenched his army and settled in for another day of glorious fighting, the skies darkened and a demonic screeching filled the air.

A Tyranid Hive-fleet had been swarming towards the planet for months. The Orcs, being too busy fighting each other to bother scanning the stars, were taken completely by surprise. Monstrous abominations swooped from the sky to cut down Deffkoptaz as hordes of the alien creatures dropped onto the planet, laying into the Orc population with startling effectiveness. The Clan War momentarily stopped, the Orcs turned their backs on one another and began a new fight against the Tyranids, whooping and hollering in joy as spent ammunition rained onto the planet's surface and both Orc and Tyranid blood spilled across the land.

Within the canyon walls of Scar Valley, Warboss Dakkachomp's mind did something it had never done before: it had an idea. Seeing his Boyz struggling to take down the larger, more heavily armored creatures he took a personal guard of Nobz up the canyon walls to where he knew an Evil Sunz detachment had Deffkoptaz based. Finding only three grounded machines left amidst the ruins of twenty more, Dakkachomp and his Nobz raced to the aid of the three endangered pilots and effortlessly cleaved the Hormogaunts swaming over their machines. He looked down at the pilots and spat at their feet. "Get dose wirlyberds runnin'! We's got killin' ta do!" One of the pilots narrowed his eyes at the Warboss and growled "you be da Goff Warboss. We boyz fight fer da Evil Sunz, not 'choo!" Dakkachomp snarled and grabbed the insolent Speed Freek by the throat and slammed him against the canyon wall. "We not Clanz now, we'z just Orcs! NOW GET DAT T'ING READY TA SHOOT!" Within moments Dakkachomp led out a roar of triumph as the scarlet Deffkoptaz streaked over his forces, firing twin-linked rokkits into the creatures left and right, giving his Boyz much needed time to regroup. As he saw the result of putting Clan differences aside and working together, Dakkachomp found himself realizing a truth so beautiful it nearly blinded him: he could make a crapload of money with this!

And it was so that Dakkachomp led his Boyz, Nobz and new Deffkoptaz across the planet until they found a small group of Mechboyz holed up in an ammunition factory. They were hesitant to build Dakkachomp's crew a rokkit to get them off-planet, but death threats work surprisingly well. As the Warboss looked down at the chaotic planet they were leaving behind as his ship blasted past the atmosphere, he solemnly promised his men that though they were backin' out of a good and proper scrap they would see many, many more to come in the future. Oh, and be rich as hell, don't forget that!
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The End! For now at least, I may add in more if ideas come to me. Basically, my idea for my army is that they're a rag-tag group of mercenaries and pirates, Freebootaz being their favorite way to describe themselves. The idea stems from the fact that I like almost every Orc unit there is as well as all the ways you can paint them. So, I'm basically going to paint my guys whatever the hell I want and just say that Dakkachomp brought them along from other clans to help him diversify his army so more people will hire them out. Goff Boyz and Nobz, Speed Freek Deffkopaz and Warbikes, Blood Axe Stormboyz and Kommandos, you get the picture. My questions are as follow:

1) Is this idea overdone? I'm sure other Orc players in the past have wanted to build multi-clan armies, so please tell me if you've heard this a thousand times before.

2) Should I bother naming the planet Scar Valley was from? I figure it's not too important, but then again I've only played against my friend, I don't really know how into lore other players will be.

3) Are Deffkopas gonna be as much of a bitch to paint as I think they will be?

Thanks in advance for any comments, good or bad!

I actually really liked that story
dunno if it's been done before but it's a good idea so go for it.
I know there is a freebooter captain model somewhere.

I liked it.
However, forgive me if this seems mean, but I dont like the name you gave your Warboss.
Most warbosses have a more personal name, whereas yours to me just sounds like 'Boss GunBite'. I dunno, maybe im just a dick!

Example: What about something like Boss Groz 'Eadchompa?

I don't know a great deal about the Orks clans but the Goffs are the traditional ones right?
Shouldn't your warbosses name be something ot do with killing things up close and stealing their teeth for money?
Like Teef Rippa
It has ripping and teeth!
You get my point though don't you?

Thanks for the replies, guys! In response to your thoughts on my Warboss' name, I am willing to change it, nothing is set in stone. The reason I named him Dakkachomp is that I already have a vague backstory for him. The cliff notes are that he was battling a Space Marine who shoved a bolter in his mouth. He responded by biting the barrel in half, knocking the SM down and beating him to death with his own destroyed weapon. I personally like this backstory because I find the idea of someone biting a gun in half to be badass, but like I said, nothing's set yet.

Besides the nitpick that it's 'ork'





I have to say that I enjoy this fluff.....ork vs. 'nid is always a good way for you to get a really, really big warboss. As I recall....the orkz are one of the best at fighting the 'nids. I forget why...but I seem to recall the Eldar using orkz to hold off the 'nids.

I actually think one way to improve it is to use the back story.....maybe Warboss Beakiechompa would be good? I like that a bit.......
Let's see how Waaaagh! Dakkachompa does when the Imperium takes notice of it.

Orks are good at fighting nidzs because they get bigger with more fighting and each time one dies he lets off spores which grow more orks etc
Also that is a great picture.

Haha, thanks for the correction ChrisWWII. I'll try to remember to type it as "ork" in the future.

Still thinking about the name for my Warboss, nothing's coming to mind yet. I will say though that I had a very successful battle today against my friend so I'm loving him more and more! An amazing series of rolls had him take out the Chapter Master, five SM's and three Terminators single-handedly. I was pleased to say the least.

Does he take steroids as well because that's not too shabby for an ork warboss

haha QFT purplefood


i really like your story. it is well done. on how much fluff people haveit is really up to them, you have a ton up there and i think that is good. for me i play IG and i have pages and pages and pages of fluff, detailing the government of each planet, andthe planets nearby, i used to write a bit every late night when i couldn't sleep haha. i also record each battle and make it go into the plot line cause that seems to further the plot for me and is interesting.

i would name the planet just for the sake of it. or at least name whatever their new base of operations is.

i didnt like painting deffkopters haha. i have an ork army as well. but i did paint them, and made them wacky just to make them more interesting.

I love it when people add fluff into battle it makes it so much more fun especially when you start nicknaming certain squads or characters and keeping count of the amount of times they have died or how many people they've killed.

QFT ^