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To all ork players out there who know something about orks, how do they reproduce? and why do i never see any female orks

Orks are just a bunch of angry 'shrooms, they leave spores, then that's what they grow from

Okay so basicly they move from planet to planet leaving spores (how do they move from planet to planet (another ork question i have?)

Yes, exactly. They may be angry 'shrooms, but they have ships too, albeit very low-tech ships. You can find them on the occasional space hulk too.

Basically, soon after he dies, the Ork releases spores which lodge themselves in the ground and grow and a fully grown Ork eventually emerges. This is why the Imperium always burns Ork corpses quickly after the battle, so the spores are destroyed. It's the same with the 'nids. As for their ships, they just loot what they can and build very basic ships with the parts.

Blood Raven 5th Company wrote:Okay so basicly they move from planet to planet leaving spores (how do they move from planet to planet (another ork question i have?)

They essentially leap onto the nearest space hulk, and use it to travel the Warp by steering it into any nearby Warp Storms. Often, this leads them to random star systems, but as long as there's life on the planets that they arrive at, the Orks don't care too much.

One more ork question, i went down to my local game shop and saw a cople of guys playing warhammer orks vs nids and the ork player had a rhino with a huge cannon on the back is this unit legal?

Orks can loot anything and now they have looted a rhino and putted a big gun on the back (orks like big and noisy guns).

Lexicanum has pretty good info about orks:

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ork

Gotta love Lootas

So let me get this strait an ork player can have any vehicle?

Yes, Orks can loot anything they can get their hands on. Even Carnifexes.

I remember the hilariously awesome looted monolith battlefortress.

In theory, if it's not nailed down the Orks can nick it. Even then, they're likely to just prise the desired object loose if it actually is nailed down. They can't use the actual rules for the vehicles they nick, though; those are covered by the Looted Wagon and Battlewagon entries in the codex.

Ork mechanics have genetic memory allowing them, pretty incredible scientific minds for the lack of schooling, they can convert lots of stuff into weapons and make things go vrrrrrroooooooooom,

The spore reproduction system means that worlds that have suffered a warrrrrrgh will have a continual problem with savage ork incursions, like after the 2nd and 3rd wars on Armageddon.

yep. thats how feral ork tribes happen

Seriously this is all of the questions you have about Orks? They are by far the best developed fluff in the game, don't let your curiosity die here.

Man the orks are cool (damn now i want them)

If orks land on the planet (and it becomes infected by them) and the local marines kill them (renegade ravens) how long would it take them to re amass?

Depending on what planet it is, I'm pretty sure there aren't any "local" marines. As per the regrouping time, look at this: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Ork_Physiology#Reproduction

Thanks for the link
as for the"local Marines" i am designing my marines to be renegades that live on 1 planet.

Blood Raven 5th Company wrote:If orks land on the planet (and it becomes infected by them) and the local marines kill them (renegade ravens) how long would it take them to re amass?

If an average Ork Waaagh! is defeated, but orks remain on the planet, it can take anywhere from a week to a decade for them to fully regroup.

orkses is never truly defeted!!

Not so much fully regroup them just be big enough to send raiders

Blood Raven 5th Company wrote:Not so much fully regroup them just be big enough to send raiders

As said even if an ork invasion force is kicked off the planet/most killed. Feral ork populations will begin growing in the years after this from the leftover spores. Given the right conditions it might only take a few years for them to become a threat in their own right. Especially if its a frontier world with less established garrisons and defences.

Now I'm gonna get the ork codex and start collecting them

Could it be possible for an ork to loot a drop pod or a craft world?

Blood Raven 5th Company wrote:Could it be possible for an ork to loot a drop pod or a craft world?

As long as it conforms to the Codex: Orks Heavy Support entry "Looted Wagon."

It is admittedly actually pretty crappy. Better idea: field it as a battlewagon - transports 20 models, front armor 14, open-topped, and up to 6 guns (though one would be ordnance).

So... it can be either or if its another model it can only be a looted wagon?

Looted monoliths smash puny Necrons.

Blood Raven 5th Company wrote:So... it can be either or if its another model it can only be a looted wagon?

Or a Battlewagon, which is preferable.

Looted Wagon:
AV's 11, 11, 10
1 Main Gun
2 Small Guns
Transports 12

Battlewagon:
AV's 14, 12, 10
2 Main Guns
4 Small Guns
Transports 20