Mukkin'About wrote:Holy crap! I wish I had those models!
very much the cartoony old GW style.. but damn i still want em!

THE BEAST WITHIN - ORKS
To many victims of the rapacious, warmongering Orks, they are already quite daemonic enough. Some players can never get enough of a good thing though so rather than fight the Daemonhunters equipped only with a sturdy choppa and an experimental (but loud) shoota, they decide instead to include a Madboss and some Daemonboyz in their army.

It seems easy enough to rationalise; Orks salvage anything, fear nothing, respect personal prowess and love fighting. Excellent host material you might think. However, they do have a natural resistance to possession and any warband seen as getting too un-Orky could expect to be turned on by the rest and destroyed in short order. Orks are an elemental force in their own right and have a kind of simple purity of purpose that Chaos loathes. There is therefore little mileage in Chaos acting directly against the Orks but they are the perfect tool to use against the Imperium.

This is reflected in the plot hooks provided in Codex: Daemonhunters. The evidence of possession or Daemonic collusion with an Ork force would be certain to draw out the Daemonhunters. This could be bad news for the Orks as an army of storm bolter wielding stronger-than-normal Space Marines is not high on any Orks list of preferred opponents. Becoming an adversary for the occasion can certainly help.

Having your Warboss possessed on the face of it isn’t that brilliant. However, if he can hold the Daemonic power within him and resist possession you will have a Warboss with between 6 and 8 Strength. Give him a ’uge choppa for an extra 2 points of Strength and get ready for a shocked expression on your opponent’s face when he rips his way into a close combat. If you can get your Warboss into battle before the Daemon possessing him breaks out you will force the Daemonhunters to fight and kill not one but two combat monsters because the moment the Warboss falls over the Greater Daemon will appear. With any luck, by the time that happens the Daemonhunters will already have used some one-shot wargear and lost a few specialist personnel so that the Greater Daemon has a better chance of victory. In any event this type of combat is the sort that the Daemonhunters will want to isolate so they can unlimber their best guys to smite the godless. However when you are fighting Orks, even Daemonically-augmented Orks, what you get is a brawl. While the Warboss/Greater Daemon is doing his thing then the Boyz can get stuck in and drag the powerful but less numerous Damonhunters down one at a time.

Daemon packs are also useful to Orks. Superficially you might think that they are quite expensive in points and that for one Daemon you could have two choppa-armed Boyz. This is all true of course but ignores a few salient facts. Firstly, consider a unit with an Icon that hops out of a wartrukk and is suddenly accompanied by fifteen Daemons; the threat has become serious very quickly. Being able to get through the enemy barrage and dump lots of fighters in the face of the enemy is what being an Ork player is all about. Normally you don’t have enough transports for it and have to walk, hence the popularity of Speed Freeks, but Daemons can do the job too. Secondly, the Daemons could be 5 Strength and with Daemonic talons. There is very little short of a Warboss' retinue in an Ork army that can match that sort of lethality. Thirdly, the Daemons will keep coming back. If you have ever fought Orks in a Meat Grinder mission and been demoralised at the sight of a mob coming back again because of the Sustained Assault rule then you will have an idea what a Daemonhunters army facing an Ork adversary will have to deal with.

Mukkin'About wrote:Whoa! thanks Pilau Rice! I imagine that was from the days when you could actually get chaos ork models eh?
Nice food for thought as its obviously something people have gamed with in the past.
Plus your picture looks tasty, god i love rice >_>

@origarmi chicken. yeah we covered that. it's not really what i am going for but it makes sense for sure!

I would love to hear about these nurgle orks! is there a story about that?

Melissia wrote:Orks are extremely resistant to Chaos, and it is rare to the opint of being essentially unheard of for Orks to worship any of the Chaos Gods.

Melissia wrote:Orks are extremely resistant to Chaos, and it is rare to the opint of being essentially unheard of for Orks to worship any of the Chaos Gods.