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Does this sound right?

Snotling: 1 foot
Grot: 1 metre
Ork Boy: Average human height when hunched (5'6"-6')
Ork Nob: Average space marine height when hunched (7'-7'6")
Ork Mega Nob: Average Terminator height (7'6"-8')
Ork Warboss: 8'-8'6" when hunched
Ork Warboss in Mega Armor: 8'6"-9'
Ork Warlord: 9'- 9'6" when hunched
Ork Warlord in Mega Armor: 9'6"-10'

give or take. if i remember Ghazkull is described as being over 3 meters tall, which meshes well with the Warlord in mega armor range.

Cheesecat wrote:Does this sound right?

Snotling: 1 foot
Grot: 1 metre
Ork Boy: Average human height when hunched (5'6"-6')
Ork Nob: Average space marine height when hunched (7'-7'6")
Ork Mega Nob: Average Terminator height (7'6"-8')
Ork Warboss: 8'-8'6" when hunched
Ork Warboss in Mega Armor: 8'6"-9'
Ork Warlord: 9'- 9'6" when hunched
Ork Warlord in Mega Armor: 9'6"-10'

Yep. This is fairly accurate in regards to Ork height.

I'm not sure what discussion is to be had now.

Ghazghkull is like the size of a friggin' Dreadnought though. He's huge even by Warlord in Mega Armour standards.

Snotling: Like toddlers in size.
Grot: Shorter than a human, probably about five feet if they weren't hunched over.
Ork Boy: Taller than a hujman, probably seven feet if they weren't hunched over. Varies based off of location, but is almost invariably bigger than a human.
Ork Nob: At least a full head or two over a Boy. Varies based off of location, some extremely war-ravaged worlds have boyz as big as other worlds' nobs.
Ork Mega Nob: Not really that much bigger tahn a standard Ork Nob, just with thicker armor. Indeed, some nobs are probably bigger than some mega-nobs.
Ork Warboss: Several heads taller than a nob. Some locations may very well have nobs bigger than other locations' warbosses.
Ork Warboss in Mega Armor: Same as wtih the Mega Nob.
Ork Warlord: Probably a few heads taller than a warboss, but the main difference between a warboss and warlord is the scope of their operation, rather than physical size.
Ork Warlord in Mega Armor: Same as with the Mega Nob.

Melissia you say a warlord isnt any different to a warboss

but surely under Ork law, bigger ork is boss ork

but you do make a good point on location, the Snotlings from armeggedon would probably be the same size as most places grots

I haven't seen any real reference that snotlings and grots grow like Orks do.

Sounds about right, but Melissia's point about location also applies

I basically varies.

the only information we have is that an Ork boy would be taller then the average human, if he stood up straight. That probably puts them at the same height as a human, but with a much heigher body mass of course.

Nobs, if Space Marine is anything to go by, are taller then a Space Marine(appears around 8ft tall)


This is, of course, Average. an Ork boy on Armageddon might qualify for Nob status on some backwater out on the eastern fringe

I believe a "normal" ork is the same height as a Space Marine if he could stand up completely straight.....which he can't.

Yes he can, he just doesn't because it's not his natural body shape. Look at how the Kommando Nob in DoW2 straightens up to look around, for example.