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Hi I just got the assault in black reach orks and want to create my own clan/tribe I love the thought of the death skulls just not the blue paint scheme so if I could get some help with the background of this new tribe/clan so I can maybe get ideas on a colour scheme that would be amazing! Plz anyone help me. Tysm

I have made my own clan called the Orkpocalypse tribe its basically red faces but green everywhere else.

for Fluff purposes start off with you "Big 3-4" these are your main Hero's (or Villains in the case of Orks ) these would be in your clan:

-Your Warboss

-Your Mekboy

-Your Weirdboy?

think on what there personality's would be like (aside from the usual "Stomp everything flat" that all do) what sets your main guys from the rest? is it that your Warboss has unnatural Strength for a Warboss or he is a very Old Warboss and knows his enemy's well (as well as his nemesis of any particular army), could your Mek have production who is making something more effective than a Mega dredd? maybe a Dredd on Tracks? or maybe a massive oversized Tractor beam that shoots at small planets and moons and smacks them into other Planets and moons? Could your Weirdboy have some special psychic contact with the warp that makes him summon daemon's from the warp to his Cause (But he thinks it is a gift from Gork and Mork).

The next step is to Decide Who is your "Warlord" who is the one who oversees everything and make sure everyone is in line with the rest to make the plan go accordingly? Is it your Warboss perhaps? Or your Mek, etc. The best way to decide is who would you be on the Tabletop? After all Your warlord is meant to represent you on the Tabletop...

After this Your next step is to think what sets your Clan from the rest/others? Could it be that they have a large amount of Squigoths at their disposal? Or could they have 3 Gargants? or could it be that your boys never run away from a fight? the choices are endless.

After that this bit is optional but its still a bit of fun to think of it, but which army would your Orks "Preferred Enemy" and I mean such as, is there an Army you despise or dislike? An enemy that your Orks just love to pound into the Ground? and Is your Overlord's Nemesis in this Army. Your Army's Nemesis is your Warlords Special Enemy that they have fought many a time but always He/She/It managed to escape to fight for another day? and Your Warlord is always on the watch for Him/Her/It?. These Preferred Enemy's and Nemesis's could be what your Friends Army's and HQ's as well, that's always a good start...

This is just my two cents on making Fluff for you clan but I have barely touched the surface on Making Fluff for your Army...

Hope this helps

I have my own 'Tribe' called the Junka Boyz. Colors are leather and bare slightly rusting metal. For the Junka's, paint is rare and attributes wealth, so small baubles of random colors accent.
Junkas love very ramshackle vehicles. The rustier, clankier, pockmarked the better... except for the engine. They clean and polish their motors and engines to a high shine.

Welcome to the Waaaaagh! Well lad, allow this old timer to give ye a few tips.

First off, think up a terrain type/a planet type for your tribe. Tell yourself that you'll model the terrain on the bases of your boys, that it'll change the color of dust you put on your vehicles... And if it's a sunny planet you can use the excuse to greenstuff hats on some boys, hah!

Then, think up of a 'gimmick' to differentiate the paint job of your deffskulls compared to others. For instance my blood axes use a tan and brown camo scheme and sandy bases (they hail from a desert planet) but I have a gimmick: Purple flames or purple triangles as detailing here on there, sometimes even part of the camo. That's my tribe's gimmick.

You could decide your special gimmick is green triangles here and there (The fungus teef clan!) Or black skulls on vehicles (Blackskull riders!) possibilities are endless...

Another thing you could customize is 'what you loot'. For instance maybe your boys loot a lot of Tau stuff instead of imperial, that gives you modelling opportunities to make lootas with tau gear, trukks with burst kannons, buggies made from piranha hulls (wait, we all do that hah!)

Anyway, those are my starter tips: get your bases right, pick a gimmick, have fun with tribe names and warboss names.

You can know take looting stuff to a whole new level in 6th. Take some allies, particularly Tau, their strengths complement your weaknesses and vice versa. Now you can model some allies as heavily looted Orks. Some Tauified Shoota Boyz as Firewarriors, Shooty Mega-Nobz as Crysis Suits, some looted Hammerheads, etc. Sprinkle some Tau stuff among your primary Ork army and get a nice color/base scheme to tie it all together.

I dunno if I'd pick Tau-armored Orks as fire warriors. Orks aren't that weak. Maybe Tau-armored Grots?

Well the warboss is painted good so I don't want to scrap the paint really, for looting I'm going to use like WWII tanks and planes and muscle cars like rat rods. I just thought of a planet made of rock mountains and junk tossed there from other armies, enemie would be tau, gaurd, nids, or vanilla marines. But would lot like human WWII vehicles. Sound good or crap? All ur advice is appreciated

The Tank/Muscle car Idea is good... If ya loot the Tanks as in good old Ork fashion

Remember to paint 'em red and add more Dakka

WWII vehicles are my favourite options for ork vehicles, so I think it is an ok idea.

If you like Deffskulls, but do not like blue, you probably like the thieving-git fluff. You could end up painting them all in black and white stripes with bags over their shoulders .

Something like deffskulls is like a post I did a while back about a potential tribe called "Rust Bukkitz"
Rust Bukkitz colour scheme is standard colours with heavy amounts of dust, rust, and other grimes. Vehicles need to look like they have been cobbled together from scrap or look like antiques (Compliments the WWII stuff nicely).

The fluff is:
These orkz are the gut-pickers of the gut-pickers, they take everything. Where the deffskull clanboys may take everything down to the shoelace, the Rust-Bukkitz take the whole boot, and the foot inside as an extra score.

I'm think like ork rat rods I seen one on google nd have to make one. I don't want to much rust I want it to look like my tribe lootas the best of the best and make thee best out of the best they got. Lol that's a lot of bests


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Would anyone want to possibly write the fluff if your into that sort of thing? I'd love the help of a fluff writer since I'm not the greatest at writing

I loved coming up with my own clan for my Orks, really fun.

Do you want ideas for your fluff or do you want people to post their own?

I'm totally up for posting some fluff.

You're going to be covered in fluff!

Don't take that the wrong way!

Lol I was thinking I shot you ideas we compremize and make this awesome fluff


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Does that sound interesting to anyone?


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Just got the advice to make the colour scheme random colours but I want something so you know there in same clan


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Maybe ill get them to be like copycats like have red vehicles war paint and gold and black armour

I'm so tempted to come up with a warband. I have a couple o black reach ork sets in my wardrobe. Might even go the whole hog and make an ork BFG fleet. Lots of styrofoam= lots of ork roks and space hulk.

Will you help me?


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And I need to start on the fluff today cuz I want to start painting today but need fluff so I can figure out a paint scheme

Well the way I always interpreted it is that an ork tribe can look pretty uniform. As in whatever rags you care for them to wear.

The looters, flash gitz, kommandos etc all have a scheme which you could choose to refect on your minis.. Equally you may not, and choose for them all not to be that big on clan membership.

Personnally I'm going to opt for a rough and ready warband, with a mix of units. But independent of the clans, I suppose a basic colour scheme of natural colours, and blacks, I guess similar to snake bites but not limited to squigs and has access to the better technology.
So basicly I can have everything with a no nonsese colour scheme. A traditional ork mob.
Quick to paint and no gimmicks. My background will centre around how the warboss rose to the top of the warband and of the characters he associates with.

That's for yours!

Well before deciding,

What are your favorite units in the dex.

Start there and expand the warband around your intended core of the army.

No point us suggesting evil sunz if you don't like bikers for example.

There to expensive but would be kool, I don't have the dex but hopefully this guy will trade me for one. I like basically every unit but werid boys not so much. I like the rough and tough but Also strategic like kommandos

So pretty much everything.
I'd do either a generic warband, not clan affiliated, or if you are set on a warband, have you considered Goffs. Down dirty and everything geared to smacking you in the face.

But I want a looted aspect and I do like the death skulls face paint idea just not blue

You can tattoo your Orks. Maybe red warpaint, so they can go fasta? Or another colour, like brown, to be more sneeky?

So I could have them like the Geoff or goff and red war paint so they also go faster, but I'm actually starting to like the green and blue. But the black is so tough looking

Just play deffskullz and change the blue; use your preferred colour instead. You now, it's like the red paint job; it does not need to be red to work after all.

Doesn't it

Melissia wrote:I dunno if I'd pick Tau-armored Orks as fire warriors. Orks aren't that weak. Maybe Tau-armored Grots?

Digression from thread topic, but this is something I'm intending to do. Grotz with pulse rifles and scraps of Tau armor as Fire Warriors, Nobz wearing mostly gutted Krisis Sootz with some Stormboy bitz for the jet pack, and any drones being carried aloft by grotz. Now if only I didn't have 3 other ork conversion projects ahead of it in line....

thenoobbomb wrote:You can tattoo your Orks. Maybe red warpaint, so they can go fasta? Or another colour, like brown, to be more sneeky?

No no no! Ever'wun noez purple iz da sneekiest! Wen wuz da last time ya saw an ork paintud purple?

Lol nice ork talk love it. I might go white orange red purple