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I am not sure if this is the right place to post but..... are there any stories about the orks? I have found a couple of short stories but they seem far and few between. Does any.body know of any? They don't exactly have to.be about orks from an orks perspective, but something heavily pertaining to orks would be cool imo.

They're rare.

Most iconic example is the old comic Deff Skwadron.

Then there is Siege of Castellax by C.L. Werner, it's from the viewpoint of the Iron Warriors and their slaves while fighting orks. Pretty good read in my opinion. Shows nicely why you should never underestimate orks.

Most books tend to be about slaying orks :( Else there's the comic as mentiond Deff skwadron Good and fun read

I'll re-post my reply to a similar thread from a while back (with some tweaks because I've actually got around to reading Brothers of the Snake since then)):

Stories from an Ork perspective are extremely limited. Fear the Alien is a a short story collection that has a story from the Ork point of view. It's an interesting read, but a bit short and the plot is fairly basic. Imperial Glory has a chapter from an Ork's perspective describing his rise from emerging from his cocoon to becoming a Warboss. Personally I wasn't so keen on the book (though I did find that chapter the most interesting part), but a lot of people seem to like it, so that might be of interest.

You're more likely to find books where the Orks are the enemy. I read Rynn's World recently. Again, I wasn't a fan of the book but there are lots of Orks in it. If you're familiar with Sandy Mitchell's Cain series, Death or Glory, Caves of Ice and The Last Ditch have Orks in them. In Death or Glory they're the enemy throughout and a lot of time is spent travelling through Ork territory, seeing how they control a conquered city and that sort of thing. They're not in Caves of Ice as much (though they remain present throughout the stroy), and in The Last Ditch they've been pretty well sidelined by the time you're about halfway through. Fifteen Hours also has many encounters with Orks, and is again a very popular and well-known Guard novel.

Personally I'd like to see Dan Abnett writing about Orks more. I say that because the second Gaunt's Ghosts novel, Ghostmaker, is built around a series of short stories about each of the major characters and Rawne's story (entitled Permafrost if you want to go straight to it) is about him and Gaunt trying to escape an Ork force on an ice world. His portrayal of Orks really plays up their tough aspects and leaves out the comedy altogether, and so it's quite interesting. Also: Orks on a skidoo.

I also have Brothers of the Snake by him...it's an oddly-structured book, I think it started off as a bunch of short stories that he linked into a novel. Orks play a major role in that towards the end and the portrayal of a hand-to-hand battle against an Ork horde is insane (in the chapter/story Greenskin). It's entirely from a Marine perspective, but the battle scenes are full of detail - the front lines of the Orks and Marines fighting them with shields and spears reaching tropical levels of heat and humidity as the two sides hack and batter at each other, Orks pressing in so much they are literally climbing over their friends in the front rank because they're so eager to get stuck in, etc. The Orks in this book are not light-hearted comic characters, they are berserk fighting machines.

Not really from the Ork's pov but there's is the one were Yarrick was captured. Seems like Ghaz is just playing with him and other ork's just aren't any competition anymore

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I am not sure if this is the right place to post but..... are there any stories about the orks? I have found a couple of short stories but they seem far and few between. Does any.body know of any? They don't exactly have to.be about orks from an orks perspective, but something heavily pertaining to orks would be cool imo.

I would like to see a novel series from the Ork perspective.

An ork like captain bluddflagg from dow 2 retribution would be interesting enough for at least one novel.