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Heres my Ork clan!, Advice will be helpful!.

Overview:

The Blood Troopaz are a less known Clan, who are rarely spoken about by other races because of the Terrors they inflict upon them. They are called the Blood Troopaz because they have a bloodthirst even unsettling for a great Warboss. They have only taken part in 2 WAAAAAAAHH! at this current time, due to them being a newer clan, However they are being studied closely as they are apparently founding a new WAAAAAGH!, with them and their Warboss Gaw-Kraka.

History:

A small group of Orks abandoned by the Goff Clan were left on a world called Atrocitas, this was shortly after the horus Heresy and thus the Orks were never found and exterminated by the Imperium. They slowly exterminated the local hospitable wildlife and became a dominant Clan on the planet, scavenging supplies from the WAAAGH! and building a high functioning tribe. After this the Warboss at the time (Name unknown) donned the tribe as the Blood Troopaz, as they drank the blood of the corpses belonging to the imperial guards who were slaughtered when the Orks were left behind from the WAAAAGH!.

Equipment:

The Blood Troopaz are a Melee oriented clan, so they have less Shootas than the average clan. But have the time to equip their Choppas with such things which will give more pain to the enemy.
A imperial Guardsman stationed on the planet Yeokal had a statement after the planet had been raided by the clan.

"The pain, oh may the Emperor have mercy. They had this like…"Purple" liquid, it had been mixed din with the blood and intestines of my division members. I think that made it worse. The huge abomination of metal and sharp spikes was smashed into my left shoulder with the power of…I'm not even sure…The gargantuan greenskin was about to finish me off and behead me, before a group of Karskins saved my skin. Whilst i was being dragged away from the bloodbath, i saw this…purple salt like substance growing into my veins, the pain was tremendous, sharp pain like a spike had been pushed into all sides of your body…it was un-holy"

It appears the substance was Pain-Gritz, a type of salt used by the Blood Troopaz to incarcerate their foes so they could perform a brutal finish to them.

A armour on a Blood Troopa is more than protective, it acts as a piece of psychological warfare, equipped with metal stakes and intestines from comrades of their next victim.
The rest is average for a Ork, although the colour of their clothing is slightly different. Clothes are dipped in Blood and Black paint, which gives a ultimately Dark colour on their clothing (overalls, Boots e.g) Whilst their armour is Red paint over layered with blood, sometimes form the Ork itself. A Black cap with a red spike is also given to Blood Troopaz who are tougher than the rest.

Traditions:

The traditions are feared by many, the Blood Troopaz are known to perform a ritual known to them as "Spikin'"

A Elysian Drop trooper by the name of Yaidan Incubilbius reported a encounter of this.

"I was watching from a Mechanicum balcony, i was hidden behind a couple sandbags and the mutilated bodies of my comrades. I peered over, we was fighting for about 5 days, in a city centre full of metal, trenches, bodies…and i saw this huge rusty metal stake about 13 feet high. Poor sod with a cadian outfit on him was behind ushered by 4 massive green skins covered in Black and red. One had a massive horn on his helmet covered in blood, and you never believe what he did to it. The Cadian bloke was stripped of all his clothes, undergarments and all, and he was picked up by these 4 big monsters-you saw the claws digging into the skin and all-i stared at it, not knowing what to happen next. They then threw this screaming bloke onto the stake, and by the emperor, there was blood and gore everywhere, the poor man was screaming and crying for help, i even felt pain staring at him. Once he was right at the bottom of the stake, still half alive…they tore him limb to limb, until his was dead, the big one with the horn then ripe rout his heart whilst the other were eating the arms and legs…and impaled it onto his horn…thank god the commissar was with me, we charged down and avenged the poor boy and killed the abominations which caused his demise".

The 17 year old Cadian White-Sheild was called Sanguin Puer, this was his first battle and he was captured by the Blood Troopaz five minutes in to the firefight.

Doctrine:

The Blood Troopaz often encourage Melee and short ranged shooting into their ranks, and have a steady supply of Nobz and Storm-Boys.

So, i know its slightly short, but i hope you can appreciate it!.

Good read, I liked it. especially the last paragraph about the spiking of poor puer. if you realy incorporated all this into your army it would be a sight indeed, especially if you made a terrain piece of a 13 foot pole with dismembered guardsmen piled at the bottom. good job anyway.

There's nothing wrong with this idea (though it's a bit grim for the orks, who have, at least, for themselves, a funny sense of humor---considering what they find funny). That's not to say that it is implausible in any way. However, I'm not sure why this is a Clan, rather than just a warband or tribe. The ork clans are unusually long-lived, and clan associations can span across various tribes and warbands.

Just from reading the background, the Blood Troopaz seem to have some influences from the Goff clan (emphasizing close combat and brutality over nonsense like 'looking cool' or 'driving fast'.). However, they also seem to have a bit of a Khornate influence (which isn't all that far-fetched, if you read older Rogue Trader era materials). I also feel like they have a little bit of the Blood Axes 'vibe', if the Blood Axes had decided to emulate the Dan Abnett Blood Pact (traitor guard) rather than standard Imperial Guard.

Given their interest in poison/chemistry, I could easily see the Blood Pact as having a bit more Painboys than normal (experimenting with humans and the like). Alternatively, their rather macabre interests could also be spun out of contact with Dark Eldar torturers.

I'm just throwing all that out there because it might give you some ideas for modeling or converting. Alternatively, if you like the current allies system, you could possibly take some Cultists/Chaos Marines or some Haemonculi/Grotesques as 'advisors'.

The big thing is, I just don't see a Clan of orks called the Blood Troopaz. It's certainly not impossible, but given that you are probably only painting up say, no more than 300 orks, a warband would be totally sufficient. It's just more plausible that the orks on a particular planet, especially under the influence of a notable Warboss, get up to some freaky stuff. Ork Clans tend to be massive, spanning across ork tribes on thousands of planets. If a 'clan' is limited to a single planet, or a single traveling hulk, I think it would be more accurate to just call them a warband.

Orks are grim. They are humorous by the standards of 40K, but this is the setting that invented the term 'grimdark'.

Orks eat people, put their heads on spikes and do all kinds of nasty things all the time.

 BrotherHaraldus wrote:
Orks are grim. They are humorous by the standards of 40K, but this is the setting that invented the term 'grimdark'.

Orks eat people, put their heads on spikes and do all kinds of nasty things all the time.

Indeed, I think the jovial manner in which they commence battle makes people think they are quite friendly when in fact if you came in contact with one unarmed fearing for your life, you would probably end up with no arms... and no life.

In the case of the "Blood Troopaz" they seem to have become more addicted to the taste of warm blood than just the battle itself, like most orks are, like some being addicted to speed and being seriously obsessed with customising their vehicles, or loud gun/cannon fire and being seriously obsessed with modifying their shootas to make the loudest boom. So I could totally see them being quite serious and ritualistic about getting that blood out of a victim. This "sense of humour" mentioned above stems from violence and killing things and finding it funny, or being really stupid in their dialogue which other races might find funny but to an ork that's just their way of communicating and they don't find much of it funny at all.

I do however agree that one planet of Orks is nowhere near enough to be called a clan, sorry mate but clans are massive multi system spanning groups that fall under the same Name and banners with many different tribes still adhering to the larger clans (loose) doctrines and preference: like the goffs and close combat. that is not to say that a warband or tribe couldn't break away completely from a clan but I think the Blood troopaz would need a fair few more Boyz under their command to call themselves a clan.

And like BrotherHaraldus said: Orks do all kinds of messed up stuff on a regular basis, that if you witnessed first hand I really don't think you would be laughing much. I don't know I'm just not into them being portrayed as the big green clowns of the universe when really all they want to do is chop you open with a chainsaw and feast on your innards and I liked Warboss Fleshbulls rendition on what some of the darker habits of the green menace could be.

Thanks guys, i understand about the Clan and thus I've now changed them to a Warband, i had some confusion

I love writing quotes so heres a few about them.

Commander Instrictus of the Mordian Bluebacks.

"Those things are wretched, far more intelligent than the average Greenskins. The smaller ones scuttle in and out of the mist of fog descending over the corpses. All of the sudden you see these massive hulking figures in black, horned and equipped with massive axes the size of a Marine's leg. Then they charge, screaming out a mixture of Gothic and their native tongue, they spoke it so well that we were shocked beyond belief. You fire but they do not fall, you run but they rip up dozens of men like a meat grinder whilst they hunt you down calling for your name in a eerie laughter. I turned, they were ripping chunks out of my mens necks and devouring them like a meal. The commissar called for me "Instrictus! help! help me my commander!", he said more but it was drowned by the sound of his crying and the crack and squelch of his feeble body being ripped apart. Then the Marines came, pushing me back as i screamed for help. But as we turned around…they were nowhere to be seen, they had run back into the fog…"

This was at the battle of Masteus II in which 70,000 Mordian guard were murdered brutally after attacking a recently Ork infested world.


Guardsman Lumen Urbickan of the Cadian Urban division.

"We were entering a temple, the square of towers around it had been burned down and cleared of the Xenos. As i started my light, a huge hole covered in spikes and metal was in front of us, with a statue of the Saint Emiline covered in blood over the top of it. We managed to climb in, and i was pushed to the front of our squad as i was the one with the torch. Skulls and bones were everywhere, and the wrench of rotten flesh was overpowering. I saw these little dugouts in the tunnel, they were well supported, some of them were awful: filled with a dead pale corpse with half its ribcage eaten out. The others were quite complex, bombs or weaponry stored in a neat fashion, most even more neater than a guardsman's. We finally came across a whole room lit with torches, it didn't take long to find that the corpses were limbs of the 6 inquisitors on the planet, as the mark on them were still burning. In the middle there was a unholy sight, a pile of flesh and gore, woven with barbed wire to keep it from collapsing, at the top of this was a blood soaked Marine on a metal pike with one of his arms torn off, in the flesh you could see a tooth of an Xenos in which was where it bit into him too hard. I retched, so did the others. Then came in the hordes of black capped and horned Orks, shouting in Gothic and absolutely tearing us apart. I was knock rout by a club, and thank god i was as when i woke i found my comrades all in a circle, impaled in a similar fashion as the Marine. The Orks were feasting and chanting in a low mix of Gothic and Xeno tongue, i stayed there as i heard a whole platoon marching down the tunnel. They finally cleared out the area and i was free to go…But alas. not free from the abominations i saw."

So i decided that the Blood Troopaz know Gothic and are significantly more intelligent than the average Ork, as when they were founded, Imperium tech and knowledge was left over on the planet, and thus the Ork generations learnt Gothic and became more intelligent. They also live underground and they appeal more to dark and secure locations for a home, such as the tunnel in the quote, often decorate with the trophies of enemies.

What do you think?.

Also, the Blood Troopaz are very similar to the Goff clan. And they may of had some tinting from chaos/ Khorne at some point, just working that bit out