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I’m sorry but a mek has way more technically skill and ability than a techpriest. Meks know how their stuff works.

Andykp wrote:
I’m sorry but a mek has way more technically skill and ability than a techpriest. Meks know how their stuff works.

Evil Sun Rising confirms that Big Meks don’t know how their tech works. They get drunk and make a miniature red sun to Power their Stompa.

On the flip side they subconsciously know how everything works. Mek talk seems like Meks using fake techno babble language like gubbinz when in actuality it’s them interpretation of Brainboyz’ genetic programming. Their Madboy Talker will even explain complex Ork physiology in spurts during the Waaagh Faker audio drama. My favorite line of his is saying how Techpriests are likely to ascribe magic to technology after a huge technological disaster.

There was definitely something to the idea that more orks believing something made it more likely to succeed. There was a passage in Wazdakka's section in the 4th edition codex saying that if he got enough orks to believe he could, then he could open his inter-warp highway and ride from planet to planet through the warp.

his current disappearance implies that they believed long enough to get him there, but forgot before he came back out.

w1zard wrote:

nareik wrote:
Interestingly humans which are psychically attuned to orks (techno barbarian ork cos players, Diggas, or the Armageddon ork hunters and Yarrik) seem able to operate ork tech with fewer problems too.

It is strongly implied in the Armageddon books that the only reason why Yarrick has been so successful is that a lot of Orks believe he is invincible and are afraid of "da 'umie boss". He's an old, unaugmented human that somehow fought an ork warboss in hand-to-hand combat and won (he did lose an arm), and also went toe to toe against Ghazghkull himself and held his own even if he did ultimately lose. Ghazghkull is the single most dangerous Ork since the beast, and I highly doubt an old geezer 'umie could do things like that unless there was some ork psychic stuff going on in the background.

It is written in the Armageddon codex/book that Tarrik heard rumors that the orks belived he could kill with a look so he did have a low-med strength laser augmented into this eye piece and it was very effective on ork morale when he started blasting away a couple orks with his face laser.

DontEatRawHagis wrote:

Andykp wrote:
I’m sorry but a mek has way more technically skill and ability than a techpriest. Meks know how their stuff works.

Evil Sun Rising confirms that Big Meks don’t know how their tech works. They get drunk and make a miniature red sun to Power their Stompa.

On the flip side they subconsciously know how everything works. Mek talk seems like Meks using fake techno babble language like gubbinz when in actuality it’s them interpretation of Brainboyz’ genetic programming. Their Madboy Talker will even explain complex Ork physiology in spurts during the Waaagh Faker audio drama. My favorite line of his is saying how Techpriests are likely to ascribe magic to technology after a huge technological disaster.

Evil sun rising shows what one mek did. Not all of them. And there are parts of their tech they don’t really understand but they know, even instinctively, what it does and how it does it. They know how to make things work and work better. They can take things and improve them.

There is a big step between knowledge and understanding. The Mechanicum is more at the data level. Very little knowledge of how things work and no understanding. They’re not even allowed to try and learn and improve on things. One mek building something while drunk doesn’t mean all don’t know how stuff works. They built the rest of the stompa without STC to follow. He did it through knowing how things work. And they took that force field off the knight and knew which bits to take and how to apply it to their stompa.