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Mine has to be the one when a warboss traveled back in time to kill himself so he could have 2 of his favorite guns

I have a couple. I love that in the original lore, the snotlings were the degenerated form of the brainboyz who created Orks, but the orks got too smart eating the same fungus as the snots and rebelled.

I adore the one panel story in Gorkamorka about Doks. The one where a boy loses an arm and he tells his Nob. The Nob says: "Well, yers got two choices. Ya can go to the Dok, or you can go without." The boy replies: "One arm ain't so bad. I'll be lighter on my feet, able to fit through narrower gaps, fings like dat." LOL

I adore the one panel story in Gorkamorka about Doks. The one where a boy loses an arm and he tells his Nob. The Nob says: "Well, yers got two choices. Ya can go to the Dok, or you can go without." The boy replies: "One arm ain't so bad. I'll be lighter on my feet, able to fit through narrower gaps, fings like dat." LOL

One of my favorites as well!

My all time favorite though is actually a piece of fanfiction (which I can't seem to find ATM). It's a story someone wrote a while back about Ghazzy visiting Makari's grave. It was really well done and I kind of wish it was "official lore".

I also like the idea of Ghaz letting Yarrick go after capturing him so that he can have a "proper fight" ...

The Ork word for "Best Friend" and "Greatest Enemy" is the same. I love that.

Oh, and the Ork glyph for "Marine" is an extended middle finger. That's cute, too.

The one I always remember is a picture of a ramshackle Ork wagon hurtling into battle, bits flying off it, Orks hanging from the side shooting, explosions in the background and general mayhem ensuing. Every Ork in the picture is grinning.

The caption below simply reads:

"Contact with alien races always renews ones faith in Humanity"

The Ork view on victory:

"Orkses is never beaten in battle; if we win, we win, if we we die, we died fightin' so it doesn't count, and if we leg it, we always come back for anuvver go, see?"

Tycho wrote:
My all time favorite though is actually a piece of fanfiction (which I can't seem to find ATM). It's a story someone wrote a while back about Ghazzy visiting Makari's grave. It was really well done and I kind of wish it was "official lore".

Let me help you with that. http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Makari

I am partial to the old fluff on squigs being orkoid Tyranids and getting domesticated. They do have that on us, and I respect them for that.

Tagged!

Definitely the story of the Snakebites, specifically the Wyrm-Killa tribe.
Releasing tyranids onto new worlds, letting them multiply while the orks killed the humans, then "by the time the Orks had torn apart the humans they found themselves overrun by Tyranids, and gleefully turned their attentions to this new foe."
And they spread tyranids wherever they go to ensure a good time.

They're going to single-handedly bring in the end times.

Badly wounded and out of cigars, Kaptin' Badruk had to withdraw.

And the whole old story about Grotsnik. Back than he was hilarious! Now he's some khorne zerk without much personality.
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Grotsnik
History.

I have several. The first comes from the current ork codex where the ork big mek turns a space hulk into a shock attack gun only to accidently have one of his boys accidentally switch it on in reverse, sucking a planet into said space hulk.

Then there is tuska the daemon killa who launched a direct attack into the eye of terror and up a lot of daemon worlds earning the respect of khorne himsel after stabbing one of his daemon princes in the crotch with a power claw.

The other one is the ork who looted a moon and crashed it into a planet just to turn the resulting asteroid field into a fleet of ROKS.

Then there is the lore behind most ork war machines and units like the Kans who will stomp anyone who bullied them before or meks who after being booted out of a clan will return and demolish it with a dreadmob or gorkanaut after they get one built.

When all the ork lore is so good its hard to pick a favorite.

Mine's has to be the mek's how made a giant shokk attack gun which they fire grots and orks at a planet before one mek put the gun in reverse and sucked up the planet causing it to expole or the ork pilot that flew a ship without fuel as he belived

"The Orks are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is won. They have evolved a society which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge them? We Eldar who have failed, or the humans, on the road to ruin in their turn? And why? Because we sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn't even bother to ask! We see culture that is strong and despise it as crude."

- Uthan the Perverse, Eldar Philosopher.
Orks are so cool even Eldar have to admit it. WAAAGH!!!!


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I just browsed the codex from a 'know your enemy' standpoint and didn't touch the fluff and I STILL have two. The 'fact' that red paints makes things faster and a green foot stomping something because of psychic powers. You Ork players have fun in 40k the way no other race can ever hope to touch.

Wazdakka flying from a cliff sorrounded on fire, hitting the titan cockpit and killing the priceps and the crew, winning the day for the rules.
Or his old rules, where he accelerated in straght line, but you cant change his direction, so if you miss calculated his acceleration (pre-measure time) and if he touched the end of the table: bye bye wazdakka

 SharkoutofWata wrote:
The 'fact' that red paints makes things faster.

I find myself constantly referring to this 'theory' IRL. A lot of times it goes over the non-40k-players' heads, but when they get it: pure gold.

"My homebrew beer keeps coming out skunky"
"This chef's knife won't even cut a tomato"
"My phone battery dies after 2 hours"


"Maybe you just don't believe in it hard enough"

"Uhh. . . OK?"

Another good one is that they can save the galaxy from abbadons current incursion if two fueding ork domains near the eye would unite. However it says they aren't going to spoil a good fight between each other by doing what amounts to good Samaritan work and let the chaos attack to unhindered.

Also is the red making things go faster a possible char anzable referenceor something random ?

Mine was that fanfic called "Are You My Warboss?" or something like that.
Hit me with a ton of feels the whole way and now I can't look at our army the same again.

The Imperial Answer wrote:
Also is the red making things go faster a possible char anzable referenceor something random ?

There's also the running fanon/gag that purple is the colour of sneakiness and stealth; with the logic being that no one has ever seen a purple Ork.

"The Orks are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is won. They have evolved a society which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge them? We Eldar who have failed, or the humans, on the road to ruin in their turn? And why? Because we sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn't even bother to ask! We see culture that is strong and despise it as crude."

- Uthan the Perverse, Eldar Philosopher.

Such a neat bit of serious fluff for both Eldar and Orks.

The Imperial Answer wrote:
Also is the red making things go faster a possible char anzable referenceor something random ?

Heh, I thought 40k's nod to Char Aznable was Commander Farsight!

The orks borrow the "red 'uns go fasta!" from a more down-to-earth source, actually...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_racer

Gork and Mork tag teaming the Chaos Gods for gak n giggles.

Hair Squigs are cool.

My very favourite bit of greenskin fluff is actually Orcs not Orks.

The only good stunty is a dead stunty and the only thing better than a dead stunty is a dyin' stunty who tells yer where to find 'is mates!" (or words to that effect) - Morglum Necksnapper

Let me help you with that. http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Makari

That is brilliant, both funny and kinda touching

When Calgar held his own against thousands of orks alone for 24 hours during the SIege of Zalathras.

He must have slaughtered hundreds of them, at the least.

The Orks have the best fluff to ever come out of GW. From a non-Ork perspective its like Lord of the Rings in space. From a Ork perspective its like British skinhead football hooligans meets 80s action movies.

My favorite though is Wazdakka oneshotting a Titan.

Has to to be the METAL BAWKSES from Dawn of War!

DA COWORDS DA FOOLS!