Lycannus wrote:Haighus 818985 11825694 5cb629f12cb23 wrote:
I think that stronger Ork hunters being able to wield choppas on the smaller end of the spectrum, albeit with some difficulty, is entirely reasonable.
Its worth remembering as well, ork hunters were a catachan regiment, so on the upper end of human size and strength
I think you might be confusing the origins of the models with the lore origins. The studio models were converted from Catachans.
In the lore, however, the Armageddon Ork hunters were formed by amalgamating the survivors of several regiments sent in to the equatorial jungles of Armageddon for a series of purges targeting the feral Ork population after the Second War for Armageddon. As such, they had origins from multiple worlds, although probably most of the regiments would have been from Armageddon itself. It seems the Ork hunters still adopt survivors from other regiments sent in to support them, although I don't know if this is their only source of replacements.
This was actually acknowledged in their rules. Initially, during their introduction in the Third War global campaign event, players were advised to represent them using the Deathworld Veterans army list found in Codex: Catachans. However, they later got a dedicated list in Chapter Approved which was based on the Deathworld Veterans list but deliberately watered down the special rules to show how they were not true born-and-bred deathworlders and could never quite achieve the same level of skill in jungles, but were as close as a human from elsewhere could get.
That said, it is entirely possible that at least one of the regiments amalgamated into the Ork hunters contained Catachans, but they are probably a small proportion at most.
