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When the old manager was still around at our local GW, and we finished a campaign with an Apocalypse match of Order vs Disorder, it was customary to hear battle cries raging at the beginning of every turn, except the Nids, DE and Necrons.

Cries of "For the Emperor!" "Blood For the Blood God!" "For the Greater Good!" "Die Heretic!" and "Death to the False Emperor!" were constantly scaring off customers. But did we care? No! Because we were waiting. The Orks had theirs, but they had to collectively decide what turn it would be. Funny enough, the biggest, and beefiest guy always got to choose :/.

When we reach that moment. Silence. The ork players drew in their roars. The players all coward, shielding ears and newly built models lest the glue being unstuck. The staff drew in theirs. The manager counted to three.


Now, this GW is in a large shopping centre in a captial city cebtre, near the exit to be precise. Its calm, mellow. Staff come and go. Never, not one single year are the security prepared for the cries. But never do they come.


This year, however, something has changed. A new Ork player has stepped up, packing Ghazkull, and makes the call on turn 2!


Never in all my life have I heard such a noise! It shook the very room where we stood, dice rattled on the Citadel© Realm of Battle Boards and paintbrushes dropped from the shelves. The customers who were "just looking thanks!" ran from the store! I think one of the younger Eldarites peed himself! And battlelust rushed through everyone in the room like 150 year old scotch! Such a manly sound was never meant for the ears of men, only gods and deceased '80s rock legends.


Next thing I know, 3 security officers are standing there with plastic bats and tasers asking what happebed!

Im an ork player and i dont do it purely because of the way my voice works lol. I have no vocal training and i speak casually with the bottom of my throat so its very deep. I usually hurt my throat if i raise my voice too high.

Its definitely a thing though, my friends were constantly trying to get me to do it when i used my orks. Not to mention we are playing in a spare room of a dormatory, screaming is not a valid idea lol

I love the idea, and I practice it myself. Sure it either makes the guy seem awesome or hopeless, but you got to give kudos to the guy who decides to throw his dignity aside and scream an incomprehensible word at the top of his lungs.

Its never as epic as you really want it to be.

Have to admit though, despite not normally doing it, if i actually follow through with my plans to make an ork cosplay costume you can bet on it that if i see a random IG or Marine cosplay i am charging them screaming WAAAAGH! hoping they play along and "Overwatch" me lol

 daedalus wrote:
I'm now picturing a tasteful "Waagh" done by a classy ork with a walrus mustache and waistcoat.
*Checks his pocketwatch*
*Mustache warbles*
"Hear hear! Waaagh! Waaagh, I say!"
Another ork responds sips tea and responds with, "Indeed, verily!"

Are these the orks that looted a steam tank??


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 Da Kommizzar wrote:
I love the idea, and I practice it myself. Sure it either makes the guy seem awesome or hopeless, but you got to give kudos to the guy who decides to throw his dignity aside and scream an incomprehensible word at the top of his lungs.

Take up Kendo, you try to yell loud enough to make your opponent flinch as you whack him with a stick, most glorious! (MEN! <hit head>, KOTE! <hit wrist>, DO! <hit stomach: disembowel> )

All of us a our local game do these kinds of things! Our Orc player does an awesome WaaaaaaaaaaaG! It is so good we must provide prior warning to other patrons who are not aware of what we are up to! I bellow "For the Emporer!" on the assault phase of my Termies. And my youngest son shouts "For the Greater Good." It is all in good fun...

Ed

I can see where as a group if you do it, it could be fun. I little warning for the average person is nice.

I figure as we add more and more players to the group we are bound to get a few more "vocal" battlecries. I never see it at the FLGS but there is only ever a single game going on because of the other table is fantasy players.

I'm gonna try this with eldar...

"MY SPIRIT WILL SHAPE THE WRAITHBONE!" might not have quite the same ring though...

 PrinceRaven wrote:
I wish I had something to say with my Tyranids, they're not exactly the talkable type.

SCREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

I also downloaded a soundboard of Movie Monster Noises for when I feel like it.

My Tyrant roaring like Godzilla (2000) when he slays the enemy warlord, or a Prime roaring like a Jurassic Park T-Rex in a challenge is a lot of fun

 HerbaciousT wrote:

 PrinceRaven wrote:
I wish I had something to say with my Tyranids, they're not exactly the talkable type.

SCREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

I also downloaded a soundboard of Movie Monster Noises for when I feel like it.

My Tyrant roaring like Godzilla (2000) when he slays the enemy warlord, or a Prime roaring like a Jurassic Park T-Rex in a challenge is a lot of fun

That's flat out awesome. I want to play your nids now

 Purifier wrote:
"YOU DON'T SCARE ME, WORK ON IT!"

Brilliant


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PredaKhaine wrote:

 HerbaciousT wrote:

 PrinceRaven wrote:
I wish I had something to say with my Tyranids, they're not exactly the talkable type.

SCREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

I also downloaded a soundboard of Movie Monster Noises for when I feel like it.

My Tyrant roaring like Godzilla (2000) when he slays the enemy warlord, or a Prime roaring like a Jurassic Park T-Rex in a challenge is a lot of fun

That's flat out awesome. I want to play your nids now

Gamera works really well for the Harpy!

Not Gamera the Turtle of Terror?!

You should make one, because everyone needs a giant turtle with rocket legs

The very same! Maybe ill build one then use it as a Tervigon or something.....A flying Tervigon.....that spawns Gargoyles! Genius!

I love battlecries. but i do hope that the ork players keep it under 100Db.

 HerbaciousT wrote:

 PrinceRaven wrote:
I wish I had something to say with my Tyranids, they're not exactly the talkable type.

SCREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

I also downloaded a soundboard of Movie Monster Noises for when I feel like it.

My Tyrant roaring like Godzilla (2000) when he slays the enemy warlord, or a Prime roaring like a Jurassic Park T-Rex in a challenge is a lot of fun

Oh man, that has to my favorite roar. When I'm on the "imaginative mood" and I imagine something roaring, that's the sound that always pop up in my mind That must be awesome in the "battlefield"

I once yelled "WAAAAGH" so loud I was hoarse for the rest of the day.

Totally worth it.

 PrinceRaven wrote:
I wish I had something to say with my Tyranids, they're not exactly the talkable type.

Now you have something to say

As one of the three Ork players at my local group I am the only one who wagghs,.. I never did it for a long time, because I never declared it. Now... now when I do it.. my foe just completely thrown off. The tau guy kept checking to make sure I wasn't gunna smack him when I did it. His movements becomes disoriented and things. It really digs deep in the players when you do it. Forever!

Davor wrote:

 PrinceRaven wrote:
I wish I had something to say with my Tyranids, they're not exactly the talkable type.

Spoiler:

Now you have something to say

LOL, that's the cutest thing I've seen all week. I love it.

In regular games, I can take it or leave it.

If there's 400 boyz on the table in an Apoc game, if you don't bloody well call out your WAAAGH in a most Orkly fashion, by the God Emperor himself I will beat you to death with a metal carnifex.

To everyone who finds this embarrassing/ childish/ immature: Maybe you should play with your toy soldiers somewhere more grown up...

Hetelic wrote:
To everyone who finds this embarrassing/ childish/ immature: Maybe you should play with your toy soldiers somewhere more grown up...

Generally we play in my game room amidst snifters of scotch, pipe smoke, and classical music.

 daedalus wrote:

Hetelic wrote:
To everyone who finds this embarrassing/ childish/ immature: Maybe you should play with your toy soldiers somewhere more grown up...

Generally we play in my game room amidst snifters of scotch, pipe smoke, and classical music.

This is my preferred method, but without the smoke. Also, I prefer bourbon. But your heart is in the right place.

At my old store you got an extra inch of movement if you yelled out your WAAAGH!!!

 kronk wrote:

 daedalus wrote:


Generally we play in my game room amidst snifters of scotch, pipe smoke, and classical music.

This is my preferred method, but without the smoke. Also, I prefer bourbon. But your heart is in the right place.

To each their own.

I'm actually finally getting over my fear of bourbon, and easing back into it via Maker's Mark, but that actually IS the usual setup while playing 40k.

When you shout yer WAAAGH!!! Do it properly

Have at least twenty nine other people join you in it, firing and waving around weapons also adds to the oomph.

This is making me want to play my Orks.

Me too, but i wish orks had more viable strats. Fun-wise you can do just about anything but if you go against a competitive list youre doomed. Cant wait for a new dex.

On the fun-list side, gonna run Old Zoggy against my friend and try to squigify his beloved Blackheart lol

 PrinceRaven wrote:
I wish I had something to say with my Tyranids, they're not exactly the talkable type.

Just yell SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, or get a whistle.