Ork rumours - First post updated 20th June

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**Dez**

Clang wrote:
adamsouza wrote:
So the White Dwarf with the new Orky goodness drops this Friday ?

I'm still trying to wrap my head around it being a weekly publication.

It was devoid of substance when it was a monthly publication.

Yes, but the 31 May edition only has the Gorka/morkanaut release, plus a few teasers like the apparent new meganobz in one pic. Nothing to confirm there even will be a new ork codex :(

Hmm, another thought re those meganobz - they _might_ just be the simplified meganobz from the rumoured new starter box, rather than the new meganobz kit. Or not...

They are pretty blatant, I don't think they'd be so obvious without it being a kit coming soon...within a week.

**MikeFox**

Thats what I was thinking. GW is just trolling the ork players again. Another new model and rules in WD. Who said anything about a new 'dex right? Lol.

**Anpu-adom**

Murrdox wrote:

The ISSUE that I have with this, is that it really seems to be shoe-horning Orks into more of a Psychic role than they really are. Sure, Orks have Weirdboyz, but you don't have full armies based around their mechanic.

Sorry man... you seem to misunderstand the basic orkiness principle. Ork stuff works because they believe that they work. It is their belief that twists the warp around them.

**bigboss1o1**

Anyone else besides me cut the meganobz in this picture I haven't been able to keep up so I don't know if anyone posted it

**Harriticus**

It's interesting that only good models GW can design anymore are Orks, because Ork models are supposed to be oversized, clunky, and have tons of frivolous nonsense sticking out of it.

**Nightlord1987**

I really dig that searchlight head design!

**nettraper**

bigboss1o1 wrote:
Anyone else besides me cut the meganobz in this picture I haven't been able to keep up so I don't know if anyone posted it

dude! what is that thing to the left with a helmet the style of a cheese grater! ?!?!?! looks larger than a Meganob... or is that just the camera angle ?

**NailBrain**

nettraper wrote:
bigboss1o1 wrote:
Anyone else besides me cut the meganobz in this picture I haven't been able to keep up so I don't know if anyone posted it

dude! what is that thing to the left with a helmet the style of a cheese grater! ?!?!?! looks larger than a Meganob... or is that just the camera angle ?

I think that's one of the MANz. Crosschecking at the MANz online on GWs site, I think these are new ones. Especially that "cheese grater" one. Plus they look bigger. Which is always BETTER.

**Ascalam**

Looks to just be camera angle.

Definitely new kits.

Ironically 60.00 for 3 is what i paid for my metal ones, the few i bought new. Most of mine i got in trades

**nflagey**

No surprise from GW blog, with the cover we've seen for a few days for the next WD

No announcement (yet) for the codex

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/What's-New-Today-from-the-White-Dwarf-Team/2014/05/21/White-Dwarf-goes-green

**Gargskull**

Pictures of the GorkaMorkanaut tomorrow then.

**Squidbot**

New Dok looks to be nob sized. Quite likely a character. Cybork hand could be a PK but it has fingers. Well... scalpels and syringes.
Both look mono pose.
Those MANZ are the new ones for sure. Overall design is very similar to existing, but they're not the same models.

Edit: Can't spell for gak.

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Also; it amuses me that BoLs are just now posting what you guys spotted nearly a week ago.

**SJM**

Come on, you money grabbing plastic pushers!! leak those pictures, show me the green!

**zachwho**

Squidbot wrote:
New Dok looks to be nob sized. Quite likely a character. Cybork hand could be a PK but it has fingers. Well... scalpels and syringes.
Both look mono pose.
Those MANZ are the new ones for sure. Overall design is very similar to existing, but they're not the same models.

Edit: Can't spell for gak.

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Also; it amuses me that BoLs are just now posting what you guys spotted nearly a week ago.

where are the pictures of this new Dok??

**SJM**

in his mind.

**H.B.M.C.**

Squidbot wrote:
New Dok looks to be nob sized. Quite likely a character. Cybork hand could be a PK but it has fingers. Well... scalpels and syringes.
Both look mono pose.

Where's this from? Did I miss something?

Squidbot wrote:
Also; it amuses me that BoLs are just now posting what you guys spotted nearly a week ago.

Don't be surprised. That's standard operating procedure at Taco Bell.

**wallygator**

rothrich wrote:
I have some predictions of my own based on context clues that we have received via the WD leaks. The WAAAAGH special rule is going to be completely revamped. No more crappy "Confers fleet of foot". However, WAAAAGH will have to be earned by doing orky things like driving fast in a trukk or on a bike, shooting a lot of dakka at stuff, or krumpin some boyz in cc. These were all hinted at in the WD. This is what people keep talking about as Weird Tokens. They are not Weird Tokens they are waaagh tokens. They will probably be spendable by alowing the ork mob with them to do some extra orky things like fire more dakka! Think about the Dakka Jet for example. It currently has the waaaaagh plane special rule. Well what if that rule was just one of three that could be used by orks with waaagh tokens. EX: your dakka jet shoots down an enemy flyer. It gains 1 waaaagh token. in it's next turn it may now spend that token and shoot twice as many shots! This would be great for things like lootas, shootas, dakka jets, tank bustas ect. Another one may be if a unit moves fast. Like if a group of boyz in a trukk moves flat out it gets a waaaagh token. In the next phase perhaps the boyz can move an extra 6in in the next turn with no penalty. lastly boyz krumpin in cc get a waaaagh token. in the next turn they can spend that token and gain +1 str.

I really don't know this is just a wild guess or wishlist if you will but it sure would make orks a lot more fun to play.

i hope you're right ! getting rewards for doing as ork as possible? nice!

**zachwho**

@ taco bell! AAHHAHAHA!! very nice.

**Squidbot**

People missed my admission that I was Kroot's source, I guess.

**Perfect Organism**

Any idea what size the new big gunz were?

Did they look like they might be something other than kannons/lobbas/zzapp-guns or was the new design just giving them some more detail and suitably orky shields?

**Squidbot**

Looked to be 4 variants.

**RobZie**

Squidbot wrote:
People missed my admission that I was Kroot's source, I guess.

Nope, we were just trying to keep it on the down low so GW doesnt send you to Guantanamo Bay.

**Squidbot**

Let's keep it that way.

**prowla**

Anpu-adom wrote:
Murrdox wrote:

The ISSUE that I have with this, is that it really seems to be shoe-horning Orks into more of a Psychic role than they really are. Sure, Orks have Weirdboyz, but you don't have full armies based around their mechanic.

Sorry man... you seem to misunderstand the basic orkiness principle. Ork stuff works because they believe that they work. It is their belief that twists the warp around them.

Well, yes. Orks are actually a highly psychic race - they just don't know it!

However, the stuff working isn't because of 'Ork Belief' - although their psychic skills may assist it a bit - but rather because the Orks were created to be builders and soldiers, psychically guided by their masters. They were instilled with necessary skills and intelligence to put together complicated high-tech things, but not how to design them. Their masters were the ones who had all the designs and guided the process, so that the orks to put correct pieces in correct places. Now that the Orks are without guidance, those instilled skills manifest randomly - the things the Meks can improvise out of scrap are ingenious, but they are not able to make complete high-tech things, as those advanced designs died with their extinct masters.

**Jidmah**

Actually, fluff states that if enough orks gather, those high-tech designs come possible again (stompas, gargants, kruisas). Makes it more likely that their former master's collective knowledge is fully coded into the ork race, it's just too dispersed, so you need a lot of orks to regain access to it.
Huh. Maybe that's why Thrakka started the war on Armageddon?

**Squidbot**

I've always maintined that Orks are actually one of the strongest psychic races, if not the strongest. The call of the waaagh summons them across the galaxy.
Much like the fact that they could destroy the galaxy if they ever stopped fighting each other, if they ever learned to really fully control their weirdboys the universe would be theirs.
Aside from the fact that all the weirdboy's brains would pop.

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Oh, and to build more excitement for the impending Orkiness, I read Engine of Mork again last night. It always gets me in the mood to paint something dead killy.

**Juvieus Kaine**

First posted updated again

**Solar Shock**

Jidmah wrote:
Actually, fluff states that if enough orks gather, those high-tech designs come possible again (stompas, gargants, kruisas). Makes it more likely that their former master's collective knowledge is fully coded into the ork race, it's just too dispersed, so you need a lot of orks to regain access to it.
Huh. Maybe that's why Thrakka started the war on Armageddon?

HAHA! I had the funniest scene play through my head when reading this

An ork design meeting where they couldn't seem to get the plans to work at all, scratchin' there noggin's till the tea boy ork arrives, raising the orkiness factor in the room +1, Bing goes the light bulb plan solved! I imagine ork building is like when I used to play lego with my brother, scrabble for the best bits and stick stuff together until you've got what you want!

Plus with all the talk of big guns, i think ima gona run some come the new dex no matter what

especially considering ive just decided I want to use a whole load of grots lifting up a nice oldschool pirate cannon, using themselves as the alignment mechanism. Might even model a ogryn as just a fat ass ork holding a lobba

Ahhhhh i can almost taste how close I am to moar conversions! the plasticard is calling me.

**H.B.M.C.**

Squidbot wrote:
Looked to be 4 variants.

Blast Krak Missile, slightly better mortar, Zzapp gun and something no one will ever use.

Sound about right?

**adamsouza**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Squidbot wrote:
Looked to be 4 variants.

Blast Krak Missile, slightly better mortar, Zzapp gun and something no one will ever use.

Sound about right?

Hoping it's the SPLAT KANNON !!

What ? GW is loving the random lately, and you really can't get any more random than the Splat Kannon