Ork News & Rumors - New Codex, Speed Freeks,Rukkatrukk Squigbuggy revealed

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**stormboy**

beerbeard wrote:
What we know:

Speed Freaks - 2 new buggies, 6 bikes, new terrain pieces
- Buggies might be ETB, but leaked photos don't look like it. Bases! Bikes will be on ovals. Rules for a racing game, and codex rules too?
New Vehicles - Warboss on Trike, and some combination of new buggy kits
- No consensus on how many kits and how many vehicles can be built from each one. The Mek in me wants one kit with lots of parts!
Codex, and probably the usual cards and dice
- We know the army wide rule, dakka dakka dakka. No more being completely unable to hit stuff!
- We've seen boyz on 32's. Implies a new box, but maybe only with the new bases.

What we've heard:

Clan rules
Clan Warlord Traits
Army Warlord Traits
A couple of stratagems

Reasonably reliable sources. The clan rules and traits all seem believable. The generics, to me, less so, and the stratagems are pure speculation. If its all true, then the codex might be looking pretty good.

What's missing:

Plastic characters, generic and named
Plastic units that are still resin
A start collecting box that is a playable force

Overall, so far, yay? Three weeks and we should know everything. I wish RDR2 was out now to distract me.

The thing that really makes me worry is the lack of HQ in plastic. If we don't see a plastic weirdboy, I am really afraid we will go back to the days of no power of the waaaaaaghrp for the Orks. I understand a bunch of the random HQ are going to get the index treatment (looking at all the bike HQs) plus we are likely to lose the old metal big guns... but the weirdboy is the model I am the most worried about.

**tneva82**

Weirdboy has model in sale. He ain\t going anywhere. Also would be pretty weird for orks to put up articles containing weirdboys if they would be dropping those from codex

**RiTides**

Consolidating into this thread:

RedNoak wrote:
KiriothTV has put some new rumors on youtube

and since the ork rumor thread is currently closed, i thought i open up a thread in the meantime (maybe a mod can later stitch this thread to the other one)

anyways:

1 - gives warlord whaagh plus 1 command point

2 - add 1 to wound rolls (against vehicles or monsters)

3 - add 1 to toughness

4 - reroll attacks in the fight phase. And add 1 to damage if he charged, was charged or did an intervention

5 - before first turn, pick up warlord + d3 infantry units and place em up again

6 - add 1 to attacks and strenght

**Griever**

I really hope they come back out with an affordable way to get more Boyz, $35 for 20 would be cool plus maybe a battalion/army box.

They killed the army the day they charged $25 for 11 models that quite frankly have not aged at all.

If I were to start an Ork army I'd probably just stick the Nobz kits on smaller bases since they at least have interesting model options and somewhat less cartoony proportions.

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

Genuinely laughed out loud at this:

Rememba when da ladz got togetha and put all da skullz in a pile and did a dance for a laugh and da sky went all red and Ozgob said “Da Time Of Blood Has Come” in a funny voice and a bunch of red ladz came through da walls and we had a fight and it woz great? Some of the big wunz had gunz. They’z good and they whisper fun stuff to ya’ about killin’ and battles.

First time RegStandard has ever done that for me.

**Gogsnik**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Genuinely laughed out loud at this:

I chuckled when I got to "red lads", don't know why that tickled me so much but it did.

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

I love how utterly inured to Chaos that their attempts at corruption are met with a kind of "Yeh bruv, whatevz!" attitude.

Like you could almost hear the conversation between an Ork and a Daemon Weapon:

"Now you will slay them all!"
"Yep. We'z gonna krump 'em."
"And collect their skulls!"
"Deffo! Gonna getz lotza trofeez an' dat."
"All in the name of Khorne!"
"Who? Nah Iz just doin' dis cuz its a good laff!"
"No... you must piles the skulls in honour of the Blood God."
"Da blud whatnow? Mate youz a good choppa an' all, but sometimes ya talks a big load a squigdust."

**An Actual Englishman**

beerbeard wrote:
What we know:

Speed Freaks - 2 new buggies, 6 bikes, new terrain pieces
- Buggies might be ETB, but leaked photos don't look like it. Bases! Bikes will be on ovals. Rules for a racing game, and codex rules too?
New Vehicles - Warboss on Trike, and some combination of new buggy kits
- No consensus on how many kits and how many vehicles can be built from each one. The Mek in me wants one kit with lots of parts!
Codex, and probably the usual cards and dice
- We know the army wide rule, dakka dakka dakka. No more being completely unable to hit stuff!
- We've seen boyz on 32's. Implies a new box, but maybe only with the new bases.

What we've heard:

Clan rules
Clan Warlord Traits
Army Warlord Traits
A couple of stratagems

Reasonably reliable sources. The clan rules and traits all seem believable. The generics, to me, less so, and the stratagems are pure speculation. If its all true, then the codex might be looking pretty good.

What's missing:

Plastic characters, generic and named
Plastic units that are still resin
A start collecting box that is a playable force

Overall, so far, yay? Three weeks and we should know everything. I wish RDR2 was out now to distract me.

We've also heard rumours that the Painboy, Big Mek and Warboss on bikes are no longer in the codex. So presumably they will not have model support.

There's also a rumoured Mek Shop that would be a new terrain piece.

**Z-Ray**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love how utterly inured to Chaos that their attempts at corruption are met with a kind of "Yeh bruv, whatevz!" attitude.

Like you could almost hear the conversation between an Ork and a Daemon Weapon:

"Now you will slay them all!"
"Yep. We'z gonna krump 'em."
"And collect their skulls!"
"Deffo! Gonna getz lotza trofeez an' dat."
"All in the name of Khorne!"
"Who? Nah Iz just doin' dis cuz its a good laff!"
"No... you must piles the skulls in honour of the Blood God."
"Da blud whatnow? Mate youz a good choppa an' all, but sometimes ya talks a big load a squigdust."

I felt the same about Ulg Lotsarms selling squishy dakka, he clearly has 3 or more arms and the other orks are fine with that but when he talks about "Gork and Mork but wiv four arms for hittin people" just punch him in the mouth to shut him up, and apparently Ulg will be like "fair enough" and still sell you a barbed strangler.

**PiñaColada**

An Actual Englishman wrote:
We've also heard rumours that the Painboy, Big Mek and Warboss on bikes are no longer in the codex. So presumably they will not have model support.

There's also a rumoured Mek Shop that would be a new terrain piece.

I don't remember, but was the Mek Shop rumoured to be a terrain piece or did people just assume? I mean it stands to reason because of the aeladri webway gate and the imperial knight forgeshrine but I'm still holding onto a glimmer of hope that it's not. I really want it to be an upgrade sprue for the battlewagon, a rolling mek shop makes much more sense to me anyways.

Hopefully some more info on Orks will start rolling in soon, I'd be very surprised if we don't get a preview for the speed freeks preorder on Sunday. After that happens I imagine we're in good shape with info and releases coming in at a steady pace

**CthuluIsSpy**

Z-Ray wrote:
H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love how utterly inured to Chaos that their attempts at corruption are met with a kind of "Yeh bruv, whatevz!" attitude.

Like you could almost hear the conversation between an Ork and a Daemon Weapon:

"Now you will slay them all!"
"Yep. We'z gonna krump 'em."
"And collect their skulls!"
"Deffo! Gonna getz lotza trofeez an' dat."
"All in the name of Khorne!"
"Who? Nah Iz just doin' dis cuz its a good laff!"
"No... you must piles the skulls in honour of the Blood God."
"Da blud whatnow? Mate youz a good choppa an' all, but sometimes ya talks a big load a squigdust."

I felt the same about Ulg Lotsarms selling squishy dakka, he clearly has 3 or more arms and the other orks are fine with that but when he talks about "Gork and Mork but wiv four arms for hittin people" just punch him in the mouth to shut him up, and apparently Ulg will be like "fair enough" and still sell you a barbed strangler.

I really want a looted gun option. Like, some sort of special ranged weapon where you choose the profile on army creation, to represent all the weird stuff the Orks can get their hands on.
Give it to Flash Gitz or nobz or something, idk.

**Latro_**

That reg standard issue

wonder if they took inspiration from my nid lootas i did back in 2010

**Binabik15**

But rules options without bespoke Citadel™© miniatures are HERESY.

I can totally see a warboss or flashgit nob forcing a captured 'stealer to turn him "cuz Iz heard den dat extrah specuhl Dakka can beez had". Just to be able to stick a venom cannon to himself and upstage the other posaz with their runty flesh borers.

And I know it's not canon in the few fluff pieces with infeczed Orks, but different hybrid gens resulting in Orks, Grotz, squigs and stealers would be a fun little project. Abominations can be half nob/half biovore.

I wish I could find my 4th ed codex, that had the infected waaaagh in it, right?

**Insane Ivan**

PiñaColada wrote:
An Actual Englishman wrote:
We've also heard rumours that the Painboy, Big Mek and Warboss on bikes are no longer in the codex. So presumably they will not have model support.

There's also a rumoured Mek Shop that would be a new terrain piece.

I don't remember, but was the Mek Shop rumoured to be a terrain piece or did people just assume? I mean it stands to reason because of the aeladri webway gate and the imperial knight forgeshrine but I'm still holding onto a glimmer of hope that it's not. I really want it to be an upgrade sprue for the battlewagon, a rolling mek shop makes much more sense to me anyways.

Hopefully some more info on Orks will start rolling in soon, I'd be very surprised if we don't get a preview for the speed freeks preorder on Sunday. After that happens I imagine we're in good shape with info and releases coming in at a steady pace

I think the assumption is that the Mek Shop will be the terrain bits we know are packed in the Speed Freaks box, just sold separately (and perhaps with an extra sprue or two).

**tneva82**

How anybody could describe bunch of barricades etc as mek shop though...

**Thommy H**

tneva82 wrote:
How anybody could describe bunch of barricades etc as mek shop though...

A Mek is only as good as the gubbinz and scrap wot ee'z got lyin' about.

**Jidmah**

Maybe you can build it into both? The IK terrain ist just two existing pieces combined as well.

**the_scotsman**

tneva82 wrote:
How anybody could describe bunch of barricades etc as mek shop though...

The Mek Shop is supposedly a separate kit to the terrain sprue from Speed Freeks.

**tneva82**

the_scotsman wrote:
tneva82 wrote:
How anybody could describe bunch of barricades etc as mek shop though...

The Mek Shop is supposedly a separate kit to the terrain sprue from Speed Freeks.

I just responded that comment to the idea that the barricades ARE the mek shop.

**ikeulhu**

Z-Ray wrote:
H.B.M.C. wrote:
I love how utterly inured to Chaos that their attempts at corruption are met with a kind of "Yeh bruv, whatevz!" attitude.

Like you could almost hear the conversation between an Ork and a Daemon Weapon:

"Now you will slay them all!"
"Yep. We'z gonna krump 'em."
"And collect their skulls!"
"Deffo! Gonna getz lotza trofeez an' dat."
"All in the name of Khorne!"
"Who? Nah Iz just doin' dis cuz its a good laff!"
"No... you must piles the skulls in honour of the Blood God."
"Da blud whatnow? Mate youz a good choppa an' all, but sometimes ya talks a big load a squigdust."

I felt the same about Ulg Lotsarms selling squishy dakka, he clearly has 3 or more arms and the other orks are fine with that but when he talks about "Gork and Mork but wiv four arms for hittin people" just punch him in the mouth to shut him up, and apparently Ulg will be like "fair enough" and still sell you a barbed strangler.

Yeah, both the Squishy Dakka and Weird Dakka sections were pure gold. Really showcases the Ork attitude, and was definitely the most chuckling I have ever done over one of those articles!

**Perfect Organism**

beerbeard wrote:
What we know:

Speed Freaks - 2 new buggies, 6 bikes, new terrain pieces
- Buggies might be ETB, but leaked photos don't look like it. Bases! Bikes will be on ovals. Rules for a racing game, and codex rules too?
New Vehicles - Warboss on Trike, and some combination of new buggy kits
- No consensus on how many kits and how many vehicles can be built from each one. The Mek in me wants one kit with lots of parts!
Codex, and probably the usual cards and dice
- We know the army wide rule, dakka dakka dakka. No more being completely unable to hit stuff!
- We've seen boyz on 32's. Implies a new box, but maybe only with the new bases.

What we've heard:

Clan rules
Clan Warlord Traits
Army Warlord Traits
A couple of stratagems

Reasonably reliable sources. The clan rules and traits all seem believable. The generics, to me, less so, and the stratagems are pure speculation. If its all true, then the codex might be looking pretty good.

We've also heard what units are in and out of the codex.

All the known buggies, a 'rokatrukk squig-buggy' (or something that sounds similar, don't think we've seen it written down by the guy who leaked it) and a mek shop have been added.
All characters on bikes and big gunz are out.

Which implies that at the very least there is going to be a warboss in mega-armour, since there are rules for one in the codex and no model.

**Asmodai**

Perfect Organism wrote:

Which implies that at the very least there is going to be a warboss in mega-armour, since there are rules for one in the codex and no model.

Not necessarily. The closest parallel is the Grandmaster Nemesis Dreadknight, where you take the normal NDK model and bling it up a bit. A Warboss in Mega-Armour could just be a Nob in Mega-Armour with an extra tall boss pole.

**Sal4m4nd3r**

If there isnt a new Ghaz model, I will riot.

Also boyz on 32s feel wrong and would totally feth up the movement trays I just made and painted.

**PiñaColada**

Sal4m4nd3r wrote:
If there isnt a new Ghaz model, I will riot.

Also boyz on 32s feel wrong and would totally feth up the movement trays I just made and painted.

I think we'll see a new Ghaz in the somewhat near future, just not alongside the codex. I feel like we would've heard more whispers about it now. I think he'll show up in some big campaign alongside a new Skarboyz/'ardboyz kit rampaging around. I just want him to be an absolute monster whenever he's actually released. Somewhere around Mortarion sized and perhaps the scariest thing to be in CC with in the entire game.

**ikeulhu**

I would not expect a Ghaz model this early. It is much more likely to come sometime in the future if/when they do some sort of Armageddon supplement. I have a theory that they may do a big three way match up at Armageddon, which would potentially allow them to bring in Russ, Angron, and Ghaz all onto the playing field.

**Redemption**

The Rukkatrukk Squigbuggy is revealed:

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/10/11/11th-oct-orktober-11th-a-mystery-revealedgw-homepage-post-3/

**PiñaColada**

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/10/11/11th-oct-orktober-11th-a-mystery-revealedgw-homepage-post-3/

We're getting some sort of update at least..

EDIT: Damnit! Beaten to the punch (Krumped in the teef)

**xttz**

"These fantastic vehicles will be available to pre-order very soon" - that typically means they get previewed the following Sunday, so first Ork releases on the 27th

**Overread**

I love all the little details on it - like the teeth on the wheel hubs and the underslung buzzsaw that's clearly there to shred any would-be attackers coming from the side!

Or any allies trying to steal a squig form the window as you drive by

**PiñaColada**

xttz wrote:
"These fantastic vehicles will be available to pre-order very soon" - that typically means they get previewed the following Sunday, so first Ork releases on the 27th

That's sort of how I read it as well, but I don't dare to be too optimistic since GW alluded to speed freeks being the first of the bunch. Hopefully this locks that release in for the 27th at least.

About the squig buggy, I'm not sure I like it as much as the other stuff. I think the wheels look at bit off/too boring. Maybe another angle will make me change my mind..? The Megatrakk Scrapjet is still my favourite one, it's just so undeniably cool!