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Hello all! The date for the sending the WAAAAGH!!! to GW (28th) is coming near! A lot of people here are unable to send their own letters and I've had a few people suggest I gather some suggestions for the Ork codex (although it's unlikely to have an effect on the 2018 codex it might effect later work on Orks). So!! I'm creating this thread to gather all information and stories you have regarding why you love Orks and what you would like to see changed! I'll then be condensing the information into a word document and sending that all to GW! (this means you yourself might not have to send a letter if you are unable too). So comment below and remember! It can just be a simple line telling GW why you love Orks! It doesn't have to be a suggestion or complaint. (Please be aware! if you comment below you are giving me permission to quote your stuff in a word document to send to GW. Not all stuff will be included and it might also have paraphrasing involved).

I want to move, then disembark from Trukks. Make it the Evil Suns trait, make it a Strategem, I don't care! We just have to go faster!

Also, can't wait to see what Death Skulls get. I play lots of Lootaz and Trukks.

No race, in the entirety of 40k captures the bizarre, comedic, grimdark setting better than the Orks.

They are equal parts cool, stupid, hilarious, terrifying and brilliant. There's nothing else like them (as far as I'm aware) in any other sci fi setting and I love that.

Hope this campaign works for you lolman, You know my reservations but fair play to you for trying.

Squigs! We need more of them!
Also orks as a concept were born for kitbashing/converting. So it would be nice if we had plenty of options for our units.
Example: heavy armour upgrades, more widespread burnas and skorchas, rams for trukks, warboss with a huge gun. Units should be customizabe. No monobuild HQ pls!

 An Actual Englishman wrote:
No race, in the entirety of 40k captures the bizarre, comedic, grimdark setting better than the Orks.

They are equal parts cool, stupid, hilarious, terrifying and brilliant. There's nothing else like them (as far as I'm aware) in any other sci fi setting and I love that.

Hope this campaign works for you lolman, You know my reservations but fair play to you for trying.

It's cool man. I don't even expect this campaign to work. In reality I think I only shared it from the original creator to help my own mental health. And I think that's why he created so people could make of it what they will and use the campaign to help relief their own stress.

The bigger the Ork, the better the gear. No self respecting Ork will fail to snag the best kit they can bully off a smaller specimen.

So, grots get 7+ armour, boys 6+, mob boss 5+, nob 4+ and war boss 3+ as standard.

Grots get the blasta, boys slugga/shoota, mob boss dakka gun nob big shoota and war boss snazzgun as standard.

Similar scaling for wounds, strength etc.

If you want transport for the Orks, the biggest/fastest/toughest vehicles go to the strongest. Grots get squigs, boys trucks, nobs gun trucks and war boss battle wagon.

I think that GW probably already has the codex written but I salute your attempt because even if it doesn't work it helps to show them we care. More power to your Klaw bruvva

My suggestions straight off the top of my head is,

I actually think the ork codex is really great except that the points costs are way off on a lot of models particularly ALL the vehicles. I just realy want to see things come back that were lost.

Bring back Ardboyz please.

Bring back snakebites in a reasonable form.

Bring back Old Zogwort

Bring some of the Forgeworld models into the codex, Zhadsnark please!

What i like is the No-nonsense point of view of an ork. You do something "wrong" or are just weak? you get punched in the face just for the sport of it. And every ork thinks thats funny . and the possible madness in creating weapons and vehicles. This i find is not enough displayed in the past codexes or index. Orks should have the possibility to pick a platform, pick an engine (speed), pick some dakka, weld on some armor (or none..) and pay for every thing in points. speedfreaks with burnerbikes, flamertrukks and skorchkoptas!! Skorchas and high speed vehicles everywhere!!

Looted wagons could be as simple as a box with a bunch of looted parts from other factions to build your own wagon out of, with rules to reflect different load outs you could come up with with the kit. That way it still keeps the customised/looting feel of the orks but gives it an actual box that would likely be great for bits boxes too.

 wallygator wrote:
What i like is the No-nonsense point of view of an ork. You do something "wrong" or are just weak? you get punched in the face just for the sport of it. And every ork thinks thats funny . and the possible madness in creating weapons and vehicles. This i find is not enough displayed in the past codexes or index. Orks should have the possibility to pick a platform, pick an engine (speed), pick some dakka, weld on some armor (or none..) and pay for every thing in points. speedfreaks with burnerbikes, flamertrukks and skorchkoptas!! Skorchas and high speed vehicles everywhere!!

Why stop at vehicles? I think it would be cool if we could costumize our mobs aswell.

You start with a leader for the mob (nob, painboy, runtherd mek or boss) the chosen leader will give a number of options for the mob:

-Nob, upgrade 1-3 boys with big shootas or rokkit launchas (as it is now)
-Painboy, feel no pain and perhaps some silly upgrades (cybork body parts).
-Runtherd, add up to 10 grots and or ammo runts to act as ablative wounds
-Mek, upgrade a number of boyz to lootas or burnas?
-Boss, Upgrade a number of boyz to nobs.

I am sure this would be abused to hell but for casual play i think it could be fun and colourful.

That would be so awesome for narrative battles and friendly play

Would they go far wrong to look at the Epic 40k army and use that as a template? A lot of vehicles had their origin in 2nd edition, and gave the army a ramshackle look.

Moriarty wrote:
Would they go far wrong to look at the Epic 40k army and use that as a template? A lot of vehicles had their origin in 2nd edition, and gave the army a ramshackle look.

I already sent the letter but yeah. I own a 40k Ork Epic army and I like the look of some of the stuff. I use Blood Axes so I have them all in Landraiders and Rhino's though. XD

Shame you'd already sent the letter, I'd have said the following anyway;

All vehicles and walkers to have ramshackle as standard.

Bring back Ork klans with distinct advantages for playing thematically.

New models for buggies and wartrakks.

A strategem for volume of fire that increases BS rather than rolling more buckets of dice.

Make Ghaz a Primeork.

And just to annoy my Tau buddy, some strategem that confounds over watch. I'd pay upto 3cp for something that negates over watch one per battle. Even a thematic kommando strategem that needs Snikrot would be sweet.

I basically said most of that stuff.