CrownAxe wrote:
Why do you like your favorite color or favorite food?

Ratius wrote:I think its partly to do with their child like nature. Theyre simple beasts who pretty much act like kids in many ways and most of us find childrens activities and sillyness very entertaining.
Unless we're old and grumpy.

the ancient wrote:
Dey aint az kool az dey uzda b.
Now its just waagh waagh, hammer dat bit, Waagh, waagh, get shot by everyone. Waaagh, waaagh, get beaten up by humies in hth, and Tau.......
Waagh, waagh, sniff.

 Yarium wrote:

#3 - Orks interact with their opponents
Orks don't do this. Orks embrace the risk-reward system of 40k. All of an opponent's action against Orks are rewarded in some way. Sometimes you kill a bunch of Orks, sometimes just a few, but you always did SOMETHING to them. This feels great. You may lose your game against the Orks, but you'll feel like you did something, and that maybe if you do better you could win.

 CrownAxe wrote:
Why do you like your favorite color or favorite food?

 sing your life wrote:
Because they're Orks.

/thread.

 The Wise Dane wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
Because they're Orks.

/thread.

We've done it again, fellow dakkanauts. We saved the world.


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Seriously though, to me, Orks are about feel, and especially gamefeel. You know what Orks are, what they want and why they care, and their armies reflect that fact - Have you ever fought a fully kitted out Warboss? It's not something you think about a lot, but that S 5/T 5 makes a hell of a difference, and makes them feel truly huge and blocky.

It's with that in the entire army. A mob of Boyz is an eratic, kinda weird unit that doesn't seem like it can stand up to Marines and such. But then you get them where they want to be (hint: it's a place where they can break bones in a vicious fashion), and suddenly they are neigh unstoppable. The army is all like that, even with its shooting. My Lootas have succesfully killed all kinds of Imperials, and you even have to roll for just how effective they are. It's just fun and satisfying.

It helps that the Ork faction is almost free of bs. All other armies have oh so precious models who lil' Timmy Ultramarine will cry over if they die to a stray shot. Orks, though? Arh, that's just jolly. It's war, it's what happens, and it's fun for all. Other races have all kinds of unique and fantastic stuff to make them cooler, but Orks don't. Eldar has the Striking Scorpions, who has an oh so special Chainsword, with a bulky-but-still-stealthy-for-some-reason 3+ armour save, the oh so cool shooty-on-the-sides-of-their-facey pewpew stuff, and of course, who can forget, that they have ALL the cover before they actually do attack. The Ork equivelant? Has Stealth. And that's it. Even their Nobz are bare bones. It get's better: Skriking Scorpions are so sneaky, they kill everything, and they are so super cool and has to train for centuries and they are all oooooh so cool. Ork Kommandoes? Eh, it's just an Ork who decided to hide before they charge their opponnent. What's even more fun is that there are loads of stories of Ork Kommandoes completely outsmarting their opponnents, stealing Vortex Missiles, taking imprenetable forts and just generally having a laugh about it.

Orks don't need babysitting, basically. We don't need some über fluff to back us up or over-the-top crunch to keep our title as the coolest kids in the class. We just are. We're like those kids who don't get no respect from nobody growing up, but in the end, as it turns out, they are the ones who has the most drive to actually go do stuff instead of waiting for someone to pamper them up. That's what makes Orks awesome. Orks are the only self-made fungi of the 40k setting.

 Icculus wrote:

 The Wise Dane wrote:

 sing your life wrote:
Because they're Orks.

/thread.

We've done it again, fellow dakkanauts. We saved the world.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Seriously though, to me, Orks are about feel, and especially gamefeel. You know what Orks are, what they want and why they care, and their armies reflect that fact - Have you ever fought a fully kitted out Warboss? It's not something you think about a lot, but that S 5/T 5 makes a hell of a difference, and makes them feel truly huge and blocky.

It's with that in the entire army. A mob of Boyz is an eratic, kinda weird unit that doesn't seem like it can stand up to Marines and such. But then you get them where they want to be (hint: it's a place where they can break bones in a vicious fashion), and suddenly they are neigh unstoppable. The army is all like that, even with its shooting. My Lootas have succesfully killed all kinds of Imperials, and you even have to roll for just how effective they are. It's just fun and satisfying.

It helps that the Ork faction is almost free of bs. All other armies have oh so precious models who lil' Timmy Ultramarine will cry over if they die to a stray shot. Orks, though? Arh, that's just jolly. It's war, it's what happens, and it's fun for all. Other races have all kinds of unique and fantastic stuff to make them cooler, but Orks don't. Eldar has the Striking Scorpions, who has an oh so special Chainsword, with a bulky-but-still-stealthy-for-some-reason 3+ armour save, the oh so cool shooty-on-the-sides-of-their-facey pewpew stuff, and of course, who can forget, that they have ALL the cover before they actually do attack. The Ork equivelant? Has Stealth. And that's it. Even their Nobz are bare bones. It get's better: Skriking Scorpions are so sneaky, they kill everything, and they are so super cool and has to train for centuries and they are all oooooh so cool. Ork Kommandoes? Eh, it's just an Ork who decided to hide before they charge their opponnent. What's even more fun is that there are loads of stories of Ork Kommandoes completely outsmarting their opponnents, stealing Vortex Missiles, taking imprenetable forts and just generally having a laugh about it.

Orks don't need babysitting, basically. We don't need some über fluff to back us up or over-the-top crunch to keep our title as the coolest kids in the class. We just are. We're like those kids who don't get no respect from nobody growing up, but in the end, as it turns out, they are the ones who has the most drive to actually go do stuff instead of waiting for someone to pamper them up. That's what makes Orks awesome. Orks are the only self-made fungi of the 40k setting.

This is perfect.

 Iron_Captain wrote:


That is why