Got deep into WH40k lore and this has to be the most batshit insane piece of fiction I’ve read. Everything about it is so absurd that it loops to become great.
Got deep into WH40k lore and this has to be the most batshit insane piece of fiction I’ve read. Everything about it is so absurd that it loops to become great.
Ork lore is very funny. I love it when WH 40K gets weird instead of grimdark and serious - some of the writers kind of forgot that it’s supposed to be satirical and humor is allowed.
Ork lore is my favorite, too. The whole concept that an Ork machine works because Orks believe it’ll work is hilarious, but also genuinely kind of interesting and unique.
That has been really over-stated by the fandom. Afaik shootas aren’t just empty boxes full of loose screws and bits of metal. They are guns. But when the imperium tries to shoot them they jam constantly and are prone to fouling, while for orks the waagh smooths things over just enough to keep the mechanism running smoothly under sustained fire, and even then they blow up pretty regularly.
Why the red unz go fasta is ambiguous - maybe the psychic force of the waagh is pushing them faster. Maybe the mekboys just have a knack for knowing which war buggies are the fasest and paint them red.
Mekboys, and all orks, have an incredible amount of technical knowledge written in to their genetic material. If a mekboy lives long enough and is part of a big enough waagh field they’ll just know how to build a warp drive the way human babies just know how to crawl.
I’m not that fussed with the degree to which the Ork waaagh functions, I just like the idea that at least part of their functionality as a civilization is literally based on vibes.
their society is just like mine fr
WE’LL DRINK AND DRINK AND DRINK AND DRINK AND DRINK AND DRINK AND FIGHT!
Legit, legit.
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It reads like a BMF post
How I yearn for the days of Rogue Trader.
I’m so hyped for Rogue Trader considering it’s Owlcat making it. Next up I want a Larian 40k game.
Chuds may not like it but the ideal space marine army is painted in gaudy camo and has at least 20 instances of the word kill written in big blocky letters on their armour.
The pinnacle of imperial guard generalship is sending millions of largely untrained fanatic conscripts to their meaningless deaths because choking tyrannid war beasts to death under a mountain of human corpses upholds the glory of the emprah!
I saw someone say that guardsmen are all trained to the standard of navy seals of some bs and it really made it clear how long it’s been since a conscript army really went to war.
My favourite 40k quote is the one by a Kreig guardsman explaining his illiteracy
I haven’t seen that one. Do you have a link?
I think it’s this one
“Nah, soon as you’re old enough you’re sent to join the regiment. Colonel Stagler don’t approve of educated men, says it was educated men that got Krieg bombed to shit in the first place. The colonel says that all a man needs to do is fight and die. That’s the Krieg way.”
-Krieger when asked if he knows how to read
A pretty good litmus test of 40k player coolness is whether or not they love the Orks.
(If you don’t love the space himbos who zip around the universe with vibes-powered warp drives, you’re no friend of mine.)