Army Combat Veteran Reacts to Orks by The Templin Institute (Warhammer 40k)

[@SkorupaPancNaSkorCzl]

The Orks are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is won. They have evolved a society which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge them? We Eldar who have failed, or the Humans, on the road to ruin in their turn. And why? Because we sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn't even bother to ask! We see a culture that is strong and despise it as crude. - Uthan the Perverse, Eldar Philosopher

[@ivanivanovic5586]

Ah, thanks, was trying to find that exact section to post here (4th ed codex, if I'm not mistaken).

[@KaosKittyStudios]

One of my favorites

[@steelgreyed]

An elegant quote for an innately crude subject. My only problem with it. "knows no angst." ....? My little Eldar, they are the embodyment of Angst made manifest, and given explicit direction. They are only a slightly "less" predictable enemy on the Battlefield than literal Kornates, and are feared for pretty much the same reasons....

[@Grissbane]

EY GORESMASHA! I BET I CAN SMASH ME EAD INTA DIZ ROCK ARDA DAN YOU CAN! EEENNNNH YER ON!

[@cray97w36]

Nurgle love orks because orks are manifestatnion of nurgle priciples like death and rebirth

[@Tommy9834]

"they can't get around physics" Well, that's where your wrong with Orks.

[@gokbay3057]

Yeah. Red ones do go faster, yellow is more explody etc.

[@art4freak795]

Even if the orcs were able to understand an abstract concept like physics they probably just laugh at it and take it as a challenge to overcome it

[@austinorlando4326]

Ikr I heard him say that and i was like "well yes but actually no"

[@glandhound]

Psychics beat physics

[@fist-of-doom487]

@@austinorlando4326 I’m convinced the only reason they die at all is because they are convinced the weapon being shot at them will kill them. Orcs can survive an Exterminatis and the Vacuum of space entirely because they believe they can. At that point if an Orc was convinced it was bullet proof then it probably would be

[@-Big_Big]

"dat rock looks lik bread" *crunch crunch* "Eh... Its ok" and that was how orks began to live of rocks.

[@k96man]

If it's good enough for da boss it's good enough for me

[@tyrongkojy]

He believed it was bread, thus it was bread.

[@penatoliy]

dat rocks is nades! trow this to enemys!!! *orcs start trowing stones, and they realy start exploding

[@jb-wc1hx]

Wat you doin! You must paint rock yello for bigger boom.

[@-Big_Big]

@@jb-wc1hx see this is why its hard to keep them focused on making stuff real. ITS BREAD! NOT ITS BOMB! BREAD BOMB BREAD BOMB! OrcWarchief: Why not both?. BOOMBREAD

[@Philosopher419]

"The Imperium could fuck with their enemies by releasing Orks in their territory... " The Imperium tried that once, against the Tyranids. They just ended up making stronger Orks and stronger Tyranids.

[@deamonmindgaming2054]

And the winner would happily like to shake the imperium's hand afterwards

[@pringlelingle6827]

To be fair tyranids were probably the worst person to do that to, the eldar ships or web ways would be very good or a tau or chaos world would be super effective, tyranids were the worst choice to do that too.

[@deamonmindgaming2054]

@@pringlelingle6827 new tyranid biomorphs appear and in battle they gain extra strength and toughness each time they win in a close combat fights

[@pringlelingle6827]

@@deamonmindgaming2054 yeah exactly out of all the opponents of man those were the worst one to deploy the orks against.

[@deamonmindgaming2054]

@@pringlelingle6827 it's like putting two of your bully's against one another and the winner figuring out who set them up. We all know how that story ends

[@robertbuckey6517]

Speaking of puns, during one of the wars for Armageddon, the Orks had a massive submarine called The Red Orktober.

[@gokbay3057]

Ghazgull's name is a joke about Thatcher.

[@benedeknagy8497]

My favorite is the famous Mek, Orkimedes. :D

[@gokbay3057]

@@benedeknagy8497 it is a great name

[@Valreg]

The Bike of the Aporkalypse also comes to mind.

[@CteCrassus]

@@benedeknagy8497 Stirctly speaking, that might not be his name. That's what the Imperium called him, but they don't quite know who the hell built all of Ghazghkull's super-tech.

[@blackorcshagrat8587]

''Sounds like the world of 40k is Ork Heaven''. You, sir, hit the nail on the head!

[@gokbay3057]

Exactly. There is only war, Orks want only war. Things that Orks believe in become real. Maybe there is a connection there heh

[@thundercrash4775]

@@gokbay3057 There was once an Ork Waaaaagh! that ventured into the realms of Chaos, deep into the realms of Khorne, because the Warboss fought and killed a demon and thought "dat wuz fun." It's also how he got the name Demonkilla. The Waaagh! ended up getting obliterated, and Warboss Demonkilla was killed by one of Khorne's generals, but not before Demonkilla punched him in the nuts. Khorne thought the whole thing was funny. So he cursed the Orks to spend all day fighting in front of the gates of the Brass Citadel for his amusement, and then be resurrected over night to do it all again the next day. You can imagine what the Orks thought of this.

[@jacobpeterson4071]

@@thundercrash4775 Thought you were joking about the nut shot. Apparently he was a daemon prince and he "stabbed him between the legs with his power claw". Yikes.

[@thundercrash4775]

@@jacobpeterson4071 "Khorne cares not from whence the blood flows. Only that it flows." ;)

[@MrNobody-zx4jz]

@@thundercrash4775 They thought it wuz fun and Khorn is a blodi gud meit

[@GoroScornshard]

Orks never lose. If they win they win. If they're pushed back they can just have another go. And if they die they win then too coz that means it was a good fight.

[@Kez_DXX]

And losing to other Orks don't count.

[@chickencurry420]

I love how the Orks themselves phrase that. "If we win, we win. If we die, we die fightin so it don't count"

[@goliath1179]

The Tau have fought the Orks before. It went pretty surprising, actually. It wasn’t during a WAGH, but due to the Tau’s long distance fighting style, with downright refusal for melee combat the nearby Orks “weren’t having any fun” so they stopped. They stopped fighting the Tau and left them alone. If an Ork WAGH was determined enough to wipe out the Tau, they more then likely could, but that’s a bit of mental sophistication that is a bit above them to completely wipe them out with intention to see it through.

[@manticore6963]

I mean, I get the Orks. It's like playing a casual round of Magic the Gathering, but your opponent refuses to play anything other than their tournament winning, blue/black-meta deck while you sit there with your red Goblin-deck. It's just not fun.

[@cyberenddragon4207]

The Orks have fought the Tau more than that and have even scored notable victories such as Da Big Raid and the capture of the Hope’s Light later renamed the Tau Killa

[@beardthebartender7644]

Ghaz could fuck up the Tau

[@ryanong3517]

@@manticore6963 Blue-White. Blue - Black has too much interaction. I ONLY ever played that way. :)

[@frederikanby2634]

i believe that any warboss worth his salt would not get frustrated but rather, determined to achieve a "proper fight" and would switch to a mechanised doctrine. remember, a warboss is not only surprisingly strong, but also, rather cunning and, dare i say it, intelligent, compared to the baseline ork

[@enderoctanus]

When the Tau made first contact with the Orks, they attempted to use diplomacy to recruit them into the Tau Empire. They VERY quickly realized the error of their ways. Orks and tyranids are the only species that Tau write off COMPLETELY. The Imperium does regularly pit the orks against their enemies, both to control the ork populations, and to weaken their foes. So yes they've thought of this.

[@martinosborne4703]

There was also that time they tried to talk with the Drukhari. That was absolutely hilarious. They never seemed to pick up anything from their neighbours, other than their own belief of superiority.

[@jacktobias6513]

@@martinosborne4703 To be fair, you CAN ally with the Drukhari, they are not completely unreasonable like the orks or Tyranids, just completely evil.

[@IONATVS]

@@jacktobias6513 You CAN ally with the Drukhari, but if you do so, the price they extract will likely be worse than the “help” will be worth. Unless you’re another Eldar faction, who they at least see as “people,” they’ll see any bargain you make with them as a stepping stone to enslaving and torturing your entire species.

[@jacktobias6513]

@@IONATVS Didn't the Severan Dominate make an alliance with some Drukhari?

[@IONATVS]

@@jacktobias6513 IHDK anything about the Severan Dominate. But I’d assume if they did, the Drukhari are getting more out of the deal than they let on.

[@nuralibolataev4474]

The orks LOVE to eat. Eating is probably their second favorite thing after war. Orks are also completely fine with cannibalism, the largest source of food to an orks is probably weaker orks(greenskins)

[@davidfrancisco3502]

Their main source of food are squigs. Animal like organisms produced out of the same fungal spores that creates new orks and other sub species. They're used as both food and a resource to satisfy any need they have like oil for lubricate their machines, drugs and many medical tools, clean their clothing and bodies from parasites and even pets.

[@sodinc]

@@davidfrancisco3502 and as far as i understand everything that orcs kill (or break) is a food for squigs

[@davidfrancisco3502]

Even some squig breeds are used as weapons or even to upgrade the accuracy of an ork when they're shooting their guns.

[@kernit79]

The best nutrients for Orks are Waaagh, Dakka, Stompah, Burnah and Smashah. I think that when they eat is just because they're nervous, because there isn't a Waaagh going on. Also, as far as I understand, they're fundamentally magical creatures, a whole section of the warp belongs to them, and even the Chaos gods don't mess with Gork and Mork.

[@k96man]

@@sodinc and if you think about it, wouldn't the fungus be able to feed on corpses as well?

[@arly803]

You seem to have missed the point in the snotlings that they tend to fungal gardens as well as herding squigs. The mushrooms have to be living on some sort of substrate, so biomatter from plants which are probably photosynthesizing would play into the system at some level.

[@doombybbr]

Also the usual answer to why something isn't a problem for the Orks is that they don't KNOW that it is a problem.

[@ryanong3517]

They also eat each other as they get bigger don't they?

[@arly803]

They don't have tactical cunning, they have brutal cunning. And cunning brutality.

[@Joe-mz6ez]

Gork approves

[@mrwoodchuck94]

@@Joe-mz6ez gork and mork*

[@DoctorM42]

[@Joe-mz6ez]

@@mrwoodchuck94 noted

[@silvertrimhill9844]

@@mrwoodchuck94 MORK IZ BESTEST!

[@scotibot7450]

"They can't get round physics" They can literally increase a vehicles top speed by painting it a specific colour or "RED UNS GO FASTA!!!"

[@johnbeck1978]

Red uns go fasta, purple is dead stelfee.

[@scotibot7450]

@@johnbeck1978 never seen a purple ork.... just saying

[@Heseroth]

Yup, Da' Bigga da Ork, Da Stronga iz body. Da' Big Boos will krump this Fizzykz

[@johnbeck1978]

@@scotibot7450 the blood axe commandos use a lot of purple in their "camouflage" patterns.

[@pringlelingle6827]

@@johnbeck1978 have they ever addressed that in lore just a purely painted purple ork sneaking past everyone and killing some big general.

[@tobiworldwide]

"No terrarium lasts forever" I'm sure Trazyn the Infinite would have one or two infinitely lasting terrariums laying around.

[@michellewilt4479]

I think the Blood Ravens raided them...

[@kevintoutcourt4164]

The real question about Trazyn is what he doesn't have.

[@randomguy-z2l]

I know a certain chronomancer who has a thing or two to say about that

[@absolutelyloyalspacemarine1684]

Yes, probably he has also a good amount of unpainted models

[@Erik-zh7rk]

I’m my mind Trazyn is breaking the 4th wall, knows he’s in a world built to be collected, so he decided to do the same. 😂

[@thedragon133]

Only one Ork truly has reached paradise, even if every Ork in 40k is very happy to live in that universe. Tuska Daemonkiller. That Ork loved to kill daemons so much he willingly took his ship into the warp with their waagh shields down to attract and kill daemons. And after no daemon could be "pursuaded" anymore to come play with him, he and his boys went straight to the Eye of Terror. In there, they killed so many daemons before finally being brought down that Khorne himself (who found them hilarious btw. because they annoyed the other gods) took them, placed them on his personal planet where there is eternal war and made them rise every day anew after being killed.

[@thetruegoldenknight]

That's literally Ork Heaven. :3

[@lordfriedrick7911]

Ork Valhalla is in the proverbial Hell

[@CteCrassus]

"Told yer I knew where da best fightin' woz." - Tuska da Daemonkilla

[@rafaeleduardofolda9305]

Please tell me wich books should i search to see that

[@collinfulling3223]

That list is literally blank. Everything explodes. Orks are Michael Bay after slamming a mountain of coke with ketamine injections in his pupils

[@arly803]

The snotling ammo thing wasnt explained very well, the shokk attack gun launches a squig, through the warp at an enemy, with the goal of crossing back into the materium inside the enemy's armor, when the snotling can get to biting and scratching and such

[@deamonmindgaming2054]

Hmm I guess the people who made the model got a green goblin mixed up with a pink squig for years then.

[@lokiorin5520]

@@deamonmindgaming2054 snotlings are green I think, but yeah gretchin work too

[@NickK1291]

Also worth noting that the short trip through the Warp will likely mutate the poor creature horribly and/or drive it absolutely insane...both of which tend to help with the biting and scratching when the snotling reaches it's destination.

[@insanehippiehippieinsane3828]

@@NickK1291 Don't forget the uncontrollable defecation that happens too.

[@NickK1291]

@@insanehippiehippieinsane3828 also a feature

[@ericbyo9472]

There was a band of orcs that so impressed Khorne that he grabbed them and sent them to a demon world. Where they would fight all day and be resurrected the next, to fight and die for eternity. It was literally heaven for them.

[@michellewilt4479]

Valhalla awaits!

[@Rohrae]

Yeah, the band of Tuska Daemonkilla!

[@MidoriOfTheShuinsen]

Mind you, he impressed Khorne by literally taking a Daemon Prince's powersword through the chest, reaching up with his klaw, and cracking the Prince's testicles like cheap plastic.

[@magni5648]

He didn't grab them. The madlads went on a Waagh straight into the Eye of Terror by themselves, and actually fucked up daemon worlds of the other three Chaos gods first.

[@chickencurry420]

@@magni5648 They also got their asses kicked over and over but Khorne was impressed by the fact that they never slowed down, not even a little. If anything, getting their asses kicked made them want to fight even more.

[@joshfloyd691]

"Orks still have to deal with physics." Hmm. Yeah, that's where your wrong. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

The power of ork belief

[@doombybbr]

@@CombatVeteranReacts That is usually the explanation for why they don't have to worry about something. Because they don't expect to.

[@DoctorM42]

Tau Empire actually survived 2 WAAAGH!s into their territory. Most tau history is them fighting Orks, and it's kind of the reason they get all their tech and tactics designed to NEVER let enemies close.

[@Ballard258]

Ork growth and diet. They are omnivore with a carnivore inclination, they eat wharever they can get their hands into, fungus fruits humans, gretchens, tau other orks hell eaven tyranids that are not particularlly poisonus. But they primarly eat squigs they are rised as caddle,warbeast or living amunition depending on the species. The fighting makes them stronger is in afition to eating.

[@luangomes2431]

Wait tyrranids if eaten can be poisonous?!? Even better who would eat a tyrranid

[@Ballard258]

@@luangomes2431 a hungry ork... or a starving Baal tribesman after the devastation. Not exactly a saffe meal but hey people do eat wierd shit when hunger strikes, as vietnamese streetfood can atest.

[@Keemperor40K]

Orks would see Poisonous Tyranids as a challenge to eat. Yes, many will die, but that is fine by the Orks, and whoever survives is the winner and gain some poison resistance

[@Ballard258]

@@Keemperor40K yea I can totally see that 😅 it will have to be a preaty dam big ork to survive that poisn, provided the hive mind didnt make it specificly to fight orks.

[@Flakjacket96]

5:03 Actually Warhammer 40k is a spin off of the original Warhammer Fantasy which blends world history, mythology and fantasy. I.E. The entire map is a slightly modified version of Earth with a Atlantis like continent in the middle, The Empire is basically the Holy Roman Empire, they have a whole nation that is combination the King Arthur mythos and actual feudalism.

[@lordcommissar7813]

Orks can eat anything they believe they can eat. Also the snotlings use the fungi that appears where orks show up to farm and turn into food that fungi uses energy from the sun or even nutrients in the dirt to grow

[@danpitzer765]

The Orks constantly loot guns and vehicles from everyone else (only chaos stuff is resistant to their use at all, and that's only if it's possessed). So it stands to reason that they also loot vocabulary and concepts too. Of course, even after being looted, it's not ready until they make it Orky!

[@user-unos111]

I want to believe they learned the languages of other species just to taunt them

[@archmagosavagadro5420]

The orks will find a way to loot it. They'll even use contained daemons and eldari spirit stones as makeshift batteries to power their grot toasters.

[@CteCrassus]

Just because something is possesed doesn't necessarily mean the orks won't loot it. When the walls start screaming, they'll just scream them back.

[@enderoctanus]

I'm fairly certain that Orks eat literally anything, including rocks. But the photosynthesis theory is also proposed quite frequently.

[@scotibot7450]

Never understood this as plants require chlorophyll to photosynthesise yet fungii do not have chlorophyll

[@enderoctanus]

@@scotibot7450 I don't think they are *actual* fungi, it would be really strange for fungi to exist beyond Earth after all due to evolution. When they're referred to as a fungus, it's probably meant that they are simply a fungus analogue, owing to the fact that they reproduce via spores. At the same time, this is the Orks we're taking about. They were never meant to make sense.

[@scotibot7450]

@@enderoctanus fair point

[@DoctorM42]

@@scotibot7450 orks are composite animal-fungi-algae organisms. Algae are often flossed over, as their only function is to provide photosynthesis.

[@scotibot7450]

@@DoctorM42 I would say that makes more sense then I remember we're talking about orks

[@collinfulling3223]

Welcome to the Orks. They’re just pure, comical insanity and playing a game nobody else wants to.

[@SykeowarriorPK]

The shokk attack gun teleports snots inside of enemy armor or vehicles. Pretty effective anti-space marine weapon to suddenly teleport a bunch of crazed snots inside of their armor/organs.

[@williambray5662]

I highly recommend the Tyranid overview, also by the Templin Institute. They're a fascinating race and the video does a good job of diving into them

[@Blazerwolf666]

18:35 "The Orkz believe the God of the Hoomans is really strong, they may actually be sustaining the Emperor" Beautifully said

[@goliath1179]

Orks have about two different ways of consumption. Eating and drinking. Orks have been known to eat humans or whatever sort of meat they want. What’s most fascinating is they’ll cultivate their own fungus and turn into a alcoholic like drink and can drunk off said drink. But really, when it comes to Orks you shouldn’t overthink it. If enough of them truly believed they didn’t need food they wouldn’t grow hungry. The best example is two different ships of Orks in space with their own teams fixing the ship. One team is wearing space suits and the other isn’t. When the team with suits told the other team they needed space suits as well, just the acknowledgement of what the first team said killed every single Ork not wearing a suit. Their biology is whatever the Old Ones made them to be and what they believe.

[@gardenthefermentingsound6218]

That never actually happened. No one can ever give me a source on this story.

[@D34DM4NW47K1N6]

Oh you should do Cadia by the templin institute! It'll make you wanna sign up at the nearest administratum building to join the crusade!

[@luangomes2431]

Ave emperor

[@im2randomghgh]

In response to your question about ork nutrition at 7:42, Orks and their spores create fully orkish ecosystems, from the fungus itself to a variety of squigs to gretchin and grots they fill almost every niche. This effectively displace local biospheres and creates a system that, from the ground up, is working to feed the orks and provide them with everything they need. The fungus are the means by which nutrients are added to the otherwise closed system. But also, yes - they can eat pretty much anything that fits in their mouth.

[@HateMachinist]

The most ridiculous faction? Yes. The most hilarious one too. Technically a biological weapon run rogue.

[@JV-iv9ml]

The Old Ones didn't set a proper fail-safe before getting bodied by the Necrons and the C'tan

[@Siegberg91]

@@JV-iv9ml The created the orcs in a last desperate attempt so they did not have the care in creation as the eldar got. But they worked as well as intented. And the old ones survived but were to low in number after the war. So they could not fix these issues anymore before they died out.

[@CteCrassus]

Strictly speaking, they're working exactly as intended.

[@goliath1179]

If they did that cockney accent the whole episode I wouldn’t watch it. Luetin09 has a pretty good explanation to all thinks Ork.

[@theofficerfactory2625]

2nd!

[@SykeowarriorPK]

Orks growth is kinda like fish lol, they never stop growing as long as they’re able to continue eating and catching prey.

[@Southerly93]

Tactical application for orks: Orks are perfect for deep operations on a galactic scale. They can just be hurled on a planet, and once on it, it’ll be next to impossible to get them off again. They’re self sustaining, and don’t need a supply chain when they can weapon use their environment. Their belief based technology means that when you kill them all, their weapons and gear all become useless junk. I can definitely see the old ones using orks in this fashion to give the Necrons unending headaches in systems they thought were already cleansed of life

[@kagato23]

Not completely. There is some science. Like, you can make an ork weapon fire. But put it in front of the mechanicus and you’ll be told this gun is made out of three and a half guns and even looking at it it makes no sense that it’s working, and if they attempt to duplicate it it will fail. But this gun will work. That said, it won’t work well and will break down fast… unless it gets back in the hand of an ork. Then it works great again. Yarrick could probably also use ork tek to full potential, as long as at least one ork who knows who he is sees him doing it. Like he does with his power klaw, since every ork knows Yarrick is a badass umie that can use a power klaw like an ork, so if e’s dat orky, e’ kin use most anyfing props.

[@robinfalkner-wedge824]

The Tau have gone up against a Wagh, but it was on a relatively small scale. To the imperium it pretty much would have been a side note for a random guard regiment to be thrown at, but the Tau had to adapt a lot of their armies specifically to slow it down since they didn't have the resources to fight it conventionally.

[@jake120007]

Commander Farsight of the Tau is an Ork slaughtering machine, he managed to take on 3 ork Waaghs, in over 100/1 odds with his men, he devotes most of his life to specifically tactically destroying ork waaghs and running them out of entire solar systems.

[@DoctorM42]

Orks are photosynthectic. They actually CAN conjure energy out of thin air and sunlight. Although most of their energy comes from eating squigs.

[@djcuevas1057]

They can’t survive on it alone, but it just extends their endurance.

[@gokbay3057]

Tbf Squigs grow from Ork spores too and Orks shed spores not only when they die but periodically as well.

[@ShinigamiSamaH]

Quantity does have it quality. Especially when said member of that quantity can rip a man in half with their bare hand. (yes, singular)

[@cindermoth3421]

The imperium, and most other factions for that part, try to keep an eye on Ork populations. And they try to prevent many Waaaaaaaghs, simply by assassinating prospective waaaaaaagh leaders and warbosses. Note that these assassinations aren't neccesarily subtle. Sometimes just nuking that particular Ork, sending in the space marines, and in some cases actual assassins. Of course this doesn't always work, in part due to these assassinations failing or these warbosses simply being missed as they aren't noticed. And there are a looooooooot of Orks.

[@Archon3960]

Actually, the reason Ork can make their technology function is due to a warp field they unconsciously all generate. It kinda bends reality to their will in a small way. And the more orks (and the bigger) they are, the more absurdly tech they can have! Heck, it even got to the point that they were starting to make freakin' _Attack Moons_ in M32! x)

[@tylerholmes2727]

The ork and Tau have met in combat, One in witch a tear in the warp opened. Commander farside was present for that conflict and gained his blade from the ruins in witch they all fought.

[@thetalantonx]

12:15 - The Shokk Attack Gun is basically a Portal gun attached to a reservoir of Snotlings. Imagine you're in a tank and suddenly out of nowhere an unstoppable flood of Snotlings appears in your tank. Not only that, the Snotlings have been made ill by their transport and in their panic they're fighting, puking, and crapping all over. The bottom of the tank gets filled with this unholy slurry while you and your mates are trying to stem the tide or get out but everything is incredibly slippery and all available space is filled with the unimaginably horrifying filth. Your life ends as you either gets killed outright by the Snotlings or die to wet or dry asphyxiation, crushed and drowned in Snotling offal and humors. All the hatches eventually pop and the tank is transformed into a reeking rancid tomb. This is all assuming of course that the Mek Boy firing the gun doesn't have it misfire, either partially collapsing the Warp tunnel and turning the Snots into a fine chunky salsa sprayed all over, the thing self-destructs and creates a Warp hole, or a Daemon of the Warp comes through... The Shokk Attack Gun - A perfect example of Orky Brutal Kunnin'

[@zonestalker6]

Most insane faction yes... daz why we lovez da boyz !!!

[@anilaisor]

8:02 the orks can eat pretty much anything, but in situations where there is a low amount of food sources the main diet will be, the mushrooms, snotling grow the mushrooms that orks (and all green skins) come from and then the whole group can feed on that (squigs are also a source of "meat" base food) and since the mushrooms can grow in the dark all you need is a rich soil for it to grow as it need (now what does a Green skin mushroom really need to grow, hell if i know) so food is never a real problem for orks since the thing that create them is also a renewable source of food, and every Green skin is expelling spores all around them guaranteeing that more mushrooms will grow in time so the basics are, mushroom gets nutrients form the ground like any other fungi/plant (or from a carcass or what ever ork shrooms grow from) then squigs and snotling come, take care of the fungus where it creates Gretchins and orks, that will start to fight and build the ork "tribe", from that point green skins will eat pretty much every thing, plants, humans, snotling, mushrooms, you name it they will eat it 12:08 snotling can be farmers, pets, miners, occasionally food (if unlucky) or any kind of job really, the main problem is being small and week in a society where might makes right causes you to be a the bottom of the food chain (literally) 24:59 the problems of using orks as a weapon are, one they will be really strong after they are done, so you just traded one enemy for another, two orks are extremelly hard to remove from a planet, and three orks are unpredictable

[@Eldar_Farseer]

May I request another reaction to the Templin Institute 'Craftworld Eldar // Asuryani'?

[@wolfhurricane897]

About those pirate outposts. They are a clan that isn't a clan. They are called Freebooters. Basically Orks but as pirates.

[@Dimrizzen]

you might enjoy "tuska daemon-killa" by Arch

[@TheOmegaCloud]

1:50 Chaos IS fighting for a lost cause, they are the RUINOUS Powers, is what they do. 7:45 The "Greenskins" are less of a Race and more of an "Ecosystem" and that includes a basic Food Chain, spores grow into mushrooms, squids eat mushroom, greetchen eats the squid, the ork eats the greetchen (and the squids) and when it dies it releases a fuck ton of spores perpetuating the cycle. 9:35 To be fair the Orks are the De-evolved form of the Krork, Trazyn The Infinite has a Krork foot soldier and he's as big as a Modern Ork Warboss. 11:00 Yeah, but the Ork ecosystem is not closed, they move from territory to territory, even from planet to planet, always looking for a Fight. 21:25 Pretty much. 22:55 Yeah, but it's all small scale, so far the Tau have received an incredible amount of Plot Armor. 23:20 Survive.

[@dominikfilip9857]

Orcs are the most hilarious faction in 40k.

[@infidel305]

are they related to ORKS?

[@FaceD0wnDagon]

Also, for fun, here is a brief rundown of the six primary ork Klanz or Kulturz. Bad Moonz: Are da richest orkz becoz dey're teef grow da fastest! Teef are used as money by Orkz. Uv course, dis is totally fair, since uvva orkz can always bash a Bad Moon ork's face til his teef fall out. Bad Moons typically use their wealth to be the biggest, loudest guns out of all orks. Snakebitez: Have an affinity for handling Squigs, and for low-tech combat. Often the first generation of Orks on a world will become Snakebites. They're even more scarred and surly than other orks! Deffskullz: Are lucky blue gitz dat love ta loot. Probably the closest thing Orkz have to heavy vehicle specialist, since they have a propensity for stealing and/or salvaging vehicles, and have more mekboyz than most others. Goffz: Goffz are the most dour and brutal orkz. While all orkz are violent and mean, Goffz have a sort of grim disdain for "mukkin' about" which is about the closest thing Orkz have to discipline. They tend to focus on melee brutality. Evil Sunz: Love to go fast. If you get to the fight first, more killin' for you! Very 'mad max.' Blood Axes: Arguably were intended by the Old Ones to be the orkish generals and tacticians. They are the only orks to consider things like stealth, retreating, flanking, and cover. They're also the only orkz that are open to diplomacy...well, as long as the diplomacy grants more opportunities for future violence.

[@str_brst8979]

26:25 as a salamander player, you're asking for a quite a flaming there AZ AN ORK FAN, YOU'RE AZKING FOR A KRUMPIN' either way, lol

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

No matter what you do, you are askin fer a krumpin tbh

[@ryanspooner5438]

I have one word. What!? Orks are hilarious. Mad respect for you not spitting out your drink. U beat me to the emperor comment. XD There is also the story of the guard that ran out of ammo. So they started throwing rocks and yelling bang! All the orks died except one. As he got closer, they heard a chant. I'm a tank! I'm a tank!

[@nosacredcows1810]

The G sound in Wargh is silent, imagine a Cockney Football Hooligan yelling War at the top of his voice and you'll have it nailed.

[@MalloonTarka]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

[@Mugthraka]

27:33 Gahazkul had half his head and brains shot from a Bolt. Grotsnik saved the Ork's life with experimental cybernetiks Implants and reconstructed his broken skull with an Adamentium plate. Ever since then Gahazkul is convinced that he can Hear Gork & Mork's directly in his skull and he became the Self Proclaimed Prophet of the Waaagh. 2 Times Gahazkul launced an All out War on the world of Armaggedon, a Hive planet, of capital importance to the Imperium, due to its large Factories that feeds the IG regiments and the Navy's Fleet of the Whole darn Segmentum Those are knowed has the 2nd and 3rd War for Armaggedon (the 1st War for Armaggedon was a couple of centuries before, when Angron, Daemon Primarch of the World Eaters, set his sight on this world with MILLIONS of Heretics, Traitors and Khorne Cultists, and Also Daemons and his own World Eaters Warbands, after a gruesome War, he was sent back into the Warp by the Grey Knights, but they lost a whole Company by doing it) The Wars for Armaggedon are also the Theatres for well knowed charatcers in the 40k-verse, such as Grimaldus, Reclusiarch of the Black Templars Or Commisar Yarrick, also called by the Orks, Old One-eyed Yarrick.

[@The_Cooler_Nari]

There are few things in warhammer more terrifying than an Ork Kommando. Sure there's bigger, angrier things. But there's few things as big as a Kommando while also being as *silent*. You will not notice a 7 foot tall, 6 foot wide, nigh perfect killing machine until it rips your squaddie in half. Or until slightly AFTER the leman russ explodes.

[@carissamace]

All painted purple of corse. “Cuz yooz eva seen a purpla Ork, Nah. Then theyz must be sneaky gits”

[@The_Cooler_Nari]

@@carissamace nah that’s cheating. Kommandos have the slightly funnier “camoflage that works even if it would have no logical reason to” As long as you paint black stripes on, you’re harder to see.

[@LemanRussVanquisher]

I really like the Templin Institute videos, also I feel like they lend themselves to your analytical style more than some others.

[@athibi9461]

Even Orks can’t ignore physics? Some Mekboys would like a word with you.

[@infidel305]

dats why oomies be losing

[@LecherousCthulhu]

It would be cool if the ork biology works the same way that human muscles do. Every time you break them down they grow larger or denser depending on what was done to them. This would be a psuedo science way to explain ork biology, but it would be cool and probably close.

[@brothersgt.grauwolff6716]

Ork's were the most fun faction to play I had some beautifully painted models I regret giving up 😟

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

3:01 The way I've always read it, the orkoid subspecies are animal-like organisms grown by fungal colonies. The fungus can survive on it's own, and is constantly released by the animal-like creatures it assembles. So, technically speaking, the fungi would be the real orks, and the things that act like animals are basically vehicles that the fungus builds, refuels, and repairs. Also the fungus is photosynthetic when it is in an orkoid (that's why they're green), but not when it is free in the wider environment, which is when it grows orkoids.

[@ogotarii6644]

Local combat veteran, mma fighter and youtuber cracks under the comical weight of the mighty orks

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

My logical analytic mind can't handle anything they do.

[@gokbay3057]

@@CombatVeteranReacts all you need to know that they are made for fighting and winning and that they are the best, because green.

[@oldeskul]

GW modeled the Orks after soccer hooligans. A funny story about the Orks involved massive battle on a planet against the Imperial Guard. The Orks had looted a wrecked baneblade tank. On three different days that tank and showed up and the guardsmen managed to knock it out each time. After knocking it out on the third day, after they had knocked it out, the guardsmen boarded the wrecked baneblade to find out what technology they had aboard. When they opened the engine compartment, there wasn't an engine, just a piece of paper with a crude drawing of a motor and the words vroom-vroom written on it. The sheer power of the Orks WAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGH! nad their belief that there was an engine in the tank had made it run.

[@benjaminkennedy715]

I laughed when you said orks were bound by physics.

[@doombybbr]

Orks don't know about physics, so they are not bound by it.

[@evilanno3394]

The mitochondria is a pretty good analogy, because of the endosymbiosis theory which pretty much says that mitochondria were once cells that were eaten by another cell that for some reason didn't digest it. Since the eaten cell could use oxygen for efficient energy production it was beneficial to the host cell and the host cell provided food and safety. With time the eaten cell lost most of its genes bearing those it needed for the production of ATP (transport form of energy in the cell) and became what is now known as the mitochondria. It is a pretty bad description but I am sure there are better ones online. It is a really interesting topic to read about.

[@blackorcshagrat8587]

If you want to see an Ork with actual strategies, do some lore reading about Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka.

[@Andreych95]

*ORK TAKTIKZ IZ BEST TAKTIKS*

[@gokbay3057]

Fun fact about him, his name is a joke on Margaret Thatcher, GW being left leaning British people in the 80s when they created him.

[@pappajudas9267]

There is one bit of wordplay that often gets lost and becomes more lost as time goes on. Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka is rumoured to be named for none other than former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher the woman the Soviets nicknamed The Iron Lady.

[@castorvolkCH]

The best story about orks is the where a imperial guardsmen canon balled into them yelling "NUKE!" and the resulting explosion could be seen for miles.

[@itsyaboythewendigo8321]

Wait a minute excuse me!?

[@denis197534]

Orks crack me up. Probably the most honest race in 40k. You get what you see. They're the most entertaining race to use in game lol

[@Ravenstrike721]

There ridiculousness is my favorite part. Every other faction takes itself so seriously and Orks are like "We's da strongest cause fuck u dats why."

[@crushcommando8637]

If it helps explain things, I believe squigs are a relatively new addition to the greenskins (in the scale of things) as I believe squigs were actually a subspecies of tyranid that orks found "orky" and pseudo adopted them.

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

Oh weird!

[@crushcommando8637]

@@CombatVeteranReacts Yeah it's a bit of old lore but they found an abandoned space hulk and found the murderous little buggers (who at this point were disconnected from any hive mind) and just kinda brought em along. For food orks do photosynthesis as well as eating just about everything, from people, to squigs, to other orks, doesn't really matter much.

[@jacktobias6513]

No, Squigs are a entirely orky thing, not a Tyranid thing, and they are not a relatively new addition, they have been around since 2nd edition iirc.

[@crushcommando8637]

@@jacktobias6513 actually i looked it up, it's very old canon but was still canon before modern editions became a thing

[@gokbay3057]

I am not sure this is true, Squigs have been around since Warhammer Fantasy. They part of the Orkoid/Greenskin system (alongside Orks, Gretchin and Snotlings).

[@ryanspooner5438]

Also, as to the tau vs ork.that is the story of the farsight enclaves. The orks almost overwhelmed the civilisation. So they woke up farsight and shadowsun from stasis to fight them off. Most of the tau war is against the orks, as what the tau codex stories are about them. The ork lore is just the best

[@flakknightgaming8583]

Well as far as energy goes, there's a variety of squig for almost every calorie source you could imagine. The squigs eat everything kinda like more chill Tyranids (or space pigs). The orks eat the squigs, and grots, and snotlings, they have their fungus farms, and they have all the native life of whatever planet they're on, plus Orks are photosynthetic.

[@justadogobeingdogo5766]

17:36 “it would be easier if they told me what part of Orc culture would not spontaneously explode” *BOLD* of you to assume that there’s ANYTHING that has to do with Orcs that doesn’t eventually go *BOOM!!!*

[@OrDuneStudios]

Im a tank im a tank

[@darthstemcell]

Thoroughly enjoyed your reactions to Orcs. this is a great video

[@grotandguardsman5334]

With regards to ork metabolic processes. Some sources state that orks can photosynthesise themselves. The spores also produce a colossal amount of fungus and lesser green skins that make for good food. And of course, good old squigs. Orks really aren’t picky. They happily eat the corpses of just about anything

[@GaldirEonai]

Regarding the orky food chain: The fungus that sprouts up around greenskins is a mixture of saprophytic and chemosynthetic varieties. They reclaim nutrients from any kind of decaying organic matter as well as, if the right chemicals are present, creating them from non-organic sources. The fungus is then mostly eaten by squigs which in turn form the primary food source of the emerging greenskin tribe. This allows orks to survive and grow in places like space hulks where organic matter is pretty rare but various highly reactive chemicals might be abundant.

[@michaelfishstein6356]

Whenever i think of physiology of orks I think of lichens. Which are a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and algae. The algae lives inside the fungus and photosynthesizes for the fungus.

[@thegherkin7659]

Some people think the Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka, one of the more prominent orks was named after Thatcher. Mag Uruk Thraka doesn't sound too far off from Margaret Thatcher, and considering 40k was made in Britain in the 80s, its somewhat plausible.

[@madmike1708]

7:00 Orks do eat, they eat squigs, snotlings, sometimes grechin's or other orks. Also the fungus that grows around them turns into food for them. 10:30 Also there is the WAAAAGH which is their psychic link/energy source. That in it's self probably can explain why they can keep going in battle and not fatigue as long as there are enough other orks to provide energy. Orks ALWAYS are seen in packs, and they feed each other with psychic energy and get surges of inspiration/energy when enough WAAAAAGH energy is around them.

[@dragonpandagaming1290]

First question answered, Orks eat fungi of all kinds as well as meat. A particularly favoured ingredient in their diet are Squigs, short for 'squiggly beasts' - a variety of symbiotic races about the size of a cat, but legless. Often the only ones consumed are those known as the 'Eaten Squigs', a limbless blob which feeds on fungus.

[@Southerly93]

Also, the closest living analogue to the fungus that lives in, and composes orks, would be a mold called physarum polycephalum. A very fascinating organism capable of learning and memory without a brain.

[@liamroyston6718]

The migratory and scavenger nature of orks usually brings in sustenance for the squigs, on top of that while the *squigs* eat ork refuse (and anything else) the fungus patches themselves will do as fungus do and consume any decaying organic matter.

[@paulmahoney7619]

The fungus component of Orks grows edible fungus on the surface of planets, alongside squigs which are common food sources, and they can eat almost anything, and the Ork’s crude cybernetics can sometimes extend this ability yet further.

[@thestabbybrit4798]

"Orkses is never defeated in battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fighting so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!" - Platork, Greenskin Thinky Boy

[@murder1625]

Sees tau let's just say it's tie

[@thedragon133]

11:20 that's assuming orks stay where they are. They rarely do because beating each other up gets boring fast. So they go look for someone else to beat up. First on their continent, then their planet and then... off to the stars they go. Edit: A Whaaaagh is exceptionally dangerous. One Whaaagh nearly destroyed the Imperium because it grew just that big. Which is why there are cullings regularly by the Imperium, either Imperial Guard, Space Marines or Officio Assassinarum.

[@oliviernaud4373]

"orks can get around physics". the ork anwser to that: a color patern that does go around that and them headbutting you to prove their point. if chaos does win and reign supreme, doesnt that they establish some form of order? wich is anathema to them and then they all explode when they realize? The Tau have encountered almost every faction in 40k beside maybe craftworld eldar. Humanity does come first because they can reason a little bit with them, sometime conquering imperial planets diplomaticly. but when they ran out of easy target, the next option to expand is occupied by green, noisy and violent neighboor. i think a very very small tynarid tendrils did interrupted the damocles golf crusade (only reason the imperium stop attacking them)... and later the dark eldar offered help wich they really regretted later. then while fighting i dont remember who they awakened a necron tombworld... so while hardly understanding anyone beside humanity and ork to a surface degree, they at least were introduced to everyone at least once.

[@gokbay3057]

Yeah, Chaos can't win. The Gods sabotaging each other and general infighting aside if Chaos won it would have no more need for existing and would disappear. This has been openly stated about Tzeentch at least iirc.

[@Northbravo]

The difference between the orks now and the KRORKS in the War in Heaven is vast. No Ork in modern 40k has even come close to the intelligence, strength, and size of a War in heaven Krork. As far as we k ow there is only one Krork known to exist and its being held by a necron called Trazyn the Infinite in his museum. Fabius Bile, a Emperor's Children chaos marine, saw it in the museum and described it as being thr biggest ork he had ever seen.

[@keithmofley8275]

In response to Orks being able to grow after the battle. As far as the lore is concerned their fungus/plant like DNA is able to absorb nutrients from the atmosphere and can also perform a basic form of photosynthesis (according to some lore). Since they are also primarily fungus they're bodies are primarily compromised of a water like substance and so growing their muscles takes much less energy than say, a human muscle. In addition ork hair is actually a squig that has attached itself to an Orks head and they provide the ork with protection and nutrients in exchange for the transportation to new environments where they can feed on the surroundings. It's all absolutely bonkers.

[@smrtt92]

"Do not mistake their brutality for stupidity." They can be cunning and tactical. Storm boyz, kommandos, red axes and dakka jet fliers, especially. And for ingenuity, look at the deathskulls; they turned a moon into a missile

[@Shadowmants]

One could even describe them as brutally cunning

[@bloodwolfkoji]

Yeah one thing to definitely recognize in 40k; where every other race is struggling for survival, the Orks are just having the time of their lives and they are loving the hell out of it

[@CaptainMarko379]

“Chaos is not fighting for a lost cause.” Hmmm now that’s some fine heresy right there

[@eaterofchickens5438]

It's okay. The Inquisition is on the way

[@ivybennett2274]

They really are fighting a lost cause. Sure its a cause thatll outlive all the mortal races but its doomed all the same The gods of chaos arent fighting for chaos supremacy, or genocide, or galactic control. They are fighting eachother in an infinite war called "the great game" but no chaos gods can truly kill even another of their ilk. You cant outplan tzeentch even if you gave every tactical genius in the galaxy a million years to plan You cant out kill khorne because everytime you kill one of his untold trillions of demons he gets stronger You cant out persist nurgle because he is the very concept of survival and persistance Slaanesh The chaos gods will just war with themsves for infinity until the collateral of this war wipes out all sentient life and starves the powers of chaos to death

[@sim.frischh9781]

I would like to point out that the Orks in Warhammer 40k are the ONLY ones who LIKE what they DO. And they are inspired by Sports fans. Hooligans. Drunk, overenthusiastic Hooligans. With huge guns. They meant terrestrial animals, so animals living on ANY planets. Not just exclusively Terra. That closed system issue is no hindrance as the Orks happily raid anyone unlucky enough to live on the same planet.

[@sim.frischh9781]

BIG ERROR! The guns of Orks ARE functionally sound constructs, each lovingly handcrafted. However, their belief in the gun functioning comes into play where the crafting fails, like a trigger not precisely working by a mere millimeter still works when the weapon is wielded by an Ork believing the gun shoots. Watch this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWibeWiXgZx1sJo

[@nighthunter3039]

@Comabt Veteran Reacts there actually exists a animal analog to the fast healing and remembering stuff of the orcs not as fast and no collective memory like the orcs have but similar. Axolotls can regrow limps, organs and even big parts of their brain with out having a memory loss apparently.

[@jamesspinner7764]

no enclosed system lasts forever but ... I have seen a show that had a closed system that had remained stable for over 80 years ... I know that is just a relatively small sample but it is still alive AFAIK and give every hint of remaining stable for the forseable future...

[@CombatVeteranReacts]

80s year is a tiny amount of time compared to traversing between galaxies at sub light speeds

[@TheHarimir]

yes, the tau did face a WAAAAARGH! in the making and commander farsight is a legendary figure exactly because he managed to contain and counteract it. Templin institute has a dossier on him if you are interested

[@sathos]

They glossed over the gun that fire snotlings...what it actually does is generate a warp portal for short range teleportation thus effectively firing snotlings through the warp unprotected, to rematerialise inside their opponent’s body or vehicle ABSOLUTELY RAVING MAD and violent as heck.

[@Bzuhl]

Answering the energy thing : The idea is that through their hierarchy/food chain they take from their environment at every level, adding it to the "closed circle" biomass. Mushrooms grow through the nutrients in the soil, the different lower life from feed on mushroom, small animals, insects, etc. and the bigger ones can eat any kind of lifeform that is around. There is also a bit of photosynthesis happenning with every one of them. They definitively deplete the environment around them though, which fits with their warring/conquering ways. If you successfully trap orks on a planet they'll probably cap out once everything is in the closed circle of ork waste => mushroom nutrient => ork lifeform.

[@Flight_of_Icarus]

"They cannot get around physics" Well, about that....