ORKS! ORKS! ORKS! | Warhammer 40k Lore

[@Tonyalexdanger]

Can't believe they left out the ork who went back in time and killed himself so he could have two copies of his favourite gun

[@Mephiles343]

DO WHAT?

[@krausercruz2780]

I mean you can literally pic any notable Ork in 40K history and 99% of the time they have done something ridiculous

[@q31544]

Imma need some citation on this

[@Mephiles343]

@@q31544 apparently their name is Grizgutz?

[@Lightscribe225]

@@Mephiles343 A warboss accidentally went back in time to right before he entered the warp. He went to war with his past self because he liked his gun and wanted a backup copy. This ended a WAAAAGH! before it started

[@endlesswaffles6504]

Orks: Are dumb. Also Orks: Builds a titan out of parking tickets and DirectTV receivers.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

It is not brilliance but a refusal to understand physics paired with an ability that literally is the will to power.

[@garysanders7935]

Boy if that ain’t the most random set of things I’m dead ☠️☠️☠️

[@zcgamerandreacts2762]

Give em a soda can and paper clips and he'll make a hwacha .

[@nothyg012]

AND THE FACT THAT IT WORKS

[@gatordragon6140]

Hey it just works

[@Awesomotron2k]

You forgot about the story of the looted' russ: A crew of guardsmen was forced to abandon their Leman Russ tank, after it's engine got exploded by Ork canonz. A few days later the guard was defending a position when their now looted and orkified tank rolled up on them. They managed to actually shoot it, and stop it. After the battle they tried to scuttle the wreck, and went to have a look inside. The engine was still gone. And in it's place was a crude drawing of an engine with the words "vroom vroom" written on it.

[@squirrel_killer-]

They killed it several times actually before they looked inside of it. So it was multiple days of Vroom Vroom

[@andreipintea9333]

Is this real? Like, really real? I want this to be real so much!!

[@woaddragon]

@@andreipintea9333it about as real as when some space marine who ran out of ammunition, the leader told them to say PHEW, PHEW with their mouths, and dozen of Ork just died. the power of WAAAARRRHH is insane.

[@Mephiles343]

This story is funnier than shit,But i love it because it fits so well

[@ShahbazBokhari]

@@Mephiles343 40K is wonderful and bonkers and I love it so much.

[@Corristo89]

The Tau actually beat the Orks once by pretending to be Orks on their coms and shit-talked the other Orks, which resulted in them turning on each other instantly and the Tau won. They also beat them by simply never letting them get close enough to enjoy fighting with their immense long-range firepower. After a while the Orks just lost interest in fighting because they were just getting killed without doing any killing themselves. The Necron leaders HATE the Orks due to them being completely random and unpredictable. The Necron have 4D chess level strategists who still can't deal with the Orks because they just never do what they expect. The most amazing strategies fail because the Orks literally don't know what they're doing either, making them completely random in combat.

[@shoeboi4596]

lol

[@billgates6689]

One year late but you can actually break up an Ork WAAAAAAGGGGGH!!! by killing the leadership. Since Orks follow "Da Biggest Ork" when it becomes unclear who "Da Biggest Ork" is then they start Krumpin each other for the title and fracturing into smaller factions which in a way is just speeding up what Bricky said. After that you just defeat them in detail till they're small enough to turn Feral and station some people to monitor and cull.

[@dylantucker5374]

The age old tactic of "Dey cant tell wot wer' doin' if we dont know wot wer' doin' either"

[@bluegamerk3703]

"You can't predict me if I can't predict MYSELF!"

[@vinnythewebsurfer]

Which makes sense because they were specifically designed to beat the Necrons and defy their tech and strategy. Too bad for the old ones still getting wiped but dem Orks weren’t stopping.

[@slashermas]

My favorite “probably bullshit” ork story has to be the 2x4 Ork. The story goes is that the Imperium captured an Ork and wanted to do studies on how they fought. So they called in a guardsmen and asked him to test the weapons first as a sort of control. After the soldier finished they let the lone Ork in and told him to fire off the guns, instead of grabbing a lasgun or stunner, or any of the other weapons on the table, the Ork instead walked over to a pile of construction equipment and picked up a 2x4 and started shouting “DAKKA! DAKKA! DAKKA!” While shouldering it like a rifle. After terminating the trial the clean up crew found unexplained bullet holes all over the chamber.

[@KhaosAdmiral]

mine would be the story of Tuska Daemon-Killa

[@guxtse]

Orks are dumb, but not shtoopid. "Where's da sluggs go in, where's da dakka come out?"

[@heavystalin2419]

@@guxtse Y'see, git, planks 'ave lot of toobz. And splinterz. Ekological dakka.

[@guxtse]

@@heavystalin2419 I NOZE A KRUMPIN STICK WHEN I'Z SEEZ ONE!!! DATS A STICK!!!

[@nathanbrown8196]

@@guxtse DER' Y' GO FINKIN' AG'IN!

[@jamestipton7872]

the reason the ultramarines always win is not due to plot armor or GW fanboyism. its because the orks believe blue is the luckiest color.

[@RocRolDis]

I didn’t know Matt Ward was still writing years after he stopped writing. Ha ha. Smurf am bad. Funny joke.

[@BobMcBobJr]

I like the idea that big E is alive because the orks believe he is. It makes total sense considering every guardsman ever shouts "long live the emporer!" and "the emporer protects!"

[@unwillfullyignorant7805]

That and fanboyism.

[@camramaster]

Orks are the mechanism by which plot armor is applied to WH40k. It's why the universe is so grimdark- the Orks know on a fundemental level that all other species are there to make "gud foights", and so reality reflects this. Only the Necrons stand in their way- and only barely, what with the Tyranids being a thing.

[@sgtreznov6525]

@@BobMcBobJr fairly certain the Orks think the emperor is the greatest Warboss the Humies have, since every single human and space marine praises him

[@randombencounter263]

I feel compelled to clear up a misunderstanding about the krorks. The krorks didn't degrade into orks because of infighting or loss of the Old Ones or anything of the sort. The mechanism that lets orks metastasize and grow is triggered by violence. The more an ork fights, the bigger and stronger and also smarter it becomes. The reason why modern orks are so dumb and wimpy compared to the krorks is because no conflict in history has *ever been as bad as the War In Heaven* they were designed to fight, so they haven't had a chance to grow to their full potential since. The closest we've ever come to seeing a full krork resurgence was during the War of the Beast, which was an ork growth spurt in reaction to the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy.

[@shadowrobot7708]

Yeah that makes more sense to me.

[@ShahbazBokhari]

Well said man!

[@A.C_B.]

this just makes a waagh even more terrifying.

[@ZxosGamer]

but they still fight each other tho. Didn't that gonna evolve them to the point that they're the strongest species alive (kinda like how AlphaGo Zero trains with itself until it beat AlphaGo that has beaten the best Go player in the world)

[@ShahbazBokhari]

@@ZxosGamer it’s tied to how they are, intrinsically, designed to be mass produced due to their hybrid nature and gene transfer based knowledge inheritance and a gestalt psychic consciousness that proportionally rises in strength according to the threat they face. An orc releases countless spores upon death, so there will always be more orcs after enough time.

[@ursadabear2810]

A friend of mine had a Knob Boss min whose head was on backwards and a little Gretchin mini was cut in half and made to look like it was tied to the ‘front’. He said that the story of this guy was “The pain boy put his head on wrong so he stapled a Gretchin to the other side so he could have 360° vision.

[@openaardvark419]

We need more of this

[@Ninjat126]

Makes me wish that 40k had facing rules. I've played games where they're a thing, like Infinity, and 360 degree vision is incredibly powerful.

[@bamboozlednoodle6513]

I literally thought this was canon for a split second

[@FIRSTNAMELASTNAME-zt4kf]

Yah I didn't fuck up the mini it was the pain boys fault 🤣

[@gingermcgingin4106]

@ Nintolerance It use to, back in I think 6 ed and before, at least for vehicles. It's still kinda in the game with how AV works

[@TheVladdracula1]

Not only do Gork and Mork exist, they are also the strongest gods in the setting. They just busy beating each other up.

[@IapitusMcHeimer]

Excellent metaphor for the Orks as a whole

[@darthlordoftheshit271]

Yeah like they shrug off daemons without even trying and generally dont give a shit about anything but each other, and yea theyd probably be able tp beat nurgle slaanesh and khorne at once, but tzeench probably not due to his pure might of mind

[@TheVladdracula1]

@@darthlordoftheshit271 If I recall correctly, there was a bit of fluff where they beat up Khorn and Nurgle

[@buxedobro4372]

I always see people saying that they're the strongest but never see much in terms of evidence. Not that I'm trying to accuse or anything, but I generally see the main gods of each faction as generally similar in power. Except for the Eldar, cuz they got clocked. Tyranids are also kinda out there and I don't know what the Hive Mind's standing is in comparison.

[@TheVladdracula1]

@@buxedobro4372 I mean its only logical. It has been stated that Orks are the most numerous race in the galaxy. And each and single Ork is zealously worshipping them

[@jasonlincoln7863]

“We was tryna read an da boss was wonderin ‘if you gits so dumb, why not read in red, cuz red makes you go fasta.” Soz we readz in red, and we getz smart. Well den we stopz fightin to contemplate loif but then Garbog went and krumped ‘imself do den da boss sayz we cant read no more.”

[@dylantucker5374]

Shoulda painted em' blue! Then da' just beam the knoledge into ya mined

[@animedude34]

@@dylantucker5374 You sonofa grot I'z in!

[@_Tzer]

purple izzzz a stelthy color

[@brok56]

@@_Tzer i as a guardsmen have never seen purple orks. Only yellow grenades flowing in the air sometimes.

[@awesomeii8346]

@@brok56 yelow iz ezzplody color, humie

[@ExRazR]

one of my favorite ork-backfire story: after a failed battle against the Blood Ravens, the last few orks retreat and almost got away. they faild because one of them looked back and spotted a slow Spacemarine in Terminator-Armor. as he was spotted, the terminator accellerated way beyond normally possible and crushed the last fleeing orks

[@zunlise2341]

makes sense

[@CobaltN64]

Addendum: this happened because the space marine was in red armor. And red is the fast color.

[@guardsmanlars6797]

Hehehe thats funny

[@AJZulu]

Red is fastest

[@memekip555]

Doesn't yellow mean bigger explosion to the orks? Because I. That case, I think the Lamenters and Imperial Fists and many others better stay away from the orks

[@inamerica55585]

You know the "I'm a tank" story is fictional because if it really was orks doing that they'd say "We's a tank"

[@Birthday888]

The version of the story I heard, the Imperial Guardsmen were yelling "Dakka" instead of "Bang". And the Orks that had convinced themselves that they were a tank were yelling "Vroom, vroom!" Which I think boosts it's credibility. And hey. If enough Ork players believe it's true, it eventually turns canon, dem's da rulz.

[@Lightscribe225]

Oh just remembered you have to mention the Red Grot Revolutionary Committee. I remember the best example of them in an exchange between a bunch of gretchen "'Ang on, is you tellin' us what to do Urko?" "We agreed, no leadaz." "Right, in da revolushun no greenie will put himself above anutha greenie. Dat's da law. NOW SHUT UP AN' DO AS I SAY!"

[@carissamace]

Now That’s communism.

[@HiddenEvilStudios]

@@carissamace That's a funny way to spell HERESY. Now, an entirely different topic, would you mind having a look down the barrel of this bolt gun? There seems to be something stuck in there, but I can't exactly see what...Nevermind the inquisitorial uniform and the hat.

[@miguelmartinperpinan6280]

@@carissamace Perhaps all the USSR needed to work was the power of imagination

[@AndrewFishman]

@@miguelmartinperpinan6280 really, the power of imagination is all the USSR had going for it. They imagined they could make a Utopia. They failed horribly.

[@lordfelidae4505]

@@AndrewFishman that is the best way of describing it. They wanted to use an ideal that cannot work in practice.

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

I love how the bit about the Orks immediately dying once they realized they couldn’t breathe in space is pretty much the joke in Spongebob about how campfires can’t exist underwater.

[@GearShotgun]

Theres a part in "The Siege of Castellax" where an Ork boy gets shot in the head with an autogun and keeps going. It isn't until he stops to notice the hole in his skull a few moments later and realizes he should've died that he actually drops dead.

[@edgarluna7300]

@@GearShotgun literally the equivalent of Wil.E Coyote looking down after running off a cliff after running on literally nothing and then floating for a couple of seconds before making the realization and falling 100 feet lol

[@MonteScarf]

They're operating under cartoon logic in a grimdark universe, and I LOVE IT

[@cptsteele91]

I'm quietly confident that a line of background Uruk dialogue in Shadow of Mordor might be a nod to 40k Pros, a couple of Uruks will be talking to each other and one will say "if I get my head cut off I'm just gonna keep fighting, don't need a head to fight"

[@Crimson_Sun2486]

Patrick was an Ork

[@Brutalyte616]

You forgot the part where Tuska earned the favor of Khorne by crushing the nutsack of a Daemon Prince of Khorne with his Power Klaw. Khorne found that shit so hilarious that he gave Tuska and his Boyz the power of resurrection and allowed them to torment the Daemon Prince for quite some time before bringing WAAAGH!!! Daemon-Killa to his personal world to fight, die, resurrect and repeat for his eternal amusement.

[@lnecbaal]

he went to ork heaven/valhala

[@Coyotebriggs]

Do the orks still grow after each resurrection, if so, HOW BIG ARE THOSE BOYS NOW?

[@Brutalyte616]

@@Coyotebriggs Orks who fall to Khorne, or any other Chaos God for that matter, actually lose their ability to grow and generally get cut off from the WAAAGH!!! field, but it's entirely possible that Tuska is an honored guest in Khorne's realm and thus has maintained his natural Ork abilities. In which case, he's probably at least the size of an Imperial Knight.

[@bmobmo6438]

That's basically Ork heaven lmao

[@rantymcrant-pants9536]

They didn't fall to Khorne. They went there for a fight. Yes, it's in fact madder than you remember; they INVADED the Eye of Terror. Impressed with their delight in fighting so much Khorne resurrects them after each fight to do it again. The Orks obviously love this arrangement, it's everything they could ever want.

[@notsae66]

Ghazghul once ran Yarrik over with a bane blade on the way to seige his planet. The mighty Warboss looked down at his enemy broken before him, and ordered his pain boys to fix him up and send him home because this was no way to end their fight.

[@jamzee_]

Yarrik then proceeded to fully heal. Returned and killed the painboy.

[@laserpanda9553]

Oh god, a human put to Ork "medicine" poor bastard

[@AndrewFishman]

@@laserpanda9553 He probably doesn't realise he has no organs yet. The pain boi probably just stuffed him full of Squig guts and sent him home.

[@pretzelbomb6105]

@@AndrewFishman Knowing Yarrick, he probably glared at the painboyz the whole time, fully awake and conscious as they cut into him. Every time they do something wrong or try to experiment, he calmly pinches their arm with his powa klaw and shakes his head, intimidating them into doing it properly.

[@AndrewFishman]

@@pretzelbomb6105 😎😎😎

[@Arch-Arsonist]

There was once an Ork who accidentally traveled a week backwards in time. He found his younger self, killed him, and took his gun. He lived happily ever after with two of his favorite gun.

[@rafabuda0]

Not just killed, he waged war on his past self. Because he liked his gun so much he wanted a second one

[@barrybend7189]

He lived happily for about point 1 nanoseconds.

[@00pugsly48]

I love the orks.

[@danielserrander4668]

Where do you people find these stories

[@barrybend7189]

@@danielserrander4668 its orks every author makes one ork story.

[@derekdrake8706]

Gork and Mork do, in fact, reside in the Warp and Yes, the Pantheon of Chaos is terrified of them.

[@jalopy3574]

SO Gork would just roll up in Slanesh's Domain and just bonk them on the head " You Horny You dum God , youz goez ta jail"

[@Aschwartz14]

But orks don’t have souls. The waaaagh is a completely separate phenomenon from psykers. Therefore Gork & Mork cannot exist in the warp. They probably do exist because of orc belief, but not in the same way all other gods do chaos or otherwise

[@jacobfreeman5444]

@@Aschwartz14 I am of the impression it is all psychic energy and the difference comes from the mindset and biology of the race. Orcs, being communal in the extreme and not even really needing a brain seemingly to live and think, manifest this not as singular souls that add up to a collective but a collective soul that has some sort of dissociative disorder.

[@joaogomes9405]

Gork and/or Mork could dropkick any of the chaos gods so hard they would tear a god-sized hole in the warp.

[@cavenoises3891]

@@joaogomes9405 Mork the kind of guy to strap a bomb vest to the nearest khorne berserker

[@Guciom]

A description of the Krorks from the books: ‘No, it is a museum,’ Fabius said. Their voices echoed strangely through the long gallery, as if the distance sought to swallow up all sound. ‘These are exhibits, petrified at the moment of collection, or else later posed for best effect.’ ‘That is the largest ork I’ve ever seen,’ Savona murmured, staring up at a towering, twelve-metre-tall monstrosity that loomed in a nearby nook. ‘And his weaponry…’ The frozen creature wore a crude exoskeleton far in advance of anything the orks now might conceive of. Indeed, from his initial examination, Fabius suspected that it might be in advance of his own battleplate. ‘A krork,’ he murmured. ‘One of the first orks. I read about them in the aeldari texts. I have long theorised that the orks are a form of organic weapons system - a rogue biological agent, unleashed during some ancient apocalyptic conflict. There’s too much about their internal workings that seems designed, rather than evolved.’

[@seelenverkaufer4861]

12 meters? Damn!!!!

[@De_Chappo]

I read a youtube comment somewhere before that theorised that how good the orks are, is dependent on the current, overall state of the setting, for example during the war in heaven, the krorks needed to be that advanced and strong because of how insanely powerful all the combatants were. Basically the old ones created the perfect race, one in a sweetspot where they cant conquer the galaxy but also not be eradicated. This would also explain why the orks have such crappy tech, cause if all of their mannerism and knowledge is instinctual and ingrained into their minds from birth then why wouldn't they be able to re-engineer their old krork-era technology. I really like this take on the orks, even though its probably wrong lmao

[@lordtacocat3138]

@@seelenverkaufer4861 (I'm American so I don't use metric sorry) Which is 39.37 feet which is about 11 feet away from being as tall as the original godzilla

[@fishskin1185]

Thanks for talking in American brother. God bless the US of A

[@Guciom]

@@akumaking1 An average Krork would be smaller but there would be allot more Beast like Krorks runing around back in the day.

[@gambitium4466]

Ork psychic ability is more along the lines of “that’s just the way it is.” If they ran out of gas but remembered that its the Boss that refuels the tank, and he never forgets to refuel the tank, they’d go and find a full tank of gas. If an Ork took a bullet and it looked pretty bad, even if it wasn’t critical at all, they’d be like “well, i’m dead.”

[@JTruong3rd]

The most brutal warlike sentient mushrooms are comic relief, and the pyromaniac space marines that set an entire planet on fire are the nicest chapter around.

[@sarcasmjack6824]

That’s just warhammer

[@thequ6503]

Vulkan is the most based primarch because he killed a child

[@roachdoggjr9421]

@@thequ6503 it was an eldar child. That's just pesticide.

[@mr.potato2223]

@@roachdoggjr9421 dark elder child I think

[@shriekingskeleton]

@@mr.potato2223 Well killing Eldar childs is just being evil but dark eldar child... Not so much

[@DrKaill]

People often think about what each factions "win" condition is in the 40K universe. The Orks consider the current state of the universe to be their win condition.

[@shahman76]

I’m a tank I’m a tank I’m a tank I’m a tank 🤣

[@ethanguest3438]

Your profile picture makes this all the better

[@milesohalloran8355]

Wait if it’s I’m a tank then doesn’t that mean that group of Orks believe that their just one big strange shaped ork

[@ethanguest3438]

@@milesohalloran8355 that does make sense.

[@jacksongrantham4848]

What would have made that even better, is if a guardsman shouted "Krak out!" and then threw a rock vaguely shaped like a Krak grenade, and the orks all just fucking keeled over dead in a big pile. (A krak grenade is an anti-armor grenade for those who don't know who may read this reply in the future)

[@Nox_Lunatera]

@@jacksongrantham4848 or like, a melta bomb too, lmao

[@Doku71]

I remember reading a theory that the reason the Orks aren't as intelligent now is that they were built to and for battle. With no other species they turned to infighting, breaking up in Klans, and devolving technology as to enjoy the fight just a little longer. It's why, when in the War of the Beast, they actually sent an Ork emissary to request the Imperium's surrender, the emissary in perfect Imperial High Gothic, bluntly stated that the Imperium provided no challenge and that they would accept them as a subservient race so that they could focus their efforts on finding a proper challenge elsewhere in the universe. They were approaching their former Krork levels during the War in Heaven.

[@MrHitmancheg]

There is a very real possibility that the main reason Emperor still can hang on to his mortal coil is the fact that all Ork Boiz still think that Big E is still alive.

[@thatromanfella8377]

I hate this. I hate you. This makes sense

[@memekip555]

*SHUT.* AND TAKE MY LIKE.

[@localidiotnumber792]

Umm.... Does that mean that something could be erased from existence if all Orks just believed that it didn't exist?

[@justadude5684]

@@localidiotnumber792 yes

[@giuseppe9653]

In the subject of HERESY

[@LouseGrouse]

Ork head lying on the floor decapitated: "I izn't gunna make it boss. 'ere, take me teef" Boss, also decapitated: "aw fanks mate."

[@xanderlee51]

I assure you, sir, this is definitely the Emperor's will. -Doge Vandire

[@proffesionalidiot5994]

@Pap DM Did you not watch the episode in which they talked about him?

[@admiralglenn2323]

@Pap DM and it’s SCRUB you ninny!

[@fshn4x4]

@Pap DM Maybe it's the shibe version...

[@eriktazawa3087]

Sister, it is imperative that you show the lord grey knight your feet, to beat chaos of course -Doge Vandire

[@itsmegoodbye9227]

"I cant die! Im too busy!!" -Goge Vandire

[@raider3167]

Fun fact: even detonating a planet’s core doesn’t guarantee the Orkz are gonna die. A chunk or two is gonna carry spores into space and become a space hulk.

[@Nemoknowsnothing]

When he talked about squigs I really wanted him to point out that all orks are bald and their hairs is actually squigs

[@DragonaxFilms]

wHAT

[@sushimandaddi]

It's true, hair squigs

[@Lightscribe225]

@@DragonaxFilms Hair squids. They just latch the things onto their heads and it bites down on their scalp. Basically if an 'orky' thing can't be explained by their WAAAGH! field, it's probably a squig thing

[@dafroakie9984]

Or how Orks clean there teef by putting squigs in their mouths and they sometimes forget that they’re there.

[@XtreemAlan]

Space Marine: *Fights for humanity and the Emperor* Tau: *fights for the Greater Good* Ork : FIGHT IZ FIGHT

[@Cairo40000]

Tyranids: Me hungy, me go eat

[@XtreemAlan]

@@Cairo40000 Tyranids: *EAT IS EAT*

[@sigmaball6757]

Eldar: *im fighting for my fucking life*

[@dylantucker5374]

Ork: "FIGHT IZ FIGHT" Khorn: "SOMEONE GET THIS MAN A CHAIN-AXE!"

[@XtreemAlan]

@@dylantucker5374 Tuska: *WAAAAAAAAGH*

[@wom1320]

Despite what is said here, Stormboyz are the least anarchistic Orks as they actually set up things like drill grounds, polish their boots, and give themselves medals.

[@hisLoneliness2961]

So Unkultur

[@joehealy1477]

This is a fact i read in an ork codex: the size and density of the ‘toof’ fully correlates to its value, so the tusks of an enormous squiggoth would be incredibly valuable, whereas orks don’t even bother removing the small, fragile, omnivorous ‘teef’ of us humans.

[@joehealy1477]

I think poor gretchins do though

[@Watcher8559]

What if a group of Ultramarines was really Orks who just believed they were ultramarines so hard that everyone saw ultramarines when they looked at them, and they fly around the galaxy in a looted battle barge, saving the imperium one WAAAAGH at a time.

[@markhalm9889]

Look up Da Emperah series by Noman on KZbin.

[@Nox_Lunatera]

isnt there a faction like this called Da Emprahs Boyz or something like that

[@carlfromaccounting1112]

Well blue IS the luckiest color to the orks, so that could be why they always succeed.

[@TripleXGames]

What is this Heresy!!!

[@CelticPheonix101]

Isn’t that the Deffwotch? Was a tabletop game, like the All Guardsman Party.

[@sorvoe5513]

Fun fact: Ghazghul’s full name is based on The Iron Lady. “Mag Uruk Thraka” is an Orky interpretation of “Margaret Thatcher”

[@SpoopySquid]

And still not as evil as the real Maggie

[@matthewquan9083]

Disputed, and games workshop definitely won't admit it.

[@85blutch]

@@matthewquan9083 They won't, but i think we know it's true, the whole 40k universe is a parody of the real world

[@holyfreakinshit]

Andy Chambers, the guy who created Ghazghul, has gone on record numerous times saying he didn't name it after Margaret Thatcher. He vaguely remembered some blackspeech from Lord of the Rings where it means Metal Skull Big Orc Leader

[@angellara7040]

Nope

[@Asmogan]

Thank you guys so so very much for using the animated logo I made! It means a lot, truly. Thank you Thank you Thank you!!

[@fullbellydragonmama]

bruuuhh that logo slaps!👌👌👌

[@Asmogan]

@@fullbellydragonmama Thanks!

[@rayvg7709]

Sup asmo, nice seeing you here. And damn didn't know you made it, big props.

[@edkopik]

33:24 for the people that wanna hear the "I'm a tank I'm a tank" story

[@generalmanager4006]

Thx comrade

[@kishinasura1989]

Wez a tank wez a tunk

[@Dragonspirit223]

I swear, if Yarrik shouted WAAAAAGGGGHHHH during the Wars of Aarmogedon, he could probably get the first 'official' Ork Regiment, and he'd be able to keep them in line better than the Mordians. Hmm, maybe I can make an Ork Army with Yarrik as a replacement Big Boss.

[@groovecrusader2042]

DO IT KING!

[@randomlygeneratedname]

Do it, anything ork related is automatically Canon

[@MwRYum]

Hmmm…Warboss Yarrick. It could work.

[@MrOmoreau]

I swear to Gork and Mork, the Pain Boy killed more of my Boyz than the actual guardsmen.

[@OctoSavage]

A variant story of the Orks repairing their space ship is instead of another Ork ship coming by to help repairs, the ship's Mek opens a window and asks where their space suits are, reminding the Orks working outside that they can't breathe in space. All the Orks outside die and start floating away, apparently also believing they would stick to the hull like it had gravity. The Mek calls them all "dumb gitz" and closes the window.

[@anomaly_7993]

I just Image the Krieger Korps and the Orks just on a perpetual crusade against one another and both side loving it because the Korps gets to sacrifice for the Emperor and the Orks get to just have constant war.

[@kingofthegrimm6161]

I wonder how orks react to kriegers

[@user-BadUsername]

@@kingofthegrimm6161they’d probably love em

[@anoninunen]

Human mech: Copy-pasted from lost technology with an AI that eats your soul when you die - looks hunch-backed Eldar mech: Built entirely from warp-stuff and a spirit-bonded space elf - looks like an Eva unit Ork mech: Looks like a ball of scrap metal topped with guns because that's what it is💚💚looks like a GRIMDARK BIG_CHUNGUS BECAUSE IT IS!

[@E100Omega123]

Other factions' titans: Big gun attached to arm Ork titans: LOOKIT ME TROUSA CANNON!!!

[@omegawilliam95s36]

Ork vehicle: A box on wheels painted red.

[@J0hnB09]

@@omegawilliam95s36 it works because we say so - ork that believed he could speak perfectly.

[@sinistrality7883]

Tuska is probably my favorite Ork ever, he's an ork that got a taste for fighting demons, so much so that everytime he travel in the warp he keep the doors open hoping he would get to fight a demon, then decided to travel in the eye of terror to fight even more Demons, got noticed by Khorne and put him in the Brass Citadel where he just fights Demons for all eternity, it's like unironically the most wholesome ending for an Ork.

[@astaven9439]

An important thing to understand when going into the Lamenters: Despite all the jokes being "unlucky sad bois", the appeal of the chapter is that they maintain a nobility at the level of which Sanguinius demanded of the Blood Angels when they were a legion under his command despite everything they've gone through.

[@Dragonspirit223]

That's what I like the most about the Lamenters: They get back up and have never fallen to Chaos. They've always been loyal, they've maintained honor, justice, everything Sanguinious stood for, they've kept. They continue to rebuild and fight for the Imperium. They aren't sad, they're tragic. They're powerful, hopeful, loyal, but the universe just loves to toy with them (it is my personal belief that the Ultramarines made a deal with Tzeench and, as things usually have to be balanced, they traded all their bad luck for good luck and gave the bad luck to the Lamenters).

[@tylerflory9373]

@@Dragonspirit223 honestly, the ultrasmurfs are lucky cuz they wear blue. Blue is da luckiest colah

[@cymoncheng9644]

“For those we cherish we die in glory!” Their tag line summarizes them up perfectly

[@tylerflory9373]

@Dazzy Bakemono OH WAAAGH! CRY ME A RIVA, YA ZOGGIN' 'UMIE LOVAH

[@Abbojnr]

Lamenters are the only Space Marine chapter that I genuinely like, Got myself a small kill team going of Lamenters cause I love my tragic sons,

[@Tutel0093]

Power of Believe has become a meme so big... People forgets what humans and specially the Sisters of Battle can do with the same Power of Imagination

[@AndrewFishman]

"specially the Sisters of Battle can do with the same Power of Imagination" and a troop full of flamers...

[@strixt]

Miracles vs. imagination. Different effects, different faith.

[@merp9610]

@@strixt Ehhhh, that could be debated

[@strixt]

@@merp9610 No, it really can't. There's almost nothing similar between them, save for effecting things around them.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

@@strixt I am of the mind it is still just psychic energy. It just uses different mechanics because of the difference in the mindset of species. I also think blanks wouldn't quite work on Orks because it isn't an individual bases like most psykers. Orks are a conglomerate so their psychic force is stronger than any individual blank. And it is not worth the trouble to bring in a whole platoon of blanks.

[@JCHauntsman]

It's a shame you guys didn't get into the different clans. DK would probably like to hear about the Blood Axez and how they learned military tactics from watching the Imperial Guard.

[@doomedgundam6684]

I would like to hear the story.

[@giuseppe9653]

@@doomedgundam6684 Or the clan that imitates the Imperium of Man

[@doomedgundam6684]

@@giuseppe9653 I gotta good ork and doom joke for you.

[@iplaygames8090]

Werent blood axez used like merc by the imperium?

[@bestdogshadow383]

@@giuseppe9653 da Big E Getz offf hiz chair cuz da Orks believe he protect.

[@flebner7927]

The idea of Krorks becoming Orks for me is that the Krorks ran out of crazy strong things to fight and like modern Orks the stronger the enemy/the more they fight the bigger and stronger they became and once they ran out of strong enemies to fight they devolved and became a weaker and smaller Ork

[@gabrielerossi728]

The species that litrerally devours galaxy Is less aggressive then some fungy

[@brok56]

Gened up ork: greetings Fellow orks. How goes there? Ork boyz: OI! WHOZ DIZ SPEAKIN LIKE A HUMIE. LEZ KRUMP IM!

[@thequ6503]

@@brok56 orks can detect when other orcs are ‘acting funny’ I think

[@enderriderone5180]

I imagine the ork head and limb re-attachment thing, is like splicing trees and things. Where you can cut a orange branch off and put it on another fruit tree and it just keeps growing, producing both fruit

[@berniebroig8745]

I love how the structure here isn't as lore-oriented so the general flow of info is just "So here's Painboys, and then there's Squiggs, but there's also Ork physiology, and now some memes, but there's also a smidge of culture, so let's come RIGHT back around to Squiggs!"

[@lordfelidae4505]

Pretty orky.

[@berniebroig8745]

@@lordfelidae4505 DA'S ROYT!

[@lordfelidae4505]

@@berniebroig8745 YA GIT, ITZ SPELLED ‘ROIGHT.’

[@bloodwolfkoji]

One thing to always remember with 40k, where everyone else is suffering, dying in mass numbers, war is all across the galaxy, the Orks are always just having the absolute time of their lives

[@richardduska1558]

9:45 The reason why the Orks devolved is because of the LACK of combat. While they had the war in heaven they had so much war and had to fight so hard that they existed as Krorks but when they had considerably less enemies to fight with they devilved into their currant form. Orks literarly can not survive witouth fight.

[@jamzee_]

Orks are simple, that you always just have to go, “I guess that would happen?” And then just go along with it

[@CheesyWheelbarrow]

As an Ork player, if you roll a shit load of sixes, annihilate a full unit of spase mareens and don't shout WAAAAAAGGGGHHH then you ain't doing it right. Gork (or possibly Mork) protects.

[@n0hbdy363]

Coming from someone who knows nothing about 40k, orks seem to mostly be the physical manifestation of “monke strats” AND I LOVE IT

[@aldar8240]

the irony is that there's an *actual* monkey race, the Jokaero, which is less monke than the Orks in the way they act (the Jokaero are basically just normal orangutan, but with the innate ability to build cool shit)

[@ufoe20011]

pretty much.

[@bestdogshadow383]

Ape together strong.

[@kappa731]

One of the best episodes so far. I died from the storm boyz and orks suffocating in space, this is so hilarious

[@malal4751]

Not sure if anyone will see this, but technically Gork and Mork are the most powerful God's in 40k.

[@localidiotnumber792]

Yeah, they're just too busy beating each other up

[@thomaseasley2938]

Orks in a nutshell

[@De_Chappo]

And that's coming from malal himself

[@malal4751]

@@De_Chappo yes but I am more powerful for I am beyond chaos I am the true God... AND I AM CANNON!

[@rgama1173]

@@malal4751 you keep telling yourself that

[@Awesomotron2k]

Orkz think they're the greatest and best race to ever live. And they might be just right.

[@phantimon6175]

Of course they'z right ya Git

[@phantimon6175]

@Shoota Boy you'z should tel da boss so we'z can crump dis umie

[@Ashtor1337]

Orkz Reality is what orkz believe, so yes they are "biggest and the bestest and the greenest" of all the races.

[@boxtank5288]

The ELDAR believe the Orks as the species that kinda figured it all out and prospered BECAUSE they are too simple to begin understanding all the universal dread, they don't see themselves as intellectuals or as philosphers (doesn't mean they don't occasionally have words to live by or inspiring moments even if the context is batshit insane) they don't try to purge what they could never understand, they just fight and die. They have FUN with fighting and dying...

[@peanutmadcow416]

@@boxtank5288 Simplistic design but an effective one

[@notribadsvault]

My favorite are the rebellious young Orks who are so non-conformist that they end up training and practicing actual tactics.

[@satitlertritsumpun8930]

I actually start getting into 40k because of Bricky's video. Because of that, now I have about 2000 points Ork army that still needs more Boys.

[@suncore65]

You can never have enough “boiz”

[@WarrenHammer]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

[@justarandomname420]

Always needz maor Boiz!

[@memekip555]

There will never be enough *DAKKA*

[@AndrewFishman]

2000 points isn't even a decent brawl much less a Waaagh. Mortgage your soul to Gork and/or Mork and build a real army!

[@jakeharris1357]

Forgot about the one where Da Boss wanted his boyz to learn how to read, but they had to learn fast. So all instructions/lessons were written in red and unfortunately the boyz began to learn so fast that their heads started exploding. After that there was no more talk of reading.

[@PrincessSunbutt]

"WEZ BEEN WRIT'N RED COZ RED MAKEZ YA GO FASTA SO OUR BOSS SAID "OI MAYBE ITD MAKE YA GITZ LERN FASTA" SOZ WE WROTE IN RED N NOW WEZ SMATA N WE ALMOST STOPPED FIGHT'N TO CONTEMPLATE LIFE BUT IT GOT BARBOG ALL DEPRESSED N HE KRUMPED 'IMSELF SO NOWZ DA BOSS SAYS WE CANT READ NO MORE"

[@biggestboss1756]

Certified mushroom moment

[@Neo232100]

I will point out that the Salamanders were able to prevent an Ork Waagh from regrowing at one point with them totally destroying the spores of the warband completely...but it involved basically lighting an entire Hive City on fire.

[@derpderpson2188]

Grimgor Ironhide, from Warhammer Fantasy, was apparently actually suffering from depression because he couldn't find anybody worth fighting until he went north and met his new (albeit shortlived) BFFs Karl Franz, Settra and Archaeon.

[@darthplagueis13]

Yeh. Skarsnik did too, after Gobbla eventually died from old age.

[@droideka1890]

@@darthplagueis13 Didn’t Gobbla die due to “killed from within” BS?

[@darthplagueis13]

@@droideka1890 Yeh, might have confused a few things there. Anyways, it got Skarsnik depressed.

[@drossbossofsauce5649]

24:07 "Orks don't get depressed" Nobody knows the tradgedy of barbog

[@adastial2104]

Ah what a story filled with sadness and love to poor barbog

[@TheJosh4300]

He made the mistake of writing in red

[@sosomadman]

@@TheJosh4300 makes you learn fasta

[@PanzerIVAE]

36:10 "Huh? How does Buddha get into 40k" Craftworld Eldar

[@fcomolineiro7596]

Godlord imagine seeing a freaking Ork, painting a door opening it and then going to the other side of the galaxy

[@baronn1504]

Have you heard the story where a couple of orks were running from some terminators from the blood angels and the terminators were slower, but because they were red, the orks believed they would be faster, therefore they died

[@TheSp0kesman]

One of the best things about Orks is that it is lore accurate to have a bunch of grim faced Imperials using the goofy Ork names with straight faces all the while. Or even better, the intelligence briefing for a new member of the command staff that has never fought Orks before and is being told with a straight face about the threat posed by Weirdboyz and that there is an entire column of Warboss Gitstomper’s Boomdakka Snazzwagons heading this way.

[@deanprowell7947]

The Orks were the one species specifically created by the Old Ones, Bricky

[@jbark678]

And the Eldar

[@Brutalyte616]

He's operating under the presumption that the Old Ones uplifted the Krork and modified them, rather than just creating them from scratch.

[@cinderheart2720]

@@Brutalyte616 The Korks were created, whereas I believe the Eldar weren't.

[@Brutalyte616]

@@cinderheart2720 Well clearly the Old Ones started from something. Hell, considering the stories the Snakebites tell, it's entirely possible that the Krork were an offshoot of the Old Ones bred specifically for war.

[@dyounos6446]

And the Tyranids

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

One of my many favourite things about the Orks is a subgroup of them called Tankbustas, which is where a bunch of Orks like explosions so much that they decided to get into a nice squad of 5-15 boys who have the same opinion on the best thing to do in a WAAAGH and try blowing tanks sky high with their rokkits. But the best part of that is that if shooting the rokkits doesn’t work, they run into close-combat and strike the tank with a rokkit attached to a metal stick. They get so high off this that they will enter the broken vehicle, eat any survivors, and drink the motor oil in a ritual act known as "GETTIN' TANKED!", presumably while also listening to some base-boosted hardbass. Basically they’re the Ork equivalent of crackheads mixed with Junkrat and Gopniks.

[@HorrorClips4u]

Orks, the most optimistic green English-accented marauders.

[@ComicaPaloozaStudios]

I remember an excellent little bit on Painboyz: I don't remember it precisely, but there was an Ork who had a really bad headache, so the Painboy did a brain transplant on him and replaced his brain with a Squig, and the Ork survived just fine (for as much as one can with a Squig where their brain should be)

[@thecrazedchef7278]

Dat's gud ol ghaz! Da pain boy saw dat he had a part o' 'is brain left, so he fixed 'im up right wit sum steel and some squig bitz he did. Steelz betta dan borin' ol' skull bone anyway, bullets jus' bounce off!

[@ianbarber2937]

I bet at some point in time, a pain boy has accidentally sewn some other orks arm onto an injured ork.

[@Lupercal210]

Yeah they do this on purpose too lol. In several of the old ork codexes it mentions that orks have to be careful not to be put under when they go to see a painboy, or they will find that they wake up with mechanical gills when they went in for a toothache. Painboyz love to experiment.

[@doublemdoublefun708]

Just attaching someone else's limb? Painboys are known to stitch a head on an other ork's corpse. Sometimes with the original head still present and functioning!

[@mula7616]

@@Lupercal210 Don't forget they also have a tendency of putting actual squig brains in orks heads too.

[@mr.bananaman9805]

It's the correct arm because the orks believe it is

[@XenoTechnian]

Accidently?

[@theishiopian68]

The orks are so pervasive that they've infested other realities.

[@Walkerxy]

Bricky, I'm a long time fan, and loving adeptus ridiculous. Just want you to know that as a 40k lore fan I expect a full episode dedicated to the true savior of humanity in the 41st millennium....SLY MARBO

[@skeletorsbreakfastburrito8787]

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[@Walkerxy]

@@skeletorsbreakfastburrito8787 oh fuck yeah brother Ive seen this glorious video

[@skeletorsbreakfastburrito8787]

Sly at any point in time: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@sotbs2641]

there's a Speed Freek warlord who goes from planet to planet building huge tellyporta pads, so that one day he can ride his bike from one end of the galaxy to another without having to get off

[@diobrando2575]

Goals

[@jacobpeterson4071]

And people say Orks are dumb smh

[@Lightscribe225]

29:50 there was that comic of the Emperor sitting at a table and Gork and Mork show up. He gets all upset and say "Gork and Mork leave" And they simply reply "No"

[@zonbifakku6208]

Source?

[@deathkorps.ofkrieg424]

"I fought the Greenskins once, never have so many a Krieg soldier made it up to the Emporer" - Commissar ----------

[@AClockworkWizard]

On a slightly less comic relief and more of a existentially horrific side you should have mentioned the Octarius War and the War of the Beast. The former is a perpetual conflict between the Orks and the Tyranids orchestrated by the infamous Inquisitor Kryptman where the Orks and the Bugs just keep killing each other and growing stronger and if one side ever wins the galaxy is going to be fucked. The latter is a massive Waaaagh! that happened soon after the Heresy and was so large that it saw some of the Krork characteristics return to modern day Orks allowing them to use actual strategy and building teleporting attack moons.

[@Adeptusridiculous]

listen we want to keep these episodes from balooning into 2+ hours, we will get to these wars eventually

[@AClockworkWizard]

​@@Adeptusridiculous All cool, I'm just real passionate about my big green bois. You folks are doing a decent job here, keep it up!

[@TheVladdracula1]

@@Adeptusridiculous They had ORK DIPLOMATS Bricky. Ork. Diplomats. And they Shat all over the high lords of Terra If that's not quality content I don't know what is

[@Lightscribe225]

Pretty sure Octarius is swinging in Ork favor because Ghazgkull showed up and showed them how to kill proper.

[@ericb2103]

Best part about yarrick is that according to the lore he is weaker when away from the orcs... But when he gets near orcs, because they believe he is a good fighter, he starts to feel physically stronger and faster and becomes abetter fighter.

[@WraithDragon163]

Would techpriest work "fasta" in the presence of orks cause they wear red 🤔

[@myth5588]

Most likely yes, because the red ones go fasta

[@davidcendana2302]

White scars: How are those blood angels suddenly faster than us!!??

[@julianlocileno2968]

@@davidcendana2302 You hear about the Blood Angel Terminator that caught up to fleeing Orks because Blood Angels are red?

[@randomlygeneratedname]

If there's enough orks yes

[@randomlygeneratedname]

@@julianlocileno2968 that's basically the whole armageddon war in. Nutshell the bllod angels were the only ones able to keep up with the speed feaks dye to lucifer engines and being red

[@Inogat]

this is so funny, the genuine knowledge and enthusiasm of Bricky with DK's comedic timing and genuine interest makes it way too funny and entertaining.

[@DragonaxFilms]

Hearing Bricky talk about Orks gives me life. He's so emphatic.

[@beastwarsFTW]

The Inquisition found that if Orks don't fight they become dumber and weaker, I think Crorks become Orks become they had nothing to fight.

[@TheUnspeakableh]

Gork and Mork exist in their WAAAGH! realm in The Warp. The other Gods know it's just better to avoid them.

[@dylsco2707]

The Necrons knew that if they didn't go into slumber the ongoing war with the Krork would make them even more powerful, so they went to sleep. The ensuing Era of peace resulted in the devolution of the Krork to Orc. An Orc who can't wage war literally dies, it's a fundamental requirement for their survival.

[@KingDerpy13]

I think the best part about Orks isn't them directly, but whenever anyone talks about them and their units. They don't say the proper way of things (so a Shoota Boi would be a Shooter Boy), they just say whatever the unit name is. So you'll get these super serious Imperium guys talking about the Orks and saying things such as "Shoota Boiz", "Choppa Boiz", etc.

[@Saiken_usagi]

Burnna boyz love setting people on fire because like they like to see the burny dance

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

One of my favourite things about Makari's bullshit luck (at least in the current edition) is that if he rolls a 6 for the wound roll on his knife, he inflicts *D3 mortal wounds.* This means that if he nicks a Custodes with his knife, there's a chance that the Custodes could just explode into a red mist.

[@OddlyHappy]

god i hope other people are reading the comments on this video. people could be making stories up about the orkz and their nonsense, and honestly I can not tell.

[@jessenielsen7218]

You can make up any story about the Orks and it would make sense because they're Orks and they're stupid enough to believe it works

[@randomlygeneratedname]

Doesn't matter. its orks it automatically becomes real because of ork logic

[@WTFisTingispingis]

"You klaim purple ain't a sneeky colour, yet you ain't nevah seen a purple ork. Kurious."

[@Southerly93]

The one thing you guys missed that’s REALLY IMPORTANT to the Orks is that they are genetically engineered weapons of war. War literally gives them life. If an Ork is imprisoned and denied any opportunity to fight, it grows lethargic and dies. They were the perfect soldiers for the horrifyingly apocalyptic attrition during the war in heaven, as they had basically no needs other than something to fight. This became their downfall when the war in heaven ended and they had nothing to fight but each other

[@timur22993]

Commissar: Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword! Ork: Fly me closer, I want to headbutt them!

[@XanKreigor]

You kinda misquoted the Gork and Mork thing, it's "Cunningly Brutal" and "Brutally Cunning" , a bit of wordplay.

[@droideka1890]

I think it was Brutal but Cunning, and the other Cunning but Brutal... I might need to look it up again...

[@garpogods8323]

Ive heard it both ways

[@cryamistellimek9184]

@@droideka1890 The way you’re saying it is how the dnd ork gods are described, which was slightly modified for games workshop to rip them off to make their own thing. Gamesworkshop steals a lot of shit.

[@conan2096]

@@garpogods8323 and many wars have been waged by orks over what it is and which one is which lol.

[@Ithtorukk]

@@cryamistellimek9184 I've seen it written as Brutal but Cunning, and Cunning but Brutal in GW material. I'm not actually seeing DnD orc pantheons using that description in google searches.

[@aconcernedcommissar6261]

One of my favourite stories of the orks is from the Chiphas Cain novels where a trooper say 'my grandfather found a ork frozen in ice and when it unthawed it attacked them' then Cain says that this is a Valhalla folk tale but (also pointed out in the book) a ork could probably survive being frozen for a long time

[@vincentleonstohs]

The guardsmen planet "4chan image" is actually a bug in the ~~fan-game~~ I mean MOD called Warhammer 40k Chapter Master. The population number gets bugged so it's quite funny.

[@boxtank5288]

The ENTIRE PLANET is a Guardsman.

[@hihohe4067]

Usually the best way to stop a WAAAGH! is to take out the warboss and hope there is a massive loyalty cascade where every ork starts fighting over whos in charge.

[@princesseponyboy1971]

Can we appreciate the fact that Kronan is on the cover with his Thinkin’hat and grot

[@GearShotgun]

There was one ork in "The Siege of Castellax" who got shot in the head with an auto gun and kept on going. It wasn't until he actually *noticed* the hole in his skull and realized he shouldn't be alive that he dropped dead.

[@gkman136]

How to make Emperor comeback and solve everything Step 1: Make Ork believe in him Step 2: ... Profit

[@bestdogshadow383]

Throw 200 Trillion Boyz into da eye of chaos. Never ending war between Khorne and da orks

[@trevormurray617]

You know what… you don’t even need some eldar bs or anything… imagine leman Russ or someone coming back and 1 ork survives on terra and then all of the sudden the emperor gets up a few hundred years later