@@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
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
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....
@@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
"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.
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.
@@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
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
@@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.
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!
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
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 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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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 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.
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'
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.
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.
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.
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
"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
The orks also alter the terrain of a planet they inhabit and that terrain will automatically start to grow nutrients that the grots harvest for the orks. That and orks will eat whatever is edible as they pillage is how they fuel their bodies.
I know that khorne keeps a group of orks on a planet in the eye of terror and constantly sends demons and CSM war bands at them. The only reason for this is because khorne likes watching orks fight
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.
Hi, you know that they didin't mention one thing in this video, one of the utmost importance, Orks are bald as a species, they do not have any kind of hair or fur or anything inbetween like eyebrows etc. You may ask then, how come we can see Orks with some kind of top-knot hair on their heads ? Answer is simple,- HAIR SQUIGS ! It's in the lore ahahahah.
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.
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.
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
I remember reading something about a Space Marine picking up an Ork Gun, and it not working, not having ammunition, yet in the hands of an Ork being capable of firing bullets.
Best example of Ork quantity having its own quality is the start of the short story "15 hours" where an Imperial Landing craft is descending towards an world where they're fighting orks, and the co-pilot announces there's unguided rockets being fired at them as anti-aircraft measures. The pilot dismisses them as easily avoidable... until he realizes there's so many his aircraft can't physically fit between them.
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
Something that stands out, the size argument you mentioned isnt valid with orcs. They can and do defy physics on a daily basis without even thinking about it. They conjure things from nothing and make machines which explode or fail if anyone who isnt an orc fires it. They have made double rocket launchers by hammering a metal rod through both barrels to hold it together and it still fires. Bothing about them makes any sense and I find that hillarious. If they believe something is true, it is true. Simple as that. The more there are, the more ridiculous those leaps of logic become.
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.
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.
There was an ork doctor that put bombs in every ork he worked on and then one day they tried to kill him but he lived instead so he spent the whole night enjoying the sounds of the bombs being remote detonated one by one
@@sd501st5 Idk which book this is from but this happened in ghazghkulls early days when he found a space hulk orbiting his home planet. When he got on board he noticed it was flooded with daemons, so he went and beat the daemons to the warp portal they spawned from After ordering his boyz to destroy the hole with dakka (to no effect) ghaz got so mad that his own claw and shoota didn't affect the portal in any way that he decided to headbutt it instead which closed it in a green flash
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.
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.
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
The interesting thing about mitochondrial dna is that its straight up just the dna of a bacterium that got absorbed by eukaryotes back in the day, and the type of bacteria it's derived from still exists independently.
Currently in the lore there is a conflict between Orks and Tyranids know as the Octarius Wars. Basically one Imperial inquistor worked a plan to have both factions fight each other.
Regarding Orks energy intake, the old Deff Skwadron comic had a diagram page that showed the (hilariously nonsensical) cockpit of a dakkajet; one of the key things I took from it was the fuel line that runs through the cockpit incase the pilot gets thirsty. A quick Google search shows that a gallon of jet fuel has 33,963,886.5 calories, so I don't think they would run into a problem there!
"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
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.
If I remember correctly, the Orkz aren't picky eaters. Like, they can somewhat rely on shrooms and squigs to sustain themselves, but they'll also eat anything else they can get their hands on, including their fallen enemies and comrades.
The metabolic of the orks are somewhat explained. Their society has many teirs, the bottom of which contains mushrooms and squigs. So although orks can eat most things, a huge portion of the tribes caloric intake comes from eating the food that grows specifically for them, which itself harvest sunlight and soil and air and stuff
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.
Squigs, and their latent psi abilities. You point your finger at them, say bang, and they die. They point at you and “bang”, miniature nuclear explosion
ez explansion for ur question on how they sustain themselves. Ork smash he happy, Ork shoot he happy, Ork lose a fight but gets the kill. He happy. Orks also eat pretty much anything edible.
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"they can't get around physics"
Well, that's where your wrong with Orks.
Yeah. Red ones do go faster, yellow is more explody etc.
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
Ikr
I heard him say that and i was like "well yes but actually no"
Psychics beat physics
@@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
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
Ah, thanks, was trying to find that exact section to post here (4th ed codex, if I'm not mistaken).
One of my favorites
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....
EY GORESMASHA! I BET I CAN SMASH ME EAD INTA DIZ ROCK ARDA DAN YOU CAN!
EEENNNNH YER ON!
Nurgle love orks because orks are manifestatnion of nurgle priciples like death and rebirth
"dat rock looks lik bread"
*crunch crunch*
"Eh... Its ok"
and that was how orks began to live of rocks.
If it's good enough for da boss it's good enough for me
He believed it was bread, thus it was bread.
dat rocks is nades! trow this to enemys!!! *orcs start trowing stones, and they realy start exploding
Wat you doin! You must paint rock yello for bigger boom.
@@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
"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.
And the winner would happily like to shake the imperium's hand afterwards
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.
@@pringlelingle6827 new tyranid biomorphs appear and in battle they gain extra strength and toughness each time they win in a close combat fights
@@deamonmindgaming2054 yeah exactly out of all the opponents of man those were the worst one to deploy the orks against.
@@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
Speaking of puns, during one of the wars for Armageddon, the Orks had a massive submarine called The Red Orktober.
Ghazgull's name is a joke about Thatcher.
My favorite is the famous Mek, Orkimedes. :D
@@benedeknagy8497 it is a great name
The Bike of the Aporkalypse also comes to mind.
@@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.
''Sounds like the world of 40k is Ork Heaven''.
You, sir, hit the nail on the head!
Exactly. There is only war, Orks want only war.
Things that Orks believe in become real.
Maybe there is a connection there heh
@@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.
@@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.
@@jacobpeterson4071 "Khorne cares not from whence the blood flows. Only that it flows." ;)
@@thundercrash4775 They thought it wuz fun and Khorn is a blodi gud meit
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.
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.
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
Ghaz could fuck up the Tau
@@manticore6963 Blue-White. Blue - Black has too much interaction. I ONLY ever played that way. :)
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
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.
And losing to other Orks don't count.
I love how the Orks themselves phrase that. "If we win, we win. If we die, we die fightin so it don't count"
They don't have tactical cunning, they have brutal cunning.
And cunning brutality.
Gork approves
@@Joe-mz6ez gork and mork*
@@mrwoodchuck94 noted
@@mrwoodchuck94 MORK IZ BESTEST!
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.
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.
They also eat each other as they get bigger don't they?
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.
Valhalla awaits!
Yeah, the band of Tuska Daemonkilla!
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
That's literally Ork Heaven. :3
Ork Valhalla is in the proverbial Hell
"Told yer I knew where da best fightin' woz."
- Tuska da Daemonkilla
Please tell me wich books should i search to see that
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.
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.
@@martinosborne4703 To be fair, you CAN ally with the Drukhari, they are not completely unreasonable like the orks or Tyranids, just completely evil.
@@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.
@@IONATVS Didn't the Severan Dominate make an alliance with some Drukhari?
@@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.
"No terrarium lasts forever" I'm sure Trazyn the Infinite would have one or two infinitely lasting terrariums laying around.
I think the Blood Ravens raided them...
The real question about Trazyn is what he doesn't have.
I know a certain chronomancer who has a thing or two to say about that
Yes, probably he has also a good amount of unpainted models
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. 😂
That list is literally blank. Everything explodes. Orks are Michael Bay after slamming a mountain of coke with ketamine injections in his pupils
"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!!!"
Red uns go fasta, purple is dead stelfee.
@@johnbeck1978 never seen a purple ork.... just saying
Yup, Da' Bigga da Ork, Da Stronga iz body. Da' Big Boos will krump this Fizzykz
@@scotibot7450 the blood axe commandos use a lot of purple in their "camouflage" patterns.
@@johnbeck1978 have they ever addressed that in lore just a purely painted purple ork sneaking past everyone and killing some big general.
"Orks still have to deal with physics." Hmm. Yeah, that's where your wrong.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
The power of ork belief
@@CombatVeteranReacts That is usually the explanation for why they don't have to worry about something. Because they don't expect to.
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
Hmm I guess the people who made the model got a green goblin mixed up with a pink squig for years then.
@@deamonmindgaming2054 snotlings are green I think, but yeah gretchin work too
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.
@@NickK1291 Don't forget the uncontrollable defecation that happens too.
@@insanehippiehippieinsane3828 also a feature
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.
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)
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.
@@davidfrancisco3502 and as far as i understand everything that orcs kill (or break) is a food for squigs
Even some squig breeds are used as weapons or even to upgrade the accuracy of an ork when they're shooting their guns.
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.
@@sodinc and if you think about it, wouldn't the fungus be able to feed on corpses as well?
I'm fairly certain that Orks eat literally anything, including rocks. But the photosynthesis theory is also proposed quite frequently.
Never understood this as plants require chlorophyll to photosynthesise yet fungii do not have chlorophyll
@@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.
@@enderoctanus fair point
@@scotibot7450 orks are composite animal-fungi-algae organisms. Algae are often flossed over, as their only function is to provide photosynthesis.
@@DoctorM42 I would say that makes more sense then I remember we're talking about orks
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!
I want to believe they learned the languages of other species just to taunt them
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.
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.
Welcome to the Orks. They’re just pure, comical insanity and playing a game nobody else wants to.
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
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.
Wait tyrranids if eaten can be poisonous?!? Even better who would eat a tyrranid
@@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.
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
@@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.
Orks growth is kinda like fish lol, they never stop growing as long as they’re able to continue eating and catching prey.
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.
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.
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!
Ave emperor
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
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
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.
18:35 "The Orkz believe the God of the Hoomans is really strong, they may actually be sustaining the Emperor"
Beautifully said
The most ridiculous faction? Yes. The most hilarious one too.
Technically a biological weapon run rogue.
The Old Ones didn't set a proper fail-safe before getting bodied by the Necrons and the C'tan
@@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.
Strictly speaking, they're working exactly as intended.
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.
If they did that cockney accent the whole episode I wouldn’t watch it. Luetin09 has a pretty good explanation to all thinks Ork.
2nd!
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.
That never actually happened. No one can ever give me a source on this story.
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.
Orks are photosynthectic. They actually CAN conjure energy out of thin air and sunlight.
Although most of their energy comes from eating squigs.
They can’t survive on it alone, but it just extends their endurance.
Tbf Squigs grow from Ork spores too and Orks shed spores not only when they die but periodically as well.
Orcs are the most hilarious faction in 40k.
are they related to ORKS?
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)
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.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
Quantity does have it quality.
Especially when said member of that quantity can rip a man in half with their bare hand. (yes, singular)
Local combat veteran, mma fighter and youtuber cracks under the comical weight of the mighty orks
My logical analytic mind can't handle anything they do.
@@CombatVeteranReacts all you need to know that they are made for fighting and winning and that they are the best, because green.
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.
May I request another reaction to the Templin Institute 'Craftworld Eldar // Asuryani'?
Even Orks can’t ignore physics?
Some Mekboys would like a word with you.
dats why oomies be losing
you might enjoy "tuska daemon-killa" by Arch
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.
All painted purple of corse. “Cuz yooz eva seen a purpla Ork, Nah. Then theyz must be sneaky gits”
@@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.
Most insane faction yes... daz why we lovez da boyz !!!
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
No matter what you do, you are askin fer a krumpin tbh
Ork's were the most fun faction to play I had some beautifully painted models I regret giving up 😟
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'
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.
I laughed when you said orks were bound by physics.
Orks don't know about physics, so they are not bound by it.
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
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.
Wait a minute excuse me!?
If you want to see an Ork with actual strategies, do some lore reading about Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka.
*ORK TAKTIKZ IZ BEST TAKTIKS*
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.
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.
“Chaos is not fighting for a lost cause.” Hmmm now that’s some fine heresy right there
It's okay.
The Inquisition is on the way
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
"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
One could even describe them as brutally cunning
The orks also alter the terrain of a planet they inhabit and that terrain will automatically start to grow nutrients that the grots harvest for the orks. That and orks will eat whatever is edible as they pillage is how they fuel their bodies.
That makes sense
"They cannot get around physics"
Well, about that....
I really like the Templin Institute videos, also I feel like they lend themselves to your analytical style more than some others.
About those pirate outposts. They are a clan that isn't a clan. They are called Freebooters. Basically Orks but as pirates.
The orks almost destroyed the empirum with a weaponized moon at gun point at terra
I know that khorne keeps a group of orks on a planet in the eye of terror and constantly sends demons and CSM war bands at them. The only reason for this is because khorne likes watching orks fight
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.
Hi, you know that they didin't mention one thing in this video, one of the utmost importance, Orks are bald as a species, they do not have any kind of hair or fur or anything inbetween like eyebrows etc. You may ask then, how come we can see Orks with some kind of top-knot hair on their heads ? Answer is simple,- HAIR SQUIGS ! It's in the lore ahahahah.
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.
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.
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."
I remember someone somewhere describing the Orks as "The Old One's final middle finger to the galaxy before dying out."
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
I remember reading something about a Space Marine picking up an Ork Gun, and it not working, not having ammunition, yet in the hands of an Ork being capable of firing bullets.
Best example of Ork quantity having its own quality is the start of the short story "15 hours" where an Imperial Landing craft is descending towards an world where they're fighting orks, and the co-pilot announces there's unguided rockets being fired at them as anti-aircraft measures. The pilot dismisses them as easily avoidable... until he realizes there's so many his aircraft can't physically fit between them.
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
Something that stands out, the size argument you mentioned isnt valid with orcs. They can and do defy physics on a daily basis without even thinking about it. They conjure things from nothing and make machines which explode or fail if anyone who isnt an orc fires it. They have made double rocket launchers by hammering a metal rod through both barrels to hold it together and it still fires. Bothing about them makes any sense and I find that hillarious. If they believe something is true, it is true. Simple as that. The more there are, the more ridiculous those leaps of logic become.
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.
I seen a story about an ork who had a really good gun so he traved back in time killed himself to get a second gun
Orks: The greatest positive thinkers in all the universe.
What they believe becomes reality.
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.
Ork 1 : the tank has blown up
Ork 2 : no it didn't
Ork 1 : oh yeah
* tank sharts shooting again *
There was an ork doctor that put bombs in every ork he worked on and then one day they tried to kill him but he lived instead so he spent the whole night enjoying the sounds of the bombs being remote detonated one by one
Ork can use photosynthesis right so that give them energy to grow while they fight.
Fun fact: Ghazghkull thraka managed to close a portal to the warp itself with a headbutt
I don't even... ahahaha, where is this from? ^^
@@sd501st5 Idk which book this is from but this happened in ghazghkulls early days when he found a space hulk orbiting his home planet. When he got on board he noticed it was flooded with daemons, so he went and beat the daemons to the warp portal they spawned from
After ordering his boyz to destroy the hole with dakka (to no effect) ghaz got so mad that his own claw and shoota didn't affect the portal in any way that he decided to headbutt it instead which closed it in a green flash
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.
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.
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
Ork Hair is also squigs attached to their scalps and fashioned as they please
The mitochondria is a good comparison because mitochondria is actually a separate single felled organism that lives inside of each cell.
Well, perhaps more *was* then *is* but yes.
The interesting thing about mitochondrial dna is that its straight up just the dna of a bacterium that got absorbed by eukaryotes back in the day, and the type of bacteria it's derived from still exists independently.
Currently in the lore there is a conflict between Orks and Tyranids know as the Octarius Wars. Basically one Imperial inquistor worked a plan to have both factions fight each other.
Regarding Orks energy intake, the old Deff Skwadron comic had a diagram page that showed the (hilariously nonsensical) cockpit of a dakkajet; one of the key things I took from it was the fuel line that runs through the cockpit incase the pilot gets thirsty. A quick Google search shows that a gallon of jet fuel has 33,963,886.5 calories, so I don't think they would run into a problem there!
Hahaha. I love it
"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
Sees tau let's just say it's tie
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.
If I remember correctly, the Orkz aren't picky eaters. Like, they can somewhat rely on shrooms and squigs to sustain themselves, but they'll also eat anything else they can get their hands on, including their fallen enemies and comrades.
The metabolic of the orks are somewhat explained. Their society has many teirs, the bottom of which contains mushrooms and squigs. So although orks can eat most things, a huge portion of the tribes caloric intake comes from eating the food that grows specifically for them, which itself harvest sunlight and soil and air and stuff
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.
Squigs, and their latent psi abilities. You point your finger at them, say bang, and they die. They point at you and “bang”, miniature nuclear explosion
ez explansion for ur question on how they sustain themselves. Ork smash he happy, Ork shoot he happy, Ork lose a fight but gets the kill. He happy.
Orks also eat pretty much anything edible.