Daemon Killa. The ork who basically found heaven. Him and his boys get to fight everyday. Only to die and be respawned the next day to do it all over again. Truly the orkiest fate.
@@shockeye3863funny thing is demons are less likely to attack work ships than other races Nobody to corrupt, no tasty souls to feast on since they go straight to gork and mork and you get kicked back to the warp since the orks gang rush you the second you arrive
Orks are just the faction that everyone likes. I’ve never met a war hammer fan who did not like Orks, they are so dumb but so fun they represent warhammer better then any other faction
I've known someone who didn't like orks. They were also a person who was almost solely into space marines of both imperium and chaos varieties and would shittalk every other faction but get mad if you joked about looting their factions models as orks.
I don't know much about 40k but my friend said he would call those space marine dick riders, because he said space marines are cool ,but if that is the only thing you like and get heated when you talk about how much they suck then you're a weird person.
I always thought Orks were just the comic relief of 40k... then I heard Baldermort's lore video on them. How big they can get when the war gets serious enough. How advanced their tech. How the Eldar have been careful to prune them, and how the Orks haven't really minded because they've been under no threat. And now the Necrons are back and the Tyranids are incoming. My blood actually ran cold. And now, I have honest-to-Gork RESPECT for the Orks, because Mork-damn...
honestly i would love if 40k had more comedic relief moments like the orks. warhammer fantasy was sort of a more silly setting at times (even vermintide, the game literally set during the end times, has the funniest interactions between characters and species ever). 40k really lacks this and i think it takes away. part of why warhammer fantasy felt so grim was that despite the sometimes silly moments it really contrasted with moments of everything going to hell. 40k sometimes has a feel of all gloom and doom and that just doesn't do it for me as well.
The funny thing about orks is that they can basically do absolutely anything and it still would make sense lore wise. Like orks can be pirates with peg legs, eye patches and squig parrots, they can be samurais devoted to the way of DA CHOOPA, they can be cowboy/knight errant fighting crime, becouse in wh40k there is lots of that and that means more fights, and it still make sense. And ork racers want to be the fastest there is, a grot master fighter pilot. Orks is faction of pure imagination :D
@@larrytherustyboii7442 _Points in the general direction of the Deathskulls, an entire ork clan devouted to stealing everybody else's shit and being the luckiest's zoggers this side of the Warp_ Yeah, I can totally see an Ork being a 'crime fighter'... who really, really has it in for Deathskull Orks.
*HOLY SHIT* That just made me have a revelation. The Orks are *THE* most modifiable faction in 40k, The limits of what you can do is only your imagination. And what makes Ork tech work? The latent Psionic energy brought on by their belief it will work, *Their imagination!* The Orks are like the people who play them, They can do what they want, And it'll work. The Ork's stuff will work because they believe it will, And The players are lore accurate because there are so many of them, And they're doing all manner of wacky shit, Whatever you do can make sense that the Orks would do it if you can come up with a half decent explanation. And when in doubt, You can always say that the Orks think that _____ makes them kill better.
One recurring trend with Orks that I think is really funny is how people will repeatedly underestimate the Orks by thinking they're just animals basically before getting completely blindsided by them using actual 200 IQ plays. What's funnier also is a lot of the time these 200 IQ plays happen usually out of sheer coincidence and on-the-fly rather than any concerted effort of strategizing on the Orks' part.
You are sorely mistaken, their plays are not coincidence, they are extremely well planned. The issue with them is that they plan under "made de facto true premises". If your car is shit, will still be shit if painted red.... unless you are an Ork. Basicly they play with different rules, is a completely different universe for them, way more simplistic, and the best part is, only the boyz can take advantage of it.
I remember letting my buddy/GM play an ork in the rogue trader game i was running. By the end of it, he had become Warboss Zekk Kragg, Bonker of Battle Sisters. He had like 15 names but none of them were as amazing as knocking a SoB out with a log and living to tell the tale.
One of the main things I love about orks is that they're actually a pretty good barometer to how seriously GW intends people to take the setting. I'll point to an example with Guilliman. Sure he's especially broody these days (see the 10e trailer for an example) and he's a badass and capable leader, but he exists in the same universe as the orks, so he's also kind of a goober. I'm not saying that 40K is a setting where nothing is to be taken seriously, but it's a setting where seriosness itself is always at least a little tongue-in-cheek. *EVERYTHING* is dialed up so far past 11 that it's absurd, and the campy absurdity is the point. Guilliman's self-seriousness is kind of a joke. The Imperium's over-the-top evil being the only hope for human survival is just silly as a concept. The drukari's sadism is wildly cartoonish. All the tropes are played so hard that there's nothing even vaguely realistic about the 40K setting, and it's all said with the comically stoic straight face and a quinesentially British "stiff upper lip"... except the orks. The orks clue in the people that are sarcasm-blind that everything here is satirical on some level. Because orks are obviously silly and riiculous, and they fit right in with everything else that's often so comedically serious.
I wonder if GW actually recognize that. 40k is meant to be a ridiculous, insane grotesque of a story. I really do wonder if they themselves get that memo? Like all you said is correct but I am genuinely not convinced that the people who recognize this aren't a very stark minority amid the fandom and GW alike.
There’s defnitely some truth to this especially back in the day when 40k first started but I think now it defnitely takes itself a lot more seriously like a proper sci fi franchise and I don’t see why it can’t. It’s over the top of course but it’s a cool setting and too we’ll fleshed out and deep to be satire at this point
Don't the forget other examples, like the Tau's technology advantage but still beign too "naive and innocent" to the point they thought they killed the emperor when it was just a chapter master, and when they thought that Imperial Titans were Imperial propaganda, until they saw for themselves a walking church with guns and reacted with 😮 Even Eldar are sort of funny with how Avatars of Khaine are primarch levels in power, but most of their mentions is about them getting killed by anyone, like in Dawn of War with how their sync kills is about then getting punished for beign too cocky and stylish
They also fit a trope, just a very personal one for the original devs. They're football hooligans; but in space. War is the sport and they're ready to get bloody, cheering the whole time
@@ExValeFori don't think they do. I think, at least for the newer devs, Goofyman was meant to be taken seriously. They actually tried to fix the Ork lore a bit, and they downplay the silly side now
"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 lose neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!"
What I love about the Orks is right when you count them out they always come back. Hell, even with the new arks of omen lore, you see the Orks show up at just the right time to lay down the beating. They are a nice faction to play as because you can laugh at how hilariously serious everyone else takes things, meanwhile you can just keep sending more bodies - a strategy so basic, that for Orks it flips back around to being smart and strategic. It's beautiful, man.
I always feel that GW, at the end of WH development, said, "Ok, we need one more faction. All the others were so serious and dark. Maybe something different. Not light, though. Something...really stupid. Space clowns? Space ogres? Maybe a mix? Maybe? Huh?"
Well it actually went the exact opposite way. The orks are like the last relic of the time of warhammer's genesis, when everything was just dumb and comical. Adding the edge was more or less an afterthough and most likely a product of the 90's boom in grimdark comic books and nu metal. GW is like that one emo kid who never quite grew out of his phase.
The Odd Boyz are the living embodiment of "Cometh the hour, cometh the man". So pleased to see the old fungal gestation picture again. I'm not sure if people don't know about it or they don't think it's important, but I think it's so supremely stupid/amazing that it should be included in every description of the Orks.
Orks are so simplified it’s amazing and are hilarious to a degree it feels like trolling akin to Orgyns but less friendly and more organized Gork and Mork are a treat so dysfunctional but the perfect gods for them and Sqiugs and Gretchen are the jelly to the peanut butter
There's just something comforting about Orks just straight up going through all the 40k galaxy screaming and laughing at the top of their lungs making sure every messed up lovecraftian organism knows they're there and that they're ready to fight. They just have fun and nothing stops em'
Tuska Daemonkilla *Invading* the Eye of Terror, making a drive-by on Cadia for warm-ups, then finding Ork nirvana on a daemon-world of Khorne, is the most epic thing ever, as well as bringing a tear of joy to my eye. Orks ONE OF the best things in 40k? ORKS IS DA BEST. PERIOD.
I don't know if it is still canon, but there was a group of orks that worshipped the emporer because.... idk maybe an inquisitor thought it would be funny to make an ork group beleive in the emporer or something.
got into the lore maybe a year ago, just liked reading the books really. Read a section somewhere about some lamenters trying to escape with some human slaves from an ork planet, they try to hijack an ork ship to escape. None of the ork ships had engines. I love those soggin gits.
I love Orks, I wish I had more inspiration to paint mine. Had a kommando kill team base coated and sitting in my pile of shame for a while. All I know if I want them to be old school British punk themed and I'm going to call them "Da Orky Boyz" in reference to Sham 69's Hersham Boys. My favorite thing I've ever heard about orks was in some book, a space marine vessel was pulling up next to an ork rok to start firing and the marines started seeing green dots pop up on the surface of the rok. The orks had come out into the vacuum of space and were jumping off into space to try to get to the marines and start the fight sooner. LMAO
I love orcs in general, and ORKS in warhammer is something that makes me want to play this game, and now that I know more about this guys it looks more and more fun to play with them. I LOVE ORKS.
There's one notable exception where ork gubs actually DO work for non-orks, Legacy of Dorn novel, that I've read recently (the main guy concedes how simple their guns are to strip and clean(10min) vs a bolter (3+ hr with all the machine spirit shenanigans)). Don't forget the legendary Deff Skwaddron comic, it's awesome stuff, always brings a smile to face :D
I'm an Ork by heart and my fav warboss is the git who took his warband into the warp to fight the better fight against demons, only for Khorne himself to pick the boss up as his champion and revels in the eternal krumpin with his ladz
One of my favorite tidbits of Ork lore is how Grizgutz accidentally traveled back in time in the warp and was ejected to just before his Waagh entered, so he boarded his own ship and killed his past self to have a copy of his favorite gun. That's the orkiest thing I've ever heard.
Angron will drown in an angry green tsunami when ghazkull gets his hands on him. Rip yarrick the shootiest shootah, the krumpiest krumpah, ol one eye yarrick the rival of ghaz, maybe the only human to receive genuine respect and compliments from an ork.
I honestly love the orks with them really being the ones that make me take a step back and just have a laugh cause of how dumb stuff can be from a funny point instead of a depressing point of view.
Orks may be hilarious from an outside perspective, but it should always be remembered, the Boyz came closer to destroying the Imperium than the forces of Chaos ever have
mmh since i am a mind caged in soulless machine obviously am a Necron guy, but the concept of ''believe'' or rather knowing from Orks might appeal more to another side of myself.
It is have been my army of choice since I started playing 40k about 30 years ago. The Waaagh the Orks era Orks were more individualistic than say Space Marines and therefore more fun. You wouldn't see a Goffik Rok band turn up in an Eldar or Smurf army. The reason Orks look the way they do is because of a British comic character called Fungus the Bogeyman by a chap called Raymond Briggs who died fairly recently. This was then crossed with the personality of an '80's football hooligan and certain Germanic elements. All in all whether or not Orks are the perfect intro point to 40k depends on the person. If you're a powergamer type like my brother who just liked to win even if you resort to Exterminatus if you lose the battle you're probably too po-faced to fully appreciate Orks. If you enjoy getting together with friends because it's fun irrespective of who wins then Orks are grand.
To me, as a greenskins player throughout the warhammer universe the orks, orruks or whatever you call them wherever you find them are simply put THE best thing ever.
Only doscovered you the other day and glad I did. As a long time 40k player you arent really teaching me anything but i just love the way you describe the setting. Too many sweats take it way too seriously. I also think i need an Orc army next 😂
Imma be honest when I first heard about 40k I thought the entire premise was focused around "Space Knights with guns fight Space Orks with guns" and for the longest time that's all I knew about it until when I recently actually started getting into Warhammer and discovered that there's ten billion other factions and stuff
From my experience, Orks are most people's introduction to the hobby. Sure they've probably heard of space marines before or seen memes about other factions, but a big factor for someone actually getting interested in 40k is learning about orky shenanigans.
The orks definitely are a core part of 40k as well. Chaos is the big bad but orls are the classic bad guys and are the premier xenos faction that reprisent xenos and have the most coverage in the lore even if 90% are used as a way to show how terrible the actual villains but its always the orks.
I love orks, I love the melee, I love stuffing 8 burna boyz with two skorcha spannerz in a trukk and just roasting enemies off the board and I love watching my meks gunz either do absolutely nothing the entire game or decide that, that leman russ or drukari raiding barge doesn't need to be there anymore. I also love watching my Goff Smasha Squig delete units with mortal wounds.
Mycorrhiza & Myco-heterotrophy are both symbiotic relationships b/t Fungus & Plants, so it's not too far of a stretch that GW is just rolling w/ the idea that the Old Ones being biohackers didn't cook up a spore based lifeform that can leverage both decomposition & photosynthesis. The few fungus w/ chloroplasts those structures are purple, which explains why some stuff is invisible inside the orc related to nutrition.
I used to think orks were boring models therefore boring in themselves but as the years have gone by they are one of my favourite army’s that I don’t yet collect, I still struggle looking at them just green lumps with battered metal hanging off of them but boy do I love hearing stories about them! I don’t know if I’ll ever collect them but I know they are fun weird and wacky which is brilliant!
I just bought my first couple models of orks to do some painting. As that’s something that’s really interested me and when I was a kid orks were my fav race in dark crusade. I would be interested in playing the table top, but alas no one to learn it with and duel. Still quite happy to have a nice collection of orks
I've been obsessed with da Orks for the last few months. I once tried to paint and play...I didn't make it. But I've been thinking about giving it another try. And....well...ere we go
Dude, I like the way you talk. Could spend hours just listening to you. Just throwing you the occasional bone to start the next tangend and keep you going.
Will say I’ve now watched everyone of your videos and im loving them. I’m eagerly waiting for more necron videos or some admech videos, Trazyn is by far my favorite character in the setting. He’s just a Pokémon trainer trying to catch them all
I figure Orks are probably the best equipped to fight daemons since daemons' only weakness is belief... hence orks go thru the warp without gellar fields for fun. I also figure the old ones fixed the psykers turn inside out into daemon gates glitch by putting an explode fuse in em if they start to go over.
weak humans going through the warp and losing their sanity versus supreme orks going through the warp and beating the shit out of the eldritch horror that just emerged for fun.
I think every faction other than Votann, humanity, and the Eldar are good against daemons, inherently. Tau have weaker souls that daemons ignore, giving them time to plan, Necrons have no souls and have devices that make entire star systems warp free, orks you already mentioned, and Tyranids have a latent ability similar to a blank with shadow in the warp, and again, no real soul to steal.
@@norsehorse84 The Tau are about to get owned by Vashtorr corrupting all of their AIs the same as he did to humanity. Agree Necrons and Nids are pretty much Chaos immune but neither do they get stronger by fighting it like Orks. They also don't have absurd faith to hurt it with.
wouldn't demons of nurgle and tzeentch be a good match against the orks? one can mess with them with illusions while the other poisons them and could possibly cause the spores to die as well
@@larrytherustyboii7442 Possibly but Nurgle's three main moves are fear of death, gross-out, and death by a thousand cuts, none of which work on Orks. As to Tzeentch, in my head cannon he's Big E so yeah he can run circles around anybody but Orks are too dumb for complicated schemes so Tzeentch probably only has a few tools to work with and finds them boring.
Orks are like whiped cream: Delicious, but lack substance if you don't put it on something else. Orks need more serious factions to bounce off and their shenanigens is not the material you can build a decade long lore on.
I'm not an expert on Orks but... I did some research on fungi or more specifically, lichen in school. The idea of a fungi-animal mix that can use photosynthesis is not teally that strange in comparison to for example space marines...
"Unlike plants, fungi are unable to source their energy from the sun via photosynthesis. Instead, most fungi (except for lichens) release enzymes into the environment that digest organic matter and then absorb it"
I just want to see what Gaskull is gonna do about Yarrick's death. Me thinks a big ass wasagghh against chaos be coming. It's not every day you get a proper enemy. Then someone else krunks him.
I think my favorite thing about orks is that they force the otherwise austere and very self serious setting to play along with how god damn goofy they are. A grizzled space marine who has seen countless battles and speaks with the gravitas of one that has starred down death and lived having to say something like “the ork warboss gitkicka deftooth and his army of choppa wielding boogie boyz lay waste to the forge world” will never not give me a good hearty chuckle.
Orks are how my friend got me into warhammer, she and I both collect them and have long been trying to one-up eachother with who can make the bigger boss. Currently she's in the lead cuz she mixed Angron and Ghazkul to make a Tuska Daemon-killa who dwarfs all other ork bosses we've made. My next one I intend to make as a Mech-Leviathan dread hybrid to hopefully reclaim my crown
Another good meme was during the opening days of second war of Armegeddon, a bunch of prisoners fought orks bare handed. When they picked up ork weapons to try and return fire the weapons exploded, opening up huge holes in the defensive lines, and the last most heard was the laughter of the orks.
I think what makes orks so funny in 40k is that they are a fantasy faction in a rathe sci fi-styled setting. Orks are the basic danger of fantasy, and are placed perfectly in the galaxy of warhammer. And i think that is why they gave it such a comic relief position. It is just wonderful
Getting exposed to 40k lore through tons of grimdark angsty Space Marine and Chaos God infodumps, then discovering Orks right after is the most entertaining juxtaposition ever, takes the piss right out of the whole setting precisely when you're convinced of how mean and serious everything is. My favorite Ork theory is that the Emperor is only alive on the throne because Orks don't know that he died.
I’m currently building an entire mech and drag racer army of Orks. Not for advantage, strength or even the chance to win, but because I want the comic relief of Orks just randomly blowing up on the field. 😆
I have always played orks. Fantasy 40k, blood bowl, kill team. Even when 40k goes full grim dark, the orks are still there, a shiny beacon of fun in the universe
“ I am the very essence of evil itself, cower in fear, it doesn’t matter “ “ ORK SAY NUH UH!!! “ “ Wha- *_Instantly gets vaporized_* “ “ GET KRUMPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!! “
If I remember right, the stronger the Orks opposition gets, the stronger the Orks get. If the Tyranids fail to conquer the galaxy, it won't be because of humanity or whatever. It'll be because of the Orks.
I made an Ork army who basically have a prison aesthetic with the idea that they were spat out of the warp and crash landed on a moon that had a Mechanicus prison mining complex and they raided it, looting the orange uniforms and calling their choppas "shivs" and their warhorse has a weirdboy who is convinced he talks to Gork & Mork by rattling skulls filled with scrap and dipped in purple paint so they also paint their faces purple. I just wanted to use purple and orange as their clan colours and this came to mind. I have 160 boys and their finest moment was some Nobz cutting down one of the Tau 8 because he charged them when they had killsaws...bad idea.
I like the Ork Warboss who travelled back in time and killed his past self so he could have 2 of his favorite gun.
Daemon Killa. The ork who basically found heaven. Him and his boys get to fight everyday. Only to die and be respawned the next day to do it all over again. Truly the orkiest fate.
Khornes favorite little boy
Big Brain Ork Move
'Ol Grigutz? He'z a rite propa Ork, 'dat wun.
Gutsmek is my personal favourite. Dude took down a titan (presumably a Warlord) by just crashing his bike onto the cockpit.
My favourite fact i heard was that when orks travel through the warp, they open the windows so demons can come in and get krumpd
Unlioke da humies, da boyz dun’t need no gella feeld
Orks travelling through the warp: Roll down the windows, Boyz! We got demons to krump!
Demons: Turn off the lights and pretend nobody's home.
Most Races warp travel. Try to sneak their way through the room. Orks is a large fat man screaming and spiriting through the room.
@@shockeye3863funny thing is demons are less likely to attack work ships than other races
Nobody to corrupt, no tasty souls to feast on since they go straight to gork and mork and you get kicked back to the warp since the orks gang rush you the second you arrive
"In-Flight-Entertainment"
Orks being horrifying monsters yet still being the greatest source of comic relief in the setting just makes them so endearing.
One of the best things about Orks is that they teach people to talk with a proper british vocabulary
they also show the benefits of how well British dental care can be applied
@@sovietunion7643 Oh, DAAAAMN!!!
@@sovietunion7643"oi mate, thats sum gud teef ya got roight there, wuld be very tragik dat you loos 'em"
-sincerely, Bad moons
Proper blokes 😂
They also have better oral hygiene
Orks are just the faction that everyone likes. I’ve never met a war hammer fan who did not like Orks, they are so dumb but so fun they represent warhammer better then any other faction
I've known someone who didn't like orks. They were also a person who was almost solely into space marines of both imperium and chaos varieties and would shittalk every other faction but get mad if you joked about looting their factions models as orks.
I don't know much about 40k but my friend said he would call those space marine dick riders, because he said space marines are cool ,but if that is the only thing you like and get heated when you talk about how much they suck then you're a weird person.
Imo the true good guys in this universe .
You cant be bad about a bunch o' boiz living for their deep passion towards WAAAARGH !!! Very relatable .
I’d say space marines represent Warhammer better, but that’s just based on what GW is doing
I always thought Orks were just the comic relief of 40k... then I heard Baldermort's lore video on them. How big they can get when the war gets serious enough. How advanced their tech. How the Eldar have been careful to prune them, and how the Orks haven't really minded because they've been under no threat. And now the Necrons are back and the Tyranids are incoming. My blood actually ran cold. And now, I have honest-to-Gork RESPECT for the Orks, because Mork-damn...
honestly i would love if 40k had more comedic relief moments like the orks. warhammer fantasy was sort of a more silly setting at times (even vermintide, the game literally set during the end times, has the funniest interactions between characters and species ever). 40k really lacks this and i think it takes away. part of why warhammer fantasy felt so grim was that despite the sometimes silly moments it really contrasted with moments of everything going to hell. 40k sometimes has a feel of all gloom and doom and that just doesn't do it for me as well.
@@sovietunion7643I recommend checking out the Ciaphus Cain books then. They’re probably one of the more lighthearted storylines of 40K.
The funny thing about orks is that they can basically do absolutely anything and it still would make sense lore wise.
Like orks can be pirates with peg legs, eye patches and squig parrots, they can be samurais devoted to the way of DA CHOOPA, they can be cowboy/knight errant fighting crime, becouse in wh40k there is lots of that and that means more fights, and it still make sense. And ork racers want to be the fastest there is, a grot master fighter pilot.
Orks is faction of pure imagination :D
they fight crime? wtf XD
Der is no loife oi kno to compae wit puur emagenation, livin der, yool be free ef yool trooly wesh to be
You could literally have all of those in the same army and no one would say anything
@@larrytherustyboii7442 _Points in the general direction of the Deathskulls, an entire ork clan devouted to stealing everybody else's shit and being the luckiest's zoggers this side of the Warp_ Yeah, I can totally see an Ork being a 'crime fighter'... who really, really has it in for Deathskull Orks.
*HOLY SHIT* That just made me have a revelation.
The Orks are *THE* most modifiable faction in 40k, The limits of what you can do is only your imagination.
And what makes Ork tech work? The latent Psionic energy brought on by their belief it will work, *Their imagination!*
The Orks are like the people who play them, They can do what they want, And it'll work. The Ork's stuff will work because they believe it will, And The players are lore accurate because there are so many of them, And they're doing all manner of wacky shit, Whatever you do can make sense that the Orks would do it if you can come up with a half decent explanation. And when in doubt, You can always say that the Orks think that _____ makes them kill better.
One recurring trend with Orks that I think is really funny is how people will repeatedly underestimate the Orks by thinking they're just animals basically before getting completely blindsided by them using actual 200 IQ plays.
What's funnier also is a lot of the time these 200 IQ plays happen usually out of sheer coincidence and on-the-fly rather than any concerted effort of strategizing on the Orks' part.
Ork boy: WELZ WEZ ALREADY KRUMPED THIS FANK LOIKE FOIVE TIMES, LEZGO TO TIS OTTAH FLANK.
@giraffedragon6110 OY BOZZ WHA WILL BE DO WHEN THAT FANK GET KRUMP TOO ?
@@Deliverygrot EZ EZAY YA GIT! YA GO KRUMP DA NEX FLANK!! WOT? YA GON AS ONATHA DUM QUESTON YA GITZ?
You are sorely mistaken, their plays are not coincidence, they are extremely well planned. The issue with them is that they plan under "made de facto true premises". If your car is shit, will still be shit if painted red.... unless you are an Ork. Basicly they play with different rules, is a completely different universe for them, way more simplistic, and the best part is, only the boyz can take advantage of it.
I remember letting my buddy/GM play an ork in the rogue trader game i was running. By the end of it, he had become Warboss Zekk Kragg, Bonker of Battle Sisters. He had like 15 names but none of them were as amazing as knocking a SoB out with a log and living to tell the tale.
One of the main things I love about orks is that they're actually a pretty good barometer to how seriously GW intends people to take the setting. I'll point to an example with Guilliman. Sure he's especially broody these days (see the 10e trailer for an example) and he's a badass and capable leader, but he exists in the same universe as the orks, so he's also kind of a goober. I'm not saying that 40K is a setting where nothing is to be taken seriously, but it's a setting where seriosness itself is always at least a little tongue-in-cheek. *EVERYTHING* is dialed up so far past 11 that it's absurd, and the campy absurdity is the point. Guilliman's self-seriousness is kind of a joke. The Imperium's over-the-top evil being the only hope for human survival is just silly as a concept. The drukari's sadism is wildly cartoonish. All the tropes are played so hard that there's nothing even vaguely realistic about the 40K setting, and it's all said with the comically stoic straight face and a quinesentially British "stiff upper lip"... except the orks. The orks clue in the people that are sarcasm-blind that everything here is satirical on some level. Because orks are obviously silly and riiculous, and they fit right in with everything else that's often so comedically serious.
I wonder if GW actually recognize that. 40k is meant to be a ridiculous, insane grotesque of a story. I really do wonder if they themselves get that memo? Like all you said is correct but I am genuinely not convinced that the people who recognize this aren't a very stark minority amid the fandom and GW alike.
There’s defnitely some truth to this especially back in the day when 40k first started but I think now it defnitely takes itself a lot more seriously like a proper sci fi franchise and I don’t see why it can’t. It’s over the top of course but it’s a cool setting and too we’ll fleshed out and deep to be satire at this point
Don't the forget other examples, like the Tau's technology advantage but still beign too "naive and innocent" to the point they thought they killed the emperor when it was just a chapter master, and when they thought that Imperial Titans were Imperial propaganda, until they saw for themselves a walking church with guns and reacted with 😮
Even Eldar are sort of funny with how Avatars of Khaine are primarch levels in power, but most of their mentions is about them getting killed by anyone, like in Dawn of War with how their sync kills is about then getting punished for beign too cocky and stylish
They also fit a trope, just a very personal one for the original devs. They're football hooligans; but in space. War is the sport and they're ready to get bloody, cheering the whole time
@@ExValeFori don't think they do. I think, at least for the newer devs, Goofyman was meant to be taken seriously. They actually tried to fix the Ork lore a bit, and they downplay the silly side now
Orks may not always win, but they always have a good time.
Dey alwayz win! If dey'z win - den dey'z win! If dey don't - dey get ta come back an' fight some moar, WHICH IZ A WIN YA GIT! WAAAAGH!!!
Except if it's about Yarrick
"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 lose neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!"
What I love about the Orks is right when you count them out they always come back. Hell, even with the new arks of omen lore, you see the Orks show up at just the right time to lay down the beating.
They are a nice faction to play as because you can laugh at how hilariously serious everyone else takes things, meanwhile you can just keep sending more bodies - a strategy so basic, that for Orks it flips back around to being smart and strategic. It's beautiful, man.
My ex only ever wanted to eat, sleep, and fight and everything she believed magically became true. Now I understand why, thank you sir.
I love the Orks. They’re a very necessary breath of fun in a setting that takes itself way too seriously most of the time.
"Yo check out my purple ork army"
U only see empty table
"W w where are they?"
This should be allowed.
*WWWWAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHH*
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I always feel that GW, at the end of WH development, said, "Ok, we need one more faction. All the others were so serious and dark. Maybe something different. Not light, though. Something...really stupid. Space clowns? Space ogres? Maybe a mix? Maybe? Huh?"
Well it actually went the exact opposite way. The orks are like the last relic of the time of warhammer's genesis, when everything was just dumb and comical.
Adding the edge was more or less an afterthough and most likely a product of the 90's boom in grimdark comic books and nu metal. GW is like that one emo kid who never quite grew out of his phase.
The Odd Boyz are the living embodiment of "Cometh the hour, cometh the man".
So pleased to see the old fungal gestation picture again. I'm not sure if people don't know about it or they don't think it's important, but I think it's so supremely stupid/amazing that it should be included in every description of the Orks.
I like orks.
in fact one of the first 40k audiobook I listened to was about margaret thatcher the warboss
Orks are so simplified it’s amazing and are hilarious to a degree it feels like trolling akin to Orgyns but less friendly and more organized Gork and Mork are a treat so dysfunctional but the perfect gods for them and Sqiugs and Gretchen are the jelly to the peanut butter
Fun fact, In the old lore it was the snotlings that created the orks.
There's just something comforting about Orks just straight up going through all the 40k galaxy screaming and laughing at the top of their lungs making sure every messed up lovecraftian organism knows they're there and that they're ready to fight.
They just have fun and nothing stops em'
Tuska Daemonkilla
*Invading* the Eye of Terror, making a drive-by on Cadia for warm-ups, then finding Ork nirvana on a daemon-world of Khorne, is the most epic thing ever, as well as bringing a tear of joy to my eye.
Orks ONE OF the best things in 40k?
ORKS IS DA BEST. PERIOD.
I don't know if it is still canon, but there was a group of orks that worshipped the emporer because.... idk maybe an inquisitor thought it would be funny to make an ork group beleive in the emporer or something.
I think that is the orkperium but I also don't know if it is canon. It was cool to read about though.
Orcs are one of the most fun things about 40k, I never cease finding things to chuckle about.
got into the lore maybe a year ago, just liked reading the books really. Read a section somewhere about some lamenters trying to escape with some human slaves from an ork planet, they try to hijack an ork ship to escape. None of the ork ships had engines. I love those soggin gits.
I love Orks, I wish I had more inspiration to paint mine. Had a kommando kill team base coated and sitting in my pile of shame for a while. All I know if I want them to be old school British punk themed and I'm going to call them "Da Orky Boyz" in reference to Sham 69's Hersham Boys. My favorite thing I've ever heard about orks was in some book, a space marine vessel was pulling up next to an ork rok to start firing and the marines started seeing green dots pop up on the surface of the rok. The orks had come out into the vacuum of space and were jumping off into space to try to get to the marines and start the fight sooner. LMAO
Please make a 3 hour long ork video, I'd watch the fuck out of that
I love orcs in general, and ORKS in warhammer is something that makes me want to play this game, and now that I know more about this guys it looks more and more fun to play with them. I LOVE ORKS.
This is the Orks' world. We just live in it
my favorite feature of this video is the background music "my heart will stop in joy" which i think really fits them
There's one notable exception where ork gubs actually DO work for non-orks, Legacy of Dorn novel, that I've read recently (the main guy concedes how simple their guns are to strip and clean(10min) vs a bolter (3+ hr with all the machine spirit shenanigans)).
Don't forget the legendary Deff Skwaddron comic, it's awesome stuff, always brings a smile to face :D
@Nix91 And it's indeed the trucks and shootas used in the novel by the crimson fist sgt and his squad alongside a few rynnsguard they saved.
Same goes with Skaven with Fantasy or for others Dwarfs
I'm an Ork by heart and my fav warboss is the git who took his warband into the warp to fight the better fight against demons, only for Khorne himself to pick the boss up as his champion and revels in the eternal krumpin with his ladz
Gud ol' Tuska Daemon-Killa. Roight propa Ork 'e iz! Krumpin and gettin Krumped wiv 'iz Boyz!
One of my favorite tidbits of Ork lore is how Grizgutz accidentally traveled back in time in the warp and was ejected to just before his Waagh entered, so he boarded his own ship and killed his past self to have a copy of his favorite gun. That's the orkiest thing I've ever heard.
Angron will drown in an angry green tsunami when ghazkull gets his hands on him. Rip yarrick the shootiest shootah, the krumpiest krumpah, ol one eye yarrick the rival of ghaz, maybe the only human to receive genuine respect and compliments from an ork.
I honestly love the orks with them really being the ones that make me take a step back and just have a laugh cause of how dumb stuff can be from a funny point instead of a depressing point of view.
Everybody that plays 40k loves the orks. They're way past due for some new quality content and lore from GW.
True, true.
Orks may be hilarious from an outside perspective, but it should always be remembered, the Boyz came closer to destroying the Imperium than the forces of Chaos ever have
Oi lov da Orks, me took sum old Robogear tabletop vehicul and looted it for da kitbashy orky gitz
I’ve always loves the idea of White Scar’s purposefully following around Ork clans in order to use the power of the Waaaaah to go faster
mmh since i am a mind caged in soulless machine obviously am a Necron guy, but the concept of ''believe'' or rather knowing from Orks might appeal more to another side of myself.
Orks are the best, mostly because you are almost ALWAYS competitive and even when you aren't it is just about always in the most hilarious way.
I love all the great artwork you dig up for these videos
It is have been my army of choice since I started playing 40k about 30 years ago. The Waaagh the Orks era Orks were more individualistic than say Space Marines and therefore more fun. You wouldn't see a Goffik Rok band turn up in an Eldar or Smurf army.
The reason Orks look the way they do is because of a British comic character called Fungus the Bogeyman by a chap called Raymond Briggs who died fairly recently. This was then crossed with the personality of an '80's football hooligan and certain Germanic elements.
All in all whether or not Orks are the perfect intro point to 40k depends on the person. If you're a powergamer type like my brother who just liked to win even if you resort to Exterminatus if you lose the battle you're probably too po-faced to fully appreciate Orks. If you enjoy getting together with friends because it's fun irrespective of who wins then Orks are grand.
so essentially people who don't like fun hate orks? makes sense. but why would anyone play 40k tabletop if not for fun?
@@superultrasomethings yes because i value my sanity
4:50 Deyz finkin' too 'ard.
To me, as a greenskins player throughout the warhammer universe the orks, orruks or whatever you call them wherever you find them are simply put THE best thing ever.
Only doscovered you the other day and glad I did. As a long time 40k player you arent really teaching me anything but i just love the way you describe the setting. Too many sweats take it way too seriously.
I also think i need an Orc army next 😂
Imma be honest when I first heard about 40k I thought the entire premise was focused around "Space Knights with guns fight Space Orks with guns" and for the longest time that's all I knew about it until when I recently actually started getting into Warhammer and discovered that there's ten billion other factions and stuff
Fun Fakt: Da Orkz Alwayz Win, You Alwayz get krumped. - Definatelie not an Ork
From my experience, Orks are most people's introduction to the hobby. Sure they've probably heard of space marines before or seen memes about other factions, but a big factor for someone actually getting interested in 40k is learning about orky shenanigans.
Me, who was introduced by seeing a dude cosplaying a krieger at a renaissance fair.
Yes, I am now building a krieg army, my wallet is in tears
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Orks seem to be a lichen like organism: fungi make up the frame work, animal cells make up the organ systems, and algae power the whole thing
The orks definitely are a core part of 40k as well. Chaos is the big bad but orls are the classic bad guys and are the premier xenos faction that reprisent xenos and have the most coverage in the lore even if 90% are used as a way to show how terrible the actual villains but its always the orks.
I love orks, I love the melee, I love stuffing 8 burna boyz with two skorcha spannerz in a trukk and just roasting enemies off the board and I love watching my meks gunz either do absolutely nothing the entire game or decide that, that leman russ or drukari raiding barge doesn't need to be there anymore. I also love watching my Goff Smasha Squig delete units with mortal wounds.
Love my orks. Mek boyz are just so damn perfect
40k: when it's comic relief fits "dumbest people are the most violent people" maxim
*desperately trying to get my ork skin recipe right for my green tide army* no orks are cringe, don't know nothing 'bout no fungus
I rarely see Orkz vs Tyrannids in the lore
Mycorrhiza & Myco-heterotrophy are both symbiotic relationships b/t Fungus & Plants, so it's not too far of a stretch that GW is just rolling w/ the idea that the Old Ones being biohackers didn't cook up a spore based lifeform that can leverage both decomposition & photosynthesis.
The few fungus w/ chloroplasts those structures are purple, which explains why some stuff is invisible inside the orc related to nutrition.
I used to think orks were boring models therefore boring in themselves but as the years have gone by they are one of my favourite army’s that I don’t yet collect, I still struggle looking at them just green lumps with battered metal hanging off of them but boy do I love hearing stories about them! I don’t know if I’ll ever collect them but I know they are fun weird and wacky which is brilliant!
I just bought my first couple models of orks to do some painting. As that’s something that’s really interested me and when I was a kid orks were my fav race in dark crusade.
I would be interested in playing the table top, but alas no one to learn it with and duel.
Still quite happy to have a nice collection of orks
I've been obsessed with da Orks for the last few months.
I once tried to paint and play...I didn't make it.
But I've been thinking about giving it another try.
And....well...ere we go
Dude, I like the way you talk. Could spend hours just listening to you. Just throwing you the occasional bone to start the next tangend and keep you going.
Will say I’ve now watched everyone of your videos and im loving them. I’m eagerly waiting for more necron videos or some admech videos, Trazyn is by far my favorite character in the setting. He’s just a Pokémon trainer trying to catch them all
I figure Orks are probably the best equipped to fight daemons since daemons' only weakness is belief... hence orks go thru the warp without gellar fields for fun. I also figure the old ones fixed the psykers turn inside out into daemon gates glitch by putting an explode fuse in em if they start to go over.
weak humans going through the warp and losing their sanity versus supreme orks going through the warp and beating the shit out of the eldritch horror that just emerged for fun.
I think every faction other than Votann, humanity, and the Eldar are good against daemons, inherently.
Tau have weaker souls that daemons ignore, giving them time to plan, Necrons have no souls and have devices that make entire star systems warp free, orks you already mentioned, and Tyranids have a latent ability similar to a blank with shadow in the warp, and again, no real soul to steal.
@@norsehorse84 The Tau are about to get owned by Vashtorr corrupting all of their AIs the same as he did to humanity. Agree Necrons and Nids are pretty much Chaos immune but neither do they get stronger by fighting it like Orks. They also don't have absurd faith to hurt it with.
wouldn't demons of nurgle and tzeentch be a good match against the orks? one can mess with them with illusions while the other poisons them and could possibly cause the spores to die as well
@@larrytherustyboii7442 Possibly but Nurgle's three main moves are fear of death, gross-out, and death by a thousand cuts, none of which work on Orks. As to Tzeentch, in my head cannon he's Big E so yeah he can run circles around anybody but Orks are too dumb for complicated schemes so Tzeentch probably only has a few tools to work with and finds them boring.
My favorite part of orcs is how their accent, behavior, speech, and society is based on british people
Tha fuk is an “orc”?
In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war. Or as the Orks would put it: "Let's get ready ta kumpinnnn!!!"
Orks are like whiped cream: Delicious, but lack substance if you don't put it on something else. Orks need more serious factions to bounce off and their shenanigens is not the material you can build a decade long lore on.
It always make thematic sense to fight orks.
I miss the old orks when they were not as much of a grim dark joke they had tradesmen traders slavers etc
I'm not an expert on Orks but...
I did some research on fungi or more specifically, lichen in school. The idea of a fungi-animal mix that can use photosynthesis is not teally that strange in comparison to for example space marines...
Brutal kuning is a great book. Its a battle between adeptus mechanicus and works told from both sides and is hilarious!
"Unlike plants, fungi are unable to source their energy from the sun via photosynthesis. Instead, most fungi (except for lichens) release enzymes into the environment that digest organic matter and then absorb it"
God forbit the Orc's learn to have there troop's be rainbow-colored, then they'd be unstoppable!
If I ever have the money to, I'd paint a ork army just like the NFC memes complete with soccer balls on the the bases.
I just want to see what Gaskull is gonna do about Yarrick's death. Me thinks a big ass wasagghh against chaos be coming. It's not every day you get a proper enemy. Then someone else krunks him.
orks are the playdoh of 40k
I think my favorite thing about orks is that they force the otherwise austere and very self serious setting to play along with how god damn goofy they are. A grizzled space marine who has seen countless battles and speaks with the gravitas of one that has starred down death and lived having to say something like “the ork warboss gitkicka deftooth and his army of choppa wielding boogie boyz lay waste to the forge world” will never not give me a good hearty chuckle.
I've known about 40k since the early 2000's, bit only recently became interested primarily because of Ork lore
I love *LOVE* Orks! I also love this video. Great job!
Orks are how my friend got me into warhammer, she and I both collect them and have long been trying to one-up eachother with who can make the bigger boss. Currently she's in the lead cuz she mixed Angron and Ghazkul to make a Tuska Daemon-killa who dwarfs all other ork bosses we've made. My next one I intend to make as a Mech-Leviathan dread hybrid to hopefully reclaim my crown
Another good meme was during the opening days of second war of Armegeddon, a bunch of prisoners fought orks bare handed. When they picked up ork weapons to try and return fire the weapons exploded, opening up huge holes in the defensive lines, and the last most heard was the laughter of the orks.
I think “an oosie” is my new favorite term for a technological a advawmr, it’s so accurate!
I think what makes orks so funny in 40k is that they are a fantasy faction in a rathe sci fi-styled setting. Orks are the basic danger of fantasy, and are placed perfectly in the galaxy of warhammer. And i think that is why they gave it such a comic relief position.
It is just wonderful
ORKZ IZ DA BIGGEST AN' DA BEST!
I started with orks in 2019, stopped with orks bcs the pandemic, returned with orks in 2023 bcs orks are awesome
Ever seen a purple ork ? No you haven’t cuz their the sneaki-est
Honestly, I like the Orks. After seeing more about them after an initial binge of Ork lore, I was utterly infatuated with them.
Again, I'm just here for the background music.
In the second crimson fists book, traitors gorge pedro kantor and several crimson fist sterngaurd were able to use ork guns and blades... somehow
Getting exposed to 40k lore through tons of grimdark angsty Space Marine and Chaos God infodumps, then discovering Orks right after is the most entertaining juxtaposition ever, takes the piss right out of the whole setting precisely when you're convinced of how mean and serious everything is.
My favorite Ork theory is that the Emperor is only alive on the throne because Orks don't know that he died.
I’m currently building an entire mech and drag racer army of Orks. Not for advantage, strength or even the chance to win, but because I want the comic relief of Orks just randomly blowing up on the field. 😆
uuhhh, Arthur. . . I'm high! Keep up the good work man, really enjoy your content!
Orks summed up: we want the beef youre cooking salamander
I have always played orks. Fantasy 40k, blood bowl, kill team. Even when 40k goes full grim dark, the orks are still there, a shiny beacon of fun in the universe
“ I am the very essence of evil itself, cower in fear, it doesn’t matter “
“ ORK SAY NUH UH!!! “
“ Wha- *_Instantly gets vaporized_* “
“ GET KRUMPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!! “
If I remember right, the stronger the Orks opposition gets, the stronger the Orks get. If the Tyranids fail to conquer the galaxy, it won't be because of humanity or whatever. It'll be because of the Orks.
Wouldn’t necron (mass awakening) eliminate both with deatomization weapons?
I made an Ork army who basically have a prison aesthetic with the idea that they were spat out of the warp and crash landed on a moon that had a Mechanicus prison mining complex and they raided it, looting the orange uniforms and calling their choppas "shivs" and their warhorse has a weirdboy who is convinced he talks to Gork & Mork by rattling skulls filled with scrap and dipped in purple paint so they also paint their faces purple. I just wanted to use purple and orange as their clan colours and this came to mind. I have 160 boys and their finest moment was some Nobz cutting down one of the Tau 8 because he charged them when they had killsaws...bad idea.
Came for the content. Stayed for the post video Arthur 🙌🏼
Honestly orks are my favorite in 40k, everything about them is awesome to me. They're arguably the happiest race
I've loved and played space orks since 2nd edition and never looked back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!