Factions - Orks

The Orks are the most warlike species in the galaxy. They are hulking alien brutes, using their slabs of muscle and crude weapons to pound enemies into the dust, and their thick skulls to headbutt anything that won’t stay down. Orks have little time for complex ploys, preferring the simple joy of storming headlong into battle. Sadly for other races, Orks attack in large numbers and this ‘tactic’ often works.

Orks employ many kinds of technology, from bizarre reality warping devices to ramshackle war engines – devices as brutal and straightforward as the Orks themselves. Those who survive their tribe’s headbutting contests, as well as their first headlong charge into an enemy, become hardened fighters. The more they fight, the larger and stronger they grow. The Warbosses that arise to lead whole warbands are the biggest, strongest and most ferociously violent of their kind.

When enough Orks gather together, a kind of shared energy builds up, fed by their raucous nature and exciting them to greater violence. Drawn to conflict by instinct, Orks crowd aboard ugly ships and bludgeon their way across the galaxy along huge migratory warpaths. Orks call such an invasion force a Waaagh!, echoing their bellowed war cry. A Waaagh! can engulf entire sub-sectors in tides of speeding buggies, stampeding beasts and strange contraptions.