Orks are greenskinned monstrosities who spread across the universe in vast and brutal hordes. Living to fight anyone they encounter and when they're alone, fighting each other, Ork WAAAGH!s (as their barbaric warbands are called) drift across the galaxy spreading conflict and strife in their wake. Ork weaponry and war machines are crude but effective and more than one more "sophisticated" army has fallen before the massed might of this savage green tide!
THE GREEN TIDE
While the heretical forces of Chaos and the
bio-consuming might of the Tyranids pose terrible dangers
to the worlds of the Imperium, it is the barbaric and
seemingly endless hordes of the Orks which are the
greatest threat to the forces of the Emperor. Engulfing
entire worlds like a frenzied green tide, Ork warbands have threatened to
overrun entire sectors in a tremendous storm of bloodshed and violence.
Willing to take on any enemy and even turning upon themselves if no opponents present themselves, Orks are perhaps the most aggressive race in the galaxy. Were the Orks not so divided, the entire Imperium might fall before their assembled power. However, the very nature of Ork society has prevented this from happening so far.
WAAAGH!
Occasionally, a truly massive Ork Warlord known as a
Warboss will rise above the other Ork leaders and
hammer the various, squabbling Ork tribes into a crude
alliance known as a Waaagh! (roughly equivalent to an Army Group). When this occurs, entire
systems may be ravaged before the force of this army of
vicious green warriors expends itself and petty squabbles
and old animosity takes hold once more.
Orks vary tremendously in shape, size and power. From the weedy hordes of
the Gretchin mobz to the slug-throwing mania of the Ork Shoota Boyz, all of the
Orks are built for bloodshed. Led on the battlefield by the biggest and the
strongest greenskins (known as Nobz), Orks live by the maxim - Might is Right!
VROOM! DAKKA! DAKKA!
Although Orks may not seem to be as technologically advanced as the other
races of the galaxy, they have an innate talent for machinery and love loud
explosions and enormous guns. While their many War Buggies, Trukks, Traks,
Big Gunz and clanking Dreadnoughts may look primitive on the battlefield when
compared with the smooth lines of the Eldar or Space Marine vehicles, Ork
vehicles are built for destruction and kill the enemy just as well as any other
race's war machines!