Adeptus Ridiculous - Orks! Orks! Orks! | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: February 10, 2021

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculous​https://www.adeptusridiculous.com/​https://twitter.com/AdRidiculous​The Orks, also called greenskins, are a savage, warlike, green-skinned species of hu...manoids who possess physiological features of both animals and fungi who are spread all across the Milky Way Galaxy.They are seen by their enemies (pretty much everyone else in the universe) as savage, violent, and crude, but they are the most successful species in the whole galaxy, outnumbering possibly every other intelligent starfaring species, even Humanity (with the very plausible exception of the Tyranids).Support the show

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Starting point is 00:00:13 everybody to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous. I am one of your host, D.K. Diamantis. And before this episode gets too far, we have to give a huge shout out to our patrons over at patreon.com slash adeptus ridiculous because our goal, our lead goal of $1,337 a month, was crushed. I don't think it took a week. I don't think we had that goal for a week and it's been annihilated. So a Lamenter's episode is coming, just not today, because, you know, two or three days notice to completely throw out all of your orc research and start new research a little, little close, eh, Bricky, a little, a little too tough to just do that on the fly. I mean, I'm pretty damn impressed.
Starting point is 00:00:56 For those of you who don't know, we record every single Monday, and the episode comes out every single Wednesday, at least that's our current schedule. And with that, considering the fact that we recorded Monday, talking about the Lamenters thing, but it actually came out Wednesday, and now it's Monday again, and there's a lot. Therefore, within the time frame of Wednesday to Monday, you were able to hit, actually, earlier than that, more like Wednesday to Sunday, you were able to hit 1337 is kind of ridiculous. And, yeah, I don't have time for that shit. I got a whole, I got a whole orc script. And you're like, no, talk about the depressed boys.
Starting point is 00:01:31 Actually, the depressing boys. So that'll come, that'll come at some point. But that won't come this week. That'll come next week. And I got to do myself some good research on them because everyone, Everyone's all up with the lamentors nowadays Like they were with Kriegs So I gotta I gotta prepare myself
Starting point is 00:01:48 I gotta tell you There's a lot of hype going into this I hope it lives up to it Because I mean everybody's like oh my god The lamenters like oh we got it We gotta donate for the lamenters episode So you're putting this up on a pedestal I know nothing about the lamenters
Starting point is 00:02:02 They sound like they lament Quite a few things But so I hope it lives up to the hype Because I don't know If I'm gonna be honest I'm gonna be honest I'm going to be honest. I don't think it will live up to the hype for you.
Starting point is 00:02:15 I think you're just going to be like, wow, that was sad. And wow, that really sucks. And that's what I feel like it's going to be. You're going to be like, wow, that's horrible. Yeah, yeah, that's about right. That's Warhammer. That's Warhammer. It's horrible.
Starting point is 00:02:28 People are dead. People are suffering. And they hate it. I mean, if Gojvindyre's reign of blood hasn't made you decensitized, then at least the lamentors will. Not Goj van Dyer, good sir. Doge van Dyer. My boy Doge Van Dyer
Starting point is 00:02:44 The new channel mascot I assure you Are we making him the unofficial mascot? I want to make him the mascot I assure you sir You must dance barefoot in the Palace of Terra Get your fan art into the
Starting point is 00:03:00 Twitter At Ad Ridiculous of Doge Van Dyer Our new Official mascot Is it going to be the official mascot I don't know I don't know It's kind of like
Starting point is 00:03:10 He's like worse than Hitler. I'm not quite sure. So with the idea of getting a Hitler variant of a Doge mascot out of the way, you want to tell the wonderful viewers what our topic is today? Our topic is Orcs. It Shia's favorite. It Shai's favorite faction. She got to choose.
Starting point is 00:03:34 And of course she chose Orks. So we got the boys. Z. Zz. With a lot of zz. I hear they're very fun guys. I've been trying to push that joke for like the last four weeks every time the orcs come up. But yeah, I hear they're fun guys.
Starting point is 00:03:53 Wait, what joke is that? The zzz? No, they're fun guy. They're fun guys. Oh, that's stupid. Go to jail. It only just now is it clicking. I've used that for like the last three weeks, man.
Starting point is 00:04:10 No, you haven't. I swear to God. Shy, how many times when the orgs have been brought up where I like, yeah, they're real fun guys? It obviously wasn't good enough for me to have maintained the memory. Well, granted, it's a shit joke. So, I mean, even if you got it, you're probably like purge. And, yeah, I don't blame you for that. I find it ironic that it's Shy's favorite faction.
Starting point is 00:04:35 You know, I would think she'd have something a little more brooding and like, you know, angry. but no, she chose the, she chose the comedic humor of 40K. She chose the, I don't want to say the joke faction, but I'd say, you know, the comic relief. And that's pretty cool, because funny enough, as I was doing this research on the orcs, because I'm, obviously, I play a lot of Imperium armies. That's like my thing. I like the Imperium. So I'm not as familiar with a lot of, but I mean, with the exception of necrons, I love the
Starting point is 00:05:07 Necrons, but I'm not very familiar with a lot of the Xenos, the Tao, the craft worlds, Droucari, orcs, etc. And I was a little bit worried about doing the orc research because I wasn't sure, like, okay, was there a lot of things that I'm missing? And there actually really isn't much. I mean, you know, if you know the idea of the orcs, you know the orcs pretty well. It's just a lot of like little extra things that you can learn knowledge-wise. But overall, if you think you have a handle on the orcs, you kind of do.
Starting point is 00:05:36 but there's just a little bit more like intricacies that we get to talk about which is a lot of fun and we can really discuss like a little bit more about their culture about their like physical physiology we got to talk about squigs I love I love squigs I cannot believe that shy when she sent me like a bullet point list to help me out she didn't include squigs because I love squigs but I'm actually really excited to talk about squigs we'll do that too Okay, so we'll get into why squigs are so awesome. Absolutely. So, should I begin?
Starting point is 00:06:13 Sure. I mean, I was going to say, I have a fairly okay understanding of orcs, just being around shy so much. And, you know, whenever some sort of discussion on Warhammer breaks out on one of her streams, someone's always like, oh, hey, D.K., you know about the orcs and how they're fungus creations that are, like, impossible to fully get rid of? So I feel like I have a little understanding going into this episode, but I'm looking forward to it. Excellent. So let's start off with orc history, because that's the easiest one to discuss. Now, and Shai's asked if I can list all 48 squigs, I will list all 48 squigs.
Starting point is 00:06:49 I actually have it open right now. Wow. I was prepared. I was prepared. So obviously, I think you can remember from our second episode, we talked about the Necrons and the War in Heaven. So the orcs were one of the many, many races. that the old ones brought up. You know, just like the Eldar,
Starting point is 00:07:06 they were kind of, you know, they weren't like maybe created, but they were kind of pushed along their way. They were helped out a lot. And they were raised up by the old ones as crooks. Now, corks, crooks. Like orc with a KR,
Starting point is 00:07:22 crooks. Crocs are, imagine orcs, but like, like 12 meters tall, like, like double, not 12,
Starting point is 00:07:32 like maybe 12 feet, like double the height of an average orc. And, and also, like, really, like, way more intelligent and stronger. The idea, long story short, is that they were raised up by the old ones, and the orcs refer to the old ones as the brain boys. Because, of course, they do. Of course they do. Sure. Why not? And so as they were brought up by the brain boys, they were brought up to fight the necrons and the katom.
Starting point is 00:08:01 They failed. the necrons are good or you know stop from them for being like yeah you know genocide and the necrons went to bed and then the orcs were just kind of around along with the Eldar now how did we get from Crocs which are gigantic horrifying really smart and powerful creatures to orcs yeah I was going to say it sounds like they're doing pretty well now but I I know current 40K orcs and they're not smart at all this sounds like a to totally different breed. A weird thing I've been noticing as I've been looking up all this research is that it seems that almost every faction in 40K was significantly more overpowered
Starting point is 00:08:43 in their heyday and have since fallen from grace. The Imperium with their, what was that called? I forget now. The Men of Iron, all of the major like AI and stuff. And then now they're all degrading Eldar, Priests onesh, and then
Starting point is 00:08:59 orcs, Crooks, old Necrons, were way scarier than current necrons and current necrons are like the most powerful faction like model for model not model for model but like every necron warrior is just ridiculous but regardless the
Starting point is 00:09:15 I don't think there's actually a legitimate discussion on why quirks are no longer quarks but the idea is generally infighting you know the orcs are left to their own devices after the necrons went for 60 million years and they just beat the shit out of each other stupid now they're just another smaller and dumber And that's kind of my theory.
Starting point is 00:09:35 So they were left to their own devices. They didn't know what to do. They just started beating each other up for such a long period of time that they stunted their own evolution and started going backwards. I mean, that's my prevailing theory. I don't really think of any other better ideas, but there really is no information on the crooks or the way back stuff besides maybe occasional Eldar snippets because they're the on ones who were around back then.
Starting point is 00:10:01 And honestly, it makes sense that they just got their asses beat by each other and they just kind of degraded. And now they're orcs. That's what I got, man. It makes sense. That's, you know, it makes about as much sense as anything else in Warhammer, really. I mean, that's not even the craziest thing that could happen in this universe, right? Like, not even, not even cool.
Starting point is 00:10:23 I'll go for that, yeah. So, orcs are all, have a slight psychic power instinctive to them. They're not like psychers, with the exception of weird boys, but they're kind of a different brand of orc. Orcs have a psychic instinct, instinctive power to them, but they are not psychers. I think the old ones were like, no, no, no, no, no, no, you can't do that. So actually, an interesting part of this, the old ones implanted certain orcs called odd boys with like a special kind of genetic, I don't know, makeup or like mental thing. Basically an odd boy, there are very different, very different kinds of orcs, and they all have
Starting point is 00:10:59 their own thing. Like a mech boy is something that can just has like an innate understanding of mechanics or a pain boy. It's just an innate understanding of doctor, of like being a doctor. A weird boy is the psycher. Speed freaks are like pilots and drivers. It's like you were just genetically coded as a child to be good at something. I love that the doctors are called pain boys.
Starting point is 00:11:21 And it's, we'll talk about pain boys a little bit later because they're really funny. But the old ones basically, you know, they made the orcs. They grew, they grew them up. They got odd boys with their own little abilities and then they beat the shit of each other and degraded However, they do have that instinctive psychic power Which is probably what you know as the power of imagination Actually, let's talk about the power of imagination a little bit later I want to talk about the actual physical like physiology of the ork and how they like how they act
Starting point is 00:11:50 And knowledge not how they act sorry about how like their body makeup is and and their physical attributes first I want to talk more about the the the power of imagination when we get into like the Great Waugh because I think it's a little bit more important. Yeah, so orcs obviously they stand at around the same height as a human
Starting point is 00:12:11 but they're very hunched like you know in Overwatch like Junkrat is actually like 6'5 but he's all like hunched over and he's like a weird little Australian explosion man. Wait, Junkrat is 6'5? He's super fucking tall but he's all like hunched and he's got his head down
Starting point is 00:12:28 he's all like it looks like a hunchback Yeah, I guess so Wow, I thought he was a short boy No, he's actually quite tall But he never stands up So like a regular orc is about like human size Around 6 foot, 6 foot 2 Like average human male
Starting point is 00:12:43 In 40K terms Yeah, but if he were to like stand up straight He'd be much taller Right, but they're all hunched over and shit like that So they still a lot smaller Yeah, they got green skin And they got red blood The reason they have green skin is because
Starting point is 00:12:58 yes, you were correct on the fungi meme. They are kind of a half fungus. So when the old ones kind of built them up, their body type is half of like a terrestrial, you know, mammal, so to speak. Yeah. Not really a mammal, but, you know, it looks like a normal freaking person. You know, they're bipedal. Humanoid, yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:15 Yeah, perfect, humanoid. And then they're also crossed with fungus. And the reason that they're crossed with fungus, I don't really know why exactly, but because of this, it has sprouted multiple other kinds of orc subspecies. And these subspecies are things like squigs and squiggots And also things called snotlings and Gretchen
Starting point is 00:13:36 Now you may have seen Gretchen Gretchen Gretchen are like little goblin orcs They look like goblins They're much smaller They got big old noses and the big old ears They look like a wow goblin They literally look like a wow goblin Okay, yeah, yeah
Starting point is 00:13:49 And then they have snotlings which are like half-sized Gretchen And so Gretchen like the smaller little guys We normally use for like cooking and like delivering mess and stuff to the actual big orcs. Now with the green skinner red blood, they have very dulled like pain receptors and often will recover from pretty much fatal damage with just like, it's funny
Starting point is 00:14:14 because Adeptus Mechanicus have seen orcs take like a fuckload of bolter rounds to their body and they'll come back a day later bigger and it's just a bunch of scars all over their body. They're just all scarred up and they're just very angry. apparently orcs have been constantly seen to be decapitated and then a pain boy will go take their head and sew it back on and then the orc is normal again orcs have orcs have had like all their limbs cut off and then a pain boy will come up and sew them back on and then they're back in the fight it's really stupid
Starting point is 00:14:51 how does that work because like i get the pain receptors and oh we can recover real quickly from like gunshots But if you get fucking decapitated, isn't that kind of game set match? Like, there's not, I mean, you could sew it back on, but like there's a lot of other shit going on with your head getting cleaved off. So 40K doesn't care to tell you that because why should it? Fair. But it's the law, right? And it's a power of imagination, but a slight assumption, fungus is living in all cells. Maybe it's still living and then you put the head back on and then it keeps on.
Starting point is 00:15:28 living. Maybe it has something to do with the fungus thing. That's a theory. Okay. I have no evidence to back that up, but it makes a little bit of sense. So we're just going to say they're fungus. Of course you can reattach their head. Why not? Yeah, you know, it just keeps on growing. You're already suspending disbelief in that they're, you know, fungus creatures that were raised up by alien gods. So what's putting a head back on going to really do to sure? Yeah, who cares. I mean, pain boys are operate very much on like medical
Starting point is 00:16:00 medical methodology from like the medieval times from like 800 900. So it's very much like, oh no, your leg's broken and they just kind of like saw it off with like a dulled fucking hacksaw because that's old medical. But because
Starting point is 00:16:18 orcs have such like low pain receptors, they kind of just don't care. I mean it'll hurt, but it won't like it won't be super painful like a human. Right, right. So they just kind of, they just kind of do it. And they're like, oh,
Starting point is 00:16:29 I'm back up, I'm good. And the thing is when the, an orc actually does die, they're fungi. So they kind of like blow up and, they don't blow up, but they like eventually kind of decomposed
Starting point is 00:16:40 into a big cloud of spores and fungus on the ground, which will eventually, you know, grow back up into more orcs. So often it makes orcs just ludicrously hard get rid of because if you destroy an orc invasion on a starship, unless
Starting point is 00:16:56 you burn the starship out you might have orc invasion again often you'll have like a planet that stops an orc invasion but then they'll be attacked by orcs in like a hundred years coming like that made a little tribe in the forest. Right. Because there
Starting point is 00:17:12 were just still orcs there. Yep. And they just grew up. There's a hilarious a hilarious image of 4chan image of like a guardsman planet. and it has like 945 quintillion guardsmen on it and the joke is that the planet is just made of guardsmen and they're constantly marching in a circle around the sun
Starting point is 00:17:33 and the best part is that it's right on the planet's description it says orc presence low there are still some orcs it could eventually be high if you just leave it I mean it's just like there's this there are more guardsmen than there have ever been people that have existed on earth And there are still a few orcs. Orks, yeah. Besides that, orcs never stop growing.
Starting point is 00:17:59 Which is why often when we talk about culture, they respect the biggest orc, because it's kind of like a seniority. Oh, because they're like the oldest orc, because they've been around long enough to get that big. And they fight a lot, which makes them really big, buff and strong. Oh, fair, fair, yeah. Big orc boys. But then I want to talk about squigs real quick, because squigs are the greatest. So squigs. shy I know to our viewers
Starting point is 00:18:23 that are listening you can't see this but a squig I want to show to post a picture of a squig real quick but for those of you who can't see it a squig is like an orange ball with two feet and a and like a little like lizard tail comes like a little lizard
Starting point is 00:18:37 but with a gigantic fucking spiked mouth oh that's a squig yeah yeah they got like those bunch of eyes they got a big ass mouth it looks like Kirby but like a lizard version of Kirby with a giant spiked mouth and feet
Starting point is 00:18:54 and like a little tail. That looks like a satanic version of Kirby in all fairness. Yes, very much so. If you ran into a demonic Kirby in hell that has been corrupted and driven insane, definitely squig.
Starting point is 00:19:09 Pretty much. And the greatest part about squigs is that squigs are completely malleable and they do anything and everything. So a squig, a squig is about the size of a house cat or like medium-sized dog. However, squigs can increase and decrease in size, depending on what it is. I literally have this in my notes.
Starting point is 00:19:31 Food, bombs, whatever the fuck. Okay, here we go. Are you ready? Are you ready? Yeah, let's go. We have attack squigs, bag squigs, bile squigs, bitey squigs, bomb squigs, boom squigs, bowel torrent squigs, burn a squigs, buzzer squigs. Zing squigs. Chewin squigs. Colossil Squig. Eating squig. Gark squig. Flesh heater squig. Gawg. Gawg. Squatheater squig. Squig. Squibg. Squibg Squig squid. Squig squid squig. Squig squid squig. Okay. Squigawrissucuscuscus. Pank. Piskhug
Starting point is 00:20:03 Hark. Pank. Pisk. Pryryxxed H squit. Spoky Skloidens. Squitin Skwitin. Squig-hugg-hug-hug-g-g-g-skig-ggggg-g-ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. Stick squig, swabs squig, syringe squig, vaccine squig, vampire squig, and weird squig. Squigs are cattle for food. Squigs are meant to be eaten. There is a thing in the game called a bomb squig where you attach a fuckload of bombs to it and it runs that enemy going, and it just fucking explodes. You've got targeting squigs, which is just a squig with a fucking laser eye like shoved into its eyeball. Like a little lens just shoved into its eye and it used to give the orcs like better ballistic skill
Starting point is 00:20:54 Okay. You've got a squig pipes are basically squigs that have been turned into fucking bagpipes and they're used for like Play you've got you've got attack squigs which are like attack dogs and they run at them they start biting people That's they got bitey squigs which are which it's it is they're they're fired out of cannons. They are used as food. They're used as food. They're used. They're used. uses messengers. They're like, burn a squiggs. A burn a squig can burst into flames
Starting point is 00:21:24 after being thrown. Bowel Torrance squigs. This name speaks for itself. These squids are known to be amongst the most revolting and panic-producing organisms in the galaxy. Oh no.
Starting point is 00:21:36 Bowel torrent squigs. As you were talking about him, I was like, you know, if he doesn't go over it, I would be remiss if I did not ask what a bowel torrent squig did. Oh, let's not forget about the face.
Starting point is 00:21:49 Face-eater squig. You have face-eaters. The face-eater squig is a tooth variant of the squig, used both as a weapon, and in the infamous orc face-eating contests. These squigs have a vicious mass of sharp teeth and claws, and in their active state, they appear to just be a gnashing mouth with little else. Wow. Squids are ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:22:10 The ork and the squig both opened their mouth and bite in a parody of a kiss. If the orc eats the squig, he wins. If he keels over backwards, he loses, and usually the squig eats him. Face-eater squigs. So, that squig is literally just there for this fucking face-eating contest? The face-eater squig. Like, you'd think that that would be a great thing to use in a battle. Like, oh, yeah, we've got this squig that will eat enemy faces.
Starting point is 00:22:41 Like, no. That's, that's, that's, we're using that on ourselves. That's for us. That's for happy time. That's for relaxation period. Squig face eating contest. One of my favorite squigs is literally, there's actually a weapon,
Starting point is 00:22:55 or no, it's a unit called the squig buggy where they throw bomb squigs from the buggy as they like drift around the battlefield and they just explode. It's actually a real model you can get. It's great, well,
Starting point is 00:23:07 I don't think it's actually great right now, but it's really fun. That sounds like it would be the literal funniest model ever. I mean, they're pretty good. They're not quite as good as the shock jump dragsta
Starting point is 00:23:18 or the bull. Boom dock a snaz wagon. But we'll talk about those maybe late. Jesus. So moving on from the physiology of orcs, I'll talk about the orcs culture. So there's actually a great quote
Starting point is 00:23:34 from the orcs about their culture. Oh, there it is. It's an Eldar philosopher. It says, quote, the orcs are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is one. They have evolved a society which knows no stress.
Starting point is 00:23:49 or angst? Who are we to judge them? We, Eldari, who have failed or the humans on the road to ruin in their turn? And why? Because we saw answers to questions that an orc wouldn't even bother to ask. We see a culture that is strong and despise it as crude. Orc culture, orcs don't get depressed. They don't get like sad, or at least not often. They don't care about where they came from or who made them. They don't have philosophy or or the, idea of their purpose. It's might makes right. You go out, you always
Starting point is 00:24:25 listen to the biggest orc. Listen to the big orc. Big orc, he know. He knows what's up. You listen to that big war orc. You fight. So long as you got as you got some crumping, which is what they call like beat it on people. Oh, okay. To get crumped.
Starting point is 00:24:40 So long as you got some crumpin, you know, you live a warlike life. You're constantly fighting and you got something to kill and you got some ways to have a good time. way, orc is happy. They think that they are the greatest race ever. Like they legitimately believe that they are like the best. They're like, we ork, we
Starting point is 00:24:56 best race. Every other race, dumb, stupid. They're never depressed. Their currency is teeth. That's right. Their currency is is orc teeth. So they just pop each other in the mouth. In general. Oh, I was under the understanding it had to be orc teeth.
Starting point is 00:25:15 It's just teeth period. I mean, shy, I don't know if you can, I know if you can correct me on this one. I thought it was just teeth in general, so they kill a bunch of humeys, they can get a bunch of teeth. That makes more sense, actually. Maybe they use hume teeth as like cents instead of like dollars.
Starting point is 00:25:31 Ork teeth is like a hundred dollar bill. Okay, she says it's primarily orc teeth. All right, so orc teeth it is. She said teeth, by the way. Oh, yeah, well, sorry, because they say teeth. Because they got the weird orc. Because they got a talk grogous. Oh no
Starting point is 00:25:48 I can't do a cockney-orch accent And I don't want to try At some point this episode You have to It's an orch episode I refuse I'm the one I'm the one doing the teaching here
Starting point is 00:25:59 I don't have to force myself That's fair That's fair okay But they yeah They're just never ending fighting And violence Always listen to the biggest orc Always warlike at all times
Starting point is 00:26:13 They don't think too hard they breed in insane numbers. Obviously they don't fuck because they're fungus, but... Yeah. You know, the way it works is the biggest orc pushes around the smaller orcs, which in turn push around the Gretchen at the same time. So a big orc will start bonk in other orcs who will in turn bonk on the Gretchen because they can.
Starting point is 00:26:39 And the Gretchen are constantly bullied. In fact, this hilariousness where like, I think it's the Killikam. The Killikan is an orc vehicle armed by Gretchen. And often, once the Gretchen is promoted to being a Killikin pilot, they'll go and find the Gretchen that bullied him the most and immediately step on him and kill him. Makes sense. I mean, if you're bigger and you've got the means to,
Starting point is 00:27:02 that seems to be the orc thing to do. Wow, Killikans are crazy. Shia just lost the picture of him. Wow, those are... Those are... Like big old rust buckets with saws and missile launchers and spikes every... They're great.
Starting point is 00:27:16 That is a killer cam. Yep. That's the joke. That's the joke. I know. It's just registering with me. Now, we do got to talk about the orc religion real quickly. I want to talk about them real quick.
Starting point is 00:27:29 The orcs believe in two gods, gork and morke. Have you actually never heard of gork and work yet? No. As soon as you said it, all I could think of was like morke and Mindy. Not quite that. Not quite like that. Not quite, not Gork and Mork. Gork and Mork are...
Starting point is 00:27:48 Okay, so the orcs have two... Right, Gork and Mork. Gork and Mork. Now, Gork is brutal, but cunning. Now, Mork is cunning but brutal. I'm speaking verbatim here. So they believe that Gork and Mork are the most powerful orcs in existence, and they're constantly fighting each other.
Starting point is 00:28:12 They are constantly beating on each other all the time, because they say gork is you know he's he's brutal and cunning he'll just smack an adversary in the head really hard really hard with a big old club quote unquote the size of a comet but morke you know he he's cunning but brutal he's sneaky he'll wait till the foe turns around and then he'll clobber him it's gork and morke and they're constantly fighting each other and the orcs and i do believe that these gods actually do exist um i don't know if it's just work and morc actually exist this is isn't like... I'm not sure. I think they do. I think they're in the warp in their own realm, unlike the realm of chaos,
Starting point is 00:28:53 and they're gork and their mork. And they're constantly fighting against demons because the demons are being annoying and they got to crump them because they're gork and morgue. I think that they truly are actual gods. I don't... And they're just hanging out in the warp,
Starting point is 00:29:10 just beating up demons because we're orcs, we're gorg, we're morgue, that's what we do. I think yeah, gork and mork exists And they're there and like zinchen shit Probably just chill in there and then gork runs up And like bongs him in the head and then he like probably leaves I don't know
Starting point is 00:29:26 I don't fucking know what happens I mean that seems like the most apropos Gods that the orcs could have So Gork and morke Allegedly the emperor himself fought gork and morke in the warp at some point I would love to see that serious
Starting point is 00:29:47 M's, you know, he's very serious, very stoic, very and then fucking Gork and Mork just balk him on the head Go to horny Go to horny jail, Emperor, you had 20 sons, bonged. Like, in my head, I just imagine, you know,
Starting point is 00:30:02 those carnival games where the mole's head pops up and bongk? I'm just imagining the emperor's head popping up and gork and morc just have like the big mallet and pop. A lot of orcs like the emperor, though. They think he's the biggest and the strongest of all the humeys. Oh, that's fair.
Starting point is 00:30:20 Yeah, yeah. So they actually, I mean, I don't know of respect, but they appreciate him. There's actually an ongoing theory that the emperor is only still alive right now because the orcs believe him to be. And he would have died on the golden throne a while ago if the orcs didn't believe that he was alive. It's more of a joke. It's probably not actually true. But it's a good joke. I like it.
Starting point is 00:30:40 I mean, if enough orcs believe. that's where the theory comes from. If every single orc believes it. So great time to get into that. So the orcs all consistent to the old ones, you know, by the brain boys, they all have a little bit of psychic power. And because of that, on its own,
Starting point is 00:31:05 each individual orc doesn't really happen. But when the orcs get together and they all believe in something, they tend to have pretty ridiculous results. That's why the power of imagination, because they're not smart enough to actually use this power for anything. But because they're dumb enough to believe it,
Starting point is 00:31:23 it always works. The irony is that the orcs would be significantly less powerful if they were smarter. That makes a crazy amount of sense. Yeah, I guess, I guess. I know. it's so fucking weird. It's like the weirdest way to describe
Starting point is 00:31:44 and it's kind of blowing my mind a little bit but yeah I get it. Because the idea is like they will take a bunch of sheet metal and a muffler and they'll pour gas randomly on the vehicle and then the fucking vehicle starts driving. And it works.
Starting point is 00:32:01 And then like there's funny stories where like the orcs will be driving a vehicle and then it'll run out of gas and then one oracle will be like, did you follow up with gas? And the other oracle will be like, Of course I filled it up with gas. And then the vehicle will start working again because the big orcs said he filled it up. So everyone believes up. Oh, it's got gas.
Starting point is 00:32:18 Of course. And it's just, yeah, pretty much. Like, they believe that red is the fastest color. So they'll paint their shit red and they will go quicker. They will go really fast,
Starting point is 00:32:31 in fact. I know that the stealth guys are purple because have you ever seen a purple or? Purple is the sneakiest color. I think yellow is the luckiest. Yeah, black is tough. Black color is tough. I didn't say gold is the best color, because gold.
Starting point is 00:32:55 I think yellow explodes harder. It's every, everything is just, it just, or I think green is the best color. I think green is the best color. And then like gold is like the, the, or something. Yeah, blue is lucky, yellow is wealthy. Everything has its own deal with the orcs.
Starting point is 00:33:16 But I want to tell you two great stories about orcs real quick here. I think these are both fictional, but I mean, so is 40K, so who cares? Yeah. So a bunch of imperial guardsmen, right? They're defending a spot. And the orcs just keep on coming. They just keep on coming. They don't stop. And eventually the guardsmen run out of ammunition with their last guns. And then the company commander has an idea. He points his... glass gun at an enemy and he goes, bang! And then an orc falls over dead. And then the guards would look at him and they're like,
Starting point is 00:33:48 and then all the orcs just start falling over. Damn. Because they believe they still got ammo, I assume. Until a group of six orcs run over the hill and they just won't fall over from all the banging. And then they hear chanting in the distance. And then as they get closer, they hear, I'm a tank, I'm a tank, I'm a tank, I'm a tank, I'm a tank, I'm a tank.
Starting point is 00:34:07 No fucking way I think it's bullshit But I love the story It's a great story No we that's that's that has to be real Because that's fucking great It's just like stupid Countered by more stupid
Starting point is 00:34:22 Countered by like ultra stupid There's one more I got So the orcs There's a group of orcs called the Free Buddhas And the Free Buddas are all They're pirate orcs They're pirate orcs They all have pirate hats
Starting point is 00:34:36 And peg legs and they roll around in starships. They're awesome. Why are they called the free Buddhas? Because like freebooter or like free so they're pirates, so they're free Buddhas. I was like, do they believe in like Buddha? No, no, no, no, no, not Buddha.
Starting point is 00:34:55 Fucking like free Buddha. Oh my God. It's the orcs. It makes no sense. It's great. Continue. They're yurg orcs. They're talking like a pirate accent.
Starting point is 00:35:06 All right. But they were, all the orcs were there, and they were fixing a ship. The ship had a whole bunch of hole breaches. And so they were fixing up the ship and fixing all their holes. And then another orc ship goes next to them and decides to help them out with their stuff. So the orcs jump from their ship to the other side. And the orcs that jump over there is have a bunch of helmets and spacesuits on, you know? And then they're looking at the orcs repairing the ship.
Starting point is 00:35:33 And the orcs don't have spacesuits on. and they're like oh lads why the fuck don't you have like space suits on don't you know you can't survive in space and then all the orcs that were working on it immediately died
Starting point is 00:35:47 a testament to the orcs stupidity and their power all the orcs that were in the vacuum of space immediately decompressed and died jeez oh shy said that freebooter is literally just a word that refers to pirate See free Buddhas.
Starting point is 00:36:07 I didn't know that. I heard you say free Buddha and I was like, wait, huh? How does Buddha get into 40K? You know, we can't have Buddha, you know, because it's not the emperor. That's true. On the topic of crazy why imagination stuff backfiring on them, the story people kept telling me, I forget which commissaire it is. but like the orcs believe
Starting point is 00:36:38 Comissar Yare Yark Yes, Commissar Yark Every time I hear his name I remember it I can never remember it on my own And they like believe that he's like Immortal, Unkillable Strong as shit And so he is
Starting point is 00:36:51 And they can never beat him Even if they do have him outnumbered Because they just believe That he's fucking amazing and immortal The commissar Yark is like The main guy He's, when we talk about Imperial Garwe We're talking about Commissory Yark
Starting point is 00:37:05 He's a fucking badass He was given the opportunity to retire in the guard, which is like unheard of. They gave him like a world and everything, and he was like Nodog. Wow. Because there's this or character called Gaskill, which. Oh, yeah, yeah. So, Gaskill model. Yeah, Gaskill model is great.
Starting point is 00:37:24 But his full name is Gaskol Magu-Urak Throcka. And he is the biggest orc. He's the big orc. He's the huge warlord. and he's considered some of the prophet of gork and morke. Normally, orcs follow gork or morke, but he's the prophet of gork and morke. So he's like head honcho.
Starting point is 00:37:46 He's the guy. He's big boy orc. And he even has his quote, I'm warlord Gaisal, mock Iraq Throcka, and I speak with the word of the gods. I'm the prophet of the wah and whole world's bird in my boot prints.
Starting point is 00:38:00 Wow. He is huge. I can have a whole episode on Gaz because he has done insane shit like Gaz has has led so many so an orc wa so wah is something that they yell of course right
Starting point is 00:38:21 but an orc waugh is basically just a gigantic apocalyptic war fighting of orcs so basically maybe one orc maybe has like a vision that gork or morke tells them something and then that orc gets all excited for it for murder and then all the orcs around him get all excited for murder and then more orcs like oh my god is it wotime is it why they all start going crazy they start building
Starting point is 00:38:49 giant fucking mecks and like vehicles and things called like uh gorkanauts and morcanots which are these gigantic like seven story tall fucking walkers like stompas and and and burn up and DACA jets and boom DACA SNAS wagons, etc. And it and they all the orcs basically just for no reason but to want to, they mobilize
Starting point is 00:39:14 and they then lead like a gigantic crusade of death through like multiple star systems. Jesus. An orc wa might be one of the most devastating things in 40K. It's just a torrent of fucking
Starting point is 00:39:31 orcs. It is a flood. of orcs. There's a great guardsman quote where he's like, where he's like, I fired every shot of my lasgun. I fired my heavy bolter until the barrel melted him. We ran out of all of our, like, machine gun
Starting point is 00:39:46 ammo, an hour in and all of our mortar ammo, two hours after that. And the orcs did not stop coming and they were laughing the whole way. Jesus. Like, it's interesting because we talk about the guard, right? And how it's just like a never
Starting point is 00:40:02 ending influx of just guardsmen being thrown at the problem. It's funny because a lot of people assume that the guards just have a simple idea of like throw bodies at them. Yeah, yeah. But guardsmen are like company commanders and generals in the guard are sometimes more strategically intelligent than the things you'd find in the Marines, the space marines. Because often when you fight like tyrannids and orcs, the fucking 40 million guardsmen, are outnumbered, like 10 to 1. Yeah. There are so many orcs.
Starting point is 00:40:42 Jeez. So, like, it just gets to a point where they just reach a fever pitch, and they're just like, we need to kill. And they just go on like this pilgrimage of death throughout star system just because, fuck it, we need to kill. Pretty much, it's to cause as much destruction as possible. And what's worse is that because, because. becomes that insanely powerful,
Starting point is 00:41:05 it surges their like power of imagination because there are so many more orcs. Oh, that's true. Like if they get all of them going after one cause and they're all believing, ooh. Oh yeah, that does sound awful to fight. If the orcs stopped
Starting point is 00:41:21 killing each other. If the orcs stopped, like, and they all united under one banner, the orcs would take over the galaxy. Like, there is, there is no, they would destroy the humans in their They would destroy all the tyranns, even. The Eldar, the Kron's.
Starting point is 00:41:38 If the only thing stopping the orcs from actually destroying the entire galaxy is the fact that they're idiots. Instead of 40K toning down their power through balancing or anything like that, they're toned down because they're just dumb. Their balance checks are yeah, these guys are fucking stupid. Exactly. And it's perfect. It's all that's needed. Well, there you go. That's kind of crazy, though, that if they just never started, like, infighting, and they were just united, just game over.
Starting point is 00:42:15 It's an orc universe, and we're just living in it. Pretty much, the orc wa is, and is basically akin to the apocalypse. Like, there is a point where, where you would look down from, like, from like an airplane or something in the guard, and you would look at the orcs, and it would just, just look like a sea of green ants that just does not end. It will never end. They just keep on coming. So how does one stop this?
Starting point is 00:42:43 Because it sounds like if you're in the way of a wah, you're dead. You have no chance. There's no escaping that. Too many numbers. Too many orcs. Too much imagination. Like, did they just get tired?
Starting point is 00:42:57 And they're just like, yeah, we've satiated our bloodlust. Let's go home. Like, how does one? stop a wah. Often they kill each other once they've ran out of of worlds or they becomes kind of
Starting point is 00:43:10 a problem. I mean, you know, a wah can only last for so long. After enough time, after the wah has taken place for quite some quite a while, they will you know, you can only be under one banner for so long before they start trying to get each other.
Starting point is 00:43:25 But I mean because exterminatist really is the only good way from being honest So I'm I'm assuming The the the base of that word is exterminate But like how?
Starting point is 00:43:44 Like what did they blow the fucking planet up? Oh, you just you just sacrifice whole planets that they're on And just blow it up with like a virus bomb or just destroy the planet? Yeah like there's a there's a quote from an inquisitor and he's like He's like I toilet with the green skins once and that was my greatest failure. From now I just do exterminatus on the planet
Starting point is 00:44:07 they're taken over because there's no fucking way I can get rid of them. Often, like, I mean, if you were to invade an orc planet, not only do you have to deal with the fact that the entire planet is covered in orcs but then even if you kill all them, now that's covered in spores and they're going to build more orcs
Starting point is 00:44:26 and more orcs are going to spawn And so at that point, they're just like, fucking virus bomb the shit. Just nuke it. Fuck if I care. Who cares? Get rid of it. It's too strong. Okay, it's actually a hilarious thing.
Starting point is 00:44:43 In the tyrantids, there's a thing called a gene stealer, and it basically can take over your genetic material to make it so that you, uh, they infiltrate like human cities and then eventually, like, turn the entire populace into worshipping tyrannids and shit. They're pretty cool. Okay. Yeah, yeah. but they can actually infect orcs too. The problem, the problem is that the gene stealer called orcs are normally way too calm
Starting point is 00:45:09 compared to all the other orcs that they get their ass killed because the orcs are like, that's not, that's not right, that's not very orc and they'll kill them. Because they're too calm. They're too calm so they get killed because they're not orc. That's great. They're orc enough. Shy makes a good point too. often exterminatus a planet
Starting point is 00:45:28 isn't always the best option because orcs live on death worlds often like they might just live oh god so so like even a virus bomb or like just nuking the planet might not work like do you have to literally just destroy the fucking planet you might need to like core crack it
Starting point is 00:45:45 you might need to like blow it up into chunks yeah like and that's not always an option there's that resilient they are So if the law were a little smarter and they just, or if the orc were a little smarter and they just kept on whying and they could just keep on like keep it under one banner, everybody's fucked.
Starting point is 00:46:09 There's just no way to combat those numbers. Pretty much. Pretty much. Like, Wow. Pretty much. They are kept in line entirely by their idiocy. I knew they were a problem.
Starting point is 00:46:22 And I knew that like the imagination thing and stuff was like a big deal. damn, I did not realize they were that insane. Yeah, they are, they are really, really nutty. There's a Tuska demon killer. Okay.
Starting point is 00:46:43 I'm assuming this is someone that killed a Tusk demon? Well, I believe his name was Tusca. He called himself the demon killer. Because he he currently okay he's the leader of an
Starting point is 00:46:58 orc wa that is currently in Corn's realm of chaos in the warp oh and he is in a never ending battle he they are battling eternally in the
Starting point is 00:47:14 warp for fun and for sport against demons because corn finds it funny and Tuska and the group like enjoy it So he literally has a 24-7 gladiatorial arena for eternity in Corrin's domain in the warp because it's fun. And because Corrin thinks it's funny. It's just like, yeah, sure, go ahead.
Starting point is 00:47:37 Jeez. The, um, uh, it's really our comic, there's, it's strange because, like, they're comic relief, but it's like, at the same time, they're kind of no joke if you're fighting them. Like, the comic relief only goes so far until it's like, oh, yeah, by the way. There's a flood of them and you're fucked. Underestimating the green skins is a fast, fast trip to the grave. Actually, it's funny that you mentioned earlier, Commissar Yarek. There's actually something that Gaskill said where he's like, Humis are all weak scum that deserve to get stomped,
Starting point is 00:48:10 except for one-eye Yarek, he knows how to fight. Yarrick is like, Yarrick fucking, like, his arm is gone. He replaced it with an orc claw. Oh! And he can use it. I think he can only use it because orcs believe he can. But they thought that Yarek had a laser eyeball. They thought he had one.
Starting point is 00:48:34 So he decided to give himself a laser eyeball. So he put an eye laser. So he's like in game. He can zap you with his eye. It's great. Commissar Yarek is such a Chad. He's very much respected. They have like a rivalry, him and Gasco.
Starting point is 00:48:53 He actually has an eye laser, huh? Yeah, he's like the scouring eye. No, the scouring eyes is necrons. It's got, it's like the bail eye or something. It's great. It's the best. Oh, so his arm isn't like an actual, like, green orc arm. It's like one of their robot arms?
Starting point is 00:49:10 Yeah, the orcs have, like, things called power claws, which they are, like, really useful. Okay. So he's got a power claw arm. Oh, I was just imagining, like, a dude that had, like, a literal orc arm, like, green and clawed and, like, just muscular as fuck. No, though I don't think the power claw actually even works at a fundamental level. I think it only works because the orcs think it works. I believe it does. Because it's so funny because often the mechanicist guys, right, they'll finish off an orc invasion and they'll pick up an orc gun and it'll just fall apart into pieces.
Starting point is 00:49:44 Or like a vehicle will just, like there's like no steering wheel or gas pedals. It just doesn't work. and nothing works and they see the the machinicus believe that the orcs have their own variant or they believe that the omnisiah and the machine spirit is like in the orc weapons
Starting point is 00:50:05 so it allows them to function but only in orc hands it has like a twisted demented machine spirit which is why it only works for them I mean orch tech isn't really well I guess I was going to say Ork Tech can't fall into the wrong hands, unless you're Yarek.
Starting point is 00:50:24 Yeah, well, Yark's a Chad, that's why. He's so, Omega, Chad. Is that, is that going to be the artwork request for this episode that we, the obligatory, like, some sort of Chad, uh, Yark? No, we got to, like, we got to double it up, though. It's like, we got to like the Chad Yark and the Chad Gaskell. Because I don't think either of them are bad to be virgins. They're just both Chad.
Starting point is 00:50:48 It's like they have an artwork piece where it's the Chad. morke and the Chad gork brutally cunning cunningly brutal will crump you will stomp you it's great but I want to talk about a couple of the units that orcs have because some of them are hilarious I want to talk about the
Starting point is 00:51:03 shock jump dragsta all right the shock jump dragsta are they they are a like a like a speeder like a drag racer right but they often
Starting point is 00:51:20 will teleport themselves into the warp and de-teleport themselves back out randomly in different areas. Oh. And so they can just bypass objects by constantly like zapping themselves in, zapping themselves out.
Starting point is 00:51:36 In the game, they can actually like teleport around the battlefield, which is pretty awesome. That is pretty dope. But one of my favorite things is the shock attack gun. And the shock attack gun is a gigantic like worldly, electric weapon.
Starting point is 00:51:52 And in game, it has a damage of D6, which is really high, and an armor penetration of minus 5, which is really high. But its strength is 2D6. And the reason for this
Starting point is 00:52:08 is because in the model, which Shia has posted, but for those that you can't see, in the model, it sucks up a Gretchen or a snotling directly into a tube. and then what it does is it uses the
Starting point is 00:52:22 weapon's ability to then teleport said Gretchen like at the enemy the reason it rolls for strength is because often if you have a high enough strength
Starting point is 00:52:34 it will teleport the unit inside the enemy's body Oh I've heard about this one So if you roll like two sixes or something with it then you have teleported the Gretchen like into the heart of a space Marine or like directly into the gears of a tank and it just everything gets like doesn't work
Starting point is 00:52:57 anymore because there's a fucking dude in it or or sometimes you'll roll two one so your strength is two and that's what happens when you teleport the Gretchen right outside of the radius and it just like splats on their armor and like a like a red mist oh a storm Boys, Storm Boys are orcs that have shoved a giant rocket on their back. And they are extremely like anarchistic and they they constantly like go around and they fly in with their with their huge like rockets. There's even a they try to like hit people with their their weapons at the speed of like a ballistic missile. And so it's you'll realize that it's not a missile coming your way. It's an orc with a big club, and he's just screaming on the way down.
Starting point is 00:53:52 That is fucking hilarious. Often, there's a rule that allows them to, like, double their movement in game. But then you have to roll a dice for every Stormboy, and for every one, their rocket just fails, and they explode and die. Oh. Oh, that's one of my favorite things, right? There's the pain boy, the doctor, and you can heal orcs, but if you roll a one, you accidentally, like, shank the orc, and you kill him.
Starting point is 00:54:21 It sounds like it's, it's, it is quite the double-edged sword to play as orcs, because on the one side, if you roll really good, you're going to fuck some cats up. But if you do not have the heart of the dice on your side, you're going to fuck yourself up and just blow up in the air. Your doctor's going to shank you and kill you. And it sounds like quite the, quite the, uh, coin flip when you're playing. I mean, it definitely can be in terms of like shooting and stuff. They do have some pretty good stuff Like they got something called the Burn Obama And the Burn Obama is like
Starting point is 00:54:57 The Bain of My Existence In terms of like the in game Basically it's a giant It's a it's a it's a it's a flamer vehicle But the Burn Obama is has a special stratagem Which is like an ability you can use In game called fly a flyin Edbutt And what you do is you fly the model over an area
Starting point is 00:55:19 And then you immediately explode in the concept that the orc decided to attempt to headbut the enemy by by comacosying their plane. And it does like a shitload of damage. It's actually really fucking powerful. But the flying edbut is a really good ability and it hurts real bad. It's a really good ability. Yeah, probably. Well, I mean, maybe they probably don't have the time to say it.
Starting point is 00:55:48 That's hysterical that they're just like, yeah, I'm. I'm going to headbut that enemy with my plane. With my face. With my plane's face. I'm just going to just, it's like, ah, it didn't work out too well.
Starting point is 00:56:02 I bet, I bet you there are, there are, there arecs that have survived a floying egg, bat. They probably have been, like, ejected from the sea
Starting point is 00:56:10 and then like, like ran over and smacked like a human. Yeah. That's a double death. You hit him with the, the floin aid butt, and then he flies out and he just,
Starting point is 00:56:21 rolls over a shitload of humans and Oh, Chai tells me that if they survive, that they build cars out of their planes. I think I know that I think I know that it's called the mega, the something scrap jet. The mega something scrapjet or something
Starting point is 00:56:37 of that nature. I think I know that thing. The scrap jet is nuts. So it's a mini, so can you do that in game? Can you do the floy in headbutt and actually like? No, no, no, no. It blows up your thing, which is too bad. But that would be a little bit does.
Starting point is 00:56:51 But like, crazy. The orcs in game, like they have the rule, uh, uh, Dhaka, DACA,
Starting point is 00:56:58 DACA, which is just, every time you roll a shoot, every time you roll a six, you therefore, just get to shoot again. And that works with everything,
Starting point is 00:57:08 including pistols to rocket launchers. So, you know, you might have three rocket shots, and then you'll end up with like five if you just roll really well. Damn. In fact,
Starting point is 00:57:17 I didn't, wait, I didn't even mention DACA at all in this episode. Holy shit. I can't live I forgot about that Yeah Or DACA is
Starting point is 00:57:24 They say DACA because DACA is the sound Of a gun firing So they're constantly like Daka da da da da da da They keep on the You know They keep on yelling DACA DACA because they love DACA
Starting point is 00:57:34 You always have to have more DACA More DACA More DACA They're always like they love DACA and if you ever say like Do we have enough DACA Like how fucking dare you Get back in line
Starting point is 00:57:44 There's always more DACA People have been killed for less They don't even aim well They're terror It's shooting, but they just have such a good time that they're just running around yelling daca, dakadaka. So I think what I've learned from Orks is that the Warhammer 40K universe is the perfect universe for them to live in. It's all suffering, it's all fighting, it's all strife. It's like Ork Paradise in this universe.
Starting point is 00:58:12 Pretty much. They love it. Orcs are the happiest. A lot of people ask what's the least evil faction in Warhammer? A lot of people would say orcs, I'm torn because orcs are actually quite savage because they have dulled pain receptors they actually therefore find it really interesting when other species are in pain
Starting point is 00:58:32 so they'll often like break the legs of people or Eldar and like sling their intestines around and shit for fun. So they're actually quite horribly savage to other people Yeah. But they don't see it as like evil. They're not, they're never like, yeah, they're never like malicious. They do it because they're savage and they think it's fun.
Starting point is 00:58:58 They have a good time. You know, I guess the only other option is like tyrannids because they're just bug, but I don't know. Yeah, they're just bugs infesting. At least or, you know, at least they're having a good time. They're smiling and happy. I mean, who else can you say that for in the 40K universe? And they got bomb school. Whigs.
Starting point is 00:59:19 Yes, they have bomb squigs and face eating competitions and what a merry time to be an orc. I want to make a Makari model, which is like a little Gretchen that falls around Gaskell with like a banner. And I want to take that model and instead turn it into an orc with a bagpipe squig. And he just plays like, he's like a Scottish fucking kilt. And he just runs around playing the bagpipe squig. next to a gas.
Starting point is 00:59:50 Oh yeah, I didn't talk about that. So do you know, I'm not sure how well you know about the rules, but like, do you know about what an Invol save is? I'm assuming it's a roll of the dice that saves you from damage and makes it invulnerable. Okay, so you got like armor saves, which are like armor. And the Inval saves are normally things like Force Fields and shit, right? Things like what Doge Van Dyer had. normally they're not as good
Starting point is 01:00:17 it's like okay if I get hit by like a really powerful weapon instead of having no save because of my armor I have like a little bit of a save okay um the the game had like six up invals like on a roll of six or higher is it's kind of a common five up give or take
Starting point is 01:00:34 four up is pretty uncommon if you have a four up inval save you're pretty tanky three ups used to be a little bit more common now they're almost not even existing right now because they're just just so fucking strong. Yeah. Two up Inval saves are non-existent,
Starting point is 01:00:50 except for, I think, two circumstances. One of them is the Dark Eldar Arkham, and the reason is because the first time you fail it, it's gone for the rest of the game. And the other one is Makari, the Gretchen flag bearer for Gaskell. He does almost no damage, and he is like a completely, practically worthless model.
Starting point is 01:01:13 That's not worthless, but he's very, very, like, mediocre. Yeah. But he has a two-up Inval save from his special rule, suspiciously lucky. Macarius is known to being the luckiest Gretchen of all time. He was once killed by being sat on and then until he wasn't killed
Starting point is 01:01:32 and then he came back alive or something. He's just really lucky to the point where he might be one of the tankiest units in the entire game of 40K. Oh. This tiny Gretchen, because he's just lucky. So how did he, he's just, he's just lucky?
Starting point is 01:01:50 He's just really lucky. I don't know. I don't fucking know, man. It's all right. Who cares? I vaguely remember some sort of shitstorm on Twitter because like, uh, he got sat on and he got killed and they never explained why and everybody was like, oh, that's bullshit. How dare you do that to like our favorite?
Starting point is 01:02:08 And then GW was like, oh, you liked him? Uh, I guess he's not dead. Here's a new mini of him. Yep. It looks cool, too. He's got a cool little... He's just really lucky. I don't know. He's great. There's a lot of... There's a lot of good or characters. I figured he'd be more blue if he was lucky.
Starting point is 01:02:25 No, no, no, no. If you're not green, if you're not green, you get bullied hard, normally killed. Oh, all righty then. You better not... If you are anything that isn't a green orc, you are a... Got a got a target on your head. You will not last. All right, then. There are so many great or characters.
Starting point is 01:02:46 Boss Snickrot, leader of the sneaky Gits, boss Zagstruck, Captain Bad Rock. There's just so many. Obviously, you got Big Man, Gascoel, Throcka. The naming is just great. I love the orc names so much. What are some other ones we got here real quick?
Starting point is 01:03:09 Megatrack Scrapjet, custom booster blasters. Um, Ruck-a-Truck Squigbuggies Scorches, Blitz-O-Bomas-Bomb, Blasta Jet, Chin-Nork
Starting point is 01:03:23 Warcopter, Luda's, Killikans, death dreads, bone breakas, Squiggots, Mega Dread, Mecha Dread,
Starting point is 01:03:33 Canon Wagon, Death, Death Rola, Battle Fortress, Kill Crusher. It's just, these are all units you can use in game.
Starting point is 01:03:44 Something about the more direct ones like cannon wagon is just... I assume it's just a big cannon on a wagon. Just very direct, very to the point where dumb orcs, we don't care, here's a big fucking can. I'm actually kind of curious. The
Starting point is 01:04:00 cannon wagon is equipped with a big shooter and a super cannon. Oh, it can be equipped with the three big shooters. Excellent. So it's, so it's a, it's a it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a it is. It's multiple cannons on a wagon.
Starting point is 01:04:14 What's the one that you have shy, the Forge World one again? Was that the Grot Megat Tank? Oh. I think it was, yes, the Grot Megat tank where, oh no, they got rid of that ability. Oh, right, because they redid the Forge World Compendium. That's right. That's right. Uh-oh. Okay, it's a lot less RNG now, which is too bad.
Starting point is 01:04:38 Back in the day, back in the day, this ability, had this great thing where you would roll a dice and it had a bunch of yeah this looks a lot better than it used to be but I think it has a little bit less of like the flare to it where all the grots inside of it if you roll the dice on a one they would like have
Starting point is 01:04:56 mutiny and you couldn't shoot that turn because they would all be beating each other up on a six they would shoot too well and they get plus one to hit but they could only fire at one target which was fine but they have like all these issues like that where your movement characteristic was 2D6
Starting point is 01:05:11 your weapons were like 2d6 dice it's hilarious anyway I'm getting off track we could talk about orc shit for like a year it's so much fun we honestly thoroughly enjoyed learning about the orcs today I good good
Starting point is 01:05:27 they're fucking weird and I love it I can I can see why Shai loves them so goddamn much do you have a do you have any questions anything you like to ask before we before we finish this off. Are you sure?
Starting point is 01:05:44 Are you absolutely sure you can't give us your best orc impression? I'm not gonna, okay. There are a couple, there are a couple signs of that guy when you play Warhammer
Starting point is 01:05:55 and one of them is when you're on the other side of the table and he starts doing orc impressions. When that happens, I'm like, ooh, I'm not interested in this.
Starting point is 01:06:05 Do people actually do that? Okay, listen, I love Warhammer. We all do. Warhammer, is absolutely the domain of nerds. We all know this. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:06:15 And you'll often get those people who are, who will be on the other side of the table with the Cheeto hands. And the, the, what's grumping you get? It's all this fucking bullshit. And they'll, like, they'll roll three-sixes and just pull their head back in it and yell wot
Starting point is 01:06:30 at the top of their lungs. Oh, no. And they're doing this in, like, a public area. And we get those people. We should have an episode on that guy, shy. We should have an episode entirely. on that guy. That would be a fantastic episode. That'd be perfect.
Starting point is 01:06:48 Oh my goodness. Oh, I can tell my story of, oh, my stories. Oh, my God. You're that guy's story. Yeah. Oh, there's one more rule I want to talk about. Okay, there's a great rule called the boss is watch him. Where if an orc unit fails morale, instead of running, the boss just immediately kills two orcs
Starting point is 01:07:10 and does damage to them, and then the morale is passed because the boss is watching don't run away. Oh, God. Oh. I like the orcs. The orcs are great.
Starting point is 01:07:23 They are the best. They are the best, and we would not have it any other way. Mm-mm. Mm-mm. Take us home, Ricky. All right, I got you. So next episode is on the Lamenters.
Starting point is 01:07:39 I got to do a lot of research for the lamenters. We'll figure this one out. You got to do them right, man. A lot of pressure. The people donated for this, man. They wanted this. I mean, I pulled off Krieg decently well, I think. So I'm a little bit, I think I'm okay.
Starting point is 01:07:57 I got it. Yeah, I think you did real well with Krieg. I mean, I don't know Warhammer, but I, you know, I learned a lot in the Krieg episode. Krieg are fan favorites. So are lamenters, we'll see. Besides that, thank you to all of our fantastic patrons over on patreon.com. Such as That's Ridiculous. You guys have been going insane.
Starting point is 01:08:17 If you're curious, hey, what's the next goal? Well, our next goal is at a clean 2000, and we'll start uploading to the YouTube channel various different kinds of game and model-related content, perhaps like showing off our armies, and especially, and hopefully, we'll reach there when the Warhammer Dark Tide comes out, because then we'll have probably some fantastic games of all of us together playing Dark Tide, which would be really fun. Besides, I'm super excited for that. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 01:08:48 Besides that, for everyone else, D.K., where can they find you? Everywhere at D.K. Diamanty's, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, Real D.K. Diamanty's on Instagram, because I'm not rich enough to buy up the rights to it. Go ahead, Bricky. Where do they find you? They find me at Twitch.tv slash Bricky. I stream almost daily. We've got lots of other fantastic things that also say bricky on them, like Twitter and YouTube.
Starting point is 01:09:15 You can, of course, find Shy at either quite shallow or quiet shy in many different areas. And as for that, I am really excited for the next one. I'm super excited. We will see you in a week. In a week. Lament. We'll be back in a week.

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