#orks is best

[bensemisch]

Took some pictures at a big ass Warhammer game. So now you can see some of them.

[nerdnproud]

I expected it to take most of the month, but my Orktober project is finished.

One gorgeous and totally sneaky Stompa.

[barabaking]

Get to your squiggobike you filty lil grottsnick

My Waaaaaagh! is going to fight!!

For Gork and Mork! For the great Green!!

WAAAAAAAAAGH !!!

[denofimagination-blog]

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[buzz-the-cat]

Ok hear me out here

Starwars battlefront BUT it’s 40K

Im talking all the races Human, ork, aldari you name it. Instead of playing death Vader or luke skywalker you get to be an ogryn, or a tau battle mech.

There would be no space marines except for maybe being a power up like playing a special character, Maybe add the gene stealers with tyranid characters

[daemonstalley]

Oh hey, two updates in a month - so crazy!

But yeah, here’s another update - decided to swap out my spiky chaos boys for some ORKS! Time to get Krumpin’!

I started with this really old metal Nob (that’s… that’s what they’re called), who is unfortunately missing his gun. I actually have no idea where he came from - I just sort of have him XD

Followed up shortly by this Boss with Attack Squig - love this model, one of my favourite old metal Orks

Next is a bunch of Tankbustas - lots of stuff that goes boom here! (Minus one squig who isn’t painted yet).

As a bonus, here’s the contrast between my old Ork skin tone and new one!

Bonus sneaky kommando

Finally, a Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun! I got this guy on launch, was so excited to build and paint him, then got defeated as he barely fits together - it’s taken a lot of greenstuff to fill those gaps!

And that’s it for the past couple of weeks! I’m taking a mini break to Scotland soon, so you might get a change in photos for a while!

[chaoticcosmos666]

Look! A hand reveal!

Is this the best work? Prob not! Don't judge me I only just got into painting! But I'm having a great time either way. timeline below of this guy... Plus added.. Ork(?) at the end. I prime with white cus this bitch got eye issues 🤌

[8cfc00]

i think i should put hermie the unworthy in a cave

[1-800-midnight-animal]

No actually I'm fucking seething about that Warhammer post, what the fuck does that guy WANT from the 41'st millennium? Like there is nothing good about living in the Imperium for anyone. It blows my mind that these chuds are so fucking blind to the media they make their entire personality that they could say these things, think it's okay and then post it on the internet. If you're poor in the Imperium, you get abused by the authorities, consumed by gene stealer cults, eat corpse starch and die.

If you're rich in the Imperium, you die because an inquisitor wants your shit.

If you're a Guardsman in the Imperium, you die as mulch front line against an invading alien occupation you couldn't hope to defeat. Or worse you get shot in the back of the head by your commandant as the fiftieth example he had to set to keep morale at an all time low.

If you're a Space Marine, you die fighting behind those guardsmen because not even all the body enhancements or equipment or training can save you from being consumed by a Tyranid.

If you're an Inquisitor, you die to Inquisitor infighting. It happens so regularly you'd think these people were trained to betray each other for their own self interest.

The only people with an even remotely decent quality of life is the Custodes, and that's because they sit in a fucking corner for centuries guarding an empty fucking room. Their only positive is the absence of negatives.

This dumb motherfucker really thinks he's going to be a Gulliman or Draigo like he isn't just another of the untold faceless billions living in complete and utter agony under this painfully stupid and tyrannical rule.

[worldweaverofmediocrity]

disturbingly fascinating.

So, something I learnt the other day. So, you know how dinosaurs supposedly can't see you if you stand still? Well that myth is based on real-life lizards/etc and how eyes in general work. So, once my dad starts infodumping, here comes some other cool information. We, humans, can in fact, also not see something unless it's moving. We fixed this by having our eyes constantly shake. And then our brain compensates for us, so we don't have to have shaky vision.

What if aliens don't have this? Like. What if they find out when one of us was looking at something in the distance, and they walk around this thing that's in front of them, and the alien is confused so they bob their head and oh, there's a thing there, but how did the human know that, and then we explain and they're like, horrified.

Humans are apex predators. They can hunt in packs. They can hunt in pairs. They can hunt on their own. They're persistance predators, which is unheard of. They get stronger when they're mad or scared. They have this thing called 'body language' which acts like a type of hivemind, even if they'll claim it isn't. And. They can see you. When you're not moving. They can still see you. If you ever find yourself in a fight against a human, for whatever reason? Run. Run as fast as you can. And hope, pray if you have a religion, that they won't follow.

[bensemisch]

Now that I have a macro lens I'm gonna be spamming way more pics of my War dollies. ...but only the ones my girlfriend paints for me because she's great at it, I mean look at this little fuck.

[nerdnproud]

To cap off Orktober, finished a squad of Boyz

[armedwooper]

its really honestly funny being like...a foot deep into a fandom/thing because you understand just enough information to be able to nod along and make jokes but then you'll make some offhand and get a few responses: -You'll spark a massive argument between 3 or more people/groups who have very opinionated thoughts on the topic

-You'll be gently educated by some of the more calm and knowledgeable people in the fandom while everyone around flips their entire shit and probably sets a sofa on fire -You'll suddenly be treated like some god of foresight because it makes sense given the current understanding of the thing -You'll get a bunch of people who take what you said and just make it more and more weird/funny in a fandom wide game of telephone so that when it eventually gets back to you, you ask yourself who the fuck added the laser gun dinosaurs. its decidedly weird.

[worldweaverofmediocrity]

the og,

Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn’t just an artefact of the television serial format. Rather, it’s because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they don’t really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they’re as likely as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn’t actually happen to anyone else; it’s literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis.

[astly]

Explaining traffic light rules to an ork

human: Green light means you can go.

ork: Roight, makez sense. Greenz' da bestest colour an' more wazza iz best.

human: And yellow means you have to slow down.

ork: OK? Bit weird if yoo ask me, but maybe sum git put down sum minez on da road an' yoo hafta be karefool soz yoo don' get 'sploded?

human: Yeah, and red means stop.

ork:

[onion-souls]

I'm seeing a lot of the "is Warhammer 40,000 fascist" discourse everywhere in the wake of Space Marine 2. And yeaaaah, it kind of is? Or at least, that's an acceptable reading of what's happening in the text.

There's the defense that it's a satire and the setting is horrible and nobody would want to live in it, but that's also in line with fascism. Authoritarians don't think the world is super nice and gentle and that they need to beat it into shape because they're big meanies that like being mean to people. The fascist thinks that the world is cruel, a war of all against all, and that one must be strong and disciplined to survive, because the outsider and the traitor are going to attack you, take your stuff, and cause your culture to degenerate. And that is what's happening in the setting. If the Imperium wasn't scouring planets and sacrificing people by the thousands to the emperor, humanity would definitely fall to the aliens and degenerate from within by Chaos. The Tyranids aren't exactly going to sit down at the negotiating table and sign off on a trade deal. Part of the universe prolapsed into hyperspace hell because the elvish sex-cults couldn't stop making dildos out of bees and children's bones. The Orks are creature of pure, gleeful warfare and hooliganism. Even the T'au are an other type of expansionist authoritarian, just lighter and weaker. The various rebels invariably work with an evil hivemind, mutating demons, or some subversive alien force. The enemies of the fascists deserve the bullet.

And that level of necessary violence is great as the setting of a wargame where I can put my dudes up against any other group of dudes and it makes sense for them to fight to the death. There's a lot of war games where that's a huge issue, particularly historicals where you end up having to recreate actual engagements because why would my Austrians be fighting your UK forces during a War of the Seventh Coalition Napoleonics game?

But there are implications.

And when the Imperium is portrayed as detrimental in its evil, the narrative is pitting the Imperium's various bureaucracies against one of the military factions, and yeah, that's actually how most right-wing fiction and politics view government. There's a strange mixture of love of the leader and disdain for the pencil-pushers and bean-counters who won't let the good guys get the job done. The narrative that the valiant soldier is being undermined and stabbed in the back by the cushy bureaucrats is ubiquitous in even center-right literature, let alone far-right. See John Clancy and his imitators.

And also they're cool. The overt humor of the Rogue Trader to 3e era is long gone. We're not to see the likes of Obiwan Sherlock Cluseau anytime soon. The fascist theocratic space crusaders are designed and portrayed as cool, and not pathetic and lame. Most satire portrays its targets as stupid, contemptible, misguided, and wrong. But the xenos are horrible in general and still dangerous and manipulative at best. Chaos will corrupt and/or drag your soul to Hell. Even when the human soldiers die by the droves, it's something dramatic and awesome against cool monsters and daemons and its a cosmic fight with space lasers and chainsaw swords and shuriken guns and psychic mind bullets. It's awesome. The male fantasy of dying in a bayonet charge against the forces of Hell with your mates. And your bayonet is a monomolecular chainsaw powered by faith in the Emperor. So fucking sick. It's the Truffaut Effect in action, and possibly at its worse, because nobody really wants their toy soldiers to be lame and boring.

So it's definitely there. Seeing it as a setting that's just universally horrible and contemptible is certainly valid (embracing "the Grimdark"), but a pro-fascist reading is also valid and rather hard to fight.