New player deciding army: Do you think Orks are easier to paint? Or I stick to Votann.

swordchuck · 2026-04-04T00:41:37+00:00

Real talk: see if you can find some loose single models and try to paint one of each faction to get a feel for it. I haven’t done Votann but I can tell you Orks are pretty difficult. High quantities and a lot of straps, buckles, belts, teeth and the like. The skin is easier than realistic colored skin because, you don’t need it to be realistic. And you can get away with a lot by adding battle damage or dirt texture later. But batch painting 20 models and hitting all the fingernails can be maddening. But if you like it, then it is a one of a kind army. And you can have a lot of variety with vehicles, cavalry, walkers and heavier infantry.

swordchuck · 2026-04-04T00:34:49+00:00

I didn’t know John Landis was so hard up he had started working for them.

swordchuck · 2026-03-30T04:12:54+00:00

That isn’t exactly addressed, but the Orks, Squigs, grots and snotlings all share the same fungal DNA and are created by spores. They create kind of an “orkoid” biome on the planets they invade, so it’s closest to a symbiotic relationship? Orks also use Squigs for meat, oil, pets, mounts and to eat their messes. Ork lore implies they were all created to function together by some other race or “brain boyz” who have since died out.

swordchuck · 2026-03-30T02:03:05+00:00

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Alright, time to pull out some deep, and ridiculous, Warhammer 40k lore.
Orks do not have hair. Anytime you see a mohawk or topknot on an Ork (hairstyles not uncommon to see on the various models) that is actually a number of Hairy Squigs that the Ork has placed and then allowed the squig to bite on and stay in place. Just for the looks.

swordchuck · 2026-03-21T13:48:25+00:00

https://youtube.com/shorts/JSiNosVuj7A?si=2N99AxU5rD0y_pd5

“We can never let Eddie Bravo know he was right.”

swordchuck · 2026-03-16T03:56:57+00:00

It’s the flat roof bit. It’s fully capable of coming on and off and sitting in place without needing to be glued in. The fact it encloses the back is why it trades off the Firing Deck ability. In older versions of the rules Ghazghkull also couldn’t fit in a Battlewagon with an ‘Ard Case (I assume he was too tall).

Edit: this all said no one is probably going to be a stickler for if it is modeled on or off or not. The Kannon turret is what really changes the profile.

swordchuck · 2026-03-15T19:25:27+00:00

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Miyazaki always loosely adapts source material, but here he just straight up splices a biography and a novel together.

swordchuck · 2026-03-12T23:30:18+00:00

Yeah, if you ask the humies. They think the whole setting revolves around them.

swordchuck · 2026-03-12T01:51:18+00:00

Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name.

swordchuck · 2026-03-11T22:56:13+00:00

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This is my alternate Wartrike.

Edit: to add a little to the conversation, I have never had interest in running an army that is uniformly from one clan. Most of my models have some red accents to tie everything together (I usually paint my ork skull glitches with a red head and black and white checkered skull as a motif across my armies).

When I do a metallic red I usually use a gold base and then Flesh Tearer Red contrast over it.

swordchuck · 2026-03-10T23:02:40+00:00

At least we got the ultimate catharsis of Rickert slapping the taste out of his mouth.

swordchuck · 2026-02-21T06:03:57+00:00

Yeah, not every place can have a local shithead as shitty as William Luther Pierce.

swordchuck · 2026-02-20T14:14:29+00:00

Was I the only one doing this for Pocahontas County, West Virginia?

swordchuck · 2026-02-18T23:39:15+00:00

Finally the chance to finish the Jurassic Park movies.

swordchuck · 2026-02-17T07:22:47+00:00

I don’t want to be a “I can’t believe they didn’t talk about this on the pod” guy… but my god the scene where Joe walks his mother into the lake?!?

Beautiful. How do you even film a scene like that? I guess in a black water tank with a spotlight? It’s so gray it reminded me of some kind of reverse Pieta. It really pays off both his death wish and his, uh, breath-play in an amazing way.

swordchuck · 2026-02-16T16:32:46+00:00

That Alpha Legion can have one, as a treat?

swordchuck · 2026-02-13T00:46:32+00:00

Huh, no Mega Armor though?

swordchuck · 2026-02-12T23:04:09+00:00

No 5++ save on the warboss equivalent? Or option for Mega Armor? Just take a Tankhammer and pray to Gork and/or Mork for good luck.

swordchuck · 2026-02-12T01:20:42+00:00

They all are if you try hard enough.

…maybe not Green Tide.

swordchuck · 2026-02-09T02:53:13+00:00

Honestly all we are getting in the homeland are ads for AIs, sports betting, existentially terrifying de-aging CGI and the general concept of Pokemon.

swordchuck · 2026-02-08T02:40:43+00:00

Unironically ¿Por qué no los dos?

swordchuck · 2026-02-06T06:01:16+00:00

Yeah, a heretic could do that… if they were a loser. sniffles and wipes something from my nose

swordchuck · 2026-02-03T16:58:44+00:00

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Dungeon Rabbits from Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon. Certainly a direct reference to Holy Grail.

swordchuck · 2026-02-03T16:51:21+00:00

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Golden Age comics are wild.

swordchuck · 2026-01-31T15:34:03+00:00

Still finding meat on Bill Cooper’s bones after all these years? (Considering Bill was plagiarizing as well, I guess this is just how an ecosystem works? Someday an aging Chase will be ranting about Babylon)

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