Ork Fluff: campaign league battle reports

In the campaign we gained extra points for fluffy battle reports... below are a collection of these. My first battle was against the Black Templars as I made planetfall, this battle report details a City Fight against the White Scars.

It called to them. Like the moth to flame, the ork migrated to war. The colossal spacehulk Voidfang would bring them to the fight like the countless times before... the Warpheadz serving catalyst for the ork collective psychic consciousness combined with a precarious control of Voidfang meant the beast was never far away...

And this place had the biggest fight. 'Volstad' is what the 'oomies called it, but Gargunki was not sure if that was the name of the world or the city but nor did he care. There was a fight going on and he meant to win it. He had made sure that the Mekboyz had telly-ported them down to where the fighting would be fiercest and fierce it had been against the Black beakies..."A good scrap that." Gargunki had crippled the beakie kaptin and torn their Champion in half personally... but those Beakies had a worthy fighter named "Grim-somefing". Duffed over many of his boyz that beakie did. A worthy trophy his head would be but that would have to wait. Word had it that Morbo Krunk, the most powerful of his Warpheadz, had been cut-off to the south and was under heavy bombardment. Gargunki could not risk such a valuable asset to be lost and mounting up on his Big Red trukk he sped off, following the river south on a rescue mission of sorts...

These White beakies were fast, but Black beakies or White beakies, they would all be Dead beakies in the end. Gargunki and his retinue had come up on the White beakie bikers quickly thanks to Big Red. "Red wunz go fasta ya gitz!" Gargunki yelled as he leapt from the back of the trukk towards the beakie leader. The marine kaptin was quick striking two quick shots that would have killed a lesser ork outright. The latter blow wedged the marines blade into the cybernetic workings of Gargunki's midsection. Gargunki laughed... "Dem gutz is from da Mad Dok himself." The mighty warboss knocked the marine from his bike, stunning him. Dok Narnar pounced quickly on the prone marine sawing into the dazed kaptin as he cried out in pain. "Oi Dok! How many times I gotta tell yooz? No operatin' on da enemy in da middle of a scrap! Now gimme da fightin' juice!"

Dejected, Narnar complied injecting into Gargunki a stimulant that would kill most creatures in the galaxy dead. The marine captain took this mometary delay and struck out once more "Die xenos filth!". "GAH! dat hurt!" cried Gargunki. Already injured, the marine captain could not escape as Gargunki locked onto him with his power klaw and crushed him to a bloody pulp. This fight was over... the boyz had done good.

A sudden flash drew Gargunki's attention to the roof of the building to his right. It was Morbo Krunk! The Warphead had become excitable and started telly-portin' randomly about the city again. "Quit foolin' around yooz and get down 'ere!" Gargunki bellowed.

"Squig?" replied the Warphead.
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I played my new Tyranids for about half the campaign but recently fielded my orks in a pickup game against the Tyranids in a Planetstrike game where I was the attacker.

Bugs. They were everywhere. Gargunki had been fighting his way through hordes of bugs for weeks and while the fightin' was good the lootin' was not. "Can't loot a zoggin' bug-fing", his meks had told him. No matter how many rivets they used the bug weaponry was useless to them... even if it was bolted onto the orkiest of fightin' machines. And what was worse, the bugz were eating all the good loot from the 'oomies! Gargunki new of only one solution to this: Build a dead killy Stompa to flatten the bugz and 'oomies alike. That'll show 'em.

Gargunki had been notified by Shuvva Luggitz aboard the Voidfang of a big 'oomie fortress not far away that was prime for lootin' but they had to act quick. Already the bug-fings had duffed the 'oomies there and were sure to eat the fortress in a matter of hours.

The order went out and the Voidfang unleashed a firestorm onto the fortress, toppling the highest tower. "I'll smash the whole zoggin' fort if I have too." thought Gargunki. "Nothing a few rivets and orky-welds can't fix."

Shuvva Luggitz had made planetfall with his retinue of Burna Boyz and along with a mob of Warbikers and sneakin' Kommandos were the first to approach the fortress only to be devoured by a mass of bugz that came seemingly out of nowhere. But Shuvva's kustom force field was the stuff of legends and the Big Mek's Battlewagon shook off the worst of the bug weapons, his Burna Boyz torching a mass of gribblies as he continued on to the fortress walls.

Fridgechukka was also along for the fight. Him and his mob of Mega-Nobz utterly tore apart a giant bug that had burrowed under the ground to attack them. Gargunki was wise to have not killed him in the pit fight that one time as he knew Fridgechukka was dead 'ard and good in a scrap. But he'd have to keep more of an eye out for him now. A big win over a monster like that would be sure to fill Fridgechukka with orky confidence and that could lead to pit fight numba two for leadership of the boyz.

Gargunki and his Nobz were the first to enter the fortress. He had used his fast moving Trukks to lead the big-dumb bugz away and he had smashed some big-gun bugz good and proppa that been guarding the western bunker of the fortress. Nothing stood in his way of the prize now...

The fight was a good 'un... and despite some boss-bug with 4 big choppas eatin' a bunch of the ladz the fortress was all but his. The last of the bugz burned out... they could set about lootin' the place.

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Ordo Fraternitas Combat Patrol League: Battle Report 1

Gornutz was not pleased, but then again he rarely was. "Zoggin' trees!" He yelled for the umpteenth time. The vast under-growth had slowed down his advance and to Gornutz this was unnacceptable as it meant Blarnok's boyz may get to the action first.

Leading the way through the tangle of woods, Gornutz emerged into a clearing and caught sight of the enemy for the first time cowering in cover like a typical human. Gornutz could feel a pulse of energy well up inside as the enemy was now within striking distance! "Der dey are boyz! Get 'em!" With a rousing Waaagh! the boyz surged forth.

As his boyz pushed forward Gornutz looked over at Blarnok's boyz squabbling amongst themselves, their advance on the right flank stuttering. Gornutz mused for a moment, "Serves dat fluff Blarnok right fer not keepin' proppa respekt amongst da ladz." Gornutz would be Gork-damned if his boyz ever got that unruly as to create a delay from getting stuck in a good scrap!

Entering the undergrowth where the enemy was lurking Gornutz stumbled and fell as a searing blast of melta shot overhead which incinerated Narnar, the nearest boy behind him. "Zoggin' trees!" The difficult terrain did more to infuriate the Nob than the enemy guns. "Dem pewpew-lazurs weren't fit fer grots!" Gornutz had told his boyz. But now that Gornutz had failed to close the distance the initial push had failed and his boyz were shot to pieces as they got caught in the open. Several of his boyz were lit up in a swathe of flame that would make any Burna Boy greener with envy. Gornutz was momentarily impressed with the fact that the humans had brought a proper weapon and also Gulgog's burny dance, the ork warrior awash in flame was too dumb to realize he was already dead but was determined to club the 'oomie tank with his Shoota anyway.

"Come on ladz! We'ze orks and we'ze built fer winnin'!" cried Gornutz, rallying the boyz for a renewed assault wrecking the human tank. The humans evacuated the smoldering wreck, desperately shooting the still dangerous gaggle of orks bearing down on them. "Der's no escape 'oomies... I'm gonna ta clobber tha lot of yooz!" Then the world turned red in a maelstrom of death...

After the butchering of the human squad (and taking shelter behind the wrecked Chimera, he was lootin' see?), Gornutz could hear the human leader off in the distance giving orders to retreat. Gornutz had always thought that human-talk sounded like grot farts. Their nasally voices annoying but not as annoying as those zoggin' trees...

Warboss Gargunki

Last Name: Gargunki. First Name: Da Boss.

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Gargunki has been my Warboss since the 2nd edition of Warhammer 40k. And so I'm inclined to use the moniker as a screen name or even the name an entire blog. I can't help it, to me it's a funny name.

Fluff
Gargunki was spawned into the Goff Klan and gained notoriety as a rather cunning Nob in the personal retinue of Ghazghkull Thraka during the Second War for Armageddon. Fleeing into the jungles around Tartarus hive after Ghazghkull's defeat, Gargunki would wage a guerilla war for several years before making his way off world.

Gargunki would find his way to the galactic North of Segmentum Obscurus and with the support of the Arch Dictator of Gathrog would gain a sizeable army as word of his successful lootings spread among the orks there. Gargunki's haphazard use of the Arx Gap to raid into the Eye of Terror earned him the ire of many Chaos Champions and Gargunki spent the better half of a decade engaged in many wars against the Traitor Legions. But it was against a host of Eldar from an unidentified craftworld that Gargunki was thought defeated having himself and a large portion of his army sucked into a warp rift of the Farseer's conjuring. What reasons the Eldar would have for this act remains a mystery...

It would not be until many decades later during Abaddon's 13th Black Crusade that Gargunki would resurface. In his absence the Warboss Fridgechukka (a former Nob in Gargunki's retinue) had assumed command of his forces and continued his success as a looting force for Gathrog. In a particularly brutal pit-fight Gargunki was able to regain control of his army and claiming to be able to see the "Big Pikture" promised war and loot of untold amounts much to the delight of the boyz.

Not long after assuming command of his army and with the help of the infamous Big Mek Shuvva Luggitz, Gargunki was able to commandeer the Spacehulk Voidfang. Where before Gargunki had been somewhat localized to piratical raids in the galactic North, the advanced warpdrives of the Voidfang combined with orky know-how and psychically attuned war lust saw the forces of Gargunki swell into a massive horde able to strike anywhere. Galactic Waaagh! Gargunki was born!

Under normal situations, Gargunki is just a Warboss out of the Ork Codex. But in club leagues and events he will use special rules created using the Heroes of Ordo Fraternitas Character Creation rules.

Gargunki 195 pts.

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Infantry, Independent Character, Furious Charge, Mob Rule, Waaagh!, Psyker, Fearless.

Wargear: Power Klaw, Shoota, 'eavy armour, Cybork Body, Bosspole, Stikkbombz.

Special Rules

Psyker: Gargunki has performed various sorties into the Eye of Terror and was in fact 'Lost in da Warp' for several decades. His survival is in no doubt due to the dual gifts of cunning speed with his surgical use of trukks along with brutal up close combat as he has bested numerous of the Galaxy's best Champions. This combination of abilities and the success of Gargunki's actions have instilled a faith in the orks he leads that they are being led by the powers of Gork AND Mork manifest. This orky-faith combined with over-exposure to the warp has evolved Gargunki's naturally orky psychic abilities. Gargunki is considered a psyker and has the Waaagh! psychic power from Codex: Orks.

Fearless: Gargunki has experienced untold horrors and has seen and fought through every conceivable nightmare the Eye of Terror can deliver and has been known to even assault Titans single-handedly. Gargunki is fearless.

Gaming History

Gargunki takes his name from the Ork words for 'big' which is 'garg' and 'muscle' which is 'unki'.* In the 2nd edition days he was simply represented by the 2nd edition Ghazghkull model and led my Ork army to numerous victorys.

He didn't see much action in 3rd edition and was indeed thought lost in the deep Galactic North of Segmentum Obscurus battling the weedy Eldar. The Mega-Armoured power house Boss Fridgechukka would take over the ladz in his absence. But reports of Gargunki's demise have been greatly exaggerated!

Da Model: Gargunki is a stock metal Games Workshop Warboss, coverted with a Power Klaw taken from a Mega-armoured Nob, an old Boss Pole from my bitz collection, and the head of the newest Ghazghkull model. I left the 'uge choppa in place because I like the look of the model with it.

Eventually I would like to model a Warboss on a Bike where the bottom half of the Warboss body is the bike itself to represent Gargunki!