Marine Reacts to The Orks (By The Templin Institute) 

The orks are the only happy race in the 40k universe.

Best I've heard so far is an orks concept of defeat: An ork never loses. If they win, they win. If the fightings to hard, they run away and win another day. And if they die, they also win, cause it was a good fight... and that's all an ork really care about.

The reason the Orks don’t exploit their psychic potential in ways that would make sense to us, is because they’re not aware of this ability.

It's not so much mankind that sees Orks as succesful, it's just... true, really. In the words of Uthan the Perverse (controversial Eldar scholar): "The Orks are the pinnacle of creation. For them, the great struggle is won. They have evolved a society which knows no stress or angst. Who are we to judge them? We Eldar who have failed, or the Humans, on the road to ruin in their turn? And why? Because we sought answers to questions that an Ork wouldn't even bother to ask! We see a culture that is strong and despise it as crude."

That’s the thing with Orks. Everyone thinks that the 40k universe is in a perpetual stalemate, no one really ever having the chance to win, but they don’t realize that the Orks already have won. The galaxy’s state of over saturated violence? That’s the Orks’ best case scenario. The 40k universe already is the Orks’ endgame. They’ve won.

A classic example of how Orks makes things works is this: a Nob (the squad leader)is riding a wagon (armored transport) with his boyz (rank and file orks) the wagon is running out of fuel and stops; one of the orks says "boss da wagon run outta da fuel". The Nob will slap the crap outta said orka nd said " I filla it before we leave ya git" and since he is the biggest the other orks follow him and the wagon stars again no problem. Orks are so much fun, same with ork players

Orks don't have males or females. They have one and one gender only: "Boiz". No, not boys, it does not even relate to anything about the male gender we understand about most conventional organisms. Boiz is its own thing, the orks gender is quintessentially English football hooligans.

The Templin Institute didn't touch on the primary form of interstellar travel Orks use. They collect asteroids, hollow it out, attach a bunch of HUGE rockets to it, then light the rockets. It's called a Rok. No steering or anything, just crash the Rok into a planet. Hope it's populated so there can be some good krumping. Orks will die in the crash, and in any resulting conflict, then the spores will make more Orks.

When an Ork dies, he releases spores into the ground. The only way to cleanse a planet of Orks is to literally kill the spores with fire. Da Boyz in Warhammer are just having the time of their lives krumping and stomping anything or anyone who gets in their way.

"it's everything exploding" Yes, they are the Michael Bay of 40k

ORKS, are surrounded on a galactic scale. ORKS: "More for us to fight"

The Orks imagination powers can backfire. One time a group of Orks were being chased by humans wearing red armor, and since Orks believe anything red goes faster the humans managed to catch up and kill them.

The main reason why the Orks haven't Krumped the entirety of the galaxy in 40K is because they are not fully aware of their own capabilities. They don't comprehend that if a couple million of them get together and convince themselves that they are unbeatable, they truly would be unbeatable. Also, the thing about Orks is that they were designed for war (against the Necron's specifically); They are addicted to it, and even dieing in battle is just fun times for them. They are essentially a biological weapon from dozens of millenia ago with no off-switch running loose. They are also the most funny race all in all due to their wacky powers. They are terrifying in a straight-up fight, but when you want to see the funny parts of 40K, you will often see Orkish involvement. Also, if you want to see the nastiest species of 40K, look no further than the Necrons or the Tyranids. Both are *actually* out to destroy all life. EDIT - As far as I know, Orks don't really understand their own reproduction either. They just think that if there is a good fight to have, then the boyz will come; And that belief is likely what causes the spores to grow new orks. Finally, taking damage doesn't really strengthen an Ork. Fighting and winning does that. Taking damage is just a non-issue to them, unless it's fatal. Also, losing literally weakens an ork.

they used to be much scarier when they were krorks orks are basically devolved versions of the original krorks

You gotta hand it to the lady at the Templin Institute for telling all this with a straight face, or rather, staight voice. I know all this already but hearing this stuff always makes me laugh.

If you are afraid of being used as cannon fodder as an Ork, wait til you get to the Guard.

Baldermort's guide to warhammer is also a good lore channel. Definitely recommend him too

The way you create a gun when you're an ork is as it follows: it's an artistic context of what gun looks the coolest because the one that can show off the coolest gun will have more orks come to believe it's the best gun, making it the best gun!

Little fun fact about orks, they use their teeth as currency. So if an ork gets injured and requires attention from painboyz (doc), take a gander how the painboy will get paid if said ork doesn't have enough loose teeth on him... Anesthetic also costs bit extra (usually performed as a heavy club to the head). This is mentioned by Arch in his video about Painboyz.

They say that even the emperor is only "alive" because the orks still believe that he is immortal.

Yea, Templin's videos do include a bunch that you may not understand without at least some grounding. That said, i am really looking forward to you reacting to their videos on the Tyranids and internal human factions at some point

When an ork dies it becomes a ticking time bomb of spore pods.

The Orks ability to will things into existence even applies to the color of something. Yellow - causes bigger explosions, if they painted a rock yellow and someone shot it, that rock would explode. Red - moves faster. Blue - lucky, bullets will miss more, will find more teeth (their currency), etc Black - Tougher, can resist more gunfire than the average ork. Green - general improvement, anything is improved if it’s green. Purple - Makes things sneakier because have you ever seen a purple ork? Also, my favorite fan made story relating to the orks believing something into existence is some imperial guardsmen running out of ammo and just pointing their guns at orks and going “BANG!” and the orks would get shot by nothing. This went on to the point some guardsmen started yelling “THROWING A GRENADE” as they tossed a rock at some of them. The rocks exploded and killed some orks. Because this could literally happen while fighting some orks.

Long story short: Orks like to fight. It's literally all the do. And they're basically a killer fungus. It's interesting that you talked about weaponizing the orks, because one of the most common theories for their origins is that they were genetically engineered as biological weapons, but quickly overran their own creators. Which makes sense, given their incomprehensible physiology. Yeah, orks are the "classic enemy" in Warhammer 40k. Space Marines and Orks were the two poster factions for most of the game's run time, although Orks have kind of been replaced by other, more sophisticated factions (most notable Chaos, who are still the 'Big Bad'), but Orks remain very popular because they have so much character. But ork armies tend to be rather uncomplicated; their troops are cheap, their numbers massive, and they're really good in close combat but not so good at shooting. If orks usually can't outgun an Imperial Guard army, but by god they can run right over them in close quarters unless the Imps thought to bring along some Space Marines to save them. Ork invasions aren't especially sophisticated. They don't intentionally plant the spores; the spores just seem to be shed naturally be the orks and their fleets; any anywhere an ork has been, the spores are left behind. And they can lie dormant for decades or centuries before flowering. This is one reason why ork infestations are so dangerous; even if you defeat an ork attack, your children or your children's children will probably have to endure a fresh wave if you don't succeed in completely exterminating the spores. I don't know if the ork spores survive in space like Tyranid spores do. But I suspect that they do. So they might even be able to attach themselves to ships, asteroids and other things in space to be transported to world that an ork has never set foot on.

A comment about the short barreled bolt guns of the Space Marines: the round of a boltgun is pretty much a semi-sentient dumb AI explosive round that has very limited self-guiding capabilities. To put that simply: when the gun is fired, it is fired with a bit of a targeting link from the Space Marine's power armor via their Black Carapace. The round is a two-parter - the first part basically blasts the warhead out of the barrel at a high speed and allows the round to clear the barrel, which then kicks off the second blast of the warhead - multiple gyrorockets at the base which then further propel the warhead towards its target with very crude and very limited AI guidance (no curving bullets, but perhaps an assist in gravity drop or slight minute changes on the horizontal axis). If you go back and rewatch Astartes Part 4 you can actually see this gyrorocket propulsion system in the fight against the psykers. This is sorta why in a round-about wearrivedatthisawesomenessbecauewescrewedupinthefirstplace how the boltgun looks the way it does. Essentially they made the weapons look cool on models, and then they had to actually work out how it functioned later. In terms of weapon functionality you shouldn't think of a boltgun as a rifle (though there are larger and longer-barreled variants that are just such a thing) but more of a 20mm grenade launcher. It blasts out one bit, and then that bit says "Cool, ENGAGE RAMMING SPEED!" as it decides that massive amounts of propellant are just not good enough and it fires of mini rockets as well. Oh, it also has essentially a tungsten tipped penetrating head and that same AI inside of it is coupled to a mass-reactive sensor that says "Hey! I'm inside something!" nanoseconds before deciding its best course of action is to then violently detonate inside of said something. Hence why all the poor humans you see in Astartes 2-3 tend to messily explode. Hope that helps!

"is everything exploding with them?" - with Orks, if it blows up, it's good. the bigger the boom, the better.

Hears their technology is prone to accidental explosions and malfunction "Why don't they just build the biggest and most explosive thing with their amazing Ork powers?" Ahh an Ork at heart I see

Leutin09 is a great channel for the lore, it's well explained and very good on the narration.

If you want to learn how the Warp works, I do highly recommend Arch's video on it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-scCYN8PWrro.html And specifically talking about Orkz, there was one mentioned in this video - Tuska Daemonkilla, he is a very amusing creature and Arch has an excellent video on him as well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o1epy5Y2jAg.html

“Careful, it might explode.” “What will?” “Everything.”

There was an instance where ork ship was damaged in space, so few orks run out to repear it. They repeared it as if nothing happened until one ork noticed they didn´t have space suits, only after that they suffocated.

Orks were created as a parody of English soccer hooligans. All an prk wants is good fight with his drinking buddies. They are actually the only truly happy and mentally well adjusted species in warhammer 40k and because of this chaos has little influence over them.

Goff clan wear mostly black or black/white check, they tend to have bigger orks and specialise in melee attacks. The Bad Moons wear yellow, they grow teeth faster and horde wealth so they tend to have more guns and specialise in ranged shooting. Back in the day each of the clans had loads of cool sounding sub- clans and there's nothing to stop you coming up with your own back story for your particular army, so you can paint them how you want. On the table top, picking a clan gives you a set of rules you can use that affect the best way of building your army. For eg, Goffs rules give you additional hits in close combat and makes your hits stronger, which plays into the orks natural strength in close combat. I tend to paint mine as slightly-too-colourful goffs, which lets me pick another clan if I want to build my army differently. The occasional red bit of armour so I can say they are evil sunz, or a splash of yellow so they might be bad moons. At the moment the most powerful clan rules wise is goffs, probably, and the power armoured orks fit well in that clan.

"they are the bigger threat of the universe" luaghs as tyrannids and necrons

Orks are the BIGGEST and the STRONGEST! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHHHHHHH!!

There was a time that Space Marines ran out of ammo and then ran out to the Orks shouting dakka dakka dakka at the Orks. And the Orks they were fighting died, cuz they believed they had been shot.

goes back to short barrels being much easier to mold, and more resistant to warping than long barrels. It's manufacturing tech influencing design. The spores spread from dead orks, so any world an ork dies on will start growing squigs, then snotlings, then gretchins, and eventual orks as the fungus spreads.

If enough Orks believe something to be true, it becomes so through sheer force of will "MaKe AmErIcA gReAt AgAiN"

The difference between Brutal Cunning and Cunning Brutality is deep and intricate enough to be expanded into many philosophical and theological essays.

Orks are the cockroaches of the 40K universe and can survive on sunlight and even other orks

Bricky is really good at explaining things in a way beginners will enjoy and appreciate.

Orks are an infestation, a Bio-weapon, the cockroaches of the galaxy.

The Orks in the Warhammer 40k universe, are the funniest but also most terrifying alien race of the setting. Sure, they're silly, speak with a funny british hooligan accent and blow themselfs up or do other dumb shit. But they're also an unstoppable, brutal fighting force that literally lives only for war, is resilient af, can multiply at crazy rates by laying spores, doesn't feel pain nor fear and has immense latent psychic abillities. They get stronger/bigger with every battle they win, so they fight *all the time* . One Ork Warboss, Tuska Demonkilla, invaded the Warp (the ''Hell dimension'') and started a campaign against Chaos demons, just because they were ''so much fun to fight''! Yes, Orks are that badshit insane and awesome, at the same time. Their technology works, because they literally ''make it work by believing that it does'' via their psychic powers! If they would ever stop fight each other,learn how to channel their psychic powers & unite under one leadership, they would literally curve stomp the entire galaxy. They almost did this, during the ''War of the Beast'', where they came one step away of conquering the Imperium. During this period,their strenght & intelligence grew exponentially. They managed to build ''attack moons'' (think Death Stars ala Star Wars and yes not just 1 or 2, dozens of them!) & armor similar to power armor of Space Marines & annihilated almost the Imperial Fists (one of the greatest Astarters chapters) and entire imperial armies. They're the only faction that forced a Tyranid Hive fleet into tactical retreat, because even the Tyranids said: ''Nope, screw it we gonna retreat.''

The orks themselves never PLAN out their spore planting. However, the orks are ALWAYS fighting, even with other orks. There are no "kid gloves" in ork fights, so some of them (a lot of them) die in scuffs and skirmishes that spawn out of sheer boredom. This activity sends spores into the air, planting more fungus. They do not need to plan, because their intrinsic nature creates "spore farms"

Best way to describe the orks is to call them LARPers in 40k

As an Ork you're enjoying life

the key to understanding Orks is that their analog of Adrenaline is also their endorphines, growth hormone, pleasure signal and fear hormone - if you get them excited, angry, hurt, scared, etc and they survive, they get bigger, smarter and more powerful. It also makes them release more spores, so a battlefield ends up covered in ork fungus

There's an anecdote of a human soldier picking up an Ork gun after a battle with said Orks and trying to test fire it to no avail. Suddenly an Ork nearby who was previously thought dead rose up and ambushed the soldier, who shot and killed the Ork with the previously non-functioning weapon. Afterwards the human techpriests disassembled the Ork gun to discover that it was only a hollow metal box with scrap inside.

Orkz are basically if the moss in you backyard grew to the size of a gorilla, constantly yells and tries to kill you with a rifle made of a pipe

If you want bite sized lore I really recommend "40k Theories". He does a "40k lore for newcomers" series of videos that are informative but condensed.

Orks are by far the most fun race to play on the tabletop game. They have so much random shit that might or might not happen but if it does go off then oh boy, it's hilarious.

A curious fact about how the orks could make things work by their sheer will: There is a human commissar named Sebastian Yarrick who is feared and revered as the only human who is stronger than an ork. They believe that HARD that nothing can kill Yarrick that the latent psi power of the orks make Yarrick surpass his normal lifespan and survive injuries that should have killed him.

One of my favorite lore vids on orcs is the one on weird boys by Arch

And you thought exterminatous was overkill.

They invade other planets by strapping rockets to asteroids and crashing them into it.

Trying to understand things from Ork perspective: there's nothing to understand, just WAAAGH

I've settled with the understanding that in 40k, since bolts (The ammunition) are basically self propelled, like small rockets, the back pressure from a longer barrel isn't necessary. I could be wrong but i do remember reading or watching something that stated bolts would continue to accelerate after leaving the barrel, unlike bullets.

Carbine type weapons in 40K are popular because it is based off a table-top game using breakable models. That said with all the firepower flying around trench warfare would be popular and even the hulking super soldiers would need to have an ergonomic weapon for tight spaces.

Orks are the comic relief of Warhammer 40k.

Thankfully for the rest of the galaxy Orks don't know about this latent psychic power they have. They are simply too dumb and straight-forward focused. By straight-forward I mean Straight... Forward... into battle. To them the fact of life that things painted red "go fastah" is as normal and immutable an idea as a human's blood being red or fire being hot to the touch. Ork weapons fall literally apart in the hands of non-orks. But if a greenskin takes a "shoota" given to him by a Mekboi he just trust blindly into the fact that the Mekboi knows what he is doing and so it, unlike Fallout 76, just works. This does even extend past Orks themselves... There is one instance in a novel where Orks were trying to get away from a bunch of Blood Angels (or was it Blood Raven?) Terminator Space Marines. Terminator armor is ridiculously durable and in equal measure slow as fuck. But as the color paintjob of the terminators in question was RED, and the Orks just KNOW that red stuff goes faster the impossible happened. The Terminators could actually CATCH UP with the Orks and murder them like the filthy xenos they are. Still a funny story.

about the warband in the eye of terror, it is lead by tuska daemon-killa: once upon a time, tuska was a simple warboss flying through the warp, then the gellar field (the thing that keeps daemons from entereng the ship) failed, so he killed all of the daemons that entered in his ship. he then realized how fun to kill and looty they were and decided to keep traveling through the warp without the gellar field and kept killing daemons until no daemon came near the ship, so he went straight to the eye of terror and started killing everything in there, planet by planet, until he reached a world of khorne, the god of war. there, tuska was killed by a daemon prince (but not before literally slicing off his balls), but khorne liked him so much he keeps reviving tuska and his boyz every single day to fight his best armies. so tuska is the only 40k character to achieve a happy ending

Orks technology (most likely) is based on genetic knowledge and their psykic power. Yes, their psykic is strong especially in large number of Orks but it's (likely) have a limited. Orks build something even they didn't understand from innated knowledge and then their psykic power amplified it even further.

The Orks are the closest thing to good guys in 40K. They just wanna have fun...by ripping you in half slowly and drinking the juice. I said they were CLOSEST to the good guys, not that they were good guys.

To put things into perspective how BONKERS Ork Tech is: An Imperial inquisitor tried to fire an ork gun and obviously nothing happened as it was a hollow tube a screwed on trigger and a hollow box, no ammo. Then he put the gun into the hand of a recently dead ork and used that orks finger to pull the trigger, the gun immediately fired, working perfectly despite the fact that there is no way the gun should be able to work. Also, Orks reproduce constantly, when they bleed, when they fight and especially after they die they release spores into the air that will create more Orks in due time. If an Ork sets foot on a planet for even a few seconds, that planet is gonna be facing repeated Ork infestations for decades to come unless it's glassed completely at least 5 times over and then subjected to exterminatus... JUST in case. And even then that's still not a 100% guarantee, Orks are tough.

The Warhammer 40,000 universe coined the term and represent “Grim Dark.”

The Imperium (well Astartes Chapters) tries to keep an eye on the various mini Ork empires within its bounds and on its borders. So that if a Ork boss is starting to get too powerful they will attempt (not always successfully) to assassinate him causing a civil war as all the Nobz try to become Da Boss. This is a mostly successful tactic with some notable exceptions that have caused the Imperium some small degree of unpleasantness (heavy English understatement) such as the minor skirmish for the planet of Armageddon.

the thing with ork guns being a box filled with random parts is a bit exaggerated. Most ork guns are built like actual guns, but because the Orks believe that it will work, minor mistakes that would normally render a gun imoperable don't seem to make any difference. Although in rare cases, if there are a huge number of orks, some of the guns might just be boxes filled with bullets.

There's a particularly scary part of the Ork history, an era known as the War of the Beast, set centuries after the Horus Heresy, the Imperium found itself besieged by the entirety of the Ork race united and evolving. Basically what had happened was an Ork Warboss had becomes so big and powerful that it affected the race's entire psyche. Like I said, it brought the entire race together under a single banner and caused the whole race to become stronger and more intelligent. In fact, the Orks Clans mentioned in the video were created by the Beast, it organizing the Ork race into specific roles in it's Empire. That they have continued to exist thousands of years later goes to show it's influence on the Orks. Naturally this all turned out to be as horrible for the rest the galaxy and the Imperium in particular. Terra was besieged by one of a number of Ork Attack Moons. In others words, a Death Star size warship. And they built multiple of them. And that particular Ork Warboss they talked, Ghazghkull. Well there's speculation that he's nearing the level of Ork development that the Beast achieved.

A lot of short barrels, until you get to the Tau.

Fact 1: orks leave a trail of spores where ever they go and when they die their body decompose and release the spores that are inside them Fact 2: orks don't really have a gender they just refer to themselves as "The boyz" so their are no female orks if that's what your wondering. I answered your 2 main questions and hope you understand because I'm not good at explaining things also great reaction keep up the good work.

They could plant their spores ahead of time, but Orks doesn't really plan. Not long term at least.

Luetin is extremely good

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The guns of the Astartes have short barrels because they don´t fire Bullets, they´re more like Mikro Rockets, i think you could see that in the Astartes Animations, when they hit the Shields of the Psionics.

We is da Orks. We always win. Espeshully when we win.- Common Ork saying

Yeah, the way that Orks just get their armies, is by invading new planets for their Warboss. So, basically, that is why it's extremely important to never let a planet get taken over by Orks. It's just bad for everyone else.

Your roommate had a pretty good timing there xD Totally fit in 👍

The Bricky videos explaining all the factions are probably a good place to start. They give a very basic explanation of each of the factions. He has a few takes I don't 100% agree with... for instance he makes the Craftworld Eldar seem more evil than the impression I have of them, but otherwise it's pretty solid.

Other examples of Ork reality-bending stupidity powers at work: Ork spacecraft are often powered by PROPELLER BLADES. In SPACE. Because they're too thick to understand how a propeller works, and thus why a propeller will literally provide zero propulsion in space. Propellers just make things go, therefore, they should work just fine for spaceships just like they do planes. And because every flippin' ork believes this, IT FRICKIN' WORKS. THEY HAVE SPACE HELICOPTERS AND BIPLANES. Ork sophisticated targeting system imagers increase accuracy by replacing images of enemy vehicles with images of Gretchin, ''COZ EVRY ONE'A DA BOYZ KNOWS 'OW TA HITS A GROT GOOD FROM DA MOMENT DEY SPROUTS!' If they want to make it more durable and harder to damage, they paint it green, because 'ORKZ IZ GREEN, AND DEY'S HARD TA KRUMP!' and green vehicles thus are markedly more resistant to... well... everything you can throw at them. When they want to add a stealth field to a vehicle, they just paint it purple, because 'YA NEVVA SEEZ A PURPOL ORK, NOW DOES YA?' and these vehicles usually become excellently camouflaged and difficult to spot... even if they're literally neon glowing purple. And if they do get spotted, it's because 'YA DINT USE 'NUFF PAINT, YA GROT!' and not because expecting a coat of purple paint to turn your tank invisible is insane. The Ordo Xenos Inquisitors are still looking into how the Orks got enough purple paint to get a LITERALLY WEAPONIZED MOON not only into the Solar Segmentum, not only into the Sol System, but INTO THE ORBIT OF F**KIN HOLY TERRA ITSELF without even a single goddamn person in the ENTIRE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS STRONG FLEET PATROLLING HUMANITY'S SACRED HOME SEGMENTUM, SYSTEM, AND PLANET, or the entire TRILLIONS STRONG POPULATION of Terra, noticing until they commenced the attack. You asked why it is they don't use this ability deliberately and actively? It's because they're TOO STUPID TO REALIZE THEY HAVE IT, LET ALONE UNDERSTAND HOW THEY COULD ABUSE IT. They don't even know they're bending reality, because they're too stupid to realize how reality is SUPPOSED to work. They actually think, actually believe, that things just work like this, because they have no reason not to, because around them they DO. They are incapable mentally of working out they have this ungodly broken power, and that is literally the ONE THING keeping them from being the single most dangerous beings in the universe!

After this video I can definitely say that these are the goofiest race I've seen in the 40k universe

I'd also recommend Baldemort for lore videos. He's more of a 'show, don't tell' sort of guy. He not only explains the element of Warhammer 40,000, but weaves them into his narrative, describing them in action.

you should check out the Ullanor campaign if you wana know some awesome ork history

they are a comedic relief

Orks are a relatively light-hearted fun race amidst all the 40k factions, not by their actions (which can be brutal and horrific), but by their culture, which is basically entirely based around idiot football hooligans, whose only life goal is to have a good fight, and therefore they are the happiest people in 40k by default, because there is only war. If you do ever look at the games, I'd say Space Marine is one of the best, largely because orks are your primary antagonist for the game, and they have some amazing voice acting that is PERFECT for 40k orks, and it's very fun to do impressions of their voices :) also in regards to the ork psychic field: the orks themselves are FAR too stupid to understand this as a concept, so they can't just design to make crazy things happen intentionally, it's only when an ork truly believes something and enough orks share this belief, that their belief can come true, this has resulted in some very interesting side effects; there is a human imperial officer named Sebastian Yarrick who has fought against the orks many times, and has pulled off some ridiculous feats (including killing and ork after the ork tore his arm off, and then replaced his lost arm with the very same orks mechanical claw arm) to the point now that the entire ork race has heard of him and reveres him as a superhuman....and due to the orks latent psychic abilities, this is probably actually affecting him in ways he doesn't know, making him stronger, faster, smarter just because enough orks believe it

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I said this before when I first saw this video, but Orks really are Marines in a nutshell. The Warboss would be ssgt, nobz are sgts and cpls, and boyz are terminal lances. And all the Gretchen and snottlings are the other branches. Even the twins gods would be the commandant and the sgt Major of the Marine Corps. Even this quote from another video about the orks describes us perfectly, “To smash and obliterate all who opposes them under an unrelating green tide of ultra violence.”

5:13 not all guns, but all bolters (the most common type of weapon in media), that's because it doesn't fire a kinectic projectile like modern guns do. instead it fires a "rocket" that keeps propulsionating itself forward for a time, even after the initial explosion, even after it leaves the barrel of the gun, and explode on impact. Not, crashes and splinter into lots of parts, it literally explodes, like a grenade. Still think a larger barrel could be useful for long range engagementes, but both space marines and orks have a tendency to find themselves in close quarter combat, and even melee, so the "short" barrel comes in handy. Also, keep in mind: both orks and space marines are significantly largers than humans, that gun wouldn' be so short in the hands of a human, even a boltpistol could pass as a smg in the hands of a human, it is just that they are being held by really big people

Orks spread from planet to planet because Ork 'clap if you believe' based technology becomes exponentially stronger the more orkz there are. Once a planet is absolutely overrun with orks, their meks instinctively start working on their own space program, filling rokkits full of orks and shooting them into space. some occasionally find a new planet to stomp all over, or at the very least their spores do when the rokkit hits the planet and blows to bits.

They did show Ork ships toward the beginning of the video. They are ramshackle conglomerates of the mekboys designs and sometimes incorporate Imperial and other races ships welded together at odd angles etc.

An example would be the aftermath of the third war for Armageddon where despite the Orks losses they were unable to kill them all because they live In the only forrest on Armageddon, Orks are also self sufficient being completely able to live on their own such as being on a space hulk A single ork spore survives a planetary cleansing, later that ork grows and develops into a feral Orks and when he dies he will produce tens of thousands of spores, so even if ten survives when they die they can release ten thousand spores and so on, until you have a few feral ork who by nature will follow the strongest ork despite their even lower IQ, as the population grows, Orks can live off sunlight for a time being if not indefinitely but those who do tend to be weaker, as more Orks grow and develop the weakest of the Orks are killed and then EATEN and this process will continue until they find an alternative food source since Orks will and can eat anything organic be they tyranids, Eldar, tau, humans even other Orks so food for them is plentiful, if not then the local wildlife will most certainly be on the menu, as for development as their population grows so does their strength and surprisingly even their collective intelligence, developing like humans but on a far far far faster level, feral Orks are the closest to being animalistic in nature being pure brutes using their own hands and strength to beat and kill any local wildlife, they can also develop simple wooden or stone tools such as an axe, later when their numbers increases they are able to group think and produce vehicles (in the loosest terms using massive squigoths as a form of vehicle or fortress on legs) later when technology and sufficient scrap is available such as a tank or even a car the ork intelligence increases exponentially being easily able to build crude contraction that should exist let alone function, and so when their population grows even more with more scrap they can start to build a powerful tribe where any other tribes within the area will instinctively flock to the strongest tribes banner, until their population is a few thousand then a planetary WAAAARRRGGGGG is performed which is a planetary invasion like no other until the planet is theirs then a true and proper WAAARGGGGGG can be performed with legions of starships and if the warggg is truly enormous then even the war bosses intelligence will be even able to out rival even an imperial navy officer with centuries of experience and produce truly terrifying weapons such as a KILLA MOOONNNN which is an asteroid hollowed out and is given powerful weapons powered by the ork mental physique and is even able to destroy an imperial battleship in a single shot.

They dont really plant their spores but in a similar vein there is a group of Snakebites that enjoyed fighting Tyranids so much that they captured some and they put them at one end of a new planet before they go to the other and each force fights through the planet until the orks fight the tyranids again. Then they repeat the process at the next planet.

The Orks are simply too stupid to do anything like plant the spores, but it does happen accidentally

The short barrels are so common in 40k because they are easier to cast. Less chances of defects in models.

I think I heard somewhere that orks can breathe in a vacuum because they don't know they shouldn't be able to.

Yep everything works through willpower and volume. Doesnt matter if you aim if the entire sky is bullets. There was a blurb in I think it was the 5th edition rulebook about the Imperium sending drones in every direction and the only other dominant life they found were orks. Just a sea of green in every direction.

The high tech stuff only works when they got enough orks because more orks = better tech. The guns are still guns not just boxes of scrap but they are poorly made and stuck together with stuff that would just break apart if anyone else shot it because of the recoil rattling them apart. It also means that ork flyers well fly when they dont obey weight limits but you can't make a box with no wings and engine fly around. Its kinda like magic duct tape you can make orky stuff work better or smooth out the cracks and keep it functioning. But it still has to have most of the parts because they can't just make all there stuff out of duct tape it just assists with the stuff working. The fugus spores just come out of orks naturally and tons of spores come out when they die and decompose. It acts like normal mushrooms just growing out of anything even leeching minerals out of rocks to make orks. The most basic snotlings when there are no resources that will prepare and set up proper fields of ork pods that orks grow in underground. Biggest weakness is infighting if the boss is killed they will just have a civil war in the tribe and the whole command gets messed till they establish a new boss. Its why orks are kinda weak when they are managed and observed. You just send a hit squad of space marine terminators to drop pod on his head kill him and get out or snipe him and the whole warband goes into civil war for the next year or how ever long it takes. When nothing works and they make a proper WAAAAGH the boss is near impossible to kill.

I really hope you get to see the Tyranids video from the templin institute, keep the 40k content up!

4:51 The short barrels on bolters are because bolters fire mini rockets instead of bullets.

luetin09 is the best. i know you are a newish channel and editing a longer video may seem daunting

A 556 an ork would be similar to me shooting you with an airsoft rifle and would require a 40mm round in order to do any real damage, also imagine what carnage an ork could create when left in a junkyard