ORKS - WAR IS LIFE | WARHAMMER 40,000 Lore / History 

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If I were thrown into the 40k universe and told to choose a faction, I would choose orks because they are the only race who seems to be having a genuinely good time.

Tank top speed: 60kmph Same tank painted red: 59.99kmph Same red tank piloted by orks: 500kmph

Ork Logic (cant lose) = if you fight and win, you win. If you fight and lose, you run away and win tomorrow. If you fight and die, you can't lose if you're dead so you win!

My favorite thing about Orks is how if they believe something, then it literally comes true. In one story a bunch of Orks were working to repair the exterior of their spaceship, in space, and another ship came by and asked "HOW ARE YA GITZ BREATHIN IN SPACE WITHOUT A SUIT?" And only then did they start to suffocate. They believed that they would be okay, and they were... until they realized their mistake.

"Purple is the stealthiest color!" "How you know dat?" "You ever see a purple ork?"

"They have just become very effective at existing" That is one of my favorite ways to describe orks

I love that 40k is so grim dark that even the comic relief is ridiculously overpowered

Ork strategy: find out how many soldiers the enemy has, then reduce that number to zero.

I bet orcs and tyranids have a fun time when fighting eachother, never ending war for the orcs, never ending biomass for the tyranids

_>Trick orks that the emperor can regenerate from any wound instantly_ _>Ork magic_ _>The emperor returns_ *_>It's crusade time heretics_*

"Smash things together until, by some miracle, it just works." The new Fallouts would be so much better if Orks made it.

In the words of Trazyn, "Nothing in the whole galaxy is as dangerous as an ork having fun."

"To Destroy your enemy, you must know him." -Gazghul Thrakka, The Art of Krumpin'

The Virgin DnD Orcs: A race of savages that can barely form a kingdom. The Chad W40k ORKS: A literal war plague that endlessly reproduces and has razed worlds and can will technological wonders into existence.

40k Orks are the most literal version I can think of of the phrase "anything can be achieved if you put your mind to it"

I love how when a Tyranid fleet descends upon an Ork world, the orks cheer as they know that there’s about to be one helluva fight

I don’t play Warhammer but the lore is proper interesting, cheers

"Smash things together until, by some miracle, it just works." - Ork Hodd Toward

The 40k Orks are trully amazing in their design. I don't think there could have been a better way to put a fantasy creature in a sci-fi universe and make it work as well as it does here.

Imagine a space marine seeing an Ork smash though his brothers with a mighty axe and when he manages to disarm the Ork an tries to use his axe to deal a killing blow he finds out it was made of plastic; merely a toy

“The orks worship two gods. One is brutal and cunning. The other is cunning and brutal” I dont know how you can say that without busting out into laughter, that’s comedy gold

Humans: NOOOOOOOO you can't just paint a ship a color and expect it to go faster! That's not how that works! Orc: Red paint go fast wheeee!

I love the image of Ghazghkull standing above an entire horde and pronouncing in a grand, prophetic way, "In order to destroy your enemy, you must know him.", and all the Orks standing wide-eyed, mouths agape, as if they'd just heard the wisest lessons from Aristotle.

10:43 I love that he's fine with Orks being genetically engineered animal/fungus hybrids with the power to make technology work by force of belief who were created by vaguely Lovecraftian "Old Ones", but draws the line at the idea that they have chlorophyll in their skins, because fungi don't have chlorophyll. His immersion in the lore was just fine up to that point.

I love that the giant inter-Ork war that toppled the Blood Axes dominance was known as "The big party". You really can't help but love the Orks

Wait, wait...... orks think the emperor is a god. Generally things orks consider universally divine or immortal...... can be come immortal. Hear me out..... orks are helping keep Big E alive?

"Casualties? Dere's nuffin' _casual_ 'bout an Ork, ya git." -Anonymork

Ork is the embodiment of "Believe in yourself"

"I swear, that pile of tires was shooting plasma bolts at me when the Ork was holding it!" "Sounds like heresy, to me...."

Orks are not evil. They are more akin to a force of nature. Would you call a hurricane or a flood "evil"?

Astarte: I will cleanse the universe of green skins for heresy against our Emperor! Ork: I respect warchief god emperor Astarte: Wait a minute...

I really like how Luetin presents his material as if we're learning about it in universe. There's not really any 4th wall breaking, it's very matter of fact as if I'm listening to a lecture in a course on 41st millennium culture and history and I really like that.

*Gets arm chopped off* Guards: Oh shit! *dies* Marine: *Doesn’t acknowledge and keeps fighting* Orc: Cool! Now I can make a gun/axe/hammer arm! *picks up random weapon and shoves it into open wound and it somehow works*

Whoever came up with the origins, reproduction, and propagation of Orks in the Warhammer universe is genius. Most logical Ork lore ever, in any genre.

"And their answer is usually.. Exterminatus.." he says in a dreaded tone. Suddenly ad plays and cheerful jingle plays "AUDIBLE IS A-"

"And the orks would refer to their creators as...the brain boys". I can only imagine the strength it takes to say that out loud and remain serious. Luetin is a man amongst, well, boys.

Orcs are equally as horrifying as they are hillarious.

When orks start understanding 'The Art of War', you know you are in a real predicament

Orks are one of the best realised alien species in all of science fiction. Relatable enough that you can have them as proper antagonists or protagonists in a story, but utterly bizarre in so many other ways, with a society that seems insane by human standards but has perfect internal logic.

In the 40K universe, the orks are honestly the most wholesome race. They dont have any ulterior motives, no genuine malice or sadism. They dont kill or destroy for greed or gain, they just act on instinct and because its what they love to do. They dont hate anyone, they just genuinely love fighting.

Orks: winning a battle? It’s a good fight. Losing a battle? It’s a good fight.

*Ork buying stuff at a shop. "I'm sorry sir, that's not enough." *Ork punches out cashier and rips out their teeth "Dis enuf?" "Yesh, zat'sh enuf..."

Not gonna lie. These guys are pretty metal.

Regarding the discussion (10:20) concerning the orc anatomy I have to think of Lichen: it is an symbiotic organism which consist of algae and fungi. It grows in the shadow and is quite sturdy against quite all external environmental influences. Summerized: Fungi+ Chlorophyl, greenish in colour and is hard to kill= Orcs are Space-Lichen

WH40K Titans Humans: Through blessed tech schematics passed down over generations, these mighty metal guardians will drive back our foes Eldar: Elegant and graceful. The unique blend between wraithbone, spirit stone, and pilot maneuvers through the battlefield like a nimble dancer and our smiting opponents Chaos: Brutal and ancient, these thrice blessed and thrice cursed possessed warmachines crush all in their path. Our enemy is reduced to gibbering wrecks at the mere sight Orks: 6:15 DIZ WASA SCRAP'EAP YESTADAY! BE'OLD ME MOIGHTY TROUSA CANNON YA GITZ AHAHAHAHAAAAAA!

This one of the story's I heard "One some Emperor forggoten planet one of many regiments fighting orks. Soon the ammunition started to wither and in a desperation one of the guardsmen started to say "Pew pew pew" and surprisingly orks started to fell on the ground one after another. After sometime they started to notice one squad that was invincible and they shout "I'm a tank. I'm a tank. You can't shoot me."" So as you can see orks are very fast to adapt to new warfare and have very strange magic

"Yarrick once again regained consciousness. He stood up, astonished, and even more amazed that his bionics had been returned to him while he slept. Exiting the room, he was greeted by hundreds of Orks who started to cheer him on, while parting a way through their ranks. Bewildered, the Commissar followed his "escort" of Greenskins to the closest launch bay, where Ghazghkull waited for him in front of an intact shuttlecraft. Yarrick expected to be forced to fight, but Ghazghkull merely stepped out of the way, stating to Yarrick that it had been a good fight, and that he should now get back to Armageddon and prepare for the Ork's return. For they would would soon be launching yet another battle to reclaim Armageddon.. However, in a move that surprised friend and foe alike, Ghazghkull later released the elderly Commissar, stating to his astonished underlings that "Good enemies iz 'ard to find," implying he enjoyed the challenge the human posed enough to not want it ended just yet. " I know it is stolen but for me this is best description of how Orks actually enjoy war.. Have a nice day guys..

Orks are the only species where you can run out of ammo and still fight them, simply because they think you still have it as long as you make a gun sound(i forget if that was real lore or fan lore but it makes sense enough)

“Don’t over think it” - most accurate and succinct description of Orks.

Let it sink in that in the 40k universe, the comic relief are unironically the most tolerant of other religions

"A large scale intelligence gathering. Ork style. Leaving millions dead and burning cities in it's wake." That gave me a good chuckle.

Ok I've been watching many Warhammer 40k videos lately but I've never played at all, i was just curious about the lore. And these Orks are by far my favorite race so far! Very cute bois

You forget there are rare cases of other races being able to make Ork tech work. The Ork hunters on Armageddon can some how use Ork weapons. I guess they fought the Orks so much that now they believe the weapons work too.

Lotr fans: "i would be so happy to live in that universe"... HP fans: "i can't wait to get my letter brought by owl"... 40k fans: ".... i'm fine... thanks..."

"The Orks worship two gods. One is brutal and cunning. The other one is cunning and brutal." ROTFL!

Thanks for this- I'm just now learning about all of the lore. One question: If the Ork's belief in something makes it real, has there ever been an occasion where fear in an Ork (possibly imagining their enemy) has lead to empowering their enemy? Belief = reality? Your fears becoming a reality?

You can be the most loyal servant of the Imperium, the most Fanatical worshiper of Chaos or anything in between. But ya gotta admit, Orks are *FUN. AS. HELL.*

When dealing with orks, you have to realize that in cannon, outrageous events and coincidences happen for a very good reason. Gazgul made such a good leader because of his fanatical and unquestioning belief, and inspiring the other orks to believe as well. The strong emotions and belief of Gazgul and his tribe gave them an overwhelming waagh energy advantage and allowed him to overcome the other war bosses and unite his planet. That space hulk didn't just pop out of the warp at random: Gazgul told them all that their gods would provide a ship, an entire planet of millions of orks collectively believed and willed it, and literally pulled the space hulk out of the warp to them. Likewise, when they were ready to leave on the ship their belief and waagh energy once again moved the ship through the warp to a heavily inhabited enemy planet. And why did most of the orks survive crashing into the planet? Sheer belief and waagh energy protecting them. This is what made Gazgul so damn dangerous, and why the great commissar was so intent on tracking him down even after his great ork army was defeated. The commissar knew orks and how they work better than anyone alive in the entire Imperium, and was aware that letting Gazgul go was like letting a time-bomb of waagh energy loose in the glaxy, ready to explode into another ork crusade. And this time Gazgul would have the benefit of experience...

In the grim darkness of the future, there is but one source of humor: The Orks.

You forgot one crucial detail about the Goffs: they're _very_ big on rock-and-roll.

If orks contain both algae and fungus, does that make them a really, really angry lichen?

Demons: *see tasty snacks on space hulks* Tasty snacks: "WAAAAGH!" Demons: *O_O*

Commisar Yarikc didn't have his claw when Grazghul arrived. Yarick lead the defense of Hades Hive. When the warboss Grazghkul sent to conquer it made it past the defense Yarick engaged him in close combat. At the end the warboss managed to get a grip on Yaricks arm with his powerclaw and ripped Yarick arm off. But Yarick, instead of just falling over and dying like any normal humie would swung his chainblade and cut the warbosses head off. He then reached down, cut the warbosses powerclaw off and held it up in Triumph. This feat of tremendous fortitude, deadlynies and willpower broke the orks moral, sending them back fleeing. Only then did Yarick collapse and was carried off for treatment. Yarick then insisted on having the warbosses powerclaw modified and grafted onto the stump of his arm, knowing full well that from this day forward this powerclaw would instill terror into any orks heart. Later, when he learned that the orks whispered about him having "da evil eye" he had one of his natural eyes put out and instead had a laserweapon installed. This is how yarick became famous and a true horror to the orks. And about the virus bombs, virus bombs are exterminatus level weaponary. The ones on armageddon were not there to repell some orks. They were there in case armageddon would (again) fall to chaos and their use than would be to clear the planet from any form of life. The only reason the virus bombs did not do exactly that is because they were stored with a severe lack of maintanance and were improperly launched. And at that point reinforcement from the imperium had already arrived. You butchered the war for armageddon pretty seriously. Finally, Yarick actualy did lead a (comparativly small) crusade and chased after Grazghull. However, Grazghull defeated and imrpisoned him. Yarick managed to stage a prisoner revolt and actually got all the way to the bridge of grazghulls flagship at the cost of all men under his command and steered it into a sun. That was when he was knocked over the head with something very heavy. When he came to himself he was in the midst of a huge number of orks, all staring down at him. The orks formed a cordon at the end of which stood Grazghull, next to an escape pod. Grazghull than kindly (by ork standarts) asked yarick to go home to armageddon and prepare the defense for his return. Basically he used yarick as a lesson to his boys. "You can't have a good fight without a good enemy".

That's my Blood Axe Warboss at 19:48. Glad you like him.

"This sticker adds 100HP" and it actually works for Orks.

Isn't there a story where Orks were battering down an Imperial Guard outpost until the IG went out of ammo. Only then to shout pew pew pew and killing Orks because the Orks believed the shooting to be true. Then one went in not dieing shouting "I'm a tank, I'm a tank" rendering small arms fire ineffective.

Orcs believe that painting their vehicles can make them go faster. So basically Orcs are just men who drive Honda Civics?

The Orc lore is insane. Love these guys.

In the hell that is the 40k universe, at least da boyz know ow ta ave emselfs a good time.

IN DA GRIM DAKNISS OF DA 4... 4... ... ITZ A WHOLE LOTTA YEARZ, YA GIT.

My room mate told me about having an ork army at one point with pink armor and equipment to improve stealth, on the justification "Have you ever seen a pink ork? They must be pretty stealthy then," Nobody questioned it xD Orks are officially my new favorite thing lol In a dark and miserable universe that's depressing and oppressive as all hell and ravaged by endless war, these guys just take it on the chin, give no cruds, and have fun with it xD I also loved your reading of the the ork warlord at the end, especially with the art and heavy metal and quotes, heck I could feel the *WAAAGH!* -ahem- through my computer by the end of it lol

Orks are fantastic! In a Grimdark future where so many races are depresses, just barely surviving, or straight up evil... Orks are genuinely happy, and having a lot of fun!

Chaos Marine: "I'm metal as f***" Ork: *Laughs in indescriminate slaughter*

I would absolutely love a Warhammer game set around rising through the Ork ranks to become a warlord, having to divert resources to different clans and decide how you want to take down the hives.

If an ork paints his arms red, would he then swing a choppa faster?

Sometimes I love playing my ork army, I typically lose, oftentimes catastrophically, but I always have a ton of fun when I roll low and a hashed together mech just detonates in everyone's faces

This is the only race that isn't dark, depressing, or horrible. I F*cking love Orks

I love the theory that the Orks are keeping the Emperor alive lmao

"Just smash things together, until by some miracle it just... works." Kinda sounds like young me playing with LEGO's.

33:48-34:11 My favorite part of this video. I think it helped me truly appreciate the mindset of Orks as a whole in battle.

Orks, the ultimate chaotic neutral

Gork will hit you with a stick. Mork will wait for you to turn around, and then hit you with a stick. I come back a year later and have almost 2000 likes on this comment. Thanks to all near 2000 people. Also I love how this comment has more likes than my most popular video lol (Definitely not self-promoting)

I love the Orks just for the fact that they have an Ork names Orkimedes.

I find it amazing that you were able to narrate the story of the Orks with a straight face. No wonder a lot of people love the Orks. They're hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣

As an Ork player that dreads reading and big words, this video is a godsend.

Great video. Yarrick was the Human Warrior (much much more than the Late Arriving Space Marines) that Armageddon needed at just the right time. To me, perhaps his greatest quality was his ability to take a full measure of an enemy that he has fought. Yarrick had developed a keen insight into the Orc race and he knew, probably more than anyone else on Armageddon, what made the Greenskins tick and how best to...make an impression on them in a language they could understand. Case in point: That power claw you mentioned. This was a claw that had once been the crude method by which an Orkish underboss did much of his killing. Just by looking at the thing, both humans and Orks could tell that the device was of Orkish design. When battling the warboss who used that claw with a Bolter and Sword, Yarrick toon defeat and turned it into what I think was an inspired moment if genius on his part. The warboss snipped off Yarrick’s Bolter Arm with the claw. Yarrick, in front of human and pro alike, cut off the warboss’ power claw before running him through. Then he had the surgeon attach the power claw to where his own arm hand been. To the Orks he was The Human Warboss, not to be fucked with. To humans he was that crazy Commisar with the power claw, bane of Orks, True Savior of Armageddon, the Emperor’s Rage embodied.

Tyranids?

I'm 100% new to the 40K universe, this is probably the 5th video of yours I've watched. Great content. Easy to understand as a newcomer. Ty!

Mekboyz : Slaps the roof of Leman russ hulk Diz Git can fit so much dakka in it!

"He travels the galaxy, subjugating, slaughtering and burning the enemies of the ork" You mean... everyone?

Primarchs?

This is probably the most informative video about Orks on RU-vid, there is a reason I keep coming back to this video, it explains everything perfectly, I would love to see an updated video of this.Also probably the best intro I could’ve asked for

No! You can’t just make spaceships out of nothing but scrap mettle and duck tape! *hehe Rokz go dakka*

The Virgin Eldar player vs The Chad Imperium player vs Thad Ork player

The emperor of man video you made is the best lore production on all of RU-vid. Hope you keep the 40k coming.

Orks remind me a lot of Angry Bird's Pigs, they're innovative but everything they make is either extremely haphazard, self-destructive or both.

WHYS YA NOT PUT MOR DAKKA IN DA VID IS NOT ENUFF DAKKA YA GIT

It’s funny and ironic that towards the end of the TTS podcast about the Last Church, the Orks sent an offensive message to the Emperor, entirely in crayon, making him angrily curse so much that it caused him to break the censors, which made him go from angry to happily free of the censors. Like that insult helped him out.

Listen, I loved the video, but I have a few issues. 1: Gork is brutaLLY cunning, yet Mork is cunningLY brutal. 2: Space hulks are not vessels created, but the fusing of dozens to hundreds to thousands of ships lost in the warp. This doesn't make them ancient in realspace either. They could have been lost in the warp for ten thousand years, but only ten years in realspace. 3: why is the metal not louder? turn the metal up louder.