background check: orks

So, if you know me, then you know I love a good background to an army. So, with the arrival in a few months of a waagh, my waaagh, it had better have some kickass background. So I wanted something viking themed, if I'm going to have a close combat related army, its just begging for an excuse to be viking related. So my waaagh, Waaaagh Baksluh, is the Axe 'ead tribe. I'll only touch up on the highlights, as I have already written 10 pages of background fluff. First and foremost, is their love of hair squigs. And in order to fit more hair squigs on, they put them, not on their head, but on their chins, basically forming giant beards. The more powerful and wealthy the ork, the more hair squigs he gets. These are almost as valuable to these orks as teef. Next up, (and to much anger from the internets) big choppas are favored above all other forms of weaponry. And (also to the chagrin of the interwebs) eavy armor. Oh, and no bikes, and no trukks, and no battlewagons, and no vehicles period. The reason?! well, besides, I just loooooove hordes too much to spend any points on anything else, my lads is obsessed with only building gargants. They say, why bother with the small stuff, none of that is useful compared to a gargant! so they naturally, make tons of gargants. But beyond that, another reason they are backward, they "grew up" on a feral world, and they, well, played the role of vikings. They build longboats, and ate fishes, but in order to make fish palatable to the ork diet, they had to let them rot first. They took slaves, burned churches, and generally made lots and lots of war. All led by, warboss Baksluh, and his pet grot, Wolly. When they were found by the orks of the Goff tribe, turns out, they were from the Goffs, and that explained their high amount of ladz, and nobz, and relatively low amount of trickery. The Goffs however, had been fairly disappointed in the way the Axe 'eads hadn't adopted some of the newer things. One thing all the Axe 'eads did take to, was making space fairing vessels. And their vessels, along with their fantastic alcohol brews, were worth almost twice as much teef as any other kind. The Axe 'eads didn't take much to looting weapons, but they love silver, and torching the treasures of others. While most orks think its a good laugh to burn some one, and watch them do the "burny dance" the Axe 'eads love the misery of a slave watching their beloved heirlooms and places of worship burn.

so there we go, sorry bout a bit of the ranting, but I really like the ideas there. as far as models go, I think I'll buy some black orcs from warhammer fantasy, and they will form my nobz, and I'll buy a fantasy warboss for his kit, and make me a warboss from that. As far as the boyz go, its ebay assault on black reach ladz all the way. And using straws, cardboard, and lots of green stuff, I'll get my storm boyz yet. Can't think of why the Axe 'eads would like storm boyz, other than they are very militarily organized, when compared to other tribes. Baksluh loves to discipline him some ladz. well, I'm sure I'll keep you all over-informed as my mind continues to churn out awesome sauce