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I can't suggest reading them in good conscience, but The Beast series did probably have the best bit of Orkiness. They developed their own deathstar. It was a giant ork head that yelled so loud it ripped apart localized gravity.
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CommissarMega posted:Yeah, Orks are the funnest part of the setting- depending on how you read them or the writer themselves, they're either the only faction that gets the joke of 40K, or just doesn't give a gently caress. They're here to have fun, krump gits, and GO FASTAAAAA WAAAAAGH! The Imperium have some fun bits too, the foundation was heavily cribbed from Dune so AI is highly illegal. But they also had highly valuable machines of war that required it so they started a lie about the machines being blessed by the Machine God and inhabited by machine spirits. This belief spread and millenia later led to Mars being controlled by a cult dedicated to this machine God.
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Zore posted:They were just 'space dwarves' and their models were really unpopular so they just stopped making new ones and did a throw-away line in the lore about the Tyrannids eating their homeworld to explain it. The other part was Andy Chambers taking on more of a senior role in the company and one of the things he disliked, at the time, was the armies crowding in on each other and blurring the faction lines. So squats, sisters and genestealer cultists got de-emphasized when they moved to 3rd edition. All three were basically 'Imperial Guard but with ...'. Sisters came back, sort of, about 4 years later but were an also ran until 2015, GSC about 20 years and squats finally this year.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Are the ratlings in the Guard supposed to be unofficially evolved Skaven? No, ratlings are just humans that evolved like they did because their colonies were high gravity high planets, same as the squats. The main difference between the two was the ratling planets were rich agricultural worlds so they're a bit soft and doughy. They're just sci fi Hobbits.
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Warden posted:It was sorta that plus British punks taking the piss while doing massive amounts of drugs amidst the desolation that was England in the 1980s. Leman Russ was the pen name for a writer that was frequently published in a fiction magazine the guys read.
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