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Gorkamorka - Welcome to da Skid
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Passersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
Essentially, GorkaMorka was the second title in 40k's Skirmish games line after Necromunda, based around a campaign system featuring small roving bands of Orks racing around Da Skid, the huge canyon formed on a desert planet after an Ork Hulk crash-landed. The Orks all compete for scrap and fame around Mektown, a gigantic attempt at rebuilding the Hulk that eventually came to resemble a giant Ork itself - some attributed it to Gork, some to Mork, and so therein lies the primary conflict of the game.
To play you start off with a small number of points, or teef, and recruit boyz to your side to build a mob to help you survive the rough and tumble world of GorkaMorka in the hopes of becoming a bad enough dude to earn your ticket on the Hulk when it finally leaves the planet, thereby joining the Great Waaaaagh in the sky. You get a vehicle, a driver and as many boyz as you can fit on the trukk. You build a fort, you collect scrap, you visit the Mad Dok when you sustain injuries (often to hilarious and unintentional effect) - in short, you follow the life of a mob of orks as they live their violent lives in the sands in the shadow of GorkaMorka.
A number of extra parties were added in the Digganob expansion a bit later. First up, the Diggaz. These are weedy humans so impressed by the raw animosity and power of the orks that they began fashioning themselves after the hulking greenskins, strapping metal jaws to their faces and painting their skin.
Then there's the Muties - a twisted and evil race of mutants of unspecified origin that blame the crash of the Hulk with their plight and seek revenge. They ride mutated horses and fire high-tech weapons.
Then there's my personal favorite - the Gretchin Revolutionary Army. These are goblins fed up with being the oppressed working class and seek independence and the right to ride GorkaMorka as it takes to the stars. Led by The Red Gobbo, they band together and seek to overthrow their brutish greenskin oppressors.
And, of course, there's the Freebootaz, roving bands of Ork Pirates (complete with peg legs and squig parrots) that seek nothing more than glory, infamy and sweet sweet riches.
I used to play the shit out of this game back in the day and, despite its flaws, it still holds a dear place in my heart. It was a genuinely fun, fast paced and exciting game with unpredictable consequences to actions as simple as trying to heal a wounded soldier and fixing a busted up trukk.
So, anybody else have any experience with this most awesome of games?
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I've played it. It was suuuuuuuuuuuuch crap.
But seriously, I've got half a notebook filled with notes on how to turn Gorkamorka into an online strategy/action MMO.
It would seriously be the single awesomest game fucking ever.
Any sort of 40k skirmish MMO would be incredible; I don't know if I could chose between starting up a gang and getting in underhive shootouts, or an opporunity to talk like an ork.
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This would make an excellent "counts as" space ork army.
hey rank, how did that conversion you were doing with that trukk i sent you go ?
halfway finished and 100% awesome, jsut like seventy fuckbillion other projects I got going on
one of these days, though, I'll finish it up
I quite like it, It's unpainted and Unfinished though.
I like the spear :P
I found it amusing.
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loved the game though, the grot models were just fantastic. The sense of fun in gorkamorka was just brilliant,
Do I need anything more than Da Roolz Book, Da Uvver Book, Read Dis Furst, and Games Cards?
Turning templates are pretty handy, though.
Then the Orks came in their hulk, which also trashed the mechanicus ship in orbit as it passed (which also crashed and the survivors became the muties), sealing the adepts inside the tomb-complex for a bunch of years (around a couple of centuries I think).
So the archaeologist-adepts are trapped by the debris of the impact, which collapsed the entrances to the tombs, plus their ancient stuff is beginning to wear out, so they have this internecine war in the tunnels over the limited resources that are left (flashlights and food replicators basically) until one of the tribes, previously thought lost, returns from its explorations with new and strange metal allies.
All we know about how this happened is that the tribe swore fealty to whatever was found in the tomb, in exchange for deliverance or something. But given the parties involved, it wouldn't surprise me if they swore on behalf of all humanity without realising.
So basically a lost tribe of archaeologists woke the Necrons on Angel then told them they could have the rest if only they'd spare the tribe. This all happened about two hundred years before the first Necron raids were recorded.
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I've got the digganob book, but I never really read much of the fluff yet.
That's pretty fucking badass.
Seriously, people complaining about how the Necrons/Ctan were just shoved into the fluff randomly with no preamble are people who never played GorkaMorka.
And we know what to do with their sort 'round here, right? :P
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But, yeah, proper support would have been nice...
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It looked like SG was finally entering into a golden age, with Battlefleet Gothic, Epic, and Mordheim all selling moderately well and then- SHUT DOWN.
Rebel Grots were just plain mean, Fakshun 17 dominated our group for quite a while. The wonderful combination of a Big Lugga that regularly goes around 20+" a turn and enough grots to make boarding actions painful. Fundez' Trukk got more kills than any actual member of the mob, what with racking up exploding vehicles and carrying enough angry grots ready to board that many orks felt safer on the ground than on a transport.
Cuttas seemed a bit of a waste though, the odd slow drive by was all they ever amounted to. Just seemed there to pick up scrap and get out rather than actually fighting.
There's nothing funnier than a Snot with the mighty throw skill either
I always wanted to start a gretchin revolutionary party. chinese style communism+ gretchin for the win!
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I really, really wish they'd do something with this game again, update it and re-release new models. It was such a brilliant idea, and I'd love to have some new stuff to play it instead of having to scour ebay for parts. Diggas and muties, in particular, are practically impossible to find. I still have a Red GObbo model, and it isn't hard to find grots and snots from other parts (the snotling pump wagon is a veritable goldmine) to build a small group, but still - this is a woefully neglected game.
Chaos Marauders with Orc/ky bits would make quite decent Diggas though - wouldn't take a lot of conversion work there. Muties though, they're going to be a bit trickier. That said, Chaosorc has the Grot Head Honcho and the Digga shaman (for $2.50 as well)
Main Rule Book, Da Uvver Book and Digganob. Plus he threw in the card Summary Sheet!
If I wasn't playing so much Bioshock, I would be ripping through these right now.