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[[Ork]] '''Gargants''' are the largest land-based Ork fighting machines. Effigies of the Ork Gods [[Gork and Mork]], these towering war engines compare in size and power to [[Imperial]] [[Titans]], dominating the battlefield with fearsome firepower. They are constructed by a prospecting [[Warboss]], who is visited by dreams of massive mayhem and carnage, or by orks he has bullied into doing it. This drives the Orks into a frenzy and effectively begins the Warboss' prospective [[Waaagh!]]{{Fn|1}}

===Design===
[[Image:Epic Gargant2.jpg|thumb|right|250px|An Ork Gargant]]
Not as technologically advanced as their Imperial and [[Eldar]] counterparts, Gargants are still fully capable of destroying the Titans of other races. Like many products of [[Orkoid]] military engineering, the Gargant relies on a combination of comparatively simple technology and devastating heavy firepower, an attitude summed up by [[Boss-Mek]] [[Badlug One-Leg]] in his oft-quoted dictum "S'gorra be dead shooty, wiv loadza gunz all over."{{Fn|6}}

Ork Gargants do not have sophisticated mind impulse units like [[Human]] and Eldar Titans. Instead, the Gargant's [[Kaptin]] must rely on bellowing his orders down a speaking tube so that his officers will move the Gargant and fire its weapons as he wishes. Repair crews are composed of [[Gretchin]], whose small build suits them to crawling through cramped spaces armed with wrenches and oily rags{{Fn|6}}

====Armament====
Gargants have a special weapon location known as a "belly gun", which houses either a [[Gut Buster]] mega-cannon or a [[Snapper]] close assault weapon. The '''Smasher''' variant of the Gargant uses a Gut Buster while the Crusher employs a [[Snapper]]. The Snapper, like the Gut Buster, is a uniquely Ork weapon, and is actually two weapons in one, consisting of a pair of spiked metal jaws used in close combat, and a large [[melta-gun]] with a limited range. Snappers are powerful enough to bite through the armour of Titans, amputating legs.{{Fn|6}} Other primary weapons can include a [[Buzz Saw Arm]], [[Ripper Fist]], [[Supa Lifta Droppa]], [[Cluster Buster]], and [[Splasha Attack Gun]].{{Fn|6}}{{Fn|7}}

A "standard" bipedal Gargant is normally around the height of a four-story building, if that building had several large guns and [[Kustom Force Field]]s bolted onto it. A typical Ork Gargant (if there can be such a thing) may field 2 or 3 [[Soopagun]]s - Titan-Killer equivalent ballistic weapons. It may also sport a small number of additional weapons, likely built into the chest or head sections. A massive Titan close-combat weapon may also be featured, likely a [[Mega-Choppa]]. Gargants with such choppy attachments are sometimes referred to as '''Slasherz''' or '''Slasher-Gargants'''{{Fn|6}}

===Notable Examples===
====War of the Beast====
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During the '''[[War of the Beast]]''', the massive Ork hordes of [[The Beast]] wielded entire armies of Gargant's of unprecedented size and power.{{Fn|5a}} The largest and most powerful such machine, dubbed the '''Temple-Gargant''', was encountered on [[Ullanor]]. This machine was the size of a [[Hive]] city and could wipe out entire armies with a single blast of its energy weapons.{{Fn|5b}}

====Battle of Golgotha====
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The Gargant was first designated as an Ork war-machine during [[Commissar Yarrick]]'s crusade to hunt down [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka]] on [[Golgotha]]. It was here that Gargants, and smaller variants designated [[Stompa]]s, fought against Imperial Titans and [[Imperial Guard|Guard]] regiments. The Gargants were found to be a potent match for even the [[Emperor Titan|Emperor-class Titan]]s fielded by Yarrick, but despite their power one was felled by Yarrick's commandeered [[Baneblade]], the ''[[Fortress of Arrogance]]''.{{Fn|2}}

====Simia Orichalcae====
One of the more interesting instances of a Gargant was near a [[promethium]] processing plant on the [[Ice world]] [[Simia Orichalcae]]. The [[Valhallan 597th Ice Warriors]] had been sent to deal with an ork invasion force. [[Commissar]] [[Ciaphas Cain]] described the Gargant in awestruck terms{{Fn|3a}}, as did retired [[General]] [[Jenit Sulla]] in her memoir ''[[Like A Phoenix From The Flames: The Founding of the 597th]]''.{{Fn|3b}} The Gargant, however, veered off its course to attack a newly discovered [[Necron]] force, fresh from their tomb. Sulla describes "massive metal chunks falling from the Gargant" as "odd pyramids blasted at it". These are more than likely Necron [[Monoliths]]; the Necron threat had not really surfaced at this time so any and all descriptions of the Necrons were blurry at best.{{Fn|3b}}

Despite the efforts of the Necron forces, the Gargant attacked the Plant causing massive damage despite only one of its secondary weapons functioning. Noticing a massive gash in its left leg, Commissar Cain ordered all the [[Chimera]]s still planetside (the 597th was evacuating at this time due to the awakening of the [[Necron]] Tomb) to fire their heavy bolters into the metal wound. It slowly, then quickly toppled over, crushing many orks along with it.{{Fn|3a}}

====Ultramar====
A Gargant was also the primary weapon used by the Ork Waaagh! which attacked the city of [[Herapolis]] on the planet [[Espandor]], in the [[Ultramar]] Coalition. The weapon had been constructed in secret in the caverns of Espandor.{{Fn|4a}} The Gargant's weapons blasted a large breach in the city's walls, but [[Ultramarines]] [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] [[Learchus Abantes]] and [[Chaplain]] [[Judd Clausel]] led an [[Assault Squad]] to infiltrate the Gargant and place demolition charges, which destroyed it.{{Fn|4b}}

===Gargant Variants===
[[Image:SlasherGargant.jpg|thumb|right|Slasher Gargant{{Fn|7}}]]
Like all things Orky, there are no standard configurations of Gargant, but they do fall into several approximate types based on their size.
*[[Stompa]]s
*[[Supa-Stompa]]s
*[[Mekboy Gargant]]s
*[[Witch Engine]]{{Fn|8}}
*[[Steam Gargant]]s
*[[Great Gargant]]s
*[[Mega Gargant]]s
*[[Sky Gargant]]{{Fn|9}}

===Images===
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Gargant White Dwarf 217 (UK) pg49.jpg|Ork Gargant in battle
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===Trivia===
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*The name ''Gargant'' is inspired by François Rabelais's renaissance novel ''[[wikipedia:Gargantua and Pantagruel|Gargantua]]'', which tells the adventures of the eponymous giant king.

===Sources===
{{Citation issues}}
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex: Orks (4th Edition)]], pg. 16
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Gunheads (Novel)]], {{Cite Marker End}}
*3: [[Caves of Ice (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|3a}}: Chapter Sixteen
**{{Endn|3b}}: ''Editorial Note after Chapter Thirteen''
*4: [[Defenders of Ultramar (Graphic Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|4a}}: Chapter Two
**{{Endn|4b}}: Chapter Three
*5: [[The Beast Must Die (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|5a}}: Chapter 13
**{{Endn|5b}}: Chapter 19
*{{Endn|6}}: [[White Dwarf 116 (UK)]] — ''Ork Gargants''
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Citadel Catalog 1995/1996]], pg. 172 — ''Ork Gargants''
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Baneblade (Novel)]], Chapter 4
*{{Endn|9}}: [[Vagabond Squadron (Novel)]], Chapter 29
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Codex Titanicus (1st Edition)]], pgs. 65-87

===Uncited===
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*[[Epic Armageddon Rulebook]]

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