Orks use a bewildering variety of bladed, spiked, jagged, serrated, barbed and notched weapons in close combat. Large, heavy and deadly in Ork hands, they usually look like an [[axe]] or a [[sword|broad knife]], but can take almost any form - from massive cleavers to huge rusty pipes equipped with additional spikes for extra damage. Not really choosy, Orks consider anything they can cut their enemies to pieces with as a choppa. They seem to be so greatly integrated into Ork psyche, so even the most dim-witted Ork can fashion them. Choppas are one-handed weapons and are often used in a pair with [[Slugga]]s. [[Mobs]] of Orks, equipped with Sluggas and Choppas are known as [[Slugga Boy]]s.{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|2}}

Some shoppas choppas are nore more advanced than the others and feature a chain mechanism. Known as chain-choppas , they are basically crude Ork equivalents of other races' [[chainsword]]s or [[chain axe]]s. These weapons are more effective than normal choppas as long as they still function and the user remembers to turn the chain mechanism on. However, despite their ease of manufacture, these weapons require some maintenance that Orks are often too lazy to provide. Therefore chain-choppas, especially those with chain-teeth made from the alien ‘ivory’ of an Ork’s own sharpened fangs, are especially vulnerable to losing weapon's 'teeth'. Other issues such as fuel consumption and the speed with which they get blunted against enemy armour make many Orks choose good old choppas as their weapon of choice, although chain-choppas are inarguably deadly in combat - once their teeth even graze flesh, their motorised bite hooks deeper and saws through muscle, sinew and bone with the same, surgical ease. Wounds inflicted by these weapons are equally horrifying as the weapons turn bodies into uncauterised, mangled mass of flesh.{{Fn|12}}

[[Spear]]s lack the bone-splintering "crunchiness" of the more common Ork weapons, but they give their user the advantage in reach, and can be chucked at an enemy in an attempt to hurt him.{{Fn|2}} [[Beast Snagga]] [[Squighog Boy]]z use a variant of the Spear known as a [[Stikka]].{{Fn|15}}

*{{Endn|2}}: [[Gorkamorka:Da Roolz]], pgs. 53-54

*{{Endn|11}}: [[Gorkamorka:Da Roolz]], pg. 27