Ork Artillery

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This article lists the common categories of Ork artillery pieces. They often vary in manufacturing and appearance but usually have similar characteristics.

Lobbas

Lobba

Lobba is a large Ork artillery piece firing in high arcs, 'lobbing' a high explosive shell into the air, much like mortars. Its is often used to pound enemy infantry squads over intervening obstacles. Most lobbas look like big mortars or rokkits, although the Lobbas used by Snakebites or other primitve tribes may take the form of a catapult or trebushet. They are often mounted on various Ork vehicles from Gun Wagons to Battle Fortresses or used as Big Guns. When used in this role, Lobbas are Grot's favourite artillery pieces, because they don't require for them to expose themselves to the enemy to use them.[1a][2a][7]

Big Lobba

Big Lobba is more powerful version version of Lobba sometimes mounted on heavy ork vehicles such as Big Trakks or Battle Fortresses. It has bigger blast but same range as a standard Lobba. It is basically the Ork equivalent of Heavy Mortar used by the Imperial Guard[2a]

Supa-Lobba

The Supa-lobba is even heavier version of the Lobba. It is normally mounted on Squiggoths or Battle Fortresses. It works like a normal lobba but is powerful enough to damage heavily armoured tanks. Again, its blast is even bigger but the range is the same.[2a]

Kannons

Kannon

Kannon is the most common Ork artillery piece, a heavy gun frequently mounted on Ork vehicles, from Gun Trukks to Battle Fortresses or simply used as Big Guns. There is often considered a great joke among Kannon crews to feign a dud shell in the kannon and make one of their fellow members retrieve it. Woe betide the unlucky Grot called in to retrieve such a "dud", as his crew members will invariably procede to fire the gun with him half-inside. This leads to death, dismemberment, decapitation, broken Kannons, bloody lower bodies of Grots whole only from the waist down found near Kannon muzzles, or to the unnaturally fortunate Gretchin, at the very least a prompt deafening. Kannons fire two types of ammunition:[1a][2a]

  • Frag - large bore frag round used for blasting enemy infantry
  • Shell - solid shot shell used for punching through tank armour

Killkannon

Killkannon is a huge weapon often mounted on top of heavier Ork vehicles such as Battlewagons or Big Trakks and used to hammer enemy infantry as the ork hordes close in. They can also be found of Mega Dreads. Like all Ork weapons, Killkannons make a deafening amount of noise, and are much appreciated by all Orks who are nearby.[2a][1c]

Boom Gun

Boom Gun is a huge cannon sometimes mounted on Looted Wagons and often looted with the vehicle itself. In characteristics it is a shorter-ranged version of Imperial Battle Cannon.[2a][1b]

Supa-Kannon

Supa-kannon is an enlarged version of standard Ork Kannon found on Ork Big Trakks, Battlewagons or Battle Fortresses. These massive artillery pieces are designed for destroying enemy positions and fortifications and usually crewed by Gretchin gunners. Is is a shorter ranged version of Earthshaker Cannon and often is just that cannon, looted and a little 'orkified'.[2a][2b]

Krusha Kannon

Krusha Kannon is a main weapon of Kill Krusha, a turret mounted heavy bore high velocity gun capable of firing a variety of different shells. This powerful gun quickly gained a well deserved reputation among Orks' enemies. It is believed to be invented by by the infamous Murda-Meks of Tigrus in late M40. While its grot-served auto-loader gubbinz are a miracle of Ork design they don't always work as intended. Sometimes grots may get caught in the gears of elastic breaks or fit shell backwards resulting in a catastrofic explosion. The Krusha Kannon has an assortment of following ammunition:[2a][2e]

  • Boom Shell - standart explosive round, favoured by Grots firing the cannon due to big boom it makes on impact
  • Tankhamma Shell - armour piercing shell used to blast enemy vehicles apart
  • Scrap Kanister - shrapnel filled charges able to rip through swathes of enemy infantry
  • Blast Burna - incendiary ammunition, which can drench fortifications with burning chemicals to roast alive anyone caught inside

Deth Kannon

Deth Kannon is an enormous cannon and one of the most long-ranged Ork weapons. It is used as main weapon on Stompas, sometimes co axiled with Supa-Gatler or Gigashoota.[2a][13]

Bursta Kannon

Bursta Kannon is weapon sometimes mounted on Kill Bursta tank. It is known for its incredible tank-ripping power.[2a]

Skulhamma Kannon

Skulhamma Kannon is a main weapon of Skullhamma Battle Fortress, similar in characteristics with Baneblade main cannon. [2a]

  • Skullhamma Battle Fortress with a Skulhamma Kannon[19]

Seacannon

Seacannon is a powerful Ork weapon, mounted on on Ork Sumbersibles.[14]

Belly Gun

Belly Gun is ridiculously sized weapons, that Stompas sometimes mount in mimicry of ther large cousins, Gargants. Its shells are a size of a Warbike and are simply jam packed with explosives and shrapnel producting scrap. A resulting explosions sometimes level whole swathes of the battlefields and at other times only devastate a smaller patch. It takes a very long time to reload a Belly Gun and as such it has a very slow rate of fire. It is also wildly unaccurate, but ts power is immence, it have been observed to blow off the leg of a Warhound Titan and shatter Imperial super-heavy tanks with one shot. It is also one of the most long-ranged Ork weapons. Belly Gun is usually mounted on Stompas but is sometimes used as a main weapon of Kill Bursta.[2a][2d]

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