Ork Fleet

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Ork Fleet

Overview

Orks are not particularly adept space-farers, and as such, their fleets tend to be ramshackle affairs. Built using anything from destroyed hulks to asteroids, Ork ships are often unreliable and held together only by constant effort from Mekboyz and their Gretchin helpers. What Ork fleets do have going for them is firepower, typically backed up by thick prow armour. This means that the typical Ork "tactic" of charging forward with guns blazing actually works reasonably well.^[1]

Most Ork fleets are piratical affairs, with nothing much larger than the iconic Kill Kroozer. Large Battleships are rare.^[2] However, a Waaagh! fleet can get much more potent, and much more dangerous. Usually based around an Ork-infested Space Hulk, larger ships like Hammer Battlekroozers start appearing as the Ork fleet goes from (admittedly potent) raiders to full-blown fleets capable of taking on Imperial battlefleets.^[2]

For FTL travel, Ork fleets will utilize volatile and dangerous Warp engines.^[5] Similar to Human Warp Drives, ramshackle Ork ships often journey into the Warp with no particular destination in mind. Instead, they trust that Gork and Mork will send them somewhere where they can expect a good fighter.^[4] Other times their fleets are guided through the Warp by Weirdboyz, often with highly variable results.^[3]

Gallery

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  Ork Fleet.

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  Ork Fleet.

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  Ork fleet at Mordax Prime.

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  Ork Battleship Slamblasta^[2]]]

Related Articles

• Ork Fleet Weapons
• Ork Ship Components

Sources

• 1: Battlefleet Gothic Rulebook, p. 135
• 2: Battlefleet Gothic Resources: Xenos Fleets (accessed 2011.06.17)
• 3: Brutal Kunnin (Novel) - A Temp'ry Alliance
• 4: Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! (Novel) - Interrogation VIII
• 5: Rogue Trader: Battlefleet Koronus, pgs. 75-78