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Kommandos are viewed with suspicion by the majority of [[Ork Boyz]], on the rare occasions they are viewed at all. These small-unit specialists do not socialize with the other [[Orks]], and sometimes exile themselves from the tribe for months at a time, even permanently divorcing themselves from their warband in more extreme cases. The Kommandos prize intelligence and initiative, and some of them are even able to read. Not for them the thrill of a massed charge or a turbo-powered race to the front line in a badly-made trukk. Instead a Kommando gets his kicks from slitting throats and spreading panic behind enemy lines before launching a perfectly timed ambush. The horrified look on the faces of their prey, who assumed they would be able to see the Ork attack a mile off, is tremendously rewarding to the members of a Kommando mob. These scare tactics are epitomized by [[Snikrot]] of the Red Skull Kommandos, whose name is a byword for terror upon [[Armageddon]].{{Fn|1b}}
Likewise, the [[Imperium]], on first being told of these "specialist" orks, was disbelieving, taking it as dogma that Orks are completely incapable of such subtlety, and that none of that species could ever enter combat except in a large mob, with ostentatious armament and bellowing noise.{{Fn|1a}}
It is common for each Kommando to have a specialist role within the mob, and have a nickname appropriate to his role, such as ‘Fireboy’ or ‘Throatslit.’ Their organized and militaristic outlook means that young [[Stormboyz]] often develop into the Kommandos instead of rejoining the right-thinking Ork boyz at the heart of each warband. Kommandos are most often found anong members of the [[Blood Axes]] [[Clan]] who also prize planning and kunning plans above headlong charges.{{Fn|1}}
