Monday Open Thread – Warhammer 40k Orky Titans

Per Usual: Images and links are from Lexicanum or the Warhammer 40k wiki

So last week we went over the Psi-Titans, nasty bunch which rarely let witnesses live, the week I thought we could take a look at another race’s weapon of mass destruction.  And I decided to do the Orks, of course the Orks do not call their giant machines Titans, they call them Gargants, and they come in these classes: Gargant, Great Gargant, Mega Gargant which is just big, bigger, and biggerer of the same type of Mecha.  The thing is, and all ork tech is like this, orks tend to create these machines with found materials.  There is no real standardization either with weapons, modes of locomotion, or fuel used to power the monstrosity.

And not sure if anyone remembers, but it seems like the Orks have a group mind when they are in Waaaaaggghhhh! and the more Orks there are the more, advanced their technology becomes (or whatever the technopsychic species the Orks are).  It would be like an engine tech going to sleep and waking up knowing how to build a fusion reactor – parts and all.  And feel compelled to start building one.

I have no idea about what the Codices say about the garants weapons, except that they are more than merely scaled up versions of the normal Ork weapons.  They seem to be imbued with the power of the Waaaaaggghhhh! to increase the power of their weapons, Plus, they will scavenge any parts they can use from any of the factions – so you might see a Mega Gargant using weapons from a fallen Titan – probably nothing is scarier to the Imperium with an Ork Gargant armed with Star Fury cannons or void shields.

One of the reasons I like the Gargants is that you don’t have to buy a single model to build one, just build one out of household items – toilet paper rolls make great cannon tubes, use sprues, bits of cardboard, and a whole lot of imagination and you will have the bestest, shootiest, burniest, dakka-dakka Gargant that Gork/Mork can inspire.

Also, I was wondering if the Vermicious Knids were the inspiration for the Tyranids.