STRAYT SHOOTAZ: Veeky Forums Klan Thread

"But boss, why we got to do dese drills? We ain't stormboyz, wot's der point?"
Kaptin Blu Toof opened his maw to shout, then shut it again. This, in itself, was a worrying sign. Ever since he'd talked to that Rogue Trader, ever since they'd looted those Tau, he'd started to think before he talked. To the average ork, it either meant the boss was going soft, or he was a real cunning git. Either of which was troubling.
"Boyz," he said, "I seen the troof. It be a hard troof, but dere ain't no denyin it. Da Trader showed me a piece ov it, but I had ta put it togever meself. Dis be a real theological troof, ya get me? I seen da troo difference, da divide... between Gork and Mork. Da troof about dakka itself. Me eyes 'ave beened opened."
He paused. There was silence. Every ork hung on his every word.
"Wot Gork thinks about dakka," he said, "is dat de more dakka yer firin', da better." He pivoted suddenly, leveling his new plasma gat at the ork who'd called out the question, a full two hundred meters away. Again, the orks marveled at the pause he took. The restraint it took, not to immediately fire, but to take the time to AIM.
The burst of blue plasma took the offending ork's head clean off. It staggered for a moment, then fell to the ground. The orks turned back to look at Blu Toof, who lowered his gat with a satisfied expression.
"But Mork," he said, "Mork don't believe dat. What Mork believe is, it don't matter how much dakka yer foirin."
He grinned.
"It's how much dakka HITS"

Maybe add some scrap, insignia and other flashy stuff to the shoulder pad? And the metal ear piece is a bit off. So, maybe make it orkier or just remove it? Btw, nice drawings.
Niiice.

>Magos Wret

Not a Magos. If a Magos went missing the AdMech would flip shit. He's just a Techpriest of middling importance before becoming the most sane and competent engineer and mechanic in the Strayt Shootaz

I want one of these

I wouldn't put it past captured techpriests to claim a higher rank. Like, a sign that despite his sabotage, he's succumbing to the power that being the top techpriest in the Ork klan affords.
Thanks, this whole thread (along with discovering NachoMon's deviantart page) has given me a whole new confidence in putting my art out (along with working with color)

Enginseer then, or some other rank. 3rd Cogright most digital etc.

He could SAY he's a magos though to sound more impressive to Da Boss.

Dead sneaky. That is until the rockets kick in, then it's dead shooty.

The point to Wret is subtle HFY, as well as illustrating the strengths of the Strayt Shootaz (Kunnin, mind for businesses) and their weaknesses (lack of Oddboyz)

>chromeboyz
I'm unfamiliar with this term. What are chromeboyz?

"Wot's dis fing?"
Asked Koonan suspiciously, as orks went he'd adapted reasonably well to the concept of 'Aim and Fire.' (ready was excepted from this series of events as orks were usually ready to inflict horrific violence on other sapient beings at any given moment of their existence.) But his adaptation to advanced technologies was slower. Give him some cloth and paint and he'd have a 'sneeky suit' ready to go. Tau stealth generators however were the wheelhouse of more Orks like Blu Toof or Magruum.
"It looks like you put me squig in a 'at."

The squig in question bobbed through the air drunkenly, it's little avian legs flailing about as it adapted to the control mechanisms that had been crudely wired into its anatomy. It seemed distressed at first but after it used its newfound power of flight to steal a slice of meat from a passing grot (much to both 'Bloomek' A'loh'ha and Koonan's amusement) it seemed to adjust well enough.

"It's a gift. Here just..." The rather manic tau fumbled with his belt and produced a small optical device. It bore a resemblance to some of the devices worn by pathfinders but those didn't have carefully modified squigforms worked into the machinery. Koonan dubiously waited as the tau stood on the very tip of her hooves and pressed the device to the Ork's face. Teeth clamped down on skin, little needle like appendages wormed into his body and all of a sudden Koonan could see what his marka squig saw, he could even command it just by thinking at it.

Though being an ork his first action was to merely bellow 'KUM 'ERE YOO GIT!' at the modified squig. It took a seat on his drone-hat. "Dis be good work. I'll make sure da boss gives you some tasty loot from da neckst baarge!"

Laughing all the way back to the firing range Koonan quickly forgot about his initial misgivings in the face of being able to properly krump gits.

crude automatons made by orks in the form of their enemies as a strange gesture of mockery. And sometimes they make them look like orks.

"AY BOSS, WHY WE TRADED ALL DAT LOOT FOR DIS BIG GLOWY FING?"
"CUZ DA TRADA SEZ HE GOT ONE A DEES ON 'IS SHIP, SO DEY CAN GO FROO DA WARP SAFERER."
"SAFERER?!"
"SO WE GOTS MORE BOYZ WHEN WE GETS TO DA FIGHTAN PROPA!"
....................
Da Engineers slave journal:
"I am a munitions specialist. I am not a Gellar Field technician. Neither is Enginseer Wret, Nor the Tau bastard. No one on board this emperor forsaken ship knows how to use this thing, much less hook it up meaningfully. But we are terrified of the potential results of the orks trying to use it and failing. We agreed to use the normally life saving warp transit device to create a laser light show and just tell Blue Toof it was doing it's job." - Torn page found in a grots mouth.

Oh, I remember those. They used to be called Tin Boyz, right?

yeah I think I goofed and typed 'chrome' instead of 'tin'.

Are we going to say the tame tyranids come from a Klan that is close, or are we also giving that to the strayt shootaz? I vote for the former.

I think we turned that into a joke where Da Choppa has a genestealer infestation and the orks think of them as pets.

so looking at your thread you have Tyranids who like to hunt down Waauughs. I'd have lead with that.

I like that they're basically biological blow torches who have a tendency to explode.

So maybe these 'nids are moving into a segmentum with a really big population of Orks and Blu Toof likes to call Da Boyz together and go on a Bug Hunt for Da Greatuh Waauugh.

Tau forces try to cull a Nid strain from connecting with a larger force and becoming a sector wide menace. Tau focus on mostly large mechs so they don't die to biological attacks. Nids switch to massed attack to counter Tau. Orks begin to harrass tau and nids, get butts kicked. Rogue Trader helps orks learn to shoot, to defend his profits. Blue Toofs troops become strayt shootaz by looting tau gear and wanting to be better at aiming. Tau forces decimated between orks and nids, attempt to cause forces to fight each other. Genestealer infection begins, orks enjoy new pets. Nids develop explosive bioplasma to deal with armored orks and Tau suits. Blue Toofs often called in by other ork Klans to deal with BoomNids from afar instead of getting in close and exploding.

Just an idea for a timeline.

sounds legit

Hell, considering the gaunt focus, perhaps it's not a genestealer infestation but instead a tervigan or two somewhere deep in the bowels of the ship (possible one that makes hormagaunts instead of termigants)
The area it's in is someplace that the orks can't/don't go normally for whatever reason (some chamber sealed off, only small ducts leading to it, perhaps?), and it can't get out itself, so it sends its spawn out to kill shit/get food.
In practice it just means it's a gaunt/gant infestation instead of a genestealer one.

hormagaunts would make a good source of blades and armor...and maybe fuel for burnas if they're the burny kind. Maybe they sealed it off intentionally so the kommandos have something to do in their off time.

I feel like Tyranids dilutes the Tau aspect

At the same time, it's important that we acknowledge the roll we made that we hunt 'nids. I don't know if this is the best way to go about it, but tyranids should be an important part of our backstory.

>The Gellar field doesn't even have to work thanks to the Ork's own psychic bubble being fortified by their confidence in it.

The Choppa a) needs a better name b) needs to be bigger c) not be the capitol ship

...

What if the Choppa is Blu Toof's personal transport? Besides his hammerhead

I always figured it was his personal ship

I don't think we actually rolled for the size of our warband, so we could have multiple looted Tau Cruisers or other Ships. Da Choopa could be Blu Toof's but it could also be one of the multiple ships the clan owns. Maybe a shootier ship could be better? Blu Toof does love his shootas after all.

What would the snipiest tau ship be?

I did some work but I feel like the biggest problems are the shoulder pad, viewfinder, and gun from a profile standpoint, there is only so much you can do with them.

This is a critique, not an attack, so bear with me on this.

The head, you seem to have an aversion to making orks as ugly as they need to be. Orks are ugly and brutal. Flatten the nose, show the nostrils a bit. Add some scars to your rank and file boys. They get slapped around a lot in and out of combat.

Your gear is weedy. Its ok to be clean, but yours is polished, perfect. No dents, no dings. Orks bang around, zero finesse. Shits gonna have scratches and pits in it. Especially looted gear because you they weren't overly careful in the first place.

Defilement- Orks rebrand things that are theirs, any damage gets plated over or replaced with an ork approximation. Glyphs, whatever. Items are often put to work in roles that were never intended.

Lore-Your boys probably have ample supply of tau gear, I would avoid shootas of the bullet variety. Maybe take two tau rifles and tape them together. Literally depict tape, or chains, or bolts. Something crude. then break one of them, and make that have a crude fix.

As for that viewfinder, if the lore is cyborks, I would ditch the tiny eyes and just jam that sucker into the upper right quadrent of the ork's skull. As mork intended.

Orks are brutal, and orks are a bit insane. Its not an aspect everyone likes, but its part of what they are. If you tack a bit on them, its not gonna be cleanly done.

Could add a shit ton of orky scopes and iron sights to the gun.

thats one route too, big thing is, you keep the boys looking rank and file and try to address the lore.

seems like mosta the orks are gonna be cyborks to some degree with shattered bits of tau gear here and there.

A stickbomb could be depicted as a combi rockit launcher, but if the faction is a pure fluff one, just go nuts.

damn. i like that. damn nice.

Chromeboyz sounds better to me in my opinion, reminds me of Rifts and that makes me happy.

Maybe a Merchant or Hero cruiser? Hero is the more militaristic one but we could have a Merchant one because they are probably more frequent.

Perfection

and so, Bluetoof ended up with a horrific anti gellar field. Ripping open a localized micro warp storm all around the choppa (think dangerous to another ship trying to ram them), while keeping the ship safe in the center.

Yea, what this guy said. The boyz need to look orkier.

What's Blu Toof's bodyguard/honorguard look like?

I feel like they should be obnoxius "asian warrior" stereotypes. A group of 20 or so nobs or big boys who watched some very old human holovids of samuraii-esque warriors and now think they are the bee knees. (this partially is fitting with the tau theme, cause of the many asian inspirations of the tau). They should call themselves the
Slash-O-Nara, have the Dokta Krush surgically modify there eyelids to look "asian" and they speak in Orky haikus.

There weaponry should be proper mental since ya know orks in general and the fact that they use tons of looted tau stuff. Ok they use giant bows except their "arrows" are either tau missile pods, or air burst fragmentation ammo. However since the they don't have function air burst fragmentation launchers or the accompanying AI the draw of the bow is what primes and times each air burst fragmentation round, so a short draw would give it a 4-5 second timer before detonation while a full draw would give it a 10-12 second timer on the round.

its funny, but takes the trope so far that it is painful and looses the fact that they are pirates first and foremost.

Fair enough, but I still think Blu Toof still needs a body guard/honor guard.

Equally what is the close combat equipment and specialities of the boys look like. I get that ranged warfare is their speciality, but when going up against and after nids you always need some form of good cqc cause those bugs always manage to get a few right up into combat.

called a flamethrower. keep on stayin' shooty.

So you mean there is no cqc capabilities at all then once anything gets into melee combat. got it.

...

What you've never hit someone over the head with a flamethrower?

Friendly reminder that the last thread had a few very well written lore posts that already have been contradicted by a few random suggestions. Like blootoofs ship date Choppa. It's his ship not a personal transport. There was a great story about him dropping the chopping bit on a heritic instaltion from orbit.

Also I like the idea about genestealer infestation and hunting nids. But we can't go all in on tau,nids, a rouge trader, other orks, and chaos rivals without getting diluted.
Otherwise this idea is golden

>Friendly reminder that the last thread had a few very well written lore posts that already have been contradicted by a few random suggestions

We're altering the lore. Pray we do not alter it further.

Regardless of how shooty they've become, when it comes to close combat, they're still Orks.

...

...

...

And the unfinished ones...

Oh shit you did the missile pod hammer

I know my modeling/painting's not good, but at least they're on-theme?

And my runty Warboss who I decided later should just be a Stormboy Nob.

And that's it.

Yeah, and this was years ago. A GW store employee actually gave me the idea and helped me order the bitz.

Very nice, good inspiration for the klan we're building.

I had an idea in the last thread, that the orks are all disciplined and shooty up until something gets through their firing line into melee, at which point the line falls apart, their natural instincts kick in, and they pull out their choppas and it turns into a brawl.
Once whatever they're fighting is dead, it takes a Nob coming in and knocking them around before they can start being a firing line again.

nothin' like that. Just keep it styalistic. Probably some choppa style machettes, or bayonets. Some mismatch boys here and there with a chainsword because every now and then ya krump a beakie.

I have an idea for the Nobz. Maybe they should wield giant choppas made from Tyranid claws and bones and Tau scraps. The most powerful and veteran Nobz also wear trophies picked up from Tyranids (skulls, necklaces from fangs, etc.). Armour should also be an orkified mishmash of looted Tau armour held together with bolts, nails and other junk.

Well we rolled Tau shit, nids ennemy, other orks as buddy, and our legendary Ork stomping the Chimera Legion.

I'd say that no Ork is ever without his choppa. It does pretty much anything they need for mundane tasks.
An Ork without a choppa isn't an ork.

Trying to think of why we hunt nids, beyond the desire for a good fight of course. I'm thinking it's both because we learned to shoot them from afar, and revenge. Since I think we rolled that we had looted tau suits, then lost them, it could be that the nids are what destroyed them all. (and had nothing to do with our ability to pilot them, of course.)

This would also lend in to our meganobs or high ranking boyz wearing nid stuff as armor in addition to the tau gear, because they're showing off how many nids they killed.

...

...

...

i do not understand why this one refuses to be posted right side up.
So stormboyz on roids? Crack team of nobz that drop in behind enemy lines with surgical precision? (if you're doing surgery with a meat cleaver)

Veeky Forums what have you created? This is madness!

I thought it was established that it was the Chimeras that blew up most of our suits, when we destroyed three of their cruisers.

I don't know, we never rolled that we loot the tyranids, it just kind of became an assumed thing. But if we already focus on looting Tau, it gets a little cluttered if we add in tyranids too.
It might just be that we like fighting nids because when there's so many of them, you know you're gonna hit something.

Thanks, that helped a lot, I've incorporated a few things you've said into the picture.
I don't think the standard Shoota Boy has a lot of Tau gear, just odds and ends, so I think it'd be better to keep the bullet gun. A bit higher up, the Nobs and Lootas and stuff have good gear, but Boyz I think should only have a few scraps for them to work with.

Well, we rolled Nids as our enemies and our deed was krumpin' some spikey 'umies (aka the Chimera legion). So, guess we don't actually need to focus too much on Nids, but the Boyz could wear things related to them, like thropies, and the most veteran and 'ardest Boyz would have more thropies.
Good stuff draw friend, hope you continue drawing for the thread.

'Ave we konsidered usin Deffkopta stats fer looted battlesuits?

We lost 'ur fanzy blue git stuff to da spikey 'umies...

youtube.com/watch?v=KDRAhiBtOrQ

You invoked one of the oldest Veeky Forums meme user. 10 years later, you can still feel the warp flow through you.

ah, I missed that when reading though. pity.

I unironically like This is Sparta remix.

I'm new to da fread, friends, 'ow do you and yours feel about some good ol' speed?

Speakin' o' course as your resident speedfreek, I happen to be interested in wot sorts o' funny bitz you put on your floaty things to make 'em go fasta.

Art loota here, thats dead proppa. You got it nailed into the side of his head, as it should be. Scarred up and a lick of blue paint. Turned that shoulder rag into something cool as well.

I kinda got the feel that we were mostly a massed infantry force, which doesn't leave a whole lot for speed.
Of course, our looted drones are probably all kinds of speedy.

e' asks wot bitz we use ta' go fasta. Same bitz 'at explode ya git.

Ya need' ta go fast, ya gotta talk to the ca'pn.

youtube.com/watch?v=bJPpqfK79qo

Suggestion. We should draw out a map of our carrier/ roc, and indicate what goes where. mec/ cult of speed if we get one/ figters/ just fun shit.

seems to be we needz us a second ship for whats u call a "feet" its a whole lotta ships, more than one for shur.

tl/dr: time for an offshoot clan is a sort of tag along to the main ship.

Ya see, da floaty stuff we got from dose blue panzy gits are real zoggin' weird. We 'ad da mekz take a look at it an' dey said to put moar rockets on 'em an' paint 'em blue, so dey don' explode, see? An' moar DAKKA!!!! But erh... Strayt shootin' dakka like 'ow da boss said.

and so began the great Veeky Forums waaagh.

Aren't Ork burnas specifically dangerous in melee because they're literally welding torches?

what passes for storm boys surf on the larger looted tau drones. There's only a handful of looted tau vehicles but they hover, they're pretty fast and they're basically battle wagons but with mixed ork and tau tech.

All their Trakks and Trukks are hover vehicles and have firing ports so they're pull up along somebody, pop open the ports and unload on 'em.

What if they surf on drones and have them strapped to their backs too, like jetpacks

also an option, they're orks if its crazy and semi possible they'll do it.

>Blu Toof dakkaed at him and tried to blew him up