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==Orky Titans==
The [[Ork]]s use titans called Gargants, made out of scrap metal, wood, stolen stuff, and SHEER ORKINESS. They are supposedly effigies of the ork gods, but we all know the mek that built the first Gargant just wanted a bigger, killier thing than the Imperial Titan he had just seen for the first time.

Obviously, the Orks have no standard pattern of build, but their titans almost always resemble a pot-bellied Ork wielding oversized guns and huge close combat weapons. They are insanely hard to take down (even compared to the other races' Titans!). The bigger ones usually move on treads, while the smaller ones usually waddle. While Ork titans are not particularly known for their speed, this does not matter terribly much, because they have enough firepower to blast any enemy into smithereens.
They often have Power Fields, which tend to be inferior to the Ion Fields and Void Fields used by comparable Imperial titans - but at least they have them.

Ironically, these are the most realistic titans in 40k. Unlike the rest of the titans, they either have massively proportioned feet or use treads to deal with the problem of ground pressure distribution, and are very bottom heavy in order to avoid concentrating the weight of the machine on the thinnest part of the structure.

[[Stompa|'''Stompa''':]]
The smallest Ork titans. The definition of what is or is not a Stompa has been somewhat malleable over the years, but in general, any Ork walker larger than a Mega-Dred but smaller than an Imperial Warhound is considered a Stompa. [[Gorkanaut]]s and [[Morkanaut]]s are therefore considered small Stompas despite not truly being titans, while the "standard" GW plastic Stompa is easily twice as large as most Imperial Knights.

Regardless of its size or configuration, every Stompa features at least one grossly overpowered primary weapon, a giant close combat weapon of some kind, and a variety of secondary weapons. In a Waaaagh of suitable size it is common for Stompas to run in loose formations, although their crews do this more as a chance to show off than to mutually support each other per se.

[[Gargant|'''Gargant''':]]
Orky Titans roit an' proppa, roughly equivalent to an Imperial Reaver titan. Lots of armor, lots of staying power, lots of dakka. While there was a Forge World profile for a Gargant years ago, there is not currently any legal entry or available model for this unit. If there was, and you actually took one, you would be [[that guy]].

[[Gargant#Great Gargant|'''Great Gargant''':]] The Great Gargant is roughly equivalent to a Warlord titan. Again, no current legal entry or model for this unit exists; however, back when both of those things were true, it was armed with a Mega-Kannon, a Super Lifta-Droppa and a ridiculous <s>trouser cannon</s> Belly Gun. The latter fired a giant iron ball which wrecked the hell out of anything short of another Titan and had rules allowing it to roll through multiple targets!

[[Gargant#Mega Gargant|'''Mega Gargant''':]]
Here the line between giant robot and moving fortress blur. Where the Great Gargant is like a skyscraper, this thing ''actually is'' a fortress on treads. Forget about ever fielding one of these in a game of 40k, because the model would be as tall as your 8-year-old nephew, and much, much more massive. These machines move about on huge treads which can literally crush [[Baneblade]]s beneath them. Slab-sided and covered with gun nests and extra armor patches, this large block-like fortress is home to thousands of grot riggers, running to and fro. Powered by salvaged space ship reactors or dangerous Ork-made engines that push the limit of Ork belief to its maximum extent, these gods of destruction have more and bigger guns than any other race will mount on a thing of equivalent size. And this is a ''small mountain.'' Bristling with turrets, artillery cannons, rocket bays, launch hangers for aerial craft, high-caliber gatling guns, flak turrets, lightning lasers, autocannons, and ONE GIANT MEGA-CANNON, each Mega Gargant is not just as tough as a block of titanium, it can evaporate you through sheer volume of shot. Also, it has the obligatory close combat weapon, which will always be placed on an articulated mount because the Gargant itself will not be able to move that much.

Like the Imperator, the Mega Gargant originated in ''Titan Legions'' where it had the dubious honour of having the most complicated rules of any model in the game, requiring the player keep track of dozens of '''Hit Locations''' (which could each be destroyed or the subject of a fire that could spread), the '''Krew''' (and there were different types of Krew), the '''Steam Counters''', the commander's '''Shoutin' Counters''' to actually make the Gargant do anything... ''and after all that,'' one was destroyed in a battle report where a Space Marine side with only a basic Warlord Titan won by 105 VPs to 5. This appears to have been about the time [[White Dwarf]] decided to switch to narrative, rather than blow-by-blow, battle reports to make bullshitting the results easier.

'''Not all Gargants are created equal! For other Gargant Variants, see the [[Gargant]]s page!'''