WAAAGH

WAAAGH! is the battlecry of Orks throughout the universe. Whether it's a natural noise or Orkification of the word 'war' is really, really unimportant. Pointless WAAAGHing will now follow.

Not to be confused with "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!", a cry often uttered by fa/tg/uys, but not associated with any kind of enjoyable activity.

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WAAAGH has several meanings with the Orks. While it's most famous as a battle cry, it also refers to the military campaign and energy field surrounding the Orks. As a military campaign, a WAAAGH is named after the Warboss who gathered it together and is generally described as pub crawl and a genocide rolled into one great big party, where Orks travel from one planet to another, fighting anything and everything that they can find.

WAAAGH also refers to the energy the Orks generate while in a campaign. A highly psychic race, Orks do not draw psychic power from the Warp like Humans and Eldar, but instead from each other. This allows Ork psykers, dubbed Weirdboyz, to access a large amount of psychic energy. However, if they soak up too much energy, they end up exploding, taking several Orks with them. This energy field is actually vital to the Orks' war efforts, as their ramshackle technology relies on a sufficient number of Orks agreeing that it works that way as much as mechanical laws (e.g. their belief that "red ones go faster" turns into a measurable increase in the top speed of a buggy with enough red paint on it). The Orks, however, do not understand that they are making this energy field, and simply assume that the technology works because they believe that is how the universe works.

Notable WAAAGHs

• WAAAGH Ghazgkhull, which became infamous for the two wars it waged on Armageddon. Currently the largest known WAAAGH in existence.

• WAAAGH Nazdreg, which teamed with Ghazgkhull for a while but then take their balls and leave when things on Armageddon went boring due to all that season of fire shit. They also participated in Medusa V campaign, which ensures major hilarity, like tellyporta-spamming a few hive cities to dust and hijacking a fully-operational Imperial battleship at evacuation stage. WAAAGH Nazdreg is famous for being the most well-equipped WAAAGH in the galaxy, having the most prominent Meks working for them (things like the Tellyporta and Submersible were actually invented by them). Nazdreg himself is like an orky Steve Jobs - ridiculously rich, arrogant, cunning, and merciless.

• WAAAGH Snagrod, which became infamous for the near destruction of the Crimson Fists when it invaded Rynn's World. He and Chapter Master Pedro Kantor later fought in single combat; while Kantor took to the field in his full panoply of wargear, Sragrod made due with little more than a loincloth and two regular axes. Unfortunately, Kantor handed Snagrod his ass so thoroughly that he ran away.

• WAAAGH Skargor, which was the target of the Corinthian Crusade, taking on fifty Imperial Guard regiments and six Space Marine chapters. Skargor was eventually killed by Ancient Galatan of the Ultramarines at the cost of his own life.

• WAAAGH Gorgutz, which rampaged through Lorn V, Kronus, and the Kaurava system. He supposedly lost all three campaigns, but Emperor damn us all if we didn't say that he was hilarious through it all.

• WAAAGH Bonesmasha, which was the first WAAAGH to rampage through Aurelia during Dawn of War II. He was eventually killed by Force Commander Hair-gel and gang.

• WAAAGH Bluddflag, while we're still sketchy about DoWII Retribution's canon events that his WAAAGH ever left Typhon, in his ending, he supposedly looted all of Aurelia, killed semi-daemon prince Kyras, and looted a Hulk in Space to serve as his new flagship. We do know that he lead this WAAAGH mostly to get a fancy hat.

• WAAAGH Grimskull, which hit Graia and tried to loot some Titans. His raid failed, he was killed by Captain Titus, and the Blood Ravens probably got the Titans and claimed that it was gifted to their chapter.

• WAAAGH The Beast, a WAAAGH led by an ork warboss known only as the Beast a few millennia after the Horus Heresy. It was the largest WAAAGH to threaten the galaxy in general and the Imperium in particular in known history. The Imperium sacrificed a tremendous amount of manpower, including whole Space Marine Chapters, to subdue the threat. That's practically all that was written about it.

• There was also an unnamed but notable WAAAGH that invaded the warp. The orks apparently had a really good time but eventually gave up after they discovered ork spores don't work on spaceships and thus they couldn't replace their losses. Still kinda impressive that they made it back, and more so that they lasted long enough to consider reinforcement a viable option.