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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WWWWWWAAAAAAAAAGH!!!

Ahem

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

From Canon

• 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.

• 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 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 (Including the entire Imperial Fists, who were wiped out to a man), to subdue the threat. That's practically all that was written about it. NO LONGER. Black Library is getting a whole series of novels (with the Imperial Fists as main characters of the first book!) for the meanest Ork prior to Ghazghkull. Turns out the Beast was so mean he was the size of a Hab Block, and his Nobs were the size of Dreadnoughts. Also, ork attack moons, and by the plural moons, i mean a lot

• WAAAGH Tuska, a WAAAGH led by a Warboss named "Tuska the Daemon-Killa". Tuska's fleet bypassed Cadia's defenses in order to breach the Eye of Terror and find daemons to stomp. His WAAAGH krumped several daemons worlds in the warp, up until they got to a world ruled by a Khornate Daemon Prince, where he and his warband finally met their end, although not before killing the Prince himself by impaling the prince with his power klaw, right in the nuts. This spectacle was so hilarious that Khorne resurrected Tuska's warband back in his Brass Citadel so that they can wage war against Khorne's daemons for all eternity.

• WAAAGH Grizgutz, also known as 'the Lost Waaagh!' was lead into the Morloq system in 978.M41 by Ork Warlord Grizgutz, a noted kleptomaniac. Due to a strange accident of Warp-travel he returned to the system earlier in time than when he launched the WAAAGH itself. Grizlutz murdered his doppelgänger to have a spare of his favourite gun and the resulting confusion stopped the WAAAGH in its tracks.

From Games

• WAAAGH Orkamungus, which was an invasion of Tartarus during the first Dawn of War game. Their WAAAGH was co-sponsored by the Alpha Legion to distract the Imperial Guard forces on Tartarus while they find the key to the Maledictium, although the Orks eventually planned to double cross the Alpha Legion after they were done. This didn't happen though as Orkamungus was eventually killed by Gabriel Angelos' 3rd Company in the middle of the Tartarus campaign, with his WAAAGH ending shortly after.

• 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 Smashface, a WAAAGH that was gaining steam in Aurelia during the events of DoW: Retribution. It was eventually thwarted in all cases by which ever army was chosen to play, where Smashface's supply convoys were destroyed and he himself died after trying to smash the faces of the gits who raided his convoys.

• 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 when Captain Titus was finished with him, and the Blood Ravens probably got the Titans and claimed that it was gifted to their chapter.