Editing Gargant (section)

=== Steam Gargant ===

[[File:250SteamGargant.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Choo Choo Motherfuckers! The rape train has no brakes!]]

Sometimes [[Feral_Orks|Feral Ork]] <s>[[Pigdok]]s</s> [[Boiler Boy]]s (their version of Meks) get particularly inspired, and lay about themselves with all the scrap they can find from their raids. They will rope up their whole tribe into building this ridiculously ramshackle machine. Steam Gargants are exclusively made by Feral Orks, who fight a level of technology approximating that of Warhammer Fantasy Orcs, so it is impressive that they can even conceive of a thing like this, much less build one.

As its name suggests, the Steam Gargant is a [[Awesome|steampunk version of the traditional Gargant riding on giant treads instead of feet.]] This thing ''could not'' stand if it weren't for Feral Ork psychosensitivity being higher than the average Space Ork. The giant machine is always made as an effigy of Gork or Mork, and features a big close combat weapon (usually an oversized hammer, axe, spear, or mace), catapult and ballista emplacements, maybe a back-mounted trebuchet or two, rows of platforms for archers, all the trappings of a traditional medieval siege tower, and a GIANT METAL BOILER protruding out of the back.

This fusion of every single medieval siege engine rolled into one is run by Spannas: random Boyz conscripted to work the machine. Spannas are promised the chance to ride the giant beast into battle, literally fighting alongside their god. In truth, most run about inside the beast, maintaining its rickety (even by Ork standards!) structure and keeping the gears turning. Any Pigdoks or Spannas that get a little too excited about making the giant machine band together into a group of Boilerboyz, who form a command chain of foremen underneath the original Pigdok and strongarm the tribe into pouring more resources into the preposterous machine, often demanding even crazier weapons be added to the Gargant. It may or may not feature a chained Weirdboy or two, who will fire off bolts of lightning from the head or heat the boiler with a stream of arcane energy.

Steam Gargants are powered by a giant steam engine, and the boiler is fueled by an endless supply of wood, coal, and anything else burnable that a horde of grots (during the fight) and boyz (after the fight) can steal off the battlefield. Anything burnable in the immediate area will be nicked to throw into the massive firebox. You can map out the entire warpath of a Steam Gargant based solely on the trail of defoliation it leaves behind.

*'''Height:''' 15-20m
*'''Length:''' 10-16m
*'''Crew:''' 70 crew; approx
*'''Weight:''' 1-1.2 kilotonnes; approx