Editing Shootas'an Dakkas (section)

==Ork Gunz==
Here is the list of the various death contraptions the Orks have managed to build out of trash.

=== Grot Blasta ===
[[File:Grot_Blasta.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Grot Blasta]]
Grots are often herded into battle by their masters to soak up some fire and provide diversions. To make them slightly more likely to survive they often cobble together or are given small and (even by ork standards) simple pistols and shotguns to bring into battle known as Blastas.

Grot Blastas are run-down, second-hand, low-tech, dust-caked pieces of junk that usually take the form of old and puny pistols and rifles that the Orks would have scrapped otherwise.

Mostly they are something to the effect of a musket made out of old pipes and BBQ lighters. Against most foes, this makes them more annoying than anything, but at least (for the grots) they are able to be annoying and score the odd kill at a (short) distance instead of up close where they run the <s>risk</s>nigh-certainty of getting squished.

There is no standardization with blastas, as is the case with almost all Ork weapons, and they can take on a myriad of shapes and sizes. They may well be looted Imperial Stub guns, Autopistols or Laspistols.

=== Gretchin Blunderbuss ===
[[File:Gretchin_Blunderbuss.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Gretchin Blunderbuss]]
A step up from your typical Grot Blasta (But not by much). Some Blastas take the form of a flare-ended blunderbusses or other double-barrelled jezzails. Most often they fire a shot of pebbles, balls, nuts, bolts or anything that can be rammed down the barrel. In battle, the 'lead' Gretchin will direct the volleys of fire at a target. Most often this takes the form of shooting at the biggest enemy, or the one with the biggest weapon. Thanks to the relatively decent aim of the average Gretchin, chances are the target will be hit, along with anything in a small area around them.

=== Slugga ===
[[File:Slugga.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Slugga]]
A simple semi-automatic pistol with a bore diameter in the area of 30mm and the most common Ork gun you might find, allowing these primitive contraptions (comparable to rough modern firearms) to match the power of the Imperial <s>[[Lasgun|flashlight]]</s> Heavy Stubber. Hence, whilst Sluggas have very limited accuracy, they have huge stopping power, thanks to the massive shot they fire and dangerously large powder charges that propel them.

It is often crude, loud and brutish in design and designed to be used in a similar way. Usually low ranking Orks have one of these, blasting at their targets as they close in to hack them to bits, as well as pistol whipping their enemies in close quarters.

Jams and misfires are common, as is the case with most Ork weapons.

A Slugga's often an Ork's first gun, or at least an early one. He's just come out of the ground and he gets to an Ork-Town. He might get given a Shoota if he meets the right Nob, he might take one in a Fight or he might have to do some crap work for some teef and buy one or be forced to bodge something together. Though often they have to settle for something more basic, which leads us to...

=== Six-Shoota ===
[[File:Six-Shoota.jpg|150px|right|thumb|Six-Shoota]]
Essentially a Orkified version of the Imperial Stub-Revolver. Six-Shoota is a variation of a Slugga, its short barrel usually fed from a simple mechanical revolving chamber, usually carrying six shots, hence its name. They are known as every Ork Boy's starting equipment. Ork Mekboys often have their apprentice Spanners making Six-Shootas until they are good enough to work on more complex weapons.

It is the most basic Ork firearm, so simple any Ork boy can make it, given needed bitz. As a result there are always a lot of them in circulation in any Ork settlement and it often becomes a first weapon of an Ork Yoof. However, given that it is less powerful than a slugga, even more prone to jamming, and that any self respecting ork wants more then six shots in his gun, Ork Boys usually acquire more powerful weapons as they grow older and richer. In the end, a Six-Shoota often gets scrapped or thrown towards the nearest Grot for him to modify it into a Grot Blasta, though the occasional Ork may keep it for sentimental reasons and modify it later as more [[Teef]] is acquired and the Ork grows richer.

=== Shoota ===
[[File:Shoota.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Shoota]]
An Ork assault rifle, the shoota is a fully automatic metal club used to spray hot lead inaccurately over a large target area. A shoota fires either massive bullets or explosive shells, or even a mixture of both. As is the case with most Ork weapons, they are crude but effective.

As Orks like to travel in large groups, their inaccuracy is less of a concern than one might imagine, as the sheer volume of fire they bring to bear is more than enough to hit even a small target a few times. There is no standard design for the ork shoota, as many variants of the weapons exist as there are orks that wield them, as most are hodge-podge conglomerations of scrap metal. They often look and function like a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_08 Spandau machine gun], Maxim machine gun or, if the ork is particularly rich, the [[Awesome|MG42]].

A Shoota is the ground floor for going whole hog on gunz. They appeal to the sort of Boy who figures that even if Choppin's fun, blasting away is better. If he lasts long, he saves up and gets a Shoota. With that he's on the path of Da-Shooty and has bigger badder guns on his mind. Of course, there are also those slugga boyz who pick up a shoota from a fallen fellow and roll with it. Datz Loife for ya!

=== Shoota Kannon ===
[[File:Ork_with_Kannon.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Shoota Kannon]]
A variant of a Shoota. Not to be confused with the more traditionally vehicle mounted Kannons, although it can be said that the Shoota Kannon is nothing more than a handheld version of the Kannon. The big-bore elephant guns of the Ork arsenal and is thus, primitive and simple even for Ork standards.

Kannons are simple Ork weapons, put together in huge numbers. Most of them have a single thick barrel and fire hefty shells stored in tube magazines under the barrel or even loaded before each shot. Kannons are less popular than Shootas because they have a very low rate of fire and their recoil makes them inaccurate even for Orks. Still, they are pretty loud and have a big and intimidating muzzle flash. Additionally the huge shell launched by a shoota kannon can knock a full grown Ork on his back. For these reasons they are still used by some Ork Boys.

=== Ork Blunderbuss ===
[[File:Ork_Blunderbuss.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Ork Blunderbuss]]
The Gretchin Blunderbuss' bigger brother and the Ork's literal counterpart to the [[Blunderbuss|Imperial Blunderbuss.]] They are the hand-me-downs of broken Kannons, so we are in pretty low bar here.

Also known as the '''Spechul Shoota''', a Blunderbuss is a simple variation of a kannon, and they are often made from the wrecks of kannons which backfired and burst their barrels. A blunderbuss features a very short muzzle and uses shells made up of dozens of pellets crammed together. When it fires, it gouts a cloud of ricocheting pellets, making it very easy to hit a target. However, it suffers from a short range, as pellets lose their hitting power very quickly. It's very cheap though, and so has its uses in Ork society. The short range in particular makes it a favorite of Kommandoz, who find it effective when ambushing foes they've snuck up on.

=== Dakka Shoota ===
[[File:Dakka_Shoota_Side.JPG|200px|right|thumb|Dakka Shoota]]
The Dakka Shoota is the main weapon of the [[Dakka Boy]] from a [[Ork Kommando|Kommando Kill Team]].

This triple-barrelled weapon, fires a [[Dakka|metric shit ton of bullets and shells]], thereby earning its name. To make things simple, imagine if you have the firepower of a Big Shoota in a short and compact form. Kind of like the Orky equivalent of a [[Boltstorm Gauntlet]]. Of course, the Ork needs the mother of all drum-fed magazines for it to actually keep firing longer than 3 seconds. The addition of a foregrip (Rare among Ork designs) also allows better stability and weapons handling, making it also a surprisingly accurate weapon for Ork standards.

On the tabletop, the Dakka Shoota is a highly compact but powerful weapon that allows the Dakka Boy to quickly unload a [[Shoota Boy]]'s worth of dakka onto the enemy without the penalty of needing to stop and shoot. Of course, it has a much inferior range than the Big Shoota.
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Dakka_Shoota.JPG|Alternate view
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=== Big Shoota ===
[[File:Big_Shoota_6.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Big Shoota]]
Big Shootas are put onto vehicles, in clustered stationary mounts, or carried by Orks that have an obsession with having the biggest, loudest and most destructive shootas possible (which they aren't even, this would be their first big upgrade from a Shoota and they'd have bigga things on their mind). They are heavy caliber weapons, even by Ork standards, used to saturate the enemy with as much heavy fire as possible.

Since it clocks in right in the middle of a Heavy Stubber and a Supa Shoota it's a lot like taking a small single barrel 20mm aircraft cannon and putting it in the hands of an ork, though it probably has fatter, orkier rounds. It functionally deals about as much damage (on tabletop) as a Heavy Bolter without needing to explode, the downside being it's massive recoil which da orkz fink is da best!

There is even a more crazy version of the Big Shoota called the '''Scoped Big Shoota''' which is exactly as its name implies, [[Awesome|a Big Shoota turned into a sniper rifle.]] Yes, this means that we have a [[Awesome|machine gun sniper rifle]]. Yes, this means that [[Ork Snipers]] [[Wat|are real]]. Yes these guys are called [[Snipa Boy]]z.

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Scoped_Big_Shoota.JPG|Scoped Big Shoota.
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=== Thump Gun ===
[[File:Thump_Gun.JPG|200px|right|thumb|Thump Gun]]
A spiritual successor of the Shoota Kannon.

The Thump Gun is '''FUCK HUEG''' Break Action Grenade Launcher used by [[Beast Snagga Boy]]z to blow shit up or crack some skulls with an equally huge non-explosive dud. It is honestly surprising it took GeeDubs ''this'' long for the Orks to get some new explosive weapons.

Because they are large-bore Ork handheld cannons, they fire huge explosive shells. The Crunch kind of follows the Fluff. On the tabletop, these single-shot Grenade Launchers have a modest 18" range, but it is an Assault D3, S6, AP-1, DD3 boomstick with the Blast ability. For Orks, this weapon is not bad given an Ork's shitty accuracy. You should be able to flatten a GEQ squad or two and since it is an Assault weapon, this weapon turns into a painful Tarpit cleaner.

In [[Warhammer 40K: Darktide | Darktide]], a similarly-named weapon called the Thumper appears as an Ogryn-only weapon.

=== Snazzgun ===
[[File:Dh-ca-102-snazzgun.png|200px|right|thumb|Snazzgun]]
The weaponized bling that a [[Flash Gitz|Flash Git]] carries is called the Snazzgun.

These guns intrinsically vary widely in design and general principle of work, so the term may refer to a bewildering variety of kustom and insanely expensive weaponry, much like a Deffgun. However one thing is always true - Snazzguns are always big, loud, rapid-firing, and assuredly deal bloody death. All Snazzguns are unpredictable and deadly on the battlefield, and can always be even further enhanced to make them even deadlier.

As you can imagine, these things are 'kustomised' to the extreme even by Ork standards. It is also disingenuous to think that a Snazzgun is just a flashier Shoota, as Flash Gitz are known to incorporate other types of weapons onto their mobile firework of death to the point where it should be more appropriate to call Snazzguns as sister weapons to [[Combi-weapon#Orks|Kombi-weapons]]. As such, trying to categorised these firework displays is ''really'' tricky, although the [[Ordo Xenos]] managed to roughly grouped them into three distinct 'upgrades'. These 'upgrades' are:

*'''More Dakka''' - When you want to jury rig as much Shoota's onto a single trigger as Orkly possible, some Snazzguns have more barrels, scopes, and ammo belts than others allowing them to fire more bullets per second.
*'''Shootier''' - Other Snazzguns have bigger barrels and much more powerful ammunition so each shot becomes much more deadly, the complete opposite of ''More Dakka'' as these Snazzguns rely on powerful blasts than lots of Dakka bullets.
*'''Blasta''' - Really expensive Snazzguns fire crackling energy bolts instead of bullets which makes them even more unpredictable and dangerous to use (but much better at piercing armour!), so think the integration of [[Plasma]] and [[Zzap Weapons]] into the gun.

All Snazzguns are ostentatiously ornamented and excessively enhanced with shiny bitz and snazzy [[Squig]] skins in order to satisfy the extravagant desires of their ostentatious owners, who pay a fortune for these overdone weapons. However, such egotistical decorations have earned the scorn of many Ork boyz as being too 'flashy' and 'un-orky'.

Snazzguns comes in all shapes and size, even for the standards of the Orks, so don't expect a series of consistency here. That's kind of the thing with all Ork shootas.
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7ed-Snazzguns-1.jpg|First set of kustomised Snazzguns. It's downright Flash!
7ed-Snazzguns-2.jpg|The Second set of Snazzguns. Those Boyz can really put the Snazz in Snazzguns.
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