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Similar to the Goff Rock-an-Rolla, the Goff Klawstompa trades in its gun arm for ''another'' close range weapon [[RIP AND TEAR|in order to shred enemy titans up close and personal. A pure close combat Gargant, it has '''''two''''' giant claws, and can | Similar to the Goff Rock-an-Rolla, the Goff Klawstompa trades in its gun arm for ''another'' close range weapon [[RIP AND TEAR|in order to shred enemy titans up close and personal. A pure close combat Gargant, it has '''''two''''' giant claws, and can punch out other Titans in ''one round'' of close combat. It's designed to take down other Titans and assorted super-heavy vehicles, and has more attacks in close combat than the [[Tyranid]] Bio-Titan. Too bad other Titans can hit this enemy crab's weak point for massive damage ([[Derp|double]] [[meme]]?) before it closes the distance, as it has no ranged weaponry to defend itself with. Still, it can't be stopped by anything once it hits enemy lines... [[FAIL|if they could even get there before being reduced to molten metal by a Volcano Cannon to the face.]] Still, when you want to punch an enemy Titan (or one of those pesky [[Forge World]]-produced Knights) in the face, except no substitutes. | ||
This and the Rock-an-Rolla are the polar opposite of Mekboy Gargants as they replace their gun arms with another claw (or fist or chainblade or even wrecking ball). | This and the Rock-an-Rolla are the polar opposite of Mekboy Gargants as they replace their gun arms with another claw (or fist or chainblade or even wrecking ball). | ||
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These are the largest Ork Gargants to date. Equivalent to the Imperium's Emperor Titans. This is what happens when a notable influential Warboss begins to whip up his boyz to create a moving personification of [[Gork]] and [[Mork]]. Once completed the Mega Gargant would be so big that not even its legs would be effective anymore, and would instead rely on the trusty old treads. Turning this into a moving battle fortress. Orks get the equivalent of a [[/d/|immodest orgasm]] and their enemies respectively shits itself. These Mega Gargants are armed with pretty much anything in the Orks plethora of weapons and can go toe to toe with even an Imperator Titan or Warlock Titan. If you don't have the weapons necessary to combat it or lack orbital bombardment, [[Rape|consider yourself quite fucked.]] | These are the largest Ork Gargants to date. Equivalent to the Imperium's Emperor Titans. This is what happens when a notable influential Warboss begins to whip up his boyz to create a moving personification of [[Gork]] and [[Mork]]. Once completed the Mega Gargant would be so big that not even its legs would be effective anymore, and would instead rely on the trusty old treads. Turning this into a moving battle fortress. Orks get the equivalent of a [[/d/|immodest orgasm]] and their enemies respectively shits itself. These Mega Gargants are armed with pretty much anything in the Orks plethora of weapons and can go toe to toe with even an Imperator Titan or Warlock Titan. If you don't have the weapons necessary to combat it or lack orbital bombardment, [[Rape|consider yourself quite fucked.]] | ||
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Revision as of 06:14, 20 December 2016
A Gargant is what most would call the Orks' main battle titan, resembling its smaller Stompa cousins, the Gargant is equivalent to the Imperial Reaver Titan and its most often mocked/praised by /tg/ for its infamous Trouser Cannon and goofy looking appearance. The construction of a Gargant alone (or anything larger) on any planet is a sign that something craptastic is about to begin. Like most Ork machinery, each Gargant is a unique albeit crude effigy of the gods Gork and Mork.
Variants
Like its smaller cousins, the Gargant has a wide range of variants and flavors for an Ork to choose from.
Mekboy Gargant
Big Meks who build their own Gargants, instead of being contracted by other Warbosses, tend to make better, flashier ones for themselves. They rig experimental weaponry and shielding to the frame, and send it into battle wired up and filled to the brim with bits and gubbins. Similar to a Mek's Stompa only bigger, the Mekboy Gargant is constructed by a very powerful Big Mek and is always a sign of prestige and pride upon its completion. The Mekboy Gargant is invariably a more shooty type of Gargant than most, relying on massive volumes of Dakka, immensely destructive energy weapons, towering force fields, or other similar techno-shenanigans in order to face opposing Titans. Typically helmed by the Big Mek who designed and constructed it, these metal monsters play double-duty, being equal parts war machine and experimental test-bed for the Mekaniak in question
These gargants are armed with all manner of "kustomized" guns and weaponry: massive and randomly potent Zzap Kannons, auto-loading high-explosive Kill-Kannons, Lifta-Droppa tractor beams for throwing enemy tanks at enemy Titans, unstable grot-guided plasma-rokkits, experimental double-ended Bubble-Chuckaz, and all kinds of other crazy junk. Where most Gargants have an arm filled with loads of guns and an arm with a fuckhuge close combat weapon, some Mekboy Gargants go so far as to do to look more like replace their close combat weapon with another gun arm, to maximize dakka and mount yet more untested weaponry. Although this may draw the mockery of more traditional Warbosses who chafe at the idea of having a non-choppy Gargant in their ranks, most Big Meks who manage to build one of these don't much care what anyone else thinks of them, since they could just blow them up.
Goff Rock-an-Rolla
Somewhere along the line, the Goff Klan got the bright idea to ROADA ROLLA their enemies. So, they strapped a giant spiked steam roller on their Gargant and thus the Goff Rock-an-Rolla was born. This monster eats infantry and small vehicles alike, demolishing them into an icky paste of blood and mush, but can't kill other Titans very well. It cuts huge lines in enemy troops, and takes no prisoners with armies that rely on massive infantry numbers such as the 'Nids. The Rock-an-Rolla falls obviously short against Titans and other super heavies, but the Goffs don't really pay much mind do anything that isn't putting axes in meaty faces. (Seriously that roller is only going to tickle the feet of a Warlord Titan).
Goff Klawstompa
Similar to the Goff Rock-an-Rolla, the Goff Klawstompa trades in its gun arm for another close range weapon [[RIP AND TEAR|in order to shred enemy titans up close and personal. A pure close combat Gargant, it has two giant claws, and can punch out other Titans in one round of close combat. It's designed to take down other Titans and assorted super-heavy vehicles, and has more attacks in close combat than the Tyranid Bio-Titan. Too bad other Titans can hit this enemy crab's weak point for massive damage (double meme?) before it closes the distance, as it has no ranged weaponry to defend itself with. Still, it can't be stopped by anything once it hits enemy lines... if they could even get there before being reduced to molten metal by a Volcano Cannon to the face. Still, when you want to punch an enemy Titan (or one of those pesky Forge World-produced Knights) in the face, except no substitutes.
This and the Rock-an-Rolla are the polar opposite of Mekboy Gargants as they replace their gun arms with another claw (or fist or chainblade or even wrecking ball).
Steam Gargant
Sometimes Feral Ork Pigdoks 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 it's 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.
Great Gargant
A massive Ork War Engines, a Great Gargant is comparable to the Warlord Class Titans of the Imperium. These are essentially a Gargant on steroids and are often powerful enough to hold its own against other races titans without the need to gang up on them like their smaller kin. The majority of these Great Gargants are often accompanied by other smaller Gargants or Stompas and they are expensive enough to make even the richest Warboss to file for bankruptcy. Essentially a mobile mountain made of steel and covered in the biggest, heaviest guns the Orks can come up with such as the infamous Gaze of Mork which is what happens when you give a Gargant a cyclopes-lookalike from X-Men as well as a favor for Lifta-Droppas or any other tractor beam to either pull their targets to get crumpled or being lifted into the air and then smashed to the ground. Are you fucked? You're fucked.
Mega Gargant
These are the largest Ork Gargants to date. Equivalent to the Imperium's Emperor Titans. This is what happens when a notable influential Warboss begins to whip up his boyz to create a moving personification of Gork and Mork. Once completed the Mega Gargant would be so big that not even its legs would be effective anymore, and would instead rely on the trusty old treads. Turning this into a moving battle fortress. Orks get the equivalent of a immodest orgasm and their enemies respectively shits itself. These Mega Gargants are armed with pretty much anything in the Orks plethora of weapons and can go toe to toe with even an Imperator Titan or Warlock Titan. If you don't have the weapons necessary to combat it or lack orbital bombardment, consider yourself quite fucked.
