Just a quick heads-up, guys. We’re not entirely sure why but WordPress seems to be having a few issues with comments on pages. This won’t affect most of you, but it does seem to mean that the Wall isn’t showing comments. If it’s working alright for you, fantastic, but at our end it looks like the whole comment section is missing.
Rest assured, comments are working, they’re just currently not visible. Hopefully a solution will be forthcoming, but for now, sorry!
We’ve been talking about them for a while, but today you can finally use them in their full capacity – Gorkamorka Tagz.
Tagz are our attempt to create a system of “achievements” for Gorkamorka, optional extra challenges for players to attempt. Tagz show off the exploits of your mob and encourage you to try tactics you might otherwise not attempt, helping you keep things fresh and interesting.
We’re not trying to force this on players (we couldn’t even if we wanted to!) and we want to stress that these should work even if no other players want to use them. We also want to make sure you guys understand that this first release is the basic pack, hopefully attainable by all mobs, not just Orks. We’re going to be releasing further packs based around the different factions, scenarios, and campaigns.
There are two ways you can use Tagz – one involves a blank grid and cutting out tagz, the other is a full grid with rivets to highlight upon completion.
So, here you can see the Tag Dominatin’, if you were to pull off this impressive feat you would cut it out and stick it to your grid.
Alternatively, you’d find it on your grid of Tagz and shade in all four rivets with a pen/pencil/blood.
We’re providing these to download in two different sizes – one is A4, the other is US Letter. Both grids are exactly the same size, or should be, the idea being to create a standardized size so that any Tagz created by anyone else will fit your grid, not just ours. Each tag is 47mm wide and 51mm tall, by the way, but we’ll be providing more details on that sort of thing later.
If you’re feeling lazy, just grab the Basic Tagz below. If you prefer to get your hands dirty, a blank grid is provided too.
| Basic Tagz A4 PDF | Basic Tagz US Letter PDF | Basic Tagz raw image (PNG) |
| Blank Grid A4 PDF | Blank Grid US Letter PDF | Blank Grid raw image (PNG) |
If you’ve got any questions, post them as comments and we’ll do our best to answer.
It’s that wonderful time of year again for all greenskins – ORKTOBER!
Here at tUGS we have a whole load of things planned for release this month and we’ll do our best to get them released on time. Flamekebab has already mentioned the open beta of the Dust Rats which is going to begin later this month, so as penance we’ve forced him to make some special Orktober signature banners for us:
There’s a smaller one too:
Keep an eye on the site, or subscribe, and you’ll find yourself on the receiving end of some content!
There’s a topic on the Waaagh dedicated to raising the profile of Gorkamorka at the moment. One of the suggestions that has come out of it was to make a quick-start guide to the game available, as was included in the original box, suggested by the ginger hair squig.
Having not been able to find the original “Read Dis Furst” guide anywhere online, we located a copy and provide it for you here. It’s quite short and only covers the very basics, but perhaps it’ll be of use to some of you out there trying to get a GoMo campaign off the ground.
There’s a feature of WordPress that tUGS currently doesn’t use – tags. Our posts are currently categorised, but they don’t have relevant keywords attached to them. This isn’t an oversight, it has been a conscious choice – we didn’t want to tag things until we had a decent number of articles. We’re now approaching a hundred posts on the site (this one is number 93) and the time has now come to begin tagging we feel.
Flamekebab has been posting the articles he has written on Reddit which has been getting us a reasonable amount of traffic, but searching for things on the site isn’t as easy as it should be and we hope that tagging things will make articles easier to find. If there’s any particular things you’d like articles tagged by, leave a comment to let us know.
On a side note, happy birthday to tUGS’ very own Matt, he’s 22 today and stuck at university working.
