The Unnamed Gorkamorka Site

Here’s a mob listing from Gubbinz, a new kind of ork mob for you all to have a play with. Currently our campaign features a group of these thugs known only as Cuttas Ov Da Jib but I’m afraid it’s too early to say whether these rules are well-balanced.

Written by Neal Plews and drawing on lots of the old background to the Orks, Freebootaz are quite different from Gorkers or Morkers. They won’t have anything to do with grots and can only have a single junior member at a time, they’ve also got their own skill table and huge cutlasses!

If you feel like playing these guys then you may wish to pickup some heads from MaxMini:

I’ll see about posting some photos of Cuttas Ov Da Jib when they’re painted, as until recently they were just stand in models (they’ve just got their mitts on their own trukk for example).

Oh, yes, the rules for them, how absent-minded of me:

Download PDF - "Da Jolly Ork"

Reproduced with Neal's permission.

As you may have noticed, the site recently underwent a bit of an overhaul and the new theme is in place. Hopefully it doesn’t seem too lame or hurt your eyes, we quite like it.

The old one was pretty lousy and far from what we were actually looking for, this one is much closer, although there’s a few changes to be made. As the site is unnamed at the moment, it just says “Grim” up there, the name of the glyph. In time it’ll be replaced, but for now we hope you will put up with it.

You also might have noticed the various articles we’ve been posting – we're trying to write some original material to put up, rather than just uploading exclusively old, out-of-print stuff. We plan on writing more on terrain, basic painting and a few other bits and pieces as they take us. We also have plenty more scans to put up – more scenarios, mob listings and other bits and pieces.

Any feedback for us? Leave it in the comments for the article.

Back when Gorkamorka was released White Dwarf, issue 214 I think, ran several articles on the game (how surprising!). One of the articles was a rather good four page piece that is essentially “starting a basic ork mob 101”, written by Andy Kettlewell.

It covers stuff like allocating resources, purchase priorities and some basics on assembling and painting a mob.

Admittedly the painting isn’t excellent and the models look tiny compared to modern orks, but the principals hold true and the vehicle converting stuff isn’t bad either.

I’d say that if you’ve played one of the similar games, such as Necromunda, it’s an article you can safely live without. However, if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed with everything, it’s an excellent starting point.

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Here’s a two-part article that I think was originally published in White Dwarf, unfortunately we currently don't have access to those, so this version comes from Gubbinz and therefore is in black and white. It was originally in two bits but we've included both parts in the PDF below, worry ye not.

It covers rules and how to model some extra gubbins, including wheel slashas and boosta rokkits, amongst other random odds and ends.

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A long time ago, back when Gorkamorka was still supported by Games Workshop, White Dwarf had an issue dedicated mainly to the Dark Eldar, the newest race for 40K at the time.

Personally I never liked them much and didn’t buy that issue. A friend had it and I must have looked through it once or twice. Unfortunately, recently I learnt that the hazardous conditions rules for Gorkamorka were published in that issue!

What are they?

Well, Necromunda had them, I think Mordheim too. They’re extra rules that make play a little more interesting. I don’t know whether I’m going to use them myself, but it annoys the hell out of me that they’re not available online, or anywhere else for that matter.

Thankfully, copies of White Dwarf 227 are still out there and I got my grubby mitts on one from an eBay seller. Score! Well, one scanning session later and I present it here for all to find.

As with all official stuff, it’d be nice if GW could see their way to publishing them on their own site, but until then, here it is:

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