This site is under construction, as can clearly be seen. We don’t mean it as in the old pages one used to see, forever under construction, what we mean is that our theme is still not finished and the general structure of the site is half-done right now. It should be decently finished within the next few days, depending how much Christmas stuff takes up everyone’s concentration time.
Back in October (2009) GeoCities closed its doors, taking many sites with it. Sure, some can be had via Archive.org, but if you can’t easily search for them, sooner or later they disappear. This site may disappear one day too, but hopefully not any time soon.
We’re not on free hosting and the domain is not a free one or a subdomain. We say this to try to indicate a little about our love of Gorkamorka, a game that is very dear to us. Many of us encountered it when we were young and for some it was our first miniatures game. It saddened us to see how Games Workshop treated it and how rapidly it was killed off. More than that, its existence was practically denied until recently. Many of the models were shovelled into WH40K, but it was strangely absent from official websites. “Strangely” because Necromunda, Bloodbowl, and Mordheim all survived this purge.
Gorkamorka isn’t the only game this has happened to, it’s true, but the other games aren’t important to us personally. Looking online, the amount of Gorkamorka content out there is pretty slim. There’s a few sites, but few dedicated ones, fewer still that feel alive.
However, now is actually a great time to start playing Gorkamorka. Back when Gorkamorka came out a whole raft of models were released. Some were pretty good (some of the ork nobz) and others were not so good (some of the metal ork boyz).
A little while after Gorkamorka was released, third edition WH40K came out, some time later the ork codex was released and a chunk of miniatures to boot.
Over the course of fourth and fifth edition, more arrived. The big difference being both the size (aha, big difference, how droll..ugh) and the style. If you’ve seen the original orks from first and second edition WH40K, they look significantly rounder, smaller and, well, un-orky.
Gorkamorka improved this, but the revamp after that really nailed it. Now they’re as big as they should be, as chunky and savage and all the sculpting is a lot better. Our apologies if we offended any sculptors, we just really love the “new” style!
These days you can get a decent sized trukk, far better than the old one. Also available are boxes of boyz (with a nob model thrown in). For £30 you can have a decent mob with room for expansion, not bad.
Even better than that – these days the internet makes other resources much easier to obtain. These days we use Vallejo paints, they come in the same colours, have better pots and come in 17ml pots rather than 12ml Citadel ones. They’re also a hell of a lot cheaper, check this blog post Flamekebab wrote a while ago for a side-by-side comparison.
Also, with the popularity of the internet and wargaming, resources like plasticard and tools can be had for a pittance. For lots of us plasticard was a mythical material in the late 1990s. These days one can order a stack of it from eBay and have it in a couple of days.
Enough of that though, we’ll put a list in a future entry on the site perhaps.
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