The Unnamed Gorkamorka Site

Interested in the sordid history of how Gorkamorka came to exist?

Maybe “sordid” is a bit much but it’s quite the story. Aaron “Lenoon” Bowen and Liam “Corrode” Royle have put together this exhaustively researched mammoth pair of articles (About 19,000 words between ’em!).

It covers both how Gorkamorka came to exist, where it fit into the grand strategy GW were attempting, and the ultimate fallout, interspersed with quotes from many of the important figures in the story. We might get a mention in there too…

• Part 1 – Gorkers and Morkers
• Part 2 – The Hulk

Progress on GCE continues! This is the 1.3 update to the rules for battles and adds things in preparation for the release of the 1.0 GCE Scenario Book. Da Kommittee has added Forts, Da Rollin’ Road, and a load of diagrams to help players understand ramming and swerving more easily.

If you’re not sure what GCE is – head over to the GCE page for answers.

Version 1.3 – January 2023

Changelog for 1.21 -> 1.3:

• Added generic Initiative Tests and Leadership Tests to the statline section
• Added rules for forts
• Added rules for moving boards
• Made bikes a type of small Vehicle rather than their own type
• Added diagrams explaining ramming
• Added diagrams explaining swerving
• Standardised on “difficult ground” rather than a mish-mash of “difficult terrain” and “difficult ground”

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This document was written by Morgan Fox, Michael Haslam, Matthew Bester, Tom Inglis, Ben Middleton, Ben Saunders, Andrew Meijers, and Ben Kerby.
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GCE is in no way affiliated with Games Workshop. Furthermore, Gorkamorka is a trade mark of Games Workshop Ltd. and is used without permission. No challenge to its status is intended.

It’s twenty five years ago and you’re back home from Gamesday ’97 – time to open something that’s not available in shops just yet – your brand new boxed copy of Gorkamorka!

Yep, we’ve tracked down the exact release of the game as about fiveish on Sunday 28th September, 1997. Of course you had to be at Gamesday to get it then – and some of our awesome community were! I wonder if any of them still have their cardboard hats?

To celebrate the anniversary we’re releasing the next component in GCE – the Gorker and Morker Faction Pack. It’s our interpretation of the Gorker and Morker rules. They’re not identical (after all, if you want the original rules just use those, they’re compatible with GCE) but hopefully you’ll like the tweaks we’ve made.

Over the coming months and years the intention is to create new revisions of the faction pack incorporating various things that the community has written over the years. If you’ve got something you’re particularly fond of that you’d like prioritised, leave a comment and tell us what it is!

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• Darren Sampson (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license)
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Da Kommittee has been hard at work on the next GCE release – the campaign rules!

Quoting the last release:

What if there was a version of the Gorkamorka rules that could be legally distributed, modified, and updated. A community edition, if you will. It’s an attempt at that.

This book is the campaign book.

What’s in it:

It provides the generic framework for between battles – income, levelling up, generic skill tables, serious injuries, and so on. The default mechanics that can be replaced or modified by faction rules.

What’s not:

Faction-specific rules. If it doesn’t apply to all factions, it’s not in there. You won’t find rules for creating an Ork mob, for example. Those are in the faction packs.

At the time of writing there aren’t any released faction packs but worry ye not – these rules are backwards compatible with the original rules. Just use your original faction rules (there’s a table in this book showing you where to find them!).

What’s new?

• Skills overhaul
• Modified the Serious Injury table
• Modified the Permanent Damage table

Over time we plan to add further content to the campaign book to better help players run interesting campaigns. For the 1.0 release though we decided to keep it simple.

As always if you have feedback you can head over to the development document and add comments.

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This document was written by Morgan Fox, Michael Haslam, Matthew Bester, Tom Inglis, Ben Middleton, Ben Saunders, and Ben Kerby.
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• Darren Sampson (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license)
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Regulars to the site will be well aware of the custom template we use for document releases. It’s been through a few iterations over the years but has never been widely available outside the tUGS team.

That hasn’t been because we’re unwilling to share it, mind you, just that we only had it setup for Scribus (and more recently Apple Pages). Scribus is great in many ways – it’s powerful and provides masses of control over things. However it’s also a bit of a pig to use if you’re not used to it.

There’s long been a plan to provide a version for more consumer-friendly word processing software (How ’90s is that sentence?). By “long” we mean something like twelve years as of the time of writing…

Well, it’s finally happened. It’s currently only for LibreOffice but with any luck there can eventually be a version for MS Office too. No promises on when, of course. However with GCE in active development it’s handy to have these templates to hand.

There’s a PDF of the contents here (~4.5 MB) and the OTT file that is the template itself can be found here:

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