Warhammer 40k has always been just as silly as it is grim. Sometimes it gets so grim that it wraps all the way back around to being completely ridiculous, and honestly, that’s part of the charm.
I think Darktide already has the grim part nailed. We’re literally playing as rejects who earn the right to keep breathing by being thrown into one suicide mission after another. The atmosphere, the setting, and the constant sense of impending doom are all there.
Now I want a little more of the other side of 40k.
Give us a playable Ork.
Don’t spend twenty pages explaining why. Either don’t explain it at all, or just shrug and say he’s a Blood Axe mercenary working for the Inquisition because they pointed him toward the biggest fight in the sector. That’s honestly more than enough justification by 40k standards.
Let me charge into a horde with a proper Choppa in one hand, a ridiculous amount of Dakka in the other, and loudly insist that every plan would work better if it involved more explosions.
Darktide has the grim. Now let us have a bit more of the gloriously stupid side of Warhammer too.
(Could also be an Ogryn skin, at least)
What do you mean Darktide isn’t ridiculous and silly? Half the reason I play the damn game is because the character interactions are incredibly hilarious.
We got silly psychopaths, people whose only personality trait is Scottish, dudes who constantly makes jokes out of everything, Ogryns, Angry German Men, and dudes who work 9-5. It’s great.
Aren’t Orks literally just Ogryn’s (power, size, voice, intelligence, albeit a bit higher), but not human and fungi?
Let me charge into a horde with a proper Choppa in one hand, a ridiculous amount of Dakka in the other, and loudly insist that every plan would work better if it involved more explosions.
That’s… that’s just an Ogryn.
Except without the part where the Ogryn is covering the entirety of the underhive in Ogryn spores so that there’d be a huge infestation of Ogryns in a few years.
Nevermind playing an Ork…but Orks as an enemy faction to fight against that’s not boring chaos? HELL YEAH!
GREENTIDE TM
surely GW will approve this lmao
One day we’ll get a Fire Warrior remake.
The only problems I see here is that the war on Atoma Prime isn’t big enough to justify the price these orks are asking. And since there aren’t any orks on this planet yet, it wouldn’t be the smartest idea either. Because they’d leave their spores everywhere. I don’t think the Inquisition would be too keen on having orks on the planet two or three years after hiring them.
Even though it would definitely be fun to play as an ork.
Cool idea but it’s so unlikely the earth might as well be flat
honestly an Ork band showing up as mercenary with zero explanations from the established characters and npcs, just that theyre there to be mercs, sounds extremely funny.
Like they obviously know, but none of them would deign to talk about it to explain to the players.
