Portal:Orcs and Goblins

Orcs and Goblins have been looting, pillaging and wreaking wanton havoc and destruction across the Old World since the elves abandoned it. Their history is a fragmented affair, being not much more than the rise and fall of powerful tribes and their subsequent attempt at conquest, their Waaagh!, rolling across the old world. The oldest enemies of the Greenskins are the Dwarfs, whose once mighty empire has been under attack for thousands of years by the Greenskin tribes of the Worlds Edge Mountains, and whose ruined strongholds have provided a home for Greenskin ‘Kultur’.

Orc and Goblin armies range from ragtag bands of cunning but puny goblins, vicious and numerous but none too formidable, to huge, (relatively) organised armies of greenskin warriors, ranging from the suicidal Night Goblin Fanatics to the grim, armour clad brutes that are the Black Orcs. Greenskins have also been known to employ all manner of murderous beasts including Boars, Squigs and even Trolls in their conquests, and even the smallest Snotling will tag along for the Waaagh! No warrior or regiment in a Greenskin warband should never be underestimated. Everything counts in large amounts…

Orcs and Goblins are split into tribes and clans, each lead by bosses and Shamans, and each believing in it’s own superiority. As such Greenskin tribes can spend as much time fighting each other as they can fighting their enemies. A successful Waaagh! Requires a Leader that can cease the quarrelling and keep tribes together long enough to kill their enemies instead of each other. The greatest greenskin leaders are those whose names still strike fear into the hearts of men, and have great grudges borne against them by the Dwarfs: those such as Gorbad Ironclaw, Skarsnik, Warlord of the Eight Peaks, Gorfang Rotgut, Azhag The Slaughter, and the unstoppable Grimgor Ironhide.

Greenskins like Shiny Stuff: Trophies, trinkets, magic items, big axes, anything that makes them look Bigger and ‘Arder. Over the centuries Greenskin Waaaghs have accumulated many magical weapons and items, many of which are even more effective then the fearsome weapons they normally wield. In addition to all this, Orcs and Goblins have their own varieties of magic, personified by their shamans in the name of their Deities Gork and Mork. They ride, raise and hunt strange flora and fauna, and create crude but fearsome machines of war.