So... Wh40k 1st edition

[Luka-boy]

Where is it from :D ?

I found it in the very first blog you posted. It's for a joke mission in Space Hulk and it includes some special moves and equipment. Here's the rest:
http://fuckyeahbritisholdschoolgami...nce-steps-for-gws-space-hulk-game-from-dragon

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

 

[crufty]

retconning squats was sign of decline, wh40k rt rip


(although epic squat trains was a bit strange)

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

retconning squats was sign of decline, wh40k rt rip


(although epic squat trains was a bit strange)

I think squats have declined severely when they went away from the AD2000-style craziness of the RT rulebook and they tried to make them into viking-dwarves in space.

Ironically, the reason for their demise is that the designers felt they "had failed to do the Dwarf 'archetype' justice in its 40K incarnation".
http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=11181

Goddamnit, the rulebook squats were just right :shakefist: !

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

retconning squats was sign of decline, wh40k rt rip


(although epic squat trains was a bit strange)

After some thinking I came to conclusion that the disappearance of Squats are linked to changing Orks from absolutely unpleasant Tolkien-style Orks to crazy lovable brutes.
Orks simply have stolen the Squat's niche.

Early Orks:

Orks from early 90s:

 

[crufty]

After some thinking I came to conclusion that the disappearance of Squats are linked to changing Orks from absolutely unpleasant Tolkien-style Orks to crazy lovable brutes.

god you can almost feel the opium / drug induced artistry going on in wh40k rt art...i loved that book. binding was shit.

there is some truth to your point.

the original wh40k Orks were 'pre GW Corp' Orks--they were definitely divergent, and there was no real cohesive art style to wh40k RT--it was as if, if the shit was cool it was stuffed in there, somewhere. The cooler the better. Then the game came after...game and art feeding after each other. It made for glorious, but at times truly unplayable, gaming.

The Orks you are posting are really just the WHFB Ork minis, some kind of GW standardization bs

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

binding was shit.

My RT rulebook also fell apart :D .

god you can almost feel the opium / drug induced artistry going on in wh40k rt art...i loved that book. binding was shit.

there is some truth to your point.

the original wh40k Orks were 'pre GW Corp' Orks--they were definitely divergent, and there was no real cohesive art style to wh40k RT--it was as if, if the shit was cool it was stuffed in there, somewhere. The cooler the better. Then the game came after...game and art feeding after each other. It made for glorious, but at times truly unplayable, gaming.

RT rulebook heavily featured Wil Rees'es and Ian Miller's art, it gave a very dark and fucked up atmosphere to it. I'm not sure if drugs were involved, though. Possibly just all the inspiration from Durer, Bosch and Bruegel. Too bad they haven't continued with it. Though I heard Wil Rees'es designs for Space Marines were simply impossible to mass produce (in plastic?) due to the amount of detail which is the reason why they went with the simplified ones.
Wil Reese quit after the Rulebook and Ian Miller after Slaves to Darkness and Wh40k art lost a lot of grittiness.

My own style owes a lot to Wil Reese (combined with with my disgraphia ) and some of my works attempt to capture the atmosphere of the earliest Wh40k.

Another thing was the AD2000 comic book style that disappeared in later RT.

The Orks you are posting

Which ones?