Very often the Waaagh! is named after this warboss. The third use of Waaagh! is the name for the massive horde of Orks gathered under a single Warboss - an individual Ork who is invariably the largest, most dominating and physically intimidating, and therefore able to unite different warbands of Orks into a horde, almost always for the purpose and duration of undertaking a Waaagh! in the second sense of the word. Thus, the longer a Waaagh goes on the more numerous it becomes. As the Waaagh rages on, more Orks will hear of the fighting and travel to where the action is. Waaagh!s naturally gain in size and impetus as long as they're successful and have something to fight. Just who is invaded is a matter of supreme indifference to the Waaagh! battle is battle. In a typical Waaagh!, millions of battle-hungry Orks invade their target and stomp everything in their way flat.
This undertaking combines the aspects of a mass migration, a holy war, a looting party and a pub crawl, with a bit of genocide thrown in for good measure. Waaagh! also describes the rare occasions when Orks stop fighting amongst themselves and band together against other races. Waaagh! as an Event See also: List of Ork Waaaghs! Waaagh! energy can also be manipulated by the Weirdboyz in an array of deadly psychic powers.
ĭuring the War of the Beast, members of the Adeptus Mechanicus noticed how Ork weapons only seemed to activate when they came into contact with a Greenskin.
A gathering of Orks generates a psychic field known as the Waaagh!, which allows Orks to instinctively recognize who is "bigga" and therefore in charge.