It's mentioned in Codex Eldar and there is at least one reference to
it=
in one of the relatively recent WD's. Basically, Ulthwe raids
shifted pow=
er to favor Ghazghkull Thraka over another Ork who would have
attacked the =
Eldar.
Kinda digressing here, but what's so great about Thraka? They s=
ay
he's supposed to be one of the greatest Warlords yet the only Waagh he's=
personally led has been defeated. I'm pretty sure there are other Orks
men=
tioned who have "ravaged many Imperial worlds" or some such so why
does he =
still get all the fame?
Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka has an odd history. The=
original ork codex Whaaaaagh! The Orks featured diffrent army lists for ea=
ch clan, also may other fun features and rules that were much later lost(my=
two favorites being Gofffic Rok bands and Red wunz go fasta). Anyway Ghazg=
hkull was the warlord of the sample Goff armylist. (Nazdreg, the other Ork =
Warlord charachter was the Bad moon one). In addition to being the first of=
the samples, he had the most charachter. One of the things he had was a ad=
amatimum skull. This allowed you to headbut things in CC, also it gave you =
a 25% chance of having a level 1 psychic power, which Ghazghkull had. (The =
power was called Hammerhand and added +1 to your strenght till the next ps=
ychic phase.) This made Ghazghkull a CC monster(well for an ork, no ork was=
that good in CC in first edition, it had to do with the CC system, which w=
as biased toward high WS.) The fluff described Ghazghkull as tacticly minde=
d for an ork, he was mounted with his rentinue(including goffic rok band!) =
in a battlewagon. Anyway, the stuff about him attacking Armageddon came out=
later. That's the origin of Ghazghkull thraka from my memory of ork histor=
y.
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"Your incorrect assumptions are thr=
eefold."
"You assume law still reigns in the Five Galaxies"
"You assume tha=
t we would be bound by precedents and precepts from the last 10 million yea=
rs."
"But your most incorrect assumption of all is to assume that we care."=
-David Brin, Infinity's Shore
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