RE: [Epic] ARMAGEDDON I/II

From: Miller, Chris <CMiller_at_...>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 12:14:31 -0500

> 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 power to favor Ghazghkull Thraka over another Ork who would have
>attacked the Eldar.
> Kinda digressing here, but what's so great about Thraka? They say
>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
>mentioned who have "ravaged many Imperial worlds" or some such so why
>does he still get all the fame?
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>Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka has an odd history. The original ork codex
>Whaaaaagh! The Orks featured diffrent army lists for each 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 Ghazghkull 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 adamatimum 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 psychic 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 was biased toward high
>WS.) The fluff described Ghazghkull as tacticly minded 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 history.
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>"You assume that we would be bound by precedents and precepts from the last
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---------> The "Battle for Armageddon" board game had a fair amount of
info in it...
And they put info on the chaos invasion in the WD which had the pieces
to
fight it (assuming you had the armaggeddon game...)

Chris Miller

(BTW the Armageddon set is basically an Eastern Front WW2 game - beyond
 the map itself, lots of crappy, slow units, and a few fast, tough
smashy units.
Imps are Russians, orks are Germans - for those of you who haven't seen
it.
There are not a huge number of counters in the game, and it plays fairly
fast.
 (Fast & loose some might say, but I'll resist the temptation to make
that pun)
        Certainly adds some color to those stale old grey/brown counter
mixes...)

Chris Miller

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