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Among the hierarchy of an Ork Waaagh!, size, wealth in teef, and sheer violent arrogance determine who rules. When a battle-scarred Nob grows rich enough—and survives enough head-wounds—he pays a Mekboy and a Painboy a sack of teef to weld him inside a suit of Mega Armour. Powered by belching diesel-promethium boilers and hydraulic pistons salvaged from Imperial dreadnoughts or battle tanks, Meganobz waddle into the thickest fighting like walking scrap-metal safes, laughing as bolter shells ping harmlessly off their hazard-striped iron plates.
Appearance & wargear
Massive green-skinned Orks encased in boxy, riveted iron-and-yellow-hazard-striped exoskeletons topped with horned iron jaw-plates, wielding twin buzzing Killsaws or a Power Klaw and twin-linked Kustom Shoota.
Weapons & Vehicles
The brutal, heavy-cleaving blades and ear-splittingly loud pistols of the Ork Boyz—crude slabs of scrap iron made lethal by greenskin m…
An oversized servo-assisted armoured gauntlet sheathed in a matter-shredding energy field, capable of tearing open tank hulls and crush…
The ramshackle, turbo-charged open-topped assault trucks and spiked Battlewagons of the Ork Speed Freeks, hurtling Boyz into melee at b…
Pyromaniac Orks with combined flamethrower-cutting torches, as useful to the Meks for salvage as they are for burning out the enemy.
The rare Orks touched by Mork's low cunning, who creep, camouflage and ambush instead of charging, and who are distrusted by other Orks…
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Battlefield role & tactics
Riding into battle inside Battlewagons or Trukks, Meganobz smash straight into the centre of the enemy line to rip apart Terminators, Dreadnoughts, and battle tanks.
Munitorum & Ordo Xenos Technical Dossier
Classified under Ordo and Departmento Munitorum threat-index protocols as a primary Riding into battle inside Battlewagons or Trukks, Meganobz smash straight into the centre of the enemy line to rip apart Terminators, Dreadnoughts, and battle tanks. asset of Orks, Meganobz relies on a tightly coupled symbiosis between operator conditioning and primary armament. Field maintenance and biological recovery logs indicate that extended deployment without liturgical recalibration or bio-stasis rest degrades targeting and metabolic stability by less than 4% per solar week—far outperforming standard sector baselines—while post-engagement recovery teams prioritize the immediate extraction of their core wargear, neural/gene-seed components, or machine-spirit memory cores before enemy scavengers can exploit them.
Notable battles & users
- 998.M41 — Ghazghkull Thraka's personal bodyguard of Meganobz (“Da Heavy Boyz”) crushed the outer gates of Hive Tartarus on Armageddon.
Related
Characters (3)
Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka · Prophet of Gork and Mork
Makari · Banner-waver of Ghazghkull
Mad Dok Grotsnik · Painboy of Ghazghkull's Waaagh!
