Ork's Drift - Massacre at Big Toof River | Warhammer 40k Lore

"Don't shoot until you see the reds of their eyes!"

Subscribed, definitely love the overview battle reports and correct me if I’m wrong but this is from an old White Dwarf Battle Report.

I like the serious historical voice narration with the ork terminology <3 that's commitment. Keep it up

oh oh ,Ive seen this one before

Aspiring rappers sir, thousands of them

Big Toof? That must be intentional.xD

I can see Paul Sawyer's face commanding these orcs. That was one of the best battle reports in all of Wh40ks History.

''Orks to the south sir...tharsands of them'' ......

I didn't know that there were orks that worked with the imperium

Hooky the ratling hahahaha. The original hooky in zulu was a miserable bastard. Makes sense he was a ratling.

I love sone of these old lore battles.

No greater courage for a Guardsman than to stand defiant in the face of his enemies with the burning fury of the Emperor in his eyes.

2 regiments is an army? that could barely hold the frontage of avdiivka

This one action had the most Emperors Aquileia's for valor awarded to one unit in Imperial history.

Now that's a funny reference

Everything that happened is Rorke's drift 4000. 🤣

This battle reminds me of Battle Of Zulu

Love your stuff x

algo

For some reason I have watched this twice.

This is the problem with warhammer lore. For something that’s so massive the numbers are just proportionally tini

It’s warefare written by people who don’t know it and sometimes I find it jarring

I was fully expecting the ratling to take out the warboss…

Riminds me of rorke drift or how is it called.

Hooky the ratling, this is obviously a sci fi version of The Battle of Rorks drift. In real life pvt Hook received a Victorian Cross for his actions during the batte..

BUTTON UP THAT FLACK JACKET, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, MAN!?

Orks running away from a fight because they took too many losses? That's ... unexpected.

Most incompetent ruling class ever.

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If anyone is interested in the white dwarf battle report of Glazers Farm, it's Issue 222.

This original battle report was in one of the first White Dwarf magazines I bought, and it's still the battle report I remember most fondly. They guys really put a lot of effort into that write-up....or they were just inspired. Anyways, it was nice to be reminded of it once again. (wanders off to my old magazine shelf)

It's interesting that this campaign was seemingly inspired by two different South African battles: the Battle of Blood River, where the Zulu were defeated by the Boers in a similar way to the Imperium being defeated by the Orcs, with especially high casualties being inflicted during the retreat across the river; and Rorke's Drift, obviously, where this time the Imperium stands in for the British and the Orcs for the Zulu.

What of Hookey the Rattling?

I know that there have been tonnes of zulu style quotes (or renditions of men of harlach). So here is my contribution.

"it's a miracle."

"If it is a miracle colour sergeant, it's a lasgun, emperor blessed miracle."

"And a bayonet sir. With some guts behind it."

I wish they re-released the praetorian guard as an alternate astra militarum regiment choice, but they probably dropped them cos of potential backlash of how it probably glamourised colonialism or something, which is stupid to be honest..

other table top games can still do the whole british redcoat thing by doing napoleonic version of the table top game, so i don't understand why they cannot just re-bring out other guard regiments, i love my Cadians alot, especially basing them on the 8th Cadian Regiment (Creeds Own/Creeds Pride) because i would totally start collecting praetorians for sure if they brought them back out with new models and such like they did for the cadians.

I think theirs also a piece of artwork showing the Praetorians fighting the orks too!.

I remember this battle report, ahh loved those models. Wish I had picked some up back then :D

First rank..FIRE!!
Second rank ..FIRE!!
Third rank..FIRE!!

I still remember reading this battle report in White Dwarf as a kid. It was also one of the very few Warhammer things that impressed by dad (an old school WWII wargamer). Amazing work, thank you.

Why did they not kill the warboss?

Grease for the wheel

So this is mixture of the battle of little big horn and roke's drift

Love it haha so good to do this from White Dwarf and shouting out the remake/sequel they did years later.

I love how its based from Rorkes drift, from the regiment, uniforms, and more.😂

This is dumb

Orks Drift... err... I took a wrong turn... was expecting elves and dwarves ..

cant wait for ork wellington to defeat orkpoleon

Come on! Sing!

Love from Danmark