Black Orcs, red armour??

[HolyMolyOllyPoly]

Why in the world do Black Orcs wear red-coloured armour in the game? The Warhammer wikia states:

"Named after their darker shade of green, their thick black-colored armor and their horrendously foul odor"

So, what? Is this just a stupid oversight on CA's part? Are the artists over at CA colour blind? How come they wear red armour? This makes no sense to me.

[TVMAN]

Maybe they just wanted to run faster?

[Baragon-Kun]

Itz cuz teh red unz go fasta!

And GW painted some in red too. http://whfb-de.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/7/74/Schwarzorks_m._Zweihandwaffen.gif

[Spotty Dog]

JUst get the better Black Orcs mod you fool. There you go, black black orcs. Viola.

[HolyMolyOllyPoly]

Originally posted by ebod1974:

JUst get the better Black Orcs mod you fool. There you go, black black orcs. Viola.

Originally posted by Ranger:

There is a mod to fix this if you want.

Edit:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=833820266

I'm well aware of the mod and I use it, but the problem is that CA basically threw lore out the window without a care in the world.

[Baragon-Kun]

Originally posted by HolyMolyOllyPolly:

I'm well aware of the mod and I use it, but the problem is that CA basically threw lore out the window without a care in the world.

Games Workshop official paintjob:
https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammerfb/images/a/aa/Metal_Black_Orcs_With_Great_Weapons.gif/revision/latest?cb=20160730031610

[StrangeAK47]

blak iz betta [thepaintingshopworld.com]

[Battlekruse]

Red Ones Go Faster!!!

For some odd reason, Orcs thinks that red things just seem to go faster. So thats why they paint anything red sometimes.

Therefore there motto is:

"Green iz best", but "red goes fasta"

[ArchaicReaper]

Originally posted by Battlekruse:

Red Ones Go Faster!!!

For some odd reason, Orcs thinks that red things just seem to go faster. So thats why they paint anything red sometimes.

Therefore there motto is:

"Green iz best", but "red goes fasta"

No that's Orks in 40K, Orcs in Fantasy don't do that last I checked.
It's also not an odd reason, Orks have a sort of collective psychic field so what they believe becomes reality. They think red paint makes things go faster so they actually do go faster. They think their slapped together guns work so they do.

[ArchaicReaper]

Originally posted by Maschinengewehr:

Originally posted by ArchaicReaper:

No that's Orks in 40K, Orcs in Fantasy don't do that last I checked.
It's also not an odd reason, Orks have a sort of collective psychic field so what they believe becomes reality. They think red paint makes things go faster so they actually do go faster. They think their slapped together guns work so they do.

They do in Fantasy as well.

Orks in 40k are like the ultimate psyker race, they just don't know it XD

They paint things red or generate magic? I know they do the latter, more Orcs means more magic for the Shaman to use. I have never heard of Fantasy Orcs painting things red to go faster. They don't even have any vehicles to paint to make go faster.

Yes they pretty much are, good thing to or they would be actually dangerous to the galaxy at large. Unless it has some kind of catch, like figuring out what you believe becomes real makes it stop working that way.

[Mactalon]

Originally posted by HolyMolyOllyPolly:

I'm well aware of the mod and I use it, but the problem is that CA basically threw lore out the window without a care in the world.

The lore isn't exactly black and white when it comes to some of these things, especially not in this case. Their armour is also black metal along with red. As a game it also needs to function in a way that you can quickly identify your own troops so there has to be some room for colour schemes to change.

They in no way threw the lore out the window XD

[Mactalon]

Originally posted by Maschinengewehr:

Originally posted by ArchaicReaper:

They paint things red or generate magic? I know they do the latter, more Orcs means more magic for the Shaman to use. I have never heard of Fantasy Orcs painting things red to go faster. They don't even have any vehicles to paint to make go faster.

Yes they pretty much are, good thing to or they would be actually dangerous to the galaxy at large. Unless it has some kind of catch, like figuring out what you believe becomes real makes it stop working that way.

They commonly paint chariots red to make 'em go 'arder and fasta.

Yeah, it's something that happens in the Fantasy as well as 40k. It definitely originated in 40k, but as it become more ubiquitous amongst the recognition value of GW Ork(c)s, it got absorbed by the Fantasy ones too, it just has less placement as there's not as many trukks or ships that make an appearance. I do remember seeing a Doom Diver unit on display at a Games Day that worked directly from that motif.

[TVMAN]

Originally posted by Mactalon:

They in no way threw the lore out the window XD

Especially since, y'know, GW has to approve everything. If the owners of the lore say it's okay, then by default it's not 'throwing lore out the window'.

[Hannibal The Snowman]

I see nothing wrong with the Black Orcs, they look pretty badass and it makes sense to me to just call them that for their eliteness.
:3

[Hermóðr]

CA is basing their work on the tabletop models, GW painted them in more red-ish color. So that's why. Same with Karl Franz, his armor is supposed to be black, but his model has more grey plate-ish color.

[SleepyNarwhalz]

A lot of black orcs don't use black armour. The "black" in the name is largely referring to their skin colour.