The new Beast Snagga 40k Ork is the latest member of the Klan coming with the long-awaited codex- check it out!
While New Model Monday was pretty sweet, Orks are getting some serious love in the month of April. While they said the release would be every week, they seemed to have skipped the last one (womp, womp). Still, this week the Greentide did see a new preview on Warhammer Community.
This time, we’re getting a vision of what the new foot sloggers will look like for them. So if you don’t want an entire army of Orks riding Squiggas, it looks like you’ll be able to! Unfortunately, it’s just a single mini this time, but we’ll take what we can get! Let’s check out the first mini, then hop into the newest one!
New 40k Orks Previews from GW
Listen up, boyz. We’z ‘ad sum right strange types appearin’ in da last few days, and I wanna know what they’z doing in my Waaagh! Last time you lot poked around one of them weird ladz, Bogrot’s ‘ead exploded, so this time we’z got sum captive ‘oomies to find out wot they’z up to in a new regular series on the Waaaghammer Comoonity site: ‘Ere we go!
The Beast Snaggas are part of the Snakebite Clan and make use of the biggest mounts they can. They also mention that anyone can use them, because who can’t see the usefulness of giant Orks on Squighogs? Even though they don’t like all the fancy machines of their Speedfreaks cousins, doesn’t mean they don’t like to go fast, the Squighogs are red after all. And, they still add rockets to their spears and some mechanical legs when they need to.
Their appreciation for ‘da old ways’, and their disregard for more complex Orky technology, leads many of the Snakebite clan to become Beast Snaggas, although their ilk can be found across the entire spectrum of Ork society.** Even a no-nonsense Goff can look at a squighog’s shockingly large teeth and figure out how best to apply them to some poor git’s face.
New Beast Snagga 40k Orks Revealed by GW!
A (relatively short) lifetime of hunting huge, dangerous beasts have made these Orks particularly large and strong in comparison with regular Boyz. While they’re not quite as durable as a Nob, they can certainly swing their choppas just as hard, which makes them especially prone to lording it over the Boyz they charge alongside.
As if they weren’t tough enough already, the frequent and plentiful injuries that come as part of any career in squig-wrangling* mean frequent trips to the Dok, and by necessity Beast Snagga Doks are some of the most ‘creative’ around. Thankfully, we haven’t had a reason to catch a look at one up close just yet, but surely they can’t be any worse than Ghazghkull’s personal sawbones…
It looks like they’ll be a little stronger than a normal boy, with the possibility of some more gear as well. With them being constantly enhanced by the Doks, who knows what little upgrades you can give them. Since they say more than once, they are less common, we’re guessing they’ll be a decent amount higher in points than a regular boy. We’ll have to wait for more for points and rules, but we’re excited to see them!
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About the Author: Travis Pasch
Travis Pasch
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About Travis Pasch: Travis has been a Warhammer 40k hobbyist since the 1990s, playing the game since Third Edition. Through extensive traveling, he’s seen a lot of the miniatures hobby from across the world, giving him a unique perspective on the latest gaming topics and trends.
Travis’s brother even owns a commission painting studio, where he’s picked up a lot of good advice and techniques for painting Warhammer and tabletop miniatures over the years, as well. Travis joined the Spikey Bits team in 2019 and has been the lead writer since 2020.
Currently, he’s working on converting all his 40k Adeptus Mechanicus models and becoming a true tech enjoyer, complete with both sad and happy robot noises!
