Yeah I stared for a minute at my Ork and newly created Dark Angel in the character select screen, Orks are actually considerably taller and larger here than in lore. Considering we need bigger models for Nobs, they could shrink current Orks by 20% for boyz, increase by 20% for Nobs and voila.
Again...there is no set standard of an ork must be this tall to waaaggghhh!!! If the waaaggghhh is big enough then the ork population also gets bigger. Look at beast arises series. Thats a galaxy spanning waaaggghhh thanks to that the general ork is actually bigger than a SM. They had nobs almost as big as dreadnaughts and the beast himself is supposed to friggen massive for an ork. Since the waaaggghhh on Arkohna is this massive multiple faction smash up it only makes sense that the more intense fighting is reaulting in bigger and deadlier orks. Look at the Octarius sector with the massive ork v nid fight going on. Both sides are undergoing a constant arms race of evolution vs getting bigger and meaner. If one side of that conflict ever wins the rest of the galaxy is probably fucked.
Totally agree with your size argument, honestly I don't remember why I wrote what I wrote haha. I meant to say Orks in EC "could be smaller than now" and still fit lore, not that they should be. My guiding principle in this matter is to find an easier solution for boy-nob relative size difference. Bigga iz bettah, dats for sho!
When i saw the title of this thread i genuinely expected something else for the content. Maybe one of those spam emails you all get from time to time
Nah, they're a decent height for boyz. Space marines in power armor are about 6'8" and don't really vary much from that size. Boyz are about man-sized generally speaking (in their regular, hunched posture) so 6'-ish. Ork boyz in EC are slightly shorter than marines, so they seem to be a "normal" size.
Last I knew Marines were usually 7' 6" and bigger. Your average Imperial Guardsman only comes up to the base of a Marine's sternum. And just because, I agree they're gonna have to make Nobs bigger. An increase to overall Toughness and Hit Points should be a good way to balance the reduced ability to use cover. Or just make animations where they crouch down further than a normal ork. Either way essentially the entire Ork community feels this way so they're definitely gonna have to make some kind of change.
What people are forgetting is that the orks on arkohna atm are not just normal ork boys, the player character orks are considered skarboys. bigger better and more skilled ork boys. lore wouldn't allow normal ork boys to take on multiple, tactical space marines, assault, and a wolf priest, and hope to come out on top. BUT a skarboy/nob... could. >:3 (っ◔◡◔)っ ♥ Orky Noises ♥
I dont think a scar boy would even stand a chance against a marine by himself. Marines are incredibly overpowered in the lore compared to how we see them in this game or tabletop. A single marine would EASILY destroy a skarboy. A Nob on the other hand would pose a worthy challenge to a marine however.
Oiz forgot dat sperce marines are all theoretical godz dat can conquer entire planets with only a few squads of em. I'ma just gana go back an watch the DoW3 trailer az an ork ripz of a sperce marinez arm.
