Both are fungal killing machinces that metabolize violence. TLDR: The main difference between 40k and Fantasy Orks is that 40k Orks have a Gestalt Field that lets them shape reality as a combined conscious. Cut a 40k Orks arm off and because of their Gestalt Field, he'll just pick a metal claw or something to replace it. Cut a Fantasy Orks arm off, he will feel it and he could likely die. A Fantasy Ork is described as being a hybrid where the fungal part of them acts as a sort of hypermetabolic component that grants them their increased resilience, but has limits. A 40k Ork will keep on trucking so long as he can look at the injury and be like, yea I'll survive that. This applies to getting shot, stabbed, and otherwise mutilated. If he doesn't believe he should die, he won't. They are still fungal animal hybrids who metabolize raw violence as adrenaline and growth hormones, but when a 40k Ork gets older he never has to worry about his age. This is important as, even though they reproduce through similar methodology, fantasy Orks have an expiration date. They just interact with the winds.differently. When controlling the winds, they aren't bending reality any more than the next wizard. Gork and Mork are actual entities not just a convergence of Ork concious made manifest. Killing them just spawns more, and its how they reproduce.įantasy Orks, not so much. 40k Orks are functionally ageless fungal reality altering murder plants. There's even points in the lore when they forget to load the damn thing and it still fires. Another example, their guns don't actually work properly when fired by anyone else. Orks can accomplish literally anything because reality bends to accomodate it so long as the Orks unfailingly believe it. Basically, because Orks in 40k universally believe that red makes things go faster, red does in fact make things go faster. This field retains a 'charge' based on pack mentality.

They also project a sort of energy field, not quite psychic or mystic, that allows them to alter reality. In 40k Orks are Asexually reproducing fungi that metabolize violence. Here's another lore point where fantasy and 40k diverge. 2K A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia.846 A Total War Saga: Fall of the Samurai.

Warhammer orks red goes faster