No Ork has the slightest clue when or where the legend of Saint Snik began, but every Ork begrudgingly agrees after much bickering on how it began... sorta...
It was during a long winter, or was it a wintry planet? No one can be sure, but the Orks were forced to take refugee from the freezing blizzard that had been going on for the best part of a month, curtailing any rationale thought of attack; the few who had tried either frozen to death or died upon reaching the Imperial lines. The Oomie Imperials' were similarly hiding out in their warm dugouts beneath the earth, but unlike the Orks who utterly bored they were already fighting amongst themselves, the Oomies had some pansy, emperor-lovin holiday to raise their spirits and wait the storm out.
It was during one of these lightless days as the guardsman were singing another of their Gork-awful tunes that thankfully no Ork could hear; storm and all that, did a daring kommando that legend would tell you was named Snik, made his way slowly across no-mans land with a handful of very sneaky Grots behind him; all of them dressed in ridiculous head to toe thick dark red furcoats, with heavy bags carried over their shoulders.
The exact details pertaining to the events behind those Oomie lines are often contradictory, and more often than not exceptionally nonsensical, be it one Orks' version saying Snik gave every Oomie within a 10km radius an ear to ear 'smile'; to anothers' that said the Grots were doing all the knife work whilst Snik sat on his arse eating roast aurochus; to the majority favourite, that Snik went 'And to 'And with a hundred Oomies at once, not that Orks can count...
What is well known as fact; or as near as a word of mouth legend comes to fact, that hours after Snik and his Grots had faded into the whiteout of the blizzard, the Imperial lines went up in a display of explosive might.
The multitude of explosions were so numerous and powerful the ground rocked beneath the Orks feet and the seemingly endless storm abated, if only for a few seconds.
When the explosions stopped and silence settled in again, many an Ork waited for Snik to return, but Snik and his Grots were never seen again... Well at least not for a year or so when, like a furry red ghost, he came strolling into another Ork camp, bizzarely on another world. He quickly loaded up with bombs, disappeared towards the enemy, and put on another fiery display for the boyz.
Since those days the exploits of Saint Snik; as he is affectionally know, are spoken of over mugs of fungus beer by highly intoxicated Orks about how he knew an Ork who knew an Ork who had met Saint Snik, or between Yoof and Skarboy with the ever boastful 'I made em some of dem bombs'. Whatever the truth, the legend of Saint Snik and his Grots of Giving grows, year by year, Ork by Ork. If you're very lucky, and the fight has been boring of late, one day you might meet an over dressed Ork in dark red fur, with sack carrying Grots in tow. If you do, sit back, wait a little and watch another legendary explosive spectacle.
Saint Snik's a comin to town!SAINT SNIKs ORK-MAS COMPETITION Welcome to this very special, very orky christmas competition. After a brief debate between myself and the rest of the WotW bosses, we decided to have a painting and conversion competition based around the theme of an Orky style christmas. This would be no Ork dressed like Santa giving out presents, this is Saint Snik season, and he's got plenty of 'Smiles' and bombs to go around.
THE THEMEThis entire competition is about theme, to add little (or a lot) of Ork to the silly season. Be it your model representation of Saint Snik to a bunch of boars pulling a sleigh with a red nosed boar in their lead, you can't really go wrong as long as your entry is both Orky and Christmas (this can be a very loose connection), something we like to call Ork-massy. The above piece of fluff was written to inspire such Ork-massy ideas, as was the creation of Saint Snik.
THE RULESThe rules for this competition and any other I run can be found here, utilising both the Conversion & Painting additional rules, with the following amendments specific to this competition below. You need to follow the link and read the rules, or you will not be following the core rules.RULE AMENDMENTSThe following are the amenments to the core rules above. If these rules change something in the core rules, you follow these instead.
• This competition is a conjoined painting and conversion competiton, open to any member of 40KOnline, Ork player or otherwise. Whilst you don't have to convert any of your model, you do have to paint a conversion with at least 3 colours.
What this means is that if you're strength lies in converting you may enter a model and have it judged fairly, and vice versa.• You may enter any single model, vehicle, unit, diorama, or piece of terrain you wish, as long as it fufills both the rules here and in the main rules thread (link found above).
• The competition will not only have a pole open to all 40KOnline members to vote on their favourite entry, this special competition will have a panel of three (3) judges (still to be chosen) who use the following set of criteria to to come to a verdict on who they think should get top prize.
Yes, this means there will be two 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed winners. Each winner, if part of the Green Menace, will receive 15 Teef in 1st place, 10 Teef for 2nd, and 5 for 3rd. And yes, it might be possible to win both the poll and judges vote, but thats up to you.The Criteria
Painting (1-10 points) - A clean cool paint job is the objective, but if you can make it suitably slick with shading, source lighting and other special techniques you'll get the high score.
Conversion (1-10 points) - Non-stock models with a high attention to detail, so that which has been changed looks like it hasn't. Do it good and you'll score highly.
Originality (1 - 10 points) If you do something no one has ever seen before or something incredibly cool you'll score highly.
Theme (1-10) If the model/s have been painted and/or converted up to the suitable Ork-mas spirit you'll earn highly marks.• The competition will run from the 8th of December to the end of day on the 29th of December (GMT). You may prepare now, but please don't start your entry before the 8th.
If I have forgotten anything, or something is not clear just make a post in this thread, or PM me.
Cheers
Dropfall