Ork Strike Craft
Ramshackle Aces
Ork Fighta
Length: N/A
Wingspan: N/A
Crew: 1 Ork, undetermined number of Grots and/or Squigs
Sunlight engine: Varies
Power supply: Varies
Standard Armament: N/A
Warp Capable: No
Lore: The umbrella term given to all Ork fighters that are capable only as fighter craft.
They are generally capable of atmospheric and Void combat (although more often than not are equally as terrible in both environments) and can have vastly varied armaments, size, speed and protection: but they can be generalised. Most Ork Fightas have their noses crammed with as many high calibre Autocannons and powerful Zzap cannons as the Orks can fit onto the chassis, sticking more onto the Wings until it is only barely flight worthy. The craft then has armour haphazardly bolted, welded or sometimes just dented on with strategically placed punching and hammer blows as they can possibly fit.
The now rather wonky and thrown-together creation is an Ork Fighta.
Given the way that each craft can be so different from one another, it is impossible to make a size estimation, but they are generally quite stubby and fat due to all the armour bolted onto it and heavy ammo it is carrying. Mostly only piloted by the proud owner of the Fighta in question, but sometimes may have grots on board for mid-flight reloads if they weren't fortunate or didn't have the 'teef' to afford actual ammo feeds.
The only 'redeeming' value to these are that they are extremely numerous. Even the smallest Ork carriers somehow finding space crammed inside for anything up to a hundred of these in haphazard and non-uniform swarm-like craft. Orks liking to launch all of their strike craft at once, not understanding tactics and strategy very well. These swarms only get larger with more Ork ships and larger carriers, making them a deadly threat and extreme annoyance to opposing carrier operations.
Ork Fighta-Bommer
Length: N/A
Wingspan: N/A
Crew: 2 Orks, undetermined number of Grots and/or Squigs
Sunlight engine: Varies
Power supply: Varies
Standard Armament: N/A
Warp Capable: No
Lore: The umbrella term for Ork Fighters that can double in the anti-shipping role.
For an Ork, no better craft exists. They provide the savage joy of dakka and speed of the Fighta, and combine it with the deadly explosives of the Bommer. Everything a budding Ork 'pilot' enthusiast could ever want in one strike craft, thus many Fighta owners strive to tinker and upgrade there Fighta craft until it reaches the point where it can be called a Fighta-Bommer, and most Fightas inevitably become Fighta-Bommers.
Same as the Fighta, they double in the atmospheric and Void combat role; and are equally as haphazard and generally terrible in the fighter role. The main difference these have from the Fightas is that they are normally noticeably larger (although still so varied it's hard to generalise) to accommodate room for crude bombs and rockets. These making them equally terrible as bombers.
They normally have a crew of two Orks, a rear gunner/bombardier and the pilot (optional grots also coming along or getting 'accidently' caught up in its gears as stowaways).
Again, like all Ork Strike Craft, their only real advantage is numbers. It being quite normal for most carriers to deploy hundreds of them at once.
Ork Bommer
Length: N/A
Wingspan: N/A
Crew: Varies
Sunlight engine: Varies
Power supply: Varies
Standard Armament: N/A
Warp Capable: No
Lore: The Ork Bommers, and all their variants, are massive even by bomber standards.
The huge craft are varied, like all Ork craft, beyond what can be reasonably generalised but there are three variants that are distinguished from each other by the Orks: the Bommer, the Eavy Bommer (like as pictured) and the Blasta Bommer. All generally characterised by a ridiculously heavy armament of guns of all sizes and types and a massive armament of missiles and bombs.
The Bommer is the smallest and quickest, but none are by any means small or fast as most are around the size and dimensions of StarHawks.
The Eavy Bommer is more of a giant flying fortress than a strike craft. It barely moves, but can throw up a flack wall that can put some smaller warships to shame and has a payload that can crack open even the largest of ships.
The Blasta Bommer, which forgoes bombs and missiles to make room for a massive gun that you would normally find batteries of on the broadsides of a Lite Krooza or on the prow of an Ork escort. Of course such a weapon is prone to failure, and as much a danger to the strike craft firing as it is to whatever is on the receiving end.
Normally not as many of these are carried by Ork carriers as the Fightas and Fighta bommers, a limitation of their immense size, but the vast swarms are normally pock-marked with enough Bommers of all shapes and sizes, making them an immense danger to any warship facing them.
(Before anyone asks, Orks don't really have assault craft. They just strap themselves to whatever flies in order to board ships.)
