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Blood Axes

January 2009·p. 33

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Blood Axes borrow practices from humans, including camouflage, military decorations, organised manoeuvres and trade, provoking suspicion from more straightforward Orks. Their willingness to bargain for tanks or advice goes alongside a fondness for ambushes and withdrawals when these improve the odds of winning later. Human-looking equipment therefore marks a distinct Ork interpretation of warfare rather than discipline in the Imperial sense.

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