peterx  | 29 Sep 2015 7:28 p.m. PST |
In your games over your life , how many orcs have you (your units) killed on the tabletop battlefields. Or how many pinkies (humans) have you and your orc units killed? In round numbers. |
| Brian Smaller | 29 Sep 2015 7:31 p.m. PST |
Now that really depends on the scale being used  A lot. |
| peterx | 29 Sep 2015 7:33 p.m. PST |
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| Raynman | 29 Sep 2015 7:46 p.m. PST |
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| Wackmole9 | 29 Sep 2015 7:54 p.m. PST |
76,942 at current,(that's from playing Chain mail,D&D,A D&D, Merps, Warhammer, Warmaster and Lord of the rings) but I'am always looking for easy Experience points. |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 29 Sep 2015 8:05 p.m. PST |
In my RPG days, thousands – our DM believed in the "weak orc" theory, and our characters were quite powerful. |
 Extra Crispy  | 29 Sep 2015 8:12 p.m. PST |
2 Three if that wounded one died later… |
| Winston Smith | 29 Sep 2015 9:06 p.m. PST |
We too followed the "weak Orc" philosophy. I would charge in screaming "Orcs are pussies!"
With such a viewpoint, why would I keep score? It's not as if they were worth counting. |
 Doctor X | 29 Sep 2015 10:06 p.m. PST |
I'm sure those orcs mattered to someone… |
| Ancestral Hamster | 29 Sep 2015 10:49 p.m. PST |
I'm sure those orcs mattered to someone… "The day the Order of St. Michael destroyed your Chaotic Evil orcish village was the most momentous in its history. For the Lawful Good paladins of the Order, it was Tuesday." "Me Urbash. You kill Urbash's father. You die now." As for my own gaming exploits, hundreds, but not thousands of orcs. Like Mr. Smith, I did not keep count. Although the human and good-aligned elven body count is also pretty high. In WHFB I ran Dark Elves and Undead … |
| Dark Fable | 30 Sep 2015 1:43 a.m. PST |
Absolutely no idea about total numbers – but I can tell you the very first orc I killed was in 1978. We were playing Dungeons and Dragons for the very first time. We wandered around this dungeon finding nothing in most rooms until finally we came upon a lone orc in a room. The whole party surged forward and in a frenzy of hacking and slashing killed the orc . . . the first of many, many more to come . . . |
| MajorB | 30 Sep 2015 2:13 a.m. PST |
"How many orks/orcs have you killed?" I lost count after the second. |
 etotheipi | 30 Sep 2015 2:35 a.m. PST |
We had a six-sided (with shifting alliances during the game) Orc Uncivil War with about 50 starting units and 25 reserves per side. |
| FABET01 | 30 Sep 2015 3:30 a.m. PST |
My abacus won't go that high. |
| Balin Shortstuff | 30 Sep 2015 6:47 a.m. PST |
Not enough. 
Never enough. |
| mad monkey 1 | 30 Sep 2015 7:17 a.m. PST |
Killing orcs is like mowing da yard. Do you count the grassblades you dismember? |
| Mute Bystander | 30 Sep 2015 8:23 a.m. PST |
My current Old School (Der Kriegspieler and early 1980s Ral Partha) Goblins and Dwarf armies are the only remaining large forces for Fantasy gaming. Lost count of who has killed how many of the other races over the past decades (three or four depending on if you count partial decades or only 'whole' decades.) Over the years I have gotten rid of the majority of the human and orc figures but back in the day they all died on the tabletop in droves. |
| Rrobbyrobot | 30 Sep 2015 9:42 a.m. PST |
Not enough. They're still running around doing mischief. Pesky nuisances… |
| Patrick Sexton | 30 Sep 2015 10:16 a.m. PST |
Mordor's 'Army of the Anduin'( my post 1988 'Evil' collection) never knew defeat and had some great BBQ in the post victory celebrations. :) It also helped that the primary collectors of what I laughingly call 'The Side of Good' wouldn't cooperate at all. A great sight was when the Riders of Rohan abandoned the Dwarvish army to its fate. Good times…good times… |
 Parzival | 30 Sep 2015 11:08 a.m. PST |
Orc, goblin, kobold, gnoll--
All but polish for my blade
Who makes the tally or keeps the toll?
Death knows the count within his shade,
But I care not, nor keep a score
I slew them all,
And shall slay more
With nary a thought for numbers or for need,
They served their haughty lords,
And dying, justified the deed.
Hordes have I slaughtered,
And shall slaughter further hordes,
Their numbers are unending,
But then, so are my swords.
So, bring on the battle,
In dungeons, woods, or mountain rocks
For when the final killing's done
And when the hard fought vict'ry's won
I'll gather the fallen, every one
And return them to the box. |
| Frederick | 30 Sep 2015 11:15 a.m. PST |
As with many of the above, Orks and goblins beyond numbering |
| Cerdic | 30 Sep 2015 1:34 p.m. PST |
Is there an option for 'none, I only play historical wargames'? |
| Mithmee | 30 Sep 2015 5:55 p.m. PST |
our DM believed in the "weak orc" theory, and our characters were quite powerful. Bad DM. I believe in the smart Orc/Ork and they setup clever ambushes that gave the characters a hard battle. Had one setting that I never got to use on a group of characters – Characters were camped by a river and the Orc Shaman was going to cast a Wall of Fog that would mix in with the the real normal fog. They would have never saw what was coming. But to answer the question: Yes thousands upon thousands. |
| 21eRegt | 30 Sep 2015 6:48 p.m. PST |
They number beyond the counting of stars… |
| Banned for Hating Trolls | 01 Oct 2015 8:00 a.m. PST |
Oddly enough none of the RPG DM's I've played under has really used Orcs all that often. So I'm guessing no more than a couple hundred on the RPG table. If you count computer games such as Everquest, World of Warcraft, etc then the number really jumps. I'm guessing several thousand easy. Finally, I actually play Orcs in Warhammer Fantasy battles and also Space Orks in Warhammer 40k. So in the tradition of callous military commanders I've sent untold thousands of Orcs to their little lead or plastic deaths. So I'm guessing my body count is somewhere in the neighborhood of 12-15k. Does that make me a mass murderer or guilty of genocide? |
