"HAVOK miniatures rules" Topic

At least one manufacturer offers a line of half-orcs. (Jacobite)

Which implies there are enough half-orcs that someone can organize them into fighting units or even entire armies.

Now, in the usual way of fantasy, I would assume that half-orcs are more human and less Orcish. If you think Orcs are weak, then half-Orcs are stronger; if you think Orcs are big and strong, then half-Orcs are weaker. And I would think that half-orcs are more inclined to have settlements and basic civilization.

I'm putting together my half-orc army, so I have to think about these things!

Don't confine yourself to half way between the two parents. Crosses can be quite different in useful ways. For instance a dromedary/Bactrian cross produces a stronger, larger and better tempered beast than either of its parents and was used in war.

An armies of half Orcs deliberately breed for some, useful in war, caricaturist not present in their parents makes sense.

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I tend to enjoy thinking of empires/kingdoms/countries where the half-orcs are actually from long lines of inter-mixing, wherein there are generations and generations of half-orcs, as well as more recent mixes and the purebreed human and orc. Usually such empires/kingdoms/countries would lie in between human and orc lands, and I tend to enjoy thinking of them as a sort of dark or evil land (as I think of most orcs being dark or evil)

I had, have, a D&D world were a very Mongolesque Orc horde over took half of a large Chineseesque human empire. One of the grandsons of the original warlord, a Half Orc fathered on an Imerial Princess, began a deliberate process of "Humanification". Attempting to unify the two main races of his empire.

His reasoning was that Half Orcs were generally smarter, better behaved and better looking than their Orcish barbarian parents, but also stronger, more trustworthy, and able to see in the dark better than their human parents.

One of the ways he would guarantee a large Half Orc population was through a tax deduction each Half Orc child in a household. This would make Orc landowners more likely to care for their by-blows, and human families less likely to drown theirs in rice patties.

Mules