Hi everyone, right now we're busy adding the finishing touches to the dedicated campaigns for each of our four factions in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV . The Space Marines, Necrons, the Adeptus Mechanicus and Orks will each enjoy their own mission-based narrative as part of the game's overall story, but today we want to talk a bit more about what you can expect from the Orks. It's fair to say that leaving the Orks out of Dawn of War IV was never going to be an option for us! They're one of theiconic Dawn of War factions along with the Blood Ravens, and we couldn't resist the chance to bring back Warboss Gorgutz either, an important character from the earlier Dawn of War games.

Beyond the characters though, what makes the Orks so interesting is they might just be the only Warhammer 40,000 faction that's always having fun. For the uninitiated, these guys are all about fighting and brutality, and there's no shortage of either in the grim darkness of the far future. Put simply, the Orks live for war, killing every single thing they come across. This sense of relentless bloodlust actually plays a really important role in how they approach combat. Take the Ork's Waaagh! mechanic, for example, which in Dawn of War acts a little bit like an energy meter that fills up based on the number of Orks you have on the battlefield, as well as the number of enemies you've killed.