Steve Posted February 14, 2018 Report Share Posted February 14, 2018 I’ve been looking through Hero’s martial arts handbook and trying to decide what real world styles would be good for orcs to use, styles that would fit them. In addition to Dirty Infighting, the styles of Boxing, Muay Thai, Pankration and Wrestling seem like reasonable ones I could start with, giving them more Orcish names. Are there any others that seem like they would be a good fit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantriped Posted February 14, 2018 Report Share Posted February 14, 2018 The first thing that comes to mind is a style based on Axemanship and various orcish axe designs. When I imagine orcish hordes, I can't help but put axes in their hands. Hyper-Man and Steve 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L0rd_Magg0t Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 Ork fight from Warcraft Movie. https://youtu.be/HZ_DOmFABGA I would probly go with Dirty Inboxing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 GURPS Martial Arts (3rd Edition) included an Orc martial art called "Smasha." Here is the wrie-up (from a campaign blog, not from SJ Games); you can translate it to HERO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadowsoul Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 This might give you some ideas. I think something with pole-arms or two-handed swords/axes would work well for orcs. Or just a very offensive style based on smashing the enemy to a pulp before they can fight back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 17, 2018 Report Share Posted February 17, 2018 ... What kind of Orc? Snága? Uruk Hai? Warhammer? Warhammer 40k? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper-Man Posted February 17, 2018 Report Share Posted February 17, 2018 African or European? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted February 17, 2018 Report Share Posted February 17, 2018 On 2/14/2018 at 11:42 PM, L0rd_Magg0t said: Ork fight from Warcraft Movie. https://youtu.be/HZ_DOmFABGA I would probly go with Dirty Inboxing Dirty inboxing? Sending obscene emails? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary suggests mud wrestling tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Trencher Posted February 20, 2018 Report Share Posted February 20, 2018 If you have "nature hulk" orcs like in world of warcraft I would go with a high risk and hard hitting axe and shield style. Wild swing, martial dodge, offensive block and so on. For their fist martial art they use between themselves I would use some kind of kickboxing or tae known do. A mix of the most hard hitting parts would do. As for Tolkien orcs like we saw in Shadow of Mordor or other "war clone orcs" I would go with no martial art for most orcs as they preferred method would be to push an opponent down so they could step on his neck or swing a enemy around so they could stab him in the back with a hidden dagger. Just some skill levels in hth would do. Except for the orchish elite forces where they would have the martial art suitable to their weapon, (fencing, spear fighting) and so on and Commando training. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja-Bear Posted February 21, 2018 Report Share Posted February 21, 2018 Years ago I wrote up a martial art style using the build components. Basically I made it purely offensive I had no block or dodges in the system. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Posted February 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2018 Thank you for the ideas. The orcs I was thinking of were more like Tolkien/D&D orcs rather than Warcraft or Warhammer orcs. For weapon fighting, I was just planning to use the one detailed in the martial arts handbook, since it seems to cover things pretty well. I could rename maneuvers to something more orcish though. Commando Training sounds like a possibility, and the Brick martial art style in the handbook seems like it could also work. I don't see an orc using Martial Dodge or Nerve Strikes of any kind, but Martial Block and Choke Hold might make sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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