Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub is a large and cunning Ork Warlord from the game Warhammer 40000. He was one of the star players in the recent Fall of Medusa V campaign, as his personal space hulk had crashlanded on the doomed planet.
Contents |
[edit] History
[edit] Early history
Nazdreg's past is largely unknown. It is, however, known that he is a member of the super-wealthy Bad Moonz Klan. He is widely known as a pirate and general threat to shipping. He is also rather smarter than most Orks, as he speaks good Imperial Gothic and understands the "carrot and stick" approach of rewards and punishments to gain production from his hapless slaves. He also wears a suit of mega armour, painted in yellow flames and fitted with his Kustom Blasta-X, a large plasma weapon with long range (And unlike most orks he is also able to hit his target, having the same in game Ballistics skill as a Space Marine).
[edit] Piscina
Nazdreg has in past allied himself with the dreaded Goff Warlord, Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka. The world of Piscina suffered a grievous strike from the two allied greenskins, before their expulsion and the supposed destruction of Nazdreg's hulk, the Scylla.
[edit] Medusa V
As it would turn out, the Scylla was not destroyed. It has come out of the Warp and crashed on the planet of Medusa V. Nazdreg has ordered his Boyz to go out and gather as much scrap as possible so the Meks can repair the Hulk, and with all speed, as his Weirdboyz have told him of the fate rapidly approaching the planet, and Nazdreg has no intention of being on the planet when that happens. Of course, they're still going to get in all the fighting they can while they're still there.
[edit] Surviving Medusa V
Even though the battle on Medusa V didn't work out for the best for the Orks, Nazdreg and many of his Orks managed to get off the planet alive. After finding out that the Imperial forces had damaged his Spacehulk beyond repair, Nazdreg had a (for an Ork) briliant escape plan. The Orks took over a slightly damaged Imperial transport, the Minnow, and managed to get into orbit. Nazdreg also left several humans alive to fly the Minnow and create a false distress call. The Imperial battleship Terra’s Defiance received the call and came to the transport's assistance but was boarded and taken over by the Orks. Although the disappearance of the Terra's Defiance was noticed by the Imperial Navy, Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub proved why he was a Warboss and managed to escape with many of his boyz against many odds.
[edit] In game
Although Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub is a special character, with special rules in the Ork Codex, he does not have a model to represent him as of the forth edition of the game (although a model was released for the second edition of Warhammer 40,000). Presumbly if he is still kept as a special character when the codex is updated, he will be given a model to represent him. The lack of specific model may be explained by the possibility that, had the campaign gone...less favourably for the Orks, Nazdreg Ug Urdgrub's story would have ended with him being trapped and killed on the planet when it was destroyed, thus negating any use the miniature would have had to players after the campaign was over. To introduce it before the campaign would have indicated to players that the Orks would be successful, thus giving away and scripting part of what is an outcome dependent on results.
