Prophets of Waaagh!

Warhammer 40,000

by Guy Haley

THE STORY
Dumped on a nowhere world by the opening of the Cicatrix Maledictum, the Red Sunz Mek mob are struggling to survive. When a call to Waaagh! rings out across the planet, the chance at survival, as well as some shooty-fun, beckons. But all is not what it seems. Only an ork with real orky know-wots can hope to overcome the False Waaagh…!

Written by Guy Haley

CONTENTS
The End of Daze
Bozgat's Big Adventure
The Waaagh! Faker

Genres: Science Fiction, 40k, Fantasy, Fiction, Audiobook

Audiobook

First published October 1, 2018

About the author

Guy Haley is the author of over 50 novels and novellas. His original fiction includes Crash, Champion of Mars, and the Richards and Klein, Dreaming Cities, and the Gates of the World series (as K M McKinley). However, he is best known as a prolific contributor to Games Workshop's Black Library imprint.

When not writing, he'll be out doing something dangerous in the wild, learning languages or gaming.

Reviews

[Jess Big Cat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Prophets uv WAAAGH! iz a blast. dis audio iz from ‘da orks point uv view so ‘da wordy bits kan take some gett'n used ta but 'der's lots uv shoot'n an’ fight'n'

At only an hour-long this three-part audio-drama is a lot of fun. With a high production value there's plenty of bangs, clanks, gunshots, and WAAAGH! to be heard throughout the story. This is all told from the orkz POV including their lexicon (honestly this is half the fun) so if you don't have an ear for accents it might take some getting used to.
Unlike many of the other BL short stories, this one is dripping with flavor that isn't just big guys with guns and questionable morals...okay that's pretty much what this was except funny.

[Igor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Orkz are ridiculously fun.

[Robotato · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing production and a fun glimpse into the Ork mindset.

Listened to as an Audiobook on Audible.

[Stephan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The story is divided in three parts: The End of daze, Bozgat’s big adventure and the Waaagh! Faker. All of which are good but to a varying degree.
The first story, the End of Daze, reintroduces the merry band of meks from Haleys other Ork storys. Uggrim, Snikgob, Bozgat and Frikk are all there, just as funny and awesome as always. The only one we’re really missing is Talker, the weirdboy and part of the story is about the lads trying to find out where he’s run of to. It’s a nice intro to the story, but could have delved a bit deeper in what happened before or during the crash.
Bozgat’s big adventure gave me a few very nice surprises. The story focuses on Bozgat and Frikks search for the missing weirdboy, Talker. Frikk shines in the story and it’s hard not to love the little guy. Bozgat and Talker are both awesome as well, but you can’t help to feel that the grots steal the show this time. And I don’t complain. To once again get to see the Grot revolution and their “Kommittee” is pure awesomeness and nostalgia. Not to mention Frikk. Now I really start to understand why
Finally we have the end in the Waaagh! Faker. A bit more action as the story draws to a close with orks vs. orks. vs. mechanicus and astartes and weird science for everyone! All of the band is together and races (quite literally, they are Evil sunz after all) to stop the mechanicus before their dastardly trap is sprung. It’s fun and it’s awesome. I just can’t help to feel like the Primaris are shoe horned in and quite frankly doesn’t add anything to the story.

All in all a great audio drama, but it would have been better as one whole story. When divided in parts things happen a bit too fast and end too soon. It would have gained quite a lot in my opinion if it had taken its time to grow.

[Finn Raae · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short but awesome

[Jack Creagh-Flynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent music, voice acting, and sound effects. This audio drama is a good deal of fun and dips into the antics of orks. Grots get to shine a bit, and madboys show an odd bit of insight.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really liked the idea of this one (especially after Brutal Kunnin' and the grot novellas were so much fun) but I gotta say it disappointed me. I don't know if it's because Haley doesn't have the Ork "voice" down as well as Brooks and Flowers, or if it's the need for a non-Orky (or at least Grot) perspective to tie the story together. But whatever it is, something seems to be missing.

[John · Rating 2 out of 5]

The voices and ork language is funny and neat, but I just couldn't tell what was going on the whole time because there was no narrator. It was just orks making fun of each other. I think they might have been trying to fight some humans, but I'm not really sure.

[Tjalli Óðins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highly entertaining Ork audio drama that only spans a little over an hour. Still, it contains so much explosive gun fun.

If you enjoy loud noises, explosive acting, perhaps some green humies and an ork to English translations, then WAAAGH!

[Terry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun and quick delve into ork, goblin and snotling thought processes.

[Ethan Jarmush · Rating 4 out of 5]

Snotlins dunt know der foot from der arses! Eatin all da gubbinz n da wiry bits. Zoggin gobs. Dats y wez blew dem up! Wit a bomb! WAAAAGH!(Spoiler)

[Ken Pham · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun story about Orks with fantastic voice acting. Not too much substance but it's fairly charming

[Alex Galbraith · Rating 2 out of 5]

Audio editing was poor - background sound effects drowned out the voices half the time. Disappointing compared to other Ork books such as Brutal Kunnin and Warboss (which are great!)

[Henrik · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very fun audio book with extra effects and music. Zoggin good fun with da ork boys

[Olly Ijeh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good bit of orky fun for the whole family

[Mister Vimes · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was loads of fun. Voice acting was on point. Music was delightfully crazy.