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Title:
Hell Fist
Series: Warhammer 40K: Astra
Militarum
Author: Justin Woolley
Rating:
3 of 5 Stars
Genre: SF
Pages:
26
Words: 8K
Publish: 2023
This
was a story about some orks discussing the legendary Hell Fist, a
jungle warrior able to appear out of thin air and disappear at will
in a swirl of smoke. One of the orks is a Kommando, trying to train
the other ork to also be a Kommando. The senior ork tells the younger
one about a battle where he ran into Hell Fist and survived. The
younger ork disbelieves everything he says and tells him he is a
coward and that he (the younger ork) would totally krump Hell Fist.
So of course Hell Fist shoots the senior ork dead and then punches
the younger ork dead with his mechanical arm.
This was kind of funny, because the orks are so argumentative but at the same time, they are more deadly than most of the other foes that Humanity faces simply because they produce from spores, so the only way to truly cleanse a world of them is to burn it to bedrock. Scorched earth tactics are not a viable long term solution. I’ve often wondered how the orks deal with the Chaos gods and how a clan of Chaos Orks would act. Not wondered very hard, mind you, but just a little.
Anyway, this was a fun little read and with the humor, it wasn’t grim at all. Unless you count both the orks dying at the end “grim”, which I totally don’t.
★★★☆☆
From the Publisher:
Two orks discuss the legendary Hell Fist, a mythic Catachan Devil who appears as if by magic and fights as if possessed… To them, he represents the best fight they'll ever have, but will he give them the fight they actually want?
