Teef are stable, and there are no teef to gain from conquest; Orks do not go to war for profit motive (nobody else has decent teef, with the possible exception of Tyranids, who have more teef than anything else in the universe. The encroachment of the Hive Fleets may well cause a devaluation of the toof, and severe damage to the Orkonomy, if anyone ever beats them). Orks go to war for war's sake, and do not so much care about the profit involved, although they will of course engage in lootin' once the enemy are all dead, and may well trade looted stuff to the Mekboyz. Orks gain pleasure from fighting, not booze, and there are no Ork women (women being the principal reason for economic activity in a race that features sexual dimorphism). The only real reason an Ork would have for spending teef is gunz. Just as Heinz meanz beanz, Gunz meanz Mekboyz.

Mekboyz are responsible for the weapons, vehicles and other equipment of the Waaagh. Mekz were programmed by the Brainboyz/Old Ones to instinctively understand teknologee (Orkish force fields, produced by untrained savages, are comparable even to the Necrons or Eldar) Mekboyz, too, are not driven by profit motive or by greed for food or booze. Their motivation is to outdo other Mekz and make the blastiest kustom shoota, the fightin'est Dread, or the zoomin'est (red) trukk. Other Orks trade them teef for their gunz and trukks, but what do Meks do with their teef? More scrap and more guinea-grots to continue with their work.

However, since a kustom blasta will sell to a Nob for far more teef than the bitz used to make it, Mekboyz make a profit on their everyday work. What do they do with their teef? Spend them instantly on more scrap. Mekz gradually get richer and richer, their schemes more and more insane and extravagant, from shoota to mega-armour to Dread to Stompa to Gargant to Great Gargant to Mega-Gargant, until they die from botched surjery or get blown apart in an unexpected explosion, and their machines are left to the Waaagh by logical, fair Ork succession ("I saw it first and I's bigga") and protected by the rigid codes of ownership ("get yer hands off or I'll frag ya, ya thieving gitz").

To the established Mekboyz, teef are almost unnecessary as a kurrency. Meks will happily trade gunz directly for loot and scrap. However, without the Orks' ability to produce their own kurrency, the footslogging Boyz would be unable to get their hands on shootas to begin with, and teef thus remove financial "class" in Ork society, replacing it with the far more natural hierarchy of kunnin' and who's da biggest.

END

:c

The observation on economic activity due to having women is just... wrong. Not just incorrect, but completely and utterly wrong.

>>1689459
Interesting, Orks will one day have to not be Orky.

That was so win.

>>1689480
>>However, since a kustom blasta will sell to a Nob for far more teef than the bitz used to make it, Mekboyz make a profit on their everyday work.

I'm seeing a fault here. If the mekboy trys to sell the kustom blasta for more than it's worth, the Nob will bash out all the mek and take them for himself, along with the kustom blastom for no charge at all.

>>1689582
Which is why a Mek without a few guards is a stupid git that deserves a krumpin'.

>>1689582
They don't charge more than it's worth, it's worth more than the materials used to make it. You can't frag anyone with just bitz.

But... where do hats come into this?

>>1689480
Mekboyz would most likely loose a lot of scrap and bitz to experiments gone somewhat wrong (because a huge-ass explosion is never entirely wrong). And then even more disappear as filings, burnt off, or just plain lost. As such, even if the teeth the latest shoota brought in more than well covers the cost of making it, there's probably another nine shootas spread around the area in the form of finely shredded (beyond any use) metal that he didn't get any teeth for. As such, there's most likely little risk of oversaturating the economy, such abundance will probably turn into a saturation of shrapnel pretty fast in most cases.

The fact that the stuff which works according to plan (well, kinda) usually ends up deployed in combat pretty quickly should help entropy along quite a bit as well.

Also, while a mek wouldn't mind trading scrap for items directly, there's always the risk of not having a suitable shoota on hand when someone brings in a pile of scrap, and it'd be a shame to have to turn it down just because of that.

>>1689537

Prostitution is the oldest profession. That's not to say that they make up a large portion of any economy past or present but pretty much all civilizations have or have had them. I wouldn't say that it would be the PRINCIPAL reason either.

Its not just whoring yourself out though. Think of how much revenue is spent on trying to attract the opposite sex. Perfumes, colognes, dating services.

Sometimes its not even about attracting the opposite sex but making what relations you already have better. In some cases, its not even about that but giving comfort to sexual frustrations such as porn, penis-enlargement, sex toys, and the list goes on.

How many teef for one of dese?

>>1689802
lotz

>>1689802
NOW DAT'S WOT I KALL DAKKA!

>>1689743
this dude got a point, sex sells you know

>>1689660
MekBoyz turn scrap metal like shrapnel into bulletz
which means they can make a small profit off of em, but not much. perhaps enough to cover getting more materials.

>>1689802
>>1689814
DAT'S MORE LIKE IT!

>>1689802
MOAR OF THIS COMIC

>>1689814
I love that thing it's Metal Slug-a-riffic.
if i have one of the metal slug models just to face off with it it would be epic.

>>1689889
http://www.torrentz.com/cc91f47bd34bac392a569396790c183b3e13f908

Anon delivers.

What about old fluff that makes mention of orks that are genetically suited to cooking, brewing, probably other services that I can't remember. Sure, orks could eat crude meals and grots, but the boyz live to have a good time! They'll gladly give up their teefs for booze and good food!

>>1689940
That's because OP is an idiot who learned everything he knows from DOW

Gentlemen, I present to you the working class Ork.

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/warhammer-chaos-birdhouse.php?page=3

>>1689802

What's the source of that picture, my good man?

>>1690567

learn to read file names.

>>1689997
since when the fuck did DoW have teef?

Oh yes, indeed i could eat chickens raw.. But i prefer pie. See the point?

How much money does it take to make a home?

orks eat 'shrooms too, and squig curries, and then squigs eat ork dung and the cycle continues.

>>1692653
PANZEE