If Ork society has a merchant class, it is the Bad Moons, a clan that has discovered the peculiar truth that being rich is its own kind of dominance. Bad Moons Orks dig up more teef, the fungoid currency that greenskins trade in, than any other clan, and they spend it lavishly on the biggest guns, the shiniest armor, and gear painted a blinding, unmissable yellow that broadcasts their wealth from streets away.
Other clans mock the Bad Moons for caring so much about riches in a culture built on brute strength, but the mockery tends to stop the moment those same clans need ammunition, weapons, or vehicle parts that only a Bad Moons trader can supply. Their monopoly on the galaxy's best Ork-made dakka gives them an influence that has nothing to do with muscle and everything to do with the simple fact that nobody wins a war without bullets.
The Loudest Dakka
Bad Moons warbands are instantly recognizable by the sheer volume of firepower they bring to a fight, favoring guns so large and so numerous that subtlety becomes physically impossible. Their Warbosses tend to be shrewd rather than simply savage, greenskins who understand that controlling the flow of teef and weapons across an Ork empire is its own form of undeniable power, and that the clan holding all the good guns rarely has to worry about anyone starting a fight it can't finish.
Order of battle
The Bad Moons field the units of the Orks, a detachment from the roster:
Other Orks formations
Blood AxesThe most cunning and least trusted Ork clan, mercenaries who trade with the Imperium, wear camouflage, and will actually retreat to fight another day.
DeathskullsThe Ork clan of incorrigible looters and scroungers, who daub themselves in lucky blue and pilfer anything not bolted down, friend or foe alike.
Evil SunzSpeed-obsessed Orks who believe painting a vehicle red makes it faster and would rather crash into the enemy than shoot them.
FreebooterzPiratical Orks who have cut ties with any single clan to roam the stars for plunder, decked in gaudy finery beneath the dreaded Jolly Ork flag.
GoffsThe biggest, meanest, most traditionalist Ork clan, who settle every argument about tactics with a straightforward brawl.
SnakebitesThe most traditionalist Ork clan, feral throwbacks who scorn fancy tech for war paint, poison-proof hide, and the fierce beasts they breed for war.
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