Orks Unleash New Trukks & Codex Rules On Warhammer 40,000
June 29, 2026 by brennon
Games Workshop followed up on the release of the 11th Edition Warhammer 40,000 with some new miniatures and the first codex of the edition. The Orks are ready to unleash their Waaagh! across the galaxy.
Ork Trukk // Warhammer 40,000
The classic Trukk, a staple of pretty much every Ork army, has had an upgrade with a highly customisable kit that comes packed with weapons and orhter accessories. You can give it klaws, buzzsaws, shootas, rokkit launchers and more, like dozer blades. These vehicles have been given a serious upgrade to make them fit in with vehicular-themed Ork armies as they power across the battlefield.
New Ork Trukks mean that you need someone to keep them running. That's where the new Mek miniature comes in.
Ork Mek // Warhammer 40,000
This new Ork Mek is going to be handy alongside vehicles, giving them a bonus to hit. He is good at fixing things but he can also blow things up if he likes. That's where the kustom mega-slugga comes in. You'll leave the majority of the tinkering to your Big Mek but there will always be a use for a regular Mek to keep things going!
This miniature will also be tied into the release of more figures like the new plastic Warboss, plus more from the Armageddon boxed set. They will be released in a similar fashion to what we've seen in the past from boxes like Leviathan.
New Orks Codex
All of this will come alongside a new-look Codex for 11th Edition Warhammer 40,000. The Orks lead the way.
Codex: Orks // Warhammer 40,000
This is a new softback Codex rather than the hardbacks that you'll be familiar with from the last few editions. It comes with loads of lore alongside all of the rules for your Orks in this edition. This comes in the form of a whole fifteen detachments that you can mix and match at various points levels to make the force that you want.
I do appreciate the softback design of the new Codexes, which should make them easier to cart around. They will still (unfortunately) come with the code in the back which will unlock your rules for your army in the Warhammer 40,000 app.
This Codex will come out alongside a full Command Pack for the Orks.
Orks Command Pack // Warhammer 40,000
This pack comes with ninety-four reference cards that cover detachments, strategems and enhancements. You will also get a double-sided set of tokens allowing you to keep track of what's going on across the battlefield. Interestingly, there's no word on Dataslate Cards for the Orks. Perhaps they have realised that they are out of date so quickly that they become basically pointless.
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The Ork Mek is alright. No foot on rock! The Trukk is… I find it ugly. Looks like a kids toy that’s not being Orkified enough. G’Wullu is really not leaning into the “looted, repurposed vehicle” look from yesteryear any more. Some may like it but I’d rather have some cobbled together Imperial Army tanks and vehicles. But that’s just me probably.
Mekboy looks far too normal.
It’s like a techmarine, but Ork.
The trukk is only useful for parts. It’s far uglier than the last trukk, oddly. But for bashin’ a proppa trukk for da boyz? Loads o’ gubbinz.
Mek is a mek is a mek. Meh…
Book – that softback will split along the spine, guaranteed. Cheap out by GW. Boo.
Cards? They’re cards.
As a DIE-HARD Orks player, I am … underwhelmed.
yeah … and based on the last Ork codex I got there’s probably zero actual Orkishness inside.
Remember when Ork clans were a thing ?
This codex is humie propa-wotttitz. Make Orkzes look bad.
Agree with Pundancer, No fot on rock Mek is alright, Trukk is wierd. Overall Meh.
Trukk has been designed by a committee of shareholders that want to make it look like there’s options so people won’t start using their imagination again.
I mean … folk might realise that a proper Ork army is kitbashed from ‘ere to eternity.
As it was too hot to do much I actually watched the stream on the bonehead podcast channel, was kinda sad when they put the old trukk next to the new and the consensus was the old one is better
Bit I have not seen covered is the codex is your subscription to updates sentence. Paywalling updates is just crappy business conduct. I guess a manager really needs warhammer+ to work. GW keeps giving me reasons to walk away from the current edition
I cancelled my subscription – I had joined the get the Eldar model, couldn’t care about 99% of the other stuff. If they are putting updates behind a subscription, I won’t bother with this edition.
I am literally tired of having to rent everything and not buying. Cancelled Apple Music too. It’s all very annoying.
Both Mantic and Warlord do subscriptions for their apps and full rules too …
Except somehow GW manages to make it less compelling.
You’d think a company with decades worth of good content (at least the golden era of White Dwarf) and more than a few games could not be this bad at making the subscription feel worth it.
And yet … here we are.