Hobgoblins and "mongoblins" are the same thing.
There were Dust Goblins, Fire Kobolds, Hill Goblins and Troblagobs (from memory). It was a fan article by Kevin Coleman, don't think it was ever official but it was pretty good.
They were unofficial rules. They were printed in one of Gav's Warhammer Chronicals - but the material for the article "Goblin Ecology" came from Kevin. Can't tell about any US WD though, but you'll find it's in UK WD 268 and in the "Warhammer Chronicles 2003"-book.
what about pirate gobos and orc.
go to Da warpath site they have them.
Warpath is probably the best place to ask. westerntraitor, it's your army, paint them as you wish (my hobgoblins are Kammando Khaki for example), but they are all greenskins because they are from the same family of fungus and so share a similar property. Considering they are now following the same livelihood as the 40k orks, they all grow from the same spore and, dependent upon what is needed at the time, they will grow into a particular version of the greenskins. BOs are genetically engineered, so are not necessarily true greenskins, btw.
As for any others, I have some in my mind, but can't bring them forward, annoyingly. Also, forest goblins, night goblins and hill goblins are common goblins, just they live in different areas and have different beliefs. A savage orc is just a normal orc that has remained primal in the mind, for example.
A single mention of the word "spore" (and not even in relation to reproduction) is not enough to convince me that they are the same as 40k Orcs
Well, they've been mentioned as spores from space in the Xenology book (and spores again in the O&G book, even if it doesn't say from space). Not to mention, until late 6th edition, they "copulated", rather than spawned from spores as fungus (which is how orks have always been).
What about the fanitac gobos or are they just a cult of mushroom eating gobbos
They are night goblins that eat a strength-giving, psychosis-inducing mushroom.
The only mention of spores is in the 7th ed Warhammer rulebook (which is also given as a "probably", even though it is not in the in-universe style). The O&G book mentions absolutely nothing related. The 6th ed book suggested from the Empire's view that squigs might be half-fungus, but that is about as close as it goes in Warhammer. Orks can be fungus in 40k for all I care.
There are always mentions of weird coloured greenskins, so I think you could paint them any colours and make up your own names for them.
My apologies for misquoting the O&G book. My friend got huffy about it a few days ago and "read" (wehilst I was there) that they are spores. However, that doesn't change the fact that the Xenology book mentions it...
However, the reference to the possibilty of spores in the rulebook and the mention of half-fungus squigs (perhaps these are greenskins? Despite their red skin, obviously.), as well as the Xenology citation, gives me the impression that they are similar to the orks. That was the point I was making.
I just feel that fantasy and 40k are becoming linked again (particularly when it was mentioned that the Daemon special characters are the same daemons in fantasy as in 40k).
Spour mushrooms what ever . sorry that they are just night gobos with addictions.
Not sure why you're sorry? Thinking about it, Mosk, where you asking for all of the goblinoid races or the varieties within them (such as fanatics, forest goblins etc)?
i think the forest gobo are the coolest At least the old school ones
Heard a rumor that squigs are experiments by tyranids on ork genes. One day orks boarded a ship and found the squigs because they looked "orky". Is there any truth to that?
Yep, that was true, not sure if it still is since it was from before Orks were fungus. 40k still remains separate from Warhammer for the time being though.
For the sake of being thorough I just thought that I would mention that Big'Uns are missing from the list. I realize that they are technically the same race, but they can definitely be represented differently, both as separate and distinct units as well as artistically.
So Big'Uns? you decide
well i think big,um are big orc but i still like them and the savage orcs
Heard a rumor that squigs are experiments by tyranids on ork genes. One day orks boarded a ship and found the squigs because they looked "orky". Is there any truth to that?
There used to be. It think it was just an explanation for how squigs came about and, for a while, Tyranids and Orks both had them as a unit. Since then, the Tyranid squigs have become ripper swarms, and squigs became part of the Ork family as a self-perpetuating fungal ecosystem that appears spontaneously around Orks.
There's no way you can reconcile it with current background anyway - Tyranids didn't arrive in the galaxy until the late 41st Millennium, and Orks have always had squigs. You could say they were maybe some sort of precursor experiment (like Genestealers, the Catachan Devil et al) but there's not really any need. It's just old fluff like Blood Angels being a strict Codex Chapter and Imperial Guard using beastmen platoons.
Ah, the problems with everchanging fluff
vexxus: I'd say it depends upon how we're grouping evry type of O&G. If it's by unit types, yes, if not, they'd be orcs, as savage orcs would be.
cornixt, they are separate (except apparently the Warp/Realm of Chaos) "universes", but can you see the similarities (I think this is more what I was meaning, but never stating) that are arriving?
I know it's not canonical, but according to WH Online: WAR, they are a fungus as well