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How much can Orca's carry? The forgeworld website says 24, but I've seen a picture with only 12 seats. What is it, and if there were less battlesuits could another 12 stand or is that unsafe for some reason?
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there are two rows of 12 seats with a rack for drones above the two rows. inbetween the rows are the suits (see the thread link below for a pic). forgeworld used to have inside pics of the models that made it clear but that was before their redesign which chucked half their pics into the garbage for some reason.
edit: here's a pic.
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The two rows at the side are fixed and have room for 24 Firewarriors and 8 Gun Drones (plus one ethereal in the cockpit).
The space in the middle can be used for
1.) additional 24 Fire Warriors or
2.) 6 Crisis Suits or
3.) 3 Broadsides or
4.) 6 Heavy Gun Drones or
5.) 4 Drone sentry turrets or
6.) 2 Tetras or
7.) 6 Krootox (please clean the room afterwards ) or
8.) 12 kroot Hounds.
Fire Warriors can be exchanged one-to-one by Pathfinders, Kroot and (XV-15 at least) Stealth Suits.
I was looking through IA3 earlier and it can hold 24 Fire Warriors plus space for XV8's, Drones, or 24 extra Fire Warriors. If you check Imperial Armour Apocalypse, the rules are different, I think they were simplified for Apocalypse use.
imperial armor apocalypse says the orca carries 55 or a max of 6 battlesuits
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