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Yeah, hard to beleive that the Corporation Strider won't be usable by... the Corporation.

Unless we're being told that the Corporation Enforcers won't be able to use one?

Which is... disappointing, given how it was marketed during the campaign.

Still, I suppose there's plenty of time to switch things around, since the pledge manager hasn't hit yet - but still a bit of a bummer for people who were super-organized and specific with their original pledge!

Makes sense since the $20 light vehicle kit for Enforcers is the Pathfinder on a bike that comes with the dismounted version. Not a mech, but still a light vehicle. Still, probably should have made it clearer when releasing the initial info (though it was a crazy day, so I wont fault 'em too much).

 Alpharius wrote:
Still, I suppose there's plenty of time to switch things around, since the pledge manager hasn't hit yet - but still a bit of a bummer for people who were super-organized and specific with their original pledge!

Looks like they'll be getting themselves 10 not-Terminators instead!

Remember, that's still up in the air though! (wink wink!)

I'm not really to disappointed about the Strider as I found it odd that a basic corporation grunt was with the Enforcers, though I could see how it could be confusing.

Mantic will most likely have the Corporation and Enforcers as separate army lists in future. They've stated this ever since the enforcers were released.

Enforcers tend to kill more humans than anything else, mostly corporation troops and then civilians. They're a galactic "state secret police" faction, mostly used to liquidize certain assets of any individual corporation that defies corporation central law too much.

The risk of attracting the attention of the council of seven has to be weighed up against the profits.. for example, mining may be forbidden in a farflung system that no-one has bought the deeds to at auction, but a corporation might decide to set up there anyway, without a license.. if they get caught, lawyers will get involved first, and the legal process can be drawn out while the corporation continues to mine.. if they push their luck too far though, the enforcers get sent in to liquidize assets and enforce the court order, as well as issuing a standard fine (might involve randomly dropping nukes on a few heavily populated cities that are property of that corporation/occupied by family members of the board). Some CEOs aren't bothered by this at all and are happy as long as the assets that have to be written off the balance sheet as a result of the enforcement protocol are less than the profits gained from the venture.

Warpath universe is essentially a parody of modern big business, investment and corporate culture, where billionaires don't care if children starve as long as driving up the price of wheat via grain futures investment earns them a few extra million.

Greenskin Greens
Update #95 · Jun 11, 2013 · 2 comments

Another day, another inbox full of shiny, shiny things - all made possible by your support! I'm sure you're all eager to get your surveys done and lock in all the great new toys coming your way, so to keep you going until next week check out these beauties!

Today it's the turn of the Marauders to get a little love, and first up is the final figure from the faction starter, the Commando Captain:



The Captain is his own master - he has broken away from his shackles as a Corporation lackey and led his team into the Deadzone in search of plunder. Unlike your typical Orc, he wins his battles through strategic skill rather than brute force.

The picture doesn't do justice to the level of detail on this figure - he's going to be an absolute joy to paint!

Next up, the Goblin Weapons Team... albeit minus the goblins... With Enforcers, Forge Guard, Cyphers, Zombies, Scenery, and more, we've made a lot of progress with digital sculpting on this project, which means very good things for Warpath next year. For now, the Marauders have had their first taste of it with this:



There's plenty more to come - keep an eye on your emails over the coming days and weeks. As always, let us know what you think in the comments below!

LOTS of nice looking stuff in there - fingers crossed on renders/art to reality!

Yep, deadzone marauder captain is looking great, but also looking completely different from the other commandos.

It's like they get a redesign every time the minis get sculpted... first bob naismith did the warpath marauders based on the kow orcs (a good effort, only let down by the decision to base them off fantasy sculpts in the first place), then Remy's warlord, then the orc on the raptor looks different to those (much smaller, more like a gorkamorka orc), then the considerably different looking dreadball marauder and now the commandos look different to all of those, and the commando captain also looks different to all of those.

The design is all over the place, pretty much every one of the 5-6 different sculptors that have worked on them has brought their own "orc style" to the table.

 scarletsquig wrote:
Yep, deadzone marauder captain is looking great, but also looking completely different from the other commandos.

Very much this. He does indeed look awesome, but I worry that will make his cohorts just look that much worse. Still a long way to go, but at least I'll have a few Marauders I won't cringe at seeing.

the Captain looks fantastic.

that vehicle looks terrible, unless it's the 3d model for a new line of Tonka or Fisher-Price toys. :(

I feel like Antenociti's Workshop is about the only place I can get realistic 28mm sci fi vehicles.

Odd, I think the heavy weapon looks great. I plan on using it for my Dark Mechanicus army in some fashion or another. Hopefully both gun options come with it.

The heavy weapons platform is really cool. I like the orx captain model except for the head/face, seems to lack some character imho.

Nice figures overall, but SS is exactly right with their Orcs being all over the shop. I wonder if the head can come off that orc easily to be replaced by a Kromlech or Maxmini one? Extra points if I can still manage to save the hat!

And - the pledge manager launches next week!

Time to get the finances in order.

Remember, only YOU can unlock those Peacekeepers!

I suppose the differences in Ork appearance could be explained by the fluff in that the Marauders were engineered and that their faction is composed of more than just straight orks. The difference in appearance could be due to there being subsequent generations coming about on their own after escaping Corporate control. Without them controlling, they were free to mingle and breed among themselves resulting in different strains of ork. Some of them could also be hybrids with other Marauder races like the goblins, hobgoblins, ogres and trolls. There, appearance issue solved.

Maurader Captian is a great model.... If the entire Maurader line looked even half that good and had those proportions and poses, they would be bankrupting everyone else whomakes Sci-Fi orks.

Any idea what he is holding? Is it a pain stick or cattle prod?

 Barzam wrote:
I suppose the differences in Ork appearance could be explained by the fluff in that the Marauders were engineered and that their faction is composed of more than just straight orks. The difference in appearance could be due to there being subsequent generations coming about on their own after escaping Corporate control. Without them controlling, they were free to mingle and breed among themselves resulting in different strains of ork. Some of them could also be hybrids with other Marauder races like the goblins, hobgoblins, ogres and trolls. There, appearance issue solved.

Like the idea but the Marauders were colonized on several systems before the Corporations first contact. They had aload of battles and the Corporation lost a load of em. So they captured a load of Orx and said, 'hey you can work for us or you can have a bullet to the brain'. A few centuries later they rebelled and became mercenaries.


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nkelsch wrote:
Any idea what he is holding? Is it a pain stick or cattle prod?

I imagine it to be some sort of cattle prod, goading his fellow orxs and gobbos into battle.

I don't have an issue with different breeds of Orks in Warpath, but as far I know, the genetically engineered concept is a 40K fluff thing not Warpath.

If the Warpath Marauders get resculpted in plastic next year with the new aesthetic then this is all moot point. Mantic may be moving in a new, more Blizzard/GW, direction with the orks.

 adamsouza wrote:
I don't have an issue with different breeds of Orks in Warpath, but as far I know, the genetically engineered concept is a 40K fluff thing not Warpath.

If the Warpath Marauders get resculpted in plastic next year with the new aesthetic then this is all moot point. Mantic may be moving in a new, more Blizzard/GW, direction with the orks.

If they went Blizzard and made Female orx, I think they would break through other mini-companies shadows. An exaggerated design for orx lends itself to the WOW design, and their female Orcs look good and contrast well with the male design.

But a consistent, uniform Orx design is needed first.

Female orx would be pretty cool. Maybe there alread are some and we just never realized it?

Liking the new boss. Maybe they'll go back and touch up the other ones' faces so there's a bit more uniformity.

I hope that the survey for Deadzone is very far away, as my bank account is getting assaulted by all sorts of interesting games at the moment.

When the hell am I ever going to paint all this stuff?




(probably never)

That could be why there are Orx and Goblins in the Warpath universe

one is the male and one is the female

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
That could be why there are Orx and Goblins in the Warpath universe

one is the male and one is the female

Ouch.

 scarletsquig wrote:

I feel like someone needs to put "MAXIMUM SATISFACTION" on that picture.

I'm a little annoyed at the Corporate Strider not being for the corp, or probably more specifically calling it Corporate Strider but not telling us that it wasn't used by Corp until after the KS. Feels a bit like a (minor) bait and switch. I plopped $20 down for it for my Enforcers as Rebs aren't a faction I was planning on focusing on. Sure I can change it in the survey, but I shouldn't have to in the first place. A minor gripe, but still annoying. I still have my Marauder and FF walkers though so I'll be ok.

Well we clearly have male goblins so.........

On the other hand how did the hobgoblin came to existence?

On topic the captain is nice, but clearly means all other Orx sculpts need to be redone in his style.

I prefer to imagine that all orcs are hermaphrodites.

I dunno, I still think I am using my GW Orks for Marauders as I prefer the GW style over the Rogue Trader-esque Marauders, but I will at least buy a single Hulk and maybe their dog-things from the survey. Everything else has an obvious easy proxy with GW Orks, other than the Gobbo Sniper, but that is just a simple weapon conversion on a Grot.

I would get at least one ripper suit, if they only looked anything like the artist's drawing, because ten bucks is a great deal when you consider that it comes with both sets of arms. But the actual models we have seen are just way too cartooney.

I guess I still prefer this face:



to this one:



I like the savage/beast look better.

I also would have preferred a more functional combat uniform. This uniform screams 'lead from behind' instead of 'first through the door'. I guess I picture Orx leaders as lead from the front guys, especially in a small unit skirmish game.

Having said that, the figure is better than some of the Orx they have shown. I'm still pretty disappointed in this faction though.

I think most of use were expecting Orx that looked more like the Dreadball version - hence the disappointment when they didn't!

He reminds me of Kap'n Bluddflagg from Dawn of War 2: Retribution which is a good thing. Having an Ork that leads from behind for once is nice too. Leading from the front doesn't result in lasting long ; p They're both great models, but I'm glad this guy is the leader - he's going to be great fun to paint.

The dip in Orx quality has a simple explanation. The Dreadball Orx were sculpted by Remy Tremblay; the DeadZone Orx were not. This time Mantic decided to save themselves some money, and they got what they paid for.

So far I've only seen one DeadZone sculpt directly attributed to Tremblay, the 1st Gen Plague, and not surprisingly it's the stand-out piece of the game. There are some other good sculpts in there, including not only the digital enforcers but also most of the hand-sculpted Rebs. But I still wouldn't put any of them up against the 1st Gen in a contest.

Can you imagine how the Plague faction would have looked if Tremblay had sculpted them all? Or for that matter, the Marauders?