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Orx Boyx are looking nice. Old school BFG and the commander are the best of the bunch imho.

Wow, I'm not an ork fan in general, but I like the orx above.

Corporate trooper art is up.



Whatever fluff they give it, it's clear from the pistol and powerfist that they want you to be able to use it as IG if you want. I have to say that I quite like it! It's a nice take on a guardsman with a bit of a techy touch.

The energy fist on the far left reminds me of the old NES power glove for some reason though.

Not sure about the boyz but I love the Orx hero, £10 for that is a steal.

I like the Corporation designs, generic enough for me and can I have a "feth yes" for not using oversized pauldrons?

The Orx are really quite good, but seeing as how I have like 300 GW ones I am only really interested in getting a few bits (like the scanner thingy the one on the far right has). Hopefully one of the bits sites will pick these up.

Maurader Raptor is up!





Vid Here: http://www.beastsofwar.com/warpath/warpath-marauder-raptor/

Addendum: Non-Cadians? *yawn*


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Addendum 2: The Raptor is really nice apart from the forks for the front wheel, which I fear are too thin both for aesthetic and structural reasons.

AlexHolker wrote:

MasterSlowPoke wrote:They're identifiable with, which is wrong for a faction like The Corporation.

Nonsense. Every army should be "identifiable with", because that's why someone would choose to buy the army in the first place. Nobody wants to buy and play a bunch of unlikeable losers, and that's what making the Corporation a bunch of unprofessional, incompetent dicks would turn them into.

I never really got that, that people buy armies they can "identify with". What are you saying about people who play Dark Eldar for example? Personally I've never been a big fan of torture or slavery or stabbing everyone in the back in order to get ahead in life.

Not so sold on the orx infantry. Love the hero. Love the raptor. In my opinion its far better than the GW buggys.

ChocolateGork wrote:Love the raptor. In my opinion its far better than the GW buggys.

Well, it would be pretty pathetic if it weren't, those GW buggies are something like 20 years old

Sidstyler wrote:What are you saying about people who play Dark Eldar for example?

That a fictional character acting like a jerk isn't a deal breaker, as long as they act like a jerk with style.

See also: Darth Vader.

I find the orx grunts heads too small for my liking, would have preferred to see a simillar design to the hero!

Concepts for the corp look incredible, I just hope that the sculpts live up to the now high expectations I have for them.

That buggy looks great apart from the reason Blackfang pointed out, that front wheel looks a little delicate to say the least!

Commander Cain wrote:
That buggy looks great apart from the reason Blackfang pointed out, that front wheel looks a little delicate to say the least!

I do tend to agree with this. Were I going to buy one, it wouldn't be a deal breaker, but I'd probably move the wheel back about a half inch so it looks like it's being suported by a thicker section of the fork.

One question I did have. They mentioned that the Forgefather vehicle kit has two gun options. Does the Raptor kit include both the missile launcher and the gun that the rules mention?

Also, for an Orx vehicle I would have hoped for just a bit more options/bits. Obviously it's not like a plastic sprue where you can cram on the bits, but this vehicle is going up against GW vehicles that, while significnatly more expensive, tend to have quite a number of options and configurations.

I believe it does have an anti infantry option.

Raptor's not bad, still waiting to see the new GW buggy, one day... one day...

BrookM wrote:I like the Corporation designs, generic enough for me and can I have a "feth yes" for not using oversized pauldrons?

But how will we know they're armored?!

I hope they don't do the "Power Fist" design.
The energy fist is a far, far better option in this case I think. It looks far more technological, and it's unique compared to a certain workshop of games.

Yes but your forgetting what a good chunk of people will buy these models for.

Have to say I'm very impressed by the orx, as I hoped more like the RT interpretation of them. I also like how it looks like the humans will be more 'future tech', a different spin on things to what most IG players will be used to. With some exceptions, I could see these being a much cheaper option for Elysian drop troopers for instance.

Orx are alright I guess, still dont like though that some of them would look much more in place at a steampunk universe.

My only question for the trike is, how do you drive that thing?

I really like the Grunts.

kenshin620 wrote:My only question for the trike is, how do you drive that thing?

Well, there's a little window for the driver to peer out of, but I'm not to sure if it's blocked by the engine...

Well, being Orx, they probably rely on instinct.

Oh that was a window? I thought it was a random piece of metal

i really like the orx so far, i just need to see the unpainted models.

Looked all over beastsofwar for a price on that Raptor and couldn't find one. Does anyone know how much the kit will be seperate from the huge $100 boxed sets?

Agamemnon2 wrote:

MasterSlowPoke wrote:Their fluff, as a corporate military, makes me think of more like PMCs - very irregular troops, no set uniform, individual troops armed and armored as per their personal choice. Something kind of like that game Army of Two. Even looking in real life, at photos of Blackwater mercenaries contrasted with US military, there's a noticeable difference. I'd like them to look tough and as evil as a corporate military is. The concept art they've shown looks like a regular infantryman, not much different from any generic soldier put out by dozens of historicals companies. They're identifiable with, which is wrong for a faction like The Corporation.

I'm not saying viewing the Corporation as a bunch of mercenaries (PMCs is a tedious euphemism) is a bad idea, but for me, it'd be making political parallels a bit too odious to tolerate.

I think it could have been a strong concept. But I think aesthetically it's hard to make it a unified army. I imagine it would have some of the same issues that Dogs of War armies had in WHFB.

Agamemnon2 wrote:For me, as an 80s child, "corporate military" evokes images of something like Arasaka and Militech from Cyberpunk 2020, ruthless iron-fisted thugs unified under the banner of their corporate masters, marching lockstep to the sound of advertising jingles.

Agreed. And corporate military forces from fiction of that period, too, like the ones in Walter Jon Williams' Voice of the Whirlwind.

Vehicles both look good. I'm glad they're finally showing some models now. But, still waiting for to see the human models and hoping they'll be good to use as conscripts.

Y'know...I quite like those Orx. They have a very nice feel to them, plus it helps that they have nice a nice paintscheme. May have to pick up a box or two, just for fun.

_Tim?

Mannahnin wrote:

Agamemnon2 wrote:

MasterSlowPoke wrote:Their fluff, as a corporate military, makes me think of more like PMCs - very irregular troops, no set uniform, individual troops armed and armored as per their personal choice. Something kind of like that game Army of Two. Even looking in real life, at photos of Blackwater mercenaries contrasted with US military, there's a noticeable difference. I'd like them to look tough and as evil as a corporate military is. The concept art they've shown looks like a regular infantryman, not much different from any generic soldier put out by dozens of historicals companies. They're identifiable with, which is wrong for a faction like The Corporation.

I'm not saying viewing the Corporation as a bunch of mercenaries (PMCs is a tedious euphemism) is a bad idea, but for me, it'd be making political parallels a bit too odious to tolerate.

I think it could have been a strong concept. But I think aesthetically it's hard to make it a unified army. I imagine it would have some of the same issues that Dogs of War armies had in WHFB.

Also, Mantic have the Rebs for their DoW-type concept.

Am I missing something or are we just about to the end of the Warpath Weekend without seeing the sculpts for the basic forgefathers?

I went back through the BoW Warpath section and couldn't find them.

adhuin wrote:

Orx Boyx are looking nice. Old school BFG and the commander are the best of the bunch imho.

Its my impresiion, or they really use the same body? Are those just "conversion kits"?

It doesn't look like the same body to me...

The Orx look terrible and are not natural at all. Like fantasy orcs saying 'what do these do? maybe hold them like this?'

The metal orx hero is neat, and the best thing about that model... the head comes off and can be replaced with one of the many GW-looking heads.

The trike is 'meh' to me.