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 pretre wrote:

 Crablezworth wrote:
Tanks treads for armour? What are thet orks? So stupid.

Makeshift armor plate? How dare they!

Spoiler:

AGH! Jesus, people are seriously horrified by the new heads?

Not getting the hate for the tank treads either.

 Dr Mathias wrote:
I still like the RT-era Ogryns by Bob Olley. Not crazy about these guys, but I think a lot of that is the painting.

And here are some not-so-well painted (and not finished in the case of the bottom pic) Olley Ogryns for comparison with the new ones:

Aw come on, guys. Isn't that a little bit of nostalgia at play? Aren't the ridiculous faces and comic book style bandages rather silly and tongue in cheek on these 90's Ogryn? I am seeing more of a Judge Dredd vibe with these models than anything Grimdark. My point is if GW came out with the 90's Ogryn today, I doubt they would be well received. I mean the bandages alone are hilarious!

Agreed

I have these models in my own army but I always hated the heads, I replaced them with metal Nork Deddog heads back when GW still sold individual bitz

I think I liked the previous version of the ogryns better than these new ones.. and the original ones the least. New ones are in the middle, and not something I'll buy.

Stormtroopers are good, hydra is great to finally have.. the rest is meh to hell no for me :(

Well if you don't like the ones posted previous page, I'd take the ones timd just posted above any day of the new models...

 plastictrees wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Crablezworth wrote:
Tanks treads for armour? What are thet orks? So stupid.

Makeshift armor plate? How dare they!

Spoiler:

AGH! Jesus, people are seriously horrified by the new heads?

Not getting the hate for the tank treads either.

It is almost as if people have different opinions than yours!

I guess the real point here is that, for the most part, Ogryns have always been less then impressive - both in terms of models and rules!

anyone else thinking this is more orks than guard, between the bus-truck and the improvised armour. =P

 Alpharius wrote:

 plastictrees wrote:

 pretre wrote:

 Crablezworth wrote:
Tanks treads for armour? What are thet orks? So stupid.

Makeshift armor plate? How dare they!

Spoiler:

AGH! Jesus, people are seriously horrified by the new heads?

Not getting the hate for the tank treads either.

It is almost as if people have different opinions than yours!

I guess the real point here is that, for the most part, Ogryns have always been less then impressive - both in terms of models and rules!

I live in a Truman Show-esque world where everything happens for my express benefit. To rephrase, noone has explained why they think tank tread armor doesn't suit the look of the Ogryn.
Getting a little touchy there Alph, your SHIELD cat-suit must be riding up again.

I play Orks and wouldn't buy this trash. Paste all the orky bits you want, it's still lipstick on a pig.

Seeing as those Bullgryns are painted in the same colours as the Scions, I'm guessing they're available to the Militarum Tempestus at least.

 Breotan wrote:
I play Orks and wouldn't buy this trash. Paste all the orky bits you want, it's still lipstick on a pig.

Really? I think the Taurox could make a pretty sick truck. Way more work than it's probably worth, but still.


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 Redemption wrote:
Seeing as those Bullgryns are painted in the same colours as the Scions, I'm guessing they're available to the Militarum Tempestus at least.

They chaperone them on the Scions Schola Progenium field trips.

I dislike these Ogryn a lot less than the previous iterations. They're no tank-men, but they at least look like an offshoot of humanity and not the abysmal Ogres in Space they were conceived as.

So, I will be the first to admit I am not any good with Photoshop, but I've tried my hand at tweaking the atrocious paint scheme GW have blessed the new bigguns with.

Still not a fan of the head, but a massive, massive improvement in the original scheme.

I've got to admit, overall, I don't mind the new Ogryns. I like the old ones enough to buy a squad of them (though I was aware of the cost.)

I'm not a fan of some of the armour choice specifics though (like the tank treads, they just look... unhelpful).

But yeah, truth is, the latest pics don't look particularly good but they don't look too bad. The phrase I'd use is harmless.

Except for Nork. Nork is pretty dang cool.

Just for a comparison:

Before



After

I love the new Ogryns, Scions, and Taurox.

 pretre wrote:

 Crablezworth wrote:
Tanks treads for armour? What are thet orks? So stupid.

Makeshift armor plate? How dare they!

Spoiler:

I'm not really convinced that it qualifies as "makeshift". The breastplate sure looks like it was intentionally manufactured with the lugs to hang tank treads from. It sort of makes sense from the point of view of the Imperium. They're far happier to have the abhuman Ogryns do battlefield track repair over regular humans, given their higher strength and lower status, and this gives them a way to carry around the materials to carry out such repairs.

rollawaythestone wrote:
I love the new Ogryns, Scions, and Taurox.

Run. Never stop running. You will never be safe here.

That Ogryn will also make a great lead guitarist.

Don't think these look too bad, the guy with the mask looks pretty cool.

Although... man so many of the releases these days just look like toys.

The funny thing is, when you had stuff that looked more like 'hard' sci-fi, dark and gritty in the past, that actually tends to appeal to kids a lot more by extension - because they are moving on to something they deem as more 'adult', and away from the action men and tonka toys that these recent releases resemble.

Of course the added bonus as far as adults is concerned is that you can get them without having trying to argue about your mental age with your significant other.

 Indestry wrote:
At least there's bitz potential with that cigar in my opinion.

Or you could roll up a tiny bit of greenstuff? That would save you $49 or so.

 Delboy wrote:
So, I will be the first to admit I am not any good with Photoshop, but I've tried my hand at tweaking the atrocious paint scheme GW have blessed the new bigguns with.

Spoiler:

I just noticed that he has a metal aquila riveted to his wife-beater t-shirt.

The Imperium uses rivets to attach everything, even t-shirts...

Who says he's riveted it to the t-shirt? This is an ogryn we're talking about. Stapling things to oneself is usually more the province of Chaos or orks, but maybe the Commissar told him that "the righteous bear the sign of the Aquila" or something so he knew who not to shoot, and our poor abhuman just took that a bit too far...

It's probably riveted to his chest.

I've never liked GW's Ogryn models. Not the original ones, not the ones we had in 2nd Ed, nor the current ones. The only one I could tolerate was the current Bone 'Ead. These plastic ones are like a breath of fresh air compared to all of those. They're still ugly, and some of the heads look goofy, but I really like them.

And the Hydra is ace... damn... I didn't want any more Guard tanks, but plastic Hydra. Non-bent not-resin barrels. How can anyone resist?

 plastictrees wrote:
AGH! Jesus, people are seriously horrified by the new heads?

I know, right?

I love the hydra. The open turret will be a pain to paint but I am looking forward to the affordable Hydra kit. (Not FW)

I am really excited for this release. I really hope there is more to come. And has anyone IDed the barrel of the tank that is behind the hydra?

 Happygrunt wrote:
I love the hydra. The open turret will be a pain to paint but I am looking forward to the affordable Hydra kit. (Not FW)

I am really excited for this release. I really hope there is more to come. And has anyone IDed the barrel of the tank that is behind the hydra?

It's a battery of Basilisks.

Holy crap. This is shaping up to be one of the worst codex relaunches ever. Absolutely atrocious. Now all that's missing is a huge swing from the nerfbat to every remotely competitive unit and the castration of the IG is complete.

So far I am interested in precisely none of the new IG stuff.

The new Ogryns and the truckthing are just awful.

I do have a pile of the 2nd ed Ogryns so they will happily see the table if (IF!) the new Ogryn rules are any good.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 Happygrunt wrote:
I love the hydra. The open turret will be a pain to paint but I am looking forward to the affordable Hydra kit. (Not FW)

I am really excited for this release. I really hope there is more to come. And has anyone IDed the barrel of the tank that is behind the hydra?

It's a battery of Basilisks.

Okay, thanks. Makes sense, but I wasn't sure if I had missed something.