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Pirate Hats ? I'm sold!

(well any hats really)

Unchain dem weirdboyz! Wuddint want 'em ta get a headake. HUR HUR HURR.

funny how ork threads are the happiest and friendliest places on Dakka

Ragnar69 wrote:
funny how ork threads are the happiest and friendliest places on Dakka

wots dat sposed ta meen? yoo startin? WAAAGH!!!

I've been looking forward to Orks being released for months and it couldn't have come at a better time as I haven't bought much for a while.

The flashgits sound right up my street as my Orks are all pirate themed. I've a carrier bag of boyz and about 30 pirate ork heads I've been collecting from various sources, so I shall be ready!

<====Perhaps biggest Flash Git fan around, 2 full units that I actually play! Built and painted!

He... he plays Flashgits.
I think I have to worship you now or something.

 Dez wrote:
<====Perhaps biggest Flash Git fan around, 2 full units that I actually play! Built and painted!

Haha, I've actually never gotten around to trying them, nor have I seen them played. How do they perform in reality?

(Though I realize it is likely to change soon! )

I may never play another game of 40k, but I'll keep on building and painting Ork stuff till the company goes under.

Leerjawise wrote:

 Dez wrote:
<====Perhaps biggest Flash Git fan around, 2 full units that I actually play! Built and painted!

Haha, I've actually never gotten around to trying them, nor have I seen them played. How do they perform in reality?

(Though I realize it is likely to change soon! )

They actually do surprisingly well, but I play them with all the bells and whistles (full upgrades!). They are durable, and tricky. By tricky, I mean your opponent thinks they are just going to sit there and shoot when that's just the icing on the cake. I've done amazingly with them by assaulting. Though it's not quite as nice without the +1Initiative from Furious Charge. If you throw in a Warboss with a PK, they wreck everything they see. For fun (and you must be playing them for fun) attach a Weirdboy and hope for 'Ere We Go then drop behind your enemies lines to pop tanks.

My hope is that they have more included with their base cost, though a price drop wouldn't be so bad. I think they'd see more use if they were assault 2 standard, and More Dakka was a third shot. Gitfindas giving +1 BS would be nice too. If you can assign Nobz to squads like Wolf Guard and other more recent books have been doing that's going to really make them shine.

I've got some Valkyrie and Battlewagon Kitbashes I started when those were both new kits I need to finish for these guys.

Leerjawise wrote:

 Dez wrote:
<====Perhaps biggest Flash Git fan around, 2 full units that I actually play! Built and painted!

Haha, I've actually never gotten around to trying them, nor have I seen them played. How do they perform in reality?

(Though I realize it is likely to change soon! )

I played Flash Gitz in a few games just after 6th Edition dropped and they got FAQed to give them "Ignores Cover".

Honestly they did their best job being a fire magnet and soaking up tons of wounds from their 'eavy armor and Painboy. From an offensive perspective, they didn't really put out a whole lot of damage, even when I rolled well and was putting out AP3 shots against space marines. They're still Orks, and they still had to roll to hit, and so even with upgrades, they never did all that awesome. At least not for the amount of points I spent on them.

Well, they aren't bad or anything... it's just whenever I played them, it felt like playing at a 250 point handicap or something. Badrukk has always done surprisingly well for me though. Nothing like precision-shotting space marine sergeants with S7 AP2.

Will we finally get that new buggy/trakk that's been in development for seemingly forever...

 Gargskull wrote:
Will we finally get that new buggy/trakk that's been in development for seemingly forever...

Although we've been asking for a buggie/wartrakk forever, it seems a deffkopta model will be more likely.

One can hope for a new buggie!

 Squidbot wrote:
Imagine devastator marines, but orks. Crazy guns, with other guns bolted on. Pirate hats, mohicans, cigars, waaagh banners with plenty of shiny bits.
I can't really say much more, shouldn't even have said this. The anonymous source Kroot posted a while back was me.
Seen stuff, and as an Ork player I am massively hyped for it all.
No idea what waves it comes in, or if some is for the alleged/debunked starter or what, but all the models I saw are beautiful.

So here is a question: How do you think the current flashgit looks in comparison to the new ones? My local FLGS has one and I thought about picking it up now and then getting the plastic ones when they are released? Will they look nice next to each other or will it be like an old Kabal warrior next to a new one?

Heard of a repackage of the Boyz to. Like the marines. More flashy stuff and gear.

 Lord Scythican wrote:

 Squidbot wrote:
Imagine devastator marines, but orks. Crazy guns, with other guns bolted on. Pirate hats, mohicans, cigars, waaagh banners with plenty of shiny bits.
I can't really say much more, shouldn't even have said this. The anonymous source Kroot posted a while back was me.
Seen stuff, and as an Ork player I am massively hyped for it all.
No idea what waves it comes in, or if some is for the alleged/debunked starter or what, but all the models I saw are beautiful.

So here is a question: How do you think the current flashgit looks in comparison to the new ones? My local FLGS has one and I thought about picking it up now and then getting the plastic ones when they are released? Will they look nice next to each other or will it be like an old Kabal warrior next to a new one?

I take it you mean the discontinued one? This guy? http://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Ork-Flash-Git-with-Targeting-Squig

He's going to look a little underwhelming beside his new buddies, but that said I still love that model, and he'll make a good nob I think. I'd buy it anyway just to have it.
It's not goign to be like putting RT models next to current models, but his snazzgun is going to be way out of its league.
Make him a kommando or something.

 Gargskull wrote:
Will we finally get that new buggy/trakk that's been in development for seemingly forever...

Didn't see any vehicles other than repaints of current trukk and dread, other than the new mid range stompa thing. Doesn't mean we aren't, I just didn't see it.

Fair enough, cheers.

Now I want to know if the new Manz are a bigger scale than the old ones as rumored...Centurion sized?

Not centurion sized.

Smaller than the Kromlech ones then? At least I can continue to use my Kromlech juggernaut as a warboss.

You know what, thinking about it they may be. I've seen photos, and in the photos of the manz there were just manz (And a Mek in Mega), so nothing for reference. But on reflection, they could be about Ghaz size.
Ghaz isn't much smaller than the Kromlech minis. They're about Centurion size, right?

I think they'd scale well with one another, were they pictured as a group of 3, 5 or 6?. Just wondering if my 40ish Manz are going to look funny with the new ones.

Do you think one of the Meks in Megarmor could be Nazdreg?

2 and a mek.
Quite possibly but that's just wishful thinking based on the idea you put in my head..

I think the Manz will be bigger then, as Centurions come 3 in a kit while Terminators come 5 in a kit. That means these will also be expensive

Potentially. They could even be a new unit, similar to the Centurion.
Whatever the case, I don't think they will be met with the derision the Centurion's were. I think Orks will love them.

I'm super excited for this pregnant deff dread and flash gitz

Orks can't be released fast enough.

Squid, I'm pretty impressed you kept your secrets as long as you did.
You are a strong man.

The reassuring thing with this army is it's quite difficult to feth up a unit. Even if we don't like it, it can be reworked.

I personally really don't like flowerpot shaped stompas, but when I build mine, it's going to be quite different.

 matphat wrote:
Squid, I'm pretty impressed you kept your secrets as long as you did.
You are a strong man.

There's more. But I can't.
But as I keep saying; I'm an Ork player, I love greenskins of any variety, and I was absolutely over the moon when I saw the stuff I have. I am saving money to drop on it all as soon as it hits. Even if I hate 7th, the models will be repurposed into something. Mantic or whatever.