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Bonde wrote: Well, a deep striking walker with transport capacity would solve two of the major problems with the army right now. Getting walkers across the board and getting infantry across the board.
shabbadoo wrote: The gun barrels on the Gokrkanaut's/Morkanaut's left arm look entirely too uniform for an Ork contraption, but the rest of the model has peaked my interest well enough.
Yep, I agree. The shoota army is way too symetric for anything that an Ork would have built. Otherwise I'd say that the model has potential, I just need to see some pictures of the alternate version and the sprues themselves. I got some bits for a Mega Dread that I might just use on this for conversion. Well, perhaps except the fact that buying the rest of the Mega Dread from FW would probably be cheaper.
Also agree; if I get one I'll be using uneven lengths of plasticard to extend the barrels so it looks more proppa orky
Exactly. It's not like the Mek bashing the thing together cares about different barrel lengths, just as long as the bullets generally go in the right direction.
Nothing in the fluff about mekaniaks supports or discredits your argument.
I wasn't arguing entirely from a fluff standpoint (even though it quite sounded like it). I was thinking about the range of Ork miniatures we already have, especially those from FW. Most of the walker and tank gatling type guns look like they have been made from a lot of different smaller firearms. Good examples are the mega Dread big shootas and the Giga-shoota on the Kill Blasta tank.
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Perfect Organism wrote: Combining mega-armour and the KFF is nice, but what would be even better is being able to combine one of them (or better yet, both of them) with a warbike.
I can't tell you how many times I read through the Big Mek bit of the codex when it came out, wishing it were true.
"Orkses never lost a battle. If we win we win, if we die we die fighting so it don't count. If we runs for it we don't die neither, cos we can come back for annuver go, see!"
I dig how in a setting where giant, muscled fungus men ride Mad Max cars and use their own teeth as currency, the concept of little engineering dudes with beards was considered a step too far down the aisle of silliness.
I wasn't arguing entirely from a fluff standpoint (even though it quite sounded like it). I was thinking about the range of Ork miniatures we already have, especially those from FW. Most of the walker and tank gatling type guns look like they have been made from a lot of different smaller firearms. Good examples are the mega Dread big shootas and the Giga-shoota on the Kill Blasta tank.
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I can see both points, it does look very symmetrical for an Ork weapon.
I think a different paint job would help with that.
Orks would manufacture, to a degree. They have to. Where do all the sluggas come from? Do they make them ALL by hand? So some level of Orky production must be in place. So sometimes Orks would make stuff to a design, and it would come out pretty much as designed.
Also; who cares? It's an Ork model. Don't like it? Mod the hell out of it or scratch build your own. That's the beauty of Orks!
Perfect Organism wrote: Combining mega-armour and the KFF is nice, but what would be even better is being able to combine one of them (or better yet, both of them) with a warbike.
I can't tell you how many times I read through the Big Mek bit of the codex when it came out, wishing it were true.
I still mutter to myself about it when making lists, even this weekend.
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Da Butcha wrote: This is PURELY speculation, but given that the new model is evidently called a Gorkanaut, maybe it will be able to deep strike? It could be an orky walking drop pod. That's nothing but speculation, based on astronaut/Gorkanaut, but it would give orks a new deployment option, and give them something weird.
Oh Mork, this would be beautiful. Deffwing would truly flourish!
From what I remember of the binding on that thing, there probably isn't a copy in good condition anywhere in the world. My one fell apart about twenty years ago.
Perfect Organism wrote: From what I remember of the binding on that thing, there probably isn't a copy in good condition anywhere in the world. My one fell apart about twenty years ago.
Yeah. PVA glued to covers and prepared to insert the pages to lever-arch folder. Not exactly perfect solution.
Perfect Organism wrote: From what I remember of the binding on that thing, there probably isn't a copy in good condition anywhere in the world. My one fell apart about twenty years ago.
Yeah. PVA glued to covers and prepared to insert the pages to lever-arch folder. Not exactly perfect solution.
Joravi wrote: The Gorkanaught will run for $105 when it is released. Overhead from a store owner. Apparently it is already in their system or something.
That's about £62, so tallies with the £65 I heard.
2014/05/25 20:42:52
Subject: Ork rumours - updated 25th May: White Dwarf cover with new big walker
For $105, this thing better have some crazy rules. I would just buy a Stompa at that price, or not even bother.
Fang, son of Great Fang, the traitor we seek, The laws of the brethren say this: That only the king sees the crown of the gods, And he, the usurper, must die.
Mother earth is pregnant for the third time, for y'all have knocked her up. I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe, but I was not offended. For I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own gak.
2014/05/25 21:09:16
Subject: Ork rumours - updated 25th May: White Dwarf cover with new big walker
Suggested conversion line:
Trukk gives wheels --> Taurox wheeled, tracks go to ---> Gorkanaut, legs can be used to---> Make the Trukk a walker?
Fang, son of Great Fang, the traitor we seek, The laws of the brethren say this: That only the king sees the crown of the gods, And he, the usurper, must die.
Mother earth is pregnant for the third time, for y'all have knocked her up. I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe, but I was not offended. For I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own gak.
oldone wrote: Hey I feel like this is sort of related but I've got the 7th ed book and I was looking through it, and I notice the ork pages in the background book with this image which looked off to me for ages and I know why, it's a mek in mega armour with a kustom force field on the back. Is it possible hint?
that claw looks more like a sort lifta-droppa thing than a proper power claw.
2014/05/25 21:51:32
Subject: Re:Ork rumours - updated 25th May: White Dwarf cover with new big walker
how come the person who took a picture of the WD cover did not take a picture of the inside too!?!?
waaaaaant to see that Morka/Gorka-naut in details!!!
oldone wrote: Hey I feel like this is sort of related but I've got the 7th ed book and I was looking through it, and I notice the ork pages in the background book with this image which looked off to me for ages and I know why, it's a mek in mega armour with a kustom force field on the back. Is it possible hint?
ZOMG, 2+ armour AND giving off a 5+ cover (potentially 5+ invuln. in the next book) save? Sweet Mork that would be bootiful. I am crying green tears of WAAAGHness if this is true.
With "Ignores Cover" being so rampant I'll be highly disappointed if it doesn't give an invulnerable save.
As for heads on models, unless he's a clamshell on his own I'd hold out the possibility of alternate heads in a kit. Then again it's not like they can't offer a couple different heads in a clamshell either.
Watch it cost like, fifty points, if it gives a 5+ invulnerable save. I mean, if it doesn't get nerfed to only protect the models within the bubble.
All these Ork changes are looking interesting. It'd be nice to see some Greenskins on the table in my area again, rather than all Guardsmen/Eldar, all the time.
So, the Gorkanaut - going to be the Ork version of a Knight Titan, or a bigger Ork Dreadnaught?
warboss wrote: Is there a permanent stickied thread for Chaos players to complain every time someone/anyone gets models or rules besides them? If not, there should be.
2014/05/25 21:55:49
Subject: Ork rumours - updated 25th May: White Dwarf cover with new big walker
Da Blitza Boyz! (Orks) 70% painted.
PVA dried out (quarter of a century...) but it is mint.
Fang, son of Great Fang, the traitor we seek, The laws of the brethren say this: That only the king sees the crown of the gods, And he, the usurper, must die.
Waaagh an' a 'alf
1500 Pts WIP 
2000pts (50% painted) 
