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 Gallahad wrote:
.I am excited to see better pictures of the regular ironjaw orcs. I could get on board with a "start collecting" box depending on how they look. I won't buy any at the wacko regular AOS prices. Hopefully they are more blood reaver price point than sigmarine.

I doubt there'll be a start collecting box for them. There hasn't been for any of the new Age of Sigmar stuff, just old models.

Stormcast and Khorne guys got bigger boxes but they were also sold at a discount. I guess they were limited?


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Nah they weren't limited, here you go:

Bloodbound

Stormcast

Anyone else notice that compared to the other victims of GWs naming creations of late, the Orruk stuff seems almost sensible?

They were sold as expansions to the starter though. Fyreslayers didn't get anything, I doubt Orruks will. Happy to be wrong though!

Looking nice to me. Might even buy some as soon as the get available over here. Regular infantry (depending on size) will make good ard boyz/ard nobz, the Megaboss - a nice warboss, the new shaman - a nice weirdboy. Not sure about the Maw-Krusha. Maybe a squigoth... Oh, and the boar cavalry for biker nobz. And they can also be used for AoS. Definitly looking forward to it.

BaronVonSnakPak wrote:
Have you SEEN a meganob? Aesthetically, they look nothing like these new orcs, other than the fact that an orc is wearing the armor.

1. They look like low-tech Meganobz then. And that's fine. I quite like their look.
2. I like your username.


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 Bottle wrote:
Looks to be very similar in scope to the Fyreslayer release.

But even more pricey, no doubt.

As the Ironjaws are elites, I'd be expecting them to follow the £25 for 5 price point. Boss £22, Maw Crusha £65, Boar Boyz.. I dunno - 3 for £25?

I hope they aren't too expensive and that that wyvern actually looks like a wyvern. I was just planning some D&D stuff that would love a good wyvern model in a month or two, and as much as I think those orcs look like 40k models, painted anything other than that stupid 40k yellow the rider (we appears to be surfing it so that he and the beast can be built separate) could be... well ok I have no use for him at all but I could enjoy painting him.

So I might actually buy this if is is less than say $100 Australian.

Which is to say I won't ever buy it...

Seems like the amount of kits matches the Fyreslayers. So if they also match them in price, we could assume that's the new standard.

Joyboozer wrote:
Anyone else notice that compared to the other victims of GWs naming creations of late, the Orruk stuff seems almost sensible?

You mean, other than 'Orruk'?

So... Firstly, we definitely need better pictures. Secondly - yellow... Really? And then they call it the green tide?

Yeah, that's hilarious. They even emphasize the word "green" when the picture is just filled with this overwhelming amount of yellow.

Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:So... Firstly, we definitely need better pictures. Secondly - yellow... Really? And then they call it the green tide?

Sidstyler wrote:Yeah, that's hilarious. They even emphasize the word "green" when the picture is just filled with this overwhelming amount of yellow.

You could say that for the Bad Moonz in 40K as well, though. Going on the artwork, the Warboss should also be sporting the black "flames" on his armour. Solid yellow just looks silly.
I'm not sure why you're nitpicking on the epithet of "green tide" either. Orcs/Orks/Orruks in WHFB/40K/AoS are all labeled as Greenskins/The Green Tide regardless of what colours they're sporting.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:So... Firstly, we definitely need better pictures. Secondly - yellow... Really? And then they call it the green tide?

Sidstyler wrote:Yeah, that's hilarious. They even emphasize the word "green" when the picture is just filled with this overwhelming amount of yellow.

You could say that for the Bad Moonz in 40K as well, though. Going on the artwork, the Warboss should also be sporting the black "flames" on his armour. Solid yellow just looks silly.
I'm not sure why you're nitpicking on the epithet of "green tide" either. Orcs/Orks/Orruks in WHFB/40K/AoS are all labeled as Greenskins/The Green Tide regardless of what colours they're sporting.

Call it nitpicking all you want. I call it poor word choices from GW - it's as simple as that

I agree. "The green tide" and it's a mass of yellow. What's green about it?

They're orcs? Green tide has been used to describe orcs/Orks in GW stuff for a long time, no matter what colour their armour is.

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
I agree. "The green tide" and it's a mass of yellow. What's green about it?

...the orruks themselves? Or are you expecting them to have green armour? I agree that the yellow looks bad but this is just petty.

 ImAGeek wrote:
They're orcs? Green tide has been used to describe orcs/Orks in GW stuff for a long time, no matter what colour their armour is.

Look, I know it's really hard for some people to take others criticizing GW, but it's a matter of looking at the picture. The idea of "Green Tide" is a throwback to the massive, horde armies of orks and orcs (and I guess the "orruks" are going the same way) having the overwhelming colour of green (from their skin, yes), regardless of whatever colour their equipment had, because it was the overwhelming colour.

Keywords here are Green and Overwhelming

Now, look at the picture - what's the overwhelming colour? Not green.

It's like posting a picture of a sea wave with a couple of algae floating on it and calling it a "green tide"


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 Mymearan wrote:

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
I agree. "The green tide" and it's a mass of yellow. What's green about it?

...the orruks themselves? Or are you expecting them to have green armour? I agree that the yellow looks bad but this is just petty.

Definitely - how dare someone make a passing comment that is contrary to the grand scheme of GW's decisions. Gotta ram against the heretic!

Petty. Really?

 Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
I agree. "The green tide" and it's a mass of yellow. What's green about it?

...the orruks themselves? Or are you expecting them to have green armour? I agree that the yellow looks bad but this is just petty.

Definitely - how dare someone make a passing comment that is contrary to the grand scheme of GW's decisions. Gotta ram against the heretic!

Petty. Really?

Cute strawman. But yes, petty...

adjective, pettier, pettiest.
1.
of little or no importance or consequence

 Mymearan wrote:

 Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:

 Mymearan wrote:

 Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
I agree. "The green tide" and it's a mass of yellow. What's green about it?

...the orruks themselves? Or are you expecting them to have green armour? I agree that the yellow looks bad but this is just petty.

Definitely - how dare someone make a passing comment that is contrary to the grand scheme of GW's decisions. Gotta ram against the heretic!

Petty. Really?

Cute strawman.

And yours wasn't? Oh you so funny you, you white knight.

If the maw crusha doesn't look like a cheap plastic children's toy ( like that Stormcast dragon thing) Orruks might be my first AoS army.
Also, get fethed GW, trying to post in an AoS thread is like having a drunken brawl with an Auto Correct.

Eh, you might be disappointed then. It's really hard to tell because the pics are so crap but the "maw crusha" doesn't look any more impressive than the star dragon. Can't really judge yet, though.

But yeah, I agree the comment seems kinda petty, but I think Lithlandis has a point. They've always been called a "green tide" or "green horde" or whatever because they have green skin, and yeah they still obviously have green skin, but as Lithlandis pointed out, in those wide army-shots with Orks/Orcs green almost always used to be the overwhelming color in the image. Really, painting the armor almost solid yellow was a poor choice, especially when the armor these guys are wearing is full plate that almost completely covers their skin (unlike the vast majority of previous Ork/Orc models), because it makes the overwhelming color in these big army shots yellow instead of green, since the only green you see are the little green dots that are their heads in this sea of bright yellow, and it makes the label "The Green Horde" right below the same image just seem silly. I guess they couldn't call them "The Yellow Horde", though, so...

I wouldn't take it too seriously. Like I said, it's just a bad paint job that resulted in an unintentionally funny heading.

 Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:

 ImAGeek wrote:
They're orcs? Green tide has been used to describe orcs/Orks in GW stuff for a long time, no matter what colour their armour is.

Look, I know it's really hard for some people to take others criticizing GW, but it's a matter of looking at the picture. The idea of "Green Tide" is a throwback to the massive, horde armies of orks and orcs (and I guess the "orruks" are going the same way) having the overwhelming colour of green (from their skin, yes), regardless of whatever colour their equipment had, because it was the overwhelming colour.

Keywords here are Green and [i]Overwhelming[/i

So this is a proper GW green tide?

I'd say that's a pixel tide

I don't think many ork armies have been overwhelmingly green. Maybe if you count the goblin-green-and-flock bases in addition to the skin...


These guys kinda strike me as having a very 2nd edition 40k look to them. But that's just judging from bad pictures.

There was a Mongol army and khanate called The Golden Horde.

While I wouldn't say these are sciifi orcs they are more like 40k orks than fb orcs. Funny how gw goes to have basically just one look of orc releases, 40k. 40k in 40k, 40k in aos. If you want to abandon fb look why not go for something new?


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 angelofvengeance wrote:

Lithlandis Stormcrow wrote:So... Firstly, we definitely need better pictures. Secondly - yellow... Really? And then they call it the green tide?

Sidstyler wrote:Yeah, that's hilarious. They even emphasize the word "green" when the picture is just filled with this overwhelming amount of yellow.

You could say that for the Bad Moonz in 40K as well, though. Going on the artwork, the Warboss should also be sporting the black "flames" on his armour. Solid yellow just looks silly.
I'm not sure why you're nitpicking on the epithet of "green tide" either. Orcs/Orks/Orruks in WHFB/40K/AoS are all labeled as Greenskins/The Green Tide regardless of what colours they're sporting.

Badmoons show much more green than that though

Archibald_TK on Warseer posted the WD teaser seems to indicate Orruks the week after (23rd of April)

I know I'm late to the party, but:

 Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:


Yeah, no. Do you see laserguns? Do you see tanks? How about anything higher tech than the medieval era? No, no, and no. Complain about the aesthetics all you want, but this is not sci fi in any way.

~Tim?

Um, yes?

Is Forgeworld getting rid of the Chaos Dwarf vehicles or only a specific bundle?