Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

From Facebook:

Thats more Vaul-tec than Necromunda

"Survive your first combat or your credits back"

So, is the Orlock Gang boxed set only available as a 'deal' with the dice and cards?

[Edit. It is not, at the moment, listed on its own on the NZ site]

Skyven wrote:
So, is the Orlock Gang boxed set only available as a 'deal' with the dice and cards?

Don’t see why it would be as that would block people from being multiple boxes which would be required as the gang grows / using the upcoming forge world weapon sets or for using the Orlocks to make a genestealer Cult gang which they have previously works thanks to Orlock models being compatible with the GSC conversion kit.

 Galas wrote:
Thats more Vaul-tec than Necromunda

Just a little bit but this is supposed to be an ad posted by a hiver not an official proclamation and, despite the Imperium being a degenerate relic of its former glory, said glory was so far ahead of us technologically that Necromunda has been permanently stuck in “hi-tech post apocalyptic” mode so it’s thematically appropriate.
My main objection is the use of “the vulture” as a soubriquet; why does a hiver whose only contact with birds or bird-like creatures is the feathers the local Escher gang wear know enough about an (almost certainly) extinct family of species from a planet they probably don’t really believe exists, that they would use the name on their scavenged goods stall?

too much fallout. Don't like it

Skyven wrote:
So, is the Orlock Gang boxed set only available as a 'deal' with the dice and cards?

[Edit. It is not, at the moment, listed on its own on the NZ site]

This tripped me out as well, hopefully they correct it tomorrow when it goes up on the US site. I'm assuming this was a mistake.

Hopefully Duncan/Peach do a guide for the Orlocks, the white dwarf guide has a different but somewhat similar look than the official scheme. It seems people are thrilled at FWs price for the 3 hired guns but keep in mind they are smaller than you might think...so I think they are priced just right, but not particularly great.

Gotta say I'm not really onboard with the "look at us, we're hip and funny too!" approach...just feels like a bad Fall Out/Borderlands kind of rip-off which doesn't feel Necromunda to me at all.

So you cannot purchase Orlocks, only the 'bundle'. That doesn't make sense.

Baxx wrote:

Vorian wrote:
How is it ambiguous? I think it's a stupid rule, but it seems pretty clear

"When the gang is created, one Ganger can be equipped with a Special Weapon; during the campaign, additional Gangers can also take Special Weapons."

During the campaign, is that after the first game or what? It seems like they had some additional conditional rule in mind.

There's nothing ambiguous about that rule. At all.

Did the separate Goliath and Escher boxes come out on the same day as the Necromunda box set? or was it the following week

If you don't want dice and cards it's probably worth waiting a week

 OrlandotheTechnicoloured wrote:
Did the separate Goliath and Escher boxes come out on the same day as the Necromunda box set? or was it the following week

If you don't want dice and cards it's probably worth waiting a week

Same day, it was a huge release

 BrookM wrote:
From Facebook:

Eh, not really a fan. Doesn't match the Imperial feel at all.
Needs to be more like a wood carving or industrial or something.

Is the mickey mouse hand. I'm totally sure in many imperial planets they will have cartoons, of course. But it feels just so... wrong. But well is just a little add for facebook, no need to make a big deal about it. Is cool nonetheless.

 Thargrim wrote:

Skyven wrote:
So, is the Orlock Gang boxed set only available as a 'deal' with the dice and cards?

[Edit. It is not, at the moment, listed on its own on the NZ site]

This tripped me out as well, hopefully they correct it tomorrow when it goes up on the US site. I'm assuming this was a mistake.

Hopefully Duncan/Peach do a guide for the Orlocks, the white dwarf guide has a different but somewhat similar look than the official scheme. It seems people are thrilled at FWs price for the 3 hired guns but keep in mind they are smaller than you might think...so I think they are priced just right, but not particularly great.

When the preorders first went up at like 4pm EST, they had the Orlock box available by itself. Clearly there's a snafu and it'll probably get fixed.

 kendoka wrote:

 Ruglud wrote:
... Wonder how well the Black Scorpion pirate range scale-up with these figures

Spoiler:

Damn, they look great - especially he Assassins Creed-a-like mini, always liked that one - think i'll be picking up a few packs of these minis :thumpsup:

 streetsamurai wrote:
too much fallout. Don't like it

Vault tech

Vault techs

Techs

hmmm

Think you may be right!

Preorders are up, and the 'just the gang' is up as well.

https://www.games-workshop.com/en-NZ/searchResults?N=1997019759+3206404541+457750697

WARNING! NEW ZEALAND SITE! DO NOT PANIC WHEN YOU SEE THE PRICES!

(Unless you're from NZ, geeze you guys get ripped off)

Current gw designers must really hate their own setting and art style to pick something that is such a copy of fallout which doesn't even match the imperial gothic look.

Awesome. I was waiting for these guys to show up.

 Kirasu wrote:
Current gw designers must really hate their own setting and art style to pick something that is such a copy of fallout which doesn't even match the imperial gothic look.

I believe the first fallout game did not come out til after most of the necromunda figs came out. These are not much different, just updated, from the original Orlock figs

Isn't it just a 1950s retro style? it's not like Fallout invented it. But sure Fallout popularized it for modern nerds. Thing is Necromunda feels more 80s/90s than retro 1950s/60s so it does not fit.Iit is too cartoony for Necromunda IMO with the mickey mouse hand n stuff. The actual lore in the rulebook is pretty gritty for the most part as well. So there is an odd disconnect. At first glance it does not look Necromunda-ish or even 40k related for that matter.

It's not that big of a deal though unless this becomes normal.

Jesus christ, it's merchandising art from in-setting pawn shop, not the latest blanche design.
Weird reactions here, seriously.

In the 41st millenium somebody played a game made in 21st century

Chopstick wrote:
In the 41st millenium somebody played a game made in 21st century

38 thousand years into the future, and Fallout is now an underground religion. People see the Vault Dweller and The Emperor as one and the same! The Ultramarines 2nd company is venerated above all else because they wear blue and yellow like the Vault suits Vault-Tec gave everyone.

If Malcador had the monalisa how we know what other kind of stuff does he have? For all we know, he could have a fuctional server of world of warcraft where he plays with the custodes. This would explain why they didnt left their house in 10000 years

 Kirasu wrote:
Current gw designers must really hate their own setting and art style to pick something that is such a copy of fallout which doesn't even match the imperial gothic look.

You're kind of missing the point of the setting.

“Imperial Gothic” or better termed, “High Gothic” is just that- the official iconography, and stylenof a galaxy spanning bureaucracy that had to settle on something dostonct and identifiable across a million worlds and isnt actually unique to any of them.

Low Gothic- the term given to everything else- can be anything and everything, including 1950s retro-ish.

To be honest, I think the yard shop mechanic feel (the fallout also adopted) is pretty fitting for a gang that takes its inspiration from biker gangs.

Regarding the ad: IMHO the Fallout Guy/Mickey thumbs up crossed the line. Not only too much Fallout and comic relief but displaying a four fingered mutant is obviously HERETICAL!

I agree - regardless why can’t it be a slight homage anyway not like gw settings don’t take inspiration from others and others from gw. It’s just a bit of fun that maybe they thought people could shrink down to make posters from there terrain.

 Zognob Gorgoff wrote:
I agree - regardless why can’t it be a slight homage anyway not like gw settings don’t take inspiration from others and others from gw. It’s just a bit of fun that maybe they thought people could shrink down to make posters from there terrain.

Wonder how people would be treating the Judge Dredd Arbites if they were made nowadays.