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Simple question, stemming from the discussion in the news thread.

Would YOU, personally, buy ork boyz if they get a new kit?

When answering keep in mind that a new kit will have all the advantages/disadvantages of other recent kits, like more dynamic but less customizable poses, a higher price and likely aesthetics similar to the crew found on ork buggies.

Let's also assume that there is no new wargear which would force you to buy into the new kit.

I didn't answer your poll because I didn't see an appropriate response. I happen to really like the current sculpts, and they are plenty versatile as they are.

Closest would be 'no, I have enough boyz already' but as any ork player knows you can never have too many orks. I don't like the so-called dynamic bordering on mono-pose models. Ironically, mono-pose works better for LESS dynamic poses...having several guys doing something a bit unusual the same way 3 other guys look in the squad is off-putting for me.

It's also why I could never buy two of the same ork vehicle. Having random looking bits attached here and there look odd when identically placed on the next slap dash vehicle.

I would replace mine - provided they bring the same level of life to the new kits that I see in the buggies. The Squigbuggy is just so phenomenally orky. Not to mention the head of the driver for the Wartrike and the Scrapjet pilot. There's so much more ork there than some of the uninspired old kits.

No chance, regardless of how they look (and how much they cost). Still got too many ork infantries to paint, I won't add any more for a decade at least, lol. Even if they come with no wargear I'd buy them, eventually I'd convert some of the models I already own.

I also strongly dislike most of the modern kits' aesthetics, including a few ork ones like some of the buggies.

I'd buy a character though.

Nope. I'm not buying another Ork army.

I voted "depends".

It would depend on the sculpts - I'm not a huge fan of many of the newer ork/orruk/orc sculpts that have been released recently. The Savage Orc character for Underworlds(?) looks terrible IMO, for example.

It would depend on the pricing - I already think that the current boyz kit is too expensive after the most recent price hike, especially when you realistically need 90+ in an ork army.

I might buy one box just because orks, but certainly wouldn't replace all of my existing ork boyz with new ones.

Depends if I like them or not. I am not keen on any ork infantry models since the Rogue Trader era, so the answer will probably be no but i'll keep an open mind. I am planning a Blood Axe project so maybe, if they have that kind of look as an option.

As was clearly said in the N&R thread, big nope from me. The current kit is perfectly serviceable as is and I already have a bunch of boyz from the AoBR days. I also don't want the core kit for the Ork range to follow the current pricing and design paradigm for a lot of updated armies like marines, since as a horde army, you cannot skimp on taking bare minimum squads.

No, But I have no interest in Orks, Orcs, or Orruks.

I like Orks and if I were to start them as an army without buying anything used I'd have to buy the new kit. That said if the new kit isn't something I like I'd do my best to buy used Boyz from the second-hand market.

Depends... Obviously.

Are they compatible with the current kits? Is the price comparable? Are the aesthetics the same, or at least close?

If any of those are no, likely not. Unless there is a huge slew of rockets or big shootas, or other useful parts. Which is a pipe dream, so still likely no.

Voss wrote:
Depends... Obviously.

This! Like i said in the other topic i cant wait to see some new ork infantry models, boyz included... but i would BUY them? Dont know yet, i must see it first !

I would buy new orks firstly for making some gorkamorka warbands and/or kill team squad but some very big and cool release may tempt me to return in 40k after years and build a new army... but ive not much hope. Im just happy to see new orks infantry, not necessarily new boyz, infantry its all i ask

That depends entirely on how the new boyz look, the options in the kit, and the price.

Realistically, if the price is an issue for you, you should just vote 'no'. Boyz have a snowball's chance in hell to become cheaper with new models.

I voted "depends".
I'd have to see the kit. If I like the sculpts, sure.
If I didn't like the sculpts I'd pass (and hunt down the older stuff I do like).

Only way price can become less of issue is if boyz are upgraded to more elite so 30-40 is enough for army. But hard to see that few unarmoured model be viable...

Otheswise better consider current price dirt cheap

I've suggested this for other armies, and I'll do it again here. If you could buy the same amount of Orks for the same amount of money as an equivalent Space Marine army, then keeping the Orks as mooks and allowing them to recycle back onto the board would be a great way of representing them as a horde.

I mean, I've said that I'm not buying another Ork army, but if that Ork army is the size of a SM army, and the quality of sculpt that Primaris SM have, I might buy that.

My answer is no as I don't play Orks, but I have built and painted both the AoBR and the current Boyz kit in the past and I have to say they hold up really well. If I played Orks my answer would depend on my disposable income as more boyz would be nice to have, but not a necessity.

I'm not sure what they could do to improve the current ork boys. If anything a new kit would be even more monopose and restrictive like the CSM kit.

I voted depends.

I have 60 boyz and I'm definitely not replacing them. If some amazing new kit came out that looked even better but was still in scale with the older ones, or that could be used to build something different like Skarboyz, then maybe I'd pull the trigger. But the current ones are fine.

I won’t mixing them even if it looks weird. It would probably take me a while to fully switch. But I don’t like the current boys kit that much, even though I have a lot of them.
I know most people here do, and if I did to, then I probably wouldn’t bother.

Deep down I just can’t believe a new boys kit is coming, dunno why. It would be great but I just don’t have faith

It always depends. If its just an updated sculpt that continues to capture the look and theme of Ork Boyz then sure... maybe... if GW ever made an edition or alternative rule set that had some real tactical depth + large amount of core rules. Seriously 8th/9th is such a massive departure from 6th/7th in most of the wrong ways while stilling being a steampile pile of gak in terms of stacking bonuses on top of bonues.

If they pulled a Primaris to replace Boyz with some PrimOrruk (TM) nonsense to try and phase out old models so they can sell replacements to players (at probably $50 a box) then GW can zog off entirely.

 Thargrim wrote:
I'm not sure what they could do to improve the current ork boys. If anything a new kit would be even more monopose and restrictive like the CSM kit.

"bUt ThEy CaMe OuT tEn YeArS aGo ThEy'Re So OlD!" Cry spoiled SM players who get a new kit every time a day ends in a "Y" at GW and fail to understand the general longevity of miniature kits...

The kit was perfectly fine when it was redone and it still is.

I answered this as if it would apply to my Fantasy Orcs (retired since 2015). The answer is that I would absolutely buy new Ork or Orc or Orruk boyz and throw them into the sprawling multi-edition collection I have.

Nope, love the old kit specifically because they're so modular and have so many options. Any new kit will be in the exact opposite direction. That's fine, different strokes for different folks and all.
That said I will be buying "new" Orks if new kits come out, all the old stuff dumped on the secondary market I can find cheap.

TBF, outside of maybe buying some for painting/ modelling if I liked the sculpts, I have nearly 200 painted boyz already, I'd probably not buy a new sculpt line.
Maybe if they we're an upscaled Scarboy/ Ard Boy sculpt, or some cool new Kommandos or Madboyz?

As I said in the original thread, there are many many ork kits that need an update over the boyz really are fine as they are, maybe a bit of variation by adding in specific klan upgrade kits but yeah, they're fine. An update may be cool, but really, they're bottom of the barrel to be updated really, there are so many ork kits, let alone other factions (Eldar, Imperial guard troops) that need to be updated now as the models are old/ugly/not up to modern aesthetic and posing standards...

Ork boyz just don't need that, they look cool already, maybe they could look better, but it's not needed. And to be honest, if they were done I'd like some really specific cool things with them that would make orks more diverse, namely, different heights of boys on a sprue, so when they are a horde, they're a horde of more individual models rather than multiple clumps of fairly the same.

My 2 cents, don't need to be done, and shouldn't be done before many other units/whole faction infantry, but if they are done after, cool.

I'm planning to start an Ork army this year. If they hinted at a new kit I'd probably get some old kits fast because I saw what happened to fantasy orc prices once they went oop. But I'd still buy a new Box, too. If they're as monopose as CSM and especially DG I'd only get one of those, though, as these new sets don't really work for a whole army but rather as additional sculpts for existing collections.

 addnid wrote:
I won’t mixing them even if it looks weird. It would probably take me a while to fully switch. But I don’t like the current boys kit that much, even though I have a lot of them.
I know most people here do, and if I did to, then I probably wouldn’t bother.

Deep down I just can’t believe a new boys kit is coming, dunno why. It would be great but I just don’t have faith

There really isn't any reason to think a new one is coming. GW is barely replacing finecast & metal, let alone plastic kits.

We know for certain that orks are getting _a_ model- we've seen bits of a painted ork model in a preview video (with the sisters LT, the DG character and an Ad Mech character).
The rumor engine has several pictures that look probably orky. But (hopefully) these are tankbusters or kommandos, which don't currently have plastic kits, and the former have a reason to have what's probably a squig.

There are several character builds that currently lack models (warbosses with options, mega-armor warboss, bike warboss, mek with KFF) and a plastic weirdboy would be nice.
Deffkoptas are still hanging about in limbo.

All of those have a much higher priority (and likelihood) than boyz, and sadly I doubt orks will even get all of that. Let alone some classics like cyboars, looted wagons and etc. Though technically the latter just need real rules, not a model, because the looting is the point. Personally I wouldn't mind new wartrakks and buggies rather than the slew of 'snazzwagon' variants, but I suspect I'll be disappointed there.

Yeah tankbustas/kommandos and a weirdboy are what I'd like to see.

I think boyz could benefit from an upgrade sprue with a bunch of extra heads, weapons, gear, and primaris-style arm options that depict an ork reloading, pointing, punching, eating a squig, etc. I built 60 boyz from the existing kits and even doing quite a few conversions and kitbashes it's hard to put in enough variety.

I would definitely not want this stuff to be klan themed though. A few bits is fine but I wouldn't want to see the range get too space wolvesified with every boy wearing seven pieces of flair.