September 18, 2011 by beerogre
If you're a Marauders player, I'm sure you're already working out how many boxes of these guys you're going to need... it's the ubiquitous... Orx Grunts!
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look pretty terrible compared to the marauder hero sculpt
I like them as your basic troop, seeing as your going to have tons of them.
the sculpts look very similar to the KoW orcs, interchangeable?
I like them – don’t think the colour scheme does them any favours 🙂
Wow, im really dissapointed with these. They have just used the bodies from their Fantasy range and added sci-fi bitz…
Whats wrong with that?
the one with his goggles on is the best methinks,overall not to shabby
I like the 80’s retro-feel. I don’t mind the armour (as they are like scrap barbarians) but again the colours are a little off for me – I’m still going to paint mine ruthless-monkey urak-hai brown 🙂
I prefer them from the dwarfs, they had the break syndrome. These look very cool, guys time to show us the attack trike.
Once again mantic has suprised me with the quality of their figures!
When I first saw these I thought fantasy range with added sci fi and was disappointed compared to the lovely forgefathers.
Having said that they have some great touches and are actually not so bad, the fantasy figs are a good basis anyway so overall Ill give a thumbs up
so what happened?? from the concept art to just reusing the fantasy minis??
hopefully more leaks/announcements will move range closer to this
http://www.beastsofwar.com/sci-fi-wargaming/warpath-orx-marauders/
Not bad as is but a let down vs expected, pro of course is conversion and cheaper for mantic- just add arms and weapons rather than a whole new range
A bit disappointed. Orcs are the same of Kings of War, with some modern accessories. Not even changed the medieval fantasy armor.
Your right as I just compared the pics of the 2 ranges as they are the same with some slight changes. That makes me sad as it makes it feel like they cheapened the idea of this force by a quick copy and paste.
Please mantic, go back to the drawing board and redo them. I rather hold off a bit longer for good unique ORX than this copout that we have shown before us. PLEASE!!! I want you to do well as a company and challenge the evil corporation that shall not be named, but this will not budge many into your plastic range. Trust me its for your own good to redo them.
Indeed, it makes them feel like more of an after-thought to me. Bit dissapointing, especially after the hero-sculpt.
I disagree. I think it works out well for them to reuse parts from the fantasy line.
This keeps production cost low, therefor keeping cost to the consumer low. Im getting these minis for various uses, roleplaying games, other scifi game proxies, etc. Cost is the biggest issue for me, and mantic is the best deal on the internet for decent quality miniatures and great price.
And i like them. I think they look pretty good (except i agree with the painting or color scheme, they are a little too cartoony/silly) If i get these, a brown skin army of orx i think would look best.
But mantic, ignore the naysayers, i like how you guys reuse parts from other lines. You did it with the Abyssal Dwarfs and they look good too. Keep up the great work guys.
I agree about the cartoony thing… they would probably look a lot batter with a darker green skin.
But chaos dwarfs are a “modified race”, on fantasy, from their fantasy dwarfs. Not bad at all when you think about the “conversion kits”.
But when you say you gona make “orkz in space”, it is very annoying to see you doing conversion kits for your fantasy line. It look like cheating.
But i think those are not the finnal product, just a quick “lets us show them some plastic orx too” thing…
Hmm… meh…
They’re ok, but no match for the great Forgefather sculpts, imho. Will those be hybrid Kits or will Mantic give us an additional sprue of plastic bits for those? I really hope for all-plastic-modells, since I really hate hybrid kits.
My hope rests on the Forgefathers and the Corporation.
The left one’s Kamina glasses got a smile out of me, and the gas mask the fourth one is wearing looks nice, but overall, I don’t like them. The biggest problem is that they look like hobos. It’s hard to take them seriously as a human-originated mercenary force when they’re apparently too primitive to wear boots or pants.
Hmm. They aren’t steller when compared to the Marauder hero model. But I think they’re ok. I think it’s the choise of colours in the paint job. They have a really familiar Warhammer 40000 2nd edition Orks feel to them which is always good in my book.
I’ll wait till we see some unboxing videos, pics of the sprues and pics of the unpaited miniatures. But it’s starting to look like that I’ll be getting at least one box of these for Gorgamorka. Looks like the Marauder plastics will be pretty interchangeable with the old Gorkamorka plastics. I still have some unused bits of them laying around.
I think these figures suffer from the same thing that afflicted the first painted forgefather, I will hold off on judging them until I can see the bare plastic figures. Because if they are anything like the stormrage veterans they will be amazing minitures.
At least the stunt bots will not be a copy of a fantasy range. I feel rather let down by this as they look even more cartoony than 40k range on space orks. The hero is a win, troops are a dud.
I’d like to see them in pants and boots. What kind of space scavenger runs arround with a ton of armor on his torso but leaves his legs and feet unprotected?
the romans were pretty badass and they didnt wear alot of leg armour, or the greeks, even the British armed forces only have bullet proof vests, not bullet proof trousers
@demyse actually the greeks did, they also wore sandals, and quite often carried large shields, and they were not modernesque sci-fi space scavengers!
When I wrote protected, I was meaning more from the elements and whatnot, not literally bulletproof pants and boots. Can’t see how scavenging for scrap on various battlezones in skirts barefoot would be a bright idea but whatever, they had boots and knee pads and stuff in the concept art.
FFFFFFF now I have to get a ton of these! dammit!! the heavy weapon dudes…lootas anyone? oh hell yah!!
To all the people saying they should wear pants…Darth Vader says NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
They should wear trousers, pants brings memories of a dancing nappy scene
oh and the smiles on the orx look sooo similar to the monopose scimitar orcs that came 8 in a box for fantasy when I started a while ago….and for some reason I now find that awesome! 😀
i like ’em the fantasy orcs are cool. using the same figures is no problem at all. well done mantic.
Those are some nice looking miniatures.
TBH these look pretty disappointing (although again, it could be the paintjob). It looks like its forgefathers or bust for me
Its REALLY frustrating as Mantic look like they are shooting themselves in the foot with the photography and painting. We should be looking at the bare plastic/resin and saying ‘wow, they will look really cool painted up’ rather than what we are saying: ‘er, can we have a look at the bare plastic/resin please?’
I like ’em
I think if the were a less vivid green, the impression they give would be very different.
I would be tempted to paint them with a brown skin to be honest, I have a feeling they would look quite nice.
@nogginthenog You have a point here, I think a more natural olive green/brown could make them look a lot better.
These are terrible, I cant believe Mantic have used the torso from their fantasy orcs. Im rooting for mantic and I will get in warpath for the forgefathers alone, but im suprised at this approach. Sure, from a business point of view it keeps costs down, but unlike the forge fathers, these were always going to be directly compared to GW Orks, and therefore definitely an opportunity to win people over. Its not even just the torso I dont like, its the heads, the sculpts are terrible. It doesnt bode well for the basic Forgefather troops, hopefully they wont be hybrids of the fantasy dwarfs. Come on mantic, everything up to this point has been unbelievably brilliant, you can do better than this.
I think it’s a good idea to reuse the fantasy line, as it promotes conversions.
You can use the morax or greatax bits with these guys for close combat troops or even normal grunts (just put the gun on a strap or a holster.)
Why I should buy boxes of marauders, if I can buy Kings of War Orcs and customize them with weapons from other companies?.
nothing will be stopping you. Im sure the boxes of KoW orcs and marauders would be the same price. I encourage that even, make your armies unique.
Mantic is providing these who are not as ambitious with conversions are you may be.
Besides you’d still be getting your minis from mantic anyway, so i dont see the issue.
Going to be honest, after being pleased by the dwarfs, this is a big let down 🙁
I want another game, a futuristic science fiction game, I want other models.
Agreed, I think a lot of people will be using Orks as Orx. If thats the case you may as well just keep playing 40k.
the one on the left in the bottom picture is my favorite. looks like an ork fighter pilot. oh i must have that mini
loving these, when can we see the sprue? thinking buying warpath starter set, get rid of the forgefathers, buy KoW orc box set, get rid of gor riders, and let the part swapping commence!
Are these the same bodies as the KoW Orcs ?? I mean, as ‘cannon fodder’ they’re good. Like a penal legion unit… but for the standard soldiers of the Orcs? This is quite a big FAIL. I do actually like them as sort of orc “forlorn hope” troops, but come on. Why are they using chainmail?
To quote a certain movie… I HAVE A BAD FEELING ABOUT THIS.
Just occurred to me…. We’ve not actually seen the standard Forgefather troops. Could it be that they’ve recycled their much hated (I actually like!) plastic KoW dwarf torsos for them?
Its a worry alright. I like mantics dwarfs, but not as sci fi hybrids. I will be very disappointed if that is the route mantic have taken with the basic forgefather troops. Very lazy indeed. Thought they had said previously they wouldnt be going down the hybrid path, could be wrong.
I have a bad feeling. Looking at the descriptions of the marauder troops on mantic’s site (10 a box) and the fact that they offer 3 orx with the paint set, I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way to do this without breaking plastic sprues is that a box of 10 marauders must be made of 1 KoW Orc Ax plastic frame + 1 Orc GreatAx frame + 1 extra plastic frame which contains warpath bits (2 BFG, 2 special melee weapons, pistols, grenades and heads). If I’m right, we’re gonna get halberds and shields with our warpath marauder orx…lol
Whether or not I’m right, I think they took the lazy way out with these units. They had awesome concept art that would have trumped the crappy orks from GW, but now that’s not gonna happen. The worst part if we know that they had the potential to do it, seeing the awesome orx captain figure, which now totally looks our of place with the rest of this range…
The guy with the glasses is best i think, the rest need to have their yaws elongated like on the concept art … also some of the medieval armour has to go imho
Some of these look really good, and some of them i go eh. Here’s to hoping for lots of choices on mixing and matching pieces, so i can leave out the combos I don’t like.
I think it is the paint jobs on both the Dwarfs and the Orcs that has let Mantic down, not the actual sculpts.
Bad men in armour in “spaaaace!”
http://youtu.be/KSKBietDuaQ
Just for thought. As for “medieval”, I think fantastical is a better word to replace.
If the fantasy sprues are indeed included with the Marauder boxes, I’ll be gluing halberds onto the end of the raptor wheels for sure!
Hey, now i see, that movie is just about the 40k era when the emperor was “uniting” the empire. lol
while the sculpts arent horrible they dont hold a flame to the hero sculpt and what the range could have been. Seeing how they reused the fantasy sculpts for the marauders I guarantee that the rank and file troopers for the forgefathers will be done the same way
I can hear all the hands of the peeps who advance ordered their orx slapping their foreheads and wondering if it’s possible to cancel.
In "fairness" to Mantic "the other company's" Orks torsos, whilst different sculpts, are pretty much the same as the fantasy range. To be fair.
not as excited as I saw the hero miniature, also the color scheme and the fact that they wears no boots or something made me a little bit disappointed
The orx above look nothing like those in the cover art. I cant help being disappointed. I really wanted them to be great. Ah well, still looking forward to the corporation minis.
They are ….okay. No more. The Forgefathers are much better. My gaming buddy opted for the Forgefathers before me. What a bummer.
Hm, i want to see them without the paint. I should not even give my opinion before it, but i will not resist this urge: they are not fine, and have that resemblance with old RT era orks, i about to say that is to much resemblance, they actually looks like modernized versions of those. Anyway, they are good, and depending on the price they will worth for rank and file troops. Right now they just look green bestialized humans, possible usefull for pos apokaliptic scenarios thugs…
These better not be the finished sculpts. As everyone has be commenting its just the KoW Orc Greatax Troops with sci-fi arms and heads. Come on Mantic, this is your new game and entry into sci-fi miniatures don’t be cutting corners now. You need to make a good first impression.
Not what i was expecting for orx in space, but alas i have already ordered mine so i will have to make conversions to most of them to suit my taste.
They lack boots. You do not go around bare foot in space. Boots people, thats what missing. And cool helmets, cool googles, more gasmasks.
Not convinced about these models…the concept art looked so much more brutal than what is shown here. The goggles look odd, the armour looks a little out of place and the faces are not aggressive or savage enough. However, the knives look nice, as does the BFG, the power claw and the vox device. The paint scheme doesn’t help, as they look a little too clean cut and not rugged enough for my idea of space orx!
wonder what happened to the concept of super mutant that looked orcish in color ><
honestly i like em’ very steam-punk. honestly prefer these to gw orks
This. Is. Really. Pathetic.
I would have expected better from them. Their concept art is cool and I’ve expected that kind of Orcs. Not KoW Orcs slapped with grenades and ammo pouches. Mantic, if you want to compete GW, I demand better than this.
Why not give Romain some of the plastics and see what he can do?
good luck to him!
Unfortunatly these look kinda bad compared to the Forge Fathers and the hero sculpts 🙁
Meh, wait till we get to see the Forge Father’s Steel Warriors made from KoW dwarves bodies… that may beat these orx in terms of uglyness and make the Grizzlers look out of place. If we shout loud enough that we want no half-ass scults for warpath, will mantic listen ? Poor sods who pre-oredered.
Just for the record, I love KoW dwarves. I just don’t want them to be given guns and called sci-fi models.
Hmm… I WILL be painting them the more Olive scheme… then I shall form my opinion…
Didn’t notice on the concept sketches they had no trousers, does seem a bit weird but not a deal breaker. The thing I do miss from the concept sketch is that they seem at lot less spiky in the plastic and lose a bit of menace. Proof is in the pudding though and having seen them I’m still looking forward to getting the starter set and putting a few together.