Meks, Pain Boyz & Looted Vehicles Leaked For 40k Orks!
June 17, 2014 by brennon
The Games Workshop greenskin tide seems to be never ending and there is pretty much no sign of the codex as yet BUT there are still some more Orks making an appearance in the upcoming White Dwarf. See what you think of these leaked images...
First up we have these two Orks who are (from what I can tell anyway) a Mek Boy of some kind, or it could just be some tooled up Nob, and a Pain Boy with a rather cruel set of instruments. I love the first Ork and I do enjoy the whole tinkering side of the Ork horde but that Pain Boy looks weird to me. Really weird. What has happened to his face and why is the face of the Grot so squashed?! I guess they tried to make him look insidious but it just looks wrong.
The other addition to this coming White Dwarf is the Looted Wagon. Now we thought that this wouldn't be in the new codex and I think we're still on the money with that since this is a 'White Dwarf Exclusive'. That probably means you're getting the rules for them in this issue but they won't be popping up in the main book.
It seems like this could have been a response to the annoyance that they weren't being in the new codex and so they've jumped at the chance to try and get something out there for folks who still want them. It certainly seems hasty as in the stat entry there is a misprint listing it as a 'Gorkanaut'. We still maintain however that them not being in isn't such a big thing with the advent of unbound armies and allies which is quite nice!
Talking of stat lines this thing comes with armour of 11/11/10 with three hull points and can transport twelve models across the battlefield. It's armaments include a big Kilkannon and all the other gubbins you'd expect on an Ork vehicle. You can even bolt that lovely Deff Rolla to the front.
It's somewhat unfortunate that the front of this tank looks like chips in a McDonald's packet. Oops.
Are you growing tired of the Ork horde or do you want to see more and more?
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I quite like the look of the painboy, it’s like he’s looking up at his bionic tooly bits thinking “Which one is da best to eksperiment on da hoomie”, although the grot on the back does look odd, perhaps it’s just the angle.
The Big Mek type looks neat, but unless the rules are changing I wouldn’t equip one with a kustom-mega blasta. Not sold on that Painboy’s head, but that’s an easy fix, just use another one! ^^ I still don’t like the idea of Looted -Wagons being out of the codex. Sure, I can use an unbound army to get, say, and Imperial guard Leman Russ, and get hit in the face with the whole objective secured stuff… And; If I wanted vehicles from other armies with their rules I’d play that army. Simple enough. (which I will soon enough with… Read more »
The Big Mek.. looks okay. Nice that there’s a new mini, but I’m not that struck on him. the painboy… is woeful. He doesn’t even look like an ork.
As for the looted tank… well. That looks to me like the most basic conversion job ever attempted. I really hope it is just a simple kitbash and not an actual model GW plans on releasing o.O
And seriously, I’m all for Ork clan colours being back (I wouldn’t have my horde any other way) but what’s with the dayglo colours?
I’m a huge fan of Orks but all the new stuuf they’ve shown so far has been atrocious. 🙁
I really like the pain boy, the face reminds me of the old Paul Bonner pencil drawings and the claw looks really cool. The grot is a bit of a weirdo, but then they don’t all have to look the same. The mek is a mek, not much different from the one you can make from the Lootas kit.
Looted Wagons having battlewagon upgrades is great, though I’ll miss the boom gun’s range.
I remember once upon a time GW used to give you a nice selection of different models for the same HQ choices. Not sure why GW seems to think we don’t want duplicates of the same unit type in our armies…
Oh well, always means more money to other companies who step in to fill the gap (Kromlech).
http://www.kromlech.eu/
Damn, want mcdonalds fries now
OMG I do love my ORKS but thay look so crapy ffs GW skrews things up again looks like all my cash is going to
http://maxmini.eu/blog/green-alliance-the-mustering.html
and http://www.kromlech.eu/
Honestly what can you say that is actually good about any of those models?
Not to fond of them to be honest.
I may have to replace my metal Painboy with the old model before it vanishes.