Hordes of Greenskins! Check out the Plastic Orx Grunts!

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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ignatiusgrulgor

look pretty terrible compared to the marauder hero sculpt

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maji

I like them as your basic troop, seeing as your going to have tons of them.

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demyse

the sculpts look very similar to the KoW orcs, interchangeable?

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kane

I like them – don’t think the colour scheme does them any favours 🙂

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kharzak

Wow, im really dissapointed with these. They have just used the bodies from their Fantasy range and added sci-fi bitz…

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lordmarcus

Whats wrong with that?

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chaoslord93

the one with his goggles on is the best methinks,overall not to shabby

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warspawned

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 🙂

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linuxnavigator

I prefer them from the dwarfs, they had the break syndrome. These look very cool, guys time to show us the attack trike.

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space10

Once again mantic has suprised me with the quality of their figures!

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trebormills

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

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trebormills

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

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claudiazuminich

A bit disappointed. Orcs are the same of Kings of War, with some modern accessories. Not even changed the medieval fantasy armor.

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manpug

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… Read more »

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abstractalien

Indeed, it makes them feel like more of an after-thought to me. Bit dissapointing, especially after the hero-sculpt.

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nova3k

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… Read more »

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ericoas

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…

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darkover

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.

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alexholker

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.

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netdiver

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… Read more »

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guarder22

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.

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manpug

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.

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ironblood

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?

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demyse

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

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ironblood

@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.

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windir

FFFFFFF now I have to get a ton of these! dammit!! the heavy weapon dudes…lootas anyone? oh hell yah!!

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trebormills

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

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windir

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! 😀

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theunnamableone

i like ’em the fantasy orcs are cool. using the same figures is no problem at all. well done mantic.

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mecha82

Those are some nice looking miniatures.

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pangloss666

TBH these look pretty disappointing (although again, it could be the paintjob). It looks like its forgefathers or bust for me

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pangloss666

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?’