Orcs & Goblins The Army Book Discussed
September 5, 2011 by warzan
Warboss Warren and his trusty Goblin Sub-Lieutenant Darrell, expose themselves to the power of the Beasts of Waaagh and give you their first impressions of the new Orcs & Goblins Army Book from Games Workshop.
BoW Justin
So i have just been told by our buddies on YouTube that Orcs are in fact MUSHROOMS :S
And they get all excited and unleash their spores all over the battle field.
If i were a brettonian i really really wouldn’t want to slip on that!
Mind you if i were a Beastman I wonder could i resist having a little taste 😉
DUDE NOT COOL…………… 😛
BoW Justin
If you own all the Gorkamorka books there is a detailed section on Orc birth. Shows diagrams as well.
Interesting to hear your Big rulebook fell apart too – was yours the hardcover?
I actually have the softcover from the box set – it has started to fall apart about 2 months ago, got it when it came out 🙂
Yup our HardBack copy started to dismantle itself after a few days of heavy use on the run up to Warhammer Week.
WWWWAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
nice vid guys, make sure you do a Grey knight week;)
Honestly, folks, you need to turn down that WAAAGH! I love orcs, but my heart doesn’t :} Maybe a warning should appear, so I can have my nitro handy? 😀 An interesting review of the book, I must say. It certainly sounds that 8th edition is pushing us towards a larger point game. If I’m correct, ‘Ard Boyz games are 2500. I’m not for the magic item list, being only 8 items. I’m sure they’re rather useful, but a player is going to look towards the common item list in the rulebook for variety. I’m sure that will affect the… Read more »
Go Spiders
We will be running out a sample army list on spiders this week
I’m not a fan of the savage orc list (Darrell like it though!) the frenzy coupled with Animosity and random charge distances makes it feel just too random for me lol
nice vid guys – looking forward to the rest of the week.
Not looking to get the greenies – but it’s good to know your enemy…
“he who knows the rules wins…”
550 points for Azhag oO? wow……
I can understand why GW want’s bigger games (damn money -.-) and it’s true seeing your own 3k big Space Marines Chapter on the table is awesome, but at least they could lower there prices
I don’t want to spend 300€+ for a new army just to get the bare minimum and a little extra for variety
I hope Mantic Games releases there Orc soon
While I do agree with you guys that cannons, bolt throwers and stone throwers are way over the top right now I think you are forgetting how insane monsters were in ED7. I played alot of Fantasy in tournaments during 7th edition and flying monsters were just too good back then. Especially with the Terror-autobreak thing going on. I think monsters are perfect now but artillery is just too good.
Foot of gork actually hits every model under the template with d3 wounds. The only d6 you use is scatter..
Thank you…. Was wondering why the … they would put a template in the book if it couldent be used… If not “hey!! 32 on the powerdice,dispel that woman” and throw the template in the opponents face…
Hahahahaha! That’s what I usually use it for…
love the weeks you run, their cool and you can really understand the new stuff and get a good insightit’d be well cool if you could have a deesighner in one day to interview (i know its unlikelly but i can dream lol)
i love just wawtching your vids chilling with a paintbrush in hand 😀
Awesome, i also love it when you guys do these weeks, Just on the lady orcs, i was told by GW staff when they were trying to get me to buy them, (sorry i’m a lizardmen player) that they are like the Orks from 40k in that they grow from mushrooms.
Wicked video BoW lads! Cheers dudes.
@warzan i do believe dark elf warrior sprues do have some prominant torsos on them, just for variation i have an all female warrior horde
lol can you get some pics up on minirama to have a look at?
Good video! But is it correct that theres no building/painting section at all?! No guides of how to build orc camps/stuff anymore? really?
Great Vid really likeing the new hard back book too. As for female orcs the mmo fluff said that orc and goblins are spawned from fungus and had no gender. You started the game as a greenskin in a cave filled with mushrooms. If GW is looking to make the standard game 2500 points or more then they really need to get bigger tables at my local GW store. Six foot tables with 2500 points on them including horde units leaves little room for maneuvers and no real deployment options. Its line your units up and push them at the… Read more »
@warzan i’ll try. it took a lot of model trading to get the correct torsos, i’ll get fishing them out of the 3,000,000m^3 of warhamer in my garage 😛
Nice start, looking forward to all the vids for the week.
I thought that Orcs were hermaphrodite funguses that release spaaaaaaaghs!! The book has lots of writing crammed in because of all the pointless piccies! I don’t mean there is anything wrong with having colour artwork, but is a full double colour spread of the Skull Pass box really necessary? Full page for the previous army book cover. “Full sepia” throughout! lol Sorry to be a GOM but not impressed by the layout and choice of artwork. The fact that it can be laid flat is good. Bit like my armies, they always end up getting laid flat (please no jikes… Read more »
oops can’t spell Jokes
ps Waaagh Week off to a flyer, is gonna be a lot of fun, thanks chaps!
as a grammar Nazi, i do have to point out that it should be fungi not funguses. i am sincerely sorry for this.
ps no Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaghs on my house please
Am fully aware of the correct plurals Lowjacker 😛
It was a poor attempt at humour
FAIL! lol
I have to just say, we need a Orcs and Goblins Battle report to sweeten the Orcs and Goblins week what do you guys think….
may have to pick up the mad shaman as he looks great to paint…ummm…Wurrzarrag or someting. I assume we shall see him this week??
great to see this video reloaded, thanks guys.
Agreed. Looking forward to see the rest of the videos.
Also, in the army list section, apart from the page numbers another thing which GW forgot to add was base size. It would have been so easy & simple.
Great review. I look forward to getting that book.
check out 3rd edition ork codex. there’s a diagram of a ork embryo underground
o wait thats 40k ignore me ive been to the pub