New Orlocks look great!

[ThePenitentOne]

Just loving the new Orlocks- especially the one with the hair swept over the goggles. Nice to see female representation in non-Escher gangs. Also nice to see that they didn't have to go over the top with sky boards, beasts and bows.

 

Not that I mind the skyboards, beasts and bows- I just feel like GW didn't need to go that far to generate interest.

 

 

[Sergeant Centurion]

Its the only kit (or upgrade sprue) that make me interest in Necromunda right now.

[Jukkiz]

looks like good bits for any IG player

[sitnam]

I wonder if the Cawdor update will delve into female models. It'd be a nice addition, but then again the usual Cawdor get-up is kinda...unisex?

 

I quite like these gals, especially for conversion fodder. 

[Mandragola]

I agree these are really great. It's excellent that they don't even mention their gender in the WHC article.

 

I wonder if this is a resin pack, kind of like the team additions to blood bowl (which are resin, right?). Something about them makes them look like resin to me.

[Ranulf]

 

I wonder if this is a resin pack, kind of like the team additions to blood bowl (which are resin, right?). Something about them makes them look like resin to me.

 

I'd wager they're resin given the Escher Champion add-ons were a FW release.

 

-Ran

[Toxichobbit]

I wonder if the Cawdor update will delve into female models. It'd be a nice addition, but then again the usual Cawdor get-up is kinda...unisex?

 

 

That would be because Cawdor gangs are unisex. Cawdor society is gender segregated and women don't fight.

 

The only female Cawdor fighters that you will ever see in the Underhive are ex-House members, either as individuals or entire gangs. It's doubtful that these are even close to a large enough percentage of the Cawdor population to be represented beyond anything other than a named Bounty Hunter/Hive Scum, so don't expect any female Cawdor models beyond that unless they decide to re-write the background in House of Faith (or whatever it's going to be called).

[sitnam]

 

 

I wonder if the Cawdor update will delve into female models. It'd be a nice addition, but then again the usual Cawdor get-up is kinda...unisex?

 

That would be because Cawdor gangs are unisex. Cawdor society is gender segregated and women don't fight.

 

The only female Cawdor fighters that you will ever see in the Underhive are ex-House members, either as individuals or entire gangs. It's doubtful that these are even close to a large enough percentage of the Cawdor population to be represented beyond anything other than a named Bounty Hunter/Hive Scum, so don't expect any female Cawdor models beyond that unless they decide to re-write the background in House of Faith (or whatever it's going to be called).

I stand corrected. I’m not really well versed in Necromunda lore besides some bare bones stuff, so i didn’t t realize.

 

I believe it is gonna be House of Faith; I was banking on a House of Trash

[Dosjetka]

Just as an update to this: they are indeed resin and they come in a single pack at a reasonable-ish price. Link: https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Necromunda-Orlock-Champion-And-Gangers-2021

 

I'm glad to see female sculpts for Orlock, it's just a shame they didn't include them in the plastic starter gang box and that we need to purchase a comparatively expensive resin add-on instead. That, and a bit more variety in heads would've been nice but that's a minor nitpick: some of Statuesque Miniature's heads will do nicely to add variety.

[Toxichobbit]

Three resin Orlocks, £21. Three resin Escher, £57.

 

What the actual   is going on with FW's pricing. Do they just throw darts at a wall to decide what stuff is priced at, or do they actually believe that the Escher are worth almost three times as much as the Orlocks?

[Dosjetka]

Escher are packaged and marketed as "Champions" i.e characters whereas the Orlock trio are a Champion and two Gangers.

 

I really don't like it but I can see what GW did. Perhaps there's also some "oopsie" from having released a unisex Orlock Gang box when it shouldn't have been one? I dunno.

[Toxichobbit]

That's probably their excuse, but;

 

"Orlock Champion and Gangers".

 

"Can be used as Leaders, Champions and Gangers."

 

" - Orlock Champion with chainsaw and stub gun.

- Orlock Ganger with heavy bolter and fighting knife.

- Orlock Ganger with autogun."

 

Those are all from the product title/description. It's titled as a Champ & 2 Gangers, but as it points out they can be used as whatever you want. They don't seem to know what they're marketing them as. I don't have House of Iron, so I'm assuming that the ganger with heavy bolter is now legal in there. But I'm pointing it out above just incase it's not. They've also done the same thing with packs of multiple Dramatis Personae Bounty Hunters being almost the same price as one individual Dramatis Personae Bounty Hunter, so the excuse of "The Escher are Champions so we should charge more for them" falls flat there. Bounty Hunters are Bounty Hunters, there's not Gangers or Champs involved. 

 

So while I agree with you that it's likely their reasoning, I don't accept it as a valid reason. And that's not even getting into the ridiculous of pricing models at three times the price because of in-game rules. I know they do it with 40k as well and while it's an equally stupid pricing policy, it is at least more consistent. 

 

So taking into account the complete randomness of prices on Bounty Hunters as well, I'm pretty much convinced that they use the dartboard method to decide prices. Just sucks that the gang I'm using got the short end of the stick with £20 individual models. I'm not sure I'll ever pick them up at that prices, at least not from FW.

Edited March 9, 2021 by Toxichobbit

[Widowmaker82]

 

" - Orlock Champion with chainsaw and stub gun.

- Orlock Ganger with heavy bolter and fighting knife.

- Orlock Ganger with autogun."

 

Those are all from the product title/description. It's titled as a Champ & 2 Gangers, but as it points out they can be used as whatever you want. They don't seem to know what they're marketing them as. I don't have House of Iron, so I'm assuming that the ganger with heavy bolter is now legal in there. But I'm pointing it out above just incase it's not. 

 

I completely agree with you about the pricing. The price attached to the Escher Matriarchs was bad enough when they first came out, but in light of the Orlocks they seem utter madness. I was expecting to get equally stung by the cost of the female Orlocks, but I was actually pleasantly surprised when I saw they were £21. Their pricing strategy does seem to be completely random a lot of the time.

 

And yes the ganger with heavy bolter is legal. Orlock Ganger Specialists can take heavy bolter, heavy stubber, harpoon launcher or (for those that have gone mildly insane) heavy flamer. Van Saar subsequently upped the ante and allow a Specialist to take a multi-melta, plasma-cannon or rad-cannon.

 

I can't believe FW decided the Orlock with the stubgun and chainsaw (seriously, who at FW wrote chainsaw!!) was the champion out of the three anyway. The one with the heavy bolter is absolutely oozing with details that mark her as a champion... the scars, the bionics, the special shoulder pad. 

[Squark]

No dart board needed to explain the pricing differences; GW always marks up single models. Why?

 

...

 

Okay, you got me there.

Edited March 10, 2021 by Squark

[Squark]

My order finally arrived. For those who are curious, these models aren't perfectly compatible with bits from the plastic kit or weapon packs. You could make it work, but you'll need to trim the new weapon bits down a little bit. Also, the chainsword is attached to the pauldron, so replacing that will be a little tricky.