Ork Big Mek + Battleforce + Codex

[Lord Marshal]

Make it Orky.

 

 

Edited March 2 by Lord Marshal

[Burni]

The Mek is decent - not blown away by it, but I like the options it has.

 

I can also use everything in that battle force, so might try to pick it up.

[Kastor Krieg]

I actually really like the Big Mek. How many points does this box come to? I got like 20 Kommandos and Snikrot, wondering how much I can pull in total if I take it.

[ZeroWolf]

Seems a fun box, though will the price stay the same or we looking at an increase because of the stompa (I have no idea how much they are)

[Tokugawa]

So this guy and the library guy are all the models for orks 10th codex update? 

[ZeroWolf]

Pretty much I believe, just as the Custodes only got the new guy.

[Evil Eye]

Hmmm. Dunno what to think of that Mek. Looks OK, but a bit, I dunno, Warcraft-y?

[Redcomet]

As with the custard one, it is fine. Nothing that gets the blood boiling 

[01RTB01]

1 hour ago, Tokugawa said:

So this guy and the library guy are all the models for orks 10th codex update? 

I believe so.

 

However, for 9th we got a full range refresh with about 14 new kits. We also got buggies not long before that. We're in a better state than the warp spiders that hit their 30th birthday this week!

 

I may/ not pick up the mek. Looks fine but doesn't wow. The single shot traktor variant is quite lackluster unless people are bringing anything that flies.

 

The box with the stompa can jog on. It's all quite old bar the mek and monopose Boyz. If I want more monopose I'll keep hunting rogue trader Boyz. 

[andes]

I like the Big Mek model. He's got a couple of nice head and weapon choices, so fun to build and paint. Disappointing (but not surprising) its release is gated by a FOMO box I have zero interest in... don't need more Boyz, Trukks or Lootaz, and definitely don't need another Stompa. The Stompa seems to me to be a very weird choice for a FOMO box. Put a Dredd and some Kanz in there instead and I'd probably have tried to find one.

Edited March 2 by andes

[Halandaar]

4 minutes ago, andes said:

I like the Big Mek model. He's got a couple of nice head and weapon choices, so fun to build and paint. Disappointing (but not surprising) its release is gated by a FOMO box I have zero interest in... don't need more Boyz, Trukks or Lootaz, and definitely don't need another Stompa. The Stompa seems to me to be a very weird choice for a FOMO box. Put a Dredd and some Kanz in there instead and I'd probably have tried to find one.

 

Problem there i suppose is that if it had a Dredd in it's already overlapping twice with the Combat Patrol box. Stompa does seem odd at first glance but the sorts of people likely to buy one of these sets (ie starting or growing an army) aren't likely to already have one.

[andes]

25 minutes ago, Halandaar said:

 

Problem there i suppose is that if it had a Dredd in it's already overlapping twice with the Combat Patrol box. Stompa does seem odd at first glance but the sorts of people likely to buy one of these sets (ie starting or growing an army) aren't likely to already have one.

 

That's a fair point, but to me the Stompa is such an... opinionated model as to be off-putting for a FOMO box, even to those who don't already have one.

[Tokugawa]

1 hour ago, 01RTB01 said:

I believe so.

 

However, for 9th we got a full range refresh with about 14 new kits. We also got buggies not long before that. We're in a better state than the warp spiders that hit their 30th birthday this week!

 

I may/ not pick up the mek. Looks fine but doesn't wow. The single shot traktor variant is quite lackluster unless people are bringing anything that flies.

 

The box with the stompa can jog on. It's all quite old bar the mek and monopose Boyz. If I want more monopose I'll keep hunting rogue trader Boyz. 

What are the remaining ancient/failcast models in Orks range? Grotsnik, Tankbusta, Zagstruk and? In my eyes weridboy has already updated to modern plastics.

[phandaal]

3 hours ago, Evil Eye said:

Hmmm. Dunno what to think of that Mek. Looks OK, but a bit, I dunno, Warcraft-y?

 

Looks more like a skrull to me. Secret GW/Marvel crossover?

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

6 hours ago, Burni said:

The Mek is decent - not blown away by it, but I like the options it has.

 

I can also use everything in that battle force, so might try to pick it up.

Good luck with the Stompa. I needed wire, patience and way too much glue to keep it together.

[Scribe]

I don't understand why they went away from what was/is a classic 40K Ork look. One of the heads looks ok enough, but there is something just off about the new models, like the AoS Kruel Boyz or whatever they are called, its just different enough to push into 'thats not what they look like'.

[sitnam]

I'm kind of mystified they went with a Stompa over the Morkanaut/Gorkanaut, but could be kind of cool dependent on box price.

 

Imagine an guard box with a baneblade

[DemonGSides]

I dream of it every night, Sitnam :P

[01RTB01]

51 minutes ago, Scribe said:

I don't understand why they went away from what was/is a classic 40K Ork look. One of the heads looks ok enough, but there is something just off about the new models, like the AoS Kruel Boyz or whatever they are called, its just different enough to push into 'thats not what they look like'.

In the defense of kruleboyz, if you look at orcs pre 4th Ed fantasy, the kruleboyz fit.

 

However, we do seem to be in a new realm of ork faces and style.

[Nephaston]

The kruleboy looking mek has clearly spent all his Teef to afford the suit. That also explains the frown.

 

The other Mek makes smarter financial decisions (as in pays with the Teef of other Orks)

[Cactus]

I wonder if the glum faced mek is meant as a call-back to Paul Bonner's 1st edition illustrations? If so I don't think they quite nailed the expression.

[Wispy]

man he looks great

[Shinespider]

I really like the Mek, and really like that they're widening the range of what an Orc's face can look like a bit.

 

Even if half of the responses on twitter and people absolutely melting down about it. 

[Scribe]

10 minutes ago, Shinespider said:

Even if half of the responses on twitter and people absolutely melting down about it. 

 

I mean there was variation before, there is a difference between variation, and shifting the design bible or whatever. Does it look like a 40K Ork? Not really. It looks like a 3rd Party knock off of what a 40K Ork would be, which is fine but one of the head options looks like it should, the other doesnt.

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

Personally I am not a fan. It looks too much. Overly complex and over engineered. It doesn't look like an Ork slapped himself together with some metal and gubbins. It looks like a concept design of everything it could have and no-on stepped in to question whether it should have everything. It also doesn't feel 'Orky' to me. It's like they were making a model for something else and someone said slap an Ork on the side of it.