ForgeWorld : Ork Kommandoes conversion set!

Holy crap, seems like ForgeWorld likes Orks! They never release enough of 'em, which is good fer us!

ForgeWorld says it is ready for pre-order now for release in the week commencing July 26th. Here are the new Ork Kommando Conversion set from them :

Description from the ForgeWorld website :-

Kommandoz often make use of ‘Chinork’ Warkoptas to launch the Orky equivalent of an Imperial stealth raid. In these raids, dozens of Orks cling to the sides of these huge war machines before leaping onto the heads of their hapless enemy and directly into battle.

This resin conversion set designed by Mark Bedford is available to pre-order now for release in the week commencing July 26^th.

Since this is a conversion set, this means that you need parts from da Ork Boyz box set. From the look of the pictures, this set includes resin parts of :

5 x Kommando heads and backpacks w/ tankbusta bombs and gubbins

1 x Kommando Nob head with a custom torso, arms w/ Big Choppa, Bosspole and a backpack w/ tankbusta bombs and gubbins. 

So you'll probably need  5 x slugga and choppa arms, Ork boy torsos and 6 x legs to make da kommandoes. Most of you probably have extra slugga and choppa arms lying around and da Ork boyz torsos and legs can be easily bought from bits shop online or ebay. Plus, I'm sure the Assault On Black Reach Ork boyz parts can be used with this conversion set as well! Maybe a lil' bit cutting and modelling will make them look as good as the regular Ork boy version, as mentioned in my previous post here. 

I guess its a much better bargain for £15.00 / ~USD22.95 (5 Kommandoes,1 Kommando Nob) compared to the metal GW's one (4 Kommandoes, 1 Kommando Nob) which retails at £22.50 / USD37.85 (~£20.00 or USD31.89 with discount from other stores). The only difference is that the GW's Kommando Nob looks cooler with the Power Klaw, a grot and a cigar.

With the price difference of ~£7.00 / USD9.00 and one extra Kommando, I'd rather get this over the GW one. Buying the extra bits won't cost that much anyways. Plus with the Gas masks and Night Vision goggles, they seemed more suited to run with GW's Snikrot model, which also has similar type of goggles :

GW should stop making metal Ork elites like Tankbustas and Kommandos altogether since they cost so much, and its a nightmare to convert and model metal figures. HQ's maybe OK to be metal to distinguish themselves as important units...but heck, I prefer all of them to be plastic. See how many Ork players kustomize their AOBR plastic Warboss, Deffkopta and Nobz to their imagination. All plastic Ork releases in the future please! Ork players usually like to konvert and remodel their stuff, and by making them plastic I'm very sure the sales figure of those sets will go up too.

Wanna go pre-order your FW Kommando today? :P

New Forgeworld Ork Meka Dread out!

Just when I thought the Ork wave from Forgeworld is over for now...here comes another one!

Forge World is sure trying it's best to push the sales of Imperial Armour 8 with awesome looking models in the book. Damn you FW!

Presenting...Da New Meka Dread!

Description from da Meka Dread body from Forge World :

These modified Mega Dreads replace the big shootas with multiple tool-equipped servo-arms for battlefield 'fixins'.

The Meka Dread Body is also supplied with a Big Mek pilot, holding the 'complex' Kontrol system of this unique war machine. Complete resin kit, arms shown for illustration purposes only and are sold separately. Model designed by Phil Stutcinskas, crew model designed by Mark Bedford.

Desciption of the Shunta Arm :

An outlandish experimental energy-hungry weapon, the Shunta is a compact magneto-gravitic 'traktor' gun. Similar to the Lifta-Droppa it can hurl a bubble of energy that smashes targets aside like a giant hammer. Complete resin kit for the Ork Meka Dread. Model designed by Phil Stutcinskas.

And the description of the Kil Saw Arm :

Huge saw-blade arms are often seen on Mega Dreads. Their pilots love seeing them rip through even the strongest of armour. Compete resin kit for the Ork Mega or Meka dreads. Model designed by Phil Stutcinskas.

The body set of the Meka Dread is priced at £35.00 (~USD 51.80). The inclusion of a Big Mek pilot is sure a good bonus...  :P

Basically the legs are the same as the previous Mega Dread from Forgeworld, it's just the upper body and both hands are new. The Shunta Arm and Kil Saw Arm are priced at £18.00 (~USD 26.60) and £16.00 (~USD 23.70) respectively. The Meka Dread body and both new arms are interchangable with the previous Mega Dread and it's Kil Kannon and Rippa Klaw Arm.

I like both the newer Arms over the older ones, but the older Mega Dread does look a bit more menacing than this new one with its huge gob jaws.

So in total, to get the whole Meka Dread runnin' you need to spend £69.00 (~USD 103.60).
 
I might consider getting this in the future if it's in the new Ork codex...please let this and the Grot Tankz be in!

Full of Orkyness in Imperial Armour 8 : Raid on Kastorel-Novem

Imperial Armour 8, the latest expansion from the series is full of Orky stuff! If you didn't get to know the earlier books, this is probably the best set to pickup. In this volume, it tells the story of the Raven Guards and 181st Elysian Drop Regiment trying to push back the might forces of Warboss Garaghak in the Ork territory of the Forsarr Sectior. Yes, those beakie boyz and humies are both trying to put a good fight wif us!

Here is the description of it from Forge World :

"Waaagh! Garaghak is gathering pace across the Forsarr sector. Several of the Imperium¹s worlds have already fallen to the rising green tide of Orks, and now the sector¹s primary hive world has been invaded. Garaghak¹s hordes seem unstoppable, except that the Raven Guard¹s Scouts have discovered a secret behind the Goff Warlord¹s unending warbands ­ - an Ork technical genius called Mek Boss Buzzgob who has created his own factories on the former Imperial refinery world in the Kastorel system.

This book contains a detailed history of the Raid on Kastorel-Novem and the rise of Warlord Garaghak. There is a complete Elysian Drop Troop Imperial Guard army list, including the Vulture gunship, Valkyrie Sky Talon and the Tauros and Tauros Venator rapid assault vehicles. There is also background information on the Raven Guard Space Marine Chapter, along with a new special character, Shadow Captain Korvydae. Rules, background and technical details are included for all of the recent Forge World Ork releases.

This book is heavily illustrated with over 50 colour pictures, 60 full colour vehicle profiles, over 30 technical drawings, plus colour profiles for the Elysian Drop Troops, Raven Guard and the Orks of the Goff, Evil Sunz and Death Skullz clans, all to add new depth and detail to the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

Also included in this book is a folded copy of an A1 Ork poster featuring artwork by Paul Bonner, Sam Lamont and Kenton Mills

To view the books contents click here."

This hard-cover expansion book contains 224 pages and retails at £45.00 (~USD65). The Ork poster is a good bonus for us too! Less beakie posters please...they are everywhere. There are a LOT of detailed ork units and klans covered in this book, from the book contents PDF provided by Forge World here. Goffs, Deffskulls, Evil Sunz, Zhardsnark the Biker Warboss, Mekboss Buzzgob, Tanks (GROT TANKS!), Chinork, Bommas, Trukks, Gargants, etc...all this will leave any dedicated Ork player drooling and wish they could get stuck in A.S.A.P. By the way, Zhardsnark is a unique Ork Warboss on bike model which is an alternative to Wazdakka Gutsmek, for he can bring in warbikers as troop choice too.

There will be a new Dread Mob army list that contains full rules for the entire range of Forge World Ork models which means lots of Kans, Deffdreads and also the new Mega-Dread!

There are story campaigns for you to have that RPG feel while playing and some Apocalypse battle formations and appendix as well.

Here are some pictures from Forge World :

Very colorful and attractive eh? Imperial Armour is definately a good way to spend time with your Orks out of the regular WH40k game, and to play new units and formations with some good story background.

Help Waaagh! Garaghak into stomping the humies now! According to sources, the first 500 copies ordered will be signed by Warwick Kinrade, the co-author of the book.

Grot Tanks are 'ere!

Forge World just updated their website available to pre-order your Grot Tanks, which will be released on the end of June. The Grot Tanks was first spotted in Forge World Open Day earlier this year, and it has finally been put up on the website recently.

To play the Grot Tank, you need to get the Imperial Armour 8 : Raid on Kastorel-Novem  book from Forge World, in which it will be described under the Dread Mob section. But the designer was good enough to give a free Apocalypse Grot Tank formation sheet here.

The description from the Forge World website :

"The lunatic product of the deranged imaginations of grot riggers and scavs that have spent far too long basking in the insane genius of the Big Meks, Grots Tanks are diminutive armoured vehicles made to imitate the far larger Ork Wagons and Tanks. The set contains four different variant chassis, tracks, exhausts and turrets as well as four fantastic Grot Tank Kommandaz and 5 different, incredibly shooty, weapon options. Models designed by Daren Parrwood, Crew models designed by Mark Bedford."

So Forge World retails the price of this set at £58.00 (~USD 83.80). So a Grot tank will cost about £14.50 (~USD 20.90).

 Taken from Forge World open day - All Grot Tank parts are interchangable!

According to designer Daren Parrwood on the Games Workshop blog, he has taken care to ensure the kit is fully modular – all of the chassis, turret, exhaust, track and weapon options are completely interchangeable. This allows more than a thousand individual tanks to be built from the kits, that means you can attach regular ork weapons from your bit box, and other items in the Forge World range, such as Gretchin Crews and the recently-released Weapons Set.

Speak of the Forge World Gretchin crew, it consists of 11 different resin models for £22.00 (~USD 31.79), which means £2 (~USD2.89) for each grot model. There goes our wallet again...:P

Unfortunately Grot Tanks is an Imperial Armour unit, so it can't be played on normal games...I hope the next codex, they will include Grot Tanks as heavy support units! We can't let these grotz be mucking about!

Forgeworld : Ork Stompa with head lifter droppa klaw and belly gun

Dang, I kinda missed the Ork Stompa in the previous post :P!

Forgeworld is really encouraging us to invest more time with Armageddon and the Imperial Armour books by coming out with lots of huge models...

Here's the third Stompa on the market today :

From the Forgeworld website :

The Complete Ork Stompa contains the Head, Klaw and Lifta-Droppa arms, Belly gun and a plastic Stompa kit. Model designed by Stuart Williamson.

Not much details, but this one does have the belly gun which the other Forgeworld Stompa and the GW's one doesn't have. But its basically the same one as the previous one Forgeworld one, they just add the belly gun and £30 to the price. The price is at £155.00 (~USD224.30) which is enough to kill your wallet :P. Compared with the Forgeworld Stompa without Belly Gun : £125.00(~USD180.90) and the Games Workshop Stompa : £60.00(~USD86.90) (much cheaper if you get it from Amazon or other online store), is this worth it? It's up to you to judge though.

Of course Forgeworld do sell parts of the Stompas on their website too in case you need just certain parts of it :

• Belly Gun - £36.00 (~USD52.10)
• Head - £32.00 (~USD46.30)
• Klaw Arm - £32.00 (~USD46.30)
• Lifter Dropper Arm - £32.00 (~USD46.30)

Just for comparison, I'll include pictures of both the other Forgeworld Stompa and GW's Stompa :

Forgeworld Stompa w/o Belly Gun

Games Workshop Stompa

I'll admit that the Forgeworld one does looks more imitidating and angrier than the GW one. Of course, some of us is just gonna save up the cash and scratchbuild their Stompas with plasticards, an old bucket or anything that you can grab your hands of...afterall, it's an Ork nature.


It's cool see more variety of stompas around the table in Armageddon games...Waaaaaggghhh!!!

More new Ork stuff from Forgeworld - Ork Lifta Dropper and Ork weapons set

Forgeworld has released more Orky goodness in conjunction with the new Imperial Armor 8 book. Take a look at these new gems Forgeworld made for us :-

Comparison of size with a Rhino

The new Lifta Dropper comes with the full battlewagon kit from GW. Here's the description from the Forgeworld website :

Only the Orks would dare to put such an unstable and powerful energy weapon on the back of a heavily armoured flatbed battlewagon. The massive ‘Traktor’ beam is capable of picking up an enemy tank and throwing it around like an enraged child with a toy, -as long as the onboard reactor doesn’t blow up first of course! Complete resin and plastic kit. Model deisgned by Stuart Williamson and Mark Bedford.

The model is retailed at £60.00 (~USD86.10), which means £60.00-£35.00 (battlewagon retail price) = £25.00(~USD36.10) for the Lifta Dropper only. They shouldn't include the battlewagon kit together as we can get it cheaper from online stores...but oh well. :/
It looks very good and menacing though...with the right paint job. Of course, I welcome any new Forgeworld Ork addition, cause we didn't get much love compared to those darned IG tanks and Beakie/Chaos Beakie stuff :P. I still wonder when are we gonna get our new wartrakk and warbuggy...


Head over to the Forgeworld site to see it from different angles.


Next up is a rare set which can actually be used in normal 40k games, as most models done by Forgeworld are either used in Imperial Armour, Armageddon or unique models not in the codex. Here are the Ork weapons set :

The description from Forgeworld site :

Included are twelve different guns including big shootas, shootas, skorchas and rokkit launchas along with weapon mounting brackets to fit them on your vehicles, and spare shells, magazines and ammo belts. Models designed by the Forge World design team.

To be more detail, there are :


3 x Shootas
5 x Big Shootas
2 x Twin Linked Big Shootas
1 x Rokkit Launcha
2 x Spare Rokkits
16 x Handle bits to attach weapons to vehicles
1 x Ammo box
6 x Ammo clip


Those big shootas in the middle can be good snazzguns or deffguns with some modification. Price is at £16.00 (~USD23.10) for the whole thing. A lil' bit pricey though...but it's always worth it if you can find ideas for it. :)


More Orks from Forgeworld please! :P

New Forgeworld Ork "Chinork" Warkopta out!

More new Forgeworld Ork goodness! The Chinook looks like a oversized deffkopta with transportation capabilities. Transporting your boys to the front lines A.S.A.P is always a good idea. Here's the description from the Forgeworld site : 

"These intricate and more than slightly crazed flying machines are designed for one thing only; getting a mob of boyz into combat as fast as possible, with the added bonus of being able to shout insults at the footsloggers down below as they fly over their heads. The Warkopta is a full resin model and looks hugely Orkish as you can see Here, with twin chain-driven whirling blades, engines, rattler guns and lots of added detail, it even comes with a set of arms to enable you to model Games Workshop’s plastic Orks clinging on for dear life!

Rules for the Ork Warkopta can be found in Imperial Armour Volume 8, Raid on Kastorel-Novem. Complete resin kit. Model designed Phil Stutcinskas with crew by Mark Bedford. Plastic Ork Boyz sold separately."

The model seems big enough to fit about 10-15 boyz (maybe more? have to refer to the IA vol.8 book), which make this kinda like a flying mini battlewagon. Priced at £60.00 and the weak pound exchange rate, will you give it a shot? :P