The Adepticon seminar mentioned a couple things for PanO. Low quality pics, but will update when better images become available. Update: added hi-rez painted Patsy. We know Patsy is coming, but now she's painted, meaning we're likely to see her soon as per the standard pipeline: ORC box:
I love Patsy. Period. I don't know what to think about ORCs though. All I needed was HMG but now I want whole box :(
Patsy looks great. Her render looked awesome, but she looks very good with the Varuna Division ORC paint scheme. The ORC box, combined with the existing Fuerbach and MULTI Rifle ORCs, will cover all the bases for ORC mixed links. Hard to tell if that mini on the left is just a Combi Rifle, or if it's a full Hacker. Either one will be fine. HMG and boarding shotgun are obviously very desirable profiles. I don't mind the Tinbot... There isn't a 4th ORC loadout that's urgent. Tinbot is more rare for PanO than for a lot of other factions, but it'll be nice to have available.
Eh, I consider most varuna model releases pretty bad and this orc box doesn't help. Female orcs are so thin, my first thought was that they are fusiliers. And ORC hmg... oh god... must be good for him to be the annual winner of Varuna dancing contest... Edit: and the tinbot looks creepy, bolt head, orc legs. Something Auxbot/Wildparrot like would be more logical.
One last thing... Infinity dungeon crawler game release incoming. The unit on the left definitely looks like a female Kamau with MULTI Rifle:
Yeah were most tinbots were adorable this one looks creepy. Also male orc ... that pose is an abomination the female orcs might be really thin but are definitely the best part of the box. Patsy is awesome, I dont like open visors but I know that's a super personal gripe
Still not sold on Patsy, but the painted model looks better than the render. All I can say about the Orc HMG is, that looks like an easy conversion/arm swap. I can think of exactly no situations where I would want to take an Orc hacker and only slightly more where the BSG+Tinbot profile may make the table, so they're conversion fodder as well. I'm significantly more impressed with everything else, I love the Zuyong character, Arslan looks good, and the Namurr...damn
Don't we now have models for all the profiles except the plain Jane combi? Which has probably never been taken by anyone with an ounce of sense?
Still not 100% sold for Patsy but I love the ORCs box. I wouldn't have thought better to represent the HMG Lt profile. I'm wondering why you all hate to see finally some silent tactical orders. I'm wondering what @Section9 or other retired soldiers are thinking of this one.
Somebody takes orc lt? What a crazy guy. I get the idea, but the execution of the pose is bad. To me it looks like he is dancing and it is very unnatural. Also tactical rock again. Zuyong combi manages to show similar pose much better.
The HMG, BSG and Fuerbach are the profiles that genuinely see table time. I'm not too worried about other details, since we'll have the profiles that people use.
Well, ORC HMG Lt has records of being one of the lieutnant I trust the most. We have an expression in France which litterally is : "Luck smiles to the audacious ones". I don't fear to play Lt with heavy weapon. They are pretty useful, in fact.
So they didn't fix Patsy's helmet or pauldron, and it's now all the more obvious with the female Orc troopers having a complete set of gear.
Good for you, unfortunately I and people I play with, didn't find much luck in aggressive Lt without CoC. Eh, not that much of a loss, you usually take 2, 3 at best. I am happy with the old santiagos, CB has to impress me to get a new ones.
I think that's intentional. She's the only "Varuna" Orc 100%. Personal thoughts on the info: I'm disappointed on the Orc box. I said it elsewhere, but it would have been far preferable to see the HMG be a female with an arm option for a MULTI Rifle, then the Hacker or BSG being male for the gender parity or whatever(I don't give a shit if it's male or female, I just want the sculpts to not suck or be cheesecakey garbage). Hacker could have had a head without the Hacker gear so that the Combi Rifle could have been done. This kinda stuff? These are easy fixes guys.