Regarding Patsy, I don't get the helmet up / monocle on look. Wouldn't any reasonable tech advanced faction integrate any HUD device into the helmet directly? I hate to nitpick, but that detail just totally loses me.
It probably pops out while the helmet is open and retracts when it's closed. Having the helmet open in combat obviously isn't sensible, but being able to open the faceplate makes the armour less stifling and claustrophobic when the bullets aren't flying and the monocle lets her still tap into command and communication nets.
Couldn't they just build a more comfortable helmet? And any time that model is on the table, the bullets are already flying. Don't get me wrong, I am not one of those players that lose their mind when soldiers go without their helmets. I wish Aleph's new Yadu were helmetless. I would have been fine with a no helmet Patsy. But a half-helmeted soldier with add-on HUD? That just bothers me. If I decide to field Patsy, I will probably just get a female ORC with identifying marks painted on.
One day I'm sure someone will invent comfortable body armour, but I'm not sure 175 years is long enough! It's also a full helmet she's wearing, she just has the faceplate opened Iron Man style, and as comfortable as you make a helmet having your head in a fully enclosed bucket and breathing through a filter gets old fast. Speaking of Iron Man, you've also got "protagonist syndrome" where there is a desire to differentiate characters from generic goons, mainly by showing their face.
That's her Joint Fire Observers' commlink display which is not a standard device for ORC troops and thus not embedded into her armour :P
I'm really not that bothered by the open helmet on patsy... as mentioned, adds to her being a bit special in terms of character, kinda like it :)
Paint it white, apply a bit of Hexwraith Flame from GW. That stuff was custom made for doing holographic displays.
Nice thing about Patsy is you can do a very simple bend and wrist cut if you want her firing her SMG. Other than that, pretty nice grenade-throwing pose. I'm always on the fence about throwing poses because I find the grenade is never big or obvious enough to be visible from a tabletop view, but it looks alright on the Patsy sculpt. I really like that visor/monocle by the way. I use the Kamau Hacker as my VIRD Machinist, so suddenly my Haris Team is going to be the Open Bucket brigade. Go figure.
I guess that will not happen, because of the Size Value. Hafza is to small to disguise as a Azrail. Apart from that: Good points! Spec Op Profile for Odas! --- Regarding the Render-Pics: Patsy looks cool. Yes the open helmet is a bit silly, but I think they just wan´t to show her face, put some fancy detail on it (monocle) and show her in combat (helmet on, but open, because she can). What is hard to understand is her weapon layout. Why she has only SMG as a Orc Char. A HI should have some heavy hitter at least, not only a small arm. At least a breaker combi or something. The Zahyedan Box looks okay. Poses are limited so I am okay with the sniper and the HMG at ease. The girls are a bit better. My face is the boarding, she look cool. Interesting that is realy looks like four individual bodys. And I agree with the big size of the ammo for the HRL girl, it looks too big for the weapon. Not so happy the the DF8 Box. I have Knauf already and don´t want´t a second one (used him only once) - and I think many of the people that buy the manga don´t need another one. A blister would be more customer friendly. Arslan looks good and so does the civi. But I am not so much in Druze anyway.
Officers and NCOs often got given smaller weapons like SMGs or carbines. Partly because they sometimes carry more signalling/comms gear, but also to remind them that their main weapon is the troops they command and not to try and do everything themselves. It could also be that Patsy prefers an SMG, and her rank/fame gets her more leeway.
Yeah could be. I think Patsy is (one of) the first NCO in Infinity with a small gun with short reach. Tai has MK12, Aleph NCOs has Feuerbach or Sniper and so on. For her price I wan´t to use her BS earlier ;-)
Put her in a Haris with a Kamau HMG. This way you'll always have a decent range band to use the additional LT order on. She also has Nimbus plus to spend them on. Once you get her up the board, she'll be able to make great use of the SMG.
Scylla totes a BSG around, and Drakios is combi or Red Fury. I actually prefer her with an SMG to a combi or shotgun, the special ammunition or dropping into SuppFire with the Lt. order is really neat.
PanO players have wanted more weapon variety for a long time. An SMG is fitting for her role, both thematically and practically. The point discount makes a big difference too... If she's over 40 points, she'd simply cost too much relative to other ORCs wielding more traditional heavy weaponry. By keeping her cost down, she's get to do her job... Form up cool custom Haris teams, use NCO to lead them up the field, and spearhead attacks at close-range to clear objectives.
Yes, she is made for a link I think. BSG has more punch and Combi or Red Fury is what I want ;-) Okay guys - I guess I got it :-D Still prefer a longer range for a HI ;-)
