Finally got a chance to get this beastly nobz mob painted up. These guys are very fitting for Deathskulls as they literally pieced together from scrap and looted kit. I even had the chance to throw in three references to their main foes in the Rynn's World campaign with Crimson Fists helmets on the banner pole, bike fender for the gyro-stabilized monowheel, and a Rhino hatch on one of the bases. Since the warband is the Skulltakaz, it is only fitting that they use the biggest skull they have taken as their Waaagh! banner. And as usual, they each have a smaller skull carried on their person or weapon somewhere.
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| Doc Skrapsaw keeps his boys juiced up with painkillers and patched up in between battles. |
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| The Waaagh! banner has nice trophies to keep the lads inspired. Also, he has a power klaw. |
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| This bad boy likes to snip marines in half lengthwise from crown to groin. |
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| The second power klaw, a killsaw, and a bosspole. |
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| This guy looks fittingly psychotic. |
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| Gyro-stabilized monowheel, just for throwback fun (no rules). |
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| I love the way this guy turned out. He feels like a wrecking ball of an ork. Both heads look mad! |
In game terms, this is a mob of 8 nobz with one upgraded to a Painboy, allowing them all to take cybork bodies. They have a Waaagh! banner, a bosspole, and three power klaws. This brings them in at a whopping 325 points! But with Feel No Pain and cybork bodies, they should have some staying power. And with WS5 from the Waaagh! banner and three power klaws, not much will survive a charge from this powerhouse unit. Throw them in a battle wagon for even more action.
Love how the Doc has a little hat with the first aid symbol on it. And then, just in case you really need a reminder, he has a giant pole with the first aid symbol. Two-headed ork is cool because it suggests that the doc sewed a second head onto one of his cybork minions. Why? It's fun in imagine the circumstances. Maybe the second ork got blown up w just his severed head bouncing around and it was the only way to save him. Maybe the original ork volunteered to have the head attached because it just looks so badass. "I looks dead 'and! Hur hur hur!"
ReplyDeleteThe medical symbol in our times probably represents the Christian cross, but in the 40k Ork 'kulture' I assume it means the application of two crossing bandages over a wound... the glyph for "patch up" or "doc".
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