Editing Orca (section)

== Overview ==

A standard transport load of an Orca dropship is twenty four [[Fire Warrior]]s (sitting in rows on either side of the passenger cabin), six [[Crisis Battlesuit]]s (lined up in a crouching posture in the center of the passenger cabin attached to a ceiling rail to deploy them) and eight [[Gun Drone]]s (attached to racks in the ceiling over the Fire Warrior's heads). That is almost half a Hunter Cadre right there, and represents a good way of getting a small infiltration force behind the enemy's lines and extracting them again.

While the [[Manta]] has a far greater carrying capacity and is faaaar more heavily armed and armored than an Orca (it's more heavily armed than most things in 40k, actually), the Mantas are more valuable and more limited in number. Thus the Orca is meant to fill in a smaller strategic gap of Tau deployment: it functions better for "flying quiet" to do stealthy insertions, or to muster quickly to swiftly redeploy Tau forces to react to enemy advances. Further, three Orcas offer a great deal more flexibility in deployment than a single Manta does.

The Orca debuted in the [[Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior]] videogame(although arguably it first appears as part of an image in the 3rd edition Codex, though never identified), and [[Forge World]] gave it a physical model and rules in [[Imperial Armour Volume Three]], only to discontinue production of it in 2014.
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