helga 2, best farrow warlock, or bestest farrow warlock?

Yeah, at this point, she's going to be a good replacement for people that want a slightly worse Carver. With a few minor changes, she's going to be fairly strong without being oppressive or faction defining.

I would have to assume best/bestest here is facetious...

Strong contender for the worst in the (sub)faction.

You're wrong on multiple accounts there. Escort doesn't add to sprint or Feat movement, it's a Movement buff not a Speed buff. Primed can't be put on Warbeasts, it's warrior model/units only (and she offers no other tools to actually deliver infantry). And as for "fairly dangerous", she has the lowest output of any Engine of Destruction 'caster outside of scenarios where she puts Primed on herself... which is certainly a move I would consider, because otherwise she isn't going to be achieving too much. But then you're hoping that being 9-11" away from the enemy lines is enough to keep her safe at presumably low camp and 14/15 defensive stats.

I'm still sad that they went with Helga on Wheels instead of Highway to Helga for the name. Helga's Angels is definitely a solid name for a unit though.

It does sound like the Flashing Blade removal was made at extremely short notice prior to the spoiling of her current rules (based on Hungerford spoiling that she had Flashing Blade on a podcast only a few days beforehand), so we can at least hope that the rest of her kit will improve to make up for the loss in personal output.

Speed 8 would be lovely just for the parallels with the Meat Thresher, if nothing else.

You dare? Wrong Eye is peak aesthetic. And he's not even a RQ model.

I think the way Helga and Crawtooth fits into the IK look perfectly fine. Their tech and outfits don't look out of place at all - Helga is riding a modified Meat Thresher, and Craw is wearing the uniform of an unfortunate former captain. Wrong Eye's fashion sense also looks about what you'd expect from a reptile mage - probably stole the clothes right off the first beggar he found.

What bothers me is models like Bamfist, the flying storm knight, Eyriss4's guns, Dez the default dancer, and to some degree Widget. The overtly cartoony, technologicaly out of place stuff.

Gubbin and Flubbin look great, they're just gobbers with dynamite strapped to them. Wastelander looks so out of place it loops back around to being good. Apocalypse riders are just four neigh slayers. Flugwug also looks good, I really like it when PP releases characters of various races that break the mold. Flug looks like he spends his time being a degenerate inside cities, and isn't just a tribal croak for once. Ledfoot also looks completely fine in the setting, and the silly hat ties him visually to Gunny. Butcher4 is a bit silly, but I think he still looks like himself.

the funny, cartoon ones are my fav though... I want the game to have some things chibi.