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Thanks to everyone who helped to make this contest a great success. It took Mantic a little while to get through the avalanche of entries, so I apologize for the delayed announcement of the winners, but without further adieu, here they are (make sure to read to the bottom for details on how to claim your prize if you're a winner):


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'Let's start with Deaf' Attributed to Elthenar Bladedancer upon being queried about the military designation of a Dwarven regiment equipped with black powder firearms. - submitted by paradoxrifts, thank you for a clever and funny comment - much appreciated in the office!

We were inundated by names for the competition - sorry the announcement has taken a while but it took a while to get through them all.

We have had some many great names I have added a few extra prizes and written up some of the funniest for you all to share (and to save you going through the 20 or so pages of entries!)


Funnies:

Groin Blasters got us laughing, as did Flint Stones (we forgive the pun!) by Khornholio and Volunteers (the reason being the weapons would be much less reliable than say a hammer!) by Lucas Blackwolf.

We liked Boomsticks, but it was a touch Orcy - now if only Mantic were doing Orcs at some point in the future...hmmm!

but best funny entry was: Los poquito banditos - we have no idea what it means but sounded fun! Swoop - a warhost of your choice is on the way.


Some Honourable mentions:

'Shottesmiths' by peatreed, 'Steel Volley' by Machine Spirit, and 'Forgegunners' by Hawkins. A few also suggested Bombardeers - a good early leader.

If you read the text about the Dwarven cannons look out for the Dwarven nicknames for their warmachines, you might see 'Kicking Mule' '- submitted by nathonicus.

ForgeGuard Detachment - many of you went for this, and correctly guessed the name of one of our detachment box sets. It will have a regiment of 20 IronClads and a cannon/organ gun (known as Iron Belchers!)

We had already chosen the name our cannon/organ gun to be called Iron Belchers, and a double set (great value for 2 warmachines!!) will be called a Iron Belcher Battery - many of you came close to guessing this - with Lead Belcher from Notprop the closest.


The runners up are:

4) ShieldBreakers - submitted by CruoAngelus - and now to be the name of a Unit of Dwarf troops armed with 2-handed warhammers - a detachment of choice is yours!

3) Storm of Iron Detachment - Submitted by Magickalmemories as 'Ironstorm' and great suggestion that inspired the name of the 2nd Detachment set - 20 dwarfs with crossbows and Rifles, and a Dwarven cannon with crew - also worthy of a detachment as a prize.

2) Flame Belcher - good, but the name of a cannon surely ... so we chose this name as the warmachine that spits gouts of flame and oil onto their enemy - a detachment is yours Garuss Acine.


And the winner is:

Ironwatch - Our shooters will be called the Ironwatch Regiment (20 figures), and the Ironwatch Troop (10 figures), the first written submission of this name was Kanluwen - please get in touch so we can send you the top prize. Finally, many of you went for this name, but this was the first written submission we found, so well done to so many of you.



Massive thanks to everyone who submitted, or thought about it, and the many, many entries, please pop along to the site for the latest news and gossip - we hope to have the plastics sprues very soon, so keep watching the blog, and feel free to build yourself a massive dwarf army at very reasonable rates over the coming months!

Now, should we do it all again for the Zombi...oh, dear I wasn't supposed to mention those was I?

best wishes,

Ronnie


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HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE

Here's a recap of the 5 winning Dakka users:

Swoop

CruoAngelus

Magickalmemories

Garuss Acine

Kanluwen

In order to claim your prize, you'll need to send an email to info@manticgames.com with the title 'Dakka contest winner' in your subject heading. This email will need to be sent from the email account that you currently have on file as your email address in your Dakka profile (you can check that email address from your user profile page if you can't remember). If for some reason you are unable to send an email out from that address, please contact me via PM here on Dakka and I'll tell you how to proceed from there.

If you want to go back and check out all the entries, you can see them all in this thread.


Thanks again everybody and great job, and of course I can't forget to thank Mantic Games either, for helping to give some love out to the Dakka community!


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Congratulations to the winners!

Agreed, many congratulations to the winners and enjoy your free goodies!

Awesome! congratulations!

Hey congratulations guys ! kudos on the competition idea as well

Email sent!

That was a really fun contest to do, and I look forward to the next one!

Well done guys!

So this means that I get to choose from one of the 4 different detachments? Nice!
Now this gives me a excuse to start with WHFB.

Congrats to the winners.

Congrates to you all who won and if you don;t want all those peskey undead send them my way lol. But seriously good job.

Congrats to the winners.

Color me impressed with Mantic for adding more goodies to the contest.

Congrats!

I must have missed "Ironwatch" when skimming the suggestions.

IMO that's as badass a name for Dwarven snipers as one is likely to find. Bravo.

Email sent!

I've become a total mantic fanboi. Their elves are just great, and IMO are done a disservice by the paint jobs on the website. I painted mine with less metal, and more color and I think they pop more. their shipping and response is great, and they're not shy about discounting or running specials. Once I get more painted I'll post some pics.

Polonius, I'll join you in that!

Thinking of doing 'em in dark reds and grays. Will be fun to come up with somethin'.

I won.... cool!

Congratz, mates.

Congratulations!

In case anybody is curious, I put up some painted high elf scouts here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/298235.page

Congrats to all those out there who've won! That doesn't change the fact that I'm still fething jealous, but I have to admit those are some pretty good entries!


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Well, better than mine anyways...

Los poquito banditos- is spanish.

The little/small bandits.

Grats to the winners

Email sent!

Thank you to the guys at Mantic for adding additional prizes and running a very entertaining contest!

btw, los poquitos banditos = the little bandits unless I've botched my Spanish. Not quite as entertaining in English...

I actually posted this in jest as I was a little frustrated at getting ninja'd on some of my other ideas. I guess it paid off

Swoop!

edit: Ninja'd again! lol

Dammit, an honourable mention!.... Always the bridesdwarf never the bride.

Ah well good compo, well done to the winners, Dakka and Mantic.

Congrats to the winners!

Any chance of Mantic ever going into modern/sci-fi stuff? I'd love a set of near future plastic soldiers and you seem to have the capacity to do it.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Congrats to the winners!

Any chance of Mantic ever going into modern/sci-fi stuff? I'd love a set of near future plastic soldiers and you seem to have the capacity to do it.

I second that motion. Space dwarves

Those don't exist.
Ask GW. They'll tell you. ; )

Well a defeat but one day i'll win
Good game to the winers and see you in the enxt one