New Mantic Games Boardgame a-coming!

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**porkuslime**

Got the newest Wayland Games newsletter just a few minutes ago, and there is a blurb in there for the new Mantic Games boardgame - Dwarf King's Hold.

http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/pre-orders/mantic-games/march/cat_875.html

Evidently dwarves vs undead in a underground dungeon.

Sounds interesting!

**BrookM**

Hmm, looking forward to it, I'm always a sucker for self-contained games, especially ones with nice plastic figures.

**Kroothawk**

Finally a GW introductory game to boost sales

**SilverMK2**

Mantichammer Quest?

**H.B.M.C.**

Dwarf Hulk.

**SilverMK2**

Necro Under

**H.B.M.C.**

Manticheim?

Ok I'll stop now...

**filbert**

Man(tic) O War

**Fafnir**

Kroothawk wrote:Finally a GW introductory game to boost sales

Well, at least someone has the right idea.

**bbb**

GorkaMantic?

**timetowaste85**

Manticwing

Sorry, deathwing copy sitting at my friend's house and it has taunted me many times to try it

**Mad4Minis**

Hard to get excited about just a title and a price...some idea of content would be nice.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

http://www.beastsofwar.com/kings-of-war/mantic-confirm-dungeon-boardgame/

Waylands have it on pre order for £27
*double-take*
£27!?!

is it me or does that sound promisingly like jolly good VFM?

**NAVARRO**

Kroothawk wrote:Finally a GW introductory game to boost sales

The wargamming black powder... lately GW is more baby powder orientated

**Kroothawk**

First Alessio writes the free rules. Now we get Specialist Games. Anybody knows where Rick is?
What's next? Gav writing the background and Andy Hall the army books? Mercenaries after Kaos Dwarfs and then SciFi Dwarfs?

BTW, here the Beasts of War article quoted:

So… it looks like Warren had it right!

After a quick call to Ronnie from Mantic Games, he has just confirmed the release of the first installment of the Mantic Dungeon Boardgame… Dwarf King’s Hold: Undead Rising

The game will include printed dungeon tiles, a slew of Mantic’s plastic miniatures and all the things you’ll need for an evenings dungeon-bashing with your mates.

This first installment of the game will feature Mantic’s Dwarf and Undead range. The stalwart Dwarves will be bringing their big hammers, while the sinister necromatic forces will be able to regenerate their losses and suck the life out of our diminutive hereos with their vampric magic.

But that’s not all we’ve heard…

The next installment of the game will feature the Elves and Dwarves and it’s been titled “Ancient Grudge“, this game will feature updated rules for ranged attacks and or course how to integrate the Elven host into your game.

This second set will be self contained or you can add it to your Undead Rising set, to make an even bigger dungeon, for twice the fun and perhaps even a three-way dungeon rumble!

Finally, there were some whispered references to the third game in the series… a game with a working title of “Green Tide“… that’s right guys!

ORCS!!!

Ronnie mentioned that this game [might] include rules for warmachines, but details are being kept under wraps while the contents of the game are finalised.

So what do you think guys, are you getting as excited as us?

We’ve already placed our pre-order and are eagerly waiting by the letterbox for March.
If you fancy getting a pre-order too, Wayland Games are offering the Dwarf King’s Hold for £26.99!

Interest is expected to be high, so get in early and follow along with us when we film our review of the new set.

BoW Andy

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Green tide is next apparently
oo that was mean editing as I posted Kroot
Ninja'd

**Gr3y**

This uses the same minis for Kings of War yes? Because that game looks interesting.

**BrookM**

Even better, it comes with gaming tiles. *ding!*

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Will be the same and doubtless in full unit size so they can add to your existing army/start a new one Gr3y

**Mad4Minis**

Hmmm...have to keep an eye on this. They do some nice dwarfs. Id never collect an army, mostly because painting a large number of those tiny minis would drive me off the deep end.

However, for a board game I could just base coat and dip them to bring out the details.

Anyone know of a US retailer that sells Mantic stuff?

EDIT: Found one...FRPGames.com $47.98.

**MagickalMemories**

Can't get to the link from work.
Any indication how many players?

Eric

**Panic**

yeah,
If the dungeon tiles are good I might get this so I can play DungeonBowl.

Panic...

**Da Boss**

I am preordering mantichammer quest. Fo' sho'.

**porkuslime**

MagickalMemories wrote:Can't get to the link from work.
Any indication how many players?

Eric

Nope.. but there are only 2 "sides" so I would assume (fwiw) 2 players

**AlexHolker**

porkuslime wrote:
MagickalMemories wrote:Can't get to the link from work.
Any indication how many players?

Nope.. but there are only 2 "sides" so I would assume (fwiw) 2 players

They could always do something like in Space Crusade, with 1-3 Dwarf players versus one Undead player.

**BrookM**

Maybe I failed to notice it, but is there a set release date?

**porkuslime**

March 29th, according to Wayland..

**Kroothawk**

Just follow the link in the first post:

March
MArch sees the relaease of Mantics Dwarf Kings Hold Dungeon crawling Boardgame.

**Warnolo**

Kroothawk wrote:blah blah blah blah blah.

ORCS!!!

Yadda yadda yadda.

Orcs? Orcs!? ORCS!!

OOOOOOOORRRCS!!

**Baragash**

Kroothawk wrote:Gav writing the background

I hope not, only because I bought their first magazine out of curiosity, and even accounting for the highly generic nature of Fantasy environments, I was disappointed at how "close" the basis of the current setting was to Warhammer Fantasy. Definitely an E for effort on that one.

I am, however, quite excited about the mechanics of their games so plan to pick up the Dwarf vs Undead starter box in the near future, and this game as well.