MANTIC News thread! (Corporation Marines unboxed, p.68)

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**Kroothawk**

Here an update on the Dark Elves:

Mantic wrote:Twilight
January 27th, 2012

It’s Friday afternoon and it’s gotten dark outside, which can mean only one thing – the naughty Elves are out to play! The Twilight Kin are the sixth race for Kings of War and launch with six new kits including a Mega Army right off the bat:

The Twilight Kin Spearmen contain metal heads, spears and cloaks to transform the plastic Elf sprue into their Dark cousins. Suitably evil and plenty of scales and spikes!

Based on the Scout frame, we’ve created both one handed and two-handed crossbows to make both Shadows and Crossbowmen for lots of poisonous death from afar, plus plenty of scaly cloaks and pointy helmets!

Just like the Abyssal Dwarfs these kits are not only great for army building but for people who enjoy modelling, converting or adding special units into their army. They are fantastic fun to build (I used my metal bits on the Revenant Cavalry bodies – should I get them on the blog?) and great to paint – we think the job by Golem is just stunning, one of our best painted armies!

NB: Naturally the Assassin is doing what Assassin’s do best – hiding. We’re hoping to have her to show off soon, but for now be rest assured that she is around, watching you… with knives. Oh, and she’s free in the first print run of the Twilight Kin Mega Army!

A video: http://www.manticblog.com/?p=5284 and:

Assassin! Assassin!
January 25th, 2012

The week continues with two new posts today and first up, we have the Twilight Kin Assassin Concept Art.

The Assassin is a new blister from Mantic Games and we’ll have the painted figure back from Golem Painting Studio in the next couple of days. For now, we have the concept art for the Twilight Assassin – a piece a few of you more eagle eyed viewers have seen by trawling our website (perhaps you guys could be Assassins too with these reflexes?)

Anyways, check it out:

**Compel**

I like them way, way more than the 'good' Elf models. The armour looks a lot more in scale than spindly...

**Sikil**

I'm all in for getting a platoon or two of the Corp. Will use as IG and/or Tau (with the Hammer-Slammer tanks as the Hammerheads!! )

**inqscott**

They might be viable IG standins now after seeing them.

**CURNOW**

yeah i realy like them .and the price point is good too . hopefully the vehicals will be good too .

**scarletsquig**

Spoiler:

Okay, now for the actually serious pics. :p

I ripped the hi-res images out of the Corporation .pdf, they needed a little cleanup work (they were very roughly edited to make them transparent, which turned a few parts of the model transparent, hence why there's a couple of parts on the second pic that look screwy):

Corporation Marines:

Corporation Rangers:

Corporation Burst Laser (autocannon):

Corporation Light Laser Cannon (lascannon):

**Andrew1975**

Compel wrote:I like them way, way more than the 'good' Elf models. The armour looks a lot more in scale than spindly...

Really? You do know that these are the same models just with different heads and bits right?

**ChocolateGork**

Does EVERYONE ELSE think that the bottom helmets look wayyyy better.

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Oh i see those are the rangers.

Will the kits come with ranger heads? If so i am on board

**LunaHound**

I love all the helmets.

Though if this isnt in plastic, Im going to hate mantic for being stupid -_-

**Cosmic**

LunaHound wrote:I love all the helmets.

Though if this isnt in plastic, Im going to hate mantic for being stupid -_-

Oh noes, let's not get back to this one

The resin plastic is technically plastic, but not the stuff that we're normally used to. Seriously though, the resin plastic stuff is really good to use. You have to use super glue or something similar, but it's light enough not to put too much strain on the bond.

I reckon that this is the best thing that Mantic's ever put out. Let's just hope that, if the Corporation is successful enough, Mantic will treat us with plastic

Thanks for the pictures, 'squig

**LunaHound**

Unfortunately I like plastic because of how permanent plastic cement is. Even though restick is light, it still uses super glue....

And Goblins in metal? why?? the horde of all horde army should never be in metal.....

**kenshin620**

LunaHound wrote:

And Goblins in metal? why?? the horde of all horde army should never be in metal.....

Yea I think that was a bad idea by mantic, they OVERdetailed (

the end is nigh!) the models I think which made it terribly hard and even more expensive to make in plastic. So spearmen are metal while the archers are plastic

Although plenty of large armies can be metal, just ask any historical player that uses one of the less popular armies

**Fenriswulf**

I am sure that when Mantic get the kinks worked out of their sprue casting problems with Renedra that Goblins will be coming out in plastic very quickly.

Now that Mantic are releasing Corporation (especially the Rangers), I will be making a Brotherhood of Nod themed Elysian Drop Troop army to start off with. Already have the "Valkyries" (Avatar Movie Scorpion Gunships - Cheap at $19 each!), all I need is some of these, a few counts-as Venetaurs, and some kitbashed sentinels and I am in business. No GW products need be used at all. Liking this more and more.

**Kroothawk**

Does the final sprue only have 2 different bodies (plus a kneeling one for the weapon team)?

**The Dwarf Wolf**

Aparently, there are 3 bodys:
- left foot in front, right foot back, rised
- right foot in front, left foot in back
- left foot in front, right foot in back, fully in ground

Anyway, i really like them... It is a shame i dont like warpath ruleset OR Imperial Guard...

Maybe i could use them for a "count as" hench-man/grey knight army... Lets see what future holds for the line

**MDizzle**

I love these models great job Mantic!

**scarletsquig**

Well, spotted, it does look like 4 leg variants in total (3 standing and 1 kneeling).

I'm just glad that the upper torso has separate arms, heads and guns on all the models. That gives plenty of scope for avoding clone troopers and conversions.

If you want a different look for the models, pig iron does a ton of "heads bitz packs" at a price of £4.50 for 20, so conversion potential for these is pretty big.

At least with humans, there is absolutely no shortage of 28mm heads out there, although personally, I really like the heads they come with.

Looks like even the basic marines set will include special weapons. And the rangers set will have 9 special weapons (3x3) in it, so if you want IG veterans loaded with meltas, the box will have you covered.

**alphaomega**

Looking at them more, they remind me of the Halo Marines and Orbital Drop Ship Troopers. Which is frankly pretty kool.

**Commander Cain**

Thanks for the pics squig! I like these fellas a lot. They seem well suited for IG but would also look very at home in Infinity.

**Fenriswulf**

I think the Rangers have different guns to the Marines?

Or are they all holding special weapons? I am hoping they are using bullpup style guns, as they look better than the ones the Marines are tooling around with.

Can't wait for these releases. Wonder what else is coming down the pipeline. Hoping for a futuristic looking tank or something similar.

**scarletsquig**

Fenriswulf wrote:I think the Rangers have different guns to the Marines?

Or are they all holding special weapons? I am hoping they are using bullpup style guns, as they look better than the ones the Marines are tooling around with.

In the army list, the rangers have slightly shorter ranged, more powerful guns compared to the basic marines... so that would be what the models in the picture are armed with, an alternate version of the laser rifle. I guess the 40k equivalent would be hellguns?

There are no special weapons shown in the pictures, we saw the concept art for those a while ago and they look different. They'll definitely be included though, 9 of them in the rangers kit (3 each of flamer, melta and something else).

It's not easy to see in the pics, but the rangers also come with optional drop packs/ grav chutes on their backs. In Warpath they are able to do a deep-strike-style deployment prior to the start of the game.

**Fenriswulf**

Excellent. I like their style of guns a lot more. Thanks for that!

I also want to see what the drop packs look like. I've seen the concept art, but want to see how they are now.

Cheers!

**Black Nexus**

Got a couple of individuals of the rangers as well:

So yeah, different rifle from the marines, and then special weapons in the kit as well, plus drop-packs, power fist and a pistol for the sergeant. And those cool looking Halo type heads...

**Lt. Coldfire**

I think these are pretty dang awesome. One thing I'd like to see, as previously mentioned, would be kneepads. Their legs look a little too bare IMO. They've got a hardcore torso plate, arm protectors, a full face helmet and plated boots, but naked legs? Not sure about that.

**shingouki**

I think the corporation dudes look pretty cool.I will be buying some.

**Pacific**

Some new pics posted on the Mantic site via Scarletsquig on Warseer

**BrookM**

That general or whatever his rank is will make for an excellent boss arbiter.

**LunaHound**

I can sooo see bunch of people converting the power fist to have middle finger up...

**Azazelx**

Hm, some I really like. Some are okay, and some look ill-proportioned. Not sure if I'll buy them or not (I don't actually need any more models).

**lord marcus**

This just surfaced on the net.