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Wow!

Mantic's hitting it out of the park with the latest Enforcer models!

Some more concepts. for the heavy weapon squad:

These are really cool I just wish the would have taken a bit more from Iron man and done shoulder mounted weapons. Well you can't have every thing. Best of luck to Mantic these will be a hit and look to be fun to paint.

MDizzle wrote:These are really cool I just wish the would have taken a bit more from Iron man and done shoulder mounted weapons. Well you can't have every thing. Best of luck to Mantic these will be a hit and look to be fun to paint.

I think the Enforcers are more in line with Halo/Starcraft Armor than Iron Man Armor, so no on armor weapon systems

I really like the idea of Extra Bling, good to denote sergeants and wotnot!

actually in the blog they say

Clearly we’ve gone for some stark lines (excuse the pun!) and hard edges to make these guys look defined – and this has carried across the weapons and accessories that we’ll show off later in the week!

Let us know what you think in the comments!

so they are iron man inspired. i think shoulder mounted weapons would be fine for smaller weapons. like pistols and such so the close combat variants have both arms free for the fight.

That first Heavy Weapon looks like a Beam Rifle from Gundam, in a good way.

Looking forward to getting many of these..

Very nice indeed! That missile launcher is particularly cool.

Image of more weapons




Heat guns eh? Excellent!

Those are really quite impressive; well done Mantic!

Those look fantastic. Hopefully the finished product does the concept art justice.

I'm really liking the look of the Enforcers (the the face of the captain looks really flat, like he hit a brick-wall). But the iron-man style armor is very cool looking. I like it enough that I'm endlessly annoyed by the plastic/metal mix of some of the kits.

It's a little weird to me though that they have two "Space-mariney" type heavily armored elite factions. I kinda thought that the forgefathers played that role.

I believe the enforcers are only the elite of the Corporation force, the bulk of the faction is still made up of the bog-standard Corporation troopers. Although, the background mentions that the technology for the Corporation heavy infantry is supplied by the Forge Fathers.

From the blog:

As promised – albeit yesterday – today we’re going to start showing off the sculpts for the Enforcers, starting with this – an Enforcer from the Strike Team!
These photos are straight from Sculptor Remy Trembley’s work bench, taken by Remy himself to show us just how cool these models are looking. The main body was completed and cast in resin, whilst the helmet was added afterwards sculpted in FIMO.

Not so sound like a noob, but what is FIMO?

A couple of new pics up on the Mantic blog as part of 'Enforcer week'

REALY nice sculpt in that pic!

LOVE it!

Fimo is some kind of sculpting material that hardens when put in an oven. Quite common in Germany and France as far as i know and you can get it in most hobby-stores or DIY.

WOW, I have to admit I am liking these enforcers more and more each time I see them. To me mantic has been rather hit or miss most of the time. I liked some of the Forgefathers and the normal corporation guys are neat, but the proportions look odd to me, maybe that is due to years of GW monkey sculpts? But these guys are looking great! If they are all plastic, this could be a tipping point for me!

Wow! Amazing models! I would love to see a Imperial Guard army made up of Mantic's corporation models instead of GW's monkey-faced Cadians

More pics:




Keep in mind that those are 28mm miniatures, and these are just really, really large pics of them.

Also, they are resin casts, so the final models won't be quite as large (the resin plastic process shrinks the size down by about 5%), but still look like they'll be about a head taller than regular corporation marines.

So, they'd make great IG for anyone wanting true-scale (as opposed to GW heroic scale) for their minis without having to go to FW for it.

Or even Space Marines, in fact, they'll probably be taller than marines, so might be of interest to TRU-scale modellers... do a head and arm swap, call it an old pre-heresy mark of armour, and there you have it, a space marine that isn't a midget. :p

scarletsquig wrote:

Hmmm the asymmetrical mask doesnt seem all that great on the actual model (almost looks like a miscast)

Also, what happened to his leg! I dont think it should bend that way....

If you look at the leg closely, it isn't bending that way, just turning at an angle, taking the flexible undersuit with it, but leaving behind the more locked-in-place armour plates on the shin.

Also, foreshortening.

The sculpt is a tiny bit knock-kneed, but I can deal with that, it's better than bow-legged or squatting, plus the stalking/ tracking pose is quite cool overall (the same legs are on the basic guy posted earlier), and looking very much like an Infinity model.

The only possible sculpting error I can see is that the notches in the ball and socket joint underneath the ribbed undersuit (which is normally covered by the shinguard when the leg is straight) should also show a slight clockwise rotation. If the joint didn't have notches in it, I wouldn't be able to find an error, it's pretty clear where the underlying anatomy is in the sculpts.

scarletsquig wrote:More pics:

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Keep in mind that those are 28mm miniatures, and these are just really, really large pics of them.

Also, they are resin casts, so the final models won't be quite as large (the resin plastic process shrinks the size down by about 5%), but still look like they'll be about a head taller than regular corporation marines.

5% shrink with resin? I doubt that... most resin shrinks .02% per inch of the master or less.

Their resin plastic material does.. it's a plastic, not a resin. (no-one respond to that with "Well, technically speaking..." either, you know what I mean. :p)

More info.

So, that's why these preview resin casts of the masters are a touch larger than the final models will be, the models are sculpted to keep in mind that the tooling/casting process they use will shrink them a little.

Pacific wrote:I'm not sure about the game being split into 2 different formats. It will need some very clear branding and delegation on Mantic's part to avoid splitting the player-base - perhaps even putting everything into 1 rulebook, keeping everything else the same, would be the best idea?

From what I understand, it'll be in one book with either the mass battles or the skirmish being the default in the rules description and then a section on either how to make the game more skirmish friendly if it's the mass battles that's default or more mass battles friendly if its the skirmish that's default.

Having played the current version, I actually think it's less clunky than the original. But I'm someone who loves alternating activations and casualty removal, so it's right up my alley.


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The enforcers also look like perfect recipients for all the 3rd party bits manufactured by the likes of Chapterhouse Studios, Maxmini.eu, Puppet's War, Paulson Games mecha weapons, Zinge Industries, Pig Iron Productions and so on.

They look like they'll be the perfect size for the weapons, heads, bits, etc., that are made to fit with space marines.

The only thing I really dislike on these is their tiny thin knees. Knees should be wider than calves. Particularly armoured knees. (There is supposed to be a guy inside those suits, isn't there?)

Otherwise, liking them a lot.

Another angle of the Enforcer Captain:

that's one of the best looking miniatures so far this year. The sculpting isn't totally complete yet, but the design is just fantastic.

Are they supposed to be robots or people in suits? Seems like they make fine robots but don't look like people could be inside those.

Also, in the future, people don't fire guns, they play them like electric guitars.

Captain looks great, but the arms seem wrong... But for them to be based off the person inside, they would need to be stubby as unless the human had a 65" chest his shoulders would be in the chest. (which means realistic model would have stubby arms) We are so used to broad-chest, Broad shoulders where a large beefy guy is a corpse in a robot that thinking about suits with people in them is weird.

Overall, better than the Veermyn. I haven't really seen any 'Tony Stark ironman' models out there on the market so these would be the first.

scipio.au wrote:The only thing I really dislike on these is their tiny thin knees. Knees should be wider than calves. Particularly armoured knees. (There is supposed to be a guy inside those suits, isn't there?)

Otherwise, liking them a lot.

Not if you use them. My calves are 17" around - my knees are a bit shy of 15"

The overall look is pretty good. The feet in the concept art look the part. The sculpted feet look a bit like high heeled swimming flippers though.

The background for the Enforcers can be found here:

http://www.manticgames.com/Warpath/Corporation/The-Enforcers.html

Several pages of fluff.

No-one ever sees them without their helmets. If the wearer dies, a deadmans switch within the suit reduces his body to ash.

Only people with a particular rare gene can be recruited to the Enforcers, doesn't matter whether you're a soldier, farmer or prisoner.

Their armour is bought from the Forgefathers at an extremely high price.

Their weaponry is Corporation-made by a company with an exclusive deal with the Enforcers.

nkelsch wrote:Also, in the future, people don't fire guns, they play them like electric guitars.

That's the walking-around pose. The ready-to-fire pose was posted earlier. Though the shape of the gun does add to the electric guitar impression. =P

nkelsch wrote:Captain looks great, but the arms seem wrong... But for them to be based off the person inside, they would need to be stubby...

If that were the case only the upper arm would need to be stubby and the "shoulder" joint would need to be able slide up and down the torso a bit. What we have here are just buggered proportions. =(

scipio.au wrote:The only thing I really dislike on these is their tiny thin knees. Knees should be wider than calves. Particularly armoured knees. (There is supposed to be a guy inside those suits, isn't there?).

If there is they'd need to be a mutant with Sy Snootle's arms and legs.
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I think I just realised why they have that dead man's switch. o_O

I think I found the ogryns to go with my sedition wars "hi tech guard" army