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The tank gives me a really nice 'Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors' vibe. Needs Sawboss' blade on top too

Deadzone preorders are up shipping in May

http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/deadzone.html

Starter set - £49.99/ $79.99/ €69.99

Contents

Hardback Rulebook
Battlefield Mat
Game tokens
8-sided Dice
Command Dice
Battlezones Scenery Accessories & Connectors

Enforcer Strike Team in Hard Plastic:

5 x Enforcer models
5 x Pathfinder models

Forge Father Strike Team in Hard Plastic:

10 x Steel Warrior models

6 Command Dice - £6.99 / $10.99/ €8.99
Rulebook - £24.99/ $39.99/ €34.99
Enforcer Faction Starter - £24.99/ $39.99/ €34.99
Enforcer Booster - £24.99/ $39.99/ €34.99
FF Faction Starter - £24.99/ $39.99/ €34.99
FF Booster - £24.99/ $39.99/ €34.99

There are Enforcer and FF Army deals which are just the starter plus the booster plus either Howlett or the Hellfather in metal for £49.99 /$79.99 / €79.99
(the Euro price must be wrong as it should be €69.99)

@Vermonter Right? Why yellow.... even the orange and white from dreadball would've looked better. Oh well.

I like the dorf with the big ol eyes. They wouldn't be proper dwarves if they weren't a little unintentionally goofy.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
When did Mantic get so good? Last time I saw their models, they looked terrible, but the detail on those soldiers is incredible. They even have visible shoe laces and folds in their uniforms.
Like, when I saw those soldiers earlier, I was expecting them to look bad up close, but even zoomed in they look good.
Its kind of scary 0_o

They've started using really really good painters

Hey so remember that countdown thingy? Me neither until right now, well it did a thing!
http://warpathuniverse.com/

Just having a look around now.

Does this mean the old restic minis are being phased out?

 legoburner wrote:
The tank gives me a really nice 'Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors' vibe. Needs Sawboss' blade on top too

Hah, nice spot. Maybe that's why I like it so much.

The Deadzone starter looks boring as hell. 3 different models for the Enforcers and a whooping 1 for the FF. Not my idea of a detailed campaign skirmish. Really should have kept some restic in there.

 ulgurstasta wrote:
Does this mean the old restic minis are being phased out?

Some of them, yes - 3rd Gen plague, FF Stormrage Veterans, Enforcers, GCPS Infantry, Veermyn Nightcrawlers are all restic kits that are being replaced by hard plastic kits, and in some cases hard plastic multikits, which are replacing restic, restic x metal, rare original hard plastics, or are first representatives for stuff that had entries but no models.

Plenty of restic is remaining though - all of the Rebs and Marauders, all of the extant Walker-class and Guntrack-class minis, the Enforcer specialists, several bulkier minis such as Plague 1st, 2nd, and Teratons, and the Peacekeeper Captain. The new Veermyn equivalent guntracks and large, bulkier minis, and really anything of that sort moving forward is going to be made in boardgame plastic.

It seems like kind of a shame to get rid of the restic Plague. I thought their figures were actually some of Mantic's better restic offerings. They ought to have just kept them for Deadzone and used the plastic ones for Warpath.

Hmm. It is enough like 40k and enough unlike 40k to get my interest,

Roid rage plague were awful, I'm glad their dead. When do we get a Mantic EPIC game?

I'm sure the hard plastic 3rd gens will sell much better for Mantic, so phasing out the restic plague makes good business sense.

I continue to be happy I got in on Mantic's lines when I did, though. Mantic's restic first, hard plastic second production phases gave us a lot more varied trooper models within each faction than miniature companies normally produce. I don't hate restic, but I don't lament the disappearance of Mantic's restic models from the market because I have as many as I'll ever need already, just from being a typical "sweet spot pledge" Mantic KS backer.

I'm in the same spot. It's why I liked the restic Plague. They gave a lot more variety is poses. Some were also much more dynamically posed than their HIPS counterparts as well, like the Assault Enforcers. If I'm going to play a game that has lots of guys on the table, I'd like to have as much visual variety as possible.

ArtIsGreat wrote:
Roid rage plague were awful, I'm glad their dead. When do we get a Mantic EPIC game?

Warpath is getting rules for 6-10mm scale, it fits the game really well.

ArtIsGreat wrote:
Roid rage plague were awful, I'm glad their dead. When do we get a Mantic EPIC game?

I'm sure it will come soon, it's one of the last Games Workshop titles left that Mantic hasn't made their own version of.

I imagine that Mantic won't do too much at that scale, since they seem to have a very good relationship with Hawk Wargames.

 Compel wrote:
I imagine that Mantic won't do too much at that scale, since they seem to have a very good relationship with Hawk Wargames.

DZC is 10mm, Epic is 6mm. Not the same scale

But isn't epic coming out in a new scale?

 Theophony wrote:
But isn't epic coming out in a new scale?

Nobody knows for sure yet.

Yeah, but it's not like GW to go and make it easy for the older gamers to reuse their stuff.

 scarletsquig wrote:

ArtIsGreat wrote:
Roid rage plague were awful, I'm glad their dead. When do we get a Mantic EPIC game?

Warpath is getting rules for 6-10mm scale, it fits the game really well.

There is no need for extra rules to do that.
Same like Kings of War which can be played with 28 or 15mm models without changing much (use centimetre instead of inch)

I'm not sure I'm interested in the game, but the Pathfinders, Forgefathers and Asterians look really appealing.

 Vermonter wrote:
I'm sure the hard plastic 3rd gens will sell much better for Mantic, so phasing out the restic plague makes good business sense.

I continue to be happy I got in on Mantic's lines when I did, though. Mantic's restic first, hard plastic second production phases gave us a lot more varied trooper models within each faction than miniature companies normally produce. I don't hate restic, but I don't lament the disappearance of Mantic's restic models from the market because I have as many as I'll ever need already, just from being a typical "sweet spot pledge" Mantic KS backer.

That probably wasn't an intentional thing, but yeah it's a nice benefit of any revamp of a line. I've definitely considered hunting down, for example, the metal version of the Hordes Gatorman Posse even though I have one of the plastic ones since then I would have a distinction between the two units.

It's also a benefit of mixing stuff from different lines of figures. My Kings of War Dwarves are a mix of GW, Mantic, and Russian Alternative so I've got a pretty nice visual variety.

Switching topics back to Deadzone, I'll probably pick up the new starter set even though I've got the old one. The marginal cost over the upgrade set is low and I'll get some of the new poses.

6mm rules for a 28mm game is nice, but I want to see what dorf and rat titans look like.

ArtIsGreat wrote:
6mm rules for a 28mm game is nice, but I want to see what dorf and rat titans look like.

Doff titan = half the height of human titan but with added beard armour

Rat titan = Hamsterball of doom

I'm waiting for the rat war machine that is a catapult like the old goblin doom diver from GW, but instead flings the rats at its opponents. They could call it the Victor, and bribe the unwitting ratanauts with hunks of cheese to step onto the launch pad. Of course there's the odd chance of it failing horribly and the catapult snaps back and breaks their neck.

The new (metal) mercenaries are up for preorder

http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/deadzone/mercenaries.html

Odd that they have put the Teraton up given the casting issues they are having getting the KS ones done.

New Forgefather Dossier at the Warpath website.
https://warpathuniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/dossier-forgefathers-001.pdf

DreadPathZone have done a few Deadzone and Warpath BattleReps, They also walk through the rules, items and abilities in a 2 part video series.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Skrakjaw7/videos

Finally a few new images, again from the warpath website.

As much as I might want to, I cannot resist the Forge Fathers stuff!