Mantic Games Kaos Dwarf Week

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**Kroothawk**

Mantic has just uploaded the next concept art, WIP artwork by Jonas Springborg:

**Alpharius**

Awesome!

(And good call on Bull Centaurs vs. GW Legal!)

**adamsouza**

YEAH BULL CENTAURS !!!

A million Blood Bowl Teams cry out in joy !!

**AlexHolker**

Kroothawk wrote:Mantic has just uploaded the next concept art, WIP artwork by Jonas Springborg:

He'd be more intimidating if he wasn't so roly-poly.

**Kirbinator**

AlexHolker wrote:He'd be more intimidating if he wasn't so roly-poly.

Santa laughs and shakes like a bowl full of jelly. These guys laugh and shake like a bowl full of axe-to-the-face.

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

aka_mythos wrote:GW's history with Chaos Dwarves has been...
-"Here's an army book"
-"Here's a new edition, use 3 pages of rules till we update CD"
-"We'll update, I promise. Just keep using those 3 pages."
-"We're working on it, promise. Just keep using those 3 pages. Oh- we took them down?"
-"The Fantasy "Forge World" will be supporting you now"
-"Warhammer Forge has been told it cannot do Infantry packs of Chaos Dwarves"
-"Warhammer Forge will release CD vehicle crews for their land train, to get around GW's ban on CD infantry"

GW just doesn't know how to give people what they want.

You missed one:

-"Here's this great licensed Blood Bowl PC game! It has every single BB team in there - every flavour of undead, the Amazons are there, Haflings, Orcs or Goblins, the Star players. Even has the obscure off-shoot teams like the Nurgle Rotters and the generic non-aligned "Elf" teams. Oh wait, it has every single team except one... guess which one?"

**Wehrkind**

Amazons in Blood Bowl? What? Am I missing a patch?!

Speaking of which, I need some centaurs (male and female) for my savage army. Any chance Mantic will make some down armored version of that bull?

**Earthbeard**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
aka_mythos wrote:GW's history with Chaos Dwarves has been...
-"Here's an army book"
-"Here's a new edition, use 3 pages of rules till we update CD"
-"We'll update, I promise. Just keep using those 3 pages."
-"We're working on it, promise. Just keep using those 3 pages. Oh- we took them down?"
-"The Fantasy "Forge World" will be supporting you now"
-"Warhammer Forge has been told it cannot do Infantry packs of Chaos Dwarves"
-"Warhammer Forge will release CD vehicle crews for their land train, to get around GW's ban on CD infantry"

GW just doesn't know how to give people what they want.

You missed one:

-"Here's this great licensed Blood Bowl PC game! It has every single BB team in there - every flavour of undead, the Amazons are there, Haflings, Orcs or Goblins, the Star players. Even has the obscure off-shoot teams like the Nurgle Rotters and the generic non-aligned "Elf" teams. Oh wait, it has every single team except one... guess which one?"

"But, but, but, but we code so poorly, we can't figure out the rules let alone how to make 4 legged creatures work : /"

My Chaos Dwarves are sad.

**kenshin620**

Wehrkind wrote:Amazons in Blood Bowl? What? Am I missing a patch?!

Speaking of which, I need some centaurs (male and female) for my savage army. Any chance Mantic will make some down armored version of that bull?

Yea, they made an expac for it that doubles the game size pretty much. If the game is anymore bearable I dont know

**aka_mythos**

H.B.M.C. wrote:You missed one:
-"Here's this great licensed Blood Bowl PC game! It has every single BB team in there - every flavour of undead, the Amazons are there, Haflings, Orcs or Goblins, the Star players. Even has the obscure off-shoot teams like the Nurgle Rotters and the generic non-aligned "Elf" teams. Oh wait, it has every single team except one... guess which one?"

I felt I should give GW some benefit of the doubt and assume it was the video game developer... even though we have every reason to believe it wasn't.

**Alpharius**

aka_mythos wrote:GW's history with Chaos Dwarves has been...
-"Here's an army book"
-"Here's a new edition, use 3 pages of rules till we update CD"
-"We'll update, I promise. Just keep using those 3 pages."
-"We're working on it, promise. Just keep using those 3 pages. Oh- we took them down?"
-"The Fantasy "Forge World" will be supporting you now"
-"Warhammer Forge has been told it cannot do Infantry packs of Chaos Dwarves"
-"Warhammer Forge will release CD vehicle crews for their land train, to get around GW's ban on CD infantry"

GW just doesn't know how to give people what they want.

I forgot to chime in when you posted that excellent, and very depressing, summary.

I laughed, I cried.

I was sad, then I realized that Mantic is ready to hook me up, so, yeah!

**agnosto**

"Sneaky Goblins" *cough* hobgoblins *cough* up on the mantic blog.

**Alpharius**

Ha!

Even MORE awesomeness from Mantic!

I won't lie to you, I really thought GW, or at least FW, would be the ones making my Chaos Dwarf dreams come true!

**Kirbinator**

Go Mantic Go!

**Reecius**

Looking cool!

GW dropped the ball by not fleshing out this very cool race.

**Da Boss**

Love the sneaky goblin. I will get one. I NEED one.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

How can you love him? he's so.... sneaky and ...goblinny!
He's a thoroughly rotten egg!

**Kirbinator**

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:How can you love him? he's so.... sneaky and ...goblinny!
He's a thoroughly rotten egg!

Maybe he feels it's a kindred spirit?

**Alpharius**

Has Mantic announced a timetable for the "Evil Dwarf" releases yet?

And, are they definitely doing the Centaurs too?

**The Good Green**

That sneaky hobgoblin mini looks awesome! All the chaos dwarf art is rad, too.

**BrookM**

Alpharius wrote:Has Mantic announced a timetable for the "Evil Dwarf" releases yet?

And, are they definitely doing the Centaurs too?

Isn't it sometime early next year, followed by their Orcs?

**monkeytroll**

OK, they got me at clockwork wizard.
I'm gonna need me some o'dem.

**Alpharius**

BrookM wrote:
Alpharius wrote:Has Mantic announced a timetable for the "Evil Dwarf" releases yet?

And, are they definitely doing the Centaurs too?
Isn't it sometime early next year, followed by their Orcs?

I don't know, I was asking you...

I certainly hope it is VERY early next year then!

**brettz123**

Quality and detail doesn't look all that good to me. Bull centaurs would be very nice though.

**kenshin620**

brettz123 wrote:Quality and detail doesn't look all that good to me. Bull centaurs would be very nice though.

Well it is mantic we're talking about. And its still WiP

**BrookM**

Alpharius wrote:
BrookM wrote:
Alpharius wrote:Has Mantic announced a timetable for the "Evil Dwarf" releases yet?

And, are they definitely doing the Centaurs too?
Isn't it sometime early next year, followed by their Orcs?

I don't know, I was asking you...

I certainly hope it is VERY early next year then!

Here we go: February! Orcs are coming somewhere around April.

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While I'm at it, a WIP general, still missing a weapon but looking good so far!

**Alpharius**

February?

Excellent!

And as far as 'quality'?

It is Mantic, so it will be at least "OK" and it is better than the last time GW made Chaos Dwarfs (outside of the Hellcannon crew, please!).

I can guarantee you that their Bull Centaurs will look a hell of a lot better than GW's last attempts!

(I'm still not sure why GW hasn't re-done Dragon Ogres yet either!)

**BrookM**

Mantic has good quality stuff, top notch. The only downside is a severe lack of diversity between sprues, making the purchase of several different kits for swapping and mixing things up an important essential.

**Alpharius**

BrookM wrote:Mantic has good quality stuff, top notch. The only downside is a severe lack of diversity between sprues, making the purchase of several different kits for swapping and mixing things up an important essential.

And that is a 'problem' that I have NO problem with!

**BrookM**

Alpharius wrote:
BrookM wrote:Mantic has good quality stuff, top notch. The only downside is a severe lack of diversity between sprues, making the purchase of several different kits for swapping and mixing things up an important essential.

And that is a 'problem' that I have NO problem with!

Try telling that to the better half.