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Interesting news. I hope mantic don’t drop the ball on this one. I’ve done some initial reading and they have some good ideas. Hopefully their Chaos Dwarves will have a Sci Fi incarnation. Hopefully I’ll be able to look at the leaked pictures when I am able to get onto a non work blocked PC.

I hated the elves until I saw them in person. Then they all made sense and I got the appeal. They certainly don't photograph well though. I totally get why people dislike them based on the pictures. And anyone who doesn't like slight/small miniatures. They definitely are thin and elfin.

And the elves, while people keep bringing them up again and again, are Mantic's first offering and they've improved since then. The undead range has been awesome and the orcs are definitely cool. The orc flagger/standard bearer is a pretty amazing sculpt.

I'm looking forward to Warpath. And more importantly, to reasonable 28mm sci-fi troops for a good price.

I hope mantic doesnt go overload with metal conversion bitz if they are indeed making "Kings of War IN SPAAAAACE". I would prefer to see a lot of original sets.

Definitely looking forward to this, it'll be nice to see the Squats back in this form and everything else looks very invertive and unique.

The humvee loooks gorgeous on sketches, I'm looking forward to this a lot

kenshin620 wrote:I hope mantic doesnt go overload with metal conversion bitz if they are indeed making "Kings of War IN SPAAAAACE". I would prefer to see a lot of original sets.

Agreed. If anything needs to be in metal, it should just be characters.

Plastic for everything else please.

I'm not a fan of the thundercat style thing, but maybe there will be evil space humans for me to play.

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This isnt 4chan, I think that image is uncalled for.

Buzzsaw wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:Warpath???
Warpath is one of the biggest US-distributors of Mantic and other miniature ranges:
http://www.warpathgames.com/wholesale/warpath.php
Guess I can preorder the Warpath game from Warpath Games soon

We can hope to see the Xzibit photos any moment now... Bonus points if they include Warpath.

He asked for it. And lo it was made manifest.

This announcement makes my plans to attend Gencon seem even more timely.

What I want to know is, will my 40K stuff be compatible for Warpath?

If so I may eventually get to use it.
If not it is plastic hell for you my GW boyos.

So, a bunch of sketches? where's the models? or did I miss em somehow?

Necros wrote:So, a bunch of sketches? where's the models? or did I miss em somehow?

It's all still under wraps: if they are actually going to make an October release, I'm sure they are a lot farther along then just those sketches, but it sounds like they are still holding things close to the chest.

They confirmed that the sketches really were a legitimate leak, they didn't mean to send them along to BoW, but they are going to roll with it...

A wise choice, I would say, given the excitement the leak created.

Imagine that, rumors and speculation creating buzz for a product...

Hopefully Mantic will continue with the policy of showing WIP and keeping people upto speed with product development.

There's going to be a Warpath Week on Beasts of War so then we're going to get to see a helluva lot more. People who sign up for BoW's Backstage thing will have access to the rules about 2-3 weeks before they're released for Beta testing.

@Kan - KoW is still in Beta, they explained their 3 year model for polishing up the rules and this has only been year 1. I'm sure when the final book comes out with the full lists that there will be many who will play. True, there aren't a bunch of players now, but soon will be.

I'll be watching. I almost bought the Dwarf army because it was a steal, but I don't like dwarfs, but I like theirs better than others. I'm an dark elf guy, and while I liked how they tried to make their elves look different, they were not dark elves and I'll be honest they didn't pull it off all that well.

The undead that mantic do are great! Everything else just falls a but short, but just a bit. I also was not terribly impressed with the rules for kings of war. I participated in the beta testing and look forward to seeing the sci fi rules.

I do have high hopes though for a sci fi game. I've actually been waiting for someone to restart warzone properly, but I think mantic might really do a good job.

Yes! Now to talk to my FLGS and get him to start stocking Mantic stuff.

H.B.M.C. wrote:The bases moulded into the model idea is not one I like,

Same. I'd far prefer separate bases, so that it would be easier to convert the models to have more varied poses.

Hopefully they've noticed how many people hate the skinny, ugly elves and won't repeat the mistake when they make their not-Eldar.

This stuff looks cool, especially the humvee! Maybe GW will stop increasing their prices and putting in some quality control to stop the oncoming competition. I just went on the mantic website and a set of elves cost only 7 dollars! 7! cant wait.

If they do:
Space Robots (With big gun floating space robots, big bug floating space robots, long spined floating space robots, space robot bugs, spce robots with claws and covered in skin)
Space Army (With Lazor guns!!!, Heavy weapons, command groups)
Space Orcs (With guns, with close combat weapons, with big guns)

They will sell like hotcakes and GW gets a nice kick in the crotch.

Space dwarfs and space Humvees is not where they will make bucketloads of cash, models that are significantly cheaper than GW and can be used to directly replace GW is where they will make the vast majority of their sale. It worked for their fantasy range, do it for 40K/sci fi.

If that humvee is for space dwarfs, i want to slap Mantic -_-

Both their range seem to be lacking normal human faction, i'll be dissappointed if they push dwarf again, into sci fi....

LunaHound wrote:If that humvee is for space dwarfs, i want to slap Mantic -_-

Both their range seem to be lacking normal human faction, i'll be dissappointed if they push dwarf again, into sci fi....

Any particular reason, Luna? People seem to accept most other Fantasy archetypes in Spaaace, yet balk at Dwarves in Spaaaaace?

Those sketches do not look good. DO NOT WANT. Lets pray that they come up with something better. I have faith that they will.

I couldn't get on to BoW last night (I was trying from 8.30 to 10.30 before giving up) and now I'm back at work I can't get on to BoW or justin.tv...

bearing these facts in mind, please don't moan when I ask the following questions

Did they announce any new KoW stuff, and if so, what?
Are KoW tournaments definately happening or is this just something they'd like to see?
Were any details/hints/cryptic clues given for anything about Warpath or 'Its a sci-fi game with 8 factions coming October' all they said?

cheers, C_C

I am really stoked for Mantic. I think they're on the right track with their ideas, and they're producing minis with value in mind. GW would be wise to take notice.

I just hope that the aesthetic is pleasing. I want more "realistic" future warfare, not stuff that looks like the old RT era stuff.

I want my armies to look mean, not comical. Which is one of the reasons I am really hoping that Space Dwarves do not ever come to be...

SilverMK2 wrote:I just hope that the aesthetic is pleasing. I want more "realistic" future warfare, not stuff that looks like the old RT era stuff.

I want my armies to look mean, not comical. Which is one of the reasons I am really hoping that Space Dwarves do not ever come to be...

Something completely new would be great, but if your going to have fantasy in space (which is the path that I suspect Mantic will follow GW down) it may as well be like the old RT stuff where at least the GRIMDARK was not quite as grim.









Or Dark

One thing I really admire about Mantic, is their courage and acumen reflected in the fact that they're unafraid to show up on a show like Beasts of War, and talk about their product at length and tell people about *gasp* what's in the pipeline.

Chimera_Calvin wrote:Did they announce any new KoW stuff, and if so, what?

They're releasing a revised ruleset and a bunch of "fat" army lists. They also confirmed the Goblins and Dark Elves ("Twilight Kin", IIRC) and gave some strong hints about doing Humans.

Are KoW tournaments definately happening or is this just something they'd like to see?

It's definitely happening. It's at the stage where they're talking about what file format the "How to run a tournament" pack will be released in (Word, so that TOs can easily edit it for their own use).

Were any details/hints/cryptic clues given for anything about Warpath or 'Its a sci-fi game with 8 factions coming October' all they said?

They did the *cough*Space Orcs*cough*Space Dwarves*cough* thing. No mention of the Space Elves or Space Humans from the Warpath leak.

I think we can take Space Humans as granted