kenshin620 wrote:
So I guess this means we'll get generic European fantasy humans then down the line?
If Mantic is smart, they'll release a human faction inspired by something other than Agincourt and the Holy Roman Empire. As much as people want to see other human nationalities tackled in Warhammer Fantasy Battles, it seems as if Mantic could make a pretty penny filling yet another niche ignored by Games Workshop. I mean, could you imagine how well Chinese/Cathayan style humans would sell?
Probably not very well at all.
A lot of people on the internet might say "Cathay or Araby would be awesome!!!".
But when it comes down to it, not many of those people would actually go ahead and buy an army that they can't use in warhammer fantasy battle because the unit types are different to Empire.
Besides, if you do want plastic Cathay/ Araby, go buy buy
LotR Easterlings. They are the same scale as mantic.
If mantic are smart, then puffy sleeves is what we will get. The current
GW Empire state troops are horribly ugly models that look worse than the models they replaced, so there is a lot of money to be made by simply making an alternative version of them that looks better.
Will mantic actually do that though?
No, they probably won't. They have a terrible habit of making models in their own, completely new style and falling flat on their face.
So, odds are we won't get Empire-clones, Araby humans or Cathay humans and we will instead get some sort of weird "sort of like arthur but with a bunch of cool changes we made because we thought they would be cool" models that don't really "fit" anywhere other than in mantic's own
KoW game. The sprues will lack options because they held back on paying out for expensive sprues with lots of options.
They will sell a moderate amount of them, wonder why on earth they aren't selling... then in 3 years or so, Avatars of War will release a plastic sprue that is a total clone of Empire state troops, but better sculpted with 90 parts on the sprue and sell hundreds of thousands of kits.
