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Call it the Mantic Warpath & Dreadball thread

as opposed to Mantic SciFi thread to make it easier on search

In my opinion Dreadball Definitely deserves (to keep) its' own thread.

I'm very interested in Dreadball... I'm not as interested in Warpath / general Mantic releases.

 scarletsquig wrote:
I'm hoping to convince the mods that Dreadball discussion should go in this thread as well, to make it into a Mantic sci-fi thread rather than just a Warpath thread.

That will get awful messy once that WP KS goes up. I'd keep DB separate, and if that licensed property gets big attention it would be better off in another separate thread - it keeps news on a busy topic from drowning out posts on a game with less to report on, which could still be relevant.

I don't see an issue with having three Mantic threads on the go in N&R. -

Warpath and Sci-fi - include other stuff like Project Pandora, figures that really want to be Mortarion and his plague zombiesm, etc - Make the KS thread a separate one so the KS news doesn't start on page 18 and retire it to the Graveyard forum later.

Dreadball - New Rules, figures and releases - retire the KS thread to the GY.

Kings of War and Fantasy - new rules, greens, figures - for both KoW and also related stuff like DKH etc.


Some KS discussion will no doubt happen in the threads anyway, but they'll become predominantly news threads - in the same way as Mongoose's thread works.

 scarletsquig wrote:

Sorry Kroothawk, I know you were super eager for another 8 pages of mocking fantasy sprue rehashes, but it ain't gonna happen.

Dude, mocking sprue rehashes is the past. The future is mocking drooping fried-egg nipples on werewolves.

I'm just glad Typhmouse doesn't have any to file off. He might actually get into it.

February releases - Forgefathers!

Warpath Forge Father Hero
Warpath Forge Father Thorgarim Team
Warpath Forge Father Drakkarim Team
Warpath Forge Father Iron Ancestor Conversion

Teams only being available suggests metals, although restic would be better.

The Hero is likely to be the Brokkr Hero we saw sculpted last year.

Iron Ancestor Conversion is likely to be the same deal as the raptor bull and quad, a kit with either a right cannon arm or a left melee arm (or both if we're lucky!).

That sounds excellent! So presumably some new sculpts for the Drakkarim (which hopefully be a little easier to put together!)

Finally, for the uninitiated what are the Thorgarim?

 Pacific wrote:
That sounds excellent! So presumably some new sculpts for the Drakkarim (which hopefully be a little easier to put together!)

Finally, for the uninitiated what are the Thorgarim?

If I remember rightly the Thorgarim are the Forgefathers elite heavy infantry, think terminators from 40K.

^ Nah, the Forge Guard are the heavy exosuit equivalents. Some people have seen concept art for them, so it's likely that they're a shoe-in for the upcoming KS.

These are the Thorgarim, elite infantry with heat hammers:



Highly likely that this will be the hero that is being released, a Brokkr Chief:

I want Mantic's SQUATS to be so good - so I can think about doing a 'counts as' IG army with them...

Picture of the Iron Ancestor variant:

That's really quite nice - looking forward to more from Mantic for the Iron Ancestors!

Are the arms removable? Do you guys think I can use the on Dreads?

Plus I like those hammer dwarves. They can even represent a heavily armored dwarf fantasy army.

The arms are separate pieces, but I don't have a dread arm at the moment to compare sizes to.

Quick and dirty size comparison between an Iron Ancestor gun arm, and a Forge World Mortis Pattern Left Autocannon Dreadnought Arm (IA-ISM-D-017) I had in a drawer.

Eeep/ Bit on the small side.

It'd probably be OK as a t/l heavy bolter, and due to the way it attaches to the Iron Ancestor you'll need to build the shoulder up anyway.

To be fair, sawing off the barrel ends and attaching some PS (or brass, whatever) tubing in between isn't exactly rocket science - and Dysartes is right about the shoulders which would be 90% of the work anyway.

I think that's close enough to be regarded as a 'counts as' Autocannon no problem.

Alternatively, you could use the entire Iron Ancestor as a dreadnought alternative and not have to bother with converting at all, for less than half the price of the GW version.

The scale difference isn't that far off at all (keep in mind that the GW base is taller in this pic:



The guns and bulked-out shoulders are the main difference, the height is about the same.

Call it a pre-heresy variant or something, the models were a lot smaller back them anyway, and looked a *lot* weirder.

Or if you want to go the whole hog, the forgefathers make better counts-as squats (using the space marine list) if you're wanting to use them in 40k due to the heavy armour on the models, counting them as salamanders works great due to all the heat-based weaponry they have.

OTOH while 3rd party arms on a dread is something you'll get away with in GW stores/events requiring 'original' models, using that whole IA is not.
...however cool the model is.

 Bolognesus wrote:
OTOH while 3rd party arms on a dread is something you'll get away with in GW stores/events requiring 'original' models, using that whole IA is not.
...however cool the model is.

Not that that will be much of a problem soon anyway, what with there no longer being GW events and what looks like a diminishing number of GW stores that have gaming space (At least here in NA).

Was going to say that's not much of an argument against any more really! Im gradually making up a FF army (collecting bits and pieces, but really waiting for the next Kickstarter, whenever that comes) and was originally going to use it as a 'counts as SM' force - not a perfect representation, but probably the closest you will get. But I'm already sick of having my other 40k stuff carpet-bombed by unpainted Playmobil toys scooting around on flight stands, it's kind of given me a fresh impetus to try Warpath

That will still vary from place to place, though I see what you mean

Oh, btw, something else that will make a lot of people on here very happy which I forgot to mention earlier:

Remy Tremblay is not a freelancer anymore, he is now a full-time Mantic employee.

In addition to this, he is the *only* sculptor who is allowed to work on the Warpath range.

For anyone who doesn't know who that guy is, click this link to his blog and start drooling. Basically if it's from Mantic, was sculpted in the last year and looks amazing there's good odds that it was one of his sculpts.

Wow that is awesome news! I love his work and cannot wait to see what he does with the warpath range!

Ah, very nice.

I hope we see some vehicles soon, that's the main thing that's holding me back. Well, that and being a jobless college student (again).


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I should say, some more vehicles since there's the Iron Ancestor and the Marauder Raptors.

 scarletsquig wrote:
Oh, btw, something else that will make a lot of people on here very happy which I forgot to mention earlier:

Remy Tremblay is not a freelancer anymore, he is now a full-time Mantic employee.

In addition to this, he is the *only* sculptor who is allowed to work on the Warpath range.

For anyone who doesn't know who that guy is, click this link to his blog and start drooling. Basically if it's from Mantic, was sculpted in the last year and looks amazing there's good odds that it was one of his sculpts.

I'm glad to hear Mantic has an internal sculptor now (especially such a talented one). Maybe now they can get some consistency within their own product lines

But first they need to keep him working on all the KS models I'm getting!

Sweet. Now I'm looking forward to the warpath KS. Especially if it means resculpts for the forgefathers

 scarletsquig wrote:
Oh, btw, something else that will make a lot of people on here very happy which I forgot to mention earlier:

Remy Tremblay is not a freelancer anymore, he is now a full-time Mantic employee.

In addition to this, he is the *only* sculptor who is allowed to work on the Warpath range.

For anyone who doesn't know who that guy is, click this link to his blog and start drooling. Basically if it's from Mantic, was sculpted in the last year and looks amazing there's good odds that it was one of his sculpts.

This is excellent news! A very talented sculptor, that's for sure.