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scipio.au wrote:

scarletsquig wrote:
5 games will be released in 2012:

- KoW 3rd edition Hardback rulebook (yes, the rules will still be free online)

I don't much like the sound of this. Hardback rulebook means it'll cost quite a bit. I guess it's for Mantic Fanatics/Fanbois who want a collector's edition item? Either way, I'm not so sure it's the best way to go for a new game that's trying to establish itself - a softcover rulebook would be much more appropriate IMO. I'm assuming that in order to go from 3-page pamphlet to hardcover book it'll include all the army lists, as well as a painting and modelling guide (in conjunction with Army Painter?) and maybe a battle report or two to act as filler.

- 2.0 Warpath rules (likely to be similar to the 2.0 KoW release with updated rules and 8 army lists)

So don't buy WP under any circumstances since it'll be reissued later? Check! Will they add in proper sc-fi legs for the dorfs?

So you mean don't buy the WP rules now? Sorry I'm being deliberately difficult there...
If KoW is anything to go buy it will probably just be small changes to the rules, certainly not a fundamental overhaul. They've been getting feedback on what people think of the current rules and will go from there I imagine.

There is a pack coming out in a few months I believe which is a resin/plastic kits which has an upgrade, including armoured legs (not skirt) and helmeted heads for every dwarf in a standard Forge Father kit. This is the one I'm waiting for actually to do an entire 'counts as' SM force using armoured stunties

kenshin620 wrote:

Oh theres a little video of mantics new office. A bit pointless but for those who like to be in touch with these fellows

Shame we didn't get to see any of the old GW trolls, I heard they too have jumped ship and are working for Mantic these days!

PLEASE GOD NOT THIS AGAIN !! We already had this discussion about resin/plastic/rubber over about 5 pages in the thread earlier.

I have never ever used a sentence entirely consisting of capital letters, in my entire forum career, that's how strongly I feel about it!

Great, I didn't realise it would be released so soon!

I think Mantic have been so astute with their releases recently, they have recognised a hole in the market and are putting some good releases out there to fill it. Personally, I would love it for them to go one step further, and put releases of their all-in-one boxsets on the shelves of Toys'r'US, and other toy shops. It was a way GW used to get new players into the hobby with their MB/GW games, and I would love to see Mantic do the same.

Just had the weekly email from Wayland Games today, they have started pre-orders for the Corporation minis. Here are the details:

This week the guys from Mantic Games dropped by and gave us a sample of some of The Corporation figures as well as a private sneak-peak of their releases for later in 2012. So while we cannot tell you what we have seen, we can tell you that The Corporation miniatures are exceptionally detailed and what Mantic have in the pipeline for Warpath and their other ranges is nothing short of astounding!

Corporation Army Set (£37.49) http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/mantic-games/warpath/the-corporation/corporation-army-set/prod_15126.html
- Warpath Rules Set
- 20 x Marines with Energy Fist and Special Weapon options
- 3 x two-man Heavy Weapon Squad with Heavy Laser and Autocannon Variants
- 10 x Veterans – 8 Veterans with Special Weapons and 1 two-man Heavy Weapons Team.
- 10 x Corporation Rangers with drop-packs and 9 Special Weapons.
- 40 x 25mm Round Mantic Bases

Corporation Major General (£4.87) http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/mantic-games/warpath/the-corporation/corporation-major-general/prod_15125.html
- Single metal miniature in blister (guy with the cigar)

Corporation Heavy Weapons teams (£13.13) http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/mantic-games/warpath/the-corporation/corporation-heavy-weapon-teams/prod_15124.html
- 3 x two-man Heavy Weapon Squad
- Includes Heavy Laser and Autocannon variants
- 25mm Round Mantic Bases

Corporation Veterans (£11.99) http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/mantic-games/warpath/the-corporation/corporation-veterans/prod_15123.html
- 8 x Corporation Veterans
- 1 x two-man Heavy Weapon Squad with Heavy Laser or Autocannon variants
- Commander options including Energy Fist and Pistol
- 3 Varieties of Special Weapons
- 10 x 25mm Round Mantic Bases

Corporation Rangers (£11.99) http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/mantic-games/warpath/the-corporation/corporation-rangers/prod_15122.html
- 10 x Corporation Rangers
- Commander options including Energy Fist and Pistol
- Drop-packs
- 9 Special Weapons (3 of each variety)
- 10 x 25mm Round Mantic Bases

Corporation Marine twin pack (£18.74) http://www.waylandgames.co.uk/mantic-games/warpath/the-corporation/corporation-marine-twin-pack/prod_15121.html
- 20 x Corporation Marines with Rifles
- 1 x Commander options including Energy Fist and Pistol
- 3 Varieties of Special Weapons
- 20 x 25mm Round Mantic Bases


I will let others dissect the value of these and their uses, although I will say they look like cracking deals. Personally speaking, that dream of mine of having an Elysian themed IG army of drop troops might finally become a reality.

I think they look cute! Definitely be interested in some plastic archers as well. Is there anything still missing from the Orc KoW list now or do we have everything?

Interesting, very interesting!

The model railway market is an entirely separate (and sizeable) beast, even though it's possible to draw parallels between both that and wargaming.

Good to see Mantic acting pro-actively in any case, the next step for them surely will be to have a release of their board games (Dwarf King's Hold and the forthcoming project pandora) on the shelves of toy stores such as Toys'R'Us.

Some new pics posted on the Mantic site via Scarletsquig on Warseer

I think it's pretty much how they have gone on since the outset, offering bigger discounts on sets before the models are revealed. Although this is taking things a step further, before we have even seen the concept of the miniature - they could be umbrella wielding apes riding unicycles for all we know (an unlikely proposition, but not entirely unattractive I admit). But, if as ScarletSquig says the reveal of the models is on the way, it's not such a big issue.

I agree in that it's not something I personally would do, but they've been doing it for as long as the company has been going so presumably some people must be buying it.

Had this weeks newsletter last night, here are the contents for anyone interested:

New pic of the corp:


Confirmation of details about 'Mantic Elite'

Mantic Elite guarantees you will get the sets first and with a saving of over £20 on the sets individually, makes it incredibly affordable to get all of the upcoming figures.

More details on Project Pandora and 8th Race are coming next week (see sidebar!). Sign-up for Mantic Elite ends 29th February, so don't miss out!

Essentially, sidebar says there are more details on the blog, and 'Project Pandora' week starts on Monday 13th, leading up to its release.

Also, looks like Mantic are teaming up with Avatars of War, for some multi-pack deals:

Avatars of War
Every Army needs a hero and we’ve brought in some great Avatars of War blisters to offer you even more choice in who leads your army across the battlefield! As is the Mantic way, we’ve bundled them together free in one-click army deals.

The Court of the Countess contains a free AoW Vampire Countess and 130+ figures whilst Rulaf's Stonebreaker Legion includes 20 AoW Berserkers and over 100 plastic Dwarfs.

Basically, 'Court of Countess' deal is 120-odd figures, + free AoW vampire countess miniature for £74.99 - details here: http://www.manticgames.com/Shop-Home/Kings-of-War/Special-Army-Deals/Product/Court-of-the-Vampire-Countess-Army-Deal-121-Figures.html?utm_source=Mantic+Games+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5ffd2763ea-Mantic_Games_Newsletter_134&utm_medium=email

Interesting that Mantic and AoW have teamed up like this, although it makes perfect sense in some ways - especially as the AoW special characters are some bloody beautiful sculpts, and I love their Dwarf Beserkers.

Can't wait for Project Pandora though, Dwarf King's Hold was a great deal of fun and I would thoroughly recommend to anyone who has £30 or so loose in their pocket.

I'm kind of hoping it will be space-skaven actually, and the 'mysterious cargo' they are trying to steal is cheese.
Really, I think a lot of people were disappointed that they got remade as 'swamp-thing wearing flairs' in the 40k xenomorphs book.

'Project Pandora' Grim Cargo is now up for pre-order, for release in April. Here are the details from the weekly newsletter.

PROJECT PANDORA: GRIM CARGO



Project Pandora: Grim Cargo is sci-fi board game pitting the Corporation against the mysterious 8th Race, who have boarded a Corporation Starship in attempt to steal its precious cargo – a cargo which the Corporation will do everything in it’s power to keep hold of.
Written by the author of the sell-out Dwarf King’s Hold series, the game features an innovative dice-driven combat mechanic and a scenario based narrative, allowing you to recreate the mission.

It includes 20 highly detailed plastic Corporation and 8th Race miniatures, stunning new artwork depicting the starship and action counters, and the Grim Cargo rulebook, featuring a host of fast paced and easy to learn rules that will lead to some incredibly tense games.

THIS SET INCLUDES:
Project Pandora: Grim Cargo Ruleset
10 x Corporation Marines
10 x 8th Race Scavengers
Starship Tilepack
Game Counters and Dice
Price: 34.99 (GBP)

As I have said many times, Dwarf King's Hold is a great game, and I have a good impression of Jake Thornton as a games writer, and really for less than the price of a night out I think it's worth the money. Hopefully this one will follow in a similar manner.

I've been thinking, if they are space-skaven, and the cargo the Corporation is protecting is cheese - what does the 'grim' refer to? Perhaps a shipment of Stinking Bishop?


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scarletsquig wrote:

Rolt wrote:I mean they're just going to be not-Hurd/space skaven aren't they?

I'd just like to nip the "Mantic stole Hrud from GW" discussion in the bud before it begins by posting this picture of a Hrud. They are not space rats:

Or, you could choose to entirely discount that fairy-santa-magic killing picture in the Xenology book, and go with the previous interpretation before GW had a fun/imagination failure

BrookM wrote:Jes Goodwin did a pile of sketches and designs on Space Skaven back in the day, they can be found in his art book le Gothic and le Eldritch.

OK thanks that must be what I was thinking of. The general conception, going back for quite some years, was that Hrud equalled space skaven. However, I couldn't tell you where else that originated, other than someone started talking about it and it was assumed that that's what they were? It might just have been my gaming group though.

Although TBH it doesn't matter a toss to me where the concept comes from, as long as the sculpts are OK and the game fun to play.

On a side note, I think there are plenty of other companies out there producing things for a completely separate game-type and universe if that's what you want. Mantic have decided that there is a market for a cheaper option that can also be used in GW games as well as their own, and are going for that. This might not be popular with GW upper-echelons (and, from what I have heard they are well aware of what Mantic is doing, and the condescension has already started), but I hope they can continue - GW core games are still the most popular, and I like having the option of being able to build a new army without needing to put buying a new car on hold to account for it.

Interesting, from a post on Warseer the original blurb for Project Pandora had them down as 'Veermyn', but this has now been changed to 'Scavengers' (which I believe was a community chosen name, in the same was as Twilight Kin was chosen)

So, almost without question going to be some spin on 'anthropomorphised rats in space'. We will find out for sure on Thursday, looking forward to seeing them in any case

Bit of background blurb that was just posted by Jake Thornton on the Mantic blog

The Zloveshy Vassily has a bad reputation and is widely held to be an unlucky ship. Few of the itinerant deckhands that hang around the bars in the Corporation ports would sign on with her unless they had nowhere else to go, and the crew has a deservedly suspect reputation of its own. Those that serve on her call her the Grim Cargo with a perverse sense of pride. Few serve on her long.

Of the many who have died in her aged and variously stained corridors, not all have been found. Several have simply disappeared into the bowels of the myriad ducts and accessways between the rooms, for she is an elderly design, long obsolete. When she was built it was fashionable to hide the engineering behind gaudy panelling and pretend that the vessel was a shopping mall or grand hotel rather than a tin can floating in the hard vacuum of deep space. The loneliness of that thought, went the theory, would send people mad…
For those that understand the design, the Grim Cargo is a functional warren of tunnels and narrow corridors, dimly lit and rarely travelled. Most of the engineering access ports are hidden behind clip-on panelling, and many of the ship’s maintenance stations are tucked away neatly out of sight. Of course, this is fine when you don’t need to fix anything, but when there is a failure an inexperienced crew can spend hours searching for the correct accessway. And they don’t always find their way back.

These dangers have made the crew very reluctant to leave the central command areas and most of the more remote zones of the Grim Cargo have been all but abandoned to broken venting, flickering lights and unexplained creaks and groans. It is an unnerving vessel to explore, and a far cry from the sleek military ships of the Corporation fleet that Sergeant Cruise and his men are familiar with.
What makes matters worse for the Troopers is that their mission obliges them to stay in exactly those areas that the crew avoid most, guarding the cargo they have been tasked to protect in whichever corner of the storage sections it has been secured. They have no idea what they are guarding, though there is much speculation.
But the 8th Race know…

Definitely interested to see what the game tiles look like now..

Thanks for that post, that has dispelled last of my doubts about these. Totalwargamer.co.uk has the Corporation army set (40 troops + 3 heavy weapon teams) for £38, which is a no-brainer I think.

Lovely looking sculpts, I had no idea they were so detailed. Going to use these as the Elysian army from IA: 8, great stuff

There was a note on the other forum that that was incorrect painting on behalf of the studio that did it. They aren't meant to be roll-ups, but rather part of the boot (like jackboots). If you look at this one, you can see that quite clearly.



The sculptor is a chap called Remy Trimblay, who has done a lot of freelance stuff for Studio McVey. It was mentioned by the Mantic guy who posts on Warseer that he has done the sculpting for the 8th race as well (hopefully revealed tomorrow!)

As far as I'm concerned I'm frankly stunned by how good these look. I would say they are pretty much comparable to the FW Elysians in terms of sculpt detail, and although some might consider it almost sacrilegious to say, they dump on the now rather aged looking Cadian sculpts by a country mile. And that's regardless of the price discrepancies when compared to the above.

That's a pretty nice bit of art actually, I love the energy in it.

I think the 'rats' thing has been pretty much confirmed for a couple of days now - 'Vermeen' being an obvious play on words of 'vermin'.

Here is a post from the sculptor regarding these minis, made on Beasts of War, that makes quite interesting reading

hank you for your nice comment, and even for those who don’t like it…

@ipaint: The picture shows the parts that you’ll got in the boxes, this whole set is used to make marines, veterans, rangers and heavy weapons. All the head and pair of arms are fully compatible with all bodies. It’s quite hard in this conditions to keep exact proportions and good dynamic poses. Well I did my best.

About the Veer-myn. You should wait for another minis to judge. You have only two guys, one pic for each and those as all the pictures of miniatures fail to show the minis with a good representation of 3D.
(I hope it makes sense). The minis are from dwarf size to 28 mm and the design vary from one to another. I don’t draw the concept art but I think it conveys the old school sci-fi feeling. The armor are so steampunk and I made some cool faces for other guys. I think that filthy rats in Iron Man suit could really suck. So I quite like those armors.
The green is actually in FIMO but the green color is very bad for lisibility, my fault…
Well a rat is a rat it’s difficult to depict an actual rat without being too boring, we need to exagerate things as well as proportions : heroic scale. But not that much, the pictures don’t allow you to compare to the other minis in the range (corpo, forge father etc..).
Plus the heads and arm must be compatibles on all the minis. I tried to have something with the minimum of part to assemble, a strong silhouette and give to all the detail a volume to ease the painting. As I did on the corporation maybe it’s the style that some of you call “GW”. GW’s skaven have had some many style for edition to edition, I really think that you cannot bring something totally new to a rat miniatures, well not on a 20 mm mini. In some ways you can compare to the skaven but my point is this range ( the whole things) has is own style.
I’m done you could strat to launch tomatoes , and well it’s MY point not MAntic point or anything, I’m talking my feeling about those minis.
Sorry if my message is strange or insulting or stupid, it’s difficult for me to express myself in english.

Have a good day,

Rémy

Yes, but I'm sure they would look other crap ++EDIT++ Sorry, in reply to Space pigs comment.

The complete cover art of Project Pandora from the Mantic blog



Also, some more pics on Remy's blog, showing detail of the Corporation Commander. Not bad for a fiver, I'm sure you'll agree

Fetterkey wrote:

Good find. With the discount, the Mantic guys are indeed cheaper, though the push-fit Cadians are still going to beat them out. That said, I think there are people who would say that Mantic guys look better than push-fit Cadians (though I'm not one of them), so perhaps there's a market there after all.

Looking below, I would say vast majority of people would say the Corporation mini is a better sculpt, both in terms of detail and accurate proportion. I think it speaks volumes that you can buy it cheaper than the GW ones, considering the sprue for the latter must be a decade old now and I think is in desperate need of an update.





It would be nice if this forum had a dedicated Mantic sub-forum, in the same way as a certain other forum (which incidentally is where I have started to go to discuss Mantic stuff). The problem is this thread is meant for News & Rumour, I posted what I thought was a quite interesting quote from the 8th race sculptors, and it's been completely blown over by people commenting 'I like Mantic because.. ' 'I dislike because... ' after Fetterkey posted here (not to criticize you in particular Fetterkey, it happens all the time in this thread, I think because of a lack of any kind of Mantic focus elsewhere on the forum).

And yes, I realise I have just contributed to this problem by posting pictures comparing GW and Mantic humans

Anyway, might be worthwhile mentioning on the suggestions page, to have a dedicated sub-forum for Mantic.

Fetterkey wrote:Those do indeed look way better... but I don't think those the actual Corporation models that are being sold, but rather production greens at a substantially larger scale!

The height in mm. is from the feet to the EYES of the models. So these are 30 mm.

Yes, I believe technically this is the description of scale.

Cyporiean wrote:

lord marcus wrote:

Fetterkey wrote:Right-- so those are ~35mm, whereas Mantic's normal miniatures are purportedly "true 28mm."

You are including the base.

The ruler is on the base...

Right, but GW miniatures haven't been 28mm since the days of Rogue Trader. Most stuff these days is more like 30-32mm.

TBH, with 'heroic scale' I can see both the upside and the downside to it. On the one hand, it does help draw the eye to the more important areas of the model, the face and (in the case of wargaming) hands and weapon. Personally, I think Mantic have got it just about right. While it doesn't have anatomically correct proportions like an Infinity miniature (see the pic above, models on the right), they are not as extreme as say the example with the Cadian.

Not interesting to you Fetterkey, but the general point of this thread is for posting news and rumour about Mantic for people who are interested in reading about it.

I think if anything this thread indicates that we need some kind of Mantic sub-section on this forum, just the same comments that have been going backwards and forwards not only the last 3 pages, but throughout the previous 50.

Anyway, in effort to try and keep something of this thread on topic, some Corporation minis from Golem studios from their facebook page

I was just making the point that this discussion has been going on since page 1 of this thread, with no sign of abating. That Mantic is 'ripping off' or 'inspired' by GW (language use depends on whether you agree with it or not) would be obvious to a blind and deaf man who has lived in a cave in the amazon for his entire life, and has no concept of light or sound. I don't think that is an issue here at all, and if it's something you don't agree with - well, then you can exercise that right as a consumer and not buy any. I have no interest at all in Warmachine, the concept doesn't appeal to me at all, even though at the same time, I can understand the appeal of the game. But, I don't argue the toss with the game's fans that their game and models are flawed. If I did so, I think it would be more than a little sado-masochistic; I don't log into the forum typing something like "Oooh look at you, with your large steampunk bits, and your aggressive style of play", with leather cat o-nine-tails on my naked lap "Ooh, dirty, dirty big metal miniatures!" which is what it almost seems like sometimes having read this topic raise it's head for the 20th time.

But even if you can't get over that hurdle, at least try and recognise the following: They have recognised a gap in the market - be it ideas no longer (or never supported) by GW, such as 'Dwarves in space' or 'rats in space'. They have recognised that not everyone has the $300-$400 necessary to make a horde WFB army, in the way that GW intends for the game to be played, and have released a cheaper alternative which can cater for those who might not otherwise be able to take part. If the number of special rules have become too many, they have released extremely neat rules settings for both the fantasy and sci-fi setting, which are actually a great deal of fun. For those who loved to play the likes of Heroquest and Space Hulk, and lament that there is no longer that cheap 'hook' to get a newcomer into the hobby, or just to play a quick, no hassle game over the course of an hour, they have again released games (in Dwarf Kings Hold & now Project Pandora) that have catered to people who want that option.

I cannot understand, how in any shape or form, anything that Mantic has done has been bad for wargamers. And in fact, as ScarletSquig points out, if it even makes the King sat on the top of the pile (who has become rather fat and lazy of late) of perhaps upping their game a little, then we all might be better off because of it. A monopoly is never, ever good for the consumer, as has been evident in the perennial price rises, switch to shoddy material, and essentially telling an entire region of the world to feth-off, which has been the track record of GW over the past year.

New info on the Mantic blog about 'Corporation week'

With all of the Corporation unveiled now for the launch in March, we’re going to be taking a look at what went into building the army, some new battleshots of the Corporation in action and we’ve even put your questions from Facebook to Mike McVey!
Over the weekend, pictures of the Major-General broke cover. Many of you will have noticed that we snuck him into the shot on the home page – here’s the full photo:



What’s great about the Major-General is he is the first Mantic hero with variant options. You can take him with the Energy Sword…


… or the Energy Fist:



This great Remy sculpt has been effortlessly brought to life by the fine fellows at Golem Painting Studio. You can pick it up in the webstore now as either an individual blister or free in our great value pre-launch army deals.

Not sure what the Corporation stuff had to do with Mike McVey, does anyone know?

Some interview questions with Mike McVey, from the Mantic Blog.

What was your primary inspiration for the Corporation? Were any particular movies, historical eras, novels, or games inspirational?
I’ll answer this from a visual perspective – Alessio would be the man to ask about the inspiration for the background of the Corporation. We drew inspiration from a wider variety of different places for the way the troops look (at least the ones you have seen so far!) – there are definite echoes of modern American Infantry in the way they look, but we wanted to make sure they had a clear sci-fi look and feel.
There are some classic movie renderings of science fiction soldiers – Aliens being a prime example, but we felt they were just a little on the low-tech side for what we wanted. You have to remember though – The Corporation is a huge and varied faction, encompassing lots of the human population of the Warpath universe, so what you have seen so far is only just scrapping the surface of what they have to offer.

what kind of releases have you planned in the future for the Corporation?
Some really exciting ones! I’m obviously not going to give anything away, but we have [*Edited by the power of the Corporation*] being worked on at the moment for something later this year, and they are looking stuffing. In fact I would go as far as to say the first sculpt is the best thing in the whole Mantic range so far… I’m very excited about it. In the longer term we will be moving upwards in size a little, and focusing on different aspects of the Corporation army rather than infantry.

Does the Corporation know what the 8th race is?
Good question! I’m not really the man to answer that question, but I can tell you this – if they don’t know by now, they are about to find out. Project Pandora is coming…!

What can we expect from Vehicles? My Forgefathers want a transport.
Funny you should mention vehicles, there has been a lot of discussion around that subject lately. We’ve got a couple of vehicles in the game so far (the Marauder Raptor and Forge Father Hailstorm cannon), and there are definitely some more on the way. We’ll be doing some different medium sized vehicles for both of those factions, and then stepping up the size to something a little more impressive. Put it this way, a large part of the last design meeting was spend stacking up various objects of different sizes, to decide just how large out next foray into vehicles will be…
The first concept (from the ever wonderful Roberto Cirillo) is done – and I have to say it’s looking fantastic. Other than that, you’ll have to wait and see.

Mantic have just re-launched their official forums.

The blurb from their blog:

Upgrading our existing Forum package in almost every way, the new Community hub is your place to talk about all things Mantic.

From discussing that last game of Kings of War you played to giving the newest sculpts from Mantic the once over, the new Forum is slicker, faster and a lot more user friendly.
You can now have your own Forum name and avatar, with a simplistic and painless sign-up process where you no longer have to enter all of your address details.

Furthermore, you can now post pictures of your armies and showcase your models without having to link to external sites, and you can search through threads and posts easier than ever before.
Like the Corporation? Hankering after a copy of Project Pandora? Tell us on the forum (or drop us a comment below… or on Facebook… or Twitter. In fact, there’s loads of ways to talk to us!)
There’s also a Blog where our Pathfinders and moderators can report back on the shows they’ve been too and what miniatures they’ve recently painted.
Of course, this feature is open to you as well, meaning you can share your hobby with us in more ways than ever before.
We’ve still got some more tweaks and a couple of new features to add, but for now, check out the new Forum, get signed up and get posting!

Seems to be a similar system to the latest Warseer. Certainly, I think it will be nice to have a focal point for Mantic and it certainly looks a lot better than the previous one.

Link is here: http://forum.manticblog.com/forum.php

Latest update on the blog

We’ve now broken the back of February and we’ve hurtled straight into March, a month that is going to be marked by the sci-fi troopers of the Corporation, ahead of April’s Project Pandora and May’s Veer-myn launch.

Speaking of Veer-myn, towards the end of the month we’re going to be giving away a free Veer-myn Dossier – a free guide to the new sci-fi race from Mantic Games. It’ll include stats to use the models in Warpath, background and the first look at the Veer-myn units.
Those of you already on the newsletter would have received the Corporation Dossier and seen the new units before anyone else – the Veer-myn Dossier will do absolutely the same thing, bringing you all the latest news straight to your inbox!

Look out for the newsletter towards the end of the month if you’re already signed up and, if you’re not, all you need to do is enter your name and email address into the sign-up form here and you’ll automatically be registered to receive the Dossier.

Looks amazing! I like the faceless corporation types huddled together and getting shot

"Huh huh, you got a real pretty mouth boy!"

The Warpath Forge Father upgrade packs are now available from the mantic shop: http://www.manticgames.com/Shop-Home/Warpath/Forge-Fathers/Infantry.html

One of the most common complaints with the Forge Fathers was the use of the KoW Dwarf parts rather than something that looked more appropriate for sci-fi.
So, I think for people who already have the standard sprues, they can update these with enclosed helms, a more armoured torso and legs, and some special weapons.