MANTIC News thread! (Corporation Marines unboxed, p.68)

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**kenshin620**

Ah yes, the reoccurring problem of mantic has arisen of having their new lines being hit and miss

**agnosto**

The terror of the fantasy world, the wasp-ork....look at the tiny waist on that thing.

**Buzzsaw**

From Beasts of War today, the Kings of War army list for Orcs!

I haven't really paid attention to the overall Kings of War rules system, so I have no idea how to evaluate this. I'm personally waiting to see all of the models before making any decisions on these Orcs.

**Lukez**

Personally I'm disappointed in the Mantic orcs, they are really lacking in the (sculpt)quality the rest of the range has.

**Buzzsaw**

From the Mantic blog;
Goblin monster handlers, and the corresponding monsters...

**Da Boss**

That, I could be convinced to buy!

Edit: Looking at the rules, the Orcs seem to be straight up brutal. They deal heavy damage but don't have especially high nerve or scads of special rules. They also look slightly limited in what they can take, at present.

**NAVARRO**

BLOODY GREAT!

**Scottywan82**

And then again with something awesome! What the hell, Mantic!?

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

The Goblins and monster!

superduper
those monsters eat the DE beastie woozies for breakfast!

**notprop**

Not too keen on the Orc, was hoping for better when I saw the original green.

The Boar rider from what I can see looks much more the real deal.

**sonofruss**

I already have fen wolves and then someone puts out this, not fair not fair at all.

**greenskin lynn**

i rather like the goblins and heros..but the normal orcs...i hate the faces

**notprop**

Yeah, they look like they are gurning.

**kenshin620**

Some newish pics from TMP

command frame and assemble orc ax

**Scottywan82**

Well... Helmeted is an improvement at least.

**kenshin620**

Bah, I looked on mantics site, got the frames wrong. The thing I posted was the ax sprue. This is the command

another helmeted orc

This makes me wonder what they'll do with their supposed "Armored Orcs" These ones are already pretty well armored. Still I'm not going to like that we only have 3 poses. I'll reserve final judgment until we see the full range

**Cyporiean**

Note: The bases on the Orcs are wrong, they should be on bigger bases. I kinda lost the ones Ronnie gave me...

**kenshin620**

I just woke up so my eyes could be deceiving me but is that some kind of bent top hat the middle one is wearing? silly

**Dez**

Scale pics! Thanks Cyporiean, any chance you have a regular Fantasy Orc Boy or prehaps a Goblin to take a scale shot with?

**Da Boss**

Yeah I'm not liking that top hat look. No. Do not want.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

[mechicxanaccent]Eeef you no like heem een a top haat then you can alwayz geev heem a sombrero![/mechicxanaccent]

**TheHammer**

They look like they are somewhere in between the goofy GW Orc and the more "evil" looking LotR Orc. I like both of those types but the in between look just doesn't work for me.

**Cyporiean**

Dez wrote:Scale pics! Thanks Cyporiean, any chance you have a regular Fantasy Orc Boy or prehaps a Goblin to take a scale shot with?

sure, just gotta dig out them out. I'll try to get them posted today.

**SkaerKrow**

If they had more weapon options (two choppas...

) I would buy these in a heartbeat. As it stands, they're nice, but not a priority at the moment.

**Cosmic**

Here we go:

I'm biased in this case because I love what Mantic does. However, to expand upon this, I think they've really gone for their own look, and I respect them for this. The top hat guy looks much better painted, and the bigger bases are very intimidating. Let's hear some opinions, and please give reasons to justify them.

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**AlexHolker**

The orc with a top hat does not look like a unit champion. He looks like an orc that got hit in the head one too many times that the other orcs keep around to laugh at. The long upper jaw, weak lower jaw, horned top hat and gak-eating grin ensures that this is not an orc you can take seriously.

**Cosmic**

AlexHolker wrote:The orc with a top hat does not look like a unit champion. He looks like an orc that got hit in the head one too many times that the other orcs keep around to laugh at. The long upper jaw, weak lower jaw, horned top hat and gak-eating grin ensures that this is not an orc you can take seriously.

That made me laugh. He kind of reminds me of a crook or something that hangs around in dark places. Quite sinister in that sense. Here's better pictures.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Orc Honest John
Hi diddle dee an orcish life for me!

**Cosmic**

We know Orc week has officially ended, but we thought a sneak peek at the Greatax sprue was too good not to share with you all!

As you can see, this is a planning layout shot, the sprue is already with Renedra and we will get the plastics back soon, which is exciting.

The Greatax have been designed so that they are fully interchangeable with the Ax Orcs, so you can mix and match to add that variety to your hordes.

Both the Greatax and Ax Orc sets are great value base kits, we intend to continue to build upon these solid foundations to provide new units and much more variety. We already have a number of projects being worked on, which at the moment already sees at least 6 new unique heads included as well as a significant number of other components.

If you want more details on these you will need to keep checking this blog!

I didn't want to start off another Mantic thread, so I'll put it here. This is really good news, and for those who were not content with the number of heads on the sprues: see above. My guesses are that the "six heads" will be for the "Morax" orcs troops, so that means that we'll get a box set for Ax, Greatax and Morax Orcs! If it is true of course. Unless we get a box set for the Gore riders. They could be resin-plastic though. Anyway, this is News and Rumours so, keep checking the Mantic Blog for more!

(Edited to fix the linky)

**Worglock**

Meh. Not interested. They look like a cross between GW Orcs and Warcraft Orcs, which were just lifted from GW anyway.

Who writes the Mantic rules again?