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Got a ticket reply from Rich. Not happy with it. I replied via ticket on Monday or Tuesday. I'll give him a week and then it's time to just send it all to Ronnie, I guess.

Thanks for trying, Matt.

Don't care for metal, either. Like many Mantic models I need to see these pro-painted. Mantic really shines best when it's an army rather than single piece, IMO. Newer stuff in past year for KOW has been great.

Any news on when the Wight models will be available for shipping? Really wanted to order them for when I'm home next week...

 Tyr13 wrote:
wouldnt hold my breath though.

Breathing is over-rated :p

 Taaloc wrote:
I'm pretty certain that the Uncharted Empires armies (not including the trident realms and Nightstalkers) were 'just' for people to plug their existing armies into and there were no plans for Mantic model ranges

Want to put money on that?




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 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Got a ticket reply from Rich. Not happy with it. I replied via ticket on Monday or Tuesday. I'll give him a week and then it's time to just send it all to Ronnie, I guess.

Thanks for trying, Matt.

PM me the latest if you want to Bob. I'm off to the US (Adepticon... playing and on vacation rather than with work) for the next week but can try and help if possible.

Hope to see you there, Matt! (I'll have on a bright yellow "ModCube" shirt the whole time, and will be sure to stop by the Mantic booth when I get the chance to get away from ours!)

 RiTides wrote:
Hope to see you there, Matt! (I'll have on a bright yellow "ModCube" shirt the whole time, and will be sure to stop by the Mantic booth when I get the chance to get away from ours!)

I'll be playing in the KoW team event on Thursday and I'm the stand in player for the Clash of Kings on the weekend. Other than that I'm free to wander (and explore Chicago too on non-gaming days ).

mattjgilbert wrote:

 Taaloc wrote:
I'm pretty certain that the Uncharted Empires armies (not including the trident realms and Nightstalkers) were 'just' for people to plug their existing armies into and there were no plans for Mantic model ranges

Want to put money on that?

Er... Not any more :p

Centaurs:

Beautiful stuff!

I agree. Not exactly my Style but they are great minis regardless.

I really like the Centaurs. I don't play Forces of Nature, and I'm pretty set on light cav with Red Goblin Scouts, but they're some of the best models I've seen from Mantic.

Definitely!

Nice stuff indeed!

Do we know if those are painted 'production plastics'?

Going by what has been shown before, I believe these are metal.

Would be ace if they were plastic, but I doubt it.

They are being released in metal. I already have the character from the Kickstarter. The unit is probably going to be a bit expensive For many, I think they said 30 pounds.

Well, at least we know that the detail should follow through to the production pieces!

I'm OK with metal - even at those prices...maybe.

I'm tempted to start up a KoW army now!

 Alpharius wrote:

I'm tempted to start up a KoW army now!

It's one of the best games out there, any gamer should at least try it once or twice.

What else is in the 'nature' army list?

I'm sure I've got some Darklands stuff I can use as 'counts as' for some of it - I hope!

Those Centaurs look real nice. Are they just going to be sold as a unit or could you get 1 or 2 separately?

 RobertsMinis wrote:
They are being released in metal. I already have the character from the Kickstarter. The unit is probably going to be a bit expensive For many, I think they said 30 pounds.

They're metal.

£18 or $30 forr five of them.
http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/kings-of-war/forces-of-nature/product/forces-of-nature-centaur-troop.html

Both sets of arms seem to be included, so there might be scope for some converting for anyone with some spare horses and gors/ungors laying around.

 Alpharius wrote:
What else is in the 'nature' army list?

I'm sure I've got some Darklands stuff I can use as 'counts as' for some of it - I hope!

Naiads, lizardmen, forest spirits, dryads, elementals, hydra and druids.

You can also use Centaurs in The Herd (via the Uncharted Empires book) army list, which also have werewolves, "guardian brutes" (things like minotaurs, owlbears, etc), beastmen, beast packs, giant eagles, chimera and totems.

 Alpharius wrote:
What else is in the 'nature' army list?

I'm sure I've got some Darklands stuff I can use as 'counts as' for some of it - I hope!

Best Painted at last weekend's Lonewolf GT (~70 players) was won by a Herd player using exclusively Mierce models (think of Herd as a Narnia-style army).

https://www.facebook.com/groups/403267653139331/permalink/823924607740298/

Nostromodamus wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
What else is in the 'nature' army list?

I'm sure I've got some Darklands stuff I can use as 'counts as' for some of it - I hope!

Naiads, lizardmen, forest spirits, dryads, elementals, hydra and druids.

You can also use Centaurs in The Herd (via the Uncharted Empires book) army list, which also have werewolves, "guardian brutes" (things like minotaurs, owlbears, etc), beastmen, beast packs, giant eagles, chimera and totems.

Ha!

I can definitely field a lot of Mierce Darklands stuff in those two lists!

Baragash wrote:

 Alpharius wrote:
What else is in the 'nature' army list?

I'm sure I've got some Darklands stuff I can use as 'counts as' for some of it - I hope!

Best Painted at last weekend's Lonewolf GT (~70 players) was won by a Herd player using exclusively Mierce models (think of Herd as a Narnia-style army).

https://www.facebook.com/groups/403267653139331/permalink/823924607740298/

Closed group!

Any chance you could port the picture of this army over to here?

The best thng about Nature and Herd is that they are Neutral alignment, which means you can include stuff from other lists no matter what their alignment is (though you can't take both Evil and Good at the same time). Or you could use your Neutral troops to supplement a larger Good or Evil army. Lots of flexibility there.

Zywus wrote:£18 or $30 forr five of them.
http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/kings-of-war/forces-of-nature/product/forces-of-nature-centaur-troop.html

Both sets of arms seem to be included, so there might be scope for some converting for anyone with some spare horses and gors/ungors laying around.

Huh, that's actually a really nice price.

It'll still add up rather quickly if you need several units but it certainly beats the pants off of, say, using otherworld miniatures centaurs for several whole blocks.

Those look really good. Pity they're not plastic or even restic.

 Bolognesus wrote:
It'll still add up rather quickly if you need several units but it certainly beats the pants off of, say, using otherworld miniatures centaurs for several whole blocks.

They're cavalry, so unless you want to run an all cavalry army (which you could do if you wanted to), most people aren't going to need more than one troop each of the melee/range build. That way you can run one of each, or push them together to make one regiment with the type you're using at the front. It's a pretty liberal way of doing things.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Pity they're not plastic or even restic.

Mantic can't win

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Pity they're not plastic or even restic.

Mantic can't win

I didn't criticize the company. I don't buy metal minis, so I think I'm allowed to be disappointed to miss out on good sculpts.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Nostromodamus wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Pity they're not plastic or even restic.

Mantic can't win

I didn't criticize the company. I don't buy metal minis, so I think I'm allowed to be disappointed to miss out on good sculpts.

Oh for sure.

I just find it funny when everyone complained about restic, so they went to metal, now everyone complains about metal

[oldman]In my day everything was metal, and we liked it. It was even lead so it was dangerous, grumble grumble...[/oldman]