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Some pics coming through from te open day.

Heroes from the Kings of War skirmish game:



Troll Shaman:



FOrge fathers:



Plague Strider:



Corp Strider (me likey):

All that stuff is pretty cool. The Strider looks awesome in both versions, and even the Fantasy stuff seems neat. More to the points, I NEED those Forge Guard.

Dwarf Kings Hold next kickstarter, KOW skirmish game next year set in a castle.

My crazy box had 3 golems and the forgefather quadgun plus elf and orc sprues, rebs,zzor and clippers and paint.

The Golems are £14.99 rrp so that covers the cost of the crazy box in itself. seems like a good deal though contents will vary.

Undead Troll:

Could be Plaguified



A few more zombies:



Pictures are from the @Fistyglueman account on Twitter.

Damn, that sounds like a pretty nice crazy box SeanDrake, thanks for sharing. Now if we can just get a couple more reports to see how random (if at all) they are...

KoW Skirmish game... in a castle? That sounds epic Is the DKH kickstarter for the KoW skirmish game, or are they releasing DKH4 and then putting out a fantasy skirmish that's separate? Sounds cool either way


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Wow, I'm kind of glad I ordered 80 of those zombies Those are looking sweet.

I like that undead troll.

DKH and KoW are different things.

The Crazy boxes all have code names and I counted 8.

Not strictly Deadzone or Warpath but this looks ripe for conversion potential:



@Grim: Having had 80 zombies on order too, I am gutted at missing out

Indeed... I feel for you Sir.


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At least your model collection and other things and self won't be getting soaked or caved in upon.

Looks promising, I'm especially interested in this KoW skirmish game. Have we heard any details about it?

That looks like the Hobgoblin DBX team in the background of the very first picture. I'd like to see a close up of the helmets as I'm trying to decide on them or Ada Lorena as my free team. While the Ada Lorena look cooler there's only 6 of them and they don't fit my idea of DBX if the Hobgoblin team sculpted up well including the face grill I might get them instead.

 DaveC wrote:
That looks like the Hobgoblin DBX team in the background of the very first picture. I'd like to see a close up of the helmets as I'm trying to decide on them or Ada Lorena as my free team. While the Ada Lorena look cooler there's only 6 of them and they don't fit my idea of DBX if the Hobgoblin team sculpted up well including the face grill I might get them instead.

I'm interested in how they pull off the face grill on those too. No way the concept art translates in to restic decently without modification.

 scarletsquig wrote:

I would strongly recommend picking up one or three and seeing what you get.
I know someone who bought three the first time around and ended up with complete 1500 point undead, elf and dwarf armies for KoW, as well as three mantic bags.

I don't see that happening again anytime soon (or ever again). Mantic have expanded their range to all sorts of random gak at this point, so you're likely to get some MAA, random restic, Loka pieces, DZ players and so forth rather than more restricted/focused product.

Not open day related but they posted this on facebook. Large Radar dish by Titan games - great use of the parts I might try this although I'd do one or two things differentlly using some additional plasticard/rod. I'm waiting on SWM tiles, DZ wave 2 and Maki terrain to all arrive before I build and paint anything so it's all consistent in design and colour (I might be waiting a while yet )

Hm, some greatly improved sculpts in those pictures.

Excellent job with the pic posting guys!

Like the look at some of those nature-humans, and of course the Forge Father look very promising! Hopefully there will be some more close-up pics.

 Azazelx wrote:

 scarletsquig wrote:

I would strongly recommend picking up one or three and seeing what you get.
I know someone who bought three the first time around and ended up with complete 1500 point undead, elf and dwarf armies for KoW, as well as three mantic bags.

I don't see that happening again anytime soon (or ever again). Mantic have expanded their range to all sorts of random gak at this point, so you're likely to get some MAA, random restic, Loka pieces, DZ players and so forth rather than more restricted/focused product.

Yes, but you're not paying much (what.. probably the same as a pot of GW paint out in Aus?), and there is obviously the potential for some nice miniatures based on the comments of people who have bought them.

Skirmishes and Dwarf King's Hold?

I'll be in. Hard.

Hopefully this skirmish game will also let us tap into all the Mantic/ other fantasy stuff we've all got laying around too. I smell the potential for terrain with both of these as well...

What exactly is sitting on that lizard? I'm always interested in more reptiles!

Caption on the picture says it is a Goblin.

A couple more pics for the skirmish game:

Dwarf

Zombie/Ghoul?

Hobbit/Halfling

Ok KoW skirmish will be warband based with each being made up of 5 troops a Heavy/ bruiser and a legendary hero leading. It will be played on multilevel terrain representing a castle/fortress.

The new DKH will be based on cardboard tiles but with plastic scenery such as tables, chairs and chests etc. This time the good guys play an adventuring party, which is the sculpts in the pictures dwarf fighter, human barbarian, elf bow woman and a human mage.
The opposition is undead with new skeletons, armoured zombies and zombie troll mentioned.

There will be 2 ways to play the 1st is specific scenarios telling the story during these characters will find upgrade weapons in a set manner and also learn new skills and become legandary as per the script so to speak.

Cheers SeanDrake, great info regarding the skirmish game and the 8 codenames for the crazy boxes.

However thanks to lobbying by stew & other internal parties ronnie has agreed to produce a book/expansion that lets you design/lvl and equip your characters as you see fit using a points system, they are also going to provide points values for every kow miniature/creature in the mantic range so they can also be used.

Also to be sci fi for a moment ronnie had the marsattacks martian robot on his desk and it is nice also production mars attacks martians and soldiers which were very nice

Dammit! That sounds exactly like something I need!

Now if only Mantic would give us some lizard/ dragon men, I'd be in seventh heaven.

Any chance someone can go all Inception up in Ronnie's ears in that regard?

SeanDrake wrote:
However thanks to lobbying by stew & other internal parties ronnie has agreed to produce a book/expansion that lets you design/lvl and equip your characters as you see fit using a points system, they are also going to provide points values for every kow miniature/creature in the mantic range so they can also be used.

Also to be sci fi for a moment ronnie had the marsattacks martian robot on his desk and it is nice also production mars attacks martians and soldiers which were very nice

So, they're going after Descent to some extent....

Dreadball Extreme pics:









Half inched from this site http://descansodelescriba.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/fotos-del-mantic-open-day-de-dreadball.html?spref=tw

Going to have money down for fistyglue man as soon as he appears for pre-order!

What are the team in the first pic, and the small, rather evil looking guys in the last one?

First pic are Sphyr - they just went from a maybe to definite yes for me. Rebs look great too they are my free pick I like that the 4 legged one is rearing up on 2 legs solves the 4 leg problem nicely

The last pic is Brokkers in green and Hobgoblins in orange with a Hulk- free agents at the front. Still cant't see the Hobgoblins face grill the Hulks looks good but will it translate well to plastic?

The first team is the hammerhead shark guys The Sphyr. DaveC suggests that the little guys (with a Hulk maybe?) are the Hobgoblin team, which seems right.

I am going to convert my own Fisty Glue Man, it looks like an expensive kit.

Edit: gah Ninjad.

I like those Sphyr poses- they can translate well from a sports game to a street fight from the looks of them.

Fisticuffs on Deadzone street, here we come!

That Soark is just begging to be given a pair of pistols and be throw in a deadzone... In fact, a lot of the DBX stuff looks DZ compatible with a little conversion.

Skirmish game sounds killer, I missed out in mordheim and I've got a buttload of bones minis coming who could fill in as warbands.


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I only backed dbx for deadzone conversion fodder . I may have two serviceable teams left over... maybe... from rampage when I'm done.