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 pancakeonions wrote:
Beautiful art!

Does that first mech look any less of a Battletech mech? I'm not an expert there, but nearly all giant, bi-pedal walkers look like something from Battletech to me...

I think anything in B&W line art will make most people think Battletech. The top missile launchers remind me of the old terminator missile pods, they even have the same shape of a truncated pyramid.

I wonder if leaning into a more humanoid, head-above-the-shoulders look would have been better to avoid comparisons to Battletech and 40k?

You mean like a Gundam or EVA?

chaos0xomega wrote:
You mean like a Gundam or EVA?

Lol, I thought someone might respond with Gundam, or perhaps mention Pacific Rim.

Well yes, but at least those are things which don't necessarily have the same presence or footprint within the wargaming market. Though I'd probably stay more blocky Power Rangers/Transformers style for GCPS, and save the sleeker Gundam style for future Enforcers expansion.

 Baragash wrote:
I wonder if leaning into a more humanoid, head-above-the-shoulders look would have been better to avoid comparisons to Battletech and 40k?

Battletech have so very many different aesthetics that anything mech like could be said to draw comparisons with it.

I mean... this is Battletech



...but so are these



...just without getting ourselves into the whole "Unseens" kerfuffle.

no matter what the design will be, it will always be similar to an existing design in the basic shapes simply because we have already seen everything
it is just what is more similar to the people interested in EWP that will be called out
be it Gundam, Battletech, Titanicus or Avatar

 Baragash wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:
You mean like a Gundam or EVA?

Lol, I thought someone might respond with Gundam, or perhaps mention Pacific Rim.

Well yes, but at least those are things which don't necessarily have the same presence or footprint within the wargaming market. Though I'd probably stay more blocky Power Rangers/Transformers style for GCPS, and save the sleeker Gundam style for future Enforcers expansion.

Ah see when I think pacific rim I mainly think of cherno alpha which is not quite "head on shoulders"

 pancakeonions wrote:
Beautiful art!

Does that first mech look any less of a Battletech mech? I'm not an expert there, but nearly all giant, bi-pedal walkers look like something from Battletech to me...

There's allot of Battletech style in both of those walkers.

The first one however reminds me most of Reaper CAV. Especially in the stance, bulk, blocky lines, and use of helicopter style cockpit.

I dont get mad at derivative mechs though.
It's hard to get around the influence of Battletech and the Macross, Dougram and Crusher Joe Mecha designs that made up most Battletech's early output. The designs are iconic enough to burn into designers heads and just diverse enough that it's difficult to design something without some similarities.

I got a surprise email this morning from MMF, letting me know that Deadzone was on their FronTiers crowdfunding service.

https://www.myminifactory.com/frontier/deadzone-2774

It looks like the strike teams are the formerly PVC, metal, and/or resin teams that have already been released via their Vaults subscription.

I think I'm going to back for the All Terrain tier, though. I have several unbuilt plastic sets, but there's always some tiles you want more of, and it'll be nice to be able to print to my needs going forward.

for now there is only 1 model exclusive to MMF (Blaine), everything else was either already in the Vault or will be

the terrain is exclusive to MMF and won't be available in the Vault at all

Got a mail from Mantic stating they need to close the Epic Warpath PM by the end of august, so I completed it...

Ended up with double Captain for all the factions plus all the STLs ^^

Latest update we got a full faction guide, playstyle and render preview

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZdjvEIDX6QFU4No_kAcK0qLKyejMSfke/view?usp=sharing

Low res preview:


Last day for pledge manager and late pledge is 1st September

 Albertorius wrote:
Got a mail from Mantic stating they need to close the Epic Warpath PM by the end of august, so I completed it...

Ended up with double Captain for all the factions plus all the STLs ^^

Good to meet you, fellow crazy person! :-)

I did double Captain for six factions, plus two of each of their Reinforcement Boxes in resin, plus acrylic token sets for two.

This year has been a real epiphany. I broke from GW, and have been so much happier. A big part of that was going hard on what really excited me in the hobby, not just what I felt bullied into playing because of the presence of prebuilt "community" (most of whom, locally, were toxic donkey-caves who actively made gaming feel like work).

My wife and I will focus our 2025 on Epic Warpath, and Ravaged Star, while happily keeping to ourselves, and rediscovering why we fell in love with miniature wargaming.

NewTruthNeomaxim wrote:



I did double Captain for six factions, plus two of each of their Reinforcement Boxes in resin, plus acrylic token sets for two.


My wife and I will focus our 2025 on Epic Warpath, and Ravaged Star, while happily keeping to ourselves, and rediscovering why we fell in love with miniature wargaming.

This was nice to read. I hope you two have a blast and many epic encounters.

 Shrapnelsmile wrote:


This was nice to read. I hope you two have a blast and many epic encounters.

Thanks. We really have increasingly felt our hobbies were becoming chores, and our decisions were being manipulated by bad actors, and even worse companies. Its very liberating to go, "Nah... we can decide what games would make us happy all by ourselves, thanks."

Mantic gets a lot of grief from some because their models aren't always A+++ top-tier... and yet they make games that almost universally play really well. They also have great folks at all levels of the company. Its VERY easy to support Mantic.

Epic Warpath is really taking off here

I went to a looot of effort to rally around 8 players (half of whom I trust to ever actually put models on the table)

But we were all of us deceived, for another playgroup was made.

An offshoot of our club who kinda retreated into isolation and only play Bloodbowl and Flames of War have jumped on board en masse, so somehow we have 15+ folks now pledging for the plastics and a near perfect spread of factions.

The fallout will be immense if the game is gak

 lord_blackfang wrote:


The fallout will be immense if the game is gak

I'd say we're safe from that. The very early rules document Mantic openly shared was already rock-solid. By all accounts, every beta test since just got better and better.

At least as of early rules, only morale seeming a bit underwhelming stood out as needing adjustments.

How much is the superheavy Maul Battleship likely to cost me at retail?


Sadly, this has been a terrible year for my hobbying, so I’m going to have to miss out on the late pledge and most of the game for a while.

MSRP on the superheavies is listed as 22,50 GBP (15 in the KS)

Plastic core set is 60 MSRP, 35 KS, so much more discounted.

Last call for the pledge manager and late pledges!

Big news today is that those printing at home (or proxying) can now get additional sprues of bases and not burn resin and screen time on flat discs.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/manticgames/warpath-the-game-of-epic-scale-sci-fi-warfare/posts/4184093

thx for that, might have missed it as I already finished my pledge

Also new picture for Enforcer and GCPS tanks and now I am considering adding them too

I ended up pledging for Veermyn, Nameless, Marauders and Forge Fathers. And I have three people piggybacking on my pledge for Enforcers, so Mantic might call social services on me.

Seems the December update never got posted here.

December Update - Rulebook & Miniatures Updates

Rulebook Update

The rulebook is out for translation. Once it comes back, it will be ready to have final pictures added, and then prepared for print!
Studio photography for the rulebook is also now in progress.

Miniatures Update

We are coming to the end of making the pre-production tweaks to our plastic models, and they will then be resubmitted to the factory for checking. The last few plastic models are also being finished, with any known fixes already accounted for.

Once the plastic pre-production work is finished, the last of the resin models can then be finished. They’ve been temporarily on pause while our studio team finalise all the plastic models ready for production and tooling.

In Summary

So, while we don't have any new pretty pictures for you this time, there's LOTS of important preparations being made for the next phase of bringing Epic Warpath to life. We'll be back in touch in early 2025, and will of course keep you in the loop throughout all the exciting developments coming up.

If they're doing model photography ahead of finalizing sprues, I'm guessing they ended up NOT enlarging the vehicles like they said they'd try.

I imagine they're able to get an early sprue for the photography?

EDIT. They addressed this.

On the question, tooling won't be until 2025. We're currently tweaking individual components for manufacturing prior to sprue layout of the final versions of each piece. At that point, we will know exactly how much space remains to increase the size of the vehicles where we'd love to do this. We'll definitely update everyone on this topic once we have the final layout!

given by the lead time of printed books and the sprues, there is a good chance that they are using 3D prints for any pictures made prior release (like even GW use 3D prints for pictures of their models)

Good point, although hopefully that doesn't mean the vehicles look very out of scale in the photos.

That's what I'm saying. Photography for book pictures (with 3d prints) will lock in the current, undersized vehicles.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
That's what I'm saying. Photography for book pictures (with 3d prints) will lock in the current, undersized vehicles.

It's a weird move, for sure, when they could just... take the photos when they lock down the sizes on the sprues. It's not like they want to give people the rulebook before the minis after all... and even if they wanted to, they could do it anyways, as production would still take a (probably long) while.

Kinda making me think they're gonna go "ah, well, sorry everyone but we actually couldn't embiggen the vehicles and keep the number of them the same on the sprues, so we didn't". I'm personally not very worried about it, but it could be a real issue for some people, if that turns out to be true.

I prefer scale fidelity in my games but im so detached and disconnected from the lore of the game that i probably wouldnt notice the vehicle scale was off if others didnt point it out