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for now this is a average KS, we get monthly updates, expected delays but nothing that would indicate that something worse is behind the curtain

for the other point, with the current summer sales on games, Halo starter boxes are cheap to get now so if you just want to collect them, now is the time

and finding other people to play with is a general problem for all games (even with 40k, were the problem isn't to find someone but the right one to make it fun)

The issue for me that updates are basically happening… if you’re on Facebook or Discord.

That’s not cool. That’s the part that bothers me the most. Nobody should need to use either of these things or that they even exist in the first place.

Discord is where information goes to die.

You can’t find anything without already being a member and often joining a Discord server means dealing with a tyrannical admin who set it up on a whim.

Finding a game of 40K or AOS or Trench Crusade or Kill Team or even The Old World lately is easier than finding a single person who wants to play Firefight or Kings of War or KoW Champions, etc.

the official updates still happen on KS on a monthly basis

facebook, youtube and discord are people talking who know more or are to some part involved talk about it

and I am not going into the meme of the discord mods as the pure evil
you can find a toxic community everywhere and you don't need to join them, yet none of the discord servers I am on have such a problem or have I ever encountered a tyrannical admin

If monthly updates are the norm then fine. It has been a long time since I backed a Mantic non-board game or non-terraincrate project. I think the last one was Warpath as I seem determined to play this game in some form.

An issue with Discord is that you can't tell if they're going to be toxic before you join because there's no transparency. The rise of Discord is largely responsible for my lack of playing games outside of an official Warhammer store because the stores can't have a Discord server.

Just got a new HALO email, btw.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Just got a new HALO email, btw.

Those are like clockwork.

Annoying, a bit unbearable clockwork.

I'm of a mind to unsubscribe altogether from Mantic lists, seeing as I don't have a way of telling them I'm not interested in Halo or Champions, not even a little bit.

Their new thing is to get people to subscribe to the newsletter by offering a PDF of the Halo rules.

I share the same sentiment about the emails. They’re not very engaging if they’re only about Halo.

That’s three Halo emails in a row.

I’m really into Champions. I’ve painted everything released for it so far.

I'm surprised they have a dedicated Kickstarter Manager to be honest. I can only presume they are part time, or pick up KS Manager Duties a couple of hours a month on top of whatever else they are doing.


There are some really easy wins for Mantic here, based on the content of previous updates.

April:

They're printing loads of Support units. Let's see them then!

Updated Faction Guides are coming. Let's see them!

June:

The Full PDF rulebook is implied to be ready to be shared closer to delivery. Let's see some of it!


Maybe I'm guilty of what I often see others doing - holding mantic to different standards than other companies. I have only ever had excellent KS experiences with them (Hellboy and DSO).

There used to be a commenter on here that would be in every Mantic KS thread raging at the Mantic Marketing Machine (which at the time was just my mate Mart!) for tricking gullible idiots in to backing Mantic campaigns by hyping the product. We never knew how good we had it

I don't know what else their KS manager is doing but like this year there are 4 KS (Epic, Calendars, Assassin's Creed, Ghost in the Shell) that need to take care of including handling comments/complains and the pledge managers

And said guy was on holiday the last weeks

Unboxing video of the Rise of the Banished for Halo is out.

Look at the size of those minis!

https://youtu.be/0c-wIf4amwg

 kodos wrote:

I don't know what else their KS manager is doing but like this year there are 4 KS (Epic, Calendars, Assassin's Creed, Ghost in the Shell) that need to take care of including handling comments/complains and the pledge managers

And said guy was on holiday the last weeks

just to start - The lack of content isn't the KS lads fault, I know. My implying they're part time was a stupid thing to comment.

Pledge managers for the Calendars and Epic are in, AC* and GITS are not active campaigns yet. The only thing I can find about Ghost in the Shell is a fan group Facebook post from last November

You are doing a very noble job of supporting them and it is to be admired while many of us are feeling more and more disillusioned, but I feel that you are willfully missing the point I and others are making - there is plenty they can be doing to update us, and keep hype and interest rolling. 1 faction preview every 2 weeks would buy them 4 months of good graces.

(*Well I can't find out much about this because the Mantic page I'm trying to look at has pop up for the free Halo rules that I can't close without signing up to the newsletter. KS page says Launching Soon)

Ultimately it is a bit of a silly thing to be getting wound up about. I'll probably drop out of the tread until the next update. Keep the positivity rolling Kodos!

 Tabletop_Magpie wrote:
1 faction preview every 2 weeks would buy them 4 months of good graces.

You have a way with words that bears repeating

lord_blackfang
Imagine if instead of radio silence we had 1 faction focus - that were promised 2 months ago - every 2 weeks. You'd still have 2 months of grace left over right now.

Cleric
We have a whole marketing schedule planned for EWP once it gets closer to retail release. As for the KS, an update will be out later today, and that will have more than enough to keep you all busy until you get your pledges in the post.

Quite a while ago, we were shown this...
Have any other factions been covered?

 kodos wrote:
I don't know what else their KS manager is doing but like this year there are 4 KS (Epic, Calendars, Assassin's Creed, Ghost in the Shell) that need to take care of including handling comments/complains and the pledge managers

And said guy was on holiday the last weeks

I didn't know they were covering Ghost in the Shell! Do when know what format the game will take? Is it another board game like Assassins Creed?

There was a KS update today for Epic Warpath. Our long national nightmare is over.

Quick overview: Shipping is being set to August. The rulebook is available to download in five different languages.

Edit: Tried downloading the English vesion of the rulebook and the link goes to a pdf of Halo Flashpoint rulebook instead. So there is that.

The free PDF link is... to the HALO rulebook. We've been rick rolled, lads.

edit - it's been fixed

If you look in the comments you’ll find a post from me with a reply from myself with a link to the real PDF.

I don't think they were expecting us to jump on the link right away ha haa

Why no, I'm not busy today how did you guess?!

 mattl wrote:
If you look in the comments you’ll find a post from me with a reply from myself with a link to the real PDF.

After posting I went to check the KS comments and post about it if it hadn't already been brought up. I saw the link but assumed it was a trick to get us the Mantic OnlyFans page and I'm not falling for that again.

It's a limited time addition to Mantic's free downloads section, so presumably anyone with an account on Mantic's website can go and grab the download from here when logged in:

https://www.manticgames.com/my-account/downloads/

Great rulebook, and I'm really liking the artwork, very nice of Mantic to get the .pdf out there, gives me time to read through and learn before the minis arrive.

I think I had to add it to my account via the freebie item on their store as I’ve done that for all the languages now and they all appear on that page now.

Excellent news! Have grabbed hold of the rulebook, will spend some time over the next few days having a read through.

Nice format message as well, very concilliatory and included quite a lot of info.

+Update+ Its already surpassed Legions Imperialis by page 2, as it has included both artwork and the names of the people who made the thing


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Another plus point by page 5; normal table size rather than a purposefully wanky 5 x 4

Normal table sizes make sense. Mantic sells lots of neoprene mats for playing on in both GW and non GW sizes.

 Pacific wrote:
Excellent news! Have grabbed hold of the rulebook, will spend some time over the next few days having a read through.

Nice format message as well, very concilliatory and included quite a lot of info.

+Update+ Its already surpassed Legions Imperialis by page 2, as it has included both artwork and the names of the people who made the thing


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Another plus point by page 5; normal table size rather than a purposefully wanky 5 x 4

Any other site for downloading it? a Halo banner fills the whole screen and won't go away...

Yeah the irony of not being able to download it because of the giant halo ad really made me smile yesterday.

This link worked for me https://www.manticgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/MGEWM101-Epic-Warpath-Rulebook-EN.pdf

SU-152 wrote:


Any other site for downloading it? a Halo banner fills the whole screen and won't go away...

If you log in and go to the Downloads section it's available there near the bottom.

Loopstah wrote:

SU-152 wrote:


Any other site for downloading it? a Halo banner fills the whole screen and won't go away...

If you log in and go to the Downloads section it's available there near the bottom.

I think Loopstah means that you cannot bypass the Halo ad without agreeing to sign up to the news letter. not even to log in.

It happened to me on my laptop yesterday to while looking for some information to support a reply to Kodos, and on my phone the evening before (can't think what I was looking for then though!)

The Epic Warpath sprues I ordered from Troublemakers KS have arrived - just the one sprue design in an off white - I've pictured both sides. Nice level of detail on them and they are the same size and have the same connections as their other sprues so no issue mixing and matching panels. Will give me something to work on in advance.

cheers Dave, that's a tasty looking little sprue!

You should be able to mark the Halo pop up as an ad with your ad blocker of choice and hide it that way. I did that the first time it popped up as it didn’t immediately close when I hit Escape.