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Mantic Open day (post event)

Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby mattjgilbert » Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:52 pm

I'm downloading pictures now and will check through them before making them available somewhere.

I'll also write up all the rumours and news then too (unless the others beat me to it as replies to this thread).

Baragash, Stunty and Red Devil... Andy and I missed all of you to say good bye (I think we've managed to do that before!). It was good to see you all.
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby Stunty » Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:22 pm

I thought I'd leave the write up to you ;)
I was last person to leave was chatting to Jake for quite a while..
Ended up buying both Dwarf kings hold games :)

good seeing everyone again
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby mattjgilbert » Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:43 pm

Here are the pictures.
https://skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?ci ... 9B9322!214

I'll do a write up tomorrow
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby killmaimburn » Sun Jul 10, 2011 7:43 am

So chalice of blood dark elf with mini scythe is for which army?
Loving some of those models...
Dragons coming in as a new heavy/fa slot thing, like the hooded skelly bobs with scythes.
(ebay is winning me over to buying a shed load of chariots..)
Dwarfs hold=cheap SH? Why do we have no batreps on it?
All looks awesome..
Rumours neeoow.
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby Stunty » Sun Jul 10, 2011 8:12 am

well it was Abyssal Elves but Ronnie took a vote in the seminar and almost everyone voted for Twilight Kin instead so think its that now.
I would say you could play my copy of dwarf kings but I think we've been trying to meet up for about 6 months lol
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby mattjgilbert » Sun Jul 10, 2011 8:49 am

Warpath

The first 8 races will be:

Forgefarthers - Dwarfs
Marauders - Orx (Neutral)
Zor’s – Bug Race (but will have the technology to build machines/vehicles)
Plague – Zombie Race (think nasty virus spreading across the galaxy turning everything into zombies - released by the corporation by accident)
Rebels – Mixed Race against the Corporation (Good). Gives you the ability to put many alien units together in the same army.
Corporation – Human Race (Evil). Will be pure human.
"Dark Elves"
8th Race – Running joke that "We don't talk about the 8th race"

The "8th race" might be the 4th to be released after the FF, Maruaders and the Corporation.

Marauders out first. Later will come a boxed starter set with:
15 Forgefathers + vehicle
40 Maruaders + vehicle

We saw resin masters of 3 FF models are they really are as good as the concept drawings. We saw pictures of the 2 vehicle for the starter set too.


Alessio wrote up the background first before doing any rules as he feels making a set of rules for an already developed or planned out background make them feel more real.
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby mattjgilbert » Sun Jul 10, 2011 8:58 am

Kings of War

New Rules update should be done in about a month with updated army lists for Elves, Dwarf’s and the Undead (about 10 new units each)
3 new armies will be Goblins, Humans and Twilight Kin
Total of about 100 new units being added to the game across the armies.

Next year the hardback (maybe softback) book will come out. This will be the core rules (which will always be available on their own to download for free) plus up to 20 pages of additional rules (magic, seige, mass battles were all mentioned as possible) plus then all the army lists in full with fluff, artwork and photos.

Magic. This will be fleshed out a fair bit. Ronnie mentioned heat (Abysall Dwarfs) and cold (Twilight Kin) and other elemental stuff (Elves). Demon units will come into the lists too (mirroring the heat/cold/elemental theme probably).

The elves will be expanded to encompass more of the classic elf archetype. The initial focus was on the more "haughty" elves but the army list will expand to cover "wood" elves so players can theme there armies better. There will not be a separate list though.
Ronnie was asked about making scenery and said they'd love to do that in the future. He got quite excited about the possibility of a castle set.
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby mattjgilbert » Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:08 am

Dwarf King's Hold

Green menace look good. We played the first scenario.

Game can go in 2 directions - either introducing Heroes to go dungeon crawling (like warhammer quest) or expand to cover all the mantic fantasy races in the similar way to the current games. They are still deciding.
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby Stunty » Sun Jul 10, 2011 9:41 am

thats why i let you do the write up :)
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby mattjgilbert » Sun Jul 10, 2011 7:23 pm

a little more warpath background info from gaarew

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showpost. ... tcount=385
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby Stunty » Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:54 pm

Matt your on the website ;)

www.manticblog.com/
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby Red Devil » Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:20 pm

Stunty wrote:Matt your on the website ;)

www.manticblog.com/


Congrats Matt!

Excellent write-up as well. All the major points I picked up on are covered off.

I cannot stress how good the ForgeFathers looked. I think this will be my army for Warpath. They will probably be to Mantic what the Space Marines are to GW, but hell - I'm on my 3rd SM army as it is!?

I also bought both Dwarf King Hold games. Green Menace looks good. Will be playing a few games Wednesday night with Sami at our local club. I'm sure one of us [Sami] will write up the reports...

I found what Ronnie had to say was very refreshing. Looking forward to a couple of exciting years ahead for Mantic...
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby mattjgilbert » Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:12 pm

Cheers guys. Next year I'll spend some time on entering more categories and not fluke a win with a dipped unit!
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby Stunty » Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:59 pm

Today on the blog theres pics of me and 2 other AoS guys can you spot them ;)
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Re: Mantic Open day (post event)

Postby Baragash » Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:09 pm

I think one of them deserves a little sweetner from Nige ;)
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