Mantic Games

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- New Army Deals!
- Free shipping!
- Free clippers and bags

It is a holiday weekend here in the UK, so we have gone more than a little crazy! This weekend, through to midnight on Monday, we have free shipping on all orders, in additon to celebrate this bank holiday weekend we are re-introducing an old favourite for you. This is a great offer:

When you spend £25/€35/$50 or more you will receive a free pair of Mantic clippers.

When you spend £50/€75/$100 or more you will receive a free Mantic bag.

When you spend £75/€100/$135 or more you will receive a free Mantic bag and a pair of clippers.

(valid Friday 27^th until midnight (GMT) Monday 30^th of August)

we have also put up 3 brilliant new army deals to allow you to get your hands on that huge army you have always wanted!

To claim free shipping use the code - HOLIDAY005

Click through and enjoy…

2 Comments | In: Dwarfs, Elves, Events, Hobby, Kings of War, Undead | | #

As we are fast approaching the release of our fantastic new Zombie miniatures what better way to celebrate than by not only releasing the Zombie Regiment and Zombie Horde boxed-set, but creating a brand new Army Deal!

Malak’s Endless Hordes is a great way to start your own undead army, or to expand your current force, all for only £99/€124.95/$179.99.

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Included in this set:

• 1 x FREE Revenant King

• 1 x FREE Male Necromancer

• 1 x FREE Female Necromancer

• 1 x FREE Undead Standard Bearer

• 2 x Undead Skeleton Regiment (40 Figures with Command Group)

• 2 x Undead Revenant Regiment (40 Figures with Command Group)

• 4 x Undead Ghoul Troops (40 Figures)

• 2 x Balefire Catapult with Crew

• 1 x Zombie Horde (60 Figures)

• Undead Poster Guide and Sticker Sheets

• 18 Mantic Points

• Square Bases (20mm)

• Mantic Carry Cases with Protective Foam

That is an incredible 190 figures!

This army deal is currently only available to pre-order but it will be shipping out first thing on the 24th September 2010. So you should pre-order your set now, as we will be running this deal for a limited time, so you really don’t want to miss out!

4 Comments | In: Kings of War, Undead | | #

So Kings of War fever continues in force culminating last night in the greatest battle the world has ever seen – the Battle of the Interns!

Ok, so not that great, but after Chris’ thumping at Maelstrom’s fantasy tournament a few months back we thought we’d give him a chance to redeem himself against our new intern, knowing he wouldn’t let us down…

… how wrong we were!

Chris lost his first game of KoW to Josh, Rankings HQ number 1 40K player and generally all-round beardy power gamer.

Wonder how this turned out...

Of course, this doesn’t compare to Ronnie’s epic record of 2 epic losses, but still, it’s character building ain’t it?

After their first taste of the game both guys are now adding new units to their armies – Josh is adding more Revenants to his horde and both players are eagerly looking forward to the new army deals that are being put up on the website at the end of the week. With even greater value and lots of cool stuff in them (including the Zombies!!!), keep your eye of the blog and the newsletter for all the latest goss! Until then, why not check out what units you could add to your existing armies and let’s get preparing for the public beta.

Until then, I’m off to try and knock the interns down a peg or two – until tomorrow!

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We here at Mantic are in the process of updating our Galleries on the website.

We have had some brilliant submissions sent to us, such as these:

To see the rest of the fantastic images we have been sent just take a look at our gallery:

http://www.manticgames.com/Hobby/Galleries.html

If anyone has any more pictures of our miniatures that you have painted up we would love to see them, and we will find a great home for them in the Gallery.

3 Comments | In: Dwarfs, Elves, Hobby, Painting, Undead | | #

We at Mantic Games were so excited last night!

Alessio Cavatore dropped in to show us the first draft version of our up and coming rules set. We just had to play!

Ronnie and Mat played the first ever Kings of War game, and both enjoyed it immensely. The rules are very much still in the Alpha testing stage, but the rules flowed well leading to an exciting, tense game, with Mat emerging victorious, and Ronnie bitter in defeat.

Here are a few pictures taken during the game:

The beta rules will be availble for free download soon!

So keep watching the blog and newsletter for all of the updates.

16 Comments | In: Elves, Gaming, Hobby, Undead | | #

So far this weekend Beasts of War have added eight – count them, that’s 8! – new Mantic videos to their website, and the fun doesn’t stop there as they have even more new content being added today!

We’re not going to tell you what’s coming up today however, you’ll have to keep a beady eye of the BoW site but I can tell you if it anything like the other videos they’ve been putting out, you wouldn’t want to miss out!

Here’s a little taster of what’s been on so far:

5 Comments | In: Beasts of War, Concept Sculpting, Kings of War, Undead, Video | | #

The day is finally here, the Undead Zombie Regiment and the Undead Zombie Horde are available for pre-order today!

And to celebrate here is a stunning example of just how good our Zombies look when they are painted… and this is only a three-up!:

Painted by Chris Straw

Drop us a comment below – let us know what you think!

11 Comments | In: Hobby, Kings of War, Painting, Undead | | #

Today here at Mantic we are all really excited as we get to show you your first real look at the 3-ups for our new Zombie set. Ronnie just couldn’t wait to share his thoughts with you.

8 Comments | In: Concept Sculpting, Kings of War, Undead, Video | | #

“Isn’t it funny how sometimes you feel as if you’ve got it right – hit the nail on the head etc..

I with the rest of Mantic have noticed that there has been considerable comment on the Web regarding our Ghouls – you have been kind enough to give us lots of positive feedback on those models (we love ‘em too!)

One issue that kept arising was the notion that our Ghouls were a little too ‘aware’ as undead – possibly too aware to be good zombie figures.

Well . . .   .       .                 .                           .

That’s just what we had thought too! We knew that in the undead pantheon that ghouls occupy a specific place in our fantasy wargames mythos ie they are the human guys who run about in a flesh crazed frenzy, rabid for the blood of the enemy.

Now Zombies – they are different. Necromantically raised from the ground, these are once dead bodies shamble across the battlefield, puppets of their evil master, their bodies in varying states of decay and disassembly.

So in making our Mantic Zombies we deliberately took into account our Ghouls – the Zombie models are designed to crossfit with the Ghouls giving you even more variety in your undead horde.

Again we’ve had a bit of ‘ManticFun’ – we have included a base which allows you to model a Zombie without legs – this little piece is similar in design to the ‘emerging skeleton’ base in our Skeleton warriors and Revenants sets. Of course we’ve also added a couple more little touches that we think you’ll appreciate…!

Bob”

ED: We’re bursting with excitement at the moment at the thought of Zombies (maybe there’s something wrong with us?) so couldn’t resist giving you a little sneak peak at some of the early work-in-progress sculpts that Bob kindly photographed! Check back for more tomorrow!

From the Sculptor's Table

9 Comments | In: Artwork & Concept, Concept Sculpting, Concept Sketches, Kings of War, Undead | | #