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After a short hiatus, we’re glad to announce that the Mantic Podcast is alive and well – here’s episode 8, for your listening pleasure! Kick back, get out the paints or the tools, and let our soothing tones fill you with hobby excitement!

Here’s what we’re talking about…

Intro (00:00:00 to 00:08:50)

• Ben and James chat about what’s going on in the world of Mantic. Such as:
  • The Mantic overview – what’s been happening, and what’s coming soon!
  • DreadBall! Season 2 has shipped to Kickstarter backers, and is now shipping to everyone else
  • The Mantic Open Day – It was a huge success and we found our first ManticBowl champion in Rich Jones
  • Kings of War! We’re gearing up for a massive summer…

Deadzone (00:08:50 to 00:49:55)

• Ben collars Ronnie and Jake to talk about Deadzone, Mantic’s latest Kickstarter success. Among the many topics they discuss are:
  • What Deadzone’s all about.
  • Another crazy Kickstarter success, even bigger than DreadBall!
  • Terrain… lovely, lovely plastic terrain.
  • What’s next for Deadzone.
  • What it means for the future of Warpath…
  • How people can get involved! (Hint: it involves going to the Kickstarter page!)

Kings Of War (00:49:55 to 1:00:00)

• Ronnie and Ben talk about the incoming ‘Summer of Kings of War’ and what can be expected from the next few months of everyone’s favourite fast-paced fantasy battle wargame…
  • Summer of Kings of War – three months of amazing new releases!
  • Basileans, Ogres, new units for existing armies.
  • Expansion books, Kings and Legends and Basilea.
  • What to look forward to in the next podcast!

You can listen to the Podcast by clicking below, or keep it forever (or transfer it to an MP3 player!) it by right clicking the “Download” link and choosing the “Save link” option.

Please support Deadzone on Kickstarter!

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Here’s our new Community Manager James to give you a rundown of what’s happening in the world of Mantic!

He’ll be appearing in a lot more of our videos, including a special project we’re working on… Keep watching this space!

Whatever are they up to…?

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Ronnie talks Mantic Open Day – a fun-filled day of gaming on the 11th May in Nottingham!

Open Day Tickets:

- Open Day Single Ticket

- Open Day Group/Family Ticket

- Open Day ManticBowl DreadBall Tournament

- Open Day Golem Painting Studio Seminar

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It’s been a wild ride but with over 600 backers pledging their support to the cause, the LOKA Kickstarter has blown away all of our expectations.

The Air and Ice Chess Sets were not possible without your backing

Not only have we been able to fund tooling for all four chess sets, we’ve added new scenery tiles to the game, a dice combat system, a double-sided multiplayer board and a heap of models to get you gaming the LOKA way.

We’re now into the last weekend and we’ve updated the front page to simplify the way you go about picking your pledge, with the introduction of three new guides:

- Basic Guide to the LOKA Kickstarter

- Pledge Level Guide

- Add-on Guide

Fire faces off against Earth

Stretch Goals
We’re currently funding a whole host of goodness for the game – and a heap of freebies for your pledge:

$80,000 – A LOKA Campaign System, Map and Markers!

$85,000 – 8 Brand new pieces of Scenery for your LOKA game!

For the full details of what you get at which level, check out our Stretch Goals Guide.

But it doesn’t end there – oh no. We’ll keep posting up Stretch Goals if you keep knocking them over!

New Kickstarter Add-ons!
As it’s the last weekend, we’ve saved some special add-ons for the final push…

Premium Elemental LOKA Game Board
These Elemental themed LOKA Game Boards are made of premium metal and come in four varieties:

Of course, if you want your own customised art on one of these incredible boards, check out the King pledges.

Finally, as a special treat for the last weekend, we’ve also got a new fun add-on.

At $85,000 we’re currently funding all-new scenery tiles for the game, including the Temple of the Fifth Element – and we thought it’d be fun to have a unique Kickstarter Exclusive Queen Model to go with it!

Queen of the Fifth Element

This brand new model is exclusive to the Kickstarter Campaign so don’t miss out on your chance to get this funky new piece – you can even buy multiples if you want!

Don’t forget that you can pledge for it even if you don’t want any of the items on the Kickstarter – just pledge $12 + shipping and select No Reward.

Please support LOKA this FINAL weekend on Kickstarter – we’d appreciate any support you can give us!

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The LOKA Kickstarter has hit the $60,000 stretch – and that means the Air Chess Set is in!

We’ve also added Air-themed add-ons, including the Air Paint Set and Upgrade Pack, allowing you to add additional Air elemental figures to your pledge.

Next up: $65K - we’re adding Faction Powers to the rulebook as well as a Faction Powers Card Deck and Polyhedral Dice to Bishop ($50) and up!

There is still plenty of time to go until the end of this campaign – please pledge and help support LOKA on Kickstarter and get yourself a fantastic fantasy game and a beautiful chess set to boot!

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Bit of exciting news for you today that we just couldn’t wait to tell you about!

We are pleased to be working with Alessio Cavatore on River Horse’s new game – Loka: The World of Fantasy Chess, coming soon!

Loka is a new fantasy chess-wargame with elemental chess armies, fantastical terrain and a simple combat system to resolve the fights between the pieces based on mutual support and rolling polyhedral dice.

The Queen of Air Army

River Horse has designed the game, from the rules to the fantasy chess sets based on the four elements: Air/Wind, Earth/Wood, Fire/Lava and Water/Ice, sculpted by Wojchiek Flis. These figures are designed for plastic production and are clearly identifiable as the Chess Pieces they represent.

A Pawn of the Earth Army

Mantic Games will be publishing the game, handling all of the manufacturing and distribution leaving the Mantic Design Studio free to complete the Kings of War and DreadBall Kickstarter models.

Everything you need to know about Loka: The World of Fantasy Chess will be revealed later this week – don’t miss it!

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Earlier last year we took on a cool range of Gamers T-shirts from that fashionable chap at Toyz N The Hood. Always keen to talk about their tees, they fired over this article…

Make sure you’re at the top of your game with a Toyz N The Hood shirt. When you buy a Toyz N The Hood shirt you can be assured that you’re getting the very best gaming shirt money can buy. Hundreds of games have been played in these shirts to make sure that they can fit all your gaming needs. They’ve been extensively tested and pushed to the limits to make sure that they won’t let you down even when your dice do…

But how do they this?

Simple yet subtle – your gaming friends will appreciate the humour of our designs but you can still wear them to the in-laws.

Discharge Print – the shirts are screen printed with a discharge print. This lightly bleaches the colour of the shirt and creates a much softer and long-lasting print than other printing methods. The distressed look this creates is also very trendy don’t you know.

Fitted – Our shirts are fitted, they create a much more fashionable and flattering look than plain t-shirts. Make sure you’re the best looking guy in the bar for the post-game drinks.

Cotton – Our t-shirts are made from cotton which means they are breathable and also stretch. Perfect for keeping you comfortable through an entire day of Dreadball.

Short Sleeves – You don’t want to worry about miniatures getting caught on shirt sleeves when you play games and you don’t want the extra weight to slow down your dice rolls. Not when all you need is a six to get to the touch zone.

Easy to wash – These shirts go in the washing machine. It’s the white thing in the kitchen that’s not a fridge.

Renewable and sustainable – Cotton is a renewable and sustainable resource and while your Toyz N The Hood shirt will see you through many, many games and when the time comes to let it go you can be assured that it is biodegradable.

Toyz N The Hood T-Shirts can now be ordered from the Mantic Website – get yours here!

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by Chris Webb

In anticipation of great things for Warpath this year I kicked off a
Forge Father army. I want my units of Steel Warriors to look
uniform – so they’re all based on the helmeted plastic Warrior and
cloaked legs. The Thane is picked out with a pieces from the Dwarf
sprue – a pair of helmet wings, a trusty Cyberpug and a mug of beer.
The Mjolnir rocket launcher had its head carved away and replaced with
a plastic one as it’s important that the whole unit matches. My next
unit of Steel Warriors will all have the metal helmets from the
upgrade pack.

I chose the orange and light grey scheme to emphasise the science
fiction nature of the models. It’s very easy to make space dwarfs
look like normal dwarfs by choosing metallic colours or earthy greens
and browns. I wanted people’s first impression of the army to be
“Clone Troopers! Oh, aren’t they a little too short for a Clone
Trooper?” rather than “Rustic fantasy dwarfs, but with lasers!?”

With the infantry done I wanted an Iron Ancestor. I’ve painted two
studio copies for Mantic, and was dying to keep one. I bulked out the
base with bark and spare Mantic skulls to make the model look more
imposing. I’m working on a tin foil banner to give the model even
more height, and also let me design some iconography. I want the army
to have squad markings, campaign badges and personal heraldry in time.

What’s next for the army? First, they need a Huscarl to lead them.
I’m using a spare DreadBall Guard converted with the Huscarl
six-shooter – I did have aspirations of expanding my actual DreadBall
team with this bonus Guard model but my last league match saw five
players killed by a combination of Payback and Buzzcut. Then I’d like
a whole section of Stormrage Veterans converted with matching helmets.

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Darren Lysenko’s Starkiron Tony is currently being auctioned on Ebay for the Heroes For Heroes charity painting event. All money goes to ‘Help For Heroes’, a British charity looking after wounded soldiers here in the UK.

If you want to bid on him, click here:

It’s a great miniature and a great cause – please Share this link with everyone you know!

Go on, you know you want to…

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