Mantic has featured in its first ever Comic!
Curis the writer met our Chris at Britcon, a trade event we attended. They spent a while chatting, specifically about our up and coming game, and it looks like Chris inspired this piece of work, as he takes a starring role:
Curis’s satire comics are always a good laugh, which cover a wide range of topical wargaming issues. To see any more of his work check out his website:
By now you should all know that Mantic is releasing it’s own ruleset to use with it’s ever expanding range of fantasy battle miniatures (did we mention there’s a Zombie Week just around the corner?) and we’re looking for your help and feedback on making it the best fantasy game out there with our public beta!
Here’s Ronnie to tell you more:
The public beta is accessible through this weeks newsletter, so if you or your friends want to participate, make sure you sign up to the newsletter now – those of you already signed up are already eligible for the beta.
The Fantasy Battleset comes ready packed with the rules to supplement the heap of plastic models included in the set
Of course by now we all know the Cunning Plan that Ronnie and Mantic developed to ensnare Alessio but the Kings of War ruleset – exactly what’s it about? Alessio spilled the beans in a recent* interview with Beasts of War:
* note, as stipulated during the video specific rules may have changed between filming and the copy of the rules you’ll get in your hands!
So, public beta this weekend and you’ll need to be signed up to the newsletter to get it – who’s excited? Drop us a comment below!
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!
So we’ve all seen the beautiful paintjob Andrew Wedmore did on the Berserker Lord by now and, well, he’s got a few new mates to “play” with!
With the last of the core Dwarf plastic sets released last week (culminating in the mighty Dwarf Warhost), we’re looking ahead to September which, alongside the breathtaking new plastic Zombies, see’s the Dwarf King’s Counsel and Dwarf Berserker sets unleashed. Mantic is all about big armies of course so we’ve added two new Troop sets to our website to expand on the Berserker (available to pre-order) and Ironguard (now available to order) sets which lets you add an extra rank of these beautiful sculpts without having to worry about the command bits!
With our trusty journal team in last week and some really cool photography taking place, we couldn’t but help ourselves so got our photographer to take some snaps of these elite metal units. Check out the thumbnails and click to see more!
Berserkers and Ironguard aren’t the only units we’ve had painted and photographed however – wait until you see the Dwarf army for Journal 2!
As always, drop us your comments below.
Ronnie talks about a little about the upcoming game and the competition to win 80 white dwarfs.
To sign-up to win 80 Free White Dwarfs, follow this link here!
Ronnie is on a plane as we speak to this year’s GenCon event. Bigger, better and badder than ever, GenCon is touted as the best four days in the gaming calender, and Ronnie and Jim will be at stand 1415 and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen him leave with a Zombie three-up and some masters of new sculpts as well as a head brimming full of ways to divulge our release schedule for the rest of the year (again).
Painted by Chris Straw
The guys will be there with some pre-release stock and all in all to talk all things hobby. Whilst we won’t have a set of rules to demo yet, both of these guys will be available to talk too about the new rules, what you like (or don’t like) about what you’ve heard so far and any cool ideas you’d like to see get implemented. And of course to wax lyrical about how super our new dwarfs are looking of course!
So, after last week’s Cunning Plan (check out Episodes 1-3 here) not everyone agreed with Mantic’s version of events.
Some say it went more like this…
So, us lesser lackey’s in the office are now baffled as to which events actually happened – which do you think was likely?
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:
In our first blog of today (Part 5 of Zombie week coming this afternoon!) Ronnie shows us how he persuades new found talent to sign a contract…….
In our first blog of the day (Part 4 of Zombie week coming this afternoon!) Ronnie demonstrates his preferred method of head-hunting new talent…….