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http://www.manticgames.com/
Does anyone here play any of the games made by Mantic? They're a company of Games Workshop refugees pushed out by the rotten corporate culture over the years; they started out making very low cost alternative miniatures for Warhammer 40k and Warhammer fantasy, but have grown in recent years thanks to Kickstarter. Now they have:
Kings of War: A fantasy mass battle miniatures wargame that has better (and free) rules, and significantly cheaper minis than Warhammer while allowing people to bring their Warhammer armies over and just proxy with them, currently nailing down the coffin lid on the GW game worldwide as Warmachine and Hordes dig the grave.
Warpath: A direct scifi competitor to Warhammer 40k, it's still in early stages but is coming out with two exciting new rules (one for company sized battles, one for mass apocalypse-esque battles) next month for playtesting, leading up to a massive Kickstarter campaign next year.
Dreadball: A sports boardgame, scifi hockey meets basketball in the Warpath fictional universe carrying on the torch GW dropped with Bloodbowl but not merely the same game reborn. Dreadball Xtreme is a more violent version in development, featuring teams playing in a league run by crime bosses where the only rules are "win or die"
Deadzone: The new skirmish game, it's a hybrid of a skirmish wargame and a boardgame that dispenses with the nerdy tape measures in favour of a simple 3 dimensional grid with modular plastic terrain, it exploded on kickstarter and is really killing it right now. It's meant to be a lead in to Warpath, enticing you to buy further in as the Deadzone minis can be used in the Warpath game proper.
Mars Attacks!: This is a licensed game, taking the Topps property that the movie was based on, and applying it to a simplified version of the Deadzone rules. It's not out until September, but it's already sold more than any other game they've made thanks to huge preorders from distributors that should see the box in your local game store, if not on the shelves of department stores.
(minis do not come prepainted)
Dungeon Saga - Dwarf King's Quest: The first proper boardgame Mantic made was a neat little dungeon crawler called Dwarf King's Hold, which had a further 2 expansions. It was fun, but limited and not great quality of components. In a week, what was originally called Dwarf King's Hold 4 is launching on Kickstarter as the first part of a series of dungeon crawling sagas, with a basic game, a special section with rules to let you make your own RPG-esque campaigns with full stat lines for every fantasy mini in their range, character advancement, brand new minis, and plastic scatter terrain. This game is basically HeroQuest and Warhammerquest updated, improved and reborn.
Exciting times for Mantic; exciting for gamers too, as they're basically picking up the legacy of all the fun small games GW used to make before inexplicably dropping them. Funnily enough, I have most of those games! Not had a lot of opportunity to play many of them yet though, and still working on assembling Warpath and Kings of War armies.
Does anyone here play any of the games made by Mantic? They're a company of Games Workshop refugees pushed out by the rotten corporate culture over the years; they started out making very low cost alternative miniatures for Warhammer 40k and Warhammer fantasy, but have grown in recent years thanks to Kickstarter. Now they have:
Kings of War: A fantasy mass battle miniatures wargame that has better (and free) rules, and significantly cheaper minis than Warhammer while allowing people to bring their Warhammer armies over and just proxy with them, currently nailing down the coffin lid on the GW game worldwide as Warmachine and Hordes dig the grave.
Warpath: A direct scifi competitor to Warhammer 40k, it's still in early stages but is coming out with two exciting new rules (one for company sized battles, one for mass apocalypse-esque battles) next month for playtesting, leading up to a massive Kickstarter campaign next year.
Dreadball: A sports boardgame, scifi hockey meets basketball in the Warpath fictional universe carrying on the torch GW dropped with Bloodbowl but not merely the same game reborn. Dreadball Xtreme is a more violent version in development, featuring teams playing in a league run by crime bosses where the only rules are "win or die"
Deadzone: The new skirmish game, it's a hybrid of a skirmish wargame and a boardgame that dispenses with the nerdy tape measures in favour of a simple 3 dimensional grid with modular plastic terrain, it exploded on kickstarter and is really killing it right now. It's meant to be a lead in to Warpath, enticing you to buy further in as the Deadzone minis can be used in the Warpath game proper.
Mars Attacks!: This is a licensed game, taking the Topps property that the movie was based on, and applying it to a simplified version of the Deadzone rules. It's not out until September, but it's already sold more than any other game they've made thanks to huge preorders from distributors that should see the box in your local game store, if not on the shelves of department stores.
(minis do not come prepainted)
Dungeon Saga - Dwarf King's Quest: The first proper boardgame Mantic made was a neat little dungeon crawler called Dwarf King's Hold, which had a further 2 expansions. It was fun, but limited and not great quality of components. In a week, what was originally called Dwarf King's Hold 4 is launching on Kickstarter as the first part of a series of dungeon crawling sagas, with a basic game, a special section with rules to let you make your own RPG-esque campaigns with full stat lines for every fantasy mini in their range, character advancement, brand new minis, and plastic scatter terrain. This game is basically HeroQuest and Warhammerquest updated, improved and reborn.
Exciting times for Mantic; exciting for gamers too, as they're basically picking up the legacy of all the fun small games GW used to make before inexplicably dropping them. Funnily enough, I have most of those games! Not had a lot of opportunity to play many of them yet though, and still working on assembling Warpath and Kings of War armies.
