Other Wargames Manufacturers News: Mantic is determined to beat GW at selling something

Mantic is notorious for wanting to save money on tooling. If they already had the vehicles manufactured making separate bits for them in resin I said upgrade pack makes more financial sense.

I haven't built any of them in a while however if they are multiple frames, at 12k a frame minimum.....

 

Only a few weeks after GeeDubs announced their impending failure of an Epic-Scale miniatures game, The Horus Heresy: Legions Imperialis, Mantic have announced an Epic-Scale reinvention of their original sci-fi game, Warpath. From what I've heard the original Warpath game was always meant to be a mass-battles game as it involved mounting miniatures on 'team bases' very much like GW's attempt at reviving Apocalypse in 8th Edition 40K, though was hampered at the time because the miniatures it had to work with were 28mm. Now that Mantic have changed the 28mm iteration of Warpath into Firefight, a game more like 40K with units having much more freedom of coherency and so on, they're free to restore the original game at a scale it will work a lot better with.

And in this Epic Scale game, Xenos races are allowed, with no factions being shitted on, so I can see this battle becoming a little victory for Mantic here, especially given GW will likely get bored with Legions Imperialis after a while when they find they can't release any more models for it because of their self-imposed limited Horus Heresy setting and they've broken the rules in a hundred places.

Also it's interesting to notice how the Mantic Epic-Scale models (at least the Strider walker) look more detailed than their 28mm counterparts - sounds like they're really trying to up their game now.

 

They have announced that they are thinking about it. From what I've seen it's also going to be 8 mm versus 10 mm or 15. Which I think is a mistake.

Honestly if any of their games deserve to be made micro, it would be Kings of War since it's abstract and mass combat

 

https://mcdougalldesigns3d.com/collections/mantic-games-twilight-kin-2023

New twilight kin up for preorders. Pre-image embargo dropping with the consent of my sales representative.

Each listing has a section detailing what that particular code includes.

 

How on Earth have you found out what's coming before Mantic have even put their new Dark Elves up for pre-order on their own site?

 

I'm an independent retailer. We knew but there are embargos that drop before we can share

 

Hmm. I know you have to wait, as per contractual obligations, but how soon before pics can be posted so we know what these things are visually?

 

At this point, as soon as they are uploaded to the trade folders. Don't know when. I check daily.

 

I can't say more than this, but Mantic needs to get their house in order.

 

@NIGHTBRINGER

 

I wish I could like this twice.

Consider this a vote for this to become at least one hard plastic kit.

 

https://mcdougalldesigns3d.com/blogs/news/wargames-atlantic-restocks-and-les-grognard-cavalry-review

Wrote a review for the new plastic les Grognard Cavalry.

 

McDougall Designs is proud to announce the Skeleton chariots + Cavalry set from Wargames Atlantic is up for preorder on my webstore, along with a-la-carte sprues if you only need a few. Wargames Atlantic states late January release.
My standard 15% discount applies automatically at checkout for the full boxed set.
full box
https://mcdougalldesigns3d.com/products/wargames-atlantic-skeleton-chariots-and-cavalry-boxed-set
Chariot sprue
https://mcdougalldesigns3d.com/products/wargames-atlantic-skeleton-chariots-chariot-sprue-preorder
Cavalry Sprue
https://mcdougalldesigns3d.com/products/wargames-atlantic-skeleton-cavalry-sprue-preorder

 

so.. this happened this month.

https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/welcoming-max-to-wargames-atlantic

 

Congrats friend! Great stuff, well deserved!

 

Wait, you got hired on by Wargames Atlantic?!?

 

I've been working on contract with them for some time. This is an official title though.

While my position title is Digital Products Manager, I also have contributed historical research to plastics releases and digital releases. My name appears on some of their boxed sets in the credits section.

 

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Wargaming: You're doing it right.

 

That is so AWESOME. Good job @Lord-Marcus . Outside of the historical research, what other kinds of things are you going to be doing for company?

 

Again: I'm Digital Products Manager. You can read more about it in the article I linked above