A swathe of new releases from Mantic are set to arrive in the last few months of this year.
Arriving on Pre-Order to complement the good starting range of Tomb Kings they dropped in the middle of August, a pair of elite Skeleton units - one for Revenants, i.e. Tomb Guard:
And (less useful for Warhammer Fantasy I know, but if you fancy proxying rules for them in friendly games then be my guest) Dead-Eye (literally) Crossbows:
Each of these gives you one of their Skeleton sprues plus resin upgrade parts to turn them into the specified unit. This is particularly handy for the Tomb Guard because the standard Skeleton sprue will also come with the shields that Tomb Guard get as standard in their profile. What with the Skeleton sprue also having hand weapons, the set makes it easy to build 10 Tomb Guard with either weapon option. Also the halberds are a great improvement on the original metal-plastic Hybrid ones, which had weapons with much bulkier heads that would have been too unwieldy to lift. The halberds on these new ones look much more the size of those used by the plastic GW Tomb Guard.
Next up,
@Lord-Marcus if you're still into Riftforged Orcs then they now have their own nightmare-inducing Giant model:
And their equivalent of an Orc Warboss on Wyvern:
In December, Mantic plan to reboot their Ogre line, with plastic models that are a huge improvement on their old ones:
The biggest flaw with their current Ogres is that while their torsos are suitably brawny, their hips and legs were stupidly small and scrawny, like an overenthusiastic bodybuilder that focuses on bulking out their upper body with their legs remaining normally-proportioned. The new one shown above certainly seems to correct that flaw, with bulky legs to match his bulky arms - if you'd rather have tough and hench Ogres, as opposed to the corpulent, slobbish GW ones, then this might be something that is worth you watching.
Plus, Sandborne Wyrmriders/Necropolis Knights for Empire of Dust!
I'll be most interested to see what medium these will be in, how much they will be and if there are enough weapon options to make all usable Necropolis Knight builds. Currently the One Page Rules ones are the ones to beat in terms of quality, availability and value for money, and Mantic will have to go a way to beat them.
Also next year Mantic aims to resurrect its Dark Elf line, the Twilight Kin, reinventing them to have a closer allegiance to their batshit-weird Nightstalkers faction:
If you want a Dark Elf army with an aesthetic that's a bit different to GW's, or if you like the Nightstalkers as a faction for Kings of War (and Warhammer Fantasy if you write some fan-made rules) and fancy giving them some traitor-elf assistance, then this will be of interest to you.
