its also better than mantic's new offering, at 6 x $40 MSRP
Talking of which, we have the new Mantic plastic Ogre Warriors:
The sprue for which contains options for hand weapons and Ironfists/shields, Leadbelcher-style guns and great weapons, giving you options for Bulls (there are no hand weapon left arms for dual-hand-weapon Bulls, but you could convert the Great Weapons to make those), Leadbelchers, Ironguts, and Maneaters if you're willing to get the greenstuff out to give them some elements of interaction with foreigners they've experienced on their travels:
They also have released plastic Chariots that could be used to make budget Ironblasters and Scraplaunchers:
And a variant of the Warriors box with 'Siege-Breaker' upgrade bitz that could be used to make some seriously rock-hard Maneaters:
Though it's the main Ogre Warriors kit that you really want to make up most of your army.
These certainly fix the proportioning issues of the original Mantic models and actually make their Ogre option an appealing route to go down, and the ball-socket neck joint makes me wonder if I could use some spare Lizardman Cold One heads and some greenstuff tails to convert some Dragon-men for a fantasy Dark Ages unit I had in mind (I did also think Kroxigors for a minute but the bodies are not Aztec enough in their adornment). I do prefer these to the Wargames Atlantic ones because the faces seem to be sculpted better, don't look so squat and they weren't designed specially to appeal to a small but rabid group of Empire fanatics, are still slightly cheaper than GW's ones and give you pretty much everything you need to make any of the Ogre options in the Ogre Kingdoms army list, though they do lack some of the character in GW's kits, in that they don't have any Gnoblars hiding in crow's nest standards or straining to carry hunks of meat for their master, but those bitz could always be looted online or from bitz boxes in shops.
These join their recent Empire of Dust models to make a new Ogres vs Tomb Kings starter box for Kings of War:
Featuring 12 Ogres and a Tyrant/Bruiser vs a Tomb King, 40 Skeleton Warriors and 10 Horsemen/Horse Archers, it's a fair old price at £85 but it's still cheaper than GW's FOMO starter boxes by a long way (and gives you more models than the feeble 3-tier sets GW replace the big boxes with after a while).
Also I'm a bit disappointed to see that Mantic are now manufacturing their models in Poland, I always thought they had made theirs in the UK as GW, Warlord, North Star and Gripping Beast do (not to mention Fireforge which is all the more impressive given they're a foreign firm), but then Poland need all the help they can get given that they're sandwiched between the EU-controlling money-leech that is Germany on one side and Nazi Russia and its ally in Belarus on the other.
Plus, North Star are set to release another set of impressive Oathmark plastics, this time it's Goblin Slaves:
Containing suitably raggedy bodies, whips and arms with manacles and chains, I can see these having all sorts of uses, from the Oathmark game itself to Skavenslaves in a Skaven army (a prospect I'm considering given in particular that the kit comes with a lot of slings), Hobgoblins in a Chaos Dwarf army, or could even be converted into human slaves for Ancients, Medieval or fantasy, as the models all seem to wear wrappings on their feet which hide any Goblin-esque clawed toes that would otherwise feature.
