Mantic Fanatics

Pre-orders are up (for subscribers anyways) - so what have you guys ordered?

I've currently got a saved basket of all the £150 deals - will sleep off the cider before ordering!

Nothing yet. I have to think on it.

I'm not into the scifi genre of gaming, but I would like to add a small sampling of each of the Warpath minis to my collection. Not to play, but for painting and display. Although who knows, it would be nice to have a small playable force or two just in case.

I've mentioned this over at Warseer. I don't need the huge Warpath armydeals like I bought for KoW. I would like the starter set with signed rules, the two metal heroes, and of course the tshirt. Currently though, Mantic doesn't have such a combo available. I'd either have to buy a much larger and expensive model set, or spend more money to buy items I already have like the Mantic bag, the paint set, and the assembly set. All stuff I don't need more of.

3rd choice of course is not to buy anything right now, and wait and see what Mantic offers in the future.

 ???  O rly?


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Haven't ordered anything yet, I'm waiting to see what prices the 40kforoldmen guys can bust out.

Nothing.....and while £150 isn't a lot of money...I'm completely broke after my house moving this summer!

I'll be buying a copy of the game when it comes out, though.

I'm very short on cash at the moment.
Despite defending the strategy, I am in the camp of not ordering until I have seen most of the contents at least.
I have loads and loads of models already, and so many projects that still need completing, plus so little room for more stuff.
(Very small concern) I have been recently disenchanted by the restic material.
In my experience, Mantic always beats their own initial deals a few weeks later with better stuff.

All those combine to me ordering nothing yet. I continue to be a big fan, I love the few models shown so far and I will admire them very much online, but I haven't decided whether I will buy or not. I would like a small sample of everything, a starter set so to speak, like Darsc. But even when that comes out (I have no doubt it will) I will have to think about whether I can justify the cost sadly. My gaming group only plays fantasy and probably won't start a new sci-fi game as well.

Despite all that logic, over the next few months who knows. Something may tempt me and push me to buy some. Additionally, I really hope that it is a great success, and it looks like it will be!

I'll have to wait and see more of the models too.

When we're talking about the heavy weapons teams, I absolutely love the minis, but I'm not sure I need 10 of each of them.  A couple sets is great but a pile of them isn't better.  Similarly, I really need to see the plastics.  Unless the (apparently) two basic models are very pose-able and customizable, it's going to be a downer for me.  I already got worn out by the Ironwatch sprues, and went to great lengths (for me) to build a custom unit, but I'm afraid there won't be raw parts to do that with.

Even spectacular minis could be a hard pill to swallow if there's not room to customize them.

I do fancy painting some FFs, but I'm not buying into the game until I see if it's still a KoW/Skirmish/40k kludge, or a battle system in it's own right.

Unfortunately nothing  :( I'm a bit tight for cash atm and would rather get my KoW army up and running. If there had been a starter set for £49.99 I would think about getting it but £99 is just too much. Oh well, I will just have to wait for the actual release.

Hey guys... im in the same wagon as much here...

I dont liked warpath in the same way i like KoW, and my group will never drop 40k for WP (they dont even want to drop WHFB for KoW :/ ). Fantasy games have a need for big bunchs of miniatures, 40k no. With that, and my lack o money, i will wait until the "more humble deals". I think a Starter is on the way tough...

I have to admit that I'm a bit surprised so many of us are in the same boat.

I'm less surprised, only because more of us early-adopters that are Mantic fans likely have a predilection for fantasy games over sci-fi.    Warpath rules haven't completely won me over, although I think it's something worth showing off.  (It's not that I think it's bad, but I just don't think it's as strong as KoW.)  Even with that, the FF minis alone grabbed my attention and made me want some, and the background that has been discussed makes me interested in the game universe.

But even great sci-fi pulls me less than fantasy.

So, all-in-all, I'm not shocked by this.  In a year, it will likely be a different story.  At least, in the US, I'd expect us fantasy fans to be rapidly and soundly outnumbered by the sci-fi ones here.

I've always thought that when Mantic eventually went SciFi, that would be the bigger selling line for them. That's just based on GW's experience.

I'm only glad there's a few of us older Fanatics around that are diehard Fantasy fans, to keep me company on those boards after Scifi takes over. :)

I just took a look at the deals (back from holiday last night so catching up). Not enough variety in the models supplied and too many questions still on the rules for me to spend that much money at the moment.

I like the deals that has been made Mantic for Warpath, but now it's not time for me to spend that money. If any of my teammates are also encouraged to play, Warpath will be my gift for Christmas. For now I prefer to continue with my army of dwarves and continue with my plans to make another army more for KoW.

Llew I think you have a good point. Sci-fi is cool but fantasy themes are what got me into wargaming and  has alwasy kept me going. Still I will invest in at least one warpath army (looking at you forge fathers) while I could see just about every KoW army making it into my collection at some point.

Same here. Fantasy was my starting point and has more appeal to me than sc-fi. FF for me too though eventually :)

I agree this is very interesting that a lot of us seem to be mostly fantasy players/collectors and have a bit less interest in Warpath than KoW. Shows that Mantic definitely needs to keep KoW releases up on the side. I wonder if that means there will be a bunch of new regulars/fanatics who are sci-fi only? And would we have to mingle with them?? :P

Maybe... But we'd know who the true Mantic Fanatics are.  ;)

Actually seems a bit of a Mantic dryspell coming up for me. Twilight Kin are next, which because of their hybrid nature and being based on a current race, don't hold much interest for me. After that rumours are we'll be seeing the Warpath Human faction in the early part of next year. Soo it looks like goblins in the spring of next year before I can get super excited about KoW again.

Of course Mantic can always sneak some ultrasecret units and character releases in there before that. I'm hoping we'll see at least an Ogre sprue sometime soon.

I'm in the boat next door to most of you. I don't have enough cash, but I am also in the middle ground. I like both sci fi and fantasy although i am more in favor of fantasy i still enjoy a good shoot em zap em game. Either way i'll be buying the starter set. Its good to be a mantic fanatic, and one of the founding group at that (well, i created the group, but without everyone nothing would have come of it.)

What does this have to do with making a pre-order?  Are you really so insecure about the size of your penis that you have to constantly bring it up?  Most people just add a W/D/L record to their signature...

I have pre-ordered gaarew's penis.

It won't be ready for delivery until his wife finds the receipt for his next purchase.

You'll wait a long time.  I'm not married...  :P

You want to be careful growing that army...

I hope this doesn't expand in to the "show yourself" topic.........  :-\ ;)

indeed.

I thought that topic was supposed to be for pictures of members?  ;)

I'm going to be dull and boring and bring this back to topic:- (no wait guys, put the stones down!)

Clearly, the need for a sci fi game I think comes from the market research evidence that youngsters prefer the idea of guns and big explosions and alien battles etc. ie what they can get from 40k which, whether we like it or not, is still arguably the most popular and successful tabletop wargame at the moment. The success of KoW models being used for WHB, and then with the KoW rules in their own right has shown Mantic that the same could potentially happen within the sci fi genre- hence Warpath.

That said, there will always be us die harrd grizzlies who prefer Fantasy genres, as that's what we grew up with, and started with (do take note most of us, with a few notable exceptions, are all of a similar 25+ age range) and will always prefer a large scale mass miniature strategic tablteop wargame.

That said- I will be getting my hands on some Marauder Orx in preparation for my Reb/Marauder army- but thanks to the tournament and my wife and daughter's various trips up to Glasgow to see gigs, added to the fact we JUST found an awesome tattoo studio in Shrewsbury, and both my wife and I have some serious inking that needs doing- it probably won't be until the new year before I can get any Warpath. Might spring for the £49.99 Warpath box later this year, though.

And what does it say about the whole **** thing, if we're discussing buying it from a company that makes miniatures  of stuff?  ;)  :P  ::) ;D

I love the models we have seen so far. But 3 things are putting me off.

1. The rules - I think they are incomplete and need work before I'll play them
2. The variety of models. Not enough for me to start an army yet and with the rules unfinished, it's hard to know what I'd want in an army.
3. It's more stuff to add to my unpainted pile at a time when I'm actually trying to make some headway into it! I hate playing with unpainted models.