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For those who aren't on the mailing list, the GCPS list has been released, and the Asterian list updated, for Deadzone 2.0. The PDFs also contain the long awaited weapons guides, so you know which plastic gun is meant to be what.
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Getting a demo game of Kings of War soon, which is rad. Being able to play a horde army without the need to buy literal hordes of infantry is gonna be dope.
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Unit based dioramas (with less than max model count) are cool and good
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Sep 18, 2017 23:22
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I'm looking at GW Beastmen for my army, and I'm just gonna fill the spaces with trees etc. Make it look like a real forest ambush.
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Sounds like you have a good plan, go with it! Also don't discount some of the smaller makers when you go looking for heroes or monsters, there's a lot of talented sculptors and good indie places out there. There's also a facebook group with lots of photos in it, inspiration or information for basing techniques, etc   
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Sep 18, 2017 23:39
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I'm really going to have to think about how I do my dioramas. . . . I have the bases, and I have texture paint for the various locales (desert for my Basileans, rocky ground for my undead, etc.) but I'm not too sure what to put on the bases to make them super exciting. I know my Forces of the Abyss are going to be all jungle/creepy vine-based, and I have a few shoggoths and such to use as hideous flowers, so that's fine, but I have no experience in the whole "diorama" thing.
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I wish I had the patience to do interesting bases, but I'm way more concerned with getting a unit playable than making a diorama.
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I won a painting competition at my FLGS and got $30 store credit as a prize, so I put it toward the starter box for The Walking Dead: All Out War - having never played it. Played my first game today and loved it.Gyro Zeppeli posted:Getting a demo game of Kings of War soon, which is rad. Being able to play a horde army without the need to buy literal hordes of infantry is gonna be dope. You may still need a lot of minis, but if you multi-base them (diorama-style) it makes setup/movement/etc much easier vs WHFB and 40k.
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I feel like this is more relevant to mantic crowd than the general KS thread: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1273312680/war-is-coming-warmaidens-and-dragonbreds Apparently their last finished KS fulfilled fine so I backed this one, though we'll see if it opens up to being worth it.
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HerrBrau posted:I won a painting competition at my FLGS and got $30 store credit as a prize, so I put it toward the starter box for The Walking Dead: All Out War - having never played it. Played my first game today and loved it. I love it so much but I'm having trouble finding people to play it with. Everyone I game with is tired of zombies and it wasn't an easy sell for my non wargaming friends. It is very fun, though and the 2x2 board is just perfect for gaming in my cramped lgs or kitchen table.
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Zombies and Walking Dead are basically why I haven't gone near it. I'm sure the rules are fantastic as that's something Mantic tends to get right, but I just do not care at all about the setting.
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The attachment to the TWD IP was my hesitation, too. So, if it stops you, I get it. I gave up on TWD show a few seasons back and have never read the comics. But I picked up the game on a whim because I'd heard the mechanics were great and thought it'd be a fun miniatures game that I could play on the go. If it helps, the zombies are secondary to the actual goal - scavenging supplies and fighting other bands of survivors for them. I've heard them aptly described as "mobile scenery that bites."
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What do I get out of it that I won't get out of Deadzone? I think TWD uses less terrain and obviously it's going to be different mechanically, but "on the go" isn't something I need. I either play at home or the FLGS so needing loads of terrain for Deadzone isn't a big deal. And at least one of the Deadzone supplements has AI zombies, possibly even the same AI rules, so if I wanted to introduce wandering monsters I certainly could.
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Beyond anything else, it was just a nice change to be closer to present day. There are a lot of sci-fi or fantasy games but I don't know of a lot of modern war games that don't require you to pick up miniatures from a third party. If I was into Deadzone, I'd still probably pick up TWD just for the change of scenery. Also, minis work well for a fee other games I play.
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jodai posted:Beyond anything else, it was just a nice change to be closer to present day. There are a lot of sci-fi or fantasy games but I don't know of a lot of modern war games that don't require you to pick up miniatures from a third party. If I was into Deadzone, I'd still probably pick up TWD just for the change of scenery. Also, minis work well for a fee other games I play. This is true. It's too bad that Mars Attacks seems largely abandoned because that ticks all the boxes: no zombies, an IP I find interesting, modernish setting. Plus the colored plastic pieces make it look like a board game at first glance so it's easier to convince people to play.
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I've heard there's rules for creating survivors and having a persistent campaign in TWD, so you don't really need to be that engaged with the IP at all. Hell, aside form the rules, you wouldn't even need to buy anything except maybe an equipment booster, you could just buy a bunch of third party miniatures for your forces. I mean, I'm not that into zombies, so I've not gotten into it myself, but there's options there.
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Mantic have posted a teaser for Kings of War: Vanguard which is almost certainly the rumored skirmish game.
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Yvonmukluk posted:I've heard there's rules for creating survivors and having a persistent campaign in TWD, so you don't really need to be that engaged with the IP at all. Hell, aside form the rules, you wouldn't even need to buy anything except maybe an equipment booster, you could just buy a bunch of third party miniatures for your forces. That's the main thrust of it, TWD has a much better campaign system and model stats based around it. The character stats are similar to XWing, going from low result to high white-red-blue. So each guy can have a a dice pool of various colors. When you level up you can trade two of a lower value die for a higher value, so character growth is a trade off between occasional streaks of high result versus reliable results. The down side is that the plastic used for the models is kind of crap. There isn't a lot of fine detail, a lot of the dudes have the helmet hair look of boardgame pieces.
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cRoSs PoStin'NTRabbit posted:
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Those look great. The edging really helps.
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Sep 28, 2017 12:10
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Also news, like the other large kits, the previously pictured Undead Wyrm also comes boxed with a different head, different rider, and wings, to make the Vampire on Undead Dragon And first vision of the Fire Elementals, and Greater Fire Elemental   
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Man if that dragon had arms and legs it would seriously kick rear end. But I like it better than the wyrm even without them.
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Sep 28, 2017 12:12
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Thanks! Edging was a lot easier to do on those big vehicles with their straight line edges, I tell you
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Atlas Hugged posted:Man if that dragon had arms and legs it would seriously kick rear end. But I like it better than the wyrm even without them. Love the fire elementals, particularly the greater.
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Mantic Blog posted:Ardovikian Plain – no one thought they could do it, but the Kingdoms of Men have built a great wall alongside the Dragon Teeth Mountains to cut off their realm from the marauders in the North. The wall itself is manned (or should that be Ogred) by Ogre Warriors. It’s time to make the Kingdoms of Men great again! There's that British wit I've been missing.
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Yeah great fuckers make a reference to that idiot instead of, you know, the actual real life wall that actually existed. And parts of which still does. Or more succinctly:
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I hope they like my idea of the isolated dwarven kingdom "dwexiting" from the alliance of men and elves. 
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Do the GCPS troopers come with alternate heads for female soldiers, or did I dream that? Couldn't see anything about it on the website and won't buy them if not.
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Vitamin P posted:Do the GCPS troopers come with alternate heads for female soldiers, or did I dream that? Couldn't see anything about it on the website and won't buy them if not.
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Vitamin P posted:Do the GCPS troopers come with alternate heads for female soldiers, or did I dream that? Couldn't see anything about it on the website and won't buy them if not. I think they're all helmeted except for characters like the LT that came with the Kickstarter set. Nothing stopping you from adding third-party female heads, though; they should be standard 28mm scale. e.: maybe I should look at the sprues again, I keep getting distracted by things like "other models" and "job."
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Vitamin P posted:Do the GCPS troopers come with alternate heads for female soldiers, or did I dream that? Couldn't see anything about it on the website and won't buy them if not. There are both helmeted and non-helmeted heads female heads on the sprue. I think it might be only one of each though, I don't have one to hand. There are female heads though, I can say that with certainty! The Ranger helmets are fully face-obscuring.
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The GCPS sprue comes with 13 head options: 5 closed face helmets, and 1 closed face helmet with extra stuff on it, all meant for Rangers; 3 open faced male helmets, 1 open faced male helmet with ray-bans, 1 open faced female helmet, and 2 helmetless female.
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I don't mind dumb political jokes in my miniature games because there's a long history of it. It got a chuckle out of me which is more than I can say about anything else in Mantica's fluff at this point.
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Mag Uruk Thraka
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Thanks all. Gonna pick me up some GCPS.
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 Ronnie Renton posted:I’ve spoken for many years about a skirmish game for Kings of War – to act as an easy entry point, and to start an army by the stealth route (before I knew it Deadzone had me a long way to a Warpath army as I kept adding members to my squad). https://manticblog.com/2017/10/06/ronnie-talks-future-kings-war-vanguard/
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When they talked about the future of KoW, for a moment I thought they were going to mention the last three unreleased armies, but this is cool anyways.
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There's a Vanguard QA up on Mantic's Facebook page. Seems it's closer to Mordheim than I was expecting (or wanting honestly, that market is fairly saturated at the moment). Square bases, D8s, public alpha "soon", potentially a Kickstarter, Nightstalkers probably in the core set, 3x3 playing area, no grid, 100 point games, models gain experience, games can link together or connect to a full Kings of War game, alternating activations but you can use abilities to move groups simultaneously. My guess is that you'll have more models than you would with Frostgrave but fewer than with Dragon Rampant.
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I'm excited about the possible tie-ins with KoW. Like a skirmish leading to a battle. For campaigns and other narrative play, this could be fun. I do share the concern with saturation, but I think the KoW community will respond well given that it's tied into Mantica and the armies they already play.Azran posted:When they talked about the future of KoW, for a moment I thought they were going to mention the last three unreleased armies, but this is cool anyways.
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