News: Mantic Newsletter

Hello all, Slick here. The latest Mantic Newsletter is out and aside from Football related news, check out the awesome Vampire cavalry below! There are also updates in the developing Dwarf miniatures range!

FOOTBALL MADNESS Some of you may know that the Football World Cup kicks off today... and we like our football here over at Mantic. Although we are all getting jolly patriotic we want to share our joy with everyone! So, until England lose a football game at the 2010 World Cup you can get 10% off all Mantic products - even if you don't support England (unless we catch your team diving or cheating – in which case we will give your order a red card!). To get the discount please use the code – 3LIONSNEWS ...and don't forget all orders over £50, 75 euros and $99 will get a free messenger bag and free shipping. Click here for the shop! Come on England! The incredible Undead Cavalry are shipping now... These fantastic sculpts are now in the warehouse and available to order. Many of you have pre-ordered them as part of the Malak deal, and we appreciate your patience – but they are all now in the post and will be with you shortly. This weekend will be the last chance to buy these at our discounted pre-order price. From Monday, the UK price will go to the normal RRP of £25 and so on across other currencies. For those of you who have not yet seen these stunning sculpts, feast your eyes on this work in progress from the painters table.... We think these would make a great additional unit for any Vampire army, so click through for more photos on the site, and the launch deal on a unit of 10 metal cavalry. Malak's deal ends 30th June! Malak's army deal has been a great way to collect a whole legion of Undead models – with 100 plastic infantry, a mounted Vampire, a unit of Undead cavalry, wraiths, and Metal heroes among the contents. Anyone wishing to buy the Malak deal needs to do so before 30th June, when the deal will end. The Malak deal also qualifies for a FREE Mantic Messenger bag and free global shipping. If you want one, please don't miss it - Click here for the shop!

Spotlight on the Stormwing Cavalry With so much attention being paid to the Undead these last few months, we felt these fantastic models got missed out . In the Mantic Journal they acquitted themselves well at the battle of Borath Lei, so we thought they merited some serious attention. These great sculpts offer a number of cavalry choices for any Elf Army, coming armed with lances, and a full command group. For the month of June, in celebration of their spotlight feature, we have taken 15% off their RRP, (which is massive when combined with the football madness offer!) so click through to have a look in more depth at these fantastic models and pick up a bargain Cavalry unit. The Mantic Journal is now available online Many sections of the journal are now available to download for free here, or you could buy yourself an annual subscription of the printed format for just £10.00, and get Mhorgoth the Faceless totally free of charge. Order your subscription here and be the first to get every issue! Dwarf Week 3 Starting on the blog June 14th, all next week we will have more news, pictures and some real genuine plastic sprues to show you, so pop along to the blog or facebook for all the latest on our third fantasy battle army. Reviews We like hearing what you all think here at Mantic and we've now added in the ability to leave reviews onto our product pages! We've had some great ones left for us so far, so please leave your thoughts for us when you next swing by the webstore!

Uncharted Seas: Shroud Mages Ripper Submarine

Hey all, Slick here. I've been putting some time into finishing up the rest of the Shroud Mages fleet that I have. Here are some pics of the finished Ripper Submarine! Comments welcome!

Uncharted Seas: Shroud Mages Heavy Cruisers

Hello all, Slick here. Another update for the Shroud Mages, this time a pair of heavy cruisers. These guys pack more firepower than the standard cruisers and even have an increased speed.

Uncharted Seas: Shroud Mages Flagship

Hello all, Slick here. Time for an update for the Shroud Mages. Here is the massive flagship for the Shroud Mages fleet! This thing is loaded with guns and is deadly no matter which direction you approach it from and even has some solid anti-air defence for pesky dragons and airships. Comments welcome!

News: GW Newsletter - Treadheads Rejoice!

Hello all, Slick here. The latest GW newsletter is out and it's essentially a rehash of previous newsletters featuring the new Imperial Guard and Eldar releases. Nothing new to report here unless you've been living under a rock.

The Games Workshop Newsletter 04.06.2010

In this issue: Treadheads rejoice!

Tread-heads rejoice! Released tomorrow are the brand-new Eldar Fire Prism and Imperial Guard Manticore/Deathstrike kits. You can find out more about these and the rest of this week's new releases below.

Fire Prism Two great tanks, one versatile kit: assemble and unleash the Fire Prism and its anti-armour weaponry or the all-new, infantry shredding Night Spinner with this new plastic kit that's now available to buy here.

Eldar Support Weapon The Eldar use Support Weapons to mount their heaviest weaponry. Order the new plastic Eldar Support Weapon and unleash either the armour busting D-cannon, the dangerously powerful vibro cannon or the infantry shredding shadow weaver, on your enemy.

Leman Russ The Leman Russ Battle Tank is the mainstay of the Imperial army. It's well armoured and mounts a powerful array of weaponry that can be tailored to meet any foe. We'd heartily recommend you field as many Leman Russ tanks as possible - your opponent may not be so keen.

Manticore/Deathstrike The Deathstrike Missile Launcher and Manticore Rocket Launcher are both powerful artillery tanks. Add them to your Imperial Guard collection and deliver their thunderous payloads to anywhere on the battlefield.

Commander Pask Knight Commander Pask can be added to any Imperial Guard tank. Pask has a Ballistic skill of 4 and gains +1 to armour penetration rolls. Increase the lethality of your battle tanks with this legendary Cadian tank commander.

Squadron Command Frame The Squadron Command Frame allows you to upgrade your walkers and tanks to command vehicles and will help you identify individual spearheads on the battlefield.

News: Mantic Newsletter

Hello all, Slick here. The latest Mantic newsletter is out and Mantic is looking for people to keep spreading the word about their fantastic range of minis. Find out how you can get involved below:

Please join the Mantic Crusade – we need heroes to help spread the gospel!! We now have an ever growing range of high quality fantasy miniatures, which we are determined to sell at great prices to enable real enthusiasts to build big armies without breaking the bank. Each set comes in its own storage case (so no nasty cardboard clogging up the environment), and DVD size cases so you can smuggle them past mothers and wives! We hope to bring a revolution to massed games of Fantasy Battle – affordable armies, available in unit and bigger sized boxes that are a pleasure to put together and quick to get onto the gaming table. We also like to have some fun – please go here to see our latest price rise announcement… But seriously…we do need YOUR help to spread the word, to make sure the products are available to others and to ensure we get enough people on board with the Mantic revolution to allow us to do some of the truly bonkers stuff we have planned (give Ronnie enough beer and he will usually tell all!) We already have two plastic armies with a third about to take to the gaming table, and a fourth marching over the horizon (and there are a few very exciting distractions before then too!). However, we want our products to be more convenient and for more hobbyists to get to know about the Mantic Crusade - and this is where we need your help. There are a number of things you can do to assist...and the main way simply to spread the word about the Mantic - so all can share in the joy of huge armies at fair prices! Here is a few examples of how you can 'share the love': Hand this e-mail onto as many like minded people you know, or send your friends a link to the site, or talk about us at your club night – the best help you can give us is simply to tell people about Mantic, and how super we are ;0) Please post this appeal, or our price rise video ;) onto any suitable web sites! Please get more people to sign up for the Mantic Games Newsletter at www.manticgames.com; or become a friend on facebook. Enquire if your local retailer will stock the product. In the USA he can get it via any of the main distributors; in the UK and Europe they can come direct to us, or also from a number of distributors. Any Trader can contact Mantic at sales@manticgames.com for more information, and we will help them find the best solution; Even better tell us about your local trade account and we will contact them – and if he stocks the Mantic range, we will send you a Warhost of your choice! Just use 'contact us' on the site. Best of all, try something from the Mantic range – you can get it direct from www.manticgames.com , or from your local Hobby store (if they have it), pop into one of the Hobbycraft stores, where they have a good range, or shop via a specialist Hobby e-tailer To visit our full list of stockists, please go here, and finally, to those of you that have supported Mantic so far – Thank you! We really appreicate all the help we have recieved from the gaming community - please keep it up. p.s. watch out for Dwarf week 3, starting soon on a Mantic blog near you.

The Mantic Gallery The Mantic Gallery has updates – we are now getting lots of pictures pouring in with great paint jobs and conversions, and we are getting them posted up on the gallery section – please keep them coming. Get a free Mantic Bag Pop along to our site, any orders over £50, 75, $99 will receive a FREE Mantic Messenger bag. Click here to visit the shop. On the road This week end we are at Games Expo, Birmingham please come along and see us. You can find the event details and other future events on our website.

News: Forgeworld Newsletter #239

Hello all, Slick here. The latest Forgeworld newsletter is out and there is some more Orky goodness on its way in the form of the Grot tanks! Four different tanks with various weapon options are available! These are are part of the latest Imperial Armour book.

"Hi There,

Gretchin players, rejoice! Forge World have reshaped the very nature of Warhammer 40,000, unleashing a force so powerful that the might of Craftworlds, Astartes and Septs alike will quail before it! This newsletter sees the launch of the indomitable, unstoppable, indefatigable Grot Tank Set – continue, dear reader, to find out more about this Grot-ish menace…

Waaaaagh-Grot!
Ead Brown

The Indescribable Power of the Grot – Grot Tanks available to pre-order Now
Across the Forsarr sector, whispers and rumours rise of a threat greater even than the Kill Tanks that have so decimated the Elysian operations on Kastorel-Novem.
The thunder of engines and the blast of cannons heralds the advance of a new and deadly form of greenskin war machine in numbers beyond comprehension.
Armoured tracks grind inexorably onwards, driving all before them in a storm of destruction, as greenskins cackle madly at the sheer joy of their onslaught.
This devastating Grotzkrieg has laid waste to Imperial, Chaos, Tau, Eldar and Tyranid forces throughout the galaxy, and it seems that no fighting force in Warhammer 40,000 can stand against this new Gretchin devilry! (That’s what the Grots believe, at least!)

It is with some trepidation at the horror that will be unleashed across gaming tables everywhere that we can announce the release of the Grot Tank Set which is available to pre-order now for despatch in the week commencing June 21st. First previewed at the Forge World Open Day earlier this year, these extremely detailed and unique models have been wildly anticipated. Forge World designer Daren Parrwood has created a set of four fantastically ramshackle war machines that are complimented by four unique tank Kommandaz sculpted by Mark Bedford. The full resin kit allows you to build three Grot Tanks and a Kommand Tank, equipped with an additional hull-mounted weapon.

These new Grot Tanks are a revolution in miniature modelling and wargaming. The set contains four different variant chassis, tracks, exhausts and turrets as well as four fantastic Grot Tank Kommandaz and 5 different, incredibly shooty, weapon options. As you may have seen at the Forge World Open Day, and on the Games Workshop Blog, Forge World designer Daren Parrwood has taken care to ensure the kit is fully modular – all of the chassis, turret, exhaust, track and weapon options are completely interchangeable. This allows more than a thousand individual tanks to be built from the kits, before even considering the possibilities that rise from a bits box or other items in the Forge World range, such as Grot Crew and the recently-released Weapons Set.
Full rules for using a Grot Tank Battle Mob can be found in the Dread Mob army list included in Imperial Armour 8: Raid on Kastorel-Novem, but Imperial Armour writer Alan Bligh was so excited about the release of the Grot Tanks that he has created a deliciously unhinged Apocalypse formation that you can download here.

Forge World Events News
Forge World will be attending Games Day Spain on July 4th, and Games Day Baltimore on August 21st. We are now taking reservation orders for both of these exciting events. Just send an email to forgeworldreservations@games-workshop.co.uk including your name and a list of everything you'd like to reserve, and title your email `Games Day Spain Reservation` or ` Games Day Baltimore Reservation`. We must receive Games Day Spain reservations by June 21st at the latest, and Games Day Baltimore reservations by July 5th at the latest."
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News: GW Newsletter 1 Year Celebration

Hello all, Slick here. The latest GW newsleter is out and there are some exciting new features for ordering online at GW such as free shipping and same day dispatch! More interestingly perhaps will be the extra content they are releasing. Also, the downloads for Spearhead are available as well! Do any of you guys actually order online with GW or do you buy from other online retailers who offer discounts, or from local gaming stores?

The Games Workshop Newsletter 01.06.2010

In this issue: 1 Year celebration: free shipping; same day dispatch; extra content; Spearhead

Celebrate 1 year of games-workshop.com It has been a whole year since we launched the new-look games-workshop.com and we thought we'd celebrate. All week long there'll be a host of extra content for you to enjoy and a competition for you to take part in. Make sure you don't miss out on any of the great activity this week - visit the site often and be sure to read every 'What's New Today' post.

Same day dispatch To thank you for all your support over the last year, we've decided to improve our shipping offer. Now, whenever you place an order before 1pm we'll make sure it leaves our warehouse on the very same day. And...

Free Shipping: here to stay Free shipping is now permanent. From the 1st of June onwards you'll get free shipping on all orders over the minimum order value, on the full range of Citadel miniatures and Games Workshop products. Make sure you click on the link above for full details.

Celebratory content There will be plenty of extra hobby content this week, including: not one but two daily posts on the 'What's New Today' section and a set of brand-new scenarios, one each for Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000 and War of the Ring.

Spearhead download Spearhead is a new Expansion for Warhammer 40,000, which you'll find all the rules and information you need to start playing in June's issue of White Dwarf. And if you click on the link above you'll be able to download the rules for the various spearhead formations, and start using them in your games.