Plastic-Resin Revenant Cavalry! There has been a lot of buzz about our Fantastic Revenant Knight miniatures ever since they were first seen as a metal product. From the beginning there have been rumours, and even a few hints from us here at Mantic, that if the Revenant Knights proved popular we would make them in plastic. Well the day has finally come, we can officially announce that we are releasing Plastic-Resin Revenant Knights! And for those of you who just can’t wait, you can pre-order them here! What is Resin-Plastic? It is a material that sits half way between the normal plastic we use, and resin. We like the amazing detail it gives on the figures. On the site you will get to see a full unit of 10 Revenant Knights painted – and they look fantastic. You glue the models together with regular super glue (not plastic glue), and there isn’t any actual resin in the product – it just looks and feels quite similar. There is much more detail on the blog, and photos on the site. So, tell us about the price… We’ll that is really one of the great things – we are able to offer 10 Undead Revenant Knights for the same price as 5 metal ones!! So now you get twice the models (so double the death!) for the same price as before (and we like to think our limited edition metal ones were already considerably cheaper than the market generally - you know who I mean ;) These models obviously work in the new Kings of War fantasy battle wargame, but they are also seem to be proving to very popular in Undead armies for certain other fantasy wargames! We are releasing 2 sets, firstly the standard Undead Revenant Cavalry Set, which contains 10 highly detailed plastic/resin figures all for only £25/€30/$45. The second set on offer is a special web deal, only available from our website. The Undead Revenant Cavalry Horde contains 20 highly detailed plastic/resin figures, and additional metal troop bits to replace the second command set you get, if you feel like fielding a truly massive 20-man Cavalry Horde! You get all of this for only £50/€60/$90. Also as a very special offer, all Undead Revenant Cavalry Hordes will include a FREE Mantic Messenger Bag! To celebrate we have decided to run a competition over the weekend to offer you guys a chance to win a regiment of Revenant Cavalry. To win please tell us how many different components there are in the new Undead Revenant Cavalry Set (not the number of models or total number of pieces, just the individual sculpts). (Hint: If you go onto the product page for the new box set here, there are images showing you all the different components.) All you have to do to enter is fill in our Revenant Cavalry Competition Form to give yourself a chance to win! All correct answers will be entered into our prize draw on Wednesday the 17th of November 2010, where one lucky entrant will win a completely FREE Undead Revenant Cavalry Set! | Ho Ho Ho - Christmas Comes Early! As part of the build up to the Christmas period, we here at Mantic have decided to include a FREE pair of Mantic Clippers worth £5/€8/$10 with all orders over £25/€30/$45! For the Dwarves we have: The Dwarf Army Set containing no fewer than 85 plastic miniatures, which will begin shipping immediately and is available to pre-order today! The second Dwarf release for this month is the fantastic new Shieldbreakers. These are available in both a 10-man troop and 20-man (with Command) regiment sets. For the Undead we have: The Liche King is finally up for pre-order! As a special offer, available off our website, you can pick up the Liche King as an individual model here! In addition you can also pick up the Liche King as part of a box-set, which not only includes this fantastic metal sculpt, but also includes 10 plastic Revenants. Pre-order yours now! The second big Undead release is our Skeleton Archers. This set contains enough parts to make 10 skeletons in varying poses, plus you get 10 metal coversion parts to create your archer unit. Gamescon Leicester 2010 Gamescon is a convention in Leicester being held this weekend on Sunday. Chris Palmer: Our resident event representative, will be there with a large Mantic Stand. He will be running demo games, showing off some of our display miniatures and generally answering any questions you guys have. The event is being held at Leicester Race Course, and is set to be a great day. The first floor is full of trade stands, there will be all sorts on display. Then the second floor is going to be dedicated to tournaments. So it really does look like there is something for everyone. For more details please visit the Gamescon Website. |
Monday, November 22, 2010
News: Mantic Newsletter - Revenant Cavalry
Sunday, September 19, 2010
News: Mantic Newsletter
Labels: Fantasy, Mantic Games, New Releases, News, Undead
Zombies - The Shambling Hordes Approach! The Zombies are nearly here!With the new miniatures shipping from the 24th of September 2010, which is only just over 1 week away, we know you all must be really excited, as we definitely are! Painted by Andrew Wedmore If you have been watching our Blog this week then you will have seen that we have been teasing you with images, as this week was Zombie week. So we know you have probably seen these images before, but we think they are just so good that we would show you them again!To celebrate this big release we have decided that every order* placed on our website until the end of the month will receive a Zombie sprue completely free! Now we are sure you will want more than just one sprue, so don't forget you can get your hands on these fantastic figures by buying the Zombie Regiment, the Zombie Horde, or for what can only be described as amazing value for money you can pick up the Zombies in our brand new Undead Army Deal: Malak's Endless Hordes. Zombies are also included in the Mhorgoth's Revenge Fantasy Battleset, the Undead Army Set. All of these box-sets are available for pre-order now, so what are you waiting for! Kings of War Fantasy Battle Rules Well the Closed Beta has now been available for download for a week now and we have been really pleased to see that the rules seem to be going down so well within the community. Just in case you missed the rules, here is the link again - just click on the logo below to get your FREE download!: We would just like to take this opportunity to explain our plans. This is a Closed Public Beta of the rules, giving you guys who are signed up to the newsletter first access to the download. Then the plan is we will print the first version of the rules to be included within our box-sets. This printed version is an Open Beta of the rules, we will be collecting feedback from everyone. In approximately 6 months time we intend to revise the rules again, using all the feedback we have received, and publish a second version. Will you lead the So please keep talking to us, we really do want to know what you like, what you don't like and what you maybe think we can add. Until next time - braaaaiiiins.... | Open Day The Open Day is continuing to build momentum, tickets are proving to be popular, which is great to see, as we here at Mantic would love to meet as many of you as possible. We will have to stop selling ticket shortly, so please pick up your ticket soon.The Open Day is being held on the 9th October 2010 with doors opening at 10am, with last entry at 4pm, though our doors won't close until 5pm. We will have all of our painted miniatures on display, and there will be a store set-up where you will be able to purchase any of our product range - and loose plastic sprues! “Celebrities” will be in attendance, including the star of all the video blogs you all know and love. Alessio Cavatore will be attending and we can now confirm that both Mike McVey and Bob Naismith are going to be here with us. You can talk to them about all things Mantic. Bob sculpted the incredible new Zombies, and Mike will be painting some during the day - which we intend to give away as prizes!We will also be running demos of our brand new game so you will get to feel the full Kings of War experience using two of our beautifully painted armies. We have a range of ticket deals on offer as you can see here - so what are you waiting for, pick up your ticket now! Shipping in September Mark the 24th September in your diary, the latest sets from Mantic will be shipping. Issue 2 of the Journal will also begin shipping. Penned by the brilliant Guy Haley once again (watch out for a blog coming from him soon), those of you who've ordered the subscription from Issue 2 will also get a free Dwarf Miner with Drill figure! Triple Helix Mantic will be attending the grand opening of Triple Helix Wargames in Westbury, Somerset this weekend and, as well as free give-a-ways and the chance to talk to us about all things Mantic, we're also bringing a couple of our armies down to demonstrate the new ruleset! We'd like to say a big thank you to the guys for inviting us so make sure you pop down and check it out! |
Saturday, June 26, 2010
News: Mantic Newsletter - Malak Pre-Order
Labels: Dwarfs, Fantasy, Mantic Games, New Releases, News, Undead
| The Malak pre-order deal ends this weekend With the Revenant cavalry soon becoming a stock line and the new Dwarf range starting to come out, this is the last weekend you can pick up the Malak deal. It has over 100 Undead models, and includes 5 metal Wraiths, 5 of the incredible Armoured Skeleton cavalry, a full set of Heroes and Necromancers, and the Undead Pegasus with Vampire Lord.When you add in the 40 skeleton warriors, 40 armoured Skeleton Warriors, 20 Ghouls and the warmachines you have a truly massive Undead army – easily 2000 points worth, even more when you scatter a few magic items about.With Mantic models already offering by far the best way to buy a fantasy battle army, this offer is a one off. It was a special offer to celebrate the launch of our Undead Army, so you will not see anything like it again. So, whether you have a Vampire army that needs just a few more models (!), or intend to start a new army at a sensible price, – please get along to the site and look at the deal. It ends midnight Sunday. Malak dies Sunday at midnight! Don't miss it. Collectors Range We now have available the resin Dwarf Collectors Edition, and of course his trusty pit dog.As with all the Collectors range, the model is limited to just 75 copies (although we have not limited the dog!), so get along now to collect a piece of Mantic history. The VIP list: If you want to collect 1 of each resin model we do have a VIP preview list. Once you have bought any model in the Collectors range you can chose to be added to the VIP list. This gives you a chance to buy the resin casts before they go on open sale. This route is becoming increasingly popular. To add your name to the list if you are interested email here: info@manticgames.com | Events Diary This weekend we are spanning the globe. We are at Origins in Columbus Ohio, where our Elf range has been short-listed as best miniatures range of 2009. We also have a stand with some Dwarfs, lots of painted 3-ups (including a 3-up of the September releases!) lots, or goodies, freebies, and the full range of Mantic Products, including some show deals, messenger bags and the Journal. Pop along and say hi to Jim! We are also in attendance at the ETC Warhammer tournament at Firestorm Games in Cardiff. Our man with the plan, Chris Palmer will be visiting his mum in Wales, and be in attendance by day with lots of 3-ups, gossip and soldiers. Firestorm will have the full range, being one of our premium stockists. And finally, we will also be attending Q con in Belfast - so wherever you are, get out and meet us this weekend! Please get along to these events and share the love (of War!) Shipping in June All the Dwarf pre-orders for IronGuard will be shipping today, so look forward to pile of lovely toy soldiers landing with you soon. The next newsletter will back to being all things Dwarf, until then here is a list of next months releases. On July 19th we will be shipping the second set of Dwarf releases:
..and don't forget the Grafe's Steel Legion the new Dwarf Army deal is now available for pre-order with a full Dwarf army for just silly money! |
Sunday, April 4, 2010
News: Mantic Newsletter
Labels: Elves, Fantasy, Mantic Games, New Releases, News, Undead
Happy Easter!
Mantic Towers (which you can see in our new Guided Tour video), has a new gatekeeper – Garius Maximus, and he has some new and shiny things to show you this Easter!
To start with, we have two brand new metal kits: the Undead Death Kings Cabal and the Elf Lord on Battle Dragon, available for preorder.
For the Elves, nothing is more intimidating than an Elf Lord on Battle Dragon, and we proudly unveiled this figure in the mantic blog last week. The Battle Dragon is a premium metal kit and is great for those hobbyists who want to flex their painting muscles, or for gamers wanting to add the most powerful of heroes to their army. An Elf Lord on his own is a formidable opponent: coupled with a Battle Dragon, he is nigh on unstoppable.
Undead Paintset
With huge battles comes a huge number of miniatures, and a very busy painting station. We've been hard at work collaborating on a new set of colours called Warpaints, high quality acrylic paints that are the best available for painting miniatures with, and April sees our first paint set available for pre-order.
Released on the 26th April, the Undead Paintset contains six 15ml Warpaints – Black, White, Bone, Armour, Blue and Red – a sprue of 10 highly detailed plastic skeletons and a quality paint brush, all wrapped up in a Mantic Carry Case, and even includes a Mantic Point!
This full-to-the-brim set gives you everything you need to start painting your masses of troops, even giving you figures to get started with should you have not had chance to pick yourself up a box yet. For more information, visit the shop here.
Next month sees the launch of the Mantic Paint set – 9 colours, a brush and free figures - all you need to start painting.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
News: Mantic Newsletter
| LAST WEEKEND OF FREE SHIPPING – ORDER NOW! The remaining Undead sets – the Balefire Catapult, Balefire Battery, Omens of Death and Undead Warhost - are now hitting the shelves and we're currently running some fantastic offers of all shapes and sizes through our webstore. To ensure that you get the very best from Mantic, we will be shipping any of the pre-order army deals in two packages, meaning you can get building and painting your plastic troops whilst you wait! Remember: not only are you getting a shed load of plastic and metal miniatures, but you're also getting a huge number of Mantic Points – the best way to get free models! COME AND SEE US – NEW EVENTS This weekend you'll be able to catch up with Mantic in two different countries! Chicago 26-28th March With a number of Mantic goodies to be had in the swag bag, Ronnie and co will be on hand at Adepticon with a number of pre-release items, previews, gossip and general good humour. Please do come and have a chat, we'd love to talk to every one of you and get your feedback on the figures! Sunday 28th March We're also going to be in Chorley for Warrior Bazaar where we'll be with Warlord Games showing off our range. We'll have a limited number of pre-release items and maybe even the Army Painter Army to showcase too - hope to see you there! We're really pushing to get to as many events as possible, and will be attending both Sheffield Triples and Salute this April – please check out our events diary for all the details! | Now Released With all the plastic frames now in the warehouse, we are now shipping: Our New Releases section on the webstore is packed full of Advance Orders, Army Deals and Offers and the Latest Release for you to browse through, so check it out here. Coming Soon We've have some hugely anticipated releases coming in April including:
An apology As many of you know, we've been in collaboration with Wayland Games to offer a free Ghoul sprue if you filled out a form on their website. We've had a huge response so there has been a bit of a delay in getting them out, but they are now shipping. For some of you, it wasn't made clear that you would be signed up to both the Mantic Games and Wayland Games newsletter. We can only apologise for this and we've taken the steps necessary to ensure no one will be left in doubt again. We hope that you will stick with us, especially now your Ghouls are on their way! |
Saturday, March 20, 2010
News: Mantic Newsletter
Labels: Fantasy, Mantic Games, New Releases, News, Undead
| Welcome In the last two weeks a lot of new subscribers have joined us from the free Ghouls offer. To you all; Welcome to the Journey! We try and keep the newsletter short, but fill it with the latest news, offers and pictures (the best rumours, and our attempts at humour are usually found on our blog). I hope you enjoy what you see here, please tell your friends about Mantic, and what we are trying to achieve (great minatures, big armies at a fair price), and I thank you sincerly for your support. New Collector's Range Ghoul available for pre-order The first two limited edition Miniatures from the Collector's Range have already sold half of our initial run of 75 (not bad in just 8 weeks!), meaning that we have strictly limited quantities left in the warehouse. We are now making the next in the series available for order. Anyone who signed up last time around to receive notification of upcoming Collector's figures have been able to place their orders early, and will have their figure shipped first, so if you want to get your hands on the next collectors figures early, make sure you let us know by using the Contact form. Undead Revenants shipping - Balefire Catapult now in the warehouse! You've seen the new photographs on the website, you've seen the video review, and now the Revenants are released and shipping! Finely detailed, plastic models, these sets let you field the elite of an Undead army onto the battlefield, alongside the Skeleton infantry and slavering Ghouls. With an abundance of Mantic points, and over 50 plastic figures, the Warhost is the way to get yourself a whole load of Mantic figures to add to your existing army, or to start a completely new Undead army. With free shipping running out soon, make sure you order yours now. | Remember! The Extended Free Worldwide shipping is ending 31st March, so remember to make use of your FREEDELWW code in the webstore now! Final Chance Mantic Games are still taking applications for two Trade Sales Executives vacancies up until the 26th March. If working in a highly experienced sales team with excellent opportunities grabs your attention, please send in your CV as soon as possible. For more information on the job role and contact information, please view the recruitment page. Come and see us! This weekend we will be attending two Events, where we'll be available to chat about all things miniatures, and more besides. We'll be bringing some painted miniatures, challenging you guys to beat our speedbuilding record, and will probably at some time divulge our entire release schedule (again). On the 20th March, we're going to be at Maelstrom Games' Eye of the Storm at the "Winter Incursion" event. On the 21st March, we're going to be with the guys from Warlord Games at the West Midlands Military Show, and will be on hand to talk about all things fantasy. To keep up to date with all new events, please check out our Events Diary Here, which will be continuously updated as we confirm new place |
Sunday, March 7, 2010
News: Mantic Newsletter
Labels: Fantasy, Mantic Games, New Releases, News, Undead
You know we said keep those point stickers...
In every box of Mantic product there is a number of Mantic Points (usually on the sticker sheet; you normally get 1 per 10 figures or per Warmachine), so a Warhost will get you 6 Mantic points (as well as already being fantastic value for a big box of fun!). We will also give them out at events and as competition prizes.
You stick the points on to a collector’s card, and send them in to us and we redeem them. Cards can be found in mail orders, packed in the product, at your local hobby store, and downloadable from the web (you can always use a piece of paper from home – just remember to add your name and address to it!)
Click here to look at the rewards sheet.
We are expecting the balefire catapult any day now (sorry again to those of you who have been waiting for this – I am sure you will get a few extra Mantic Points in the box when they arrive!) and when it does we can start sending out the Undead Warhost – which makes collecting a fantastic (and big) Undead army both easy, fun and affordable!
The set contains:
- A unit of 20 Skeleton Warriors including Command troops
- A unit of 20 Revenants – elite armoured Skeleton Warriors with Command
- 10 of the fantastic new Ghouls, and
- A Balefire Catapult, a war devastating machine with fully equipped crew!
Click here to advance order your Warhost now (shipping on 25th March).
Sunday, February 28, 2010
News: Mantic Newsletter
Labels: Fantasy, Mantic Games, New Releases, News, Undead
This week sees the new Revenant Regiment up for advance order.
This regiment allows you to add a heavily armoured skeleton unit to your Undead Army, and each set comes with loads of head swaps, extra bits of Revenant armour and numerous conversion possibilities. Keep watching the Beast of War site next week for a world exclusive review of the new Revenant regiment set.
This unit will be shipping within the next few weeks – and to celebrate the launch we will be doing our now legendary (well nearly!) 3 regiments for £30 launch offer, which you can have on our free shipping offer – quite frankly you’d be mad not to!!Please note
This weekend is your last chance to order the Morgoth's army deal. Click here to see the offers - and if you want Morgoths, buy it this weekend - it comes off sale on Sunday midnight.
It's been a while...
This week also saw the MD of Mantic Games returning to the mantic blog with a very interesting post. Click here to read it.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
News: Mantic Games Newsletter
Labels: Fantasy, Mantic Games, New Releases, News, Undead
| Fleshing out the ranks The sprues are in and the boxes are shipping – the Ghouls have been unshackled and unleashed into the world! Driven by primal bloodlust and unbound fury, these depraved creatures are now part of a 10 man plastic box set. A Ghoul Troop offers all sorts of extra bits for you to play with, and the ball join on the torsos offers extra pose-ability meaning no two Ghouls need ever look the same! Free Postage – Worldwide! From today until midnight 28th February, we're offering free postage on everything – to everywhere! So no matter where you are, or whether you want a pack of incredible new Ghouls, an Elven Spearman Regiment, a limited edition Collectors piece or Mhorgoth’s huge Undead Army now is the time! To claim worldwide free delivery simply type in FREEDELWW in the discount code section. Some of our deals and offers contain whole heaps of plastic and metal figures, so if you've been tempted by something already, or thought something was a little out of reach, now is the time to grab it! Click here for the store. Doing it for yourself Last week we put new articles by The Army Painter onto the website, showcasing how they've gone about building and painting their Skeleton Regiments. Click here for the store. | Challenge continues! Last week we raised a challenge – can you beat the boss in speed building a unit of 10 Skeletons? We'd like to congratulate Jozsef Ottucsak who wins himself a Warhost by setting a time of 11:48. Just as we went to print, his time was beaten by Viv Chandra in a time of 11:33, so he’s won a Warhost too! Now the question is this... can you beat him?! Click here for the challenge! Whoever has set the new lowest time by Monday March 1st wins a Warhost! New Releases The Undead range is ever growing with the following now released:
Media Spotlight We'd just like to take the time to show our recognition for all those that support us and give their time for the Mantic cause. The Chamber of Kings is a dedicated fan-forum set up by Maxwell McDougall, and includes discussion on news and rumours, miniatures and project logs. It can be found here. We hope he enjoys the Skeleton sprues we've sent him in the post as a thank you! On that note, we really want to fill the gallery with pictures of your Mantic models - please send them in using the contact us form on the site. |
