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Every wanted to visit Mantic Games? Well, now’s your chance!

After announcing previously that the Mantic store and gaming area would be opening up on a Friday, we’ve got some more exciting news! We are now extending the opening hours to include most weekdays and Saturdays too! Read on to find out how YOU can visit Mantic Games…

Over the past year, we’ve thoroughly enjoyed our Mantic Monday Night Club – an evening of gaming that anyone could attend and play some top-notch Mantic games. However, we were aware that some people were unable to make it on a Monday or wanted to pop over during the day to pick up some minis.

Well, after much discussion we decided we would change the day from a Monday to a Friday. What’s more, we’d open up during the day too, extending the hours to 2pm until 10pm. How exciting! Then we had even more discussion and decided ‘why not open up for even longer!’ This blog is packed with so many exclamation marks because it’s SO exciting!

So, welcome to a new and exciting era for gaming and
shopping at Mantic HQ that will see us extending opening hours throughout the
week and even the weekend. ZOMG!

VISIT MANTIC GAMES

The below visiting times will start from January 13th, 2020!

• Monday: 10am-4pm
• Tuesday: CLOSED
• Wednesday: 10am-4pm
• Thursday: 10am-4pm
• Friday: 2pm-10pm
• Saturday: 10am-6pm
• Sunday: CLOSED

We’ll have space and terrain for a variety of games from Kings of War to Deadzone and an occasional DreadBall match thrown in for good measure. To book a table, please email store@manticgames.com

Of course, the store will be open during this time too – so
if you need some minis to complete your Mantic army or even some Army Painter
bits, then we’ll have those on offer too. We’ll also be expanding the products
available in the store too… stay tuned for more details on that.

We’re super excited about having the gaming hall open for
more games (and we may even get to play some games ourselves). To keep up to date
with what’s happening in the store, make sure you keep an eye on the Facebook Page for all the
latest info.

TOURS

We’re also pleased to offer Tours of Mantic HQ so you can see how some of our miniatures made and perhaps encounter the elusive, lesser-spotted Ronnie stalking through the corridors. Tours take place at 2pm. Please email store@manticgames.com in advance to let us know when you would like to visit.

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Ronnie here and it’s
my turn to take over the blog! Mantic launched The Walking Dead (TWD) back at
the end of 2016 – yeah, I know right? Seems like it was just yesterday.

It was a massive success both at retail and via the Kickstarter. Over the following years, we added to the range with cool direct to retail lines, then wave 5 (The Hunters) was a brand-new release direct to retail. We followed that up with Here’s Negan and Call to Arms – a more skirmish PvP take on the story – to reflect how the weapons and the character tooled up as the story progressed!

Considering that The Walking Dead has been around so long, it’s still one of Mantic’s top-selling ranges, with an active community and a very creative tournament scene, kept going by the likes of T&G Productions.

If you know what’s
happened in the comics this year, you’ll be aware there’s been a major shake-up
(no spoilers here). But look, even if the comics have undergone some ‘changes’
– ahem – and the TV series is only
getting 16 million viewers a week – we’re still up for supporting The Walking
Dead: All Out War and Call to Arms… if you are too Looking
ahead in the storyline, compared to where we are now, there are many stories to
play through and neat characters to sculpt and add to the collection.

We know last year was a bit slow for All Out War releases. With Call to Arms and Kings of War (plus support for Vanguard and Deadzone) we had a bit for everyone, but not enough Walking Dead for some. Well, we are coming back like the dead rising!

It all kicks off with the
Hilltop storyline in March – and we’ll be bringing some of the sexy, new stuff
to Adepticon too. In March/April we’ll be releasing Rick (Alexandria Leader) Booster,
Aaron and Rick Booster, Heath Booster, Jesus Booster and Maggie (Hilltop
Leader) Booster.

Alongside (or hot on
the heels of) that we have a very comprehensive support range to add to the
retail release featuring one of the surprise top sellers in the whole Walking
Dead launch. You might be shocked to hear that after the core game itself, the
top selling line was… drum roll please… the Scenery set. You know, the set with
the cars, barricades and objective markers (which also double as very nice
scatter bits). Now we don’t think all those bits just sold to Walking Dead –
and we don’t expect the same here – but they do fit mighty fine on those
Walking Dead themed tables I have seen you all building!

This year we are releasing the full zombie apocalypse/contemporary warzone pieces from the second TerrainCrate Kickstarter! So now you will absolutely have no excuse for not building the nicest gaming tables of any system And one of those sets works rather well with the Here’s Negan game – just in case you wondered!

But it isn’t all about
the sculpts – we also have the Walking Dead Gamer’s Omnibus (working title!).
We will pull together all the scenarios from waves one through five, add more
AOW scenarios covering the next phase in the story, then add a few new
scenarios for Call to Arms. There will also be extra scenarios, like Rick
clearing the prison (using the tiles from Here’s Negan). The result will be a
book that collates everything together for The Walking Dead in one awesome collection.

If all that isn’t interesting enough… King Ezekiel will be this year’s show exclusive. He will be making his debut at Adepticon and Salute, then online for the May Mantic Open day – for those who can’t get to shows.

And no doubt you want
me to leak what we are sculpting next. Well I won’t shout about it, but I might
whisper it at some point

Have a great 2020, and
thanks for all the fantastic support we have had for everything Walking
Dead-related in 2019.

Best wishes,

Ronnie

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Hope you’ve been enjoying all the blogs! So far, we’ve covered Kings of War, Hellboy, TerrainCrate, organised play and today we’re talking about Vanguard.

After launching Vanguard back in 2018, the game has continued
to grow throughout 2019 and we now have nine(!) full warbands available. The
list is:

• Basileans
• Dwarfs
• Forces of the Abyss
• Forces of Nature
• Goblins
• Nightstalkers
• Northern Alliance
• Trident Realm
• Undead

The tournament scene for Vanguard has also continued to grow
throughout the year, with two sold out events here at HQ and plenty of others dotted
around the world. If you’re quick, there’s even one taking place on January 11^th!
Winter Vanguard is organised by our pals over at Weight of Fire and you can
check the details here.

However, we’re only just getting started on our Vanguard
journey. In 2020 we’ve got plenty of exciting stuff planned, including new
warbands, another Spearhead tournament and lots more. Read on to find out what’s
in store…

ABYSSAL DWARFS

It all kicks off next month with the launch of the Abyssal
Dwarf warband… and there are a lot of very excited people about this. That’s mainly
because it heralds the launch of our brand-new naughty dwarf hard plastic
sprue, which you can see below. These minis have been turning heads in the
office and they’re definitely going to cause a stir on the tabletop.

The little chaps are joined by some mighty monsters too,
including the fantastic Charnox, Infernox and Hexcaster… the latter of which
have profiles in Kings of War.

But that’s not all because the Abyssal Dwarfs are joined by
the Ratkin Slave Reinforcement Pack. That’s right, for the first time ever
we’re officially releasing Ratkin miniatures. Hmm… wouldn’t it be nice if we did
something like these in hard plastic one day? Time to pray to the Ratkin god,
Cheesus. That’s a thing, right?!

Just like the other full warband releases, we’ve gone back
to the original Abyssal Dwarf list and included some tweaks and adjustments to
ensure they’re well balanced and fun to play. We’ll have a full preview closer
to launch but the big gameplay elements for the Abyssal Dwarfs are the way they
interact with slaves and Power! Stay tuned to the Mantic blog for more details!

OGRES

In June we’re planning the release of the Ogre warband. This
will include some awesome new miniatures, like the Boomer Sergeant and (finally)
Ogre Siege Breakers. No pics at the moment, but we reckon these are going to be
very popular.

SPEARHEAD III

As if June wasn’t already exciting enough, we’re planning our THIRD Spearhead tournament. Both of the previous events have sold out and we expect this one to sell out too. We’ve got 28 tickets available and all attendees receive a £25 voucher to spend in the on-site Mantic store on the day. Head here to get your ticket before they sell out.

AND FINALLY…

Ok, this is a big one. Following on from the launch of Kings of War: Third Edition we know that a lot of people are starting new armies and may have a few models spare. These extra models – along with the heroes for your KoW army – are perfect for starting your Vanguard warband.

So, to make the transition from Kings of War into Vanguard that much easier, we’ve updated the free warband lists on the website with ALL the current stats. The free PDF now includes all the updated stats from Ice & Iron, along with the stat entries for units that were previously only available as cards when purchasing the warbands. You can download the updated PDF here and don’t forget the core rules are still free to download too – perfect if you’re starting out!

This will make the barrier for entry into Vanguard that much
smaller and will also be easier for checking out the abilities of your
opponents’ warbands too.

As you can see, there’s plenty planned for Vanguard in 2020
and we’ll be back soon with an in-depth preview of the Abyssal Dwarfs.

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Happy New Year everyone, Martin here – I wrote this a few days ago as I predicted a hangover for today I hope you all had a great Christmas and Santa Claus was kind!

So 2020 is looking absolutely huge for Organised Play. One quick look at the two Kings of War community run resources KoWmasters and KoWtournaments shows that every month there is a tournament running at a store or club near you!

To support such amazing community activity we are launching a brand new Organised Play kit in January. The kit will have a fantastic token set made by our friends at Kraken Wargames plus certificates, spot prizes and a ‘how to run a tournament’ guide for those just starting their Tournament Organising journey. Check out the webstore soon for when they go live!

But that’s not all. Vanguard will get an updated OP Kit in February. Only available through stores, this updated set will have a brand new Mercenary for players to collect. For those needing a clue, she is a certain angry Varangur….

Adepticon is fast approaching and we have some super events for you once again. For Deazone there is the Battle for Schaum-berg IV on the Saturday. And across both Saturday and Sunday there is the BIG one. Clash of Kings North America! The highest placed Mantic Army can once again win travel to play in COK UK 2020. Both the events are live and you can register here.

Clash of Kings UK is in October 2020 and this year we have more qualifying events than ever before… so grab your ticket

• London – March 8th – Erit Bellum II – Franticon – Dark Sphere, London
• Scotland – March 21st and 22nd – King beyond the wall 7: The Wild – Common Ground Games, Stirling
• Midlands – 2nd May – Summer Offensive – Black Dragon Miniatures, Hinkley
• North – 6th and 7th June – Northern Kings GT 2020 – Element Games, Stockport.
• South East – 13th June – Jack of Herts 4: School Fundraiser – Aycliffe Drive Primary School
• South West and Wales – 25th and 26th July – South West Clash 4 – Bristol Independent Gaming
• Battle Masters 2020 – 22nd August – VC Games Presents – Midlands – Loughborough RFC
• Spain – 22nd February – Hispania Wargames – Malaga

MANTIC CLUB!

One of the big changes for 2020 is that we’re changing the gaming club at HQ. Instead of being held every other Monday, we’ll be opening our doors from 2pm on Fridays.

This means you can wind down after a hard week at work by playing some of our fine games at HQ. We’ll also be open until slightly later too (10pm, in fact) so there’s plenty of time for dice-rolling action.

Make sure you join the Mantic Friday Night Club on Facebook to arrange games, find out what’s happening and more! We’ll see you from January 10th!

PATHFINDERS

Pathfinders are Mantic’s army of excited and energetic demo and event volunteers. Each Pathfinder is a Mantic ambassador – a volunteer who has kindly given up their time to spread the word of Mantic in stores, clubs and events. They are available to our retailers to help with their events and to help promote our products in their stores.

Pathfinders are exuberant people who are passionate about Mantic. They are tasked with being infectious and building excitement in customers. They do this through:

• Getting them to play our great range of games.
• Showing them how great our miniatures are, and that they can be used in all manner of Fantasy and Science Fiction games!
• Introduce the notion to people that there is an affordable high quality alternative miniature range available to them.

Mantic is always looking for excited individuals who love to spread the Mantic message. In 2020 we want to expand the scheme and recruit more passionate individuals.  If you are interested in showing people Mantic models and games then please send an email to Pathfinders@manticgames.com and we will get back to you with more information!

If this sounds like something you’d like to get behind, then get your email to us soon! Only two more blogs to go, tomorrow we’ll be back with Vanguard and then it’s The Walking Dead on Friday.

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Hi Martin here. I hope you had an amazing Christmas and are getting prepared for a exciting New Year Eve celebration?

Now… is it just me or does it feel like we have just got started with Terrain Crate [Reader response: no, it isn’t just you Martin]. After a great 18 months of releases, where we have barely been able to keep up with demand we are looking to push the Terrain Crate range into the stratosphere. Next year is looking jam packed full of products that will help bring your tabletop gaming to life!

First up is an introduction to a new range of minis for all your fantasy RPG games. Welcome to Dungeon Essentials…

The first two products from the Dungeon Essentials line are ‘Dungeon Dead’ and ‘Dungeon Creatures’. The keen eyed will recognise them as the bad guys from the Wild Hunt and B.P.R.D. Archives for Hellboy: the Board Game… now everyone can use them whenever you need some evil on your tabletop.

With the Terrain Crate 2 Kickstarter shipping in April, the retail launch is planned afterwards (much like we did for TC#1).

Over several waves and ranging from blisters, medium sets and mega sets, we will release themed to retail throughout the year. The themes are:

• Modern Apocalypse  – great for games like The Walking Dead or Ash Barker’s Last Days
• Battle-Scarred Town – perfect for historical games, like Bolt Action or to mix in with your Walking Dead scenery
• Gothic Manor – compliment your existing dungeon terrain with the Gothic Manor
• Idyllic Village – a great mix of modern and more historical scenery for a huge selection of games

And we finish on some more great news. The GM’s Starter Set is BACK! Better packaging, better contents, same amazing price. This bestseller will be back on the shelves in February, so look out for it in your local store.

Plenty of great stuff coming up for TerrainCrate then in 2020 and the original dungeon terrain is still available in stores.

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Welcome back to another of our Christmas blogs! After kicking things off with a Cyber Sale yesterday, today we’re covering what’s coming up for Kings of War in 2020. Spoiler – it’s a LOT.

First up it’s worth saying that the Kings of War: Third Edition launch went amazingly well and continues to perform fantastically. The response from the gaming community has been epic and we’ve seen players new and old getting stuck into Kings of War like never before. Community projects like the Blackjack Legacy Slow Grow campaign are really helping to inspire people (including Mantic staff) to get involved and paint up their armies. And even Ronnie got his dwarf army finished.

In 2020 we’re going to continue to grow the Kings of War
community and pretty much every month we’ve got a Kings of War-related release
or we’ll be talking about something new coming up for the game. Basically, 2020
is the year of fantasy (lowercase f)! We’re not going to run through everything
here, but we’ll pick out some of the most exciting elements.

NIGHTSTALKER UNITS

Since the Nightstalkers first slithered their way into the world last year, we’ve had numerous requests from players to release units like the Reapers, Phantoms and Shadowhounds outside of the mega army or army boxes. Well, hold onto your butts because these are all available to order RIGHT NOW! They’ll be shipping from January 20^th, alongside the Gamer’s Edition rulebook.

That’s not all for January because we’ve also got the Northern Alliance Dwarf Clansmen Reinforcement Pack – predominantly for Vanguard, but you could mix them into a unit of standard dwarfs for a Kings of War unit.

Plus, there’s the wonderful Crocodog ‘pet’ for ogres.

ABYSSAL DWARFS

Moving into February and March and we’ve got some short,
angry customers for Vanguard and Kings of War! The Abyssal Dwarf are marching
into view alongside a host of nasty monsters and new heroes.

The big news though (no pun intended) is that the Abyssal
Dwarf release features the first ever hard plastic sprue for naughty dwarfs. On
the sprue you’ll find the pieces needed to build Blacksouls or Decimators.
These are some of the nicest hard plastic fantasy miniatures we’ve ever made
and we can’t wait to get them in your eager hands!

In February we’re kicking the Abyssal Dwarf celebrations with a new Vanguard wardband (more on that next week), then in March we’ve got the full force of the Abyssal Dwarfs, with the army and mega army, along with Grotesques, core infantry and the amazing Hellfane. If you thought the Steel Behemoth was cool, then the Abyssal Dwarfs have gone one step further with this magnificent monster.

GOBLINS

Skipping forward to the summer and there’s something mean and green on the horizon… goblins! After the huge popularity of the goblins in Vanguard, particularly the Reinforcement Pack with a Rabble, Spitter and Sharpstick goblin, we’ve gone back to give the hard plastic sprue a massive overhaul. The aim is to produce goblins that look more like those fantastic metal ones from Vanguard.

Using everything we’ve learnt about making awesome, multi-purpose hard plastic kits over the past few years, we’ve redesigned the goblin sprue so you’ll be able to make Rabble, Sharpsticks or Spitters from the same kit. If these pictures don’t get your green juices flowing, then we don’t know what will.

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN

As if all this wasn’t exciting enough… we’re building up to
a massive Kings of War global campaign later this year. After the great success
of Edge of the Abyss, which introduced new characters, formations and changed
the game map, this year’s global campaign will be even bigger.

The Abyssal Dwarfs have been digging deeper than ever
underneath the Halpi Mountains and they’re close to unleashing an ancient magic
that can be used by the Forces of Good and Evil for their noble or nefarious
agendas.

We’ll be officially announcing the date for the global
campaign (currently called Halpi’s Rift) in a few months, but now’s the time to
get your army started. Once again, the outcome of this campaign will affect the
development of Pannithor and the map will change based on YOUR results!

All this is really only the tip of iceberg for our Kings of
War releases in 2020. So, make sure you’re signed up to the Mantic newsletter
to get the latest developments on everyone’s absolute favourite mass battle
game. ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE.

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This year was an absolutely fantastic launch for Hellboy: The Board Game. After delivering the Kickstarter in Q2, we went on to release the retail edition around the globe and, in fact, we’ve already sold out of the first print run and are preparing to re-order.

Hellboy was the biggest Kickstarter we’ve ever delivered,
and it was amazing to see the excited response from backers when they received
that mighty box of goodies! In fact, we’re sure some of you probably still
haven’t got around to playing with everything in the package.

What’s more, after the success of Holiday Hellboy in 2018, this year we unveiled the spooky Krampus. It’s worth noting that if you haven’t already ordered your limited edition Krampus, today is the FINAL CHANCE to get this very limited edition resin gaming piece. We’ll start the delivery next week for those that have already got theirs pre-ordered.

But what about 2020? What could that possibly hold?! Well, read
on dear blog explorer!

RELEASING OTHER EXPANSIONS FROM THE KICKSTARTER

The Kickstarter produced a massive amount of content,
including some additional expansions and extra content. During the course of
2020, we’ll start to release some of the extra products funded so that players
who currently only have the retail game can start collecting those sweet
expansions.

We’ll be kicking things off with Hellboy in Mexico in March.
This is a limited edition, one-print expansion and was definitely one of the
most fun elements of the Kickstarter campaign. The expansion tells the story of
Hellboy’s lost period in Mexico fighting vampires alongside three Luchadores.
Also includes a giant wrestling vampire bat… which is always good.

Then in May we’ve got the B.P.R.D. Archives expansion. This
allows you to create your own Case Files featuring different minions and
bosses. It will also come with additional minions, including witches,
werewolves and more! Alongside the B.P.R.D. Archives we’ll also have two
smaller boosters featuring Hecate and Baba Yaga.

BUSTS!

One element of the Kickstarter that was very popular among
fans was the small busts of Hellboy, Liz, Abe, Johann, Lobster Johnson and
Roger. In fact, we had a lot of painters ask if we were doing larger versions
with more detail. Well, the good news is that we will be releasing larger
busts! Hooray.

We’ve gone back to the original sculpts to include more
detail and make them considerably larger (approximately 9cm). Detailed busts
like these are hugely popular among hobby painters and we can’t wait to see
some of your awesome paint jobs. They’re due for release in spring.

LIMITED EDITIONS!

Just like Hellboy Holiday, Nimue and Krampus, we’re also
planning some surprise limited editions and a show exclusive in time for
GenCon. We’re not quite ready to spill the beans on all of them yet, but the
below image might give you a clue about one figure we’re keen to do.

So, there you have a sneak peek at some of the things we’ve got
planned for Hellboy: The Board Game in 2020… although there still might be one
or two surprises up our sleeves. Thanks again for the massive support in 2019
and here’s to an exciting 2020.

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