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23Apr/100

Mantic hints at more to come – Dwarves!

Just a quick note for Mantic and fantasy fans out there.

Recieving a news letter today, I was presented with the interesting image below:

Copyright (C) 2010 Mantic Entertainment Ltd All rights reserved.

clicking on it lead to an even more interesting pic...

7Mar/102

New Miniatures Review : Mantic Ghoul Regiment

I've been playing with Mantic undead for the last couple of weeks, here's the third part of my review which covers their take on the ghoul troop type.

Ghouls, from a Warhammer point of view, have changed in purpose in the last 3 editions of their army book (Vampire counts).  Until the most recent book I only owned a very small number of them to use as a skirmish unit with reasonable success in games.  In the current version of the army ghouls are ranked units again, but continue to be effective in reasonably small units (10 or so can work well).  GW sell their ghouls in 10s, which includes enough parts to create a larger leader figure, the Ghast.

The Mantic ghouls come in a smaller pack than the skeleton regiment, containing 10 figures - coincidence?  The box is very similar to the skeleton regiment's, only a bit slimmer.  It only contains 1 sheet of foam so using the case as is as a travel case wont be possible as bought, but as 20 ghouls would fit in the case you'd get a second sheet if you bought a second box.   Oh and I'll mention the price again, £8.50 for these 10 figures which is pretty good!

28Feb/100

New Miniatures Review : Mantic Skeleton Regiment – part 2

As promised here's a painting guide for skeletons using the new Mantic figures.

This is the 20th figure that was missing from my previous post.  Here's a shot of the front and back of the little chap and you'll see that he's quite nicely detailed, but not overly so for a rank and file figure.

24Feb/100

New Miniatures Review : Mantic Skeleton Regiment

It's possible Mantic has passed you by, if they have and you have an interest in 28mm fantasy wargaming then I suggest you check them out.

Very recently they launched their undead range and on Friday my skeleton and ghoul regiments turned up.  I'm planning a couple more articles on these sets, so if what you see in this first post is of interest, make sure you come back.

So this is the box that I came home to on Friday.  In size and feel its actually a lot like an old VHS video box!  The overall look is very swish and as my wife said "I was quite impressed when I saw that".