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Mantic Games announced their upcoming Warpath Kickstarter:
Coming to Kickstarter in early 2024, WARPATH is going to be a gamer's dream - fully bringing to life the fantasy of commanding enormous armies in challenging scenarios.Just like our other games, WARPATH will offer smooth and fun gameplay, brilliant miniatures, and unbeatable value.
Link: Preview on Kickstarter
Link: Mantic Games
Mantic Games is developing a new version of Warpath:
So, knowing that Firefight was going to play in the 28mm space for us for platoon/strike force sized games, I started to look at what a ruleset and scale would look like to play with big armies at a smaller model size. As usual with these things, I toyed and played with many ideas, and dragged people around my house for playtest games, using models scaled down and 3D printed to test things like base sizes and “feel”. I settled on round bases of 4 infantry/2 heavy infantry/1 walker, and oval bases for vehicles. Round bases felt right for sci-fi, and having bases for vehicles helped clean up some rules (and they look cool!).
Two of my main aims were to capture the flavour of previous small-scale sci-fi games from a nostalgic point of view, and also to blend that with the modern statlines, faction orders, D8s and command dice of what would be its “sister games” of Deadzone and Firefight. I was fairly happy with where I got to, and the game was playing well, but certain things still needed a polish (and probably some darlings murdering), so I engaged the services of the wonderful Alessio Cavatore to come and help me work out the last bits, and flesh out the armies and points values ready for playtesting.
On the non-rules side of things, we’ve worked out what we think is a nice scale for infantry and vehicles. With a view to a potential retail launch, we’ve sourced a plastic terrain range and sculpted new components for it to match the design of our 28mm sci-fi battlezones terrain. We’ve planned possible plastic frames and a 2-player set, as well as starting sculpting test models and getting new tank concepts made.
We’ve even had the logo made and art done for the 2-player box!
The picture gives away the two planned armies in the box – Enforcers and Plague, with plenty of infantry, tanks (Enforcer Panther tanks!) and walkers. These armies have had the most playtesting. The follow-up two are planned to be Forge Fathers and Asterians.
OK, so why the pause?
Well, we heard rumours that a rather large company down the road from us was planning something similar, and being the size we are, we couldn’t commit to a large amount of plastic tooling in a direct-to-retail product that would probably end up competing in the same space… and at exactly the same time!
So what’s next?
Well, that’s where you guys come in. Now the other company’s game has been announced, we’d like to hear what you think of our Warpath project.
Link: Mantic Games
The Warpath Sourcebook, provides an unprecedented view of the depth of the Warpath universe, the races who live there and the state of warfare across the galaxy.Link: Mantic Games
Over the past few weeks, we've seen plenty of gamers looking for new hobby projects to keep them busy over the coming weeks. In fact, now's a great time to start that army you've always wanted to complete or finish off a project you've already started.Link: Mantic Games
We know there are plenty of people out there who love the idea of making a big sci-fi army - so we're happy to announce that the digital rules for Warpath are now TOTALLY FREE TO DOWNLOAD.
That's right, THE COMPLETE WARPATH RULEBOOK IS FREEEEE!
Enforcer Crazy Bundle (4 Defenders, 2 Medics, 10 Pathfinders, 2 DOG Drones and 2 Clear Plastic Jetbikes)Link: Mantic Games
Plague Crazy Bundle (11 3rd Gens, 1st gen, 3 2nd Gens, 3 Plague Hounds, 2 Plague Swarm and 2 Teratons)
Asterian Crazy Bundle (Overseer, 12 Cyphers, 6 Wardens, 2 Primes and 3 Sky Razors)
Matsudan Crazy Bundle – Matsudo Tectonics team, Blaine MVP, Kickstarter Exclusive Captains (Raiden, Frank Burke, Romeo Blue and Na’Huatl) and Kickstarter Exclusive Coaches (Fergus and Tracer)
Cyborgs Crazy Bundle – New Eden Revenants Team, Blaine MVP, Kickstarter Exclusive Captains (Raiden, Frank Burke, Romeo Blue and Na’Huatl) and Kickstarter Exclusive Coaches (Fergus and Tracer)
Yndij Crazy Bundle – Ninth Moon Tree Sharks Team, Blaine MVP, Kickstarter Exclusive Captains (Raiden, Frank Burke, Romeo Blue and Na’Huatl) and Kickstarter Exclusive Coaches (Fergus and Tracer)
Neobots Crazy Bundle – Draconis All-Stars Team, Blaine MVP, Kickstarter Exclusive Captains (Raiden, Frank Burke, Romeo Blue and Na’Huatl) and Kickstarter Exclusive Coaches (Fergus and Tracer)
Marauder Commandos – still need more Marauders after Orcy’s Mega Deal? This contains 10 Commandos and 5 Goblin Snipers
Rebs Troopers – join the rebellion with 10 Rebs Human Troopers, 10 Yndij and 5 Sorak
Plague Aberrations – why take 1 Aberration into the shower, when you can take 3?
Forge Father Valkyrs – you asked, so we’ve obliged. Finally, you can get the Forge Father bikes without having to buy more Deadzone boosters. You’re welcome
Marauder Raptors – seems like orc vehicles are popular at the moment, so why not get three for less than a fiver each?
All of the above cost £14.99/€17.99/$19.99 each.
Can't make it to the Open Day? We've got you covered. We'll be putting a few of the show exclusive products on our website to buy for this weekend only. These products will go live at 5PM (BST) today and will be disabled at 9AM (BST) on Tuesday 8th May. You can now find all of the products below on our website (while stocks last)Link: Mantic Games
