Pesky Goblins Scamper Into Mantic Games’ Vanguard
April 30, 2019 by brennon
Mantic Games has now released a whole load of pesky Goblins into the mix for those that want to play as these scampering greenskins in Kings Of War Vanguard.
The current collection offers up a range of different characters for you to snap up as well as regular troopers to help bulk up the force too. For example, above you can see the stealthy Snaggit who will be hoping to trap some unsuspecting Elves in his dastardly trap.
If you feel like you're in need of some added muscle you also have these heftier Goblins, the Luggits. These fellows are carrying around some rather large weapons capable of bringing those annoying big'uns down without too much issue.
I really like the sculpting that we're seeing here for the Goblins; even the older sculpts work out really well.
The Spitters, for example, are still looking good and could form the backbone of your ambushing Vanguard force.
The thing that works with these miniatures I think is the fact that they've looked towards that classic Goblin appearance. The long noses, drooping ears and sinister smiles make them feel very characterful.
You can even get some insane Goblin contraptions over on their section of the webstore like the Wingit!
As well as that, we got a peek at a stat card for one of the other contraptions which had been done up for Vanguard. Who wouldn't want to launch puppies at the enemy?
I think this is a very fun new force for you to consider diving into on the tabletop, offering up a chance to develop a warband that would work in the narrative world of Vanguard before potentially upgrading it for Kings Of War proper.
Also, I reckon these Goblins would make for an utterly awesome new SAGA: Age Of Magic force too...
What do you reckon to these new Goblins?
"Who wouldn't want to launch puppies at the enemy?"
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I do have a lot of the older plastic Mantic Goblins from their old kickstarter. The quality just wasn’t there and I never did anything with them. Love the Wingit though. Models like this might get me motivated enough to get the Gobbos on the battlefield sometime soon.
£100 quid though, wonder if they will do a Vanguard faction starter rather than a mega bundle
There is a Warband Starter on the Mantic site. £29.99. It contains 10 plastic Spitters, metal Rabble Upgrades, 1 Stinggit, 1 Sneak and warband cards. Also, Mantic are throwing in a free Biggit model for a limited time.
It still doesn’t compare favourably with the other starter sets. It’s basically a Goblin Troop plus two resin characters. I think you get a lot more bang for your buck with the other sets. The free Biggit makes it almost competitive but if that’s a limited time offer it’s going to fade fast when it ends just because I think you get a much better selection of troops in the other sets
Do have a look at their website, it looks as if the Gobbos have been naughty before their launch!!!!! Havne’t laughed as much in a long time.
Those are some nice looking gobbos. I really like those two with big weapons because you don’t often see gobbos with weapons like those.
I’m hoping this is a prelude to them updating some of the kings of war models as these are really nice
They’re nice but quite a bit pricier than I thought they were going to be! Are they resin?
A mixture of resin, plastic and metal
THEY ARE RELEASED ?!?!?! …… *dashes off to Mantic website*