Explore Mantic Games Warpath Universe For Free
July 15, 2020 by avernos
Mantic Games have long made their core rulesets freely available for anybody who wants to get into playing their games, but now they've made their science fiction universe freely available also.
GCPS Enforcers Clash With Veer-Myn In Warpath
You can currently download the Warpath: Sourcebook digitally from the Mantic Website for free, gratis, nada! After a fairly packed schedule of fantasy releases for Kings of War and Vanguard, it's nice to know that they've not forgotten about the sci-fi gamers out there.
The Warpath: Sourcebook is a hefty 190 pages detailing the background of the Galatic Co-Prosperity Sphere and the factions that exist within the spheres, regions of space emanating outwards from the core as humanity took to the stars.
It breaks down the pivotal moments in the GCPS's history, from the invention of the McKinley Drive that allowed the GCPS to spread throughout the universe, to the Mandrake Rebellion and even a bit about the Sphere's most popular sport Dreadball.
Each faction gets a detailed chapter and despite being close to 200 pages it passes quickly with plenty of fluff, artwork, and miniatures splashed throughout. If you've not tried playing in Mantic's own universe it's definitely worth grabbing while it's available.
With the range of races available as Dreadball teams already there is certainly plenty of room for expansion, and while you're there you can pick up the rules for the games as well for free. Deadzone is a particularly good place to jump off from with a small model count and 2 x 2 playing area you needn't worry about taking over huge chunks of your table.
It's fantastic to see both this sourcebook and the First Strike novel available now, free rules are great but if I'm playing I prefer to know what the authors intended background is otherwise it can seem bland or like you're playing another game with different mechanics. Hopefully, this will pull other people over to the Warpath universe and encourage them to get involved and remember #Deadzoneislife
Will you be forging a path to the stars?
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I think the rats will get some action in 40k games… but I somehow have the feeling this won’t go anywhere…. it’s a too clean design somehow… :S
I adore Deadzone, and Warpath…. and Dreadball too for that matter. Mantic’s SF universe and games are a lot of fun. So if you have a free moment avail yourself of the downloads.
But really THE GREATEST THING about Mantic’s SF universe is ….SPACE DWARFS ….If like myself, you have been waiting over a QUARTER OF A CENTURY **ahem .. sorry** for the return of space dwarfs that alone is worth the time.
You need to see the new stuff coming from Wargames Atlantic….
I prefer the forge fathers to the Einherjar, they’re nice but not my cup of tea for hard sci-fi
Weirdly my game brain goes the other way.There’s something about the FF that hasn’t ever sat right in my mind.The Norse influence / embellishments in the Einherjar pushed them to the forefront for me.
May be good fighting a veer-myn invasion as an alternative to the norm.
Free Veer-myn? I smell a rat!
A man’s gouda do what a man’s gouda do.Lol?
I bought them as physical books at Salute last year and I do like the setting, it seems more real than the grimdark of 40k. Sadly I think it’s going to struggle to compete with 40k and grow, which is a shame.
I think they need to focus on building up Deadzone, it’s a fantastic game and use it as a spring board.
It will always get compared to 40K nothing can be done about that, but it’s a better game and if they can follow the model of Kings of War and have an engaged community with a living balanced game it could do well. Time will tell
There is talk of building and expanding on Deadzone… using an updated/rebooted (?) version of the Warpath Firefight skirmish game. Ronnie talked about during one of the pandemic video updates. Basically the talk is taking Deadzone ruleset and scaling it up to the Warpath: Firefight game size and still keep all the narrative/campaign elements. Which hopefully means keeping d8s as I personally find d6s so damn boring. That way there would be a game for everyones huge collection of Deadzone models. You can play Deadzone normally, or play the new larger games version and get to play with all your… Read more »
there’s the kowforum.com which has an other games section.
The discord server set up for the virtual open day has been kept open, with channels for each game.
I read the rules a couple of years ago and seemed quite good with some interesting mechanics
Well this is nice surprise to some one like me who has interest on that universe but knows nothing about it and doesn’t know anyone in here who does play those that I could ask.
More deadzone makes everything better. Bigger deadzones is betterer. Play more Deadzone, build up for new Firefight.
#deadzoneislife
#deadzoneislife