Mantic Games Preview What’s New For Firefight: Second Edition
January 4, 2022 by brennon
Mantic Games has been dropping details on the release of Firefight: Second Edition which will get you scrapping in the 28mm Sci-Fi world of Warpath. The Enforcers are clashing with the Marauders in a new boxed game releasing later this year.
Firefight: Second Edition // Mantic Games
There is going to be a brand new two-player starter set for the game which will come with a rulebook pack similar to what they presented with Deadzone. There will also be a refreshed collection of army sets that make it easier to get gaming with your faction of choice.
The Rulebook will focus on the GCPS and will feature up-to-date lore from Christopher Verspeak. There will also be brand new artwork as you can see here! There will also be the Force List book which will contain rules and statistics for all of the launch factions right out of the gate. That means Asterians, Enforcers, Forge Fathers, GCPS, Plague, Veer-myn and Marauders. When new factions get announced a new book will be released, once again, containing everything you need.
New Marauders
The two-player starter set mentioned earlier will feature the Enforcers taking on the Marauders and that means new hard plastic models!
Marauders // Mantic Games
Here are some of the ways you can put the new kit together. As you can see, it takes a neat approach to the design of Orcs in Mantic's Sci-Fi world. They still seem wild and filled with rage but a little more prepared and less slapdash than their grimdark cousins.
There will also be resin miniatures in the future in the form of these Commando Skyscrapers.
Commando Skyscrapers // Mantic Games
They are compatible with the plastic miniatures that are on the way so you can do plenty of mixing and matching when it comes to bitz. You will also find new Goblin Weapon Teams joining the action with some big guns.
Goblin Heavy Weapons // Mantic Game
I love that they are the ones in charge of the big guns. It will be neat to see what kinds of weapons you'll find in this set and I'm sure they will be exceptionally good at ripping through heavy armour. I still really like the way Mantic do their Goblins; I love those big noses!
New Enforcers
The Marauders aren't going to be going up against regular ol' Enforcers though. There are some new miniatures for them on the way to including the Peacekeeper Captain here.
Peacekeeper Captain // Mantic Games
Armed with a pair of Phase Claws, this Captain is ready to do some slicing and dicing. I have always liked the "Iron Man" look to the Enforcers. Would you go with the white and black look for the Enforcers or would you do something different?
Are you tempted to give Firefight a go later this year?
"I still really like the way Mantic do their Goblins; I love those big noses! "
Supported by (Turn Off)
Supported by (Turn Off)
Supported by (Turn Off)
This should be interesting. The original ‘Firefight’ rules were basically just a scaled-down skirmish version of their mass battles Warpath rules, released at a time when Mantic weren’t really promoting Warpath much at all. These new ‘Firefight 2E’ rules are actually a derivation of the Deadzone rules (from what I read, they were going to be a scaled-up version of Deadzone at one point) that Mantic had folks playtesting during summer 2021.
The new sculpts look great. The Enforcers have needed new models for a looong time now.
If I remember right, I think a month or so before Warpath was set to really launch GW beat them to the market hard with a new edition of 40K. It was a huge slap to warpaths potential and a huge strike from GW. Not to say that warpath was ever going to be insanely great, but it was a really fun game. However, with a new edition of 40k beating it to market like that it just blew it out the water. There was no chance it would ever make any ripples in the pond after that. It never… Read more »
Given how 40K has once again turned into a complete bloated pay-to-win (now pay to play!?) mess, worse than 7th edition, I think Mantic have a real chance to turn this around.
I’d doubt that anything can make ripples in a pond that has GW products in it, unless they are very very very […] very lucky in timing of their release.
Starwars Legion is the only thing (I can think of) that managed to make its presence known and it did that because in a way it is even bigger than 40k/AoS combined. (if FFG had had their supply chain sorted they’d be a decent challenge for GW)
Firefight was basically a compromise. It wasn’t the game Mantic wanted to make (that’s Warpath) and ultimately it wasn’t the game consumers wanted. That’s a better explanation of why it didn’t succeed.
Warpath itself is a strange one. It’s probably not a bad game but I can’t see it having wide appeal. The new version of Firefight has some promise I think, especially as an expanded version of Deadzone.
Great looking space dwarfs.
I never played Warpath. I backed the kickstarter for all the factions though, and multiples of the vehicles. I went in pretty deeply. I am a pretty big fan of most of Mantic’s games. During the kickstarter I was part of the group that pushed really hard for the “Firefight” variant rule set to be developed. Firefight wasn’t even something that Mantic wanted or was considering having until backers started pushing for it. The original plan was to stick with the KoW model for army units in Warpath. That is units of soldier on diorama bases, with casualties being entire… Read more »
Sometimes I forget how small a company Mantic really is, and how they don’t have the bandwidth to push all of the projects the would like to push. It did seem weird how their Warpath universe basically fell of a cliff until Deadzone 2E/3E, which seems to now be their preferred method of conveying their sci-fi world.
p.s.
Sorry about your friend.
People want individual model casualties, then GW releases its latest version of 40K Apocalypse, and infantry were fielded in groups of 5 and were removed as casualties in those same groups. Removing single models as casualties works fine for skirmish and maybe platoon level games (2-4 squads). Beyond that the table really starts getting too crowded and doing anything takes a while as there as so many individual mini’s to deal with. Honestly, with anything bigger than that I’d just prefer to have 15mm forces so I can have a whole company (or more) of infantry, tanks, and whatever else… Read more »
Those Goblin weapon teams look amazing.
None of that needless crap attached to their clothes to make them look ‘sci fi’ or ‘hard’.
Just plain ol’ soldiers ready to unleash hell at their target.
Now I’m hoping that the do a bunch of various small mechanized goblin stuff.
FINALLY we get some updated Marauders! They’ve been seriously overlooked in most if not all of Mantic’s sci-fi ranges.
oh yeah, more Deadzone goodness!
That peacekeeper looks delicious.
#deadzoneislife
i like the forge fathers more , i have loads of them
if i was to go with the enforcers i would go with an ice blue with white edges
and the weapons would be a dark orange or red colour