Mantic Games Show Off DeadZone At Salute 2013
April 22, 2013 by brennon
Mantic Games were at Salute 2013 this weekend and one of the games they had around their stall was DeadZone, the upcoming Sci-Fi skirmish game involving Enforcers and some deadly mutated foes. Check out some of the images we got of the game and its models...
To begin with this is the piece of artwork that we'd seen previously showing off the chunky Enforcers and some awesome looking models for them to fight against. Here are some of those beasties below...
So as you can see it's certainly a skirmish game based on a small board or mat packed with plastic terrain. And now you've had a look at the infected enemies of the Enforcers, let's see what they have to deal with the threat.
Here we have a new sculpt for an Enforcer Captain, a cloaked and deadly looking Enforcer Sniper and also a model controlling a turret emplacement. It all looks very impressive right now and hopefully this will be a game that allows for a bit of expansion.
That was the fun part of Dwarf King's Hold and something that was lacking in terms of Project Pandora. It's also neat to see the Enforcers out and about, certainly a jewel in the Warpath crown.
Thanks to mattjgilbert and FyD Forja y Desván TV for some of the images!
Are you looking forwards to DeadZone?
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Is it friday yet?
As things stand the game is for two players and it’s designed for a 2×2 board. Future expansions might make it multiplayer though there aren’t any plans to increase the size of the playing area.
Well I suppose that confirms the enforcers are actually human now you can see there faces. Though I wonder if the people recruited that had a certain gene are actually the ones inside the armour or if they were the payment and there actually In Vitro soldiers.
Ah-ha! I spy my future Cerberus Engineers..
And if you changes the heads of “the plage” you have Cerberus vs Collectors! This one is clearly a must.
Really like these models! Definitely an improvement imho.
I would change the name from “deadly mutated foes” though, as it makes them a bit bland. 😛 hehe.
wasn’t 100% sold on the look of the plague models with guns, but with a change of colour scheme I think this would be a cool proxy ‘gears of war’ game, we got the uber troopers(COGS) vs uglies(locust/grubs) and the uglies have got a really big angry dude(berserker) with a guy that looks fast and is jumping over a wall(wretch)
Did anyone see how the terrain goes together? Do you have to glue the square panels together or do they have some kind of clip so they can be broken down again? Looks to be a edge strip thing on the buildings but the rooftops don’t have any support in the middle so is that glued or a 6×2 single piece?
Despite what it looks like in the photos, the scenery will clip together and be made up of 3×3 pieces.
modular plastic terrain? i think the kickstarter will do well on this product alone
Pffft, wake me up when someone at Mantic has an original idea. This is clearly a Sedition Wars ripoff. Just as any other game they have designed. Dreadball? Blood Bowl. Warpath? 40k Kings of War? WH Fantasy…
Ok how do I put this, and feel free to shoot me down. Mantic are a miniatures company and they have quite obviously found a niche for models that can be used for their own games and other companies as a cheap alternative, That is a given. Kings of war is a fantasy wargame, GW didnt invent fantasy wargames, but they are the most popular, would you rather buy 10 GW skellies for £15.50 or 20 mantic ones for £14.99. would you rather buy 10 GW orc boyz for £18, or 20 mantic orc marauders for £14.99. they are giving… Read more »
Monsters of the Midway > GW’s Blood Bowl
– 2 years between original and clone
– same sports-simulation (american football)
– same setting (fantasy)
GW’s Blood Bowl > DreadBall
– 11 years between (most recent) BB edition and DreadBall
– different sports-simulation (american football vs. speed/handball
– different setting (fantasy vs. sci-fi).
Arguably, Mantic puts more originality in it than GW ever did…
GW didn’t invent sport. And Dreadball (written by an ex GW man mind you) has a different rule set, different mechanics.
Gods forbid I defend GW, don’t get me wrong, they’re not original at all, in fact they are one of the companies with more “homages” through their universe(s).
My point was, I’d rather Mantic (or any other company for that matter) do their own thing than offer alternative minis for GW games.
Looks like Cerberus and the Reapers have troops on the ground. No problem, Shep’ will take care of them.
Heh I wonder if we might see some (more) mass effect inspired minis in the KS? Considering the not-Geth and not-Salarians in the Dreadball KS it doesn’t seem out of the question!
So only the two sides (factions)?
Unless multiple factions our group will so not care.
initially it will be 2 factions, but i think the plan is other warpath factions will be available as stretch goals, well at least thats the vibe i get from the mantic forum
The number of the factions is definitely tied to the success of the KS.
You’re right, but if Mantic get it right, it shouldn’t be an issue.
They have plenty of existing Warpath minis that they can provide Deadzone rules for, even if they’re not included in the box.
Actually this: http://pinsofwar.com/warpath-deadzone-kickstarter-soon/ hints quite heavily that the other factions will get to play.
If the KS does well enough then a lot of other factions will get to play. We’ll definitely get the rules, the terrain, and the two factions (as I have no doubt the funding target will be hit very quickly). Everything else depends on how well the campaign does.
I actually thought Space Hulk more so than Sedition Wars. I gotta say the minis in the pics look great for mantic. But I’d be interested in seeing the actual plastic productions models, not the primo resin ones from marketing.
The fugly guys with guns are the closest production models I’ve seen to date for LatD mutants, albeit on ‘roids, which still makes me happy 🙂
This aside I always welcome new plastic terrain and smaller games in a box. More choice = yay!
@demyse I don’t just like mantic models for the price my personnel preference on looks is the mantic models. I just wish there was more variation like on the elf and undead sprue’s of 10. Sure the price is also a good thing as well but I actually prefer there models which goes with your point about options.
I agree there are some mantic minis I love (their zombies are fab in my opinion) I was just using price as an example. I am looking forward to this game, guess I will be hitting f5 frantically on friday to try and get an early bird at their ‘pledge here to get freebies’ level. (if they are doing one this time, which I hope they are)
Actually I am not interested in this game, I’m only interested in the models – I hope they release them as Warpath squads etc.
Visually, I’ve never been more impressed with Mantic. I really do think these guys look great.
There’s definitely a little bit of a Gears of War vibe going on with these models, especially the large monster, who looks a lot like a beserker.
Thank you for mention us 😉 from the Forja y Desvan TV team.