July 7, 2011 by dignity
Andy chats with Ronnie and Alessio as they discuss some of the background for the other races in Warpath.
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FISHMEN!!! WE NEED FISHMEN!!!
Fishmen In Space /nod
sounds: ok.
Plague for me, thank you.Now, where´s my concept sketches? 🙂
Tentacles around your mouth eh? So warpath has Humans, dwarfs, orx, elves, Hippies, zombies, something, something else, AND ZOIDBERG! woopwoopwoopwoopwoop! *clicks claws like castanets*
I like the way everythings being fitted into the universe, I was sceptical about zombies (in spaaace), but like Reavers in serenity , it kind of works.
I’m talking about the eighth race, I’m talking … oh no …. no …. no, no, nooooooooooooooo …
Ha! Ha! now you know what hapens when you break the rules. Rules are your friends. OBAY, OBAY! whaahahaha
I am looking forward to more details. I like the idea of the plauge, it seems more sci-fi than say chaos or something so ‘mystical’ like that I like fantasy and I like sci-fi but I don’t like the idea of mixing them as much. though somehow I still managed in 40k verse….
ZOMBIEEESSSS!!!…IN SPAAAACE!!! Something like this (but better, of course)?
http://www.mutantpedia.com/Immagini,%20Avatar%20e%20Video/Immagini%20Mutant%20Chronicles/Studio%20Parente/kr-legion2.jpg
I’m drawn in deeper with every tid bit
I’m hoping The Plague will let me play an army akin to the Necromorphs from Dead Space, because that would be AWESOME
Hrm, still on the side-line myself – the tentacles/mouths bit peaked my interest, if they allow armies of big shoggoth/lovecraftian abominations id be happy. No interest in the zombies part though, too humanoid for my taste.
Sounds promising thus far…really like the idea of the Plague and the Reb’s. Not to mention how cool the concept sketches have been for the Forgefathers & Marauders. I really want to know more about the Zorg (& the *cough*8th race*cough*). Looking forward to the backstagers only preview on the Zorg! :p to you non-backstagers! lol 😉
Sorry not Zorg…Zz’or! Yay for Backstage…:D
The plague sound liek a really interesting choice, although the models will decide it for me. Also whats this about an eigh-*muffled sounds of a struggle*…
Well that reveals all of them. Let’s recap: Corporation – humans bent on corporate takeover of the galaxy Forgefathers – ancient civilization of strip miners Marauders – failed takeover of the corporation that now work as mercenaries and overall badasses Rebs – alliance of humans and other small races fighting the man (corp) Asterians – mysterious…thats all we know… oh and something about black holes The Plague – zombie apocalypse all controlled by a central virus… in space Zz’or – a veritable hornets nest of bugs that have been shooken up and are spreading far The 8th race – This… Read more »
still the same here what am I complaining about ? – That the ideas are nothing new [not talking about new miniatures but IDEAS…because I really would like to see a real new setting instead of new miniatures only …cool miniatures for something appear almost on a daily basis but these ideas are decades old] Its all been there before and I still believe they could do way better and be really witty because they actually are good designers and smart people so we actually have is : Corporation [humans that violently conquer space and extinguish other races for their… Read more »
Since GW where such huge arse holes about Dwarves in space I really don’t think they can still claim anything to that point. Furthermore it is just you that want to make it into yet another Mass Effect like thing. I mean name how many fantasy races in space wargames there are with actual rules? Not miniature making companies that just make them so those “Poor Squat gamers can keep playing, or play them as Demiurg”. Infact it is far more common to invent really different things then Fantasy in the SciFi setting and thus your argument is flawed. Furthermore… Read more »
For his Hairstyle I mean. Everybody knows only GW can have Bald men in armour suits. Everybody else is ripping them off ;).
its ok ^^ at least someone takes the time to actually say something ^^ better than just sneaking the minus karma in , will answer tomorrow I am simply to sleepy right now to get it together in a foreign language ^^
but to actually add something right now I think you are still not get my point right, your answers show that you look at this too superficial right now ( but maybe I simply failed to convey it which could be quite possible as this all still a foreign language for me ^^ ) in short – small differences dont make it something completely different . Simple example : its not two completely different human factions that happen to fight against each other, its : First faction has kind of a fascistic idea – a greater ideal that is immoral… Read more »
sorry …we need an edit button for this :
forgot to mention about the tyranid thing: think about why everyone of them has 6 extremities like an insect ( besides arachnoid’s ^^ ) and why some insects form colonies ( with a Queen/hive mind , google for superorganism or look it up on wikipedia )
I’ll reply here – the other posts won’t let me. You’re basically saying that even though the idea behind the Corporation’s Imperium-of-Man-style dominance is different, and even though they may look different, that isn’t enough and it’s still ripping off GW. There are very few original ideas around any more, and to say that no idea can be changed a little to make something new, that you have to completely invent from scratch, would seriously hamper the creative and intellectual development of the world. By your argument GW haven’t developed their derivative works enough, since Spess Mahreens come from Starship… Read more »
@thc303 “If you truly want original works, you need to support them and get others to do so” this actually is my way of trying as I am not criticizing the Company as a whole – in fact I praised them on different occasions for being so brave to even make this step, to get it out with an alpha status and let a community of players help them. AND on more than one occasion I emphasized how I deeply believe in their abilities to come up with something better than just a slight alteration of already existing topics and… Read more »
@partisan I agree that mantic might make more waves with some slightly more original concepts, but it seems like part of their sales strategy to cross-pollinate their models with gw’s. They seem to (1) want current 40k players buy warpath models for their armies while (2) old 40k players become warpath converts using their existing collections. Anyone that argues the first point is delusional, mantic had at least two kow armies before the game was concieved. I also don’t agree with your army comparisons, not that the background is a direct crossover anyway. forgefathers: roughly squats, but given a bigger… Read more »
will get to this later the day but have your karma right away ^^
hey sorry thought all day what I could say but somehow I didnt figured anything out that would be smart and clever so I thought it would be best just to leave it that way ^^.
Love the idea of the Rebs being a multi-racial army. That is something missing from some more xenophobic sci-fi games we all know. I will definitely be signing up for that faction!
The Rebs are nice but the best thing you said is : “Because sometimes we have to erase the population of a planet and the most simple thing is to realise a virus and kill them all ” That phrase said how war would be in the future 😛
Probably the only thing that constrains the Corporation is the cost of resettlement. Why virus bomb perfectly good human drones when you can incorporate them? A crop of humans take a long time to grow, and if space travel is a challenge (ie, months/years of travel between planets) shifting thousands/millions of people is prohibitively expensive. Just saying: The Corp is obviously the Big Evil, but they probably try and do everything cheaply.
Humans breed like rabbits ;). 100 years is nothing in the Spacetime of the Universe ;).
Slight type on the overlay at the start of the video where it says ‘ovrelay’ instead of ‘overlay’ lol.
But yes – the Rebs are now vying for the ”this is a must” for my love in Warpath. I was all about the Forgefathers but these guys sound pretty awesome. Can’t wait to see the concepts/minis.
P.S….damn it, ‘typo’ not ‘type’ lol
The more I hear about the Rebs, the more I’m liking Warpath. I wonder if I can re-create an Independant Army ala “Firefly” fluff? Down with the Corporation!
We both want to know if the Rebs wear brown coats.
id like 2 see a furry race cats(wing commander) or even a dog/wolf race mybe even other animals like rodents
Quite excited by The Plague army, sure I did a post somewhere about how a flood type army would be great as you could make 50% of the units with small sprues of conversion bits to add to normal units. When you say zombies in space, how in far space? I mean are they going to be zombie troopers, zombie Mass-effect type future civilians in wetsuits or zombie low level colonists/corporate guys in jeans, suits and jackets? I vote colonist, basically because I want multi-part clothed zombies. That would be a useful sprue. Still going to have labourers, scientists and… Read more »
liking this more and more.
a little Firefly (corp, rebs and plauge)
a little Starship troopers (ZZor)
a bit of D&D (some good old fashioned ork bashing, and some flighty pointy ears.)
and a little bit of mystery (8th race)
think i’m gonna enjoy this a lot. thanks Mantic!
And I thought I’d be the first to hear Corporation, Rebs, Plague and think Alliance, Browncoats, Reavers…
Good to know I’m not alone…
I’d be interested to know if there was actually a little Whedon influence in the design process.
Great job Mantic, the more I hear, the more I like!
Hmpf, I know mantic lives from ripping off GW shares by producing cheaper, above average Minis that are compatible with Warhammer, but these back stories are so lame that a “in space” is equally sufficient. Ronny seems to feel very uncomfortable to present this as real background . I hope the “forgefathers” are not the only “new” race they put out. I think Infinity or Warmachine/Hordes are definitely more interesting as an GW substitute than Warpath or Kings of War because they try to do something new with a real intend to create an interesting background and not these excuses… Read more »
I’m not really feeling the love here yet, Mantic. Seriously, dudes- SOME of the races just plane suck. You could have done one better by just running some sort of a VOR Part 2 thing “Hey YOU can make your own race, and this and that and yadda yadda….” Or just came up with a generic template. But seriously, Your ideas were OK, for the space dwarfs, the Orks. the uh… Zombies. But the point of the issue here is that these races that you supposedly “Created” have already been done. They arn’t very interesting, your not putting any thought… Read more »