Using Mantic Armies for Warhammer
July 16, 2010 by lloyd
Ok people if you haven't seen any of the Mantic miniatures then you are truly an Ostrich! They have been hard at work on their ever expanding range and might I say this company is one of my absolute favourites. The minis look good, they’re cost effective and easy to build.
I’ll fess up when it comes to modeling minis I hate the time it can take to pull a regiment together but Mantic minis are easy to build so you can pull a regiment together really quickly that still looks fantastic, in-fact here’s a skeleton regiment being built in about 11 or 12 minutes.
Anyway to the point, we think they make a great set of alternative models for playing Warhammer so John and Darrell have a look to see how easy and cost effective it would be to use them as Warhammer Fantasy army!
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Nice, these are pretty good models, and the unit sizes are nice, gw has done it so you have to buy two or three boxes of the same unit to get a even amount. Sneaky!
is mantic going to come out with their own game system? they should.
Mantic’s latest “Whats in the box” suggests so. In the background it shows a hint of a possible game system.
If horses are from Mars, noblars are from Uranus. You could buy boxes of 16 from GW at one time, I know cause I got a box of 16 Orks. But they stopped -_-
Good models in good numbers in good boxes at a good price. Mantic, your doin’ it right!
And I hate the exclusivity in GW nowadays. If someone said to me “you can’t use that, it’s not the official kit”, he’d soon have a lot of official kits being thrown at him. And the shelves they happened to be on.
and you spelt ostrich wrong ^.^
I want Mantic Orcs SO BADLY!
I contacted Mantic last week asking if they had plans for zombies and in fact they DO!
This is the reply I got.
“Hey,
Zombies are coming. Lots of them 😉
September is looking suitably braindead, are we will be having some pretty big sets full of zombies. Dwarfs first though I’m afraid, but watch out for Zombie week coming, it’s going to be pretty fantastic.
Thanks”
So look forwards to lots of zombies in 2 months time (hopefully) 😀
I cant wait to see the hole line of dwarfs from mantic, they seem to be making much better models them GW.
I seriously hate walking into Games Workshop and getting pounced on “What army do you collect?”, “How many points is it worth?”, “Want to come to any clubs?”, “Why don’t you try buy this one *points to most expensive box on shelf* – I’ve already got one – Ah well you can always get more.” and so on and so forth, then if you say you’re fine by yourself, they give you a dirty look and storm off… atleast that’s what it’s like at my local store… Tis why i buy online or off ebay nowadays XD
GW employees get paid 13 k on avg a year, they an earn up to 21k with bonues based on their store, The more money their store makes the more Wages they get, and you have to see in this work now 13k is not alot :S so you would wnat to get that extra bit of money to feed mouths. But i do agree i felt like i got mugged 🙁 i walked in the shop jus to look at the codex for warriors of choas and walked out with£18.50 less , and then saw the FREE PDF for… Read more »
Yes, Darksphere do the best deals for GW products in the UK. And I always look online for what I can and buying the official codex if I can’t find it online and whatnot
to the defence of my local GW: the satff there are very good with me. we stand and chat and debate a lot. It was a lot different before they got their current manager who is a total star.
I have been to other GW’s where it was literally dodging sales pitches
Aye my Gw is like that, untill their main manager comes in, they will sit and talk about other gaming systems, chats about football, movies ,history, which tank would win in a battle, ect, as soon as that manager steps in the door it is ” if you are not talking about gw products then you can leave this is not a social site” erm…. is that not what the game is about? being social? I am going down to warhammer world in novemember for a game i am hosting, I think i will take my great coats down their… Read more »
Don’t do it, it’s a Trap! They will brainwash you to believe that GW is the only miniature company in the world. I was thinking about working there, but they suck so hard. Plus the pay is better at my local supermarket.
I really want to see more dwarfs from Mantic. I may actually find a better alternative for my Hammerers
I’ve been recently thinking of getting into Warhammer Fantasy and Elves were a possible starter army for me, so I may well go with Mantic and save some money (when I get round to it).
GW may end up having to re-look at their pricing/manufacturing policies if they continue to be undercut this way, and at no reduction in quality it seems.
High Elves will be in the Isle of Blood Starter box (there’s unofficial pictures out today on the GW “black box” contents of the new starter box high elves) but then you do get the box full worth of high elves and then the worth again of skavens (which you can switch with some one else or sell online I guess). Think it’ll be out in September? Heard a few rumblings about GW and that they will change their future priceing tactics (but, who knows for sure).
Thanks, I’ve just looked at those pictures and they do indeed look pretty awesome – although in terms of building a proper higher-point army I’d still need to fork out a lot for the extra GW figures.
In terms of tentatively getting into the hobby, I’ll need to decide if I like the Mantic elves enough – compared to the new GW range – since I still think it would work out a lot cheaper than GWStarter+extras.
I know what you mean about forceful GW employees, I was in the other day and felt like if I didn’t buy anything I’d look a complete bastard. I man’d up and left and bought what I needed and half the cost else where
Is that a large SM statue I spy on top of the display stand to the left?
Excellent ! Its about time games workshop had some good competition…
@manuscelerdei @arkantos117 I know what you mean there. Luckily my local store guy is not one of those guys. The shop isn’t a GW, it’s just a small games shop with Warhammer supplies, so he knows how expensive it is. He also knows me because I’m a regular there so he never pressures me and I usually end up buying more because of it.
I really don’t like the GW dwarf models, they have put me off ever doing dwarfs but the ones Mantic are coming out with look great so far. I can’t wait to see the rest they come out with in that line, I’m going to buy a few dwarfs anyway I think but I’d love to be able to do a whole army with them.
Hmm, i like the original Dark Elf Bolt Thrower, but that Dragon looks nice. I might have to look into that.
Another Company where you can get really awesome Models for Warhammer is Gamezone.
Gamezone, some beautiful Orc Boars and other great minis. Bit bummed that they’re all metal though (getting spoiled with all the plastics now a days).
let’s be honest, a fantasy world without undead and/or elves wouldn’t be one ,
undead are just awesome, and elves…. well dwarves need someone to hate,
but let’s put that aside, Mantic Games miniatures are soooooo nice, I don’t like elves but the Mantic ones atleast LOOK like elves are supposed to, it’s the same with dwarves,
and Johns damn right about the Undead range being great, the cavalry units are a bit expensive but look A. super and B. are still cheaper then the GW ones,
and yeah the Mantic range is about 30% cheaper, especially the deals are pretty nice
I only started with Warhammer Fantasy now, because of the very cool manticundead. I fell in love with them and so i bought the army deal last month 😉 I will use them as vampirecounts and iam looking forward to my first games at the 8th Edition.
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About playing mantic figures: Yes, I would like to play against an army, but would prefer if it was using only Mantic or only GW miniatures, since the elves and the dwarfs at least don’t seem to match up. I actually thought about starting a dwarf army with mantic releasing them, but the models were a huge disappoitment. They look hunchbacked, their rifles and crossbows appear ugly, though the heroes and the warmachines seem fine. Currently the greatest range seems to be the undead, though thinking as a warhammer player, VC don’t have any stone throwers that I know of…… Read more »
But dwarfs have always been based on grumpy little old men ? who drank to much and loved a fight? I think they are a much better image of a dwarf then gw, though i like the gw minis more then the mantic dwarfs i feel that i could use them very easly as a choas dwarf unit. This role would suit these minis more.
I wonder how hard it would be to make the catapults into corpse carts
also, you had the flail wraith with the elves lolz
Actually, they put the female Necromancer with the elves as well 😛
Neptune (posiden) gave us horses, not Mars! come on guys, you should now you roman mythology 😛 if i remember correctly, the reason GW has boxes of 16 is because they back in 6th edition a rank used to be 4 models wide, not 5. so the boxes of 16 were good for the time they came out, but now they are just stupid!
i love these mantic models! i hope they start to make orcs and goblins for us orc players!
While I’m hoping for Skaven 😉 but part of me doubts they ever will 🙁
Don’t feel too bad I’m hoping for Lizardmen.
Back in the 5ed there were metal parts for the CG and movement trays. In the 6ed GW dropped it and they also increased their prices. Then, came 7th ed and new rules for rank bonus so the players needed more models. What did GW do? Repacked the models to 10 and 5mand boxes (Greatswords as an example) and told (lied) that it will be cheaper to buy the minis. But it’s easy to see that 10man metal GS is (was) way cheaper than 2x5man metal GS boxes (and a hell lot cheaper than the plastic Goldswords boxes) Thanks God… Read more »
Maybe now they will bring out boxes of 20 with new releases?
As I was looking to start up a dwarf army after a long stay away from fantasy, I saw Mantic’s name on your website and went over to have a look… I am in love.. They look awesome, the cost is perfect, and I can’t wait to see the rest of the range. Though my one gripe is.. the Dwarf Cannons.. they are… they are on the annorexic side I feel. They should be big and ornate death spewers, not something that looks like it was taking out tanks in ww2, the organ gun looks like a rack of pistols..… Read more »
I think the Organ Gun looks great. Many small pistols would be the way it would be designed first, as a prototype idea, which is great.
The centre cannon, Ironbelcher I believe, I think, looks like a big rifle, so i’ll agree. It should carry huge slugs as big as a Dwarf, not rifle shots.
However, I do love the Rifles on the Ironwatch. It’s like, beyond the Blunderbuss step, beyond the rifle step, into the advanced rifle with sight and all. Looks pretty damned cool.
These are excellent models and it’s great to see some of the other guys getting air play/promotion. I was recently thinking about doing a Bretonnian force of large blocks of men at arms using Perry Miniatures’ War of the Roses infantry… lots of good models in 1 box and can be built up as Men at arms or archers… unfortunately limited selection but that’s where Mantic comes in don’t it. 😀
thanks for the vid guys I just went over to mantic and bought some of there skeletens for my VC’s 🙂