Mantic Games

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Mantic Games
Notable Employees	Alessio Cavatore, Ronnie Renton, Jake Thornton
Notable Games	Kings of War, Warpath, Deadzone, Dreadball
Website	http://www.manticgames.com/

Mantic Games is a a (relatively) new games and miniatures publisher. They primarily produce 28mm scale wargames (like Games Workshop), although there are also some spin-off games based on their two main settings, Kings of War (fantasy) and Warpath (sci-fi). Their main shtick is that they're much, much cheaper than Games Workshop.

Mantic Games have got several ex-GW people on their books, quite possibly disgruntled folks who want to shank their former employers in the stomach and twist really hard (and good luck to them!). Kings of War and Warpath heavily, HEAVILY rip right from Warhammer's aesthetic, (Mantic models actually look slightly different if you bother to compare them to GW models because A: they're truescale, B: the Dwarfs have giant heads, and C: if they got too close they'd be sued) almost looking to completely undercut the more expensive Citadel Miniatures. This allows people to play Warhammer with cheap non-GW models, which lets Mantic sell more stuff. Just as planned.

The rules for Kings of War and Warpath are free from their website. Some people reckon they're too simplistic and lack the depth of Games Workshop games, others like the fact they're easy to pick up and don't require a Bible-sized rulebook. Either way, there seems to be no shortage of players signing up to the annual Kings of War tournament, though it should be noted that a good chunk of them (including mantic employers) were using GW models in said tournament, hilariously. It can be theorized that Mantic will expand their game once they reach some level of popularity, and like GW in the past reneg on the liberal use of their products. Time will tell...

On top of everything else they had the balls to make a futuristic sports game called DreadBall.

During 2013 Mantic's work on Warpath and Kings of War had slowed, more so on the Warpath front. The big push for Dreadball thanks to Kickstarter has greatly changed the company's internal schedule, and as a result it's an important part of the company's product market.

Eventually they have decided to make a Mars Attack kickstarter which was successfully funded. Later in 2015 Warpath's brand was touched upon once more via DreadBall Xtreme and Deadzone: Infestation. Eventually these successfully funded Kickstarter initiatives lead to an official Warpath kickstarter itself and not surprisingly it was a success as well. Due to these successes Mantic Games has said that there could possibly be an encore Kickstarter at a late date to flesh out the factions who weren't yet ready during the initial Warpath kickstarter.

If GW is the Imperium of Man in its current state then Mantic are the Tau, new & full of optimism.

With now 9 years in the buisness, Mnatic Games seems to be improving constantly and becoming more audacious each year. Even though back when they were founded they looked like just a "poors man GW" now some of their models have no direct gw equivalent, and mantic is instead trying to support their own ideas and creations with some plastic kits, that while still a little below GWs quality are much more affordable and brimmed with options. Their IPs have been much more fleshed out and turned into a more comedic satire of general fantasy and sci fi settings,but are still serious enough to keep people engaged.

Also Mantic quite notorious for their tendency of using kickstarters in order to fund many of their games, which nowadays has become quite a common practice, but in mantics case these kickstarters are more of a "pre order" thing than a help us develop a game . But on the other hand they are also one of the most open companies with regards to their fanbases, with many of their dramatic personae dropping by at forums and facebook pages.

Mantics list of modelling wish fulfillment has been growing and growing, with them as a company having delivered us some of wargaming most desired miniature concepts(even if not everybody will agree on wether or not the execution of said modelling lines was cool). Overall mantic has delivered:

- Squats, in the form of Forge Fathers, and they are AMAZING, with their bearded tanks and tendency to have big fucking guns and tommyguns everywhere

- Chaos Dwarfs, and this ones actually look quite menacing while being affordable too(plus they have golems)

- Fish Men, a whole army of them called Triden Realms of Neiritica, composed of tritons, crab people, squid people, tritons mounted on sea drakes and frog people.

- Meaningfull worldwide campaings with actual progression that obey the fans desires, this year they made the edge of the abyss campaign, which can be followed here https://edgeoftheabyss.warconsole.com/ where the world was significantaly changed and no ammount of faggotry of creators saving roll has turned its results meaningless yet

So overall mantic tends to see those gaps in the market and scratch those itches that a wargammer needs, do they always do a good job? Well nope not always, but most of the time, their effort is commendable