This year I would like for Christmas (Yul, Hogswatch etc)…….
A pony! Well not just a pony, lots of ponies! Big ones! With armour! The fact is Mantic makes pretty good infantry, monsters and heroes, but what it is really lacking is some quality cavalry sets. A lot of the older ranges are all PVC, a little clunky and don’t stand up to the modern ranges. The Halfing doggy cavalry are proof that the future has four legs! Obviously, I want never gets, and Mantic can only produce so much new stuff so what I
REALLY think will make everyone happy is a Knights of Pannithor box! A plastic sprue set to encompass the basic knights of Pannithor. A list of additional resin upgrade sets could cover more specialist choices like Brotherhood monster hunters and Knights of Redemption, Abyssal horsemen etc and I daresay players of other games would jump at the chance of a plastic fantasy knight set too. It would cover so many options in Kings of War it’s a brilliant plan that can’t fail!
Elves! The same idea goes for Elves too. The elf range was the first and possibly the most disliked of all the Mantic ranges. The new models in the League of Infamy game showed just how cool they could be and the Drakon riders followed suit! Give us more of the same, and just like a plastic Knight set, the opportunity for resin add on kits to turn them into Sylvan Kin or Twilight kin makes it 3 for the price of 1!
Elves! Well, half of them. I am of course talking about Half-elf berserkers. We had so many awesome models released with Vanguard, and while some like Reapers and Shadowhounds got a few resin alternate sculpts and made into box sets, my beloved Half-elves and Huscarls (one of the best units in the game that EVERYONE wants!!!!!) didn’t. Instead we got clansmen upgrades for bows and big axes that NO ONE wanted. I haven’t seen any on the tabletop, none in lists or online and they even had to write a formation for them in the Cok22 book to entice people.
A similar choice happened with the Salamanders. An ancient upgrade pack? Def 6 AND inspiring? Hell yeah! Nope, instead we got the fairly pointless unblooded which you could pretty much make from the plastics anyway. It sometimes goes right as I am utterly in love with the Halfling poachers and Stalwarts but fleshing out some of the existing lists, especially obvious choices and things they already have sculpted would be brilliant!
Vanguard 2nd Edition! By last count I’d collected about 20 Vanguard boxsets. And despite that I don’t have a painted war band and I’ve only played 4 games at a single day tournament where I speed painted some dwarves and played 3 Orc players who walked straight over me. I realise it was only my first time and was a tournament, but it signified some glaring problems with the game and I’ve heard the same things echoed from other people too. With the fatigue, force fatigue, command….. And the tokens…. Oh god the tokens! The rules, where they are located, updates, cards, books….. I could write an entire blog about it! At it’s heart it’s a good game but needs streamlining, especially for a skirmish game. I played a lot of Necromunda and Mordheim when I was younger and this just doesn’t compete. Even the hardcore buddies who played when it came out don’t even bother now. So all those models I have for it are either in a pile or in Kings of war armies. I’ve signed up for a tournament at Explod-a-con in Poole in March (alongside Deadzone and Kings of war) so I’m painting up some Basileans for it. I’ll give it one last go! And speaking of……
Deadzone! Everyone raves about it, and after 25 years of 40k before giving it up, I am seriously after some sci-fi tabletop action. 2nd Edition rules seemed all over the place too so I’ve been hanging on for 3rd Edition and it looks awesome! I have have 3 months to learn and build a team before Explod-a-con! And not being able to trust Santa, wishes or Elves, I bought it for myself so I wasn’t disappointed. I can’t wait for tomorrow morning to finally get my hands on it! AND the fight with my girlfriend when I try to get out of going to visit family because I want to sit at home building toys instead…..
Merry Christmas!!! May you all get toys and avoid having to drink egg-nog, that slightly racist Grandpa and that drunk Auntie that threw up on the dinner table that year which your Mum still hasn’t forgiven her for!!!!!XXXXX
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Brilliant. I want all of that too.
The Nightstalker Soulflayers are great Cav and you can just about fit 6 on a normal cav regt base. But – they have been out of stock for ages. It just shows what Mantic could do with normal cav.
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