Mantic Games | Ronnie's Update: Kings of War and Warpath Universe | Plus - Crowdfunding News

Hi everybody. Ronnie here with part two of what the heck's going on in Mantic this summer. Uh if you haven't watched our Halo video, go on over there and have a watch. Just deep dives into all the cool things that happening around Halo Flashpoint. It's blowing up. It's going global. And there's new releases coming forward all the time. If you want to get stuck in, go over there. If you want to find out about all things Kings of War and Warpath universe, stay right here. First up, let's talk about all things Kings of War. We've got the second installment in our expansion books with fracture following on on the back of invasion. This is where the Pannithor universe starts splitting apart under the pressure of the Zikali. The book is going to be on shelves in a matter of days and the updates to the companion is alongside that. The book do a number of things. First up, you're going to get the next chapter in the story of Pannithor as all things start unraveling on the back of the Zikali invasion. It's the armies that are going to be meeting up or taking advantage of all the chaos that's around. You've got the Basileans fighting against the abyss and you've got the forces of nature picking a side. We've also tackled some of the obvious and early things that we wanted to speak about on the back of the fourth edition. We're delighted as are all players where the core rules are, but we're still working hard to make sure that the army lists have the right kind of balance and flavor to allow people to build thematic lists and the choices they want. With this book, we've not gone all the way we want to go. We've still got some areas that we're going to look at and they're going to be addressed in arrogance. But there is a chunk of Clash of Kings light in the fracture book that should make your summer gaming even more fun. Minis-wise, nature have an entirely cool out plastic army. We think they're absolutely gorgeous. I'm not allowed to call them cat men, but you know. They go pretty well against the Z'zor we really leaned into the the nature the fauna of them and I love these mixed size units. I'm going to keep badgering everybody for more of those. They're not badges and minor tools, but you know what I mean. You also can get beautiful sculpts of some of the classics where we're able to come back and pick something that we liked before but wasn't quite up to the 2026 standards that we like over here at Mantic and here you've got the brand new dragon for the Basileans. We're just populating with joyous minis the bits and bobs to complete out those armies. Get building your army. We've had the slow grow running. It's aged poor Alex considerably, but uh if you haven't done that, go and have a look. It's an inspiring way and if you're looking to get into Kings of War, Champions is a great place to start. If you're a full-on sadist, then dive straight in with a big full Kings of War army. Get building now. We've got the Siege of Summeric Summer Campaign is going to be coming in August. It's just a great opportunity to get your army finished, get some regiment basing done and see why people love Kings of War and what makes it the best rank and flank game out there. So, I hope you're going to join us. Prepare your army now. Come and play in the world of Pannithor. As you all know, being long-term Mantic fans, Halo is not our only sci-fi love. We also have our game called Warpath Firefight Zone. Uh which is The Warpath universe has been growing over 10-15 years and for the first time at the end of this year, we are having our first triple book. What's a triple book, Ronnie? We are going to cover Warpath and Firefight and Deadzone all in the same space. It's going to have rules for each different scale, but a kind of overarching background and law that looks into what's going on currently in the Specifically in the book, we're going to have wave three releases for epic Warpath. These are the first set of releases that were not in the Kickstarter. So, you can now go along and add to any of your epic armies with some new cool, funky, crazy tanks, vehicles, whatever's coming for them. So, watch out for that. Firefight and Deadzone are getting our beautiful nameless uh plastics coming in around the same time, so it's all going to land so we can really have some fun with it all. Uh that's going to be hitting there. And we've also di- dived into some of the creations that were made during the epic Warpath Kickstarter and them up into huge big vehicles to add to Firefight and keep it even more exciting. So, that's the uh Hummer Hammer assault tank and that will be coming out alongside the nameless and alongside all of the epic wave three releases. We're going to tie the whole thing together with a big joyous campaign. So, get painting you forge fathers, he says to himself cuz I'm still only halfway through that army after 6 years. And come and join us for something very exciting for all things Warpath universe around October. So, we've done everything Kings of War, we've done everything Warpath universe. That just leaves us with our more esoteric tendencies. And this is where our crowdfunding allows us to pick our wildest of ideas and get with support from you bring them to life. Early this year we did DreadBall All-Stars working there with the legend that is Jervis Johnson. That is now in tooling, script is done, and it's going into production for delivery early 2027. And Assassin's Creed, one of our 2025 projects, is very nearing completion. So, final prints coming, it's going to be coming out of our factories very soon, and I'm with you bang on time. So, both cases, if you supported us, thank you for that. If you like Assassin's Creed, then watch out soon there'll be a retail version available in local gaming stores shortly. So, lots of exciting things happening for both of those projects. And >> [clears throat] >> we've got some new ones coming, too. The next up is going to be Ghost in the Shell. This is a role-play game. It's designed by Alessio and Zach, and it is an absolute love letter to all things Ghost in the Shell. This, if you know the IP, was the granddaddy of cyberpunk. This is where it all started. Um, and uh the guys have just done an absolutely beautiful job paying homage to that work. You're going to be a recruiting Section 9, working on the likes alongside the likes of the Major and Batou. Um, going out, doing your missions, um, and exploring the world of Ghost in the Shell. This is on BackerKit. If you go over there now, there is some cool free things for following the campaign before it goes live. So, go and check it out. BackerKit, Ghost in the Shell. It's going to be epic. And if you're looking for something a little lighter, a little more fun, uh, from the same studio that brought us Worms, by studio I mean the tabletop studio we work with, Caesar Ring, um, uh, and this is the gold edition of Worms, by the way, five and six players, 30-year celebratory edition. They have been working with us for the last 18 months on Plants vs. Zombies. Big difference, Worms is a player versus player game, this is cooperative. So, you can all play it together. Huge amounts of fun where you as plants are defending your house against the hordes of zombies that are coming. You've got absolute beautiful miniatures with personality. It comes into our kind of board game joyous IP board games of of of computer games that we love. And again, this one's back on Kickstarter. So, dive on over there. And again, there's a like cool free things for following before it goes live. So, that's a roundup of everything we've got going on here at Mantic this summer. Uh plenty to look forward to. Please come and join us with whichever bit of it excites you. Until then, thanks for watching. See you soon. Bye-bye.