Warpath KS launches 21st Sept

[Darkson (Simon)]

http://manticblog.com/2015/09/11/warpat ... september/

Which segways beautifully into the next topic – Warpath is nearly here!



If you cast your mind back we had a go a few years back at this and we didn’t get it right. The ideas and intentions were right – but I was not able to get the quality and depth the game needed. We went away and licked our wounds.

We started building slowly this time – DreadBall, Deadzone, perfecting hard plastic – both infantry and vehicles – and we kept on building up the Warpath universe – a story, an expansion and a race at a time! We would only go forward when we could do it properly, when we genuinely felt we could make an interesting game and a great miniatures range. Thanks to the support of our Kickstarter backers, we’ll be able to go into Warpath with a wealth of hard plastic infantry, characters, and specialists with which you can build your armies.


The Enforcer Jetbike was funded in the Deadzone: Infestation Kickstarter and like all Deadzone miniatures, can be used in Warpath.
Early this year the rules went out for alpha testing. We are trying to create the experience of a futuristic mass battle – with a low starting point – where 20 -30 figures get you going, but with the ability to scale up as far as you want to take it. We are trying to create the clean, slick mechanics – just like in KoW – but ones that feel relevant to a sci-fi battlefield. How to take and hold buildings, how vehicles play and how do you chip away at your enemy until you can swoop in and destroy them!

The response we got was on the whole excellent and as always very informative and useful, much of it has been taken on board, all of it has been considered. There was also a group who wanted a smaller squad-based game – and you speak, we listen – so we have a great writer working on that too.

Over the last few days I have been seeing the art, sculpts, vehicles, 3D renders, logos and background coming in. It just looks amazing.


Enforcer in Peacekeeper Armour
Over the next few days we will be featuring and focusing in on Warpath – the worlds, the armies and the background. Hopefully you’ll help us breath life into this game as you have with some many other projects before.

We are taking Warpath to Kickstarter on the 21st September. First off we want to fund the rulebooks and source books – but you always seem to encourage us to go a little further than that.

[Darkson (Simon)]

Warpath - The Sci-Fi Battle Game

[Darkson (Simon)]

Backed for the books. Think I've got enough Enforcers through DZ (KSI, KSII and a set from Oli) to have a decent sized force, so might as well have access to the rules.
Maybe it will kickstart (sorry!) a desire to play big games again, maybe it won't, but I like books so no harm.

Already smashed the funding goal 4 times, and it's been live 3 hours...

[nobby]

If anyone is going in and fancies lending me the cash in an installment scheme to do an aw pledge it would be much appreciated

[Darkson (Simon)]

Would love to offer to help, sadly not in my budget.

[Mike]

Funds are short for this one so may only get rule books.

Already have enough vermyn, Orks, peacekeepers and Rebs for firefight and possibly enough peacekeepers for big battle once dead zone infestation delivered.

Might just not back anything and just go for free pdf download.

[MoodyGit (Gary)]

Have fun guys, 40K was never my thing so I'll avoid its little brother.

[Ray]

I'm in on this. No idea which army yet, possibly one of the not shown yet ones.

[Ray]

If anyone wants me to add stuff onto mine at the pledge manager stage, give me a shout (and give me money).