Painting & Hobby: Mantic Games Vanguard Nightstalkers

  

Hello again.

Its been a while as I have been a bit busy with work and life stuff so I have not had much time to hobby but it does brings me on to todays post.

We recently had a glorious Easter weekend which saw unusual for England some sunshine and warm weather. More importantly I had a bit of hobby time but not much which made me come up with a plan.

Painting and Hobby Update: Mantic Terrain Crate Battlefield Objectives

 I have been on a bit of a Mantic kick these last weeks and as I have just finished painting my new Northern Alliance warband for Vanguard I decided to get to work on the Terrain Crate Battlefield Objectives that are used in the scenarios for the game.

Painting and Hobby Update: Mantic Vanguard Northern Alliance

 

This week on the hobby desk I have gone through my grey pile list and decided to worked on my Northern Alliance warband for Vanguard as I really do want to get people trying out this game and its taken me a bit of time to get to these due to other games my gaming group are playing and if you are like me you painting and gaming revolves around that.

I visited Mantic HQ a few years ago now for the launch of Vanguard and it was a great day and it's a good game. 

You can see my visit to Mantic HQ and my Interview with Matt Gilbert about Vanguard from these links below.

   Matt Gilbert Interview      Mantic Vanguard Launch Day Part 1     Mantic Vanguard Launch Day Part 2

Let's take a look at some close ups.

Half Term Trip To Newcastle and Hobby Up Date.

It been a busy week for me not only due to getting time to do some more hobby related stuff but I also traveled up to Newcastle and as I was there I checked out the local hobby community.

Mantic Kings Of War Vanguard: Northern Alliance Warband Booster Set Review

After you have played a few games of Vanguard with your new Northern Alliance you may want to upgrade a get a few more miniatures to add magic or add a commander to your force.

Well your in luck as the Northern Alliance booster set has all this and a huge cavalry model.

Lets take a look.

Mantic Kings Of War Vanguard: Northern Alliance Warband Review

The Northern Alliance for Kings of War Vanguard was the set I first looked at and went yep I like those they look awesome!
So lets have a little unboxing and review of what you get in this warband set.

Mantic Terrain Crate: Kings Of War Vanguard Objectives

Mantic Games have recently been updating their terrain range with Terrain Crate their new affordable plastic pre assembled terrain range.

As Vanguard launched Mantic have created through Terrain Crate 14 objectives and tokens which tie in with the scenarios in the Vanguard rule book.

As readers of this blog maybe aware I love terrain and have done a few projects with Mantic terrain in the past so I could not resist picking these objectives when I was at Mantic HQ.

So lets take look inside the box.

Mantic Vanguard Open Day The Video..

At the Vanguard launch day the other Matt as he is fondly known at Mantic was busy filming the days events.

Here you can watch the video below and the keen eyed may spot me in a few shots...

You can also visit Mantic's own blog with more regarding the day here

More Vanguard related posts will be arriving soon...

Vanguard Launch Day At Mantic Hq Part 2

After our first game I thought I would have a look around some of the studio miniatures.

Vanguard Launch Day at Mantic HQ Part 1

Saturday saw me get up at silly o'clock to make the 2 hour and 30 min journey up to Nottingham to visit Mantic HQ for the Vanguard Launch day.