Mantic drums up Project Pandora

[tnjrp]

Project Pandora: Grim Cargo is Mantic's up-and-coming sci-fi board game add-on to their Warpath line. The release date is sometime in April but this week is the big pre-release advertising week for the said product - apparently culminating with the revelation of the bery bery sekret "8th race" on Friday the 17th.

Here's the shop section for PP:
http://www.manticgames.com/Shop-Home/Project-Pandora.html

[dijit]

Well, it's going to be difficult to work out what the 8th race is inspired by

[Engel]

ehmm... who are the other seven ?

What am I missing, they have the not-spacedwarfs, not-spaceork and the not-imperialguards ?

[rwwin]

I liked both Dwarf King’s Hold games and I’m looking forward to the new not-Space Hulk, but Mantic’s amateurish attempts at hype are annoying.  I’ll just tune in to the blog on Friday and see what their up to.

[Dewbakuk]

ehmm... who are the other seven ?

What am I missing, they have the not-spacedwarfs, not-spaceork and the not-imperialguards ?

I'd assume it's a reference to GW's armies, if you list all the different marines as human then there are 7 different races.

[tnjrp]

ehmm... who are the other seven ?

They have been listed on Mantic's site at one time (not sure if they are there now) and would be Orxs, Forgefathers, Zz'or, Asterians, Corporation, Rebs and The Plague. Stricly speaking I don't think the last two or three are "races" in the conventional (read GW) sense but all the same those are it. Only Orxs and Ffs are available ATM of course.

It's mildy interesting that there are equal numbers of Corporation and assumed-but-not-officially-confirmed "Space Skaven" in the Pandora box. Of course C-Marines are nowhere near as tough per trooper in Wp as Space Marines are in Wh40k but still it might mean the rat boyz aren't a horde type army one might expect them to be.

[tnjrp]

Haven't received an official confirmation newletter from Mantic yet but since they've apparently given Beast of War an exclusive to break the news I think that's close enough for comfort:
http://www.beastsofwar.com/project-pandora/corporation-8th-race-project-pandora/

Not my cuppa but quite a few people seem excited about "Skaven in Space" so I could envision the Veer-Myn (or however it is spelled) giving staunch competition to Forgefathers in the hearts of the space fantasy playing crowd.

[Digitarii]

I always thought that "race" was a poor descriptive for a wargame. Faction suits better. That way , you don't get a confusion between "Elves" and "Evil Elves"

[rwwin]

I'm ok with scavenger rat-men in space (not really for or against the concept), but the sculpts shown hue too close to the GW fantasy skaven for my tastes.  I'd like to see more guns and armor, less rags, leather and daggers. 

[Frontal Assault 15mm]

I got the 8th race e-mail today and I was both impressed and dissapointed.  Impressed by the face that it's Space Skaven, dissapointed by the same fact.  Way I see it is that sooner or later Mantic will be getting a little call from the intellectual properties chapter of Space Marines, by which I mean GW's legal team.

[dijit]

Plus GW hasn't really done space 'skaven' (as yet).
Duncan

[rwwin]

I got the 8th race e-mail today and I was both impressed and dissapointed.  Impressed by the face that it's Space Skaven, dissapointed by the same fact.  Way I see it is that sooner or later Mantic will be getting a little call from the intellectual properties chapter of Space Marines, by which I mean GW's legal team.

I imagine that if GW was going to atempt to shut down Mantic they would have done it long before the Veer-Myn.  To be clear, I think the two Veer-Myn scuplts shown are too close to fantasy skaven for my aesthetic tastes, not for copyright reasons.

However the thought has crossed my mind that Mantic probably wants to have a visual link with GW's fantasy Skaven to maybe sell some Veer-Myn as Skaven proxies.

[Steve F]

The 9th "race" will be Dolmansaxlil Shoe Troopers.

[tnjrp]

do you think the valuable cargo might be shoes? Seems half the races in mantics universe have not grasped the concept of how to make their own so I can see shoes being one of the more valuable items the corperations produce

LOL.

Anyway, here's Mantic blog on the background of the Veer-Myn (+ the same footwear-abhorring greens again):
http://www.manticblog.com/?p=5397

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