Beware the Twilight Kin Assassin
February 10, 2012 by beerogre
The guys at Mantic Games have revealed the pictures of their surreptitious Assassin... the deadly hero for the Kings of War Twilight Kin Army.
I would assume this model will be used to represent the Master of Death, a 60pt hero model with a slew of special abilities that make is a mean and merciless murderer of opposing generals.
Are you a Twilight Kin player?
They are certainly one of the competitive factions for Kings of War... but what do you think?
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I don’t think twilight kin is going to make it… Mantic is famous for it’s cheap & good looking ‘toy soldiers”, so a unit that costs more than the gw price…hmm
true, but mantic have said their metal/plastic combo for their twilight kin is only a temporary measure and that they will be reimagined at a later date and remade in another substance. Just like they are releasing their goblin spearmen in metal to begin with, but plastics are coming later this year
Which just goes to show how thin the ice is beneath Mantic. I honestly doubt they’re making much take-home profit now, instead investing all profit into the next line of miniatures etc. They need our support! Though looking at their corporation models, I have the feeling they’re gonna be getting much bigger.
The pics of this Master of Death are a little ambiguous, can’t quite get a feel for this model.
I like the paint job.
That looks amazing.
“That looks amazing-ly bad”
Fixed it for you 😉
Very disappointing figure. The pose is awkward, the colour choice is poor and the face has no detail.
Actually I am really liking that sculpt. Expesially I am liking how that armour looks.
I agree its not right…the left arm holding the dagger is just wrong looking…however its a ok apart from that
not awful but could be a bit better
It looks like she ready to slice of her boobs if you ask me.
Yep that’s pretty amazing sculpt, far better than some Dark Elf from GW. If they are compatible with WHF i totally buy it ( almost no one plays KoW here )
The face looks odd, the breasts are placed too high and the pose is weird .. still she looks alot better than GWs dark elves offerings. Keep the armour wich looks cool and work on the above mentioned issues and she will be absolute top notch.
Very close to the concept art, but I prefer the legs on the actual sculpt as they’re not so skinny – the armour reminds me of Kabalite Warriors in fact. The problem I see is in the hand with the dagger, it’s puffy, almost like a flesh-coloured boxing glove. Aside from that I like it, but it would be hard to change since it’s a metal model.
i agree it looks better than run of the mill geedub warriors but their own assassins far outclass this; in my own opinion of course, but i am yet to do ye old price comparison so i shall put of making my own proper decision till then.
Yeah a little disappointed with this miniature. I quite liked the concept art and the flowing nature of it, but it doesn’t seem to have been pulled off in the final sculpt. I actually have to say that I prefer the GW Dark Elf assassins to this one, as they have the lithe and deadly thing going on. She looks a little too bulked up for an assassin, I mean that’s a lot of plate mail.
Maybe she will grow on me, the other Elves in the range did. Will have to wait and see.
BoW Ben
I saw the pics on Mantic’s blog. I think it’s best to reserve judgement as the pics aren’t the best/most flattering pics.
looks really generic, but not in a good way.
if they put her left arm in the same position as the right and having her face covered by the hood and wearing a mask, it would look amazing now….Meh, a bit of a disappointment if you ask me 🙁