New Rules, Vehicles & Starter Sets For Mantic Games’ Firefight!
July 12, 2023 by brennon
Mantic Games are now taking pre-orders for a new book and more to get you diving deeper into the 28mm Sci-Fi wargame of Firefight! Are you going to be picking up the new Command Protocols book?
Firefight - Command Protocols // Mantic Games
This new book is a Firefight-based match to the Clash Of Kings books that are used for Kings Of War. It includes all of the new updates and such for their Sci-Fi wargame so if you're eager to get more out of the Forge Fathers, Veer-Myn and more then you'll want to snap this up.
Welcome Back To Firefight // Mantic Games
For existing players, all of the new content is included like updated rules, balance tweaks and an army list for Mazon Labs. If you're new to Firefight then you'll also find everything you need to get started with the game within these pages.
How To Play Firefight // Mantic Games
As well as all of the updates for those wanting to play out normal games, you will also find rules for Annihilation Games which take things to the next level. That means air squadrons, rumbling lines of tanks and huge teams of walkers with massive guns all striding into battle, built using a new kind of force organisation system.
Firefight Convoy // Mantic Games
As well as a new set of rules for building your armies with a bunch of vehicles, you will also find a selection of specially designed missions suited to Annihilation. All of these have been designed to match the larger scale of your games in Annihilation "mode" which will also call for some bigger tables!
Firefight Tanks // Mantic Games - Archon Studios
As well as vehicle-only bundles Mantic have also made mechanised starter forces that give a mix of vehicles with infantry support, so they're an ideal way of getting into regular Firefight and the new Annihilation games. They also showcase Mantic's collaborations with other gaming companies to add additional models into the Warpath universe adding more depth and diversity to the lists without having to wait months to get the physical models.
Enforcer Pathfinder Recon Force // Mantic Games - Warlord Games
If you're looking to get your hands on some vehicles to start playing your games at the Annihilation level, you can now pre-order loads of them for the GCPS, Plague, Mazon Labs, Enforcers and Marauders over on the Mantic webstore now. More vehicles for the Veer-Myn, Forge Fathers and Asterians are coming later down the line.
New Firefight Starter Set Options
As well as the new book, there are also two new Two-Player Starter Sets which you can choose from if you're just starting to dive in.
Battle Of Cabot III - Two-Player Starter Set // Firefight
The first of these focuses on a battle between the Enforcers and the Marauders with a whole host of troops. There are seventy miniatures in the set covering both forces as well as the new Command Protocols book, tokens and such to get you started in the game. This works as a great introduction for those wanting to try out a new Sci-Fi wargame.
If you'd prefer to go with the forces of the Veer-Myn and the Forge Fathers then you can also pick up the Assault On Exham set.
Assault On Exham - Two-Player Starter Set // Firefight
This comes with fifty-five miniatures including some bigger vehicles like the Sturnhammer, the Tunneler and the Tunnel Runners. Another solid mix of regular troops as well as the Firefight Rulebook and Command Protocols book which gives you another way into one of our favourite Sci-Fi wargames.
You can also get your hands on all of the vehicles that we've previewed above like the Wolverines, Gunships and Mule for their appropriate factions. It's neat that we're seeing a great surge of support for Firefight from Mantic Games and hopefully, more folks are going to be giving this game a go.
Will you be diving in?
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looking forward to seeing where they are going with this. I like that Mantic are doing more collaborations with Warlord and Archon to flesh out some of the ranges rather than leaving gaps.
Yeah, that white Enforcers ship is the old M4 Combat Drone from Beyond The Gates Of Antares V1. Gonna guess they are going to recycle some more old Antares stuff that Warlord isn’t using.
Its great that old kits can see new life.
Makes a lot of sense and helps Mantic expand their game with a much lower cost, and no need for the long wait of crowdfunding.
I’ve said it elsewhere but honestly the GCPS tank is so disappointing. It’s so 40k derivative and to me it jars with the general aesthetic of the GCPS and feels like a step back towards 40k rather than a step away. I don’t mind that they’re repackaging existing models, I think it’s a really good idea and the Enforcer vehicle is a perfect example of how that can work. But the GCPS one almost feels like it was selected simply because it was a tank and it already existed as a kit, rather than looking at whether it was actually… Read more »
Thats exactly what they did.
I doubt they would even deny it if you asked them that very thing.
Better to have a awesome tank, then no tank. Lets face it Firefight needs to keep its expenditures nice and tight to be profitable.
It’s not an awesome tank, if it doesn’t fit with the setting. It’s a great model but a poor choice for Firefight. Like, I would rather have no tank than that tank – I definitely won’t be buying one.
Mule and Hornets for you, hopefully they will making new stuff for Firefight as well as buying stuff in. I don’t have GCPS but I think the model fits in OK although it does look like a proxy I think of the GCPS as like Colonial Marines from Aliens or Starship Trooper marines.
My honest opinion is that the GCPS won’t get a new tank now; this will be the tank for the foreseeable future. With Mantic not being the largest of companies, the tank slot in the GCPS list now has a model so they won’t waste resources making something for which they already have a passable model, even if aesthetically it doesn’t really fit.
I tend to agree, I think they have a very different look about them to 40k Imperial Guard, although to me I think more along the lines of Halo (the Rangers Helmets look like Spartans)
They try to explain in the “fluff” why that tanks looks the way it does, but let’s face it, most of the sales of that kit won’t be used in Firefight.
Yeah, it’s obviously been made by Archon as a proxy for the Leman Russ and I am all for that. Anyone making cheaper and/or better alternatives to GW’s overpriced kis gets a thumbs up from me. But that doesn’t mean I would also be rushing out to buy one for use in firefight. I don’t dislike the model, but it’s definitely a bit disappointing to see that’s the offering for GCPS because I won’t lie, I was really looking forward to seeing what they did for a GCPS tank, and it sort of feels like in the end, GCPS didn’t… Read more »
A 1:48 or 1:35 scale modern tank model kit with some sci-fi gribly kit bashing may serve better.
It probably would do a better job, 1:35 is probably too big, bearing in mind Wargames companies usually scale tanks down so they’re not really representative. That said, it would have been nice to see Mantic take the opportunity to release a plastic sci-fi tank kit of their own that fit within the Warpath design style. Not just for firefight itself but also because at this precise moment in time, such a thing does not exist. If you want a sci-fi tank as a HIPS model kit, it’s 40k or nothing. There aren’t even any alternatives in the scale model… Read more »
I’d probably go so far as to say a 1:48 Challenger model (which you can pick up on Amazon for £25) WITHOUT any sci-fing gubbins would still look more futuristic than the Wolverine.
It looks more a upgraded chimera to me.🤔
The track housings are definitely a Russ.
I kinda like the tanks (I kinda have to because I have like 6 because I sponsored the original Kickstarter back along) but aren’t those skimmers in the enforcers set from the Beyond the Gates of Antares line? I know warlord have sold bits and lines off but… I’m confuse
Yes, they are working with other companies to add vehicles into the mix
Not sure it’s been “sold off” as such. Skytrex and Warlord are both owned by John Stallard
So very hyped about this. Kinda snuck up on me, but genuinely excited about the new Firefight stuff. I’m a Vault subscriber too so looking forward to whatever they come up with in terms of support in there.
lol I think I might get those tanks for my Death Korps army 😉
Wonder what we will see for Asterians, plague and Veermyn (if anything)
next wave they’ve already said they are. My guess is more of the upgrade kits in resin for existing vehicles.
I suppose Veermyn already have a largeish vehicle with the tunneller (or very large if you buy the extension for it)
Love the armoured vehicles Look to them.
Hope this gets some people I know to try Firefight, I can get games of Deadzone relatively easily but not so for Firefight at the moment. Not going to get the book as my softback Firefight books haven’t had much use yet and hopefully the updates are on the Mantic List Builder.
aye companion upgrade is confirmed for August. Just start beating your friends until they cave in and play Firefight, it’s what I did to Paul PAAAAAAUU!