John’s looking at Dwarf Ironbelcher Cannon!
July 30, 2010 by warzan
John has a look over the Mantic Dwarf Cannon from their Kings of War range. Its a cracking looking model, and we are particulary fond of the sculpts of the crew models. This kit will give you either a cannon or an organ gun.
As a side note we think this would be a great addition to a pirate themed game too... anyway back on topic, we have to admit that we are pretty amazed at the speed at which Mantic have managed to pull together three credible armies. Its interesting to note that this time last year Mantic were in Gencon with absolutly nothing, one year later and we are looking at three armies and a boxed game on the way. Pretty mean rate of development if you ask me, what do you guys think?
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Organ gun? Stick it on one of darrels ogre leadbelchers as a musician?
A crotch-flute-ogre-meat-gun?
more like a pipe-organ-ogre-noblar-played-lead-gun. But what you said was close 😉
Darn so close 🙁
I can’t wait to see how that organ gun comes into play in Mantic’s new system. Hopefully it’s rules will take into account the wide spread of it’s barrels.
Man i just do not like Mantic’s Dwarfs. I love the Elves and Undead but for me the dwarfs are just meh. I don’t mean just this cannon I just can’t seem to like the range no matter how hard i try. Well when the rules set comes out I guess I know which army I won’t be playing at least 🙂
another good video but one small criticism. For all the videos I have seen today, the intros are too long. This one in particular is almost 1/4 the whole. We’re skipping them you know, check your youtube stats.
I´m not a big fan of the elves and dwarfs, but the undead rock!!!! But, the other miniatures are getting better and better. When I saw the first elves thought Mantic is going to die in no time, but thank god they prooved me wrong
tbh i only like the undead :S the dwarfs llook to serius and the elfs look to cheap :S
Dwarfs in general fantasy are serious people, Elves in general fantasy are frail and skinny. I think Mantic hit the nail on the head.
I’ve never really liked dwarves in general but that cannon is great though. One could even say it’s a Great cannon. Mwuhahahaha Mwuhahahaha.
hope to see 3 colors up videos for this range.
i really like the mantic dwarves, though i’m not sure how well they’d integrate with gw. consequently, i’ve gone for an entire army of mantic dwarves, plus a scibor dwarf on armoured bear as my general- as soon as the mantic army deal hits, it should look really nice! I’m looking into increasing the gun barrels on the gunners, though- i thought something telscopic might be fun! But, this is a good vid and actually improved my opinion of the kit- some of the 3up painting for the dwarves has been somewhat less than great so these vids really show… Read more »
I’M not too happy with the Mantic Dwarfs. I really liked the Elves and Undead and them beeing true scale. But now the dwarfs are even bulkier than the heroic scaled GW ones. Somwhere I’ve seen a picture of dwarf and and elf next to each other and the dwarf was just a head smaller than the elf O.o That doesn’t really fit together imho. So now they have these truescaled cannons for their heroic dwarfs 🙁 But i do like the fact that they have wooden wheels. GWs explanation that dwarfs dont use wood sounds a bit silly to… Read more »
Oh and I found the pic of the size comparison:
http://www.totalwargamer.co.uk/blog/?p=460
Just scroll down a bit.
BTW: is there an edit Function?
It looks very nice, although the cannon sprue seems to have a lot of empty space around the single cannon barrel. I wonder if they’ll have name the duck-cannon anything in particular (like the ironshod duck or something?)… Regardless, looks great and the comment about the wargame system not being complete without a pointer is hilarious 😀 Is it just me or are there no free hands for actually holding the cool and giant hammer? Something odd to me is that the cannon is true scale (very cool as well), but the hammer is in heroic (WAY too long and… Read more »
I have to say of the mantic range this is the least compatable I have seen thus far. I will preface this by saying I like heroic nothing in WFB from GW is accually fuctional or could be it’s just ment to look cool. But of all of the guys I could really see myself making a dwarf army from theses guys rather than GW because there not all skirts with boots but I may just some how want to fashion a non rifle cannon onto this. If! However there goal was to step away from GW as much as… Read more »
can you say shotgun cannon. that is awesome, ive never seen a cannon setup thats a multi-barrel system. that should be fun to see used when Mantic releases the rules. Finally a game that i can afford.
iv got this model and i think its great, but on one of the crew members its hard to see what hes holding or what hes doing, other than that i like it.
p.s theres also two legs that have had their body blown away at the knees which made me giggle 🙂
Bow please make a vid about a starter set!!!!!!!!!!!!
just ordered some dwarfs so i suppose i like this lol