 Hello everyone and welcome to another broadcast from the Mantic Bunker. I've been here for several days They're not gonna let me out, but I think Matt if I'm right that I'm kicking off the first of our Preview blogs if I've done my job logs video. Yes Theoretically I should be the first although this is one of the last that we're filming anyway dead zone now seems Possibly apt that we're talking about containment protocols and outbreaks With dead zone But we've kind of got a lot to talk about really so dead zone continues to be Extremely popular. I think there would have been an a tournament at this weekend at adepticon We're also looking at doing a tournament here at the UK in the future as well And there are plenty up and down the country. We've just had frantic on Organized by the lovely Ben Edwards and the frantic gamers podcast down in London I can't remember any players. They had let's say they had 150 players, but they had a lot of players. That was also the Kind of one of the biggest tournaments in the UK. We've had so far So it's been great to see and it still continues to grow. I don't think that shows it's such a bloody brilliant game Ultimately, I love it So I think one of the things we want to talk about is if you're interested in dead zone How you can get into it and the best way to get into it really? One thing is the core rules are free on the website So you can kind of download them and try them out And and we're also we realize a few people are like, oh, what do I need alongside the core rules? Well, you need a copy of escalation now wouldn't have been a good idea if I had one in front of me now Matt You have to flash it up. I'm not expecting you to hold it into my hands there But use your imaginations that here I am holding a copy of escalation So escalation is all the up-to-date stats all the up-to-date scenarios All the up-to-date abilities and items that you need alongside the core rulebook So all this week, maybe for a bit longer as well, actually We are reducing the cost of escalation to half price and that includes the digital one as well So if you want to kind of grab it quickly, you can download that. We're also doing it so that if For a limited time only you get the starters the core rulebook You will also get a free copy of escalation as well So that means you're up-to-date with everything you need for dead zone Because we've got quite a lot of exciting stuff planned I think last year we missed out on not having a summer campaign Unfortunately the timings didn't kind of work out for that one But we are looking at doing an online campaign Hopefully this year probably towards the end of the year I think the summer will be busy with something else So I've got to remember that this that won't have been talked about yet when I'm doing this video But you will find out soon. So we'll be busy with that. So we won't be able to kind of an online campaign then But we will be doing one hopefully later in the year also kind of We realize that it's not necessarily easy if you're kind of locked away in your home to get lots of gaming in at the minute So from now Hopefully if I remembered to make this live on the website you can download the nexus size supplement for free and In the next size supplement you get rules for playing dead zone solo basically So if you can't get out the house still fancy getting your dead zone fix then great news You can play nexus site. You might need some extra plague zombies But you can use those as well so you can get them from the website and hopefully get them delivered So yeah kind of a lot going on easier than ever to get into dead zone and That's not all So at Christmas if you can remember that are back Before everyone was stocking up on toilet roll We kind of talked about some of the previews for different games and unfortunately dead zone wasn't one of those games because we didn't have The stuff ready that we wanted to show but I think we've alluded to I've alluded to it pretty heavily actually What we are doing this year is releasing a new sub faction So a bit like we did the vault chasers last year for the veerman And we had the alpha strike team for the Rebs this year. We have the Matsuda That seems like a more appropriate way to say it. So if you've played dread ball, you will be well aware of these basically Sumo wrestling space lizards. They are big fat lizards And actually we have had them in dead zone before We if you've played with the Mercs, you'll know we've got Otasora Unfortunately, I couldn't find it to add to my display here But maybe Matt will magically add there in the edit or if we can't find the render It won't be there But we added Otasora to the Asterians and the idea was that was So the Asterians if you know your dead zone law are kind of all about bringing balance They want to restore balance and obviously things like the plague is kind of tipping the balance towards bad I guess the GCPS are a little bit as well with all the corporations So their aim is to try and maintain a level playing field, I guess for everyone and the Matsudan are incredibly honorable They're an ancient civilization possibly as old as the Asterians Which will kind of go into an area of the release But these are an ancient race of sumo wrestling space lizards so and The idea is that these are extremely honorable their whole society is to do with honor So if you play dread ball, you'll know they can't fowl intentionally And we wanted to kind of carry that over to dead zone as well So you'll see in a little bit with it with Otasora The idea is is that the Asterians necessarily Tricking the Matsudan, but they're kind of saying look guys The GCPS are possibly one of the most dishonorable races, you know All the corporations doing whatever they need to get their profit margins No, definitely no Kind of bear resemblance to real life there with profit margins, but that's fine. Matt's laughing But so the Matsudan are really kind of all about Bringing honor they see the GCPS a dishonorable and the Asterians are like hey, we can use this Why don't we team up with them? So we have got a sub faction for the Asterians actually the Matsudan can team up with the Asterians The idea is that they're very good with marionettes Again, if you know your Asterian law the marionettes are the kind of robots that The Asterians control they don't like to get their hands dirty by going on the actual battlefield So instead they send the marionettes to face off and we've got a number of Matsudan models. We're not going to show them all here But we've got a few we've got a new leader Now I've got to remember the names. It's the Toshi yori So if you again, if you know your sumo wrestling We've kind of taken inspiration from sumo wrestling names and the idea for that one is the GCPS would probably see these big Lizards and go what they look like sumo wrestlers back on earth When sumo wrestling was still a thing probably is still a thing actually in the future We should we should totally do a dread ball version of Sumo anyway, I guess it's arena wasn't so much but um So yeah, so we've got the Toshi yori, which is the new leader and then we've got a couple of guys armed with huge guns One of those is the Yokozuna Again, you'll know if you've know your sumo wrestling terms, you know He's like one of the kind of top sumo wrestlers and we've also got a couple of other ones as well Which we weren't spoiled here So the idea is is that you can team these mats down up with the kind of existing marionettes and the drones Things like that and create a very different looking Asterian list The playtesting has been going on for this for a while and the reaction has been really good People are really excited about this and hopefully we'll get to see more Asterians on the table because the marionettes in particular are probably one of my favorite hard plastics apart from the vehement for dead zone But that isn't all for the Asterians So if you're a dead zone player, you'll know that Most of the factions have their kind of big Gribblies, they're big well Gribblies, I guess for the for the play particularly all their big mechs So you've got the iron ancestor For the forge fathers, you've got things like the aberration or the teraton For the plague or the Rebs, I guess for the teraton. You've also got the strider And the awesome stumbot and grunt bots for the marauders And we were looking at the Asterians and feeling are these guys a bit unloved do they need their big Model on the table. That's kind of the iconic centerpiece for that unit and well my answer was yes and So with that I've been pushing for the release of a new Asterian mech, which now we will hopefully reveal Ta-da So this is the Spectra It's a brand new model. It will be in resin and I'm not sure because I obviously can't see what render you're going to see but it will have like a Blue translucent resin shield as well like an energy shield. There'll be two weapon options There'll be one with a gun and one with a sword and Hopefully if everything's gone right on the edit, you'll be seeing the one with the gun We're gonna keep the one with the sword as a little bit of a secret for later on in the line So as you can see, this is a really striking possibly actually arguably one of my favorite models in the dead zone range This is one of my kind of the models that I'm most excited about this year and Obviously with that energy shield, it's going to be pretty tough to kill and we also wanted to do something a bit different I think there was some concern to glee Rick Hall on the dead zone podcast You know, this was you moaning that not moaning We're concerned let's say concerned that All the factions if they all kind of had their mech it would become a bit too similar So what we've tried to do with this mech is make it very very different to kind of all the other ones play So you've got the iron ancestor kind of stomping around, you know, he's a dwarf. He's slow. He's super tough How boring But you've also got the stomp up again Under the big chainsaw bit slow bit clumsy kind of clunking around the battlefield. So the idea for the Spectrum was this is super agile really mobile Can fly around a bit as well So it's very different to your existence even the strider. I guess really it's kind of kind of much more nimble and agile compared to that one So for a sterian players, it gives them a different option and obviously you can combine this with the matzadan So I love love love love love the idea of the matzadan with a few marionettes and the spectra mech with them as well I think that's going to be a really cool sub faction So, yeah, it's really exciting times actually for dead zone We're working on the things in the background as well. It's a far too top secret to reveal here But there's lots going on and actually Later on in the year if you are in the UK There's the wafcom the way to fire convention organized by the lovely Andy sharp Who is a member of the rules committees head of the rules committee actually and he also does way to fire? Podcast when they can be bothered to do the podcast and the videos equally when they can be bothered to do those But we've got wafcon here at Mantik HQ and that includes the dead zone national championships So that's later in the year. So if you fancy coming along for that There's links on the website. So check those out too So there we go. So that is the kind of dead zone preview We'll have more kind of on these the matzadan and the mech hopefully painted versions pretty soon Yeah, enjoy the rest of the week of videos I think you've got Ronnie in the next one. Oh, but then again, I'm sure you'll probably spoil a lot more than I did Matt, is that true? Yeah. Okay. Yes, you did. Okay. So Enjoy the rest of the week again. I hope you're all okay. Stay safe out there and see you soon. Bye