 Hello everybody and welcome, we are here to talk about the Mantik Companion which is also known as the Mantik app. Is it an app or isn't it an app? It's a website. Well, it's an app. It's a website. It's an appy website companion. It's the Mantik Companion appy website to go with our big red book 3.5 Deluxe Games British. That's the way we do things at Mantik. What you want to know is what is it? So come on Elliot, what is it? It's a suite of tools for war gamers for all of Mantik games. Okay, that was kind of boring. Let's go again. Come on, what is it? It's an army builder, right? It is an army builder. It's an army builder. The best coolest. Why did we start from there? I mean, you know, you kind of swooped you up from the outside world but you're a kind of war gamer come coding geek. Is that right? Correct. So I program for fun, which I know a lot of people don't really understand and I tend to make everything myself. Right. And you saw that we had a kind of cool app with Easy Army and it's very good and we love Greg. He's a superstar. But you realized there was more stuff we could kind of do and those cool things that could be made and built. Yeah. So my speciality is in building complicated systems like that. Right. And I saw that I could do certain things that work better for my brain. So I did. And I think what got me excited when we started talking was the fact that we could just go so far beyond just an army builder. There was other things that we wanted to start doing and we talked about for ages and I needed some kind of person that had the same kind of passion for our games but actually the technical skills that, you know, we're going to write in games and we're going to make great models but actually we needed an app that was going to be awesome. So we've got the army builder. Why is this army builder better than any other army builder that's out there? What does it have that's super cool? Well, in particular now it's coming directly from the source so we know everything is right and hopefully correct on it. Yeah. But that means that we can be specific and we can do bespoke things for our games. We don't need to be general. So all the features are directed at Mantik Games stuff. Right. So we include all the inline rules. The layout makes sense based on what you're looking at and all of the really advanced features. We've got to build it absolutely from the start top to bottom. So we've got this beautiful app and there's so much more that's going to go with it and I think we're going to come on and talk about all those extras but I think what everyone's currently saying is what's the price? Why are we doing, you know, here we are. My God, there's going to be a million pounds a month. So let's talk about what we've actually built which we're going to come on to but also what's going to cost me. And I think the big thing that's different from the easy armies that we've gone for £3.99 a month which will be the same in dollars and pounds which gives you one gaming system but for just £2 or $2 more you are going to get all of our gaming systems. And I think what you've built primarily right at the core is an army builder not just for Kings of War but also for Dead Zone, also for Firefight in the new year Armada. So all of our gaming systems are all in one place and so just on the very basic level you know, we were looking at the pricing of the easy army and I was going to go up a dollar, we've gone one dollar more than that one quid more than that but suddenly everything is all in one place and I think there is a deal, well I know there's a deal if you sign up for a year you get 12 months for the price of 10 but you know, this is mantic we don't just come shaking you down for cash we're not that kind of company so we have some wonderful offers that's going live when the app goes live 1st November and tell us about those. So everyone who signs up is going to get a free period of full access to the app until January the 21st. January the 21st. January 31st. January 31st. January 31st. So all of November, if you sign up on the first day all of December and all of January to play around, look inside probably any bugs we've got help us fix them but they'll be none of those. Absolutely zero. guarantee, definitely double guarantee and you're going to have three months to play around get used to it. There will then be after 31st the options to have your two free army lists and you'll still be able to access sub parts of it but there will be some then behind this cool wonderful firewall which we'll do more about. If you have signed up for the one year easy army and you've still got three months left let's say as of the 31st December we will add those three months to the end of your the end of the free period so on the 31st of January if you have three months left on your easy army we will put three months onto your manticap so we're going to honour all that super cool we don't want to see anyone and that does mean easy army for the main army suit games other than Armada will shut down 31st December and we will then move your remaining months over. So okay it's an army builder that's what's coming out we've got a big free trial period that everyone's going to have a good rubbish around but it's not just a list builder is it? Tell us more, tell us about Mathama what is Mathama Elliot? Mathama is stats for nerds for war games. Right just give me an example because I'm obviously not a nerd definitely not a geek what does it do for me why am I going to be interested in what that does? Well the idea is you want to know how a given unit, dwarfs obviously a creative dwarfs performs in a given combat against filthy orcs let's say against filthy orcs and you want to know if you give them different magic items if you choose the regiment over the troop you're going to perform in an average number of hits and wounds So I can take my super cool unit of wonderful dwarfs and then go if I tool them up this way this is more likely and if I know I'm fighting a heavy armoured army I want to destroy armour if I'm fighting spam lots of loads so I can tweak around my army list so that as I'm building my army list I can really perfect and tone up my sexy beautiful fully painted dwarf army and you can compare that to what you're paying in points for that unit as well Okay so it's a kind of guide for both the idiot like me who doesn't know what he's doing and can just stop me doing dumb things and the connoisseur elite player who's just going to be able to fine tune and save him lots of time tweaking around different options without having to run through lots of games to Exactly and it works in reverse as well so if you want to know say a horde how good of an anvil it's going to be then you set that up as the defending unit and see how many wins it will take before it's going to get into trouble so there we go that's maths hammer that's exciting Torrim and organising software what's this tell us about that This is specific bespoke software for anybody to run tournaments for their clubs Brilliant and I think we talked about this and this is not it ran clash of kings so it can run that kind of high end stuff but we know people have their software they prefer and there's a load of tournaments out there that are running very well but what we're thinking about is you know dad that's got a load of guys in the club and his sons and he wants to run a 10 person tournament he's never run one before how intimidating is that where do I find myself it's right there it's in the app Exactly bang away you go I love that and that allows us to kind of give scores of people and have their playing and who's doing well and which armies are doing well Precisely that and then we could give prizes to the best goblin player in the world well they never would do that because goblin players are filth but dwarf players for example we could reward dwarf players Or orcs Halflings Let's move on so tournament stuff is there it goes all the way from the high end to clash of kings this year in the UK and it goes all the way down to the privacy of your own garage and you've just got it there submit their armies away it goes and if you've done that bit then all of a sudden the info starts coming in rankings comes in we can see who's doing what we can have weekly roundups of all cool armies and I'm guessing that if people share their army lists and someone goes and wins the clash of kings UK we can share their army list off at some point in the future we can yeah so the list builder itself has public lists so you can make any list that you have public Dan kings of this world and the Jeffs that came over and John Green that came over we can share their army lists Steve Hildry the people that are ranking here you go share it public and people can build that army they can see how they won with it and you can start finessing your wow that's exciting isn't it one of the large upgrades that we've done to the tournament software is enabling people to submit their scores on their device now so they don't need to pass around paper the tournament organiser doesn't need to faff around putting the data in actually introducing oh it's amazing yeah okay so there's that function I just building probably that's probably still in kind of beta but over the next weeks and months we'll just keep getting refined as we get feedback and while we're opening it up while we're giving it a nice long free period anyone ever wants to try all these cool things that Elliot has built and of course there's going to be a few snags but we're going to be making sure that over the first coming weeks which absolutely all knows and then we just keep rolling out to developers into the future this is not the end of our ambition is it this is simply the start what else have we got looking forward coming down the line to start with we're going to upload all of the lore that we have publicly available yeah whack it into the app and you can read it exactly read about dwarfs and and potentially some older lore or some of the more obscure bits yeah we can just go digging it here's a mine and here's our library and so I think it's great that we've got a whole load of and of course free that's going to be in front of the paywall so everyone that's starting to get into mantid games and what's nice is this is now I keep thinking about kings of war but of course we have forge farmers which are also the best army in dead zone and I agree with you there yeah okay fine we've got some agree with that so all of our games that's what your free rules are going to be it's where your lore is going to be so when you may start saying kings of war you say go to this app straight web strike that's it and it's really important to stress that the free stuff that you'll get just by registering is enough to know what you're doing and start playing yeah and I think we've ambushed we've just done for kings of war and obviously dead zone which is a great game firefight or googly it's all there here you go let's start playing and I think that's kind of because mantid well I want more people to play our wonderful games don't we I think that's the stage we're at and we've got some great models we've got great rage superb games more people please we want to make it easy for you our current fans to get you the rest of your club playing our game we've just done ambush for kings of war because painting 300 figures is the hardest 200 100 depending on your army six if you do an ogre army to get to get that over that initial hump and therefore ambush is giving you that 500 points game which really gets you into kings of war and that's all going to be in front of the bay wall and subscription service that's all there and more games coming absolutely so starting with armada yeah early next year brilliant and we're putting a lot of time and effort into making sure that they're both the builder and then a subsequent playing tool is there because a lot of the feedback from armada is sometimes it's difficult to keep track of the damage the tokens you can have all that on that correct how cool is that so we're going to take this game onto another level as well which you are a very very popular beautiful beautiful ships and actually those rules are going to be out there people are going to be able to trial it start playing it we've got a taste of set coming new book and scenery so excited things happening for armada that I would say we've just got the big red book for kings of war which is romping on dead zone continues to romp on firefight so there you are guys and girls ladies and gents we have been talking about all things app is there anything we've missed is there anything we should be saying yeah I mean the another upgrade that we're looking at is the my mantic area of the site so enabling people to upload their pictures of their armies to share those to challenge people to painting goals so I can actually prove to everyone I actually have a painting to work on me ok so there you go you heard it here first so exciting I hope you're all super inspired it's up there for three months dive in get stuck in have a go at it's coming out next Monday Tuesday 1st of November it's going to go live and we're going to have lots of good stuff I hope you've got convinced why it's absolutely wonderful and we will be obviously I don't know if you keep noticing but I keep touching and feeling trees I would keep watching exciting things for and for are coming your way and keep tapping in all week we have blogs we have updates if you want a deep dive on math hammer if you want to see how it's going to work on the rankings we've got blogs written by Alia written by Johnny and Martin getting everybody excited and deep diving on some of those things but we hope we've answered most of the big questions obviously you heard it here first this is the good stuff isn't it correct and the free access coupon codes will be in those blogs going to be in the blogs so start collecting them up jump on board please join us we look forward to seeing you at a gaming event or a tournament or running on yourselves and seeing the results of it which you can all start seeing and sharing so thanks a lot and thanks everybody see you soon