 I'm Elvis, I'm customer service and Mantic Games. My name is Martin Thurwell, I'm the global trade marketing manager for Mantic Games. I am Rob and I guess I'm the social media person for Mantic Games. My name is Video Matt and as the name suggests I'm the video content producer for Mantic Games. Hello I'm Duncan, I'm graphic designer and layout artist, Mantic. I'm Ronnie. So I'm Kirsten, I am the resin caster here at Mantic. I've been here six months now, all the exciting resin that we've got coming up. Hi guys, my name is Kyle Presolenski and I am the North American trade sales executive for Mantic Games. What that means is I take care of everything for sales and service in North America. So if you have retail stores and locations that you want to carry our product, I am the guy that can help you out and get it in the store so that you can play our games and have a blast with them, especially Kings of War. So my name is Sunny and basically I'm starting up a Kings of War army and that's it really at the moment. We're just learning how to start a new army, I've not done Kings of War before. Like some kind of mad man I have decided that the army I'm doing is a horde army and it's a goblin army and that's the second goblin army I've done I've already got 3,000 points but I decided why not go a little bit crazy and do another one because I hate myself. I am currently working on my undead brotherhood which is basically using the rules for brotherhood but using models for the undead. I'm doing the horrific Night Stalkers, Crawlers, Night Stalkers, Crawlers, Stalkers. So the army I'm working on for the Road to Third Edition is the Bacillians. Night Stalkers, Crawlers which you have on the core was very intriguing but the reasons it will become obvious I'm going to try and finish my Dwarf army. I'm doing Northern Alliance. The army which I'm doing are the Dwarfs, I'm joining Ronnie on this, I think I'm the only duplicate army but I just can't resist them. For my Road to Third Edition I decided to do the Forces of Nature, it's an army that I started a while ago in second edition and I built up, I had a little bit of salamanders, just some basic kind of mixes of bits and bobs and I was using some non-mantic miniatures. Well since I'm working for Mantic now I want to make sure that I do everything in Mantic miniatures and I've got an obsession with doing all of the elements. I really am excited if and when we ever do some air elementals to completely round this out. What I've done is essentially taken the three major elements that we've done miniatures for. So I've got a bunch of earth elementals, fire elementals and the water elementals as well and then a couple of druids to back them up because you just really need those mechanics to work out for you and the druid in third edition has got some really nice abilities to complement each of these types of units. So the army I have chosen for this one is Ogres simply because they're nice and easy to paint and it's a dream to do. Why have I chosen goblins? Good question. I mean to be honest I absolutely love goblins so it was kind of a no brainer, I wasn't into doing ogres because they'd got goblins in but then I realised why not just go the whole hog and do goblins. But I guess another big reason is because I've been playing a lot of vanguard and I've been playing goblins in that I'd actually already painted up a load of things for that so I've kind of done it the opposite way round. I've already got the heroes and now I need to do the hordes. So things like the big git, wiz, kuzlo, the wing it and also the more put launch as well. Kind of all those, they kind of be making their way into the third edition so I wanted to use that. I've not the most experienced at Kings of War, I've dabbled around a little bit with Undead in the past but when I saw the new, it was basically when I saw the new Clansman kit I just liked the idea of screaming hordes of hairy unwashed northmen. It buys a little bit of customisation but it's allowed me to do things like use our Undead vampire on Pegasus and then switch out some units from the Soul Revers to give them a different rider so they look a little bit different and then it allows me to do quite creepy freaky stuff like instead of water elementals I've got my blood elementals. Yeah so there's a, I wanted to first of all see the different types of flesh tones I could get on them. See how, what I could do, because there's less model count, I wanted to see the next effects I want to go for is actually putting woad onto my ogres, so at the moment I've only got the skin turns. I've got everything the basics down but next task is literally woad because I love the idea of having blue tattooed faced ogres running to combat so yeah. No naked ones so far. Well it was new so it was launched in January this year and I've been flopping around which to do. I start the Dwarves, I started Trident Realm and then I decided on something more horrific that fits my personality and my nightmare is on a daily basis so I went with the Night Stalkers. So I chose the Basilains because they are a human faction in a world of monsters and fantastical creatures and I always find that really interesting. They've got a nice mix of armour, cloths, skin tones for painting, they remind me of Heroes of Might and Magic, the human faction which I was a big fan of when I was young. And my very first tabletop army was a human army as well so new system, repeat the old. It works. So I've chosen the Dwarves because I've just come off the back of doing my forge fathers for Dead Zone and I was having a really good time painting your tins and your brasses just for really fun plate armour so I thought what I want to do is paint some more angry little men. So far I've got a Shadowhawk which was the first model I painted, it was a delicious piece of plastic and resin and I went slightly away from the studio colour scheme so I went kind of reds and oranges just to make it a point of difference from what we've got currently. I've got a Terror in there, that was also a great model to paint, lots of tentacles for people into that sort of thing. So I've got two Hordes of Butchers and with the Shadowhawk that forms the Butchers block formation. I've got a Regiment of Shadowhounds which I finished yesterday which looking quite nice especially with the resin or grade pieces in the set. I've got a Regiment of Fiends which were interesting to build but they came out really really nice. I've got a Void Lurker, now we haven't got a model for that so I used the Conqueror Worm from Hellboy and that's come out quite nice as well. I've got two models from my Vanguard Warband, one is the Minescreech and the other is the Butcher Flesh Whipper and they're two heroes that work in the Kings of War Army. I've done, in the middle of painting a Frost Giant I've done some Ice Elementals, a Snow Troll Prime which I might replace with a new Snow Troll Prime kit and that comes out, if we announce that that's probably fine. And the thing, so the units I've done so far are two Regiments of Ironclad, a Steel Behemoth and two Iron Belcher Cannons with their crew so I'm getting there very slowly everyone else had a bit of a head start against me but I'm slowly catching up. So far I have done my first Crossbowman Regiment and I've just put in the finishing touches to the Sisterhood Scouts. That's it, so what units have I done so far? Well, I've done two Hordes, only obviously all the Vanguard stuff so I've done a Horde of Rabble and a Horde of Spitters which comes to a whopping 300 points. So I've got to do another like 1700, I want to do 2000 points, I've also decided rather insanely to do full Model Counts as well which is good. So that's 40 Goblins on each Horde and then obviously 20 Blood of Fleabags as well. So yeah I've set myself a real challenge and it's just to check it's October 2020, the release isn't it? Oh this is going to be a big long list, the units I have done so far are 6 Ogre Warrior Hordes, 6 more, 6 more and 3 Ogre Shooters because again, I hate myself just like Rob does. Yeah so far I've done my two Water Elementals so I've done a greater Water Elemental and a Horde of Water Elementals and I plan to do another unit of them to have two Hordes or Blood of Elementals. I have done a Lord on Dragon which was in the Emonic Blog, that was my first thing I did because I wanted to do something really big and chunky as a centerpiece to the army. And now I'm currently working on a converted unit of Brotherdom Foot which is basically Foot Knights and two Heroes which is a Necromancer from the Vanguard Undead and also a converted Halfling Vampire. So far I've done the Earth Elementals, obviously I'm kind of cheating a little bit because I had those guys done ahead of time, the two Hordes of Earth Elementals and then the Greater Earth Elemental. So these units have seen some changes in third edition which introduces some significant reasoning for me to want to take them. The Earth Elementals in particular, they have the Brutal Rule now so when they hit stuff it just kind of adds to the punch of what they're doing that makes it really effective and it's pretty important for me because I want the strong heavy units to stick. I've also done up my Water Elementals so I'm doing three regiments of those and then I also have the Greater Water Elemental so what I'm doing is trying to take multiple units of each but then also pairing it with their Greater Elemental counterpart as a monster or Titan so that I have some nice little search tricks that I can do and kind of take advantage of the height differences between the units so it's important for me to have that little bit of mix in there. So Earth and Water are complete and what is next is going to be the fire units as well. I'm going to also take two Hordes of them just like the Earth Elementals. I'm trying to go for that very classic Hammer and Anvil approach where the Earth Elementals are going to take the punch, fire elementals can come in and hopefully surge into the side or possibly clean up the units that can't kill my Earth Elementals. They've got high nerf, high defense and then the fire elementals have got some wonderful crushing strength rules like Vicious that make them extremely effective in combat and are able to put out a lot of points of damage onto the enemy units so hopefully it complements well and then the Water Elementals just some extra speeds and regeneration. I think they're going to make some good screening units especially that and also to sort of do some distraction maneuvers or possibly go claim the objective if I need it. Since nine years or since we've started this whole new painting splurge Well, I thought about it. I pondered and pontificated, I've planned, I've designed my strategies and we're very close now to making some purchases and including undercoating which I do enjoy. That was zero. Well, that you can't rush the planning phase, you see. You've got to make sure it's a well-balanced and well-rounded army. So I've got a list of what I'm going to get and I can tell you what I already have but if you're asking specifically the detail of what I've painted so far since the Kings of War 3 announcement, the answer is indeed a somewhat smaller number than that. So up next for my army is my Earth Elemental. So I'm doing a horde of Earth Elementals and then a greater Earth Elemental. I'm trying to do them in an unlock order so they can stay a bit legal. So I might be able to play as I'm as I'm still building up stuff, which would be good fun. But yeah, definitely the horde of Earth Elementals next, which I'm really looking forward to doing. I believe like doing get all the the Hordy type unit. Yeah, for Ogre's Hordy is six for me. So I'm I'm going to actually start doing the good old Giants, because I've not painted a giant and that's the kind of thing I want to do now. So I've got two Giants and possibly possibly a Mammoth. And again, I might go with Wode on them as well. So next I'm going to do two troops of Reapers. I'm going to paint those slightly different. I'm going to do those kind of a black, maybe a couple of blue twinge to them so it kind of offsets from the oranges and reds. I've been doing so far. Also got a troop of Phantoms on the way. They're all based in basically red. So I've gone back to my original color scheme and I've also got another terror I've built and I'm base kept it as well. So three more nice things to do for nightmares. What's up next? Well, mainly crying about the Tusk at hand. They ask you how are you just have to say that you're fine when you're not really fine, but you just can't get into it because they would never understand. But apart from that, I think I really need to do because I realized this morning when I was checking, I can't because spitters are irregular. I can't unlock a lot of what I've already painted for Vanguard. So at the minute, I can kind of unlock one monster, like one hero. So I need to kind of really concentrate now on another horde of rabble, although I have got another horde of spitters to do and then some Fleabag riders. So once I've got those and some trolls and then once I've got those, it's all gravy. I think I'm doing a unit of Brotherhood on horseback next and then I will be doing my Pegasus unit. Next will be a Spamon Regiment and then another Crossbowman Regiment and then probably reward myself to smithle high. Well, I quite like some of the stuff that's come across from Vanguard, you see. There's a steel juggernaut, really good chap's going to get in there and they're quite good fun. So I look forward to those painted one for Vanguard. We make a total hack hash of it. So I've got a chance to do it slightly better when I do it for my King's War army. Flame Priest, throw a bit of fire in, you've got to like a bit of fire. You know, I'm loving it in Borderlands 2. I'm playing that again with a lot of fire weapons there. So Flame Priests, Flame Throw are all good. Got one of those, obviously, in the army already. And then the Mastiff Packmaster, because, you know, who doesn't like throwing dogs at goblins and seeing them nor their way through someone else's army while they burst into tears. And then just for balance, I've only got 57 pieces of artillery so far. So probably another half dozen of that is just to round the door for aspects off. So the thing I'm most excited about for King's War 3rd Edition is mainly just the entire ruleset. I've come from skirmish games, so you deadzone your Vanguard. So I'm looking forward to having a rank and flank, having big armies on the board and seeing what the scenarios are like. Because, yeah, coming from Six Miniatures Max kind of thing and then into these massive things, I'm really excited to see what we can do with that. It might sound kind of cliche to say it, but the thing I'm most excited about for King's War 3rd Edition is how much the game has grown since 2nd Edition. I came on board in July, I think, of 2015. So right toward the start of 2nd Edition and to be a player and a community member that was able to help grow with the game is a big deal to me. And then also now as a part of Mantic, it's just a tremendous opportunity to be a part of a game system that I love. It is by and large the greatest hobby in my life. It's my work, it's my friends, it's all this stuff put together in one place. And King's War has defined that exclusively. So to be a part of this game in this release is a huge deal for me. And I'm really excited to see what happens in 3rd Edition, because I am fully confident that it will grow just as much. If not more in 3rd Edition, we're going to bring in new players and new faces and make new friends all over the place. So it's a great way to be a part of the game and the company and the community as well. So couldn't be more excited. I've always wanted to have a massive army like in front of me, so I can say I've done this. And I've tried on, as I say, two or three occasions and I've always kind of fallen at the first gate as such. So having nearly 2000 points already and I'm just building and building and painting until until 3rd Edition is actually launched. So who knows what what amount of army I'll have built by then. How many points, maybe over 3000 to be cleric, I don't think we'll see. But yeah, it's been going really well and just have that, you know, that big army in front of me opposing the opposition. Yeah, looking forward to that. Oh, I think the new monsters coming out probably. Thankfully, they've been the renders have been showing off. So I can mention them without getting shouted at. The Phoenix is stunning. We'll definitely have to get one of those. Just some of the different mission types, like stuff that I'm not allowed to go into, but some of the new missions in the books and really, really fun. I'm just excited to jump in from the start because I jumped in on the end of this edition. So I haven't really memorised the book because I didn't want to learn too much because if anything changes and things like that. So just looking forward to playing rank and flank again. Well, you know what, I think, I mean, obviously I come at it from a slightly different point of view, but when Kings of War two came out, we'd finished it and then the kind of system happened and all of a sudden it went big and it went global. What I'm super excited about is just we've had time enough and resources enough to do what I think is the ultimate job on it. It's not been through Kickstarter. It's come out when it's ready. You know, we looked at last year, wasn't ready. We've had a great team from the Rules Committee map here internally, the photography team, the graphics team, you know, Ben and Duncan. It just looks so grown up and fantastic and polished. And, you know, each time it moves up a step, but at this time it's moved to a three step. So I just can't wait to give my hands on it, it feels like. It feels like the rank and flank. That's part of War Games rulebook. I'm excited to finally get regular games in and really sort of learn this game. Laying out the rulebook, it's the same with any project. You know, you work so closely with it and become excited about it inevitably. So, yeah, just excited to try it out. What am I most excited about for that edition? I think, from what I've seen in the rules so far, it's a really good cleanup of everything that was good in second edition has been made even better in third edition. And obviously I'm clearly excited about playing Goblins again. Things like the Moorpup rule for those is really interesting and some of the way the units work together, like the Wing It, the Moorpup Launcher, some of the stuff on, you know, the Bang It as well from Vanguard. There's quite a lot of things that are moving over. So I'm quite excited about seeing how they perform in third edition. They might look, they'll be absolutely awful. Because I've not actually, I've always meant to do Kings of War and it's always a game I always just want to do and never got a chance to play due to work and whatnot. It's getting more games and meeting more people out there and I'm personally more of a, I just want to meet more of that community and get more games in and I'm sure I will get to know them all through this. So I want to enter a few tournaments and lose and win that wooden spoon. That is me. If I don't, I'll be upset. So yeah, that's just me in a nutshell. I just want to go out, have a laugh, have a few beers probably, if I can do. It'll be great, Kings of Wars and beer. Kings of beers. And that was really my favourite gaming moment.