Lore out of the old school rulebook for Mantic's Warpath game. WE GOT NEW MICS! Also new editing software, which comes with a bit of a learning curve hence the long wait since recording and a reeeealy long time since the last ep. Sorry for the background chatter. Just call it LoFi ;D
Join us for our book club! Next book is Robert E. Waters' THE FINAL RUSH
https://www.manticgames.com/fiction/warpath-universe/
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Indulge us as we read and discuss our fanon and Firefight games from Tersia Prime (big thanks again to The Mantic Universe Podcast for their campaign ideas). We talk about Zacama13's Enforcers of the Taurus-Hyades Battalion and Ashwalker's Blood Hand Marauders hired by a rogue Corp: the Talchion Enclave.
Upcoming Book Club: The Final Rush by Robert Waters
https://www.manticgames.com/fiction/warpath-universe/
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We chat with Christopher Verspeak about the polished, extended, rerelease of the first Warpath novel: First Strike, which we loved and did a book club on in Season 1. We also talk a bit about what we can look forward to in the future from the Warpath setting, tips for writing in Warpath, and just having fun talking to an awesome author and fellow fan of Mantic Games. Thank you, Christopher!
Look out for First Strike-Alpha Strike Edition coming soon and more from Christopher Verspeak in the future!
Forgive the sound quality, did my best with editing, but we had some glitches in the call. Enjoy!
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First Strike and our current Book Club book The Final Rush by Robert E. Waters are available here.
https://www.manticgames.com/fiction/warpath-universe/
Zacama13 and Ashwalker are back for Season 2 of The Manticlore Podcast. Visit the recently exfoliated and moisturized Tersia Prime as we discuss the setting for the 2024 Summer of Sci-Fi world wide campaign, the Tersia Prime Revolutionaries, Blaine, and what might be next for Warpath.
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Read The Final Rush by Robert E. Waters for our next book Club.
You know him from Deadzone the Podcast and #Woo! Go Rebs! on Facebook. We're joined by Bryan Novak to talk about one of the first and most interesting factions in Warpath. The GCPS is far from perfect, and those who seek to be the change in the Spheres fight each other as much as their oppressors. From a diverse cast of humans, aliens, and who knows what else, emerges a rag tag team of specialists and niche warriors with heart and -sometimes- morals. Whether you are a pirate smuggler, a gang boss, a freedom fighter, an environmental activist, or an off-script investigative reporter, you and the Council of Seven don't get along...and that's all it takes.
Deadzone the Podcast
https://open.spotify.com/show/6Fz8YXcyCptO8ikd9eE3iU?si=wNbJ7VO8RSKehVQiQZ80pw
Ronnie the Bard of Mantica
https://www.facebook.com/groups/RonnieTheBard/permalink/1688340171353904/
Let's reach the goals for the new Rebs!
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Ashwalker and Zacama13 dive deep to find out what the Nameless are and what they are up to. Aquaforming, psychic powers, cults, and mechanobiological armaments, and of course...tentacles. Get your feet wet in preparation for their release in EPIC WARPATH. And sacrifice to the deep ancestor gods who shall arise to consume us all.
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A very unscripted, rambling thank you to our audience. Your sleep deprived lore geeks get propped up by mountain dew(not sponsored) and try to form semi-coherent responses to your questions. Future Zacama13 chimes in a couple times to correct memory lapses. Please do not operate heavy machinery while listening to this episode. THANK YOU, LISTENERS!
Welcome to Mazon Labs where we'll do anything to further our understanding of medical science. Anything.
Check out Arvandus www.youtube.com/@ArvandusTheStoryteller
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LET'S GET READY TO SLAM! STRIKE! RUSH! Zacama13 and Ashwalker talk about the biggest sport in the galaxy. We talk about the game and The Last Hurrah with a special post credit amateur narration taken from the collector's edition dreadball rule book. A big thank you to our friends on The Manticlore Den and Dreadball Fanatics' Alex di Serio for their input!
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As much as we love bringing you this podcast, life is simply a bit hectic right now, we will be back at the end of September, by all means chat with us on facebook or discord, send us your questions for the next shoot the shek episode and enjoy our other stuff in the meantime!
Be it dreadball, the lab, or the field of battle, the Matsudan exemplify honor and aspiration. We talk about these fierce allies of the Asterians and what makes them so formidable...and down right AWESOME!
For the curious, the japanese at the beginning was basically
Zacama13: "Ashwalker, long time no see. I don't speak japanese"
Ashwalker: "Ah, a little japanese huh?"
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Come, engage in the ritual of the blood-blue tea, clade siblings. We shall harken to the words of the Tesseract. Or perhaps we will conspire to hunt for our long lost emperor to return him to the throne and lead us in a unified crusade. Experience 5D art, a sci-fi soufle, and the best space elves in the universe. Balance and Unity!
MUP and Omega VIII
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0xC4bkwEP09kqa6Bo12SYw?si=f0e14dc7506b43fb
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For Mark Cunningham
We discuss our thoughts on Christopher Verspeak's Warpath novel First Strike. We get awesome insights into the GCPS, Enforcers, Veer-myn, and Gorgon (Archrival of Mazon Labs).
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Chris and Clem from the Mantic Universe Podcast join us to talk army lore and help us develop ours! Pt.2 will be on their channel.
MUP: https://open.spotify.com/show/2qW60zetdOVHuERpuaqc6y?si=a540023600a24acb
MUPodcast15 for 15% off at corvusgamesterrain.com
Dan Coolledge STLs at thingiverse.com/danbatch/designs
Silo by Hugh Howey, Live action show on Apple TV
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Don't forget about our Warpath Playlist event! see the discord for details!
Keep to the shadows and hide amongst your siblings for now. The prophecies have come to pass. The time to pour forth comes quickly. Sharpen the fangs and claws. Fill the chem vats. Wake the mutants. The Tangle calleth.
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Dungeons of Drakkenheim
https://youtu.be/MNcpxqT_WsM?si=JS_aBfLj1IJ8CSfj
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They are back and better than ever. The Death Arc is Pandora's Box, now opened for the Galaxy to witness, and fear. They want only to spread, consume, and destroy in ceaseless rage. Learn about this existential threat's history, the forms they take, and about what makes them terrifying on a cosmic level.
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The Manticlore Podcast’s Warpath Faction Playlists Event
Submit Entries Between June 17th 2024-Sept 30th 2024
ATTENTION PSEUDO-DIVE DJ’S!!!
We want to hear your moodboards for your favorite factions. Present us your playlists full of songs that vibe with your Veer-myn, make your Marauders merry, and rile up your Rebs. WE NEED YOU!!!
Rules:
Each playlist creator will comment on the Faction Playlists channel with
What faction(s) they want to make a playlist for
What their username is on the music platform they will be making them on.
What the music platform will be. (Must be a free-to-use music platform)
Multiple people may do the same faction, but we encourage the creators to coordinate this way to try and get every faction at least one playlist.
The creators will have the duration of the event to share their playlists as a comment to their faction declaration post in the same channel. The event will close at 11:59 MDT Sept. 30, 2024.
During October, Ashwalker and Zacama13 will judge the entries with the criteria below with the intention to declare the winners in the first episode released in November.
Playlist Parameters
Each Playlist should have a name that includes the name of one of the playable factions in Mantic’s Firefight, Deadzone, or Warpath. Alternatively, you could make one for Dreadball, but we will keep that as just dreadball, instead of a category for each individual team.
GCPS
Marauders
Asterians
Forge Fathers
Enforcers
Plague
Veer-myn
Mazon Labs
Nightstalkers
Rebs
Nameless
Dreadball*
Each Playlist should excite a fan, positively represent, or capture the vibe of the faction named.
Each playlist should contain at least 2 hours of music with no one song lasting longer than 12 minutes. The more music the better!
Songs may contain explicit lyrics, but discretion should be exercised to not promote self-harm, hatred towards a group of people or culture from the real world, or be sexually provocative.
We will not be playing any of the music on the podcast, so feel free to use music that could be copyrighted such as music from movie scores, videogame scores, etc. You could even try including your own music if you want to put it out there!
Judging Criteria
Preliminaries
Ashwalker and Zacama13 will judge the playlists by grouping the playlists by faction, after which we will pick 10 songs at random and listen to the samples of those songs.
Each song will earn 0-2 stars for its playlist. (MAX 40 stars)
0 stars=doesn’t remind us at all of the faction
1 star=reminds us of the faction and is a good song for them.
2 stars= reserved for absolute perfect matches, music that we feel transports us into the Warpath universe.
After each song is judged this way, we will announce the top 2 playlists from each faction if applicable.
Faction Finals
The top 2 from each faction, Ashwalker and Zacama will listen to in their entirety, and then discuss overall feelings and highlights and decide who will be the BEST playlist-in our opinion-to represent that faction.
Overall Top 3
From each of the faction playlists we will discuss and pick 3 playlists that we feel best represent their faction through music.
Fan Favorite
During the month of October while we are doing our judging, we will have polls attached to our spotify episodes where the listeners can vote for their favorite playlists and on the first podcast of November, we will announce which playlist received the most overall votes for Fan Favorite.
We talk about a few of the interesting planets, stars, and other features of the Warpath Galactic Map.
https://warpath-universe.fandom.com/wiki/Universe_Map
Welcome to the Manticlore Den!
Discord: https://discord.gg/nuPeu9sZ2W
Books for Book Club: https://www.manticgames.com/fiction/warpath-universe/
The Manticlore Podcast’s Warpath Faction Playlists Event
Submit Entries Between June 17th 2024-Sept 30th 2024
ATTENTION PSEUDO-DIVE DJ’S!!!
We want to hear your moodboards for your favorite factions. Present us your playlists full of songs that vibe with your Veer-myn, make your Marauders merry, and rile up your Rebs. WE NEED YOU!!!
Rules:
Each playlist creator will comment on the Faction Playlists channel with
What faction(s) they want to make a playlist for
What their username is on the music platform they will be making them on.
What the music platform will be. (Must be a free-to-use music platform)
Multiple people may do the same faction, but we encourage the creators to coordinate this way to try and get every faction at least one playlist.
The creators will have the duration of the event to share their playlists as a comment to their faction declaration post in the same channel. The event will close at 11:59 MDT Sept. 30, 2024.
During October, Ashwalker and Zacama13 will judge the entries with the criteria below with the intention to declare the winners in the first episode released in November.
Playlist Parameters
Each Playlist should have a name that includes the name of one of the playable factions in Mantic’s Firefight, Deadzone, or Warpath. Alternatively, you could make one for Dreadball, but we will keep that as just dreadball, instead of a category for each individual team.
GCPS
Marauders
Asterians
Forge Fathers
Enforcers
Plague
Veer-myn
Mazon Labs
Nightstalkers
Rebs
Nameless
Dreadball*
Each Playlist should excite a fan, positively represent, or capture the vibe of the faction named.
Each playlist should contain at least 2 hours of music with no one song lasting longer than 12 minutes. The more music the better!
Songs may contain explicit lyrics, but discretion should be exercised to not promote self-harm, hatred towards a group of people or culture from the real world, or be sexually provocative.
We will not be playing any of the music on the podcast, so feel free to use music that could be copyrighted such as music from movie scores, videogame scores, etc. You could even try including your own music if you want to put it out there!
Judging Criteria
Preliminaries
Ashwalker and Zacama13 will judge the playlists by grouping the playlists by faction, after which we will pick 10 songs at random and listen to the samples of those songs.
Each song will earn 0-2 stars for its playlist. (MAX 40 stars)
0 stars=doesn’t remind us at all of the faction
1 star=reminds us of the faction and is a good song for them.
2 stars= reserved for absolute perfect matches, music that we feel transports us into the Warpath universe.
After each song is judged this way, we will announce the top 2 playlists from each faction if applicable.
Faction Finals
The top 2 from each faction, Ashwalker and Zacama will listen to in their entirety, and then discuss overall feelings and highlights and decide who will be the BEST playlist-in our opinion-to represent that faction.
Overall Top 3
From each of the faction playlists we will discuss and pick 3 playlists that we feel best represent their faction through music.
Fan Favorite
During the month of October while we are doing our judging, we will have polls attached to our spotify episodes where the listeners can vote for their favorite playlists and on the first podcast of November, we will announce which playlist received the most overall votes for Fan Favorite.
More history including Cabot III, Operation Heracles, and Upphamer. For more check the link below, but be on the lookout for some parts to be referenced in faction episodes later.
https://firefightthegame.com/galaxy/?fbclid=IwAR0xXlPE0oW6ElNFULm3cYyR17QLea_hAP4jaUNC9sRVDzKsrBUqUYGnRiw&mibextid=xfxF2i
Welcome to the Manticlore Den!
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Book Club: First Strike https://www.manticgames.com/fiction/warpath-universe/
We touch on some of the various aliens in the galaxy. But WAIT! There's more!
https://warpath-universe.fandom.com/wiki/Races
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Books for Book Club: First Strike
https://www.manticgames.com/fiction/warpath-universe/