Working at Games Workshop was Fun Exciting and Crazy! Interview with Ronnie Renton of Mantic Games

Working at Games Workshop was Fun Exciting and Crazy! Interview with Ronnie Renton of Mantic Games
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[@BlizzAz]

I remember you saying you had a secret interview coming up; and you did not disappoint. Ronnie is one of my very favorite people in the industry. Great interview.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

We had to reschedule from the original date we had planned but great to get Ronnie up to BlackJack Towers!

[@SinaKec]

'ate GW 'ate their policies 'ate codices luv mantic luv minis luv Ronnie simple as

[@malcolmbrown5331]

I have been a huge fan of Mantic since I found them in 2013. Such a great community focus!

[@BlackJackLegacy]

I agree - it’s one of the things that keeps me supporting them too.

[@healygoofy]

Not gonna lie I loved that Ronnie said Deadzone before Kings lol! Great interview!!

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Haha - thought someone might pick up on that!

[@hyakushiki9438]

I don’t understand how this interview series hasn’t blown up. This is my third (in two days), and loving them. I’ve never even played a Mantic game, but getting excited to do so! Keep up this level of great content, and you’re sure to grow as a channel. The algorithm is serving me your videos on my homepage so maybe it’s already happening!

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Glad you enjoy it and thanks for the kind words.

[@meiketorkelson4437]

Thanks for this. Ronnie is such an amazing, passionate individual and really champions the fans and customers.

[@Chronic.]

Thoroughly enjoyed the Interview. Mantic is great company. i really love playing deadzone!

[@squadof5]

Great interview! We have been enjoying Hellboy. Need to try the other Mantic offerings.

[@hopelives7469]

Really enjoyed that, makes me like Mantic even more, keep up the good work lads and lasses, cheers Ronnie

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Glad you enjoyed it buddy.

[@DeusMachina71]

Nice interview, I've been recently becoming more disenchanted by GW over the past year or two and have picked up Kings of War and I like it very much. My biggest problem with it is that I'm finding it hard to love, hard to love the lore, hard to love the factions, very hard to love the models particularly considering how many nice 3d stls are available these days for my 3d printer and the industry is moving quickly in that regard but easy to love the system. Normally I am a big advocate for strongly themed games but I love KoW mechanically enough I actually wish it was a but more easy to do what you want with it and it wasn't stuck to their themes and storylines. He's an interesting guy and obviously a talent game designer and I'm keeping my ear down to hear what he's doing and the direction he takes it

[@tollmart]

What a great interview Ronnie seems such a nice guy. Very interesting. Thank you.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@montycasinosbarandgrill]

I love this company, its games and its vision. Long live Mantic and it's entire team! Thanks for a great interview!

[@TiberiusWallace]

I think that's the longest Ronnie has sat in one place

[@BlackJackLegacy]

That’s what super glue will do for ya!

[@6Stevo]

Never looked at their range before. Took a look while listening to this video. Damn! Got some impressive stuff on there!

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Their games are great too fella. Thanks for watching 👍🏼

[@joelanderson5303]

Hahaha loved this. When the designated driver gets stuck in the corner with the guy who has taken too much cocaine (just joking...)

[@Gumlass1]

Deadzone 2 and 3 have been so much fun to play.

[@DirectMisfire]

Finally got around to catching up on this interview. Its always a pleasure to dive deep into the intricate mind of Ronnie and the Mantic games origins, present and future direction. Without his vision and product (kings of war primarily) not only would our channel not exist, but I'm not sure most of the worlds Kings of War players would be playing a rank and flank game. Thanks Ronnie and Blackjack Legacy for the interview! 10/10 will give it a share

[@Jez-Hunt]

Great interview, fella!

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Thank you my man!

[@georgeadsett-knutsen829]

Great to see Ronnie on the channel Andy; have missed the Q&A session with him at the Open days. Nice one!👍

[@moosemoosington]

Awesome. Always great to hear from Ronnie.

[@krjr1982]

Really enjoyed that. Thanks

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Cheers matey. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@johnestall3456]

Great video really interesting insight into Ronnie and behind the scenes at mantic

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Thanks mate.

[@michaelmiguelsanchez]

He forgot to mention the KoW RPG kickstarter. Oh, that’s because we all lost our money while Mantic got their Hellboy RPG from the same developer.

[@squallgoku777]

I love Mantic Games, I actually just did a video on that last night on my channel. Ronnie is a great figurehead for his company and they are keeping the gaming real. Hoping that Walking Dead gets a resurgence with talks with the company, and also hoping that Warpath gets a new life in small scale. Great interview!

[@36Marciano]

I met Ronnie at Essen in 2016 i believe, what a great guy, really nice and very dedicated to produce gamesystems that are affordable

[@VJMorph]

Great interview! Always interesting hearing from Ronnie. Onwards & upwards for Mantic!

[@henrymendes5617]

Great interview Andy 👍

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Thanks Henry

[@jporter1908]

Great taste hun!!! Don't miss out - Promo-SM !

[@ulflilienthal8120]

Really love Ronnie. Great interview.

[@marcolai9735]

What an unexpected and amazing interview!

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Glad you enjoyed it buddy.

[@majortom7186]

Odd to hear someone saying big companies can’t really do licences when Asmodee/FFG/AMG have had such long running success with the Star Wars and now Marvel licences.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

I think he meant back in the day GW would have a year of big profits off the back of the launch of LotR and then a bad few years until something new released and when you’re a PLC you need each year to be better than the last for shareholders. As he said smaller nimble companies could have a great year followed by a solid year and not fall over. Since then things have changed. The releases come out much faster than they used to, geek culture is more mainstream and whilst it wasn’t right for GW back then it doesn’t mean it’s not right now.

[@AlexAttemptsTabletop]

Very enjoyable/insightful 👏🏼 Thanks for the video :)

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Cheers Alex

[@ScottCroom]

Really great interview. This is the first video of yours I watched. So binging on the rest right now.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Thanks Scott. If you enjoyed this definitely check out my interviews with Warren from OnTable Top and Matt from Mantic 👍🏼

[@SuperPumpkinMan]

At the least experience was a good one and you learned from it.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Absolutely 👍🏼

[@NewbieDice]

Xoxo from Singapore!

[@derekgarcia3069]

Another great interview Andy! Really interesting hearing the origins of Mantic, especially as I'm finally digging into my first Mantic game: Deadzone 3.0. Looking forward to more interviews!

[@CaffeinatedWarlord]

Fantastic video thank you so much for organising this!

[@tinywargamer3863]

Lets play a game: each time the host says "Ye..." everybody drinks:_)

[@johnbinham8399]

Nice interview would love to hear more about the early days of mantic and product development. Any chance there’ll be more with Ronnie?

[@Guru_Swami]

This was great! I got in on the walking dead kickstarter so long ago but sadly had no one to play with.

[@GlennGriffin]

Great interview!

[@SuperDuperHappyTime]

Not a buyer of Mantic Games (I’ve made my bed and will lay in it), but I’ve always enjoyed looking at their product.

[@peterdickinson4599]

That’s a strange attitude. Are you saying that you would never buy any game from them, no matter how good it was, just because it had been made by Mantic? What has led you to boycott them? Are there other games companies you feel similarly about?

[@SuperDuperHappyTime]

@@peterdickinson4599 I have imposed a rule upon myself that I will only buy models for games I am truly into (AoS), can certainly get a game in (40K) or it fits a quick project I have in mind. It’s not about not wanting to learn a new game, it’s that at the current moment I don’t have the time to learn a new game and play the games I want. I have bought Mantic Zombies and Ghouls in the past when there was a need for a ton of bodies, and would probably use them again to fit that niche if I need to ever again.