{"id":690,"date":"2012-09-30T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewthornway.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2012-10-12T18:20:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T17:20:20","slug":"mantic%e2%80%99s-open-day-1010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Mantic\u2019s open day = 10\/10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many thanks Ronnie, Chris and co for a great day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brilliant, friendly atmosphere (everyone was very approachable), loads of finely painted miniatures, interesting seminars and there were plenty of gaming tables. Mrs. Thornway and myself got to have a play with Warpath, then DreadBall (which Mrs. Thornway won the trophy for first and only kill of the day (one of my human strikers. Pah!)).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many thanks as well to the experts who kindly guided us gently through the rules \u2013 these games seem far more approachable \/ playable than others I\u2019ve struggled with in the past.\u00a0I was never really into gaming (unless it was on a Spectrum or console) way back when \u2013 I was far more taken with painting \/ converting the figures. I think it shows why Mantic are so loved as a company as their games are so player friendly and most importantly, fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you didn\u2019t go this year, make sure you get to the next one, you won\u2019t regret it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks Ronnie, Chris and co for a great day. Brilliant, friendly atmosphere (everyone was very approachable), loads of finely painted miniatures, interesting seminars and there were plenty of gaming tables. Mrs. Thornway and myself got to have a play with Warpath, then DreadBall (which Mrs. Thornway won the trophy for first and only kill &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/?p=690\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mantic\u2019s open day = 10\/10&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[107,87,106,108],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-thornway-home-page","tag-dreadball","tag-mantic","tag-mantic-open-day","tag-warpath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":704,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andrewthornway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}