Beasts of War 2015 Gaming Awards: The Winners
March 6, 2016 by lloyd
Now we have reached the final show for the Beasts of War 2015 Gaming Awards. We're going to be finding out who is going to be the winner in each of the categories as we whittle the chosen finalists down from four to just one...
A reminder of the categories...
- Best Miniatures Game of 2015
- Best Board or Card Game of 2015
- Best Game Expansion of 2015
- Best Gaming Artwork of 2015
- Best Gaming Accessory of 2015
- Best Terrain Product of 2015
- Best Paint Job of 2015
- Best Model Kit of 2015
If you missed the Finalists Live Blog then you can check that out HERE. You will be able to find out who the four were on each category and from there ponder on who you think might come out on top.
Find out if your bets were right!
Congrats to all the winners, very well deserved = )
great show really entertaining but some what surprised that in year when the term golden age of gaming has been used often that kingdom death monster didn’t win a thing !! .however I suppose that’s awards ceremonies for you .you never know quite what’s going to happen really pleased that the fantasy terrain won ,they deserve it having run not 1 but 3 successful kickstarters all of which arrived pretty much on time
Yes, I to was disappointed regarding Kingdom Death, as they design and thought gone into game play is so impressive, unfortunately I think people voted for Betrayal, because they got some cool cheap 30k marines, not because of the game design, a bit sad in my opinion.
I felt the same about the warlord titan, as someone said, how many who voted for this actually own it are are likely to own it, all yhe other finalists in this category were more or thy winners.
I guess part of the GW doing well were also if the voting were anounced on sites like Dakka-Dakka might have gotten the GW stallwards out to vote
I have to say you can tell the board game category was voted for primarily by wargamers rather than boardgamers, not just Betrayal but some of the other short-listings as well. Like you have said, think those votes were people so happy to have 30k plastics, rather than on the concept of it actually being a good ‘board game’. Boardgame for me is myself and group of mates sat round on a saturday evening with a few beers for a few hours; Spartacus, XCom, Dead of Winter. Just can’t imagine Betrayal or KOD in that category I’m afraid.
I personally can’t believe Blood Rage didn’t make the top 4 at least. I’ve played all the game except for Calth and I can easily say BR is my game of 2015.
Congrats to the winners
The Empire Strikes back this evening. Congratulations to all the winners.
By my approximate count, I only had two “winners” but I can’t quarrel with a single result. There were strong contenders all the way through in every category.
Just looking at the runners up (let alone the winners) you’ll see how strong our hobby is right now. Long may that continue!
*wipes away a tear, raises an imaginary glass of cheap plonk*
Great show guys. Congratulations to all the winners 😀 . I guessed a grand total of one category right for tonights finals 🙁 .
Great show! Glad to see so many of my favorites win!
I’m not sure how the Warlord Titan won best model kit when I doubt even 5 BoWers own the thing lol
In fact I doubt that many have even seen the thing in real life! Oh well.
One word Dakka-Dakka – as size envy
Anyway I wasn’t trying to bring the whole mood down, the show itself was a tremendous success!
Is owning a model a requirement to vote for it? We’ll struggle to vote for best paintjob if so (or I will – not casting aspersions on your painting ability :)).
I will say having seen at least six individual ones in person, its simply the greatest kit in existence (so far), the level of detail on that kit is outstanding. Its unashamedly deserved to win. Its kind of like the Bugatti Veyron of the resin kit world, few will ever own it, but its still an amazing example of technical excellence.
great show, lots of gw fanboys obviously out there, the kingdom death stuff is awesome the the kingdom death pheonix which i do own is the only mini that should have one it is simply stunning its the most detailed mini i have ever seen.
i bet gw dont even care about getting these either
Continuing that analogy though, how many car of the year awards has the Bugatti Veyron won? Really this should be about kits within reach of the common man.
I would say it won one the year it released most likely 🙂
Quite a difference in potential ownership between a £1000 model and a £1,000,000 super car.
One if I save very hard I could buy, the other … Well no amount of saving will ever let me own one (even in 10 lifetimes)
Was actually awarded Car of the Decade by two of the world’s most respected automotive media.
Oh right ill shut up then! 🙂
I think that is true, but I voted for the Kingdoms Death Phoenix (the weird bird) which I don’t own, but I saw a lot of people work with it and it looks like a fantastic sculpt.
So I think not owning it isn’t a reason, however… I was also surprised on that one :/
I bought four and melted them down to make a giant ash tray coz I’m a bad wobbly head 🙂
Congratulations to all of the winners this year. Now all eyes turn to 2016 and from what I have seen, this is already shaping up to be a great year for gaming. Dropfleet Commander and The Devil’s Run: Route 666 look awesome.
Would love to see the 2016 awards become a full awards ceremony with a venue and the finalists there to accept the awards.
that would be awesome.
Already got my copy of Devil`s Run:Route 666, waiting on Dropfleet and also backed The Walking Dead : All out War. I`m also waiting on Firelock`s kickstarter : Blood and Plunder, so ya this year is going to be one hell of a year for gaming………………….
Ha! Amazing! I’m speechless. So unexpected!
Who’d have ever guessed we’d see Warren in a tuxedo?
Congrats btw
Well done! Deserved in my opinion 🙂
Great Show and congrats to all winners! I am especially happy for the winner of the Best Miniatures Game!
Well that was fun, well done to the winner`s…………………
Well got 3 out of 8 right, for me that`s good going.
Great weekend guy`s, going by what games are coming out this year next year`s award winners will be even harder to pick……………………………
Thanks for the good show. A bit perplexed by some of the winners but hey! That’s the community! However Frostgrave has been an earthquake in the gaming community and it’s nice to see this represented in the Beast of War Awards.
Loved the show. Great stuff as always. Really glad Frostgrave won best miniatures game. Congratulations to @lagoon83 and @caladors and well everyone else included in the show.
I’m very happy to be part of such a great community.
Thanks @thedace we have a great community, and while I am happy to hear my name in association with What are you painting now and community we have built together, I must say that it is people like yourself @wildchevy @brushstrokes @andy (how can you expect me to know it off the top of my head Andy?!) @jay188 @jayadan yourself @thedace, and @igotskills who helped kick that thread off, and kept it going, but we also have other people to thank for keeping the torch lit and keeping the marathon going like @seldon9 who keeps feedback going. I would keep… Read more »
Congratulations everyone!
Beasts, I’d love to see more of Frostgrave, particularly a live blogged battle report. I’ve not paid it much attention as of yet, but it seems to have so much old school cool to it – the artwork, the minis, the backstory/setting.
awesome show BOW!!!
is it sad I’m alone in a tux with MOET champers? lol
either way two of my votes won and I loved watching it all.
awesome to see ben live and mr japan again :).
also good to see llyod away from the pc 😛
Well I was gob smacked when Warren said my name, I could understand the others. I was actually dumb struck. Well done too, to all those winners in each category and we actually got them all right bar one where I thought the best miniatures game would go to Mantic and kings of war 2, But heck I cannot say I was sorry when frostgrave won. As we love it, and are enjoying making scenery and stuff for it. The only one single award that was missing was the one that the entire BOW team deserved and that one without… Read more »
Its well deserved all round mate 🙂
Great video guys, really excellent show.
Well done to all the winners, some I would never have guessed beforehand.
Justin – there already is a boardgame which uses mod-cubes. They were invented over 10 years ago but nobody could think of what to do with them. One day someone gave them to a board games designer and he made the game Rattlebones.
You can see the guys from the Board Game Geek channel @Game Night’ play it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKY-_CwcAfA
Well done to all the winners
Personally I didn’t vote for anything as it didnt seem right to vote for something I didn’t have any experience of playing and if I had which was about two of the games, thought they deserved a vote
Excellent show, thoroughly enjoyed that, massive thumbs up to all the winners. The BOW team know how to put on a show!
Great fun to watch! Would be interested to see voting tallies. Please share those in a future video or blog post.
Guild ball should have beaten frostgrave. Warlord titan winning ugh.
This year could be good though I worry about dropZONE commander bring forgotten over the meh fleet game
Congrats to all the winners. And thanks to the team for a great show
wonderful job guys! Congrats to the winners, loving that Frostgrave won!