Weekender – 6 Kick Ass D&D Giants & Win Horus Heresy Steam Keys
June 11, 2016 by dignity
Welcome to The Weekender where we're getting stuck into some neat discussions and we have an interview with the folks at Nomad Games. We hoped you liked the little interview snippet from Miniature Wargaming The Movie too.
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Updates
What's been going on?
- Battle Of Hoth Travelling - Dawn & Gianna will be hosting our Star Wars battle at Draxtar Games.
- Waterloo: Quelle Affaire! Battle - Make sure to tune in to find out who wins this epic battle
- Justin & Ben At Lock & Load Outpost - Stay with us over the weekend as we talk Warmachine & Hordes
- A Crumbly Thank You - Big thanks to Recon63 for the amazing Anzac Biscuits!
Some great stuff to get stuck into!
News Time
What's been happening in the news?
- Wolsung SSG 2nd Edition - Micro Art have a new revamped rules set available now.
- Dark Age - Lynette The Hunter - Will you be picking up this post-apocalyptic hunter?
- Games Workshop Armoured Containers - Want to adorn your table with full on Gothic terrain?
- MYTH: Dark Frontier - A great looking new expansion for the world of MYTH.
- Dungeon Saga: Warlord Of Galahir - Will you be able to hold back the greenskin horde?
- D&D Storm King's Thunder - A fantastic new adventure AND a 101 class on Giants in D&D.
What did you like the look of this week?
Positive Discussion Topics
In the forums we've had some positive discussion so we thought we'd highlight it and the most recent topic looking at Miniature Painting & Sculpting as art.
We love seeing what you guys discuss to keep at it and be positive as you're chatting away.
Talisman: The Horus Heresy Review
Justin also got to sit down with the folks from Nomad Games and discussed their version of Talisman focused on the Horus Heresy.
You can check out the Horus Heresy Manual and then get started with the game. Remember there is a prize to be won!
Kickstarter
Last but not least we're looking at the HUGE Kickstarter from CoolMiniOrNot that has taken the funding platform by storm once again, Massive Darkness.
Does this sound like the kind of dungeon crawler that you'd be interested in taking to the table?
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Happy weekend all. Watched Quelle Affair last night, epic game!
Happy Sautrday
Happy Saturday.
I have looked at Massive Darkness on kickstarter and the game looks a little mob monster happy. Not got a lot of experience with dungeon crawlers so I’m not sure if this is just the way it goes.
Happy Weekend!
It’s the Weekend! … and time to do some hobby … hopefully… once I’ve cut the grass, fixed the shower pump, taxied the offspring about,… Maybe not that much time!
Given the mention of the new Myth game… I’ll bite my tongue… but will advise anyone considering backing anything from MegaCon games to do their research and some due diligence (plenty of forums, KS comments etc.) on their recent ‘performance’ as a company before investing/pledging.
@coxjul, yeah. Megacon made some poor decisions with MERCS production, which is their “flagship” game. Dented, scratched and splitting boards delivered in the game box that warp when you unpack them as they were not properly dried. The minis are, at best, on par with the old restic minis from Mantic. At their worst, they are miscast blobs. Megacon is offering replacements on some parts, but it requires a lot of documentation on the user’s side followed up with an authorization on Megacon’s part. I offered just to drive over with my copies, but they asked that we not come… Read more »
You could feel the bonny part in you @warzan… Phrasing.
From the early days of Dungeons & Dragons, one of my favorite series of adventures was the G1, G2, G3 against the Giants. Storm King’s Thunder sounds like much more of a role playing adventure and less of a dungeon crawl with the politics of the Giants playing a large role in the campaign.
Great episode I remember watching a documentary where a historian looked at mythalogical creatures and realised that the supposed sites of the mythical creatures were actually the same places archeologists had found fossils. Her theory was that people reconstructed the skeletons of dinosaurs and things like mamoths incorrectly and rather than building them as the giant walking lizards which ruled our planet (how insane does that sound yet we all believe it) they figured tey must be the remains of creatures from mythology. Her theory is that ancients found a mamoth skeleton and decided that the large opening where the… Read more »
Happy Weekend!
Many tempting games. I hope the upcoming Reaper Bones III giants are popular with the new D&D supplement.
The Horus Hetesy! Sign me up!
Wandering into my ‘day job’ territory here again. There’s only two references to Nephilim in the Hebrew Bible (pronounced n’fileem’ and meaning ‘the fallen ones’). Genesis just says the Nephilim were around in those days when the sons of God took the daughters of men and bred a race of mighty warriors. The other is in Numbers when Moses sends spies into Canaan and fearing that the Canaanites are too strong for them to conquer, they say that they saw the Nephilim there, who they seemed like grasshoppers in comparison to. It was much later that the Genesis passage is… Read more »
You officially have the coolest day job ever!
Need you on show speed dial for when we wander into this stuff lol
Well, unless his day job is Rabbi or Priest.
What would be wrong with having a priest or a rabbi on?
I’ve just realised how un-PC my post looked. I just meant about the “coolest job” thing, I’m sure Rabbis and Priests love their work, are very knowledgeable about religious texts but I don’t think it’s a “cool job”
Regarding Massive Darkness, I’ve watched several CMON kickstarters over the last couple of years and been really tempted to bite. In hindsight I really regret not backing Zombicide: The Black Plague, so I got a bit excited by the prospect of a dungeon crawler based on Zombicide rules and finally pledged. However, in the last 24 hours it’s all gone bit sour. This Kickstarter feels badly done compared with previous CMON efforts. Their last one, Rum &Bones 2, had actual physical sculpts with professional paint jobs to show of, but MD only has 3D renders. R&B2 offered addons that added… Read more »
I have been looking at this the whole time and thinking you know getting not one but two may not be a bad idea. Those minis maybe desired by many or there are just some where I would like to have two.
But yeah this looks massive and there is a good chance it will overshadow the silver tower, this year. (I wonder if anyone else gets that…)
Anyway I couldn’t be more on with you with this one.
On the Massive Darkness art direction, the man mainly responsible is Edouard Guiton. I’ve gone on in the past about how as an industry, we don’t give sculptors the respect that they deserve, and the same holds true for artists too. Edouard was a major force behind the look of Confrontation, and has since worked on the likes of Krosmaster, Asylum, Wrath of Kings, Zombicide, and now Massive Darkness.
http://edouardguiton.com/
I was really worried about Massive Darkness; I had sworn off any more Kickstarters and I thought this one would be too much to resist. However, after watching the gameplay video I think it will be really easy to avoid this one no matter how big it gets.
3 am in Chicago and loving me some Weekender!!!
…and I will be attending the Hoth event next weekend!! DaxStar games is a great group of people and is only 20 minutes from my door! Also, love the napoleonic game yesterday!!!
Happy weekend
Giants are of course classic D&D monsters. But they’re not all that compelling in themselves, the adventure will need to have a good plot to make it interesting.
That’s the case with all D&D. You can’t make it interesting just by selecting monsters from the book. It’s the story those monsters appear in that make the game interesting.
Happy weekend
Hello all, Guilty as charged the sunday politics show is another mad cap idea from my key board along with some major support from Victoria who has posed this Sundays topic, sorry you do not get to know until the 10:00 am start. The piece is actually under the heading of “The Thin White Line” As said it runs from 10:00hrs on sunday GMT to 22:00hrs on the Monday. One of the reasons for keeping it short was for it to remain some what punchy a little like it’s topics I hope. That does give a running total of 36… Read more »
Excellent stuff
Looking forward to it 🙂
Happy weekend … don’t let the weather bring you down.
How come you didnt mention the Irish Giants?
My total apologies go out to ONLYONEPINMAN who has been there from the start and has been a massive boost to this. So yes I meant that shouting capitols, he deserves some credit, sorry just wanted to get it out that we need your own questions as well to keep this going. Only one subject per programme. We also have a couple of rules that we are thinking of introducing as well but we will state these clearly tomorrow at 10 AM on “The thin white line…”
Chris G
Lol, don’t worry Chris, I’m not in it for the glory! I just think it’s a great idea and really happy you asked me to help last Sunday!
So which primarch would you be? Lion ‘El Jonson!! Follow up and let the guys know what primarch would be for you on Talisman Horus Heresy…