The Weekender: 40k, Movies, Kickstarters & Arcade Arms!
May 17, 2014 by dracs
The Weekender returns, and Sam and Justin join Warren to discuss the upcoming new edition of Warhammer 40k. The guys also take the time to take a look at a few Kickstarters that have caught their eye, as well as the new Geek and Sundry show Arcade Arms.
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To round off the show, we get a bit of a chat on some of the exciting new TV and movie news that's come out this month, with a good amount of geeking out over the new Batmobile and Constantine trailer.
Personally, I’m looking forward to a psychic phase that is fun again. Should be called the Dark millennium edition if its as good as the old supplement for 2nd edition…
Your up early for a man who was in the Ye Olde Trip last night lol!
Only had 3 hours kip…
Random winner!
Khorne Chainaxe, Khorne Chainaxe, Khorne Chainaxe!! Make that! (Beware C&D orders…)
Great Weekender guys and nice to see some 40k positivity.
I want to thank the guys from “beast of war” if it wasnt for them i would not have started with playing (and painting) wargames. Thanks to the Dust Tactics demo game video, i bought a ton of Dust stuff and ” imluvinit” :P.
Great show!
I would like a drone, because 5000 miles is about as close to the front line as I’d like to get lol.
I heard that. Wargames are fun, but actual war? Not so much. 🙁
40K the game I’ve come ever so close to playing on many occasions! For me the issue is that GW as a business due to scale etc has to make certain decisions which result in this cycle of continual re release of the core products. Now this has worked well for them historically, especially in the 80s-90s when there wasn’t any real competition, but the time they are a changing. I do think that now is the time to change their corporate strategy. Think of the classic confrontation between Moff Tarquin and Princess Leia where to badly paraphrase, ‘ the… Read more »
I like the mace, but its a little impractical.
Great show! not a fan of 40K but I would love to see more shows on mercs
Great episode as always 🙂
This was a productive weekender. You made me pledge 2 KS, anxcious for constantine. Hopefully win myth(before i get my KS pledge). Not so much on 6th edition, tho it keeps itching. I went gw cold turkey 1.5 years ago.
I like the idea with free trial for BS.
Great show guys. The new 40K Unbound sounds interesting. Would love to see an all Dreadnought force for the Space Marines.
Always like listening to you guys. With Sam rather than Warren on the appeal of bound vs unbound battles.
I also have a vault member account by using their trial first. It is a really good way to get new members. Also use the way they ”trick” lazy people to let them fill in subscription payment. I am one of them was to lazy to cancel it but I was also starting to like it and now I am a happy vault member. If I remember you will have 15 or 30 day money back so it is a fair system in my eyes.
“Although army lists are inevitably used to generate equally matched armies for competition-style gaming – in both formal tournaments and informal battles fought in the same style – this is not really the key reason we have army lists. Most games rules will tend to present the army lists as a means of choosing balanced forces. This gives readers a clear picture of what the lists are for, and it sounds entirely logical and desirable. However, the army lists serve a more subtle but fundamental purpose that most players take for granted. Army lists provide a ready means to structure… Read more »
*Priestly
And just to clarify, I’m not saying they serve the experienced player by allowing him or her to powergame. I mean they serve the experienced player because they know the fluff and can come up with the kind of scenarios discussed in the show and can dip into their collection to do them.
You have inspired a lot of ideas with this video. First, I want to say that the macro economics of gaming and wargaming specifically has roughly the same size pie each year, gamers spend about the same amount year to year. It might grow or shrink, but I am confident it does not change drastically year to year. My point is that GW’s piece of that pie is not going to keep pace or grow without new, new, new products giving many more reasons to spend money. Second, my best game experiences have come from badly unbalanced games. Desperate situations… Read more »
Another “myth”ic weekender fellas! (see what I did there) So refreshing to see some rounded discussion about the new 40K rather than the usual “WAAA, THE SKY IS FALLING!!!”. I’ll have to wait to see it till I make judgement but I know it won’t stop me playing as my main gaming group is so heavily invested in it, to the exclusion if all else (one day I’ll get them to play some Infinity or Dropzone Commander, one day). I’m sure it’ll give with one hand and take with the other. I think it always seems to be how it… Read more »
Great show I really hope you guys keep going from strength to strength. I would never of started playing miniature gaming if it wasn’t for you guys.
Warren, your comments about quality re BoW material are welcome. However stack that against those Vengeance videos which I have to be frank I couldn’t sit through – a video of a skype chat isn’t quality. Logistically it may have to be that way but you need to recognise what quality means to others. Generally I think you’re quality is excellent, but the audio on those videos made it unwatchable for me.
That said, the backstage stuff is great. Really enjoying Romain’s tutorials and the hobby lobby. Keep it up!!
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I agree, sometimes we have to roll with the punches a bit. On those particular vids there was definitely issues with the equipment / connection.
We are working on that to try and make sure it doesn’t happen again, but its a very difficult one to catch before a full day of filming is invested into it.
Great show guys, can not wait for the new edition to get here already
Thank you guys for an awesome contribution to the community.
Doing the “supported” 7 day trial is an ace idea. When I had joined backstage I did indeed feel overwhelmed. It might be time to join again… Even the Hobby Lab by itself could get me hooked.
The girl, the asylum, and selling his soul are all part of the Hellblazer comic book. I won’t explain them, instead I encourage you to read the first 83 issues of the series.