Weekender: Alessio Talks Labyrinth & Hunger Games + Tor Gaming’s C’thu
January 23, 2016 by warzan
It's time for a jam packed Saturday morning as we have an interview with Alessio Cavatore about upcoming projects and we get stuck into looking at some of the painting from the community...
AGE OF TYRANTS Prizes Still Up For Grabs, see last week's episode for further details
News Round-Up
It's time to take a look at the news...
- Waterloo Quelle Affaire! - Fight out the Battle of Waterloo with this superb board game by River Horse.
- Team Yankee Planes & Infantry - Frogfoot or Warthog; which would you choose?
- D&D Curse Of Strahd - Take on a classic D&D vampire soon with a new adventure.
- Arkazan Greatwing Preview - Check out this superb new monster for the Nasier in Wrath of Kings.
- Hordes Explorers - Go on quite the adventure with this pair coming later this year.
- Carnevale Wave Three - Mutated sharks and Papal warriors come to Venice.
What grabbed your attention this week?
Alessio Cavatore Interview
We caught up with Alessio Cavatore to talk about his upcoming projects. In the works it looks like we have some interesting new models for Terminator, a wonderful Labyrinth board game with some superb sculpts AND wait for it...a Hunger Games game too!
Community Hobby
As well as John's superb Parts to Painted guide on the Glacier King we also put together our semi-regular piece looking at the work from the community.
We go through some of the projects we picked out for Community Painting Picks and hope you'll come and share more with us in the Hobby & Painting section of the forums.
Kickstarter Time
We begin talking about projects on Kickstarter with an interview with Tor Gaming about the progress on the C'thu Kickstarter!
- Tiny Epic Western - Want to play out the trials and tribulations of a frontier town? Check out this board game with a mix of poker and worker placement mechanics.
- Guards of Atlantis - MOBA-style gameplay on the tabletop. Will it work? We take a look at this project.
Don't forget that the BoW Awards 2015 are going on right now where you can vote for your favourites on a top ten shortlist.
We hope you join us tomorrow with a Free Trial for The Weekender XLBS
Let us know what you think about any of the topics in the show in the comments below.
Enjoy your weekend!
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I was surprised that Star Wars Imperial Assault was not on the list for board games.
It was released the year before so wasn’t eligible.
@redben, Star Wars Imperial Assault was released on December 15 2014, which is within the nomination eligibility date range of December 1, 2014 to November 30, 2015.
Did you nominate it?
I did.
It was released at Essen Spiel in October 2014.
There were a couple hundred advanced copies sold, but the release date is listed as December.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Imperial_Assault_(Fantasy_Flight_Games)
The criteria was set as the moment a member of the general public could buy the final version of the game. It was mainly set for minis games which aren’t always easy to pin a release date down for, but in this instance it meant as members of the general public could buy IA at Essen Spiel then it fell outside the timeframe of the awards.
happy weekender
Happy Weekend!
I think they stopped producing the A-10 because the damn things just won’t die! Always wondered though, I know they made a 3-barrelled version of the A-10’s cannon for use in an external gunpod on the A-16 variant of the F-16, but (apart from the mildly radioactive nature of the ammo) could never work out why no-one’s ever thought to mount one (or even two!) of these in a tank chassis? A-10 fun-fact 1: they can only fire the gun in short bursts because continuous fire generates so much recoil it causes the plane to stall. Yes, the only weapon… Read more »
The USAF keeps trying to get rid of it because it isn’t a sexy fighter. But even the U.S. Congress recognizes the value of it and blocks them. USAF should just let the army take the A-10, but they won’t because fixed-wing is their piece of the pie (pig trough).
Happy Saturday, great weekender. Wow I got a mention on the show with my chicken rider, awesome!
Cant wait for the XLBS tomorrow
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Hey now, I didn’t lie 🙁 I give all credit to Romain. I’m happy people liked my Dreamer crew, it will be awhile until I can find an excuse to use those paint pots again :). The teddy bear is just “Teddy”. That particular model was a special edition “Miss” model, Miss Ery.
And btw, A-10 retirement was just delayed again.
‘Tis the weekend… Hurrah!
Now how many of you immedfiately thought of this video when you heard Allesio mention “spider-dog”?
https://youtu.be/YoB8t0B4jx4
The A-10 is flown, mostly, by the Air National Guard, amd will never be retired. Nothing in the us toe can do what it does. The top Air force brass thought that fast jets could do the job of ground support, but the A-10 is famous for its long time over target time.
Fantasy Flight Games have added to the star wars universe. The Imperial Raider corvette is their creation.
I can not wait for Labyrinth! Happy weekend everyone.
I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!!!!! (for board-game purposes only….)
I am so unbelievably excited about the Labyrinth board game. The sculpts look amazing. I’m definitely picking that up.
I can’t help but picture this scenario:
Warren: “Justin! You remind me of the babe.”
Justin: “Huh?”
Warren: “The babe with the power.”
Justin: “What are you talking about?”
Warren: “The power of voodoo.”
Justin: “…what?”
Warren: “Never bloody mind.”
I’m no fan of Labyrinth and even I’m interested in the game based on those sculpts. The opposite is true with Terminator.
I wasn’t expecting much from the Terminator game but bought the entry level one at 20 quid figuring the minis alone were worth the money. I was hugely surprised by just how good and how thematic the rules are. Of all the things I got in the last two months, and I got loads – AvP, Sedition Wars, Deadzone, Dragon Rampant, Battlegroup, loads of minis for various systems – I’ve spent more time on Terminator than I have all the others combined. It’s a genuinely good game.
Love the New drone units and baby spiders… thats a buy for me…… As for Hunger games I was hoping for a 28mm skirmish game… so I could kill Children ..!!! Just joking
Awesome looking those labrynth miniatures, I will buy the game just to paint them, they are some of those childhood iconic characters we 80`s children won´t resist.
@Warzan – FFG have had input to the Star Wars universe…
The Imperial Raider, which is now in X-Wing and Armada, is a co-design between FFG and Lucasfilm.
I will definitely be buying those Labyrinth models in large scale if they release them. Hopefully they would continue to release further models from the film as I would love to eventually have enough variety to field a chess set as well as play games.
Why didn’t River Horse get the AVP licence… They seem so much better prepared than Prodos ever were.
Oh and how the hell did AVP make it into the best board game final 10 when the majority of the backers didn’t see it in 2015?? (and still haven’t seen it yet).
It was eligible because it was released to retail within the time period, and enough members of the community nominated it to get it into the top ten. Simple as that.
Terminator was hugely surprising that it plays so good. AvP is an absolute shambles, both in terms of the launch of the game and the rules themselves. The rulebook is one of the worst I’ve read. Marines get a bonus in close combat against aliens and predators when fighting in familiar terrain!? Has anyone at Prodos actually watched the movies!? River Horse would have nailed an AvP game.
This Glacier King looks totally awesome! He tanks the tanks 😉
Not a big fan of the Terminator stuff, but those Labyrinth models are exceptional, looking forward to that one. Hunger games has massive potential too, glad to see River Horse going form strength to strength.
Great video again guys, thanks.
Liking that you’ve embiggened Ben. Tremendous stuff!
More relevant comments later. Possibly.
Yes, he’s better at visible size. 😎
Relics section was great……Gavin is so handsome….. Im typing this of my own free will……..I am not under duress……..
But seriously, Alessio’s Waterloo game is on my ‘to buy’ list and I cant wait for the relics stuff to go to retail…..Want to expand my Nuem.
Sounds like some good stuff coming up for us Beasts of Water Backstagers. Pass the scuba gear.
Hey, you know what’s a great solo game? Paaaaaaathfinder. It’s not a game you can chuck in a bag and carry with you though, so while its a club favourite for coop and my go-to game when I’m home alone, I’ve started to get back into the LotR LCG. It’s hard as nails but you can at least fit everything you need for one session into a big deck box. The same is true of Shadowrun Crossfire but somehow Catalyst made a game that is even harder than LotR!
It truly sad to know David Bowie is gone. Shame he will never get a chance to see his likeness in the Goblin King model.
Those Labyrinth figures are incredible.