Weekender: Andy Chambers Unveils Warforged: First Contact & BoW Annual Awards Begin!
April 8, 2017 by lloyd
Join us for an awesome Weekender packed with news, interviews and the announcement of the BoW Annual Gaming Awards for 2016.
Weekender Podcast
Also, if you won a prize this weekend make sure to check out the Claim Your Prize link to get your hands on the goodies.
Hobby Weekend Thank You
We have to give a big thank you to all the folks that came to the Hobby Weekend with The Army Painter guys to paint up our RuneWars armies.
It was a fantastic time, and we really enjoyed ourselves. You can check out Friday, Saturday & Sunday and then catch up with The Army Painter guys who give us their thoughts.
News Time
Make sure to check out these stories we snapped up from the week...
- Perry Miniatures' Plastic Zulu British - Check out a new plastic set for your African adventures.
- Bandua Ready For Battle Range - Will you be picking up the Industry Of Death set?
- Ares Games' Battle Of Britain Starter Set - Germans Or British; who will win the day?
- Black Sun Miniatures' Beast Masters - Are you getting the same Masters Of The Universe vibe?
...what caught your eye?
BoW Gaming Awards 2016
We bring Warren into the studio to talk about the BoW Gaming Awards for 2016 and the fact that the nominations phase has now opened!
BoW Annual Gaming Awards 2016 Nomination Form
Make sure to share this around on social media and on forums (with permission of course) to see what gems we can find from an immense last year.
John's Tool Returns
We catch up with John who gets his tool out on the table once again looking at Green Stuff World's Leaf Puncher. This is great for creating a range of scatter terrain for you to use.
Additionally, we give a thank you to user @radegast6 for giving us some wonderful wet palette paper that we powered through over the Hobby Weekend.
Talking Warforged: First Contact With Andy Chambers
Coming next week we look at Warforged: First Contact from Andy Chambers. We delve into an overview of the world and just what it's all about.
We also take a look at some of the miniatures from the game that got sent in for both the Mantra and the Iron Legion.
Kickstarter Time
What's worth funding this week?
- Tombstone - Will you be heading out for a Wild West adventure with Black Scorpion?
- 7th Guest: Board Game - A creepy return to the retro with this board game!
Do these take your fancy and if so, which one?
Have a great weekend!
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It’s the weekend!
Last weekend was weird with no Weekender and next week will be a mega-weekend courtesy of Easter~Eastre or something, so nice to have a normal weekend complete with Weekender!
But what if the best thing ever was released in December 2015? It will never have a chance at a Beastie!
Unlikely but possible…
Dec 2015 is now officially … purgatory 😉
Can’t be they haven’t fulfilled their Kickstarter yet 😛
It’s got to a point where I can’t read “it’s the weekend” with out the CBeebies sting going off in my head (bbc’s toddler channel for those not from uk or fortu… without kiddies). Waiting for nap time so I can watch today’s vid… if I don’t doze off as well!
Good to have you back Loyd
Those leaf cutter things were good. Can you get a fig leaf version for Justin to use on his models?
@brennon
The Perrys are still hardcore historical ( 😎 ).
The Zulu War British set includes the Home Service Helmet as optional headgear rather than the Overseas Helmet only.
It was the fashion of the day to screw spikes on top..even the US parade gear was spiked, not only the Prussian stuff..
Oh I know they’re still on the historical train – it’s just cool that they’ve added those helmets which have that element of the Pulp to them 🙂
Aah another weekender! 🙂
I do love the Army Painter stuff. It almost makes me look like a good painter. Almost!
Happy weekend.. after Painting Skeletons last weekend, i have got the bug… The tombstone Skeletons look awesome to me must resist the urge…No more kickstarters…lol
Also why is do any games with Mexicans have to have the fat bloke, the Donkey and the bottle of tequila… No wonder Trump wants a wall if he believes all Mexicans are fat Donkey riding drunks… Lol
@commodorerob are you forgetting the dance commander? 😉
I was wondering when the awards were coming.
Warforged looks good.
Great to see the awards happening. It makes sense having them around this time of the year, especially for miniatures games, with all the building and painting it usually takes few months after the release to actually get gaming. Makes if fair for games released at the end of the year.
The leaf punches are great. I’ve used them only with real leaves, which I’ve let dry inside a book. I coat the tiny leaf with varnish, place it on the miniatures base and let it stick. They seem to last fine and keep the colours. I avoid beating my tool as hard as John did.
Good to have the Weekender back, I missed it last weekend. I really like those leaf cutters very cool.
Looking forward to seeing the nominations as it always highlights games I should think about getting.
John had a lovely tool this week and I was surprisingly pleased to see Justin handle it once he had got the camera angle right for filming it. Lloyd seemed to have a big smile on his face too when he had a quick play.
Interesting to get some info about Warforged although Mr Chambers didn’t really come across as loving it. Watching the 4Ground guys the other week talk about their game you felt their passion and excitement for what they are making. Maybe that’s just how he is though as he has been involved in so many projects.
Based on things said it feels very design driven rather than story driven, as he mentioned things like the helmet and backpack designs and basing things on well known figures like Joan of Arc. I’ll be honest it has kinda leeched some of the excitement about it from me. But fingers crossed there will be more interviews and updates that will change that back.
Really liking the look of the Tombstone KS and looking forward to tomorrow’s XLBS.
“Maybe that’s just how he is though as he has been involved in so many projects”
I think that’s probably it. Andy must be on his umpteenth project in nearly three decades, all of which will have been work for hire in one way or another. The 4Ground guys are gamers getting to bring their own project to life. For them it’s their baby.
You can’t exactly afford to be like this when you’re trying to sell a new IP in a crowded market.
Between this, drowned earth, the 4ground game and tombstone you’ve got 4 games competing for more or less the same resources. Add in the big name skirmish games and these have even less chance to get noticed if it weren’t for the likes of BoW.
I think Andy and Tuomas will do okay
Happy weekend.
What is up with all dose mousepointers in bens face, are you trolling him again ? lol
It’s the digital version of a fly on the screen :p
Hmm, will Tombstone include a Magnificent Seven type scenario (or an undead variation)?
But as to a choice between the 2 kickstarters: Tombstone-if that’s the price of pledge, then it’s a little too pricey for me. And, having played the original game on pc when it first came out, 7th Guest gets my vote. My concern there is how they plan to work the puzzles since many of the games original puzzles were visual spatial types.
Hey Johns tools is basically my article for ReRoll that never been published 😀
Have you at BOW considered a ‘Best Game Support’ category? So this wouldn’t be for a specific item, as the ‘Best [ ] Expansion’ categories are, but for the general support a company has given to a game, whether that’s in terms of quantity or quality or both.
What’s happened to possible nominees that were made available between 1st December 2015 to 31st Decemeber 2015? Were they in the 2015 awards or have they fallen between the cracks?
I very much like the leaf puncher. I’ve been looking for something like that.
Last year’s awards covered them
The only period not covered is Dec 2015 (1 month)
looked nothing like Ben…..needs earphones.
Damn, forgot them…my costume was not complete lol.
Lol.. 3 leader models + 3 packs of 3 isn’t 15 models… but that’s fine… lol… 3 less models for Loyd to have to paint up… lol… sorry Justin.
You guys are constantly talking about Saga… where’s the content so we can join the fun?
Happy weekend!
Warforged: First Contact has a very nice look to it. The miniatures are going to look fantastic.
Nice show again guys
I have used the Greenstuff World leaf punchers. They work great. I do a autumn style base on my Bolt Action germans and use a mix of real leaves and paper ones for that.
The paper is orange and yellow and punches easily. The leaves are from the nearby forest and were collected in late autumn when they were all in brownish colours. I pressed them in a book to be flat and the punched them too. Only problem with that is you sometimes punch through the veins in a leaf and that does not look right on miniature leaves – so avoid that.
To apply them to a base I dab a bit of thinned down pva glue and then with a old brush (with some of the glue on) pick up the amount of leaves I want…mixing in some of the orange and yellow ones. After all is dried I use Armypainters Soft Tone to give all the leaves a more earthy look. Works great.
Cheers!
a great weekender guys.
oh and thank you fr shout out ! so kind of you guys 😀
I can still remember Andy Chambers in the pages of White Dwarf when I was a lad with his crazy hair style.
I think that’s still the image he uses on all his promo stuff funnily enough
Happy to have you guys back!
If you punch green leaves and want them to stay that way, treat them with glycerin.
Neil Robert’s artwork sold the Warforged world best to me, rather than the first pieces of artwork shown. I don’t like the lights all over that big six armed guy though – lights on everything doesn’t make sense, there needs to be some visual logic behind it as well as making it looking good. I agree that he would look better with both feet on the ground. As well as giving it a sense of weight, it makes it easier to understand what you’re looking at – as it is, the oddly shaped leg that’s off the ground is hard to see properly. I’m looking forward to hearing more about the game!
Really enjoyed the Army Painter guys section of the show, the rack with all the different stage`s on was a real eye opener for me. I did`t release how easy it is to go from under coating in your main colour, to adding the quickshade. I`ve been painting mini`s of and on for the last 35 year`s, and never thought about painting mini`s in this way (that`s about to change).
As i have a few unpainted armies on my work area, here`s to getting some of them finished this year.
I remember “SIR” Andy Chambers from back in the day, happy to see him still in the hobby and continuing to bring excellent games to the masses. I`ll be looking into “Warforged” once it hits KS a week Monday, i like the look of both starter factions. just not sure which one i`d go for, but on the other hand one of the other factions due to come may catch my eye.
What does that paper do? The one showcasted after the leaves… I think I have some of them after the Walking Dead bootcamp 😀
@mordiano It’s the yellow stuff – yes.
It’s used for a wet pallet, which is a way of stopping drops of paint drying out so you can used the same paint over hours of painting.
Great! Actually just what i needed! I´ll make my own based on those then before the wet pallet KS coming soon.
If you’ve never played The 7th Guest you’re missing out. It may not be as scary as when we were twelve years old, but it’s still a milestone in computer game design history.
But I’m not sure if the board game is worth backing at this point. What they show on the kickstarter page appears a bit too rough and generic. Now if they would add an album of the awesome game music that might change my perspective in an instant.
Great Show. Has the winner of the VIG Swag Bag been announced?
This coming Weekender @chargerse67
Damm I have no extra money to spend, but skeleton army and carrion raiders are awesome, also some cool color scheme on red.
Lloyd search on reaper miniatures they have a skeleton giant and skeleton golem I think
The troops on warforged remebers me like future menoth soldiers, cools btw.
Great episode!
I’m not really interested in tombstone. I do look forward to making my own leaves though.