Weekender: World Of Darkness Hits Berlin & Battling In Westfalia’s Strongsword
May 6, 2017 by brennon
Welcome to The Weekender. After a hectic week last time with Hobby Night Live we are back in the saddle talking all things tabletop gaming.
Weekender Podcast Download
We've got a jam-packed show for you so get stuck in and follow along.
Updates & Competitions
Throughout this weekend we'll be covering the Fantasy Flight Games, Star Wars: World Championship which you can watch live right here on Beasts Of War.
We also have all manner of competition winners to announce so if you heard your name make sure to head up and Claim Your Prize so we can whisk your goodies off to you.
You can also check out the two projects that drew our eye from Hobby Night Live by @tchrin and @ardnut. We were very impressed by everyone though!
Warren Meets Mat
You can find out more about the ways you can see the Deep Cut Studio Waterworld Mat as Warren gets back into the groove and shows his love for this one.
News Time
It's now time to check out what news has caught our eye from this week...
- New Grymkin Previews - See what you think of the new previews for the Grymkin of Hordes.
- Fallout: Wasteland Warfare - Will you be heading out into the wasteland of Fallout?
- Blood & Plunder Dutch In June - A new pirate crew arrives on shore in June.
- Aristea, A New Corvus Belli Board Game - What could this be from Corvus Belli?
...we think this was a pretty big week for news!
Darker Days Radio At World Of Darkness Berlin
We sat down to talk with Chris Handley of Darker Days Radio about their plans for World of Darkness and the Berlin LARP event which is happening next week.
Are you a fan of these dark role-playing games?
Kickstarters
We then turn our attention to some cool Kickstarters worth checking out.
- Terrain Crate - What marvellous goodies have Mantic been cooking up in terms of terrain?
- Strongsword - Check out the models and rules for this awesome game by Westfalia Miniatures
Which of these campaigns will you be following?
Have a great weekend!
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Not sure who that new fella is but he needs to stop swinging back and forth in his chair I was getting motion sickness watching him. Cracking show apart from that though and hauntingly familiar at the same time, it’s almost as if I have seen it before.
Happy Saturday
@warzan you had it the wrong way round, Blood and Plunder is set before Napoleon and his adventures in Belgium – but the again those was not new builds in 1815, so it should fit
La Haye Sainte was built before 1536 by the Moitomont’s family from Braine l’ Alleud. 🙂
I was thinking that with a slight redress that table might be usable as an English town invade during Warlord Games Operation Selion campaign book.
@warzan Now there’s a good pull. I don’t want to know where from but a good pull none the less my friend.
Sure, 2 am Friday night is not the best time for research ; )
Happy Weekend!
So if you said the Kobolds were really Brownies and they were helping some halflings protecting a baby from some nasty humans that would make a pretty good game wouldn’t it?
@dignity
One of my board game group is a hardcore Pathfinder RPG player and runs sessions via Google hangout multiple times a week.
It’s the Weekend!
Nice one Gerry and BOW for high lighting ‘Strongsword”. Westfalia’s miniatures are fantastic beautifully sculpted and are cast incredibly well. The game itself is superb, having played a number of games using the beta rules.
As a side Westfalia also have the female Northern Mercenaries which are a joy to behold 🙂
Indeed they are and there are rules for paladins, barbarians , theives and rangers in the game. So they’re all useable
That remind me I have a set here that need paint
Good to have you back. A cold turkey on Weekenders is not recommended
Wooo, I won something, thank you!!!!
FYI it’s pronounced CH-rin (T is silent, like Tchaikovsky).
@dignity for werewolf not so much vampire
http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Fianna
also look at roll20 for running DnD 5e
Hi guys, I started a forum on this but @warzan mentioned gaming on hobby nights getting the punters involved so thought I would mention it again.
In wargames illustrated there was an article where people had webcams for generals so could only see where they’re avatar was on table top. They had captains who could see the table top but only report back I think in writing to keep the fog of war in tact. Cud have 2 people at home with two BoW members acting as the captains and almost conversing via txt style…
the article was a couple of years ago now, I think run by rick priestly or the perry twins but mite be something of interest.. (unfortunately I have since had to loose the mag to maintain marital bliss)
hmm I did say I would not back anything else on Kickstarter as I have so many waiting… but those crates are looking so good now, I may just have to jump in on 3.
Warren, Lloyd, that Hordes faction is mine! I’ll fight you for it!
Also, loving all the pirates stuff at the moment. Have been obsessed with pirates ever since I read Captain Blood by Raphael Sabatini as a kid.
I did try to tell them
If everyone on the team wants to play them, I think the obvious solution is to play Malifaux…
🙂
I already do.
Cor those new Dragyri are fantastic!.Nice work, CMON.
That board looks amazing, I did really like the look of the blood and plunder ships. @warzan who painted them and is there A tutorial anywhere, the wood effect is fantastic!
Warren’s painting proxy John did them, there is a fairly substantial guide on back stage this week as part of the board build they’ve also gone through building, rigging and painting the ships.
@civilcourage
If you’re not currenty a backstage member then you can take out a 7 day free trial to watch those videos and any other backstage videos that take your fancy and see if backstage is for you 🙂
Definitely a fully paid up member of this fine site, I’d be crazy not to be! Worth every penny.
Thanks is that already up on the site?
Yes check out the blood and plunder vlogs
Ships were painted by John
On the question of the HNL winner’s Thousand Sons, fairly sure those are just the regular plastics. At the very least they don’t look different tho the ones I’ve got sitting about a foot away from me. 😉
On the Westfalia mins – is it a giant centipede, or is it an ankheg? Also Lloyd, isn’t it an ogre with the halfling arabs, not a troll?
Yup they’re just the standard GW ‘Scarab Occult Terminator’ squad, no forgeworld.
by the way community – i am looking for borg-style miniatures 28 mm … ideas ?
You need to look into Warpath Firefight, game play, minis armies and what is to come!
thx – i do – maybe the enforcers….
I backed three Westfalia miniatures Kickstarters, two of which have been delivered and the third is about to be sent. Westfalia goes out of its way to make customers happy (have a broken miniature? – Replacement will be sent quickly). The miniatures are beautiful, full of character and the resin ones I got are among the best I’ve seen.
Definitely swooning over Fallout…
*cough*Fallout-Bootcamp*cough*
😉
Seconded!
I think it’s really smart to bring on some of the talented community members at BOW.
I’ve been enjoying the FFG STAR WARS championships. but while they do a good job at FFG and everyone is very knowledgeable, it really highlights how charismatic the BOW team are.
CMON guys are a treat, such a great couple of blokes. The Dragyri sculpts are just so good, regardless of faction. imaginative and beautifully executed.
I might start playing just so I can spank Justin.
the masquerade stuff looks super atmospheric, castles and candlelight.
can’t believe they have a safe word. which is both funny and terrifying.
almost forgot. Jerry’s T-shirt is awesome.
Cheers. I keep a stock of new ones in case of bootcamps or TV appearances. Just like the Cat from Red Dwarf I wouldn’t want to be caught twice in the same outfit
Gaming in the dark could work- get some head-mounted torches so players are their own little spotlights for that fog of war feeling where you can’t see the entire map at once. You could have dry ice drifting across for extra emphasis, too.
Could be good for WWII escape missions as well as claustrophobic Mythos-type games. You could house rule hidden movement to make use of the darkness so that players are genuinely surprised when their light falls on a model that they weren’t expecting.
Of course you’d probably need luminous dice and electronic rulebooks, but it would be fun to try. Putting a table together to make use of light/darkness would be a great project.
Happy weekend everyone!
Great to see @warzan back in the studio! Hopefully this means you’re feeling better!
Hobby Night Live seemed like a great success! I was still at work, so wasn’t able to log on via Twitch, but was able to pop in for a few minutes via Youtube. 😀
WhiteWolf/World of Darkness – particularly enthused about the VTES card game getting an anthology set reprint (im not going but getting a friend to pick me up a deck) as this looks to be the first step of the CCG getting new printed releases for the first time since 2010! 😀
Great stuff as always guys! Happy weekend to you all!
Talking Blood and Plunder just came a cross a photo of a painted Galleon from Recon 2017, that should be along with the Dutch (and other stuff I hope) in the next Kickstarter
Fear the goat knight !!! Happy weekend guys.
always fear the goat knight
Wow! I won the Terrain Crate! That is fantastic. Thanks guys!
Thank you! I so enjoy The Weekender.
I love those little Kobolds! They are so cute.
aren’t they just the cutest things, they even come with their own pets. Fair enough they’re giant bugs, but still pets!
Happy weekend
@dignity check out roll 20 if you are looking for some online role playing.
https://roll20.net/
For online Gaming Fantasy Grounds works really well for it has all the rules and an in built dice roller. Great Saturday show.
a great show guys the new figures looks fab love the spider looks very droid like.
Happy saturday!
I really like the Terrain Crate KS just not the waiting time 😉 I have been searching the internet for scatter terrain for wargames, Frostgrave and my D&D games but, the amount of cash needed was scary, this solves everything.
Strongsword looks good but, already have Frostgrave, although, a halfling warband…
See you on XLBS!
14:18… what’s that???? XDDDDDDD
HNL was cool, nice change of pace. But Weekender/XLBS all the way. If It’s one or the other, there’s no competition.
Blaster was here… & said the above before, will probably say it again!
I warned you about the content of Black Sails. 😀
Most of it very pleasantly not hairy, but Blackbeard…. yes that was an impressive display. o_0 😉
The BEST THING about HeroQuest is the TERRAIN CRATE!!!! 😀 😀 😀
I thought that the World of Darkness ended with the various apocalypses and White Wolf rebooted the whole line? I stopped playing at that point but it’s clearly been retconned?
The remix settings (Requiem, Forsaken, Awakening etc) were new settings that were not continuations of the original settings. A few years back via KS and other means, when White Wolf was owned by CCP, Onyx Path Publishing, who license the settings for table top rpgs, did the 20th anniversary edition of Masquerade, and then all the other lines. Then Paradox Interactive bought White Wolf from CCP (who failed to put out a MMO based on Masquerade) and since then the 20th anniversary lines have become the 4th editions of the games, the remix settings (commonly known as New World of Darkness) are now rebranded as Chronicles of Darkness, and the new White Wolf Publishing is developing the 5th edition of Masquerade as part of “One World of Darkness”. As far as the setting for that is concerned, the apocalypse is a slow burn now, and we are in those final nights, and there will be realignments of the setting to fit a modern audience (not all vampires dress like bloody goths etc, tapping into modern subcultures).
I used to love the White Wolf RPG’s I had them all
Also, they produced one of the best linked magazines covering their reality. Anyone remember the Tines weapons? possessed Jack The Ripper’s vampiric blood drinking scalpel was an awesome example
WhiteWolf RPG’s are fun but a very taxing on the GamesMasters as they are extremely narrative based. Your GM needs to be a master storyteller; we are talking near Ann Rice / Tad Williams levels of skill needed — way more so than D&D demands for a fun game
My brothers and I and our mates played in the WoD back in the mid-late 90’s… good times (before the original end times lol) for one game my brother recorded himself and spliced in music, on a cassette recorder…
The Westafalia stuff looks damn awesome, but I’m in for one of each of the Terrain Crates. Good work @turbocooler for getting picked man!
For the first time in my life I see a person with arachnophobia playing with a toy spider 😀
Justin,
So every time I start playing Role Playing Games with a new group, I always start off with a small story about how I started. After my undergraduate degree, several buddies and myself told ourselves we’d stay in contact as we dispersed through the world. We started hanging out on Google+’s Google Hangouts, but found that we just kinda left the computer on in the background and did something else (usually hobby time). So we weren’t really engaging with one another.
Two of us had roleplayed in the past, and we decided to try out Classic World of Darkness over Google Hangouts. We started actually hanging out, and now it’s a biweekly thing that we do to keep in touch. We’ve since moved on to many different games (eg. IKRPG, D&D, Star Wars (D20 and Fantasy Flight’s, Shadow Run, etc.).
Most laptops and computers now-a-days have a pretty decent webcam and microphone build in, so it’s all worked quite well. Two of our buddies lived in the same city, so one would go to the other’s place and hook up their laptop into the TV so that they played off a large TV.
In addition, the online resources are quite extensive. Google Hangouts used to have “apps” which included dice rollers (including speciality ones, like Fantasy Flight’s Star Wars). They don’t have them anymore with their new version, but there are several other ones online that you can use by “Google-ing” dice rollers.
Lastly, there is a web-based app called “Roll20”, which allows you to build and save maps and upload pictures/tokens to use. The GM can choose to reveal or hide areas of the map with a “fog of war” feature as well. I’ve used it a lot for IKRPG, and built up a load of template maps to pull out during campaigns. It also links directly into Google Hangouts for everyone to talk and see each other. There are also a couple similar tabletop simulators on Steam, but I haven’t tried very many of them.
But yeah, point is that it is very viable to play RPG’s online. Happy Gaming man!
That mat is really nice, my instant thought on seeing it was doing a coastal town in Wrath of Kings with Hadross rising from the water to try and take the city over.