Weekender: Core Space Late Pledges + Fun With What A Tanker!
March 31, 2018 by brennon
Come and join us for The Weekender where we're going to be taking a slice through the tabletop gaming hobby to check out what awesome stuff has been going on this week.
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Make sure to get involved in the comments below as you could win prizes AND help feedback on everything we're doing here at Beasts Of War
Updates
There are some cool things for you to check out from this week including...
- DreadBall 2nd Edition Week - Win yourself some awesome goodies and learn about Mantic's new game
- UK Games Expo Hall Plans - See how the layout is looking for this year's awesome event
With those little announcements out of the way, we've got loads more to show you as well in this episode.
BattleSystem's Core Space Pledge Manager
We talk with Colin from BattleSystems about the Core Space Pledge Manager and what it offers you as late backers at this point.
As well as this, we discuss some of the changes in the mechanics and such for this game which makes you feel very much like Han Solo or the Firefly crew.
News
There's been plenty going on in the tabletop world and here's a bit of it...
- Han Solo & Rebel Commandos - See what you think of these upcoming releases for Star Wars: Legion
- Bolt Action Germans & Werebears - Warlord Games have some fun stuff planned for their games
- Test Of Honour - We take a peek at the Sohei Warrior Monks this week with Warlord Games!
- Art & Arcana - A new book is coming to coffee tables in October this year featuring amazing artwork for D&D
- Joan Of Arc Comics - Mythic Games are working on a range of Joan Of Arc comics to expand their world
Make sure you tell us about all of this news in the comments below.
What A Tanker!
TooFatLardies were in the studio talking about their new skirmish game What A Tanker! As well as shooting some games with the guys we also talked with Rich about the thinking behind the game too.
Kickstarter Time
We also take some time to delve into some Kickstarter projects currently running this week.
- Batman: Gotham City Chronicles - The campaign ends today and it's Kickstarter Exclusive!
- Pacific Rim: Extinction - As well as checking out an exclusive reveal we hone in on the campaign's final days
- The Awful Orphanage - Will you be able to escape the clutches of Ms Prendergast?
- MourneQuest - Awesome models, amazing Irish folklore and more awaits in this project. Check out our interview HERE.
Which of these projects would you back?
Competitions
Make sure to Claim Your Prize if you heard your name during the show as we announce winners for our Frontier Wargaming Paint Station giveaway.
You can also still get involved with the AdeptiCon Swag Bag competitions by checking out the Live Blogs HERE and HERE.
Win Yourself Some Sohei Warrior Monks!
You can also get your hands on a blister pack of the Sohei Warrior Monks. Make sure to stay tuned until the end of the show to find out how.
Check out more of the Test Of Honour range to see what else they have on offer.
Have a great weekend!
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Happy Easter everyone
Same to all of you guys too! 😀
Happy Easter Peeps 🙂
Happy easter
hab bumhug
Get some chocolate eggs down you and that will fix that 😉
And so it came to pass that, even though for many it felt that the Weekend had started yesterday, the correct greeting shoud still be “It’s the Weekend”!!!
MORNING ALL!
We only got Monday off as because easter moves around the bloody calendar each year we forgot about it when booking guests in earlier in the year lol
I’m now a proponent for ditching daylight saving and moving easter to a fixed date in the calendar!
The priest of the Temple of 戦争の獣 (Senso no kemono) was running out of ideas. His small Temple had been raided by outlaws on a regular basis, but being on the remote northern coast of a large island just off the mainland it was an area where that was the norm. Then one day he heard that a promising young Sanurai and his small band of supporters and hangers on were passing nearby so set off to track him down and beg his aid.
Having been exiled from the mainland the mighty Samurai saw a chance to establish a territory of his own influence which would also allow him to rise in honour and spread his fame across the lands. He and his companions set up camp next to the small temple by the cliff, with the large stream and boggy ground around it providing a tactical position which he believed he could withstand the assault of more numerous but less skilled warriors than himself.
This he did over several days, beating off increasingly large groups. But then, just when he and the priest thought they’d won news came through that a local outlaw warlord was on his way for one big showdown…
If he won, that would be it and his fame and honour would be forever stamped in history. People would travel from far and wide with their boots to attend camps where they’d learn the varied skils of recruitment, preparation, terrain preparation as well as the finer fighting arts.
The following dawn, a mist rolled through the small vale and a horn was sounded from not to far away. Time to deploy…
Ummm- not sure if Google translate was the best choice of translation… Just translated the temple name back and it comes up with ‘beautiful girlfriend’. Not what I started with… Not even close!
Happy Easter to all the beasties 😛
I don’t really know what day it is anymore. Was off on Friday which isn’t really a bank holiday in NI as far as I’m aware with Monday and Tuesday being the real holidays here but because of who I work for I have to take the Friday and Monday which means getting to work on Tuesday is a buggar as Public transport will be at a minimum . But I think today is Saturday
Yeah easter is a bit of a mystery to me. In other parts of the world it’s probably bigger than Christmas, but over here every year it’s just a but of a muddle through. (Aside from the stores selling 100g of chocolate in the shape of an egg in a box 3 times too large for a tenner)
But for whatever reason at least in my circles easter just doesn’t seem to resonate despite its significance in the Christian background.
I wonder if the northern Irish have a little aversion to celebrating the death of Christ? (Which is strange considering the whole 3 day wake thing we do!)
I was looking at the web and surprise surprise it looks like it’s because the Orange Order held parades on a Tuesday as it was the first non religious holiday after the Easter rising in Dublin and the needed to have a little protest of their own
XD
I would like to see rebel pathfinders modeled after the Rogue One rebels for Star Wars Legion. As it is I’m going to paint my standard rebel troopers in similar colors. Also I’d like to see more special models (possibly used as mission objectives) like downed pilots, droids, officers, and other ancillary characters.
These are great ideas!
No mention of the fallout of the Robotech RPG Tactics Kickstarter? You may have covered it in another post, but after 5 years, Palladium Books have confirmed they will not be fulfilling their Kickstarter Wave 2 products, which are the majority of the models from the Kickstarter. They are losing their license to Robotech today, March 31, and cannot produce or sell Robotech licensed products.
Something to note is that the KS Terms of Service in effect for the project required Palladium to refund for undelivered rewards, but they have so far refused any refunds, which has led to some backers begin to group together to initiate legal recourse.
I so want to pick up the Solo expansion for Legion, but the mini needs work. I took a couple of pics at Adepticon, and the miniature just does not resemble the character or actor. https://imgur.com/Qc9ZJlU
I also have a couple of pics of the April expansions for Legion.
Leian, Fleet Troopers and Battlefield Terrain
Solo and the Commandos
Veers and the Snow Troopers
Alright, you got me, backed Core Space.
Happy Easter all and hope everyone is having a great long weekend.
I never played Test of Honor, but I’m sure that a ninja raid scenario would be fun
You have to do 7 samurai. Spec up 7 overpowered criminals and mercs and have them defend some farmers from waves of huge numbers of soldiers and their evil overlord.
That working title for the Lardies WW1 dogfight game reminds me of my favourite punchline “but these Fokkers were Messerschmitts”
I can’t find their old WW1 air game Algernon pulls it off on their site anymore which is a pity. Well I couldn’t find it. Probably senility kicking in
Culturally Easter is a big thing in traditionally Catholic areas of Europe and the world, in traditionally Protestant areas (i.e. a lot of Northern Europe) not so much. Its the whole thing about the Catholic church being more into pomp and ceremony than the Protestant church is, on the whole.
Christmas got highjacked by the secular commercial world as an opportunity to go overboard convincing people to spend a lot of money buying toys and gifts, so the huge hype really superceded the religious festival for most of the world, particularly once the whole Disney movie phenomenon started influencing popular culture.
With Easter there has never been the opportunity to secularise the holiday in quite the same way, so it remains much more religious focused than Christmas has become. So for folks who aren’t particularly religious it just feels a bit flat and pointless, lacking the commercial push of Christmas and perhaps even these days Halloween. Whereas for people of Christian faith it has stayed being (in the Protestant way) “acknowledged” or (in the Catholic and Orthodox way) “celebrated”.
The word “holiday” derives of course from “holy-day”, which were days set aside in the medieval calendar where people were excused work so that they could attend church. The idea that a holiday is a big excuse for a party and festivities came later and while initially centering around the traditions of the specific day (eggs: the stone in front of Christ’s tomb, but also a symbol of hope for spring and new life which the church was happy to co-opt from pagan notions) expanded into an opportunity to enjoy yourself as you didn’t have to spend all the hours of daylight at work that day.
I forgot to add, I have just nipped over to TooFatLardies and pre-ordered What a Tanker! I love the GF9 game “Tanks”, but this sounds even better. I’ve got a crap-ton of WWII tanks of different scales and periods, and love tank-heavy games, so this sounds like it will be just down my alley! And at £20 for the book, it would be rude not to!
thanks gents. really enjoyed the Japanese and Irish mythology, got to love the Irish for still genuinely believing in the little people.
would like to hear your thoughts on Harry Potter. it has gone awfully quite after they went to pre order. do you think pre order was a mistake whether forced or other wise? beautiful models but what about the game ?
can we have a review of the crystal brush? pretty please. i could easily sit down and watch a show on each of the top three in all categories. beautiful miniatures are one of the main reasons we all play, and boy are they beautiful.
happy easter you guys thanks for the awesome show
Drat — I need a Backstage Pass to listen.
only for the show tomorrow, you should be able to see this one.
@schogun – you can sign up for a free backstage pass for a week to try it out.
I highly recommend subscribing in any case – it’s fantastic value for money.
A cool scenario I think would be with like a band of ninja’s or ronin maybe, fighting your way up to the top of the keep of a castle through the inside to kill a lord.
Nice show as always, Now I unsure of the rules for Test of Honor ( havent played, nor do I own it,no-one plays it where I live) but, for the scenario, would love to see the Battosai (from the Rurouni Kenshin manga ) vs thugs in a dojo, or, the Battosai vs the shoguns troops in the final battle during the revolution. Or ( Sam May love this idea) you could go down the Ninja Scroll anime path.
Wuxia, man. Wuxia.
that Core Space game looks super nice, very interesting mechanics and the minis look incredible
A quick Test of Honor scenario for the Warrior Monks could be a individual seeks protection from the Monks from a clan. That clan is set on eliminating the person because they know a secret that will destroy the honor of their clan. The setting would be the Monks’ temple with the rival clan invading to either capture or kill the person with the secret.
Happy weekend!
I was amazed at how ‘not like Han at all’ the Han miniature looked. If I’d seen it without context I’m fairly sure I wouldn’t have guessed who it was meant to be!
Right for a ToH scenario I would have the Sohei on a procession to complete an annual ritual to re-bless the bindings on a shrine imprisoning an Oni of Legend. (Take your pick, there are so many Oni to pick from.) But . . . a ninja clan has been hired by persons unknown to disrupt the ritual and attack midway through! So you have the monks on one side desperately trying to defend those doing the ritual and the ninja desperately trying to fight their way through the defending monks and stop the ritual. All on a round timer!
This was the first weekender my 5 year old enjoyed because everyone was rude to the Justin puppet 🙂 Cracked it.
Happy Easter!
If it was my comment here on BoW where the Lardies caught ”What a Fokker”, that certainly made my day 😀
Test of Honor scenario. The Honnō-ji incident. A betrayed Oda Nobunaga sits in the burning temple, cornered by traitors, Oda Nobunaga’s elite bodyguards must hold the attackers at bay. As the temple burns, the danger mounts and the attacker has only a limited time to capture Nobunaga. Oda Nobunaga must move to the inner sanctum and prepare to commit seppuku but the traitors wish to prevent this and capture Oda alive.
Haven’t really looked into Test of Honour so this might alright exist but my scenario idea would be:
A Ninja team has to assassinate a enemy warlord within a camp. Most enemies are asleep but there a few watchmen patrolling. The point would be to try and avoid capture and get to the centre to slay the warlord before escaping. You can still win if you are spotted, it’s just a lot harder as from that point on the camp is roused and more and more reinforcements come on from selected tents or points on the board. Very much in the vein of how total war handled the cut scene on shogun all those years ago.
On a side note I’m definitely interested in what a tanker, I just hope I can get a few people on board for it.
Love to see a scenario to re-enact the Shogun Assassin movie. Pushing a pram with his son in the Samurai makes his way home, ambushed every step of the way. Might need an arterial blood spurt mechanic though to be authentic.
I love the Lone Wolf comics, I still have a few of them about here, definitely need a mini of him and his cub 🙂
Don’t minifigs do a range?
Haven’t got too many games of Test of Honor in yet, but after hearing Sam talk about the warrior monks through history I’m thinking a cool scenario could be the warrior monks attempting a foray out to extinguish the fires started by a Japanese general in order to burn them out.
Happy Easter Weekender everyone great show guys love the look core space game & the battle system sets look stunning.
Totally need to get Too Fat Lardies to run a how to play for Dux Britanniarum and have them branch out to continental forces (Huns, Goths, Franks, Late Romans, etc).
test of honor senero is a strike team of samurai charging through a tea house to strike down opposing samurai holding a meeting
Justin has never been so right
Happy weekend!
I think @warzan had wayyy to much fun with finger-Justin 😉
The Sohei monks are really cool. For a scenario, i would go: a ninja band has to infiltrate a village, poison the well, poison the food stocks and destroy weapons supply, easy peasy!
See you guys on XLBS.
Test of Honor Scenario, Ninja surprise attack on the emperors castle to assasinate him or on a convoy of Soldiers escorting a member of the royal family that they have to get offf table
I would like to see a rescue scenario. A local samurai warlord has captured a venerable Sohei monk and is transporting him to his daimyo. The Sohei must rescue him before the samurai can cross the board with him or kill all of the escorting samurai. The samurai can kill the venerable monk but bring dishonor on themselves if they do so. They also can not do better than a tie in the game. I do not fully remember the dishonor rules so I would believe that this dishonor would effectively be equivalent to more than one dishonorable action in the normal game.
Woohoo! Won something that’s a great looking paint station. No excuses for a crap job now.
ToH scenario: there is 4d7 ronin, who need to cross the playing area to avenge their former master
i would love to see the single Monk upon a bridge holding the enemy back allowing his men could get away.
Sam nice Black Rose t-shirt…
Warzan, Could you use Star Wars Stormtroopers as Enforcers in (Core-space)?
Lads D and D artwork 2nd Edition poster team of adventures and a Red Dragon at the top looking down.
Joan of Arc comic book great idea, as comic books and rule books, got me to read, so great for the young ones.
Happy Weekend everyone! Fantastic show as ever, and that Art & Arcana looks like a must-buy!
Great show guys, hope you all having a nice Easter. Her in DK most of us have had vacation Wednesday evening after work until monday 😉 So a very nice and loong weekend
Im tempted by corespace, love the idea and the terrain, but i still have the terrain from their dungoun kickstarter… and i haven got myself around to assemble that yet…
I dont know much about test of honor, but the monks do look nice. Makes me wanna play some shogun II again. I could see the fun in the monks defending a shine/temple/japanse grave yard from an samurai leaded force. Jumping around the shirnes/tombstones.
I wanted to go into Bushido for the fantasy factor, but those monks are very tempting!
A scenario I’d enjoy would be the monks and a misterious ronin defending the big wall from the onis atacking from the other side… or the masked men performing as evil cultists!
Still haven’t built and painted my Test of honour set yet, but really looking forward to getting that project underway. The expansion that has really caught my eye is the ninja set, but all the talk about the monks in this episode definitely makes me want to investigate the era more thoroughly. I have bought the Sarrisa starter terrain set. I would love to set a scenario around those terrain features. It may be difficult to balance but I would have one side that need to win by keeping the enemy from having their leader finish the battle on the sacred side of the Torri gate (the gate is on the ‘defenders’ side of the table). Their opponent (the attackers who have been refused entry to and the sanctuary of the shrine) have two winning conditions. The attackers can either win by having their leader beyond the gate at the end of the last turn or by murdering the defenders’ leader and tossing his severed head disrespectfully onto the Torri gate in way of humiliation. (Need to be within 4 inches and a multi successful dice role to compete the throw.) Only one attempt at the head toss per scenario, beyond that only finishing beyond the Torri gate with the leader will see the attacker victorious.)
ToH scenario: There are a couple of ninjas hiding among the peasants. There is a limited time to reveal them, because some ceremony is coming. The lord sends 3 samurais to find out the spies. They can do this together, going through each of the peasants one by one, or they can separate to speed up the process, but then the revealed ninja have an easier time to stab the samurai and escape.
My scenario for Test of Honour would involve geishas, either protecting them from enemy thugs, or the geisha has to achieve some goal.
My ToH scenario idea is something about hand to hand fighting – they are on sacred ground, or magically protected one, so the players can’t use weapons, can’t shed blood.
Scenario: One team must pass the area, defended by soldiers of the enemy, and there is a chokepoint (gate, bridge, narrow pass) the team must get through. One of the team members has a kid strapped on him, and if this member gets damaged, that side loses the game.
(I originally thought that the “team” would be only a lone fighter, but then the enemy could easily overpower him, unless he would also be something supernatural, say a wolf, or something, but then it might be unbalanced. For an April 1 scenario, instead of a child, said lone wolf could have a cup, and if he gets a damage, he spills the tea from the cup, thus losing the game.)
TOH Easter scenario for the Eastern game: a tengu left its nest, and scavengers tried to steal them. The tengu returned, and the thiefs escaped, but left the eggs scattered on the board. The teams have to collect those eggs, and the team with the most eggs wins the scenario
Test of Honor scenario series: A kid wants to resurrect a dead relative, and knows there are 7 magic balls that collected together grants him a wish. The team of the kid has to gather the ball in every scenario, while the opposition tries to hinder them. The kid may or may not have monkey tail.
TOH Scenario: Group of Monk heroes needs to fight through an army of Ashigaru to get to the Samurai that has wronged them.
Act 1
The Attacker gets only Samurai to build his force
The Defender only gets stands of Ashigaru Spear-men and Musket Men to defend, Once an entire stand is eliminated it comes back as reinforcement from the defenders table edge.
The Attacker must get and many Monks off the Defender’s edge as possible. After all monks are off the board either by Defender’s edge or by being cut down, Act 1 ends.
Act 2.
The Defender gets his Samurai hero and 1 hero bodyguard,
The Attacker gets everything he got off the defender’s edge. The attacker maintains any blood drops from Act 1.
I’m seeing Act 2 as a fight in the throne room.
TOH scenario: Some evil force tries to take over the population. They secretly infiltrate the village, or take over existing people, for some nefarious purpose. Luckily there is a special female martial artists group that specializes to get rid of this evil force, with the power of love, and punches to the face. To be able to reach their target, the team hides in student uniforms. The story start with the team already in the village, they have to confront the bossmonster, while making sure innocents don’t get into the crossfire,
Test of Honor scenario idea:
The attacker has to push through a bridge, held by an enemy samurai and a couple of spearman. The defender doesn’t have archers (maybe the samurai can have a bow), otherwise it would be too easy. The attacker has a VIP (son/daughter of their lord, a spy/geisha/ninja that has important information) that must be protected.
Then, if the attacker can get through the bridge, they have to escort their VIP to the edge.
If they couldn’t get through for the first try, their pursers reach them, and enter the area from the starting zone of the attacker. The attacker has to escape, and the VIP has to escape the playing area for a partial victory.
My kind of scenario would be a couple of highly trained ronin, fighting against a constantly spawning minions, until a goal (time limit, number of minions killed) is reached.
A Japanese scenario for me is a fight between ninjas, while the players can’t know who is who. The story starts with both players putting a dozen peasant miniatures on the board, and they can move around the field, but when they reveal themselves, they can be used with their max abilities. I don’t know how it would be better – to have the minis signed somehow, so only those could be ninjas, or if the player would have the ability to declare any unused peasant as a ninja.