Weekender: Resurrecting A Lost Space Marine Chapter
June 10, 2017 by brennon
Come and join us as we're back in the studio for The Weekender! We have loads to get stuck into including our thoughts on UK Games Expo.
Weekender Podcast Download
As well as that we're also going to be chatting about resurrecting Space Marine chapters in the new edition of Warhammer 40,000.
What To Watch?
We think you should dive in and catch up on some of the awesomeness from the last week which includes checking out the UK Games Expo Live Blogs for Friday, Saturday & Sunday.
As well as that we also have the Warhammer 40,000 8th Edition Demo Game for you to watch and get stuck into ahead of release.
Last but not least Oriskany has also begun his Six-Day War 50th Anniversary series for those who love modern warfare on the tabletop. John is quite excited about this one...
Make sure to also check out some of the Shades Of Spring entries from tinracer, soapdodger and benthebrave21. You still have time to get involved as it runs until June 21st, 2017.
Competitions
If you have entered into any of our competitions over the last few weeks then here is where to find out if you won We are announcing the winners of our...
- Devir Games Competitions
- Hobby Night Live Winner
- Salute Mega Bundle Winner (this one is epic!)
- ...and also our XLBS Winner of the Fyrburgh Fort who was @weland (sorry we missed announcing you!)
As always, with each of these competitions, go and Claim Your Prize and we will get these goodies sent out to you.
News Time
We also try and catch up on the news from this week...
- Mordanburg State Guard Preview - What do you make of the new renders?
- Flames Of War Command & Objective Cards - A nice way to spice up your games.
- Star Trek Adventures Pre-Orders - Go boldly where no man has gone before!
- PlastCraft New Urban Landscape Terrain - New terrain for a zombie apocalypse or a bank robbery!
What caught your eye from this week?
Resurrecting A Lost Space Marine Chapter
Warren is getting into the Warhammer 40,000 mood and he's focused on bringing the Astral Knights back to the tabletop. They are an awesome Chapter which is great for gaming in the gaps.
Try your own Chapter Scheme with this download.
We also discuss the other kind of Chapters that you might want to explore and work out how we're going to approach this project from a hobby angle too.
UK Games Expo; Our Experiences
Dawn, Az, Justin and Ben also talk about their experiences with UK Games Expo and what caught their eye at the event.
It was great to get stuck into all the fun and festivities in Birmingham and we had a great time. We can't wait to be back next year, bigger and better!
Kickstarters
It's now time to focus in on some awesome Kickstarters too...
- Rise Of Tribes - A great gateway game for those looking to explore board games on the tabletop.
- 12 Realms Dungeonland - Dungeon crawling with a fairy tale twist and loads of game modes.
- Escape The Dark Castle - A retro adventure down into the deep with this cooperative tabletop experience.
...will you be drawn in by any of these projects?
Have a great weekend!
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It’s the Week4nd!
..and what’s this new fangled idea of a video called a ‘Weekender’ with various people sat around blowing the breeze about gaming? It’ll never catch on!
Hang on – I vaguely remember you trying this before… before live cast hobby nights and weekends spent event blogging.
I reserve judgment…
Three very nice KS, very different games with different price points… DAMN YOU!
He, he… Very nice.
As for those collapsible trolleys, ASDA are out of stock; I wonder why?
@warzan, just how many did you buy?
Lol we got two mate 🙂
Happy Weekend!!
TGIWeekender
got my covfefe, weekender is on and footsore Picts and Scots in front of me to clean up.
Kinda gutted that I didn’t win the Hobby Night Live long hall, but not as gutted as whoever put up the wrong picture will be once @warzan gets you. tut tut lads that was a set of walls not a long hall ^^
@lancorz Can you pop the right pic in the show notes? 🙂
On the way to southern France for a week of blazing sun, exhausting hiking and freezing drinks. Going to be fantastic. And I wish everyone a great time like that!
Now, the heck are Astral Knights? I only know Astral Claws. XD
Ah, a new Weekender. Somethign to watch whilst I build some more Wolves & Grey Knights 🙂
big fan of the mentor legion legion which in the fluff were a chapter that was used to test new equipment before it was rolled out across the other chapters. But if I was going to resurrect I would’ve started with the Crimson Fists, I know they haven’t been completely wiped out but the Orks didn’t leave many alive and considering the time it takes to grow them means they’re a long way from a chapter these days.
Have to agree wholeheartedly with @avernos as my very first army for my return to wargaming in 5th ed 40k was a Crimson Fist force. Inspiration was from the Rogue Trader BRB front cover and the whole Rynns World disaster fluff. Getting back into 8th ed will see their ranks boosted by a ( light ) smattering of Primaris ( who am i kidding, that Repulsor Tank and the Redemptor Dread have my name stamped on them 😀 ).
Yup C.F. would have been cool, but equally they ‘have been done’ recently with the whole Black Reach box set, and I wanted something a little more obscure where we had more gaps to game in 🙂
The crash test chapter sounds amazing though lol
squad of Mentors with a targeting web, ’twas a thing of beauty 😉
I agree with the choice of the Astral Knights completely. The sacrifice made to stop the World Engine was massive and BoW bringing them back to game in the gaps is a superb choice 😀 .
Just one thing though *puts SM nerd hat on*, Black Reach was an action fought by the dashing poster boys of the Imperium, the smurfs.
Sorry I meant the other box set that had the C.F. in it 🙂
Ok am I suffering from the ‘Mandela Effect’ here! There was a starter set that had Crimson Fists in it right????
I love my Black Templars and I am not going to change. But the Astral Knights look good and they come from the same parent chapter so thumbs up.
I will have to look more into them they sound good.
Not so much @warzan . Unless you are thinking of the classic RB01 “Beakies” and the Crimson Fist’s position since Rogue Trader as the “other” poster boys for the Astartes after Ultramarines….
(Ironically though I am using Dark Imperium as an excuse to get my old part-built Crimson Fists built & painted so they can be reinforced by the Primaris Marines….)
I think the Crimson Fists were the chapter you had in the Rogue Trader book in that infamous mission featuring space marines vs the orks at the farm.
I think it’s them on the cover too …
That’s right @limburger and @dawfydd 😀 . The CF were on the front cover of Rogue Trader and got that battle against the hated foe as well. This has brought back a lot of happy memories for me and i will be setting up a table at my next club meet to play The Battle at the farm, to bring it back to life for my first couple of games of 8th ed.
If I remember correctly with the Crimson fists , during the ork attack one of their planetary defence missiles malfunctioned and hit their fortress atomising it and leaving them with 16 marines.
Yup. Kantor gathered up any survivors during the planetary siege and most fluff says they were well under half strength by the end of the Ork Waaaaagh.
If someone’s going to lug that shopping trolley round a crowded convention hall, they should have to buy another ticket.
A shopping trolley!!!!! Now why didn’t I think of that – that’s an even better idea! Lol
With regards to the chapter icon for the astral knights chapeter (awesome project will be following with interest – have you guys thought about Brass Etch? I’ve seen that there are a few people out there (on the internet) that have been able to create chapter icons (I’ve used a few on my own dark angels) and as they allow you to apply the icons to the models during the construction stages it makes life easier for the painters as it just adds another layer of detail to the finished models. As BoW has such a wide ranging community perhaps… Read more »
Any one out there with brass etch skills???
Come forward lol 🙂
Great idea
Oh and great show guys, @warzan saying his goodbyes to the “old” marines was brilliant.
I really am the most promiscuous man in gaming 😉 lol
How many beer crates fit in that truck?
Ok well have to test that on a hobby night live 🙂
ya its the weekend
Ah time for the double entendre show 😀 Many congrats to all the prize winners.
Ben’s face during the trolley smutfest was a picture. Related: never play poker against Ben.
Weirdly I’m usually quite good with hidden information…or roles…I love being the traitor in board games haha. Just seems to be the smutty jokes I can’t stop laughing at…eventually.
It’s rumored that the primaris hosts are able to unleash a treble entendre 🙂
I have to honest, I think things like that trolley should be banned from convention halls. It’s bad enough getting hit in the ankles by people with buggy’s and suitcases. without adding this trip hazard to the mix
my first thought @avien mate, 16’000 people with a trolley.
Morning All. The Weekender is back at last YAHHHH!!!!. When my 8th Edition box set arrives I am torn on what to do with the Primaris Marines. They are gonna be the First– no doubt on that. The indecision is on how to paint them. Do I do them all black with a red trim? go classic with the paint scheme that made me fall in love with Dark Angels way back in 1st edition. Or To do aged yellowing ivory under armour with black-green armour over. Or to do gloss black or black graphite under armour with black-green armour… Read more »
go for the classic black, have you got a pic of the old style heraldry for the shoulder pads and the like? If not I have the old marine painting guide I can scan and pm you
I still have my 1st edition rule book, and all the compendiums, companions, and collections from White Dwarf. If that covers the design I am good; if not I would much appreciate that scan. Thanks.
I’ve started a thread called Codex: Astral Claws, Research and Development, for people wanting to chuck in ideas on symbols, paint schemes, decals and the like that the Beasts may want to check out before chucking paint down on the new shiny plastic marines.
Thanks avernos very much appreciated!
Just wanted to give a shout out to Ben, never realised he didn’t have a video view of the studio! He’s been blagging it well 😀
really like the look of the gnome wizard. be great for roleplaying as well
That has the potential to become a classic sculpt.
agreed. an amazing character beautifully executed, top sculpt.
Another great show guys.
About your biker gangs, WARLORD’s PROJECT Z have some excellent 28mm plastic biker gangs, male and female characters with and without bikes and a whole bunch of weapons.
Oh Yeah!!!! We have to check those out 🙂
Sooooo… when does the Jes Goodwin: Designer’s Studio interview air?
And would I like to see Pandemic: Legacy? Heck, I’d hop on a plane and come and play it again. It is that good.
If your serious about that, let us know and a seat at the table is yours for the series 🙂
If I can make the logistics work then I’d love to do it 🙂
Very much on to make this a thing! Az
Weekender Time! 🙂 As I always say! Time to paint a bit while listening!
Up on the painting table atm: Iron Warriors Kill Team for Shadow Wars! 🙂
After seeing the interview on your coverage of the Expo I backed Escape The Dark Castle immediately… Ben, maybe we can have a game when I next attend a Boot Camp as well as some Saga 🙂
Would certainly be up for that. Can’t wait till I get my copy with some of the stretch goal stuff they’ve announced!
Amazing show. Thank you 🙂
In the devir games dragons & chickens prize winners you said beef08. I checked thinking there is another person out there with the same impeccable taste in usernames but didn’t find another cool guy. Did you mean me?
*sqeee* … yeah, you lot show too many good kickstarters.
I know it’s still my decision though, so it’s all good. 🙂
It’s seriously impossible to keep up let alone choose between all the amazing Kickstarters that are just firing out these past months! Az
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@lancorz @warzan @lloyd @dignity
There’s too many http’s at the start of the address. Just delete them so the url starts with http://www.beastsofwar.com and it should work