Weekender: Wargaming World War I, A Civilisation Of Fish & What’s Next For Antares?
April 28, 2018 by brennon
Welcome to the Weekender show where we've got lots of awesome stuff for you to check out today. As well as talking to Warlord Games we're also stepping back in time to World War I.
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Make sure to stick with us as we've got some goodies to give away too!
Updates
We first have an update for those of you interested in LARP and World of Darkness. Darker Days Radio are currently running a competition to win a ticket to one of these events (18+ only). Check out their Podcast this weekend for more information.
John's Tool
We're back playing around with John's Tool and looking at the Spider Serum from Green Stuff World. This is a fascinating substance that takes some getting used to but it provides you with fun results.
Lodestone Magnetic Terrain
We also have some of the Lodestone terrain in the studio from a project that is currently on Kickstarter. See what you think of it and make sure to take a peek at their fundraiser if this has got you interested. It's a neat idea for sure.
Show & Tell - Gates Of Antares From Warlord Games
We're looking at what's new from Warlord Games for Beyond The Gates Of Antares. This means diving into their recent model releases as well as taking a sneak peek at what's coming around the corner too.
News Time
We step in to talk about some news from this week...
- Canitaurs Attack - Check out these fantasy pooches from Punga Miniatures
- Vampire 5th Edition & The Eternal Struggle - White Wolf takes steps back into World Of Darkness
- Gangs Of Rome - Check out the new Starter Set which was released recently, Blood On The Aventine
- Pirate Adventures - We give you the lowdown on a new adventure for Space Cowboy's TIME Stories
- Great Escape Games' 1914 - Check out this new game system which takes place during the first few years of WWI
...what caught your eye this week?
World War I: The Campaigns Of 1918 Interview
We talk with Jim about the article series (which you can read HERE) that he and neves1789 have been working on which marks the centennial of this massive conflict that shook Europe back during the early years of the 20th Century.
They are looking at the later period of the war and how you don't just have to play out the trench warfare of the period, even this late into the conflict.
Kickstarter
We take a peek at two Kickstarters worth your time.
- Hellboy: The Board Game - A big new project from Mantic and Needy Cat Games has you playing as Hellboy and pals going up against supernatural nasties
- The Faceless - Like Stranger Things? Try out this game on Kickstarter which has fun with magnets!
Which of these would get your vote?
Competitions
As always, remember to Claim Your Prize if you heard your name mentioned for our Bolt Action prize from last week.
We also are giving away an Isorian Torgah MV2 from Beyond The Gates Of Antares this week and want you to gives us your answers to the question we posed in the comments below.
Have a great weekend!
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Ah late night viewing for me before bed. Happy days, and welcome to the weekend folks
Happy Weekend!!
Happy Weekend! This show would be much more boring, without Ben in it! You made me laugh, Ben
what an awesome show to wake up and watch on a Saturday Morning to get the weekend started
Great Weekender as usual! I do feel like the part on WW1 was the best though 😀
For some inexplicable reason I am compelled to agree. 😀
On a serious note, the 1914 Great War game that Ben was highlighting from Salute (Great Escape Games) also looks very interesting.
I’ve looked at several websites about it now and still can’t find out if a stand represents a platoon,company,battalion or something else.
The miniatures look great. 😀
In the Kingdom of Fish Justin is king. In the Kingdom of insects Justin is freaking.
here showing off my concord unit – Gates of Antares- https://www.instagram.com/p/BhMEJ-AHio-/
Curious question about the future of tanks for this give-away. It pains me to say it, because tanks are one of my absolute favorite things EVER, but I think tanks, as they are now, are kinda obsolete except in a ground support role. Tank versus tank warfare is a thing of the past, and I’m thinking we’re going to need to see a new wave of tech for tanks to really shine again. I think remote controlled is out of the question because it would be easy to counter with jamming devices, and truly AI controlled is just too freaky… Read more »
AI is not as far away as you think.
We’re not talking about sentient machines here. But we don’t need to be. You just need software capable of learning and fairly sophisticated decision making.
I work in the financial services, and jobs currently being done by humans are already being replaced by software. Over the next two years the industry will see some big changes as a result of AI. In the not too distant future, if you make an insurance claim, you will find yourself dealing entirely with software, including telephone conversations.
The show you are looking for is Kindred: The Embraced (1996).
Happy Saturday; yay some Antares love.
It’s the Weekend!!
Not just any Weekend – it’s Tabletop Day 2018!
Time to get up and head off for a day of games.
That Spider Serum is one for the old starter air-brush me-thinks. Not going anywhere the new precious!
Presumably if you added a drop of nuln oil to the spider serum you could have hot black cement, hooping great loops of it, as if emanating from the mighty zab of satan himself…
If it was up to the japanese, it owuld be Gundam,s all the way. but in reality, i see more of smaller, low profile tanks, without crew and with stealth technogy of sorts that deflects passive and active scanning like the F-117 jet fighter.
Armaments would probably go in the EM range of basis of weaponising, in order to prevent the need for a loading system and ammunition stocking
vampire tv series was called Kindred: The embrace and cover the politics of the city and the prince trying to keep the city together. The original game came out in 1991.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire:_The_Masquerade
You can’t blame Ben, you guys named him Sexy Furious!!!
That uncontrolled snerking was both sexy and furious!
Future of warfare?
We’ll definitely see more drones: I doubt there are many companies still designing piloted aircraft smaller than transports. Tanks will follow suit. There’ll still be ground forces but they’ll gradually be phased out as every country gets the technology. At some point someone will make such a leap forward they’ll enslave us all.
Happy weekend everybody!
Very nice week-ender again, and I´m looking forward to the next part of obhe article series on Monday.
I suggest you come up with a game all of your own. With a man like Warren it is likely to be an awesome, weird and successful game. BoW goes to game-designing.
I’m old enough to have a clan Nosferatu tattoo from the 1st edition clan book and played the card game when it was called jihad. Good to see it’s coming back.
Warren did you ask Justin if his book collection is in mint never been read condition?
If you search YouTube for “Easy Cob webs” from a channel named “StiltbeastStudios” and it is cheaper than the Green World Stuff and has been used by movies studios for many years.
Agreed on Sam being the Corgi and Warren being the Pit Bull but I’m going to disagree on Justin being the Greyhound – I think he’s the Doberman. Hmm, you know that might make an interesting Justins&Dragins strip – the J&D guys run into their Canitaur counterparts and argue over who is who (and it turning out none of them are who they expect, eg the pit bull one ends up being Sam’s 😆 ). Side note, if you guys had fursonas, what would they be? Based on a comment @dracs made on one of the Salute vids I’m guessing… Read more »
Future of Armoured warfare. Really think it depends on the capabilities of who you are fighting. If you are fighting someone that can take out satellites or have the technology to jamb signals to the tanks then a manned solution is needed. If they do not have those capabilities then unmanned units could be used. Ground forces will never be obsolete. Armour and Aircraft can take territory but only ground forces can hold ground (if you don’t class armour as ground forces..
I think that drones, and eventually AI are the future of armoured combat on land, at sea and in the air.
I think this because once the technology exists, it will actually be cheaper to have heavy machinery which is not piloted by humans.
However, I don’t think machines will ever completely replace human combatants at the infantry level, because a man with a gun will always be cheaper and easier to replace than a robot with a gun.
1916 marks the first time tanks were rolled out in combat. 1917 was the first time they were declared “obsolete.” Every year since then marks another occasion these detractors have been proven wrong. Unlike some technologies like battleships (which really ARE obsolete), tanks have proven flexible and adaptable enough to change with the times, and find no roles in the changing dynamic of warfare. I feel they will continue to do so for some time. That said, all this talk of the future of warfare, and no one’s mentioned cyberwarfare yet? I haven’t sen the whole episode yet so I… Read more »
That’s supposed to be “fine NEW roles in the changing dynamic of warfare …”
Cool stuff in the WWI chat
Thanks very much, @orlandothetechnicoloured . 😀
The last hour of this weekender was just too fishy for me 🙂