Weekender: Warmachine Team Championships & Andy Chambers Talks Dropfleet
September 26, 2015 by dignity
We've got a packed show for you this week after a mammoth few days of filming. The big news is that Andy Chambers, the mind behind Dropfleet Commander was in the studio!
News
Kicking things off we do our run down of some of the coolest news stories from the week...
- Antenocitis Workshop's Hot Rides - The guys at Antenocitis Workshop have put together some awesome vehicles designed to make the streets of Infinity look a lot classier
- The King Is Dead - Osprey Games' first board game has now been released. Will you control Britain?
- Frostgrave Nickstarter Begins - Thaw of the Lich Lord is now up and running from North Star and Osprey building on the world of Frostgrave
- Stormtroopers Hit Their Target - Star Wars: Imperial Assault gets a new Villain Pack filled with Stormtroopers who have been upgraded quite a bit
- Danger Close - Check out our thoughts on this small but intense skirmish rules set from Empress Miniatures for modern era warfare
Dropfleet Commander
As we mentioned above we had the fantastic Andy Chambers in the studio of Games Workshop fame and quizzed him on his new project with Hawk Wargames, Dropfleet Commander.
We've got more coming from Andy so keep an eye out for additional content in the pipeline.
Warmachine Team Championships
Someone you'll be seeing of more over the next few months is our friend Tomas Mennes. He has just come back from the Warmachine Team Championship and stopped by to talk about the event and how it runs.
Have you given this format a go?
Kickstarter Madness
Just as with the news we've been slammed by Kickstarters as September comes to a close. Here are just a few of our picks...
- Warpath Begins - Mantic have charged off through multiple stretch goals already for their Warpath Kickstarter and it shows no signs of slowing down
- Urban Apocalypse - Battle Systems have begun to create tabletops straight from the end of days. They have had some successful campaigns in the past for both Fantasy and Sci-Fi so this was the logical next step
- Infinity RPG - Modiphius get you settled into the deep and rich background of Infinity RPG which is also doing extremely well on Kickstarter
- Burrows & Badgers - Oathsworn continue their success with small but effective fundraisers. Burrows & Badgers: Freelances adds new heroes and villains to their Redwall-esque world
- The Others: 7 Sins - Conquering Kickstarter once again CoolMiniOrNot have been blasting through additional models and expansions for this horror filled board game
Don't forget that we have a whole other show tomorrow morning so check back on Sunday...
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Happy Weekend!!
Happy Saturday all, we missed you last week
Morning everyone
Happy Sunday! I’m off to the national batman tournament at wollaton hall (Wayne manor) as it worldwide batman day and my birthday!!!
Saturday not Sunday lol
Hello Folks, missed you’ll last week hope all is well at gamer central. Hawkgames WoW cool can’t weight for it. John there is the plague with the virus infected zombies and all. You could try it go for it you know you want to. Loved the show see you all tomorrow.
You had me at the words “silent running”. Dropfleet looks a stone cold winner!
And there are the models. Oh my good gosh!
I’m not alone then lol
Soooo looking forward to this 🙂
Yeah. I’ve still to get round to the original DZC (I have the old rulebook and love the fluff), but this looks fantastic!
I’ve got to admit, i wasen’t looking forward to DFC. wasen’t really digging the design aesthetic for the UCM fleet and then came the discussion of the rules and i think i’m hooked.
The whole “range is signal + Scan” is intriguing especially when you consider special actions like silent running and e-war ships being able to ping ships they can see for others to target.
I’m really interested to see where this goes (and assuming the Shaltari and PHR are as nice as the scourge i’ll likely be backing the kickstarter)
Bye bye Halo, bye bye Armada, hello drop fleet this games going to be awesome.
And having seen those Scourge ships in the display cabinet last weekend – they are so detailed it hurts.
So excited about Dropfleet! Going to heavily back this on kickstarter!
Oathsworn minis are really good. Michael and Joe run a great Kickstarter and the quality is excellent.
Holy moley!
Those Dropfleet ships? Never seen anything like them – I just stared at the screen making an odd “pfffffffffffffff” noise…
The rules sound very clever as well; I was wondering, whilst listening to Dave and Andy whether they’d read The Lost Fleet books, because the space combat makes sense to me in a similar way to Dropfleet’s combat.
Dropfleet Commander droooooool.
Oh God…. my poor wallet. Dropfleet looks and sounds like a winner. I love the consequences of the spikes – this is exactly like how modern warfare occurs. Which raises the question – will there be jammer vessels/decoys/minefields etcetera? Mess with your enemy’s head…
Loving the idea of the spare parts as well, and wondering if Dave & Andy have much heavier anti-ship artillery in mind for planetary defence platforms and ground-based systems, given that the DZ ODL is such a peewee.
check brother vinnie miniatures for some fallout minis 🙂
@warzan – the movie title you are after is Zootopia.
Good morning everyone. Every time I see DZC and, after following the tournament stuff last week (nice one guys) I see that starter box ‘wink’ at me when I pass my local game store!
You know you have to give in in the end, brilliant game
And mine and the rest of my fellow gamers across the globe’s wallets cried out at the dropfleet minis….Yes yes yes and yes…love the sound of it, have played other more recent space fleet games and the spike/scan mechanic sounds like an absolute winner to me bringing some much needed extra tactical decisions plus atmosphere and oh yes UCM ships for me…
Love the way the KS isn’t going to fund everything for the factions as this then leaves us with something to look forward to over a few years and makes your painting list more manageable and cheaper on the pocket when you don’t get hit for everything in one lump.
And they don’t leave you normal plast/rescin/metal crack dealer dead in the water – by you getting everything you need from a Kickstarter
For John there is always the 5th or 6th fraction -when your buck standard corporations get in on the game
Well John, the kickstarter for Warpath has just unlocked the plague faction, maybe you could try them?
Also, YES FALLOUT minatures game, YESSS!!! But how about a fallout 4 game instead? It’s coming out soon.
Would love to see @johnlyons command a Plague army!
There is something interesting and deeply disturbing about John commanding plague zombies, hellhounds, Plague Teratons and 1st Gen behemoths…….
That dropfleet game is really looking good. Very very impressed.
Great show, im really looking forward to dropfleet. those ships look fantastic
Burrows & Badgers: Freelancers is looking good & it’s Oathsworn Mini’s second set of mini’s to hit kick starter. The first set was Burrows & Badgers & the mini’s in that set was awesome. One got the ambush the camp terrain add on with that one & as far as I know every one loved the mouse tomb from Burrows & Badgers. They even put out free to download rules. So Warren, I would say take a look at Burrows & Badgers: Freelancers.
http://burrowsandbadgers.com/downloads/downloads.html Rules download.
The Others: 7 Sins, I know people were waiting for it to hit kick starter for it was funded in 10 minutes. It’s for 2 to 5 players & then the person who plays sin. It looks good & there are 3 different sculpts of some mini’s, which I think is cool. Cause out of the group of 6 you’ll have 3 pairs of twins. There is bit of a theme with the grouping of the acolytes & abominations. So check out The Others: 7 Sins & see if you can spot the theme of the groupings.
So who brought their shopping into the studio and left some of the ingredients for dinner on the shelf behind Warren/Justin in the single chair spot?
Ace Weekender, thanks guys!
Drop Fleet looks set to be an awesome game! So good to see Andy ‘legend’ Chambers on the show, and especially so paired up with the brilliance and dedication of Hawk.
Really, really, reeeeeeeally good to see some Warmachine/Hordes content on the site!!! (Unboxings don’t count). I recently made the decision to invest my time in only one tabletop system in order to reach a point where I can play with fully painted armies on modelled terrain, and Warmachine (for whatever reason) is the game I’ve settled on, so I look forward to any upcoming content.
Also, looking for a small scale Kickstarter to back, then check out the hilarious looking Sandwich Masters card game from fledgling comics and games company Big Punch Studios. The game looks like tons of fun, and great artwork to boot.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bigpunchstudios/sandwich-masters?ref=nav_search
Great show. It’s been 20 years since first seeing him in White Dwarf, and it took me a while to recognise Andy Chambers without his distinctive mane…
One thing today was that the framing on Warrens cam seemed a bit off to me – a bit straight on maybe? Can’t put a finger on it, but something just felt a bit off when it cut to it
Awesome show … so excited about Dropfleet going to be backing that as much as i can… after last weekend at the DZC commander event I am so hyped. I have made a start on my new scourge army …. so thats the way I am going in Dropfleet….
If your interested in near future/ modern miniatures games, check out the new “Black Ops” rules set but osprey publishing. Its due to release in October. I know i will be pre-ordering it!
https://ospreypublishing.com/black-ops-pb
I really want to like dropfleet, I want to play it and combine it in a campaign with regular dropzone games. But I just can’t look at the UCM ships and think “UCM”, they’re far too…I don’t know…pointlessly complicated?
Luckily I play resistance, so I can justify that by saying it’s all pre-invasion stupidity. :p
3:41 – Two weeks. Two Weeks! TWWO WEE-AA-AA_uuKKSS!
If you like anthropomorphic minis, check out Dark Sword Miniatures.
http://www.darkswordminiatures.com/shop/index.php/miniatures/visions-in-fantasy-critters.html
Another great weekender
Having only ever backed Kickstarters on a small scale, I have a feeling late October that will all change. I cannot wait to see what the Shaltari look like, I am wanting a way Dropfleet and Dropzone can interact with one another on a campaign system
Those Scourge ships… :-O
Sexual.
Great episode guys. Dropfleet is looking amazing and love the sound of the rules especially the power spikes making range variable.
Good to see some warmachine content as it has been my main game for over 10 years. Looking forward to the backstage episode as the mecha everblight army is amazing and 1 of the best threads on the main privateer press forum.
So glad to have a weekender this uh……weekend! I tend to avoid spaceship games (just not into them) but Dropfleet may get me to change my mind.
I backed the first Burrows and Badgers KS, just for the resin terrain (which is magnificent!). Kind of wish I had gotten some of the models at the time as well. Great project, they delivered early, IIRC.
It would perhaps be beneficial to research topics before you talk about them on the weekender. It is fairly clear that Justin did not know the facts regarding the Frostgrave Kickstarter. While I appreciate that time is limited when preparing for a show, but this is not the first time that facts and details aren’t known on the show.
So what was wrong?
You mean the facts regarding the Frostgrave Nickstarter 😉
Awesome weekender – Having both THE Andy chambers and Dave on is a welcome reminder why BoW is above all other wargame websites. I love that they have gone with a more slightly hard SF feel with the spaceship combat and having it in orbit around planets – it actually makes sense for the ships to attack and gives reason for them to be doing so unlike deep space which is lets face it very unlikely (allthough still fun in fiction, don’t get me wrong!)
What an awesome show today! Looking forward to tomorrow! 🙂
OMG! Andy got old! Only kidding, we’re not worthy!!
So good everything in this weekender, specially the Warmachine Team Tournament and Dropfleet ( i’m gonna have a mobile app that does the Reapers shoot sound from ME every time i fire the bursters :3 ).
I would love to see Warmahordes, Infinity and Kings of War into tSports ( or should we call them warSports ? ), is a great way to drive attention to a certain type of game and keep people engaged into it, proof of that is that it did work perfectly with many TGC, CCG and all the competitive videogames. I hope it will happen soon but it need to be done at a serious quality level ( Wargamer Girl’s level 😉 ) in order to make it worth watching for those that are not 100% into that game.
Where did the rest of the Dungeon Saga playthroughs go? I though we were going to see at least two more scenarios.
OMG justin that would be such an awesome game!
my fave game still is fallout 3 classic.
Nice to see andy chambers again after all this time, but i miss his mullet :P.
Dave’s amazing model designs and Andy’s games design, what more could you want?
i still hope you guys cover SLA Industries RPG would love to see that game with mini’s and boards as a sci fi dungeon crawler. warren get back to me on this 🙂
Well I am 100% sold on Dropfleet, great show gents!
great show guys dropfleet WOW looks brill may have to sale some organ’s to get in on that ho hum. I think the shell of a turtle is more leathery than hard like tortoise’s?
the sports car and a taxi would work for Judge Dredd the police car wouldn’t for obvious reasons 3:38
I have always said I wouldn’t use kickstarter for miniatures — but I want dropfleet so much that I expect I will break my own rule! In the meantime I think I will paint my scourge army in the gorgeous scheme that their fleet was shown in.
So happy to see Dave and Andy on the show. I swear my pewter Dropship that I made @deaddave go get from the Hawk Wargames stand at Salute this year started to glow, this looks incredible. To everyone out there the ships are awesome in person, you will not be disappointed.
Excellent show.
DFC is looking/sounding great, and it’s good to see Andy Chambers back too.
Ok, I love the Dropfleet Scourge models and I’ll be there day one for the kickstarter, but I’m going to need some painting tutorials for the orbital colour scheme soon 🙂
Even tho Dave from Hawk is calm and collected you can tell he’s bursting with excitement to be working with his hero’s of games design like Andy Chambers. Great interview and lovely stuff as always BOW.
Great show,
Dropfleet does look like it will be a good game. The little bit of rules you let slip was enough to sell me. Plus Andy and Dave Sold. The models to great to boot!
The Otters: 7 deadly swims.. seems about right..
Dropfleet Commander looks ridiculously good. I can’t quite catch what the kickstarter dates were from Dave. Can someone clarify please?
Thanks for a great show guys! Drop fleet just became one to Watch for sure!
I’m sold on Drop Fleet, but I have one very important question. Who was the hungry on the set? You forgot to pick up your Creole seasoning.
DFC, looks superb. Is there any chance of some sort of tutorial as to how the iridescent colour scheme for the scourge was acheived?
Great vid boys.
I actually had the pleasure of sharing a whiskey with Mr. Chambers at Adepticon this year. Great guy. I’ll definitely be backing the Dropfleet Kickstarter.
Really great show guys! I just don’t have a clue how I’m going to afford all the cool stuff coming out.
Better late than sorry 🙂 Back from vacation guys and catching up on the material. The Dropzone ships are uhm awesome. The Scourge stuff is just simply amazing.