Weekender: FoW Campaign Launching Soon & Anarchy Airbrushing Skills!
October 12, 2019 by crew
Come and take a trip with us into the tabletop world with another episode of The Weekender where we're exploring all sorts of tabletop goodness from this week.
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Make sure to explore all of the things we're talking about this week with us in the comments and let us know your thoughts.
Campaign Updates - Infinity & Flames Of War + TANKS
First up we've got some updates for when it comes to campaigns. The Infinity campaign, Asteroid Blues, is coming to an end on Monday 14th October so make sure you get your battle reports lined up for this so we can see how things unfold in the Infinity universe.
Also, we're now announcing the launch of our Flames Of War D-Day Campaign. You will be able to join in from October 28th so make sure to get involved and prepare those armies.
News
We delve into some cool news from this week for you to wrap your noggin around...
- Ossiarch Bonereaper Lords - Are you going to be snapping up this army for yourself?
- Adepta Sororitas Army - The full selection of models in the kit have now been revealed for Warhammer 40K
- Blood Of The Phoenix - The Aeldari & Drukhari clash soon with pre-orders live this weekend
- German Releases - D-Day beckons and a lot of new options are available from Battlefront Miniatures
- New Take On Gloomhaven - Are you tempted to give this new casual take on Gloomhaven a go?
- Beowulf & Grendel - Two fantastic new figures have been released by Otherworld Miniatures
- Fighting Fantasy Legends - A brand new array of models will be coming to Kickstarter soon
- Atlantis Skirmish Game - Needy Cat Games are working on a new game with Atlantis Miniatures
Drop some comments below on what you make of this news from a week in the tabletop world.
Anarchy Models' New Stencils
Justin got to sit down with Brian from Anarchy Models to go through some of the new stencils in the works by him on Kickstarter right now. These are great for those working on vehicles and mighty monsters.
Kickstarter
Here are two different projects worth considering this week...
- Mob Sitters - Check out a quick and easy party game from East Street Games
- Reaper Bones V - Take on a new mountain of plastic from Reaper Miniatures!
Which of these are you tempted to back on Kickstarter?
Have a great weekend of gaming!
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*****Happy Weekender!*****
It’s the weekend and that means Hobby Time Opportunities for most of us.
Sit back and let the OTT crew get us caught up on all that has happened this week in the studio and the rest of the world of gaming.
That Oak and Iron video released this week really has me looking forward to my Kickstarter pledge arriving later this year! I look eagerly forward to any and all info that the OTT team can provide on Firelock Games next smash hit!
Flames of War’s release of new troops for the Germans have my wife insisting that I open my wallet again and buy her troops some new additions! Those 75’s and 88’s might work well for her beach defenses. Maybe the 88’s up on the cliffs and the 75’s in some of the concrete bunkers.
Chaps – King Billy invaded England… they’ll try and tell you it was a Glorious Revolution – especially over here but it was an invasion. Great propaganda, still working today. Cue 100s of pages of comments – easy!
100% an invasion.
When an outside force lands on our shores, kills your citizens, deposes your king then claims to be your king that’s an invasion to everyone else.
Yep I think you are 100% correct
It’s really strange but after recording I started to watch Lucy Walsey? documentaries about the royal lines, and the Glorious Revolution came up, and I was like holy shit I hadnt thought of that!
Anyway I have got hooked on her documentaries and am now armed to educate @dignity about tudors, Stewart’s, hannovarians and sax goths lol
Yep the Hanoverian’s played a big part. That’s why in the Napoleonic Wars the British had the very Hanoverian “King’s German Legion” since the King was also the Elector of Hanover.
The guys who defended La Haye Sainte at Waterloo were the Light Battalion (Rifles) 2nd King’s German Legion if anyone wanted to know.
I love Lucy as well. She has a series called British History’s Biggest Fibs and the second part is all about the Glorious Revolution.
That’s one that I watched, it was excellent!
A more local one, Warren, is the French invaded the north of Ireland in either the 1760s or 80s, I can never remember. Carrickfergus Castle was sieged.
They tried again around the time of the United Irishmen, got a fleet to the coast of Ireland (near Cork, I think, south anyway) but they tried to do it in December, forgot their wooly hats and mittens, and a blizzard thwarted that invasion. I’m sure the more knowledgeable amongst us like Gerry or Torros could explain that better!
I shall be sure to poke @avernos with a stick to see what he says!
They also tried to do it in 1805 to coincide with the French Invasion of Britain (they even had ex-patriot Regiments) but that got called off after the Central Europeans decided to kick things off again.
@warzan Does this ‘Lucy Walsey’ have vids on YouTube?
There all BBC programmes if you know anywhere that shows these
@templar007
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOyld5o9j8f1tk4pGiV_GzB8V5uFbbHRU
Thanks @torros … Now I have something to watch while working on my Flames of War minis today!
100% pure propaganda. I asked my Dutch wife one time what people in the Netherlands thought of the ‘Glorious Revolution’ and the answer was “… the what?”.
We have zero info on your history.
Except perhaps that time when de Ruyter kicked your behinds … 😉
Ah but Billy was invited 😉
As to other invasions
Louis VIII of France in 1216, during the Barons War was probably the next largest after Hastings up till 1688.
Happy Saturday
The only royalty Bojo could be possibly related to is King Rollo
Or KING DONG going by the papers 😉
except King Rollo was the predecessor of William, which would make him English nobility again 😉
I meant
https://youtu.be/698GlFGKxXw
oh I know who you mean 😉
@warzan an Arco Flagellant isn’t a failed Space Marine. It’s a Heretic with a helmet pumped to the gills with drugs 24/7.
So when a Heretic is taken alive they get a chance at (Grimdark) redemption so they strap a helmet on them that pumps them full of sedatives and broadcasts glorious images of the Emperor to them until they get into battle when they turn it 180 and pump them full of Stims and pictures of violence. It’s the only way to save their souls after all.
Failed Space Marines usually become Servitors but servitors are also Vat Grown or Criminals.
Thanks for this, yep while I love all the pomp and uniform side of 40K this whole S&M side of the universe doesn’t really grab me. (But I’m not a huge fan of any of that post apocalyptic human/machine messy integration style – regardless of the game lol)
To my mind there has only been 2 invasions both strangely under the pretence of being invited. Firstly Prince Louis in 1215 after the death of King John and William of Orange. William had to fight a battle at Reading to take the throne and Louis while pronounced King was never crowned
Other than that there have been a ton of raids from the French in Wales, the Spanish in Ireland and Scotland and the Americans in the American War of Independence as well as countless French raids in the HYW and by barbary pirates over the centuries . If you count the Channel Islands then the last successful invasion was 1940
Aren’t you forgetting the Roman invasion?
Well of course but the discussion was about invasions after 1066
Right, my bad.
Mob Sitters sounds great, but I don’t want Touts Out sprayed over the front of my house, so I’ll have to pass.
Remember folks, Snitches get stitches.
I haven’t heard the phrase, “Snitches get Stitches”, since Singapore in ………..(never mind)………….
It’s the Weekend!
Now I haven’t got any Rugby to distract me shortly I can concentrate on hobby and pastimes, starting of course with the show.
I generally dislike the body horror elements of 40k too, I just find it off-putting and can’t bring myself to paint it at all.
Arco Flaggelents are generally heretics. Servitors are the worst criminals. Failed space marines generally become chapter serfs, personal servants for the successful candidates, the administrative layer of the chapter.
I haven’t been into 40k for years, but I always loved aspect warriors & Eldar in general, so I might have to pick up some of the new stuff to slot into my old Ulthwé Force. It’ll never be played again unfortunately, but sometimes you just want something to paint.
In New Zealand the “Blood of Phoenix” boxset is $460.
To convert that back to your British Pounds the exchange rate is 0.5395, so that equals 248.17.
Ouchies!
Ouch is right!
It’s so nuts what they price things at here in nz. But someone must keep paying?
Or maybe they don’t want you to play their game … so they keep the silly prices ?
One can’t deny that the cost of shipping a few boxes of plastic to the edge of the earth has to be pretty expensive too.
Oh but they do….
Four or five years ago they opened a Warhammer one person store in my home town of Dunedin, which has only just had a population increase to 130,000 people.
It isn’t even the largest city in the South Island, that is Christchurch which is to close 400,000. But for some reason they haven’t opened a store there, yet they have 2 in the greater Wellington area, with about 20,000 more people there. Auckland, our biggest city with around 1.5 million people has only 1 store but a whole heap of independents.
The real problem is that GW haven’t changed the parameters of their NZ price calculation for the weakening of the pound against the NZ dollar over the time.
It used to be you would get over $3, some times closer to $4 for every pound. Now, as indicated in the calculation above, you get just under $2.
Happy weekend Beasts one n all!!
Watching while the super-typhoon passes over. Keep it up!
happy weekender 🙂
Good morning everybody.
You know who I am @warzan…. but hell freezes over the day I know what I think least anybody else knows what I’m thinking…. get well soon @brennon.
6 minutes in and we’re on politics…. XD
Campaign for Flames of War and… Pants? Why do I keep hearing “pants” every time Warren says Tanks. XD
News: already have said all I wanted to say under the articles 😉
Box licking and kissing: you seriously need to up your “buy our stuff” game. And I don’t mean the shop but your merchandize. What ever happened to all the BoW merch that should have been rebranded? Dice bags, t-shirts and the lot. WE NEED ANSWERS!
Wait, why has @avernos no big headphones anymore?
The Möbelwagen translates to “Furniture wagon” just you know 😉
The airbrush stencils look really cool… that makes me even more sad that I don’t have one *sigh*
Bones: was tempted to take a little selection…. but I’d be in wave 17 that delivers in 2021! Nobody in our hobby wants to wait that long!
Nice video as always… up next: more coffee
Happy Weekend guys
Woohoo almost time to play the FoW Campaign.
Having watched the episode now and seeing the new boxset release from GW I wonder if they are stuck in a style trap due to how large their miniature range is.
Primaris were for me a step in the right direction. They didn’t break the mold but brought a different look that seemed more in line with a true scale sculpt and less cartoony lines. This new release and even a lot of the Sister models seem to be holding to the style GW tends to be comfortable with. I understand some of this will be to aid the transportation of said models around the world and the areas where components or features should be thinner are beefed up to maintain the miniatures integrity but they could still bring the style a little more up to date.
The howling banshees are a perfect example as is the miniature Gerry mentioned, it seems a little unusual that AoS has been getting a lot of love in it’s sculpts yet its a little more hit and miss with 40k.
Do they believe that they need to do less with 40k due to its already established popularity and are therefore putting more time into sculpting for other areas?
Is it just that some of the sculptors have been there for a long time and are set in the ways of the GW sculpt method so much they have begun to stagnate?
Is GW a little lost in their own fluff and IP and are not really using their own library of art and images to bring to life sculpts but just setting basic sculpting proformas giving little direction or inspiration?
I am sure with the in house talent and available design to production processes GW could make in each new model a noticeable improvement even if it is not to everyone’s taste but would those miniatures then look out of sorts with the older sculpts.
This may all just be me and I am by no means poo-pooing the people who make up those parts of the GW team as they have a talent and skill I certainly do not possess. It is just tough to see smaller companies through classic or modern design processes and outsourced production create miniatures that capture the soul and life of the miniatures they design better and yet some of the more well-known companies kinda just give us a new miniature which often isn’t so much better that you would replace your old ones.
Well time for tea and a biscuit!
Happy Gaming everyone.
https://garethnicholasblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/drazhar-master-of-blades/
turns out it’s not a conversion but a 3D sculpty thing based on the art work, they really should’ve just done the art
Interesting
That’s very cool. It would be a good OTT challenge to convert and paint a miniature to go with a piece of art they like.
I think they had two teams working on this release.
One inspired team doing the new Banshees and their leader.
And one that somehow lacked inspiration for the Dark Space Elf leader.
I wouldn’t be surprised if office politics played a role in this.
Yeah the Blood Of The Phoenix box could have done with dropping the vehicles and putting it into the usual £100 price range. I hope they have priced themselves out of their own market and end up with a load of these on the shelf so they don’t push this price point again. Too much money for too little.
I kind of hope they don’t because then they will claim that ‘Eldar don’t sell’ … 🙁
Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone at GW wanted this boxed set of Eldar to fail as a product.
£140 does sound a lot for a few plastic models I could get 800 10mm or 1900 6mm models for that or about 100 28mm metal historical models
It’s not that expensive in GW pricing though …
Good Morning Weekenders! Woot! I’m back in the saddle! Got 2d breakfast in my lap BOW on and a day at my local gaming haunt ahead of me. Nice to have the time to sit down to this again!
huzzah
GEAT SHOW AS ALWAYS
I’m looking forward to the D-Day Global Campaign! Great show as ever, have a terrific weekend guys.
I am able to login again :). I guess BOW is getting spammed again
I’m with you Warren on the weird looking stuff
Another great Weekender, the Blood of the Phoenix and Reaper Bones miniatures look awesome and might be something to get into for future projects
You missed the alien invasion of 1987 Warren, when the reptilians took over the government from the pod people clones that had been running things since the early 1950s
Ah poor Ben. He’s not well. Be nice to him
Just being pedantic but that was Achilles taking out Hector not Boagris
it was but I didn’t want to break the flow of my own story 😉
https://garethnicholasblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/03/drazhar-master-of-blades/
Happy Weekend!!
I haven’t had any hobby this week because I’ve been in Reykjavik, Iceland all week!! 🙂
But today I was able to get away from the business requirements that have kept me inside the conference center all week and I got to get out and do all of the touristy things!! 🙂 🙂 😀 😀 😀
So that means I have pictures of rocks for @lloyd. Wonderful Icelandic rocks, mossy and dry, front pics, side pics, and most importantly butt shots of rocks. I was even able to stand in between two tectonic plates and take pictures of epic continent carrying rocks. So maybe I did get in a little bit of hobby work after all….
Boris has 5/6 kids but that’s a conservative estimate so its probably 10or11?
great show Guys that Reaper Bones Kickstarter is going nut with backers.
Well, because Warren asked so nicely who I am…
I’m a 21 years old student, who only started this hobby 3 years ago. You guys were one of the first youtube channels I found when the amazing world of miniatures opened before my eyes. I have been following you since, you’ve cost me a lot of money on games already, but I also won some things so that kinda makes up for it 😉 Anyways thank you very much and even though I don’t know you in person, I find you some of the finest guys online and I wish all the best for the channel and you can count on my mostly silent presence 🙂
Happy Weekender!
Poor Ben, looks like Nurgle claims another soul.
Don’t quite know what to make of this latest undead faction in AOS. I agree with Justin that they are unique and are destinctly GW. There seems to be a disconnect between the character models and troops. They don’t have the same look.
Atlantis stuff is always quality sculpts. If I have a problem with their models it’s that they tend to make other miniatures look like crap by comparison so they don’t mix and play well with others.
My regular historical gaming group did the battles of Lemnos, Fulford, Hastings, Stamford Bridge, Clontarf and Manzikert as they were some of the most definative battles of the 11th century. It was also because we had Viking, Anglo Saxon/Dane, Irish, Rus and Byzantine armies. I look foward to seeing what Gerry comes up with!
As for the GW price rape for the Pacific region, don’t get me started….
I too look forward to seeing what I come up with 😀
What scale will you do it in? 28mm looks best (I used to drool at the sight of the photos of the battle of Hastings in the WH Historical book ‘Shieldwall’), but a battle of that size is probably easiest in 15mm. Hail Caesar/Warmaster would probably be the best rules set.
Any rules based on the results of Stamford Bridge or the Channel crossing? Both were supposedly factors in the battle. Mercenaries are also a massive part of William’s army and possibly not as reliable as Household troops…..
Great show guys,
I have to say @warzan I do feel the same as you regarding the unarmoured 40k slaves with gribbly bits! I dont mind them being a thing, but its not something I would be keen on having in my army. Cant put my finger on the reason why!
Happy weekend all!
We’re off to a cracker this week. 6 minutes in and I’m already laughing
What the heck did lloyd just grab in the middle of this. The editor added a wee pop noise. I’m very confused but I love it
The battle of Hastings was an incredibly German affair
The Normans, norse descendants living in modern day France. Germanic The Saxons, migrants from saxony. Germanic. The Franks themselves are a Germanic tribe as were the viking countries. At that point in time there was no British and no French. We just stopped being ruled by one set of Germans to being ruled by and different set of Germans.
Germans. Germans everywhere.
Happy Weekend everyone.
I never got into Infinity because of the multitude of rules for the main part,but also because of the metal models.As beautiful as they are,the thought of working with metal ( then and now ) fills me with dread.I’ve always loved my military history ( even though i do get mixed up a lot ),so FoW/Tanks is something i always take the time to look over.Unfortunately,i’m unable to get an opponent from my flgc,so what i have remains in model limbo,tucked in a draw out of the way.Seeing the releases for the D-Day germans makes me happy,but sad all in one go.
As far as GW goes,i’ve not played any game of theirs in a long time.I was all excited for 8th ed 40k dropping ( AoS just doesn’t float my boat at all atm…but that might change with the new Free Cities book ),but the old problem of Special Rules bloat soon reared it’s ugly head as well as the associated massive game length as the points went up.The games in a box simply passed me by,so the urge/enthusiasm to get hold of them came and went very quickly.If i did play 40k,i’d definitely be looking to get Jain and her Banshee buddies,so here’s hoping we see the other Aspect Temples ( and their Phoenix Lord ) get the same lovely treatment.
Haven’t had the urge come upon me to play Gloomhaven,so this new release will sail quietly past and not trouble my wallet any.Love the Otherworld stuff a lot,Beowulf & Grendel just continue to make sure the love grows stronger.The Needy Cat/Atlantis Miniatures team up excites me,but i see that as being too pricey for my poor wallet to take.
As a massive FF book fan,i’m determined to give the Legends KS a good look,but it’s going to be tight with xmas looming ( i think it’s 10 weeks or so ? ),which isn’t a lot of time in the grand scheme of things to find funds to put aside for it.A future retail purchase would definitely be on the cards though,without a doubt.
I am as yet untested with an airbrush,so can only gaze in wonder at the stencil work i have seen on the interweb.Out of the two KS,i’d more than likely look into a Reaper bundle if i was so inclined.
Thank you for the Show.
Happy Saturday!
I agree with Warzan, a walker isn’t a vehicle, it’s an advanced prosthetic.
Hope Ben is on the mend soon.
Feel better Ben.
Great as always….. My 6 year old looked at me during your winding up is Justin and asked if that was true! Amazing beards too it’s like watching the Jedi Council having a weird team meeting.
I’m actually not a fan of the arcos either. When it comes to the Sisters of Battle, I want more sister units. Less of the random priests and such. Flesh out the entire range like space marines instead of having to rely on inducted guard, prisoners that have been transformed, and other things.