Weekender: Unboxing The Edge Dawnfall & Nanty Narking In The Streets Of London!
September 1, 2018 by dracs
We get stuck into another Weekender today where we're unboxing awesome things and talking about a game which is very close to Sam's heart, Nanty Narking!
Make sure to comment on anything that you liked from the show today and of course pop some thoughts in on the audio quality too to help us out.
The Edge: Dawnfall
The first thing for today is to get stuck into an unboxing of The Edge: Dawnfall from Awaken Realms. We are going to be delving into the goodies that you get inside their massive boxed set for the game.
The folks at Awaken Realms also do some sterling miniatures and we drool over those as well!
Updates
To keep you up-to-date with what's happening with us here at OnTableTop/Beasts Of War we are closing The End Is Nigh competition.
Additionally, the next Livestream from us will be on Tuesday 4th September where we will be playing Rising Sun from CMON Games.
News
Keeping us in the loop on news, Ben tells us what caught his eye from this week...
- Battle Kiwi Terrain - Star Battles have never looked so good!
- Burrows & Badgers Terrain - Oathsworn's world comes to life from Sarissa
- Beasts Of Chaos Reign - A new horde of foes descends on the Mortal Realms
- Speed Freeks, Nightvault & More - We take a peek at the NOVA news from this week by Games Workshop
- Stoessi's Heroes - A new Polish and German hero get added to their range
...what caught your eye and what did you think of these stories we covered?
Nanty Narking!
Sam sits down with the guys from Phalanx Games to talk about Nanty Narking. This game by Martin Wallace is a re-imagining of Discworld: Ankh-Morpork and is a lot of fun!
Watch out for the Kickstarter for this going live on 3rd September!
Kickstarter
Check out a few different Kickstarter projects that might be worth your time...
- Black Hallows Townsfolk - A range of NPCs for use in Fantasy Skirmish & Role-Playing games
- 28mm Fallschirmjager - Drop into Italy with these new Germans from Heer46
- Verge Of War - A new Sci-Fi world with a VERY interesting take on model construction
Will you be backing these campaigns?
Competition - WIN A Nanty Narking Kickstarter Upgrade
If you are backing the campaign next week you will be able to comment below (include your Backer number) and potentially win an Upgrade Pack for your pledge!
Let us know what you think of Nanty Narking and if you'll be playing this game.
Have a great weekend!
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Happy Weekend!
Sounds great guys, just like Radio 4 ( The Arches ). Showing my age now.
Happy weekend everyone.
It’s the Weekend!!
“BRRAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!”
Having just purchased the LOTR books for my son on his Birthday don’t tell me I’m going to buy more GW products so soon having not bought anything of theirs (apart from the odd paint pot) for years?
Only if someone assures me that with the current rules I’ll be able to actually get my Beasties in contact with the enemy before they get shot to pieces!
@brennon – checkout Super Phatic glue, best I’ve found for scenery panels.
https://www.deluxematerials.co.uk/en/rc-modelling/31-super-phatic-5060243900180.html
Thank you for letting me know about that – will check it out.
Super Phatic YouTube Video https://youtu.be/9E4YKiE-ubo
Best use of crowds in a game at the moment? The mob in Gangs of Rome!
I’ve used civilians in Infinity (general crowd rather than NPC) during a campaign – penalties cut down my ability to use chain rifles and flamers.
But civs as collateral damage… Nice idea. Perhaps:
– they should react and run for cover with risk of being hit in crossfire or shrapnel
– they can be grabbed and used for cover by a less scrupulous player
– some may even fight back, revealing hidden hand weapons…
Happy weekend
Long weekend this side of the pond
Thumbs up for the new sound very mellow and way better
Great new sound. I certainly noticed the difference when you cut to the Nanny Narkin interview. Have you considered podcast only content? It would be a great format for things like the old games designer interviews that were done with John Stallard and the like. It would also work well with your plans to do RPG games. We could listen in to a weekly RPG campaign, no visuals just your own imagination. I’m not a techie but it seems that this would be a simpler way to put out some more content that would suit the format. I listen to… Read more »
Podcast-style RPG sessions could be a lot of fun, like old school Penny Arcade sessions.
I appreciate the sound quality, but find the big mics getting in the way visually on what is primarily a visual show (or is it?). What are you going to do when unboxing or showing off painted minis? I suppose suspending them from booms might be a compromise…
The line-of-glue thing is capillary action. Happy weekend!
exactly the word I was looking for! Thanks for that.
And when the glue dries it turns into a butterfly
No worries. I was even getting in some capillary action action assembling a few minis during the show.
Have to agree on the awful GW minotaurs,
grab the resin ones from Mierce instead (or the Zealot ones once they hit retail towards the end of they year) for true horny joy
I think the main problem is how the GW studio painters over-emphasised the muscles for the marketing pics. Simpler paint jobs make them look better IMHO.
Atlantis Miniatures do a lot of good Minotaurs as well which might be worth a punt.
@warzan it was the Tartars were the ones that shoved the meat under the sadle, they came from the Crimea I believe. Its the origin of steak tartare. However they were conquered by the Mongols so you were close.
Of course sometimes it didn’t cook properly under the saddle and they had to eat it raw and that’s where steak tartare comes from
If I’m not mistaken the Mongols used to store milk in animal stomachs which they put under their saddles when the travelled. The enzymes in the stomachs along with the agitation and heat generated from the horse ride would turn the milk into yogurt. This would allow them to carry milk with them on their travels.
‘Walking dead’ has zombies … I suppose you could consider them a ‘crowd’ 😉
Simulating civillians would be a bit tricky (and probably a bit more time consuming), but there is definite potential for cool things.
You could do something with them as a group rather than as individuals – so worth exploring the idea there.
I love Discworld: Ankh-Morpork. It’s such an anarchic game thats always a lot of fun. Of course, now its out of print, the value has gone up so Nanty Narking presents the perfect opportunity to still play basically the same game without damaging my copy of the valuable one!
I’ll be backing it on Monday for sure!
I have Discworld: Ankh-Morpork and it is a lot of fun. I enjoy the hidden roles and the general vibe of the game, especially when quirky events happen.
It’s one of my favourite game’s but whenever I bring it out no one will play it with me. They know I’m a huge Discworld fan so think I’m just fan-blind when I tell them it’s a genuinely good game.
It’s a great game. One of my favourites. Just arrange a game night, and when people are in the room spring it on them and force them to play it! It’s the sensible way!
the Blackstone fortress’ first came up in Battlefleet Gothic, and later on they referenced them in the fall of Cadia with a Black Crusade using one. The Imps just glued on their tech to it and used it like a prefab, the Chaos faction learned how to switch them on.
I knew I knew the name from somewhere,just couldn’t think where
Ah perfect, thanks for filling in the gaps there.
Nomadic steppe people from Inner-Asia (like Mongols, Huns or ancient Hungarians) were pretty good in horse archery @dignity. 😀 The Mongols for example created the greatest empire in history.
A common tactic of the ancient Hungarians was to pretend a retreat from the enemy cavalry, and then they started to shoot arrows backwards from horseback.
And as I know @warzan the meat under the saddle thing is only a myth, but I am not an expert. 😀
The new audio setup is great, I really enjoyed listening to the show. Now you need to get a better microphone for Ben!
My microphone should be pretty good now but I think there needs to be some tweaking as I’m coming in over the internet.
I’m a little disappointed that the Stoessi’s segment came and went without anyone trying a Gene Hackman style of Polish accent, maybe next time.
Well to fair Gene Hackman didn’t try hat hard either
exactly I hope for at least one Ghen-err-Awl
We struggle with names so accents might be a…Bridge Too Far 😉
shame
@warzan for an easy way to use civilians in a game, open “the best sand box game in the world ever…apparently” The Walking Dead: All out War, and remove the yellow panic dice. Then assign each of the faces to a result. Rather than having to make a ton of cards for every game you want to use civilians in, you could instead use the dice and just add the rules you want for the game you’re playing.
I’m working out a narrative scenario for Age of Sigmar that has Stormcast happen across the Deepkin raiding a village for souls and Stormcast step in to save them. Not totally worked it out yet but here’s the bones of the idea. Villagers are in groups around the board. Once Deepkin are within 3″ of villagers they can start to rend their souls at the start of their hero phase, if they are still in control of the group of villagers at the start of their next hero phase they successfully rend D6 souls. Stormcast need to get within 3″… Read more »
That sounds very cool indeed – like the sound of that!
Great upgrade to the sound by the way, made a big difference.
Hahaha! The in sync head in hands by Sam and Justin at Warrens joke… amazing
Sound is real good guys. Did you upgrade Ben’s internet as well? He didn’t break up once that I noticed.
I was lucky that my internet behaved for the entire of the frontstage show!
How would you use Townsfolk? I believe Sam and Justin had it correct. If you are doing D&D or other games these NPC would be able to give you more information about an existing quest or they could give you a quest that you are next to undertake and which you need to go back to complete the quest. In a recent KS named Dungeon Challenge Cards they have a mechanic that I believe would work. It is a set of cards. To use the cards you Roll two different six-sided dice and check the results; the first number tells… Read more »
Great show as usual. The sound quality was better for me. Just a small suggestion to have Justin try to keep his hands from directly in front of the mike. Hard habit to break I am sure but his audio seems to get a little muffled when he had his elbows on the table.
the sound is very good. I didn’t think it was going to be that big of a deal but you guys Sound like a proper radio/pod cast show
I like the miniatures in Nanty Narking, but I’ll wait to see the let’s Play before getting too excited.
I will say it’s a shame there are no female characters in the game though, which is especially odd given that the box art features one. Quite an odd choice to have made (or to have forgotten to have made) these days. I can’t see that it would have been too hard to have added in some women.
There are female characters in the game, Moll Flanders and Queen Victoria have both been confirmed. I assume there’ll be more.
Happy Weekend!
Sorry Justin, that is “steak tartar.” They did wrap it up in something or other before it went under the saddle.