Weekender: Slaanesh Returns & WIN Age Of Sigmar Champions Goodies!
March 30, 2019 by dignity
Welcome to The Weekender where things have been going insane this week. AdeptiCon has brought us all sorts of awesome news and we'll be talking to PlayFusion and Battlefront too.
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Make sure to get involved in the comments below as we always like hearing what you have to say folks.
Updates
So, we start off the show with some updates from the team...
- AdeptiCon Live Blog - Make sure to check out the AdeptiCon Live Blog from Dawn & Gianna - Prizes up for grabs!
- Salute - Justin, Gerry, Ben and Ryan will be at Salute next week learning all they can from the show
- Converting The Venomcrawler - Check out what Dave Taylor has been working on after Warren's challenge!
We hope to see some of you next week on the show floor at Salute 2019.
PlayFusion Talk Age Of Sigmar: Champions & Savagery!
Sam talks with Alan and Rob from PlayFusion about the new expansion to Age Of Sigmar: Champions which throws Gloomspite Gitz, Nurgle and Sylvaneth into the ring as the card battling heads to the Realm Of Ghur.
You could also be in with the chance of winning ONE of TWO epic Age Of Sigmar: Champions Bundle by commenting on this episode of the show on Youtube or OnTableTop.com.
News
We crack on with the news after a big week...
- Slaanesh Returns & MUCH MUCH MORE - Slaanesh is on the warpath and we had loads more news this week!
- 28 Magazine - A new grimdark magazine has launched for free which is packed with hobby and gaming ideas
- March To War - Mantic's new take on The Walking Dead is in the playtesting phase
- Hellboy: The Board Game - Pre-orders are now being taken for the retail version of the game
- Sci-Fi Soldiers & Skeletons - Two new plastic kits are now available from Wargames Atlantic
What caught your eye from the news this week?
Battlefront In The Studio
Battlefront is in the studio talking to us about the upcoming Oil War supplement for Team Yankee as well as the different event they are attending this year.
We also get to hear more about the Open Day this year which will feature some pretty epic battles to get involved in and much more besides.
Kickstarter
Now we're heading into the dungeon that is Kickstarter!
- Life Siphon - Become cursed and check out this new game from Lay Waste Games
- Fuji Koro - Delve for materials and battle dragons in this new Euro-style board game
- District 9: The Board Game - Weta Workshop are back on Kickstarter with a brand new project
Which of these campaigns would you back?
Competitions - WIN Age Of Sigmar Champions Goodies
You could be in with the chance of winning ONE or TWO Age Of Sigmar Champions Savagery Bundles which include a full Booster Box, Player Coins and epic Playmats for you to get started in the game.
Also, if you want to know if you won Warhammer 40,000: Shadowspear make sure to head on over to the Prize Claim Centre now to see if you were lucky.
Have a great weekend!
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FIRST!! 🙂 Happy Saturday Folks!
Huzzah!
District 9 looks cool.
It does look very neat – a good way of trying to mesh together a good board game and the licence.
It’s the Weekend! Albeit a weekend that’s an hour shorter than usual…
Life Syphon: A few weeks back I called out a PC game called “The Ship”, which is a first person backstabbing game, as something I’d like to see on the tabletop. This is sounding close!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2400/The_Ship_Murder_Party/
So for my serious comments! I must admit the sculpts for the new Slaneesh range are incredibly beautiful in their design, however if there was ever a manifested embodiment to represent of all the things i detest in the world then it is Slaneesh!! Commie hyper-liberal scum the lot of them and they must be destroyed!! (You can tell what kind of inquisitor i am can’t you?!)
Would love to be able to get down to Salute this year to see the Flames of War stands and take part although i think that 2020 is going the be the year of conventions and expos for me, i’m saving my pennies for it now as we speak!
As a big fan of minecraft back in the day i must admit i really like the Fuji Koro kickstarter. I have always been a massive proponent of customize-ability in any game i play so this one really ticks the box’s for me.
Great show guys, looking forward to XLBS as usual. Shame about next weekend but i’m sure i will survive and i hope you all have a great time and bring back lots of cool footage!
Great show guys.
I think the Furies are small and in a unit not big single monsters.
@avernos I think Victrix do Plastic Carthaginians.
I’d really like to see some Plastic minis for the Boshin War, or any minis for the Boshin war really, there’s one guy who makes them.
you’re right they do, in the back of my mind I knew they had but I was plucking a nation out the air for that one. Companies in the main seem to operate like Hollywood studios. You’ll get pairs of box sets coming out that look suspiciously similar fighting against each other, while no one really wants to take a punt on that more unusual nation.
I’ll cough Boshin as I pass the Perry’s at Salute. It’ll be subliminal eventually they’ll think it’s their own idea
🙂
The Furies might be smaller creatures but my thinking was that they are still going to be wandering monsters in the game, coming in to spoil your fun.
Yeah!! Slaanesh in back and looking gorgeous!!
“Slaanesh in back”, is that a freudian slip? 😉 😉 😉
Happy Weekend all.
Great show peeps.I’ll just leave this here as it’s a ways off yet…Clone Wars.
Didn’t like the show so much this week guys. Too much time lost on the bits with Play Fusion and Battlefront for me.
Personally I’d put all these bits in their own video post so you can see them that way rather than in the Weekender, but just my opinion
Ah that’s a shame, I thought the interviews were good fun, especially the one with PlayFusion about Age Of Sigmar: Champions – I thought we managed to get in quite a lot of news there though!
Looking at holding our second Burrows and Badgers tournament in July if you’re interested Ben. Same venue down in Rushden Northamptonshire
but then people who like BF will say the same about the Warhammer news, and maybe the play fusion fans aren’t big into talk on saga.
Personally I wouldn’t talk about anything that wasn’t early medieval if I could get away with it, but I’m told that isn’t going to work, and then they beat me with a bag of satsumas
Just a little gripe from me, nothing major, I just think maybe the interviews could have their own video compilation each week etc., leaving the Weekender for you guys to chat about more stuff and interact with us out here in gaming land
I find myself fast forwarding through the Weekender a lot these days.
There are just so many companies that want our attention (and our money) currently. I used to be interested and keep up with most of the BoW content but now I find it just too much….
But I’m glad that there is the variety out there now, that people can choose from, and perhaps come into the hobby because they like what one of these new companies is doing.
It’s an understandable gripe guys 🙂 There is a ton going on, it was a big part of why we stripped a lot of the same format out of XLBS so we can let our hair down more in there 🙂
Didn’t mean it to come across as a gripe… Personally I find it more of a frustration.
Being a naturized Kiwi, I ,and a number of my gaming friends, don’t really consider Battlefront a New Zealand company anymore.
The only part of the business left here is the design studio. If the creative team ever felt the need to move overseas…..
Kinda sad really. I have friends that have their name in the first edition of “Flames of War” as playtesters. Now I don’t think it is even sold in a shop in the South Island. (I’m in Dunedin.) I think some of the BF rulebooks are available in a bookstore chain – PaperPlus – but they seem to come in with the Osprey/Warlord titles.
I agree. There is just a ton of promotional stuff because everyone is trying to sell their latest and greatest. So many website and YouTube channels focused on the selling of hobby versus the actually hobby.
I also agree that we live in a time with so many choices. I have started to filter myself and ignore most of what is going on. There are far more board games than I can ever play. The RPG systems available could fit a container ship and I am not going to play them all. There are so many miniature ranges and systems I cannot possibly paint or play them all. I am enjoying the Frostgrave series right now because I am reusing a lot of what I have already instead of buying more new stuff.
While it is fun to listen to new stuff sometimes, most of the time I just skip past it all myself. There is too much emphasis on selling and not enough about hobby and techniques.
To paraphrase my favourite stand up comedian ” don’t you think god ever gets stoned ? Take a look at the Platypus and tell me it ain’t so “.
Best news in a LONG while, the fact that a company has decided to do Persians in plastic and NOT do another range of Romans or Greeks.
I posted about this a while ago on how “horde” armies are the ones that really need to be available cheaply in plastic, yet only the “elite” armies get done (so everyone ends up with Roman armies with no historical opposition to fight against). Again going with Dark Age Irish (instead of another range of Vikings) is eagerly awaited.
Now lets see how well they do (hopefully VERY well), because this might make other producers of plastic figures step away from the usual fare and produce armies that due to the numbers needed have always been too expensive to collect (and thus not popular).
A step in the right direction here, lets hope those Persians look excellent (I presume these will be going into the Mortal Gods range from Footsore?)
NOW the only other news would be that someone has found a “way” to do tunic patterns for Persians in 28mm using a transfer set with the same detailing as LBMS shield transfers (although I REALLY am wishing on a star there 😀 )
I know they’ve buddied up with Dark Peak Games, which is Warbanner GW are forcing them to change their name, to release the skellybobs for Mortal Gods so I have no doubt the Persians could happily supplement the metals for it as well. Exciting times.
I know someone has done tartan for the victrix highlanders, but it’s a pattern to fit the sculpts, I wonder if you could print your own and cut out what you needed… that’s an interesting thought. Mmmm must test that
Battleflag do the tartan decals. I’ve seen some car scale modelling accessories sites do tartan decals but only 1/24 etc. Probably easier to make your own
aye I know, it was more for the persian patterns, it’s certainly possible but how much of a pain it would be to make a sheet to apply is the real question
Probably could do a “trim” or striped pattern you could cut to fit around the edges?
Something like https://www.ebay.com/itm/Tin-Soldier-top-quality-Persian-warrior-in-the-Phrygian-cap-Guards-Achaemenid-/113491274253
But it’s the overall patterns that are a paint in the butt to do. But even although it’s all very hard work to paint up, and they WILL run away….it’s still the finest looking army a wargamer can own 🙂
Well warflag do curtains for horses so it might be possible. Though for Persian infantry a few vertical stripes and some dots would probably work in a massed look
It’s time for the Weekender!
I’ll certainly be checking out ‘District 9’ and ‘Hellboy’ the board games!
AdeptiCon Live Blog has all my attention this weekend. I’m looking forward to the Saturday live podcast with Modern War Gaming Industry leaders, (I think, in round table format? I could be wrong about that), Gianna has gathered severely for a talk about the latest in the hobby regarding Modern War Gaming. It could be an Epic Show.
Someday, I’d love to attend Battlefront’s Open Day Event.
I don’t play ‘Age of Sigmar’ but that Slaanesh model is really interesting. I wonder if I can figure a way to use it in another game?
Speaking of models, I have enjoyed Dave Taylor’s current project, ‘Converting The Venomcrawler’. It’s an interesting model out of the box, but how will it change as Dave scraps, adds, subtracts, and manipulates the plastic? If you’ve seen Dave’s book ‘Armies Legions and Hordes’ then you know he can rock the plastic with a Master’s Touch. Trust me, bookmark this Project and keep an Eye on it. It’ll be a masterpiece when he’s finished!
My thoughts on ‘GW’ taking aim at ‘War Banner’ can be found here…..
https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/gw-legal-threat-forces-war-banner-into-a-name-change/#post-1369447
That Slaanesh miniature is very nice.
the slannesh models look so good!
Happy Saturday, see you tomorrow.
Happy Weekend!
OK, the Venom Crawler, indeed all Deamon Engines are (for lack of a better term) new builds, there are entire Forgeworlds that turned to Chaos during the Horus Heresy (many of them for the very reason that they wanted to innovate and not be tied to complying with the STCs) that are dedicated to supplying the armies of the Dark Gods with war materiel, even taking into account the temporal weirdness of the Warp 10,000+ yrs of war attrition means that they’ll need more ammo and new hardware periodically…and rant over, sorry :/
The new Slaanesh minis, especially the Keeper Of Secrets, oh my, that isn’t walking, running or marching it’s strutting with absolute confidence, it knows it’s going to get to its victims, it knows that it’s going to utterly wreck them when it gets to them and is going to look damn good whilst doing so, Disturbingly alluring.
Great show guys ?
These Warhammer models are unbelievable. I started drooling when I saw the Keeper of Secrets.
Great news too for the AoS: Champions as well as for the District 9 board game.
Happy Weekend everyone!
Really like the new cards for AOS: Champions. I’m taking part in the Savagery Pre-release event at my FLGS tomorrow, interested to see what the new cards offer, but already guessing that wizard decks are going to be popular.
Chaos releases means lots and lots of bits to play around with. I’ve heard people mentioning making a nautical themed warband with the heads of the Iron Golems. I can imagine an enemy warband of sea creatures / mutants made with Hedonite parts.
So many videos to watch, who needs to go outside anyway, fresh air is over rated
New Slannesh looking good. Apart from the Masque.
Gerry & Ben…hmm…sounds like a good name for an ice cream.
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Disagree with Gerry over the new Chaos daemon engine; I’m with Justin thinking it’s an original Chaos creation. Not everything in 40k runs off STCs, that’s just something the Imperium have fallen into because of the Mechanicus’ opposition to innovation, a restriction that the Dark Mechanicum has thrown off. And as Justin says, Chaos has its own Forge Worlds and factories from which to produce stuff.
Justin is wrong on Slaanesh; Slaanesh and their daemons is supposed to be hermaphroditic, not purely female, so introducing some masculinity is, as Gerry states, how it’s supposed to be.
I feel sorry for the ferryman spell, only having half a boat – clearly two obols per soul don’t buy what they used to. ?
Dwarfs don’t cast spells? Bah, the sins of Hashut would like to have a word with you ice cream twins!
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Think the lava beast and the forge will be great for Chaos Dwarfs. 😀
On the platypus – I think it’s proof there is no God; just take the Bablefish causing God to disappear in a puff of Logic gag from Hitchhiker’s and sub the platypus in for the Bablefish. ?
Wargames Atlantic sci-fi troops look great; will make great alt-Guard for 40k. Agreed with Gerry, they don’t remotely look like Elysians due to Elysians wearing completely different clothing.
Ooooh the Ice Cream Twins…. That name has got to stick. 😛
Havent gotten too into champuons yet, this might be qhen i finally do it.
So you’re running the (premium) ice cream team today?
Mmmmmm Ice Cream
if the guys at flames of war want a scenario they should do the battle of the imjin river , 29st independent brigade Vs four chinese divisions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Imjin_River, easily do a wave scenario a small group of players have to hold off waves of chinese for x amount of turns till they can escape, one man has to be the rear guard but they have to roll to see who it is
Can’t help but wonder what Warrens reaction to the Keeper was. I think it’s bloody glorious!
Will Battlefront update the points system in LW to match the point system in MW or will they be two different point systems like they are now?
Okay some one needs to do weird World war for tanks
Great show guys, finally sat down and watched while building the warmaster 🙂
hurrah weekender time and i just came back from the visitors centre!
I think the Venomcrawler was a creation from the Dark Mechanicum during the Horus Heresy. Similar machines were present in the Mechanicum book from the Horus Heresy.
Age of Sigmar Champions is something I’ve recently been really interested in just using the digital game for now.
THE PLATYPUS IS AWESOME DON’T EVER CHANGE IT!!!!
Slaanesh Keeper of Secrets is an great model… creepy androgynous thing… but looks amazing.
One of the ‘nine factions’ for Warcry looks a bit like Daughters of Khaine and they are the sort of people that would like a bit of mindless violence… so I’m hoping I’m right… sort of…
Because if I’m right, it may mean I’ll end up buying Warcry… and I’m still trying to keep my spend to a minimum this year.
Looking forward to the plastic Dark Age Irish. Peter Dennis has already done the box artwork and it is rather spiffing!
The Savagery Lads play a mean game of poker.
So… Sam’s hair? Was Warren giving out swirlies again?
GITZ GITZ GITZ
The eldar space Hippy’s of the future.
Walking dead heards will be great for City maps ?escape the tank game? Brilliant
Killing yourself and the enemy is Commissar approved.
A great fun show Guy’s.
Not sure when I’ll get to this one, but I hope too soon!
Im with Ben. I like the new Slaanesh.
Good to hear the name Tim Adcock mentioned in dispatches. He was a mould-maker at Well Known Wargame Company when I was working there. Hope you’re well, sir.
Love the new daemon models. Also quite interested in the Champions card game, not tried that one yet
I have to agree with Ben and Gerry, I’m really liking the androgynous look of the Slaanesh demons. Fits the way they are described in the story line much better.
“a few places I might just lurk near” … so am I the only one now imagining @avernos towering behind some poor chap going “don’t mind me… I’m just looking… breathing down your neck… nice models… would be a shame if something would happen to them” or him peaking over some boothwalls scaring those in it sh*itless XD “Hello, I would like to talk to you about my *instert random system*” 😉
that’s pretty much exactly it
still not watched district 9 …… is it any good?
yes
Cant think of anything fun to put, this is purely for the comp!
after playing in the first strike prerelease weekend im SOOOOOO excited to get my hands on some savagery cards !!
Yeah, Venom Crawlers are unique Chaos creations. *[Almost] Everything comes from Imperial* used to be a thing but not anymore.
GW is & has been going away from *Marines but Spikey* for a while now. They want [& rightly so] each faction to be unique in playstyle, aesthetic & generally *on tabletop*. 😉
Try the short story *Dark Uprising* [on the Warhammer Community page] for a taste of their ongoing direction of Chaosifying Chaos. As well, the Vigilus Ablaze previews paint a grim & dark tale of Chaos rising.
This isn’t your good ol’ 2nd thru 6th edition Chaos anymore!
Blaster was here…