Weekender: Stellar Starships & Core Space Update!
January 19, 2019 by lloyd
Welcome to The Weekender for this week where we're looking at some awesome stuff for those travelling into space with both Battle Systems and 2nd Dynasty.
Weekender Podcast Download
Make sure to get involved in the comments below as you could win some awesome prizes this week from both 2nd Dynasty and the new Middle-earth range.
Bolt Action Team Call To Action
We're still looking for team members to join our All-Ireland squad that will be competing for glory in games of Bolt Action. You can find out more concerning what we're looking for and the tournaments ahead HERE.
News
We're kicking off with some news today and delving into some great goings-on from the tabletop world...
- Landspeeders & Tanks - New Star Wars: Legion miniatures are on the way
- Adventure In Middle-earth - A brand new adventure board game is coming this year from FFG
- Long Mats - GameMat.Eu has been showing off their new 6x3 Mat designs
- Alex-assisted Games - Watch out for this new deduction board game from X2 Games
- Conspiracy Afoot - Restoration Games are working on a new revamped classic
- Mortal Gods - The pre-orders for the Core Set are now available from Footsore & War Banner
What caught your eye in the news this week?
Core Space Update & Sales!
The folks from Battle Systems came into the studio to talk about how things are going with Core Space and the release alongside a sale (which you can see HERE) of some of their products, giving you access to loads of cool terrain options.
2nd Dynasty Spaceships + Win Your Pledge!
If you like Core Space and fighting it out in space then we also talked with Ben Mowbray from 2nd Dynasty about their current 3D Printing Kickstarter which is looking to bring loads of cool ships to the tabletop!
Kickstarter
We also have time to delve into another Kickstarter from this week as Privateer Press are bringing their new Art Book to life via the fundraising platform.
Make sure to tell us if you're going to be going in for this and what other companies you'd like to see making art books!
Competition - Win The Three Hunters!
We've got a great competition for you this week where one winner could get their hands on the Three Hunters Set (Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli) from Games Workshop which will be out in plastic soon.
...or you could win Justin's yellow blanket...yay.
As always if you want to see if you won a prize go over to the Prize Claim Centre and make sure to Claim Your Prize!
Have a great weekend of gaming!
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Finally, the Weekender is here! Let the mayhem begin……
As far as the prize goes, my wife thinks that the blanket is the better prize. She suggests winning it and then transforming it into a tabletop terrain mat of some sort!
That Privateer Press Art Book looks pretty cool. I need to get that since they canceled the No Quarter Prime magazine.
I don’t know about anybody else but I am ordering the Imperial tanks for my troops in Star Wars: Legion. I may need two or three of those.
Happy Weekend!!!
WOOO!!! I’m all in for the yellow blanket!!!! 😀 😀 😀
Legolas’ face looks like I sculpted it! 0_o
If the blanket turns out to be too stiff to fold, just have @warzan section it up with the angle grinder. It’d be good practice for him. 😀
Happy weekend one and all.
happy weekend big man, I hope you’re keeping well.
Trying to. 🙂
I never thought I would say this, but……. (insert the voice of DOOM!)
“Give me Dignity’s Yellow Blankie…….”
“I will trade 5 pack of Anzac Bikkies!! I may be willing to be negoiated up to 6 or 7, maybe”
Wonderful show as always guys.
Sorry Justin , but that blanket is mine. I demand that or your position as Official OTT/BoW Anzac Bikkie Distributor, may well be in jeopardy, minion!
Besides, I’d just give Sam the LotR mini’s anyways…..(motivation for you Sam)
They shall be mine!
Oh my gosh that prize! Call me a Sam but if I see LOTR I come running.
… that is the greatest compliment anyone’s ever paid me.
I’ll take the blanket if it is washed!
Though the miniatures wrapped in it would be great!
Good Morning, Good Morning – LOTR prize be super awesomeness 🙂 the weekender is here
I haven’t played the original conspiracy wars but I have played the real life version as I’ve chased Hermes found the countryside trying to find which random house they’ve delivered the parcel I was expecting to
almost a blend of both.
Who wants lord of the Rings stuff when I can have a Yellow Blanket.
Happy Weekend guys, my favourite moment from this show has to be from @lloyd at 50:44 he paused in the realisation that he may have been fingering the wrong people.
I could never take away poor Justin’s blanket, so I would go for the miniatures.
It’s the Weekend!!
A weekend to start laying down some paint on my newly assembled mid-war British Desert force for FoW4. First hobby I’ve done for months and who knows… I may even start a project on this site!
No prize please (what??) as I don’t want to catch anything else or add to my plastic backlog.
** Update – son says he’d quite like the LOTR minis (to add to his smaller plastic backlog) ***
SKY NEWS reports that young(ish) man had been found wandering colraine mumbling “blankie “ GONE……sources in the area say that he was assaulted by two OLD gits who have offer strangers the youths yellow comforter for a small subscription . This could be considered OTT google OTT and find out……buy merch!
Yellow blanket please, I have some Tallarn who could do with an outing, and as their old adage goes, “There is nothing in Middle Earth, and no man needs nothing.”
The chance to win either LotR hunters or Justin’s stinky old yellow blanket….hmmm..tough choice…but I think I’ll give the smelly old yellow rag a miss…lol
How many times can you say Alexa in a show?! Ours hasn’t got a clue what you’re asking!! 🙂
I’d never separate Justin from his precious. Much prefer the LOTR minis.
Has anybody asked their Alexa for a game of Global Thermonuclear War yet?
That’s a nice blanket you’ve got there Justin, a shame if someone were to make it disappear.
Happy weekend!
“Drive-by Jedi” HA! I laughed far too much at that.
Waiting with patent excitement for March and my Core Space pledge, would like to say more of, well…everything! but more specifically more aliens races.
Was also thinking that the 2nd Dynasty Spaceships look like they’d be a good fit for Core Space, but I don’t currently own a 3D Printer, and I’m tapped out for Kickstarter for the moment, if I were a Backer, would love to see either War Rocket Ajax from the old Flash Gordon Movie or United Planets Cruiser C57D from Forbidden Planet.
I didn’t see the pints either… but I’m not Irish, so I’m good?
@avernos what card from the AT-ST are you referring to?
Ben! Fallout the boardgame came out 2017, that’s the year *before* last year!
Back to the studio
True enough. Forgot which Essen SPIEL I saw it at
“Don’t sleep on yellow blankets”… is that the same kind of advice like “don’t eat yellow snow”?
I want that prize.
If the yellow blanket is that important can I hold it to ransom for more LotR minis?
I know people like them but I dont understand buying art books. I’d look through it once, put it on a shelf and never touch it again.
I think I’ll pass on the yellow blanket, at least until I have my cloning machine up and running and I’m ready for my army of Justin slaves. I’d like the models please if I’m lucky enough to win.
Not a difficult choice really…
Three plastic figures to assemble and paint for a game I own…
Or a hideous yellow blanket that may be infested with parasitic lifeforms and bodily fluids excreted by the former owner…
I’ll take the Lord of Rings stuff please.
What makes you think the miniatures aren’t infested :O
Plastic is easier to delouse.
I’d love to get a new blanket, especially if it came in yellow and was not “transformed” by Justin’s ownership!
Blanket!
I don’t have a 3D printer and am unlikely to get one (no chance of me ever learning how to use one properly), but I like the look of that spaceship terrain.
Looking forward to Core Space too.
Oh, and no offence Justin, but if I win, I’d rather have the Three Hunters than your yellow blanket!
I think that this is the best available Gimli, can`t wait.
Weekender = nice. 3 hunters for a prize = yes.
Dear Gerry, reading Negan Major League on your shirt, have you tried/tested “Here´s Negan” and what do you make of it?
weirdly we unboxed it this week, it should be up next week. I definitely want to do a Let’s Play of it, it looks like it’s a very different game from AOW while still having similar base mechanics.
That means next week will be awesome. What was Frank Zappa´s song: “Lucille has messed my mind up, … but I still love her.”
Stop saying Alexa! She keeps answering you lol
Great show. I’d rather have the Three Hunters. Nobody should part a man from his favourite comfy blanket!
Blanket, every time!
So, because you guys have mentioned/ talked about it many times over the years I finally watched Zulu and saw the Battle for Rorke’s Drift… I really enjoyed the movie and now think its even cooler that you guys are working on a another even larger version of gaming it. Now I will watch this weeks weekender and go back to mostly lurking in the background.
if nothing else then I’m glad you joined the ranks of Zulu fans, I even forced @aurorainbag to watch it with me. And she is still talking to me so I take that as a good sign 🙂
I’ll take pictures and make a battle report on my project log when we play it
I had a blast watching Zulu with you 🙂 I’ve begun nagging co-workers to watch it too. Amazing movie 🙂
you’re mine now
mwahahahahahahahaha
Now you have to watch Zulu Dawn
it is a bit like having vanilla icecream after a fantastic meal. I mean there’s nothing wrong with it, but it’s a little bland and middle of the road.
On the subject of likenesses of film vs books, then I think Sharpe is one of the best examples. Sean Bean IS Richard Sharpe, but looks nothing like he is described in the books.
Hell, originally book Sharpe wasn’t even Northern, but that was retconned after the success of the show!
I already have my own yellow blanket (go team Yellow Blankey!)
No worries Justin your gaming blanket is safe with me, there’s no doubt I’d choose the Three Hunters!
Great show guys the starship modularity looks amazing, if I was a 3D printer guy I’d jump on it, but I have enough of a hard time turn8ng on my computer!
Obviously answer… The millennium Falcon (Backer #242)
ya… and would much rather have the mini’s that Justin’s yellow blanket!
For 40k they do need to make an Alexa or an Alexa cover or whatever that looks like a servo-skull.
Nice spaceships
Great show. How about a miniature yellow blanket that should cover all the bases
backer 105
Which ship would I like….hmmmm…difficult. The use discovery from 2001 but there is a plastic model now out. I would take from the books by the terrain trade authority interstellar queen
Also the interceptor ragnarok put out by aurora in the 1970’s…would be nice to get that in a larger scale
Great to have the core space…I may just take the plunge as I think it makes a good imperial intercity.
Not sure about the game mats 6 by 4 is so standard, like the extra space
happy weekender folks ill take the figures if I win, love the 3D ships stunning looking I think the eagle transporter may look great om the table
Nice show guys. Miniatures for me, don’t need another yellow blanket. ?
All these Kickstarters for just files for home printing are getting boring. Not everyone has one or can afford one good enough for the stuff in question
“Never Rub another Man’s Rhubarb”, and definitely never touch a man’s “Yellow Blanket”!
As fine as that blanket seems, I can’t resist the lure of all things LOTR, probably the best ruleset ever made by gw.
I need those 3 hunters even more than a nice yellow blanket, but it’s obviously a close run thing 🙂
Nope, nope, nope…I do not want to know why Justin’s duvet or blanket is yellow. He can keep both for himself I will gladly take the LOTR prize.
Speaking of LOTR, has BoW ever done a table terrain and play through of any of the LOTR games?
Happy weekend!
Finally a fast moving vehicule for the rebels! And i also love the imperial one.
If i win, i want the MINIS, NOT and i repeat NOT the blanket 😉
See you on XLBS
gotcha blanket it is, definitely wouldn’t want to mix those up.
I would normally say I’d want to win the minis….but i just pre-ordered them, how thin is the blanket? could it be laid out to be used as a desert board?
weirdly the site of the yellow blanket made a mate of mine dig out his Tallarn desert raiders to get some paint on them. So sure why not
Hmmm…. the Three Hunters or Justin’s sticky binky…. what to ask for? I’m conflicted!
Cracking bants guys as ever.
I’d love to win the trio of awesomeness 😉 Leave the blanket to Justin :p
Hmm its not the grease stains from the burger I am worried about on the blanket. What are those other stains?
we operate a don’t ask, don’t tell policy.
Those new LOTR minis look great.
I’d like to win Justin’s blanket, but I’m afraid to be cursed to shave my head and practice carpentry.
I think I would prefer the lord of the rings prize. I dont know what Justin have been doing with that blanket…
Blanket for me.
Oh I would love to win the hunters, let Justin keep his blanket you bullies!
I’m really looking forward to Mortal Gods. I’d uhh prefer the hunters.
Happy Sunday night! Am I doing this right? I’d love that blankie! I mean, the three hunters!
we can only accept your first answer
Oh no! You have probably screenshotted it to so an edit wont do either.. Well, I could get a yellow blanket.. Free stuff is free…!?
Those lord of ring figures barely beats the blanket.
I think I could do with some LOTR figs in my painting backlog. I just can’t compel myself to take Justin’s yellow blanket 🙂
Ok Justin, you get to keep Blankie. I’ll go for the minis please!
yellow blanket is a must
I’d love to see the small ships from Traveller.
now you made me back yet another one. #254
I like the idea of Alexa helping with rule books. the most infuriating part of TWD:AOW is the rulebook being poorly laid out, same with Here’s Negan. Every time I want to check a rule I have to refer to 7 or 8 pages because its split up in a slapdash fashion. Their back page summary is amazing but the contents, glossary and layout are either poor, non-existent or frustratingly shite.
Late to the Weekender party but if I’m picked, please don’t send me no filthy damn blanket!
“don’t send me no” DOUBLE NEGATIVE, Blanket incoming!
Defeated by pedantry. Me of all people. Aaargh! ?
I would take the blanket but it would have to cleansed and wash many many many times. (did i mention many times)
Mini would be a nice second prize.
Really like the new three hunters set and the fact they’re plastic is a massive bonus.
Personally, I’m really not a fan of the ForgeWorld painting style on Middle Earth minis. I prefer the GW painting studios’ style. The Legolas paint job just doesnt do the mini justice.
The blanket for sure! Haven’t laughed this much in a long time. Also, I would love to see Justing go all ‘The Big Lebowski’ trying to get his blanket back 😀
hunters please, or blankey, maybe hunters wrapped in the blankey!
Galactica in all it’s huge glory would be an amazing show piece for a campaign, space combat, or even FTL like real time responses to missiles hitting the decks, and getting to compartments, sealing breaches and all sorts!
Backer # 441 2nd Dynasty Spaceships + Win Your Pledge!
I’d like the 3 hunters. I think it’s unfair taking Justin’s blank. I am far too late to the party though 🙂
Belated Happy Weekend! So sad I missed a chance to win that wonderful yellow blanket!
That landspeeder looks awesome, wish I’d had that and probably the most star-warsy ship from 2nd Dynasty when I started my current Star Wars F&D campaign, nearly finished now, but would have been awesome additions.