Weekender: WIN New Age Of Sigmar Two-Player BATTLEBOX & Roman RISK!
February 9, 2019 by lloyd
We delve down into some awesomeness from a full week of tabletop gaming on The Weekender as the folks from UK Games Expo join us in the studio.
Weekender Podcast Download
Come and get involved in the comments where you could win a copy of Carrion Empire, the new Battlebox for Warhammer: Age Of Sigmar.
Updates
The first thing we're going to be checking out is the addition of new RPG & LARP Tickets to the UK Games Expo store. There are tickets getting added every week so make sure to keep an eye out for a session that grabs your attention.
Roman RISK!
Because its Recruit A Gamer Month we had to highlight the work from bloodbeard in the community as he put together an awesome Roman RISK game for the kids at his school.
This looks like a fascinating way to include games alongside learning opportunities for youngsters and create gamers of the future.
You can follow along with bloodbeard's work here on Bloodbeard's Garage where he goes into more detail about the game each week.
News
We're delving down into some news from this week...
- Bossk & Sabine Wren - Two new operatives drop for Star Wars: Legion
- Sleeping Gods - A brand new storytelling game is on the way from the folks at Red Raven Games
- Caverns Of The Frog King - Add Your Own Engine to this awesome set for younger role-players!
- Carrion Empires - Come and check out more of what's dropping for Death & Chaos in Age Of Sigmar
- Take The Ship - Black Site Studio show off their stunning Modern Ship for use in your games
What caught your eye from this week in the news?
What Is The UK Games Expo?
We chat with some of the minds behind the UK Games Expo learning about what it's all about as well as talking to them about the various events that they run throughout this epic weekend.
If you're wanting to come along you can get tickets HERE.
Kickstarter
We're looking at two awesome Kickstarters spotted this week...
- Tenfold Dungeon - Embrace adventure from Room 17 Games and check out our D&D game HERE
- Zone Raiders - Check out this rather awesome new skirmish game!
Which of these two are you going to take another look at?
Competitions - Win Carrion Empire!
You could win the new Carrion Empire Battlebox from Games Workshop for Age Of Sigmar today.
Also, the winner of the Painted Sarge model for Reichbusters: Projekt Vril can be found HERE. So, make sure to come and Claim Your Prize!
Have a great weekend!
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Squarky squeak what a cracking new boxset!
Happy Weekend!!!
Oh, how the Skaven have always had the very best warmachines!!!
I can’t really argue with that lol
Just an FYI, links to the Painted Sarge winner, and claim just go to pictures of the carrion empire battlebox
thanks for that @brennon & @dracs haven’t hit publish on the name it seems. 🙂 Will be sorted soon.
@warzan, not sure if it’s the website or the like. But I only just got an email stating that you had replied to me, but it states that you replied 4 days ago. Is that normal?
Sorry about that @texocet email deliveries were switched off over the weekend while we tried to bring in some performance improvements. And they have reacently been switched on again and its working through the queue at the moment.
Good Morning – super yes yes – it’s the weekender time – luv this show 🙂
morning mate! have a great weekend 🙂
The models look amazing. Would be incredible to paint.
Happy Weekend everyone! Gotta say, I like the zone-based take on the Roman Republic civil wars, it’s actually a much more realistic application of that kind of system than the traditional “Napoleonic Global” model of RISK. 😀
Meanwhile, the Sitrep team has put up a new Podcast here on OTT:
https://www.beastsofwar.com/news/sitrep-podcast-the-band-is-back-together/
We have the whole crew back together, plus a special guest! We talk about hobby, new releases from Spectre and others companies, what Battlefront’s been doing RIGHT lately, and just how far you can stretch the definition of “modern era wargaming.”
We hope you’ll check it out and give a comment here on OTT, or like /subscribe on Facebook, YouTube, or follow us on Podbean. For those who like just a touch more “grit and cordite” in their wargaming, we’re striving to expand and produce the best content we can.
Thanks, and as always, enjoy a great weekend of wargaming! 😀
Cheers. The Roman Risk also made for some nice counterfactual history – as Cassius the man behind the assassination ended up winning the civil war and restoring the republic. We ended the week with a ‘what really happened’ lecture before given the kids the final result of the game.
Wow, @bloodbeard that is a pretty serious deviation. But given the twists and turns that took place in the actual wars (and while conversant on the topic, certainly no expert), I could see possibilities for this happening. I mean, what if Antony doesn’t survive his defeat at Mutina? Or what if Octavian and Antony never come to terms? How does that effect the eventual start and outcome of the Battle of Philippi?
Lots of twists and turns. It’s a very interesting period in ancient history.
Octavian was also a sickly young man, he could have died in bed a lot of times. Missed multiple battles because he was in bed.
Counterfactual history is interesting – and it gives a strong base for the kids to then understand the real one.
Oh, how I’d love to visit UK Games Expo. But I know that OTT will cover it well and I’ll enjoy it through the lens of their cameras.
As to shinies highlighted this week, I really want the ‘MV Australis’ from Black Site Studio. It would make for some awesome Modern Warfare scenarios in 28mm scale. (which I’ve recently been drawn into by the SITREP podcast group. I know I should focus on modern buildings first like the ‘Hotel Bagdad’ and matching MDF buildings, but this ship really draws ya in.
The new operatives dropping for ‘Star Wars: Legion’ will do well I think. Of course, they won’t hit the market for some time. It seems FFG tells us about the new stuff at least six months out from when they will actually land in the stores. Still that does give one time to work them into your budget.
Thanks for the mention, @templar007 – indeed Sitrep has been covering these conitainer ships (there’s more than one), and Hotel Bagdad for a couple of episodes now. MV Australis is in the episode that went up yesterday.
And there’s no “should” focus on this or that. 😀 Nautical modern warfare is something that gets practically no coverage by anybody (honestly there aren’t a lot of games out there for it) – something we might change soon on Sitrep with future coverage of the Falklands or maybe the building tensions in the South China Sea.
FYI Mate the ship is available via the Black Site section of the spectre miniatures site.
Happy Weekend!
Moin from Germany 🙂
Happy weekend to you too @torfinn
Great to have you here!
Those ghouls have been the best part of AoS. Glad to see them getting some love.
The undead sculpts in AOS have been magnificent.
The overall scale increase in the model range has had a beautiful result.
For the ship I was thinking of a scenario based on the start of Marvel’s Captain America: Winter Soldier. Cap, Natashia and a group of SHIELD agents drop onto a ship to rescue a bunch of hostages and retrieve some data (separate submission for Black Widow)
For the Captain America and Black Widow, I’d use the Model Knight figures.
For everyone else I’d have to hunt around.
Excellent scenario! @dignity will ofcourse squeeze Dracula in for us 😉
Please no… not that!!
Now that I think of it, there is at least one vampire in the Marvel canon, but Sony has rights to him for the films as he counts as a Spiderman character….
Of course there is Blade – remember the Wesley Snipes movies? – he was a vampire hunter and I think Marvel Studios have the rights to him….
On you tube there is a radio drama from the BBC called Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula which is quite fun
https://youtu.be/3fC3QzG_nGM
And of course the greatest Dracula film ever made ‘ Love at First Bite’
https://youtu.be/09ftYlFaWPw
If you want some figures for any Marvel game… you could always scavenge Heroclix. Usually loads of them for sale at UK Games Expo.
That ship would good for any supers game really. All you need is some rank and file minions and villain of the week.
It’s the Weekend!!
Not sure if UKGE is on my radar for this year. Let’s see if this episode heavily focussed on it can change my mind.
@22:28 Justin “unless they’re flinging flamboyant potatoes at each other…”
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So I’ve searched google in case I was missing something. There’s a chap who’ll sell you a t-shirt with a picture of a pineapple on it and a registered consulting company with that moniker but…
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Over to you @caesar!
“Priscilla, British Queen potato of the bogland”?
(Sorry, I should declare I’m slightly high on strong prescription painkillers at the moment)
lol
Idea for the Ship. Does anyone remember the PC game “The Ship”? (availsble cheap on Steam).
The premise is that an evil mastermind has taken over a cruise ship and the passengers are put in a kill-or-be-killed game. Each is secretly assigned to kill one other passenger, while a different passenger will be after them. Weapons can be found but some basic rules. Main rule being, you can’t kill anyone if a third party can see you do it (passenger or crew). Not sure what ruleset to use but plenty of figures out there. A fun multi-player murder fest. Maybe give it a bit of a Cthulu vibe (voices in peoples heads directing them). Mansions of Madness models and tokens/cards could come in useful.
That’s an amazing idea 🙂
I’m also having thoughts of a King Kong related scenario as well looking at it 🙂
The phrase, ” A fun multi-player murder fest. ” just seems to hurt my head! ?
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I’m headed down the road of ‘Modern Warfare’ skirmish, were an ‘elite force unit’ is dispatched in small boats to intercept the cargo ship that has been hijacked by a ‘ratical group’, who’s thinking is that they’ll get rich reselling the cargo.
But they don’t realize that the ship is carrying something that if disturbed, (aka shot, broken open, or dumped overboard because it looks worthless), will cause great harm to the ocean and any humans that come in contact with it.
The ‘elite force unit’ has the job of approaching the ship with stealth, ( roll dice deturmined by factors encountered in the approach), get on board and use the close quarters to flush the ‘raticals’ out and eliminate them using the least amount of force but still get the job done before the ship strikes a reef, enters a shipping lane, or some other disaster magnifier.
The greater the force used to eliminate the ‘radicals’ the greater the chance grows, (increased negative on dice rolls), that the ‘elite force unit’ might cause the ‘event’ to happen anyway.
I’m thinking the ‘radicals’ would number at least 30 with a few having skills but most would be unskilled. The ‘elite force unit’ would be highly trained with the best equipment but not unlimited ammo or resources. Their numbers would be anywhere from 6 to 9 I think.
Anyhow, that’s what popped into my head when I first saw the ‘MV Australis’ from Black Site Studio.
Sounds like a great idea, @templar007 . 😀 Some hard-core Somali or Indonesian / Malayan pirates. 😀
Another idea, using that Pacific approach and putting a great element of narrative or time pressure on your scenario …
The pirates / radicals have hijacked the ship in the tight Strait of Malacca, part of the vital and vulnerable shipping lanes that lead from the Persian Gulf up to the oil-thirsty Pacific Rim economies of South Korea and Japan. For whatever reason, the pirates have set a course north. If they get within a certain distance of a Chinese naval base (perhaps one of their new bases they’re building on their artificial islands near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea), the Chinese will use the incident as pretext to intervene. A successful Chinese air/naval/spec ops mission in the Spratly Islands will stands as an dangerous precedent reinforcing Chinese claims over the legitimacy of their sovereign presence this far out in the South China Sea, and control over some of the world’s most important oil routes.
Thus, the elite group (US / Australian? Perhaps British based out of Singapore?) has to hit the ship and retake it before it comes within helicopter range of one of these Chinese Spratly Islands bases.
The clock is ticking … and the world is watching …
Don’t forget the Kiwi’s @oriskany – I believe we have a rather effective SAS force, although I think it is under a bit of a cloud at the moment.
Good point, @hobbyhub , and thanks for the reply. Just asking becasue I honestly don’t know, is New Zealand as concerned or as active as the US and Australia (and also the Philippines) in opposing / monitoring / countering Chinese naval expansion out into the South China Sea? Hell, I think even the Vietnamese are lining up with us as allies on this issue. Then again, the Vietnamese and Chinese have rarely been cozy neighbors.
New Zealanders don’t get to hear much of what the SAS get up to until a while afterwards, and I don’t watch a lot of TV news these days.
The odd book gets written and one soldier unmasked as being a member so he could be awarded the Victoria Cross in recent times – for an action that happened in Afghanistan I think.
As far as South China Sea, NZ is part of 5 Eyes so there will be intelligence sharing. We only have a few frigates and our Air Force no longer has a fighter squadron, but has good surveillance aircraft- used in sub hunting, fishery protection and search and rescue. The Navy and Airforce have logistic sides that support the Pacific Islands in emergency situations.
Our main concern from China that is in our current news is they want to build water bottling plants here.
I like the idea of recruit a Normie. But wouldnt it be fun if everyone picked Liam Neeson to try and recruit
Well it does look like hes gonna have some spare time on his hands. We should adopt him 😉
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for minis, I can tell you I don’t have minis. But what I do have are a very particular set of game rules, game rules I have acquired over a very long career. Game rules that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you admit defeat now, that’ll be
the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will beat you.
LOL
Don’t try him on Rorkes Drift though…
lol
Great weekender guys! Congratulations @warzan for the creepiest sign off ever :D:D:D
Pokethulu!!
I think what GW have done with these boxes is indulge the ‘split-box’ community that’s out there, a lot of these 2 army sets that have come out for both 40k and Sigmar recently I’ve noticed have very good deals when you split them with a friend and I think that’s no accident. GW have proven how much they listen to the community now days with plastic sisters, new abaddon and squats all proof thy have their ears to the ground, of course they know we are all splitting these boxes!
It’s nice to see so many on the weekender, great show guys
lol glad you enjoyed it mate they are a lot of fun to produce these days 🙂
I think this combo works well for a couple of players looking to both start their second faction.
Hello team . 3 things 1) Love the fact the GW is doing a starter with two different factions for those who don’t like golden armoured reverants or ghosts.
2) I usually don’t stuff around with You-Tube as I am a backstager but just for @warzan I went over there liked, subscribed and dung his dong (Just for the record it is the dong I have ever dinged andI can’t see myself repeating for anybody else ….. I don’t really like interacting with dongs)
3)Where the hell do I get @avernos ‘s shirt ….. so cool 🙂
all my t-shirts are hand crafted by members of the seelie court
That design would have to an Unseelie court surely …….
it’s harder to get a bogart to work for you without murdering you up
My dong is forever grateful! 😉
As long as I never have to ding it again 😀
Weekender Time. Given that I am working on my last 2 Ogres to finish and I’ve got a Skaven Stormvermin and Clanrat force coming up next… that starter is looking nomtastic!
If you get a sec wed love to see that in a project here on OTT 🙂
You dirty rat :p
@dignity small note Bastogne is in Belgium.
oops lol
Happy Weekend!
Looking forward to seeing Justin organizing the 100-player D&D mass dungeon orgy! Will it be a Bootcamp?
Also, the “Roman risk” project – WOW! Such a great and inspiring idea, wish that had been part of my school education.
it really is a lovely project isn’t it 🙂
Cheers man! It’s been an absolute blast to run this for a week. Really hectic, but such a fun game. I know a couple of students at least, will be buying resin models from Ramshackle Games (who did the casting for free). So fledgling model collectors there.
I do love me the skaven.
The new skaven model looks great! im currnetly building and painting my doomwheel as have not had one in my skyre themed army for well over a year (maybe 2 now)!!
Great show as always guys and excellent update re Games Expo.
So much stuff to see and do there
Happy Weekend all!
First UKGE last year and very tempted to get back there again this summer. Might need to start saving now.
So warrant and John are finally going to look at garlands?
Yup the next Vlog is going to be live from Interflora
Ar$e! Flipping autocorrect! Gaslands is what I meant to put – and on the fifth attemp apple let me!!
Or maybe I just can’t type!
I was surprised to see you going on about how different Zone Raiders being just a ruleset was. Even in SciFi/Fantasy I would have said this was the norm rather than the exception
It really depends on how you want to classify it.
I’m basing my assumption (and it is just that) on what people use and play rather than the number of available rulesets etc 🙂
The other ruleset not mentioned in this context that is still played open model in my club is Frostgrave… whatever happened to them? 😉
It will be interesting to see if I can get interest in Zone Raiders down at the club to bring together the infinity, Necromunda (that steamed along open model before GW recklaimed it) and other sci-fimodel owners into a once a year mash-up campaign?
The new AoS boxset looks to be fleshed out with some great squeaky miniatures.
I like the idea of rules which have no minis attached to them as Justin said the toofatlardies are at the forefront of that concept. I’ve wanted to get into infinity and have tried many times, I love the minis but find the rules so over complicated that it puts me off. Corvus needs to really look at the system as most gamers today want streamlined games system but with the flavour of the setting it’s in.
I have looked at Zone Raiders kickstarter and I do think the idea is good, I’ve also been looking at another set by Osprey Games called Reality’s Edge which is due out this year and is written by Joseph Mcguire who wrote This is Not a Test rules. Reality’s Edge is set in a cyberpunk setting and is a small skirmish game with you creating a gang from a chosen faction type. So for me perhaps these two sets of rules may be what you im looking for to use my Infinity miniatures with.
Have a great weekend
Yeah in an effort to keep an existing player base engaged rule sets can start to spiral.
And then a company faces the backlash of its fans if it attempts to radically change.
It’s a real tight rope 🙂
I completely agree @warzan there is a very fine line between complexity, streamlined and most importantly playability within a given time frame.
Soooo… If I comment here I may win a box of yet another system I won’t have time to play? OH NOOOOES! 😉
You can always donate it mate 😉
Give minis away? What heresy is this?! XD
Squeek, Squeek!, love the skaven! Any skaven is good skaven!
Respectfully,
Gunny
Going to buy the box when it comes out but won’t turn down a second box ?
So these YouTube algorithms, do they use technology that analyses what is said on a video?
If they do, then perhaps some of the language used could be categorising Weekenders in a manner that BoW may not want…. I’m thinking of this episode the word “orgasm” is used twice and the word “dong” is used in just about every episode….
I don’t know if Youtube is particularly PG orientated, if it is then content creators like Miniwargaing and The Dice Tower, which I think are more PG in nature, may come out ahead in the table top games topic.
YouTube anylises everything mate 🙂
@warzan Just to add to this, I have noticed recently that advertising on YouTube has increased an awful lot…oddly enough ever since YT premium appeared, no surprise there. Could the problem be that a lot of us are watching this through BOW/OTT and not on YT itself and as a result not seeing the adverts that you have to wait the obligatory 5 secs and then press skip? Therefore, you don’t get the big thumbs up from them as they do not get their advert hit rate? Going and dinging the dong won’t necessarily help as anyone who has watched here and then gone there won’t have played the video…..clear as mud?
yeah we had an ‘account manager’s from YouTube who started quizzing us about why we run our own site and that we should send our advertising partners to them.
I explained that having a platform for our community became a priority when YouTube decided that automatically deleting channels with no method to appeal became a thing.
I have no doubt it’s related to a number of little things that just stack against the path we have decided to take.
But this platform and community takes priority every time, that’s our bottom line 🙂
I was presuming that BoW/OTT was wanting a higher score on YT analytics for discovery purposes, ie how does a person discover BoW/OTT in this day and age.
I know that a lot of YT creators don’t get the ad revenue they used to from YT, so I wasn’t thinking you were wanting to increase the number of YT views for that purpose.
Also am I the only one that gets YT popups and video ads in any vid storeed on YT?
I remember back in the day the show BoW did in conjunction with Geek & Sundry, which one would hope drew a number of people to the team.
What could be better than starting the day with a weekender after a hard week at work. Another great show guys, lot’s of interesting news and discussions.
And i’m looking forward to see what GW will do with the new battletome for the skaven. It was about time that there is one for them. And with that i meen all the clans together, not just the nurglerats.
Can’t wait for Expo! Good luck with the vikings!
Thanks for the show! The only way to start a good weekend!
Cheers!
You could use the ship in fallout just use it as a landlocked ship.
I think the ship would look excellent in fallout 🙂
Great idea
That Carrion Empire actually looks good. I am so sick of the Sigmarines – they are an awful concept I fething hate! Its refreshing to see other factions get some starter box lovin’ action at last. As my son has a Skaven collection and I always love undead of any stripe in any game, this could get us back into AoS for 2nd ed.
And zone raiders looks intriguing. I always like systems-agnostic sci-fi and fantasy games as I have a crap ton of orphaned and randomm minis I have acquired over the years to play them with and
companies that just focus on the rules rather than on hawking a minis range have a good chance of pulling it off and getting something good and sustainable out there.
Oh, and feth youtube!
A stargate SG1 skirmish game would be something I could really throw myself into.
You could even use that big boat in an invasion scenario.
Also repeating my bad joke from YouTube here:
Warhamster Age of Rodents. “Carrot Empire” Vegans vs Hare. XD
Happy weekend!
Funny you should mention Britonians with the Carrion Empire set, I know at least one Gamer who RPs his Flesh-Eater Courts as if they thought of themselves as Britonians, which fits with some aspects of their Lore.
For the Ship, how about an X-COM: Terror from the Deep mission using a rules setup similar to Space Hulk.
Great Show guys, see you at UKGX!
I had an English teacher when I was at high school that introduced us to a sort of role playing game/creative writing hybrid. It was a fantasy setting where you had to create a character to be you and then choose 3 of a selection of pre-made characters to form your party. The first scenario was to infiltrate an evil villain’s lair and escape. The other scenarios she gave us a selection of three to choose from, so that everyone in the class had a unique story to tell.
We had to write it like a memoir of a great hero, focusing on sights, smells and sounds to make it as descriptive as possible. We then had to type it in a fancy font, print it, soak it in tea, and burn the edges with a lighter.
It was a great imagination fueling exercise that really stuck with me, and might actually be the reason why I like DMing RPGs
One glorious new boxed set – Count me in .. ha ha ha ha (;->)
A small correcetion @brennon on the SW:L multipose thing. I thought that at first as well but having had a look at the last two announcements (the tank and the speeder) they also have (little) options. The speeder has an optional piece of hull for one of the pods (like Luke’s speeder had) and the tank has a driver peeking up in front of the gunner. Both things can only be seen if you compare the static shots with the 3D rotating animation.
Good to see you’ve discovered the joy of lathes @warzan, if meteorites are bit out of reach have you tried pen turning?
https://knowledge.axminster.co.uk/pen-turning/
So I have just watched my first matchbox car restoration… my word I am going to watch a hell of a lot of these!!!
AoS
@warzan, just to feed your YouTubing habit, are you aware of Forged in Fire (originally from history channel). Apparently it’s interesting from a weapons view, and the childish pleasure of watching grown men hack random items. Plus the added bonus is the innuendo bingo you can play as they make the weapons first (lots of shaft working…)
i really need the skaven half of this box. please make this happen 🙂
On the causeway rock issue, is the Scottish side as protected?
no you’re fine on the fingal side, it’s not a world heritage site, probably because it’s harder to get to so less likely to have people walking up and taking bits
There are enough houses in the causeway area that have garden walls etc made of the stones
Great looking 2 player set
@warzan on Hotwheels/Matchbox restoration: are you going to become the OTT Jeremy Clarkson mate?
“Where are you getting your meteorites?” – from the sky?
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Warren’s Dungeon Orgy – I’ve got to ask, how much is your psychiatrist making off you @dignity ? The stuff Warren puts you through I can only imagine they could breed like rabbits and still have enough to put all the kids through collage. ?
Bloodbeard’s Roman Risk – iirc the ship minis are made by his friend (Admiral over on CDO and Karak Norn Clansman on various other forums) who runs Admiralty Ministures.
Warren says Fett had a such a minor part in the films, but without him, the Millenium Falcon would have escaped the Empire, Han Solo wouldn’t have gotten frozen and Luke would have stayed on Dagobah and completed his training eithout getting a hand lopped off. I’d call that more than minor mate. ?
That undead throne looks nice; wonder if Nagash would fit on it? Would make for a nice diorama if he did.
Ship – why do Cthulhu when you could take a cue from Gerry’s shirt and do Pokethulhu?
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Tell us more about this Viking meat you want Justin.
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“The End of the world is nigh, if you want to survive it get s backstage account” – so BoW is a cult now? ?
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You’re right about the ships. Admiral (Karak Norn Clansman) or Matte Rizel in real life, sculpted the miniatures as a favor. They’ll go on sale through Ramshackle Games soon, they did the castings for me.
Nice chaps. The pu ta lot of work into getting my school some nice miniatures.
Can it really be a starter set without Stormcasts? Seriously though I do like the Ghoulies.
Win, win, good, good, yes?
Nasty stinky ghouls loose, loose, then we feast, feast !
If you like the Truffles, check out Ganesha Games’ Fightin’ Fungi.
I think you dismissed Justin’s ideas a bit too quickly there. Aliens vs Dracula on a (approx 5 metre long) 28mm Titanic would be absolutely INCREDIBLE!
100 player DnD doggie style?
Happy weekend!
I’m going to have to invest in this AoS Warren! more games needed! 🙂
Zone Raiders… I think ye olde VOID minis would fit in
Predator vs somali pirate zombies! Or, @warzan vs a ship full of those truffles!
Just spent the last week rebasing all of my sons Skaven army which included 80 clan rats and 40 plague monks (my fingers are sore) so he will love all this new Skaven goodness.
Enjoyed the show, thanks gents.
Warren, if you are having trouble getting back to sleep, lay off the YouTube. Blue light stimulates and prevents you going back to sleep. Instead try bach ‘rescue remedy’ a squirt onto your tongue is all it needs to help relax you back to dream state.
Ps I also like Shaven so would love to win this week’s prize.
How many other posts have autocorrected Skaven to Shaven?
Isn’t Shaven Skaven a ‘specialist’ website?
I was thinking you could try using the ship in your St Nazaire scenario you were talking about last week. On a related note I have managed to get the Avalon Hill “Raid on St Nazaire” on Tabletop Simulator and I am hoping to get a game done of it soon.
Thank you for the shout out guys. The kids got a kick from seeing their game mentioned on the world wide web – that was an extra nice way to end the week.
My husband and I would love that new Sigmar set! He’s played Skaven for 23 years now, and I used to play Brets, so I could get down with Flesh Eater Courts.
I was always interrested with the old Vampire Counts…These Flesh-eaters are like their over the top evolution. I don’t know the actual lore behind them, but I know the minis look really cool!
Great show. Cavern of the Frog King segment got me thinking. Would Justin cut the tip off any Mushroom, Myconid, or capped fungus army then green stuff on hair and hats?
For the tanker ship. I’m thinking the obvious post-apocalyptic game. Dropping that in the center or on one side and putting all types of debris on it would look amazing.
—Full blown cheesy and do Water world.
If you a super hero fan, you could also do the opening scene from Captain America Winter Soldier. Granted in a smaller scale.
Fantastic choice for the two armies in the boxset !!
Can’t believe no-one clocked onto the possibilities of a “Bermuda Triangle” scenario with the ship scenery!
Great episode again, i am really wanting to try and get to the UKGE this year and take my wife as a great weekend away doing something that’s just pure fun!
The Roman Risk scenario with school kids is a great idea. I am a Royals Signals reservist and i have been trying to get my unit to put on gaming days that incorporate the use of our Bowman radios. The idea being that there is a control room with officers and the sergeants are at the table moving miniatures relaying the situation back to the officers who in turn will be mapping out what is going on and giving orders back in return.
I have even envisaged a scenario where those on the table would have to actually take key objectives to activate radios which would give them access to certain re-enforcement or effects such as artillery bombardments.
Thanks again for the Saturday content and i am looking forward to tomorrows XLBS!
Gaming through radios can work very well. Hope you succeed in getting the others to join in. Thank you for your service.
I’ve once played through a Flames of War campaign, multiple tables going at the same time. But there was a commander for both sides, isolated in an HQ, couldn’t see the actual games going on.
Communicated the same way as you mentioned. It was great fun.
Quite like Osprey’s Rogue Stars. Zone RIders looks interesting. I think since they are selling rules but not models, they need a let’s play video. If the core mechanics are not attractive, they have not much to offer.
Surprised there is no mention of Warhammer: Chaosbane yet. Seems like it is going to be a huge release. Since you can play online and create guilds, there should be a BoW guild.
So gladiators were gladdy eater’s then ?
Yay captain Philip’s on the ship Guy’s.
What about the end of priest but all the vampires in the train are awake to content with @warzan in the ship ?
Very cool looking set for sos.
That Roman Risk table is very impressive. Not a huge fan of Risk, but anything brings more young blood to our hobby is worthy of applause.
Very excited for Sleeping Gods. Also, the Carrion Empire box seems to have a very good content/cost ratio, so it is tempting.
Cheers man. I was expanded Risk, but the same base mechanics. I added more game pieces, various types of dice, ships, transport mechanisms and territory upgrades.
So only left resembling Risk was the combat system, changed through various dice types being in place.
I realy like the skaven.
Not sure if this has been mention in a pervious weekender but for any one interested in the ship by blacksite and other blacksite buildings. They are trialing working with spectre to get them into the UK. This weas post on the Spectre FB Page back in Jan.
Spectre Miniatures
25 January at 14:40 ·
We are very excited to launch our Pre-Orders with Black Site Studio!
The first run of pre-orders for the listed products are limited in numbers for the moment. We hope you understand this is a trial for both companies and we don’t want to over promise and under deliver. Orders placed will be shipped no later than mid March 2019.
As a special treat, with every pre-order of the New Horizon Bank & Trust, you will receive an exclusive Rent-A-Cop and Cash Pile model!
https://www.spectreminiatures.com/collections/black-site-studios
That’s excellent news 🙂
Oh wow, that Roman Risk looks great. We need more of this in schools. Also, Carrion Empire looks great
@bloodbeard did a spectacular job on that didnt he 🙂
We’ll twist his arm and see if we can maybe get an article our of him 🙂
@brennon let’s whip out the carrot and stick mate 😉
Cheers Grodd.
@warzan I could write something up if you’d like.
Tenfold dungeon heroquest 2.0 ?
That’s what I was thinking! 🙂
Always loved the skaven, first miniatures I ever owned.
Man… when I first started with Warhammer fantasy battles it was with Skaven. They are my first love. I had to sell my entire army and have regretted it for 20 years… I have been slowly buying sets of Skaven whenever I can get them and do plan to recreate my entire army and beyond. Though personal painting has taken a back seat to commission painting… and just last week I painted up some of the Flesh Eater Courts… lovely miniatures, I have the zombie dragon on my workbench right now. Even if I don’t win, I think this box set is a must buy.
need more Skaven like to see new models
Good job as always guys. I am looking forward to the new 40k box set and the new Abbadon. New chaos sculpts are a good thing.
Love the two player box, good to see them representing other factions outside the normal stormcast vs X. Want to get my hands on it. The campaigns in these boxes are also great for giving a narrative as to why these two factions have clashed and the background to the characters. The battle plans tend to be pretty thematic as well.
Anyone else having the comment interface freeze and lag while trying to type? I’m on safari on iphone.
i would LOVE a copy of carrion empire! yes! yes!
would LOVE a copy of carrion empire! also super excited to be going to the Expo this year! 😀
Great show. Love the 10fold dungeon boxes.
Can you do something on the new Song of Ice and Fire miniatures game. The 2 new factions are great looking. The Night’s watch and the free people.
Maybe get John to paint an army.
I’m a big fan of maps, and have books on the subject of cartography. Sleeping Gods sounds like a really interesting concept and could be a great game to play. It could also be a great game to entice a newbie/normal into playing. This may be the game to entice the other half.
I love the overall giddiness on this particular episode. Also had a thought from something one of my brother in laws told me once. If you’re working on a smaller sized piece of wood, you can always buy a rotary tool and mount it to a small platform. Most will have the RPM and torque needed for smaller projects. Cheers!
The Expo sounds really cool. Considering going if schedule allows… I like the idea of it being more than one day so you don’t get stressed about trying to get everything done in a single day.
Happy Weekend!
The 2 player box is looking good! 🙂
Thrawn is one of the best Empire characters. So much more interesting than most of the prequel villains.
The relaese of the flesh eater courts book is probably going to get me back into Games workshop fantasy
Happy saturday!
The new AoS box is nice, i much prefer the Flesh Eater Court but, the new skavens are nice too. I am very tempted to pick up the Skaven Gnawholes for my terrain collection, they are ace! I would cover some of the skaven glyphs…
Congrats to @bloodbeard for his wonderful Roman Risk! This looks awesome and a great way to interest kids in history!
See you on XLBS
PS: and i’ll go on youtube to help to see if it helps!
Thank you @duster. IT’s been a great week.
Paizo run a massive Pathfinder event every year (called the Special) at Gen Con, and even ran multiples last year (Stafinder and Pathfinder). You can see the room and a photo that looks like the special here: (bottom left image of “Pathfinder Room” – http://www.boardgameauthority.com/inside-exhibition-hall-gen-con-2014/. Huge amount of GMS, and tons of players, and there is a scoring system that advances the entire narrative. Its done under Pathfinder Society rules.
Weekenders are the only decent thing about being stuck in the office on Saturdays.
I have to say, I love that AoS get these starter boxes that don’t contain just SC.
My poor wallet
Always a bit confused on where they pick comp winners from, is it comments here or on youtube?
I’m doubling down and commenting on both, that boxset is yummy!
More GW prizes, nice.
Done! 🙂
Like @lloyd said, I ran right over to F-it book and hunted down @dignity so that I could stalk his feed. 😉 It’s got lots of cool stuff on it!! It was easier to do than I expected.
This is not creepy at all!…. Nope…. 😉 😉 😉 😮
Ah, finally caught up to the Weekender’s, after having binged through the last three weeks worth of Weekender’s+XLBS. It feels good to be caught up again.
Thats a corking box set, right enough.
Really like the idea of tenfold dungeon too. Wish someone would make terrain boxes that also carry models though!
My lovely Skavens are back… But I’m not sure if I can afford them with so much projects on the product line.
The new Vampire is really a great model though ! 🙂
Thanks for the show.
Skaven are fun… they’re kinda like the gnomes in Dragonlance… both like their technology.
Sorry Warren to use a lathe compantly would require 5 years, 40 hours a week. You might then call yourself a Turner, Master crafts Man perhaps another 20 years, Spinner is a different skill, but before you start warn everyone from here to outer Mongolia to Duck their head. Teabaging is an entirely different skill but equally dangerous.
Glad to know I wasn’t the only one that was worried when they were tea bagging.
Does his stretching of the truth extend to those other areas? Turning seems a bit of a task whereas spinning seems easy. I would think any bending might be out of the quesion unless, like stretching, it applies to the truth.
Warzan for wood? Meh… go with metal. TIG welding has been my Achilles heel for browsing.
Now check out the following
https://www.micromark.com/search?keywords=Lathe
Just like the uncle who quietly feeds the bad habits of your kids over a weekend visit before giving them back
The Matchbox restorers must be doing something right with their channels as it popped up on my recommended section too.
Toy restoration is just crazy when you look further into it, strangely addictive too watch though!!
Happy weekend. Do you know that is the most times I have seen Justin stunned to silence in one show. Congrats Warren.
40k, AoS, and Infinity all have beautiful minis, awesome fluff, and rulesets that I just don’t enjoy. Generic rule sets like Osprey’s and Zone Raiders are great ways to play with those minis in their background worlds but with a more enjoyable system.
Lol @ Predator vs Dracula.
Justin should be pitching that to the major production houses, not blabbing about it here.
The uk expo folks were absolutely AMAZING! I lauged more than I have during a segment than I have in a long time. Very very VERY well done. They were a joy!
Zone Raiders looks interesting
I’m just loving the new starter box for AOS, completely sigmarine free! It has the Skaven warmachines I want to back up a clanrat horde, and one of these undead dudes would make a perfect vampire for a call of Cthulhu story I’m flying with….
Must admit I had that box in a online basket earlier today, with my finger hovering over the “Buy Now” button, but my thin emaciated wallet very firmly said “No!” : (
How can anybody keep up the the sheer amount of box sets GW is churning out nowadays? I think it’s good that they are pushing more than 2 games nowadays, but who can afford to buy them all or have the time to play them? Are they forcing people to chose between 40k and fantasy?
I have dinged the dong, and gone down the Warren… Life is good.
Justin … Predators vs. Dracula .. for the WIN!!
@warzan this new box set is not the first / only one GW have done without any ‘good guys’. Nor is it a starter in the normal sense. It is the same sort of thing as Wrath and Rapture (which did come with a rules pamphlet). It’s along the same lines as the Stormcast / Nurgle daemon one they did a while ago, or like the various 40K ones they’ve done. (I think so far they’ve all included Imperial factions, but one of them was Mechanicus vs. Necrons, so not necessarily easily identifiable ‘good guys’.)
Black Gate Studio ship — being a big fan of the Stargate tv series… would love to do an ode to the movie ‘Stargate Continuum’, could do a black ops stargate team vs. anubis forces. It’s a deep cut, but yeah, that would be cool.
@Warren and team It took me a while to get into Age of Sigmar but some of the best parts of it in recent times is the lore. At first I was not a believer but at risk of advertising outside sites, take some of your insomnia time to check out 2+ Tough lore videos on youtube. At first I believed that Stormcast were like fantasy marines but the deeper the lore becomes the more the differences I see and the better the story becomes.
On the boxed set that is out now .. I don’t believe it is a full starter set with the big rulebook. They seem to release different “kick off” boxes with basic rules and small army lists.
Cheers
WarHound
Got my UKGE tickets on Friday – looking forward to it as always!
Tying gaming into the school curriculum is a great idea. I bet the kids loved that game.
Great weekender and i even managed to get to the end of this one without being interrupted by the family.
The Skaven in the box certainly look awesome. I always liked the chittering little buggers even though I play Dwarves. A well played Skaven in WHFB could just roll over you but often enough a failed panic tests could send half an army scurrying away. Ah fun times 🙂
The Undead sculpts in the box are also amazing. It’s really hard to resist to start collecting an Undead army with models like this.
Mmmmm, flesh, tasty
Happy Saturday! After much frustration we found it was better to try and parchment-ify the paper before drawing the map on it!
That algorithm is a real pain. Should you use the term “tabletop miniatures games” instead of “wargames” it probably is pinging you for saying things like war, guns, shoot, etc. And that starter set looks fabulous.
The big boast can absolutely be used in Fallout – Fallout 2 ends on an oil rig and Fallout 3/4 both have boats everywhere. Including Rivet City, a grounded aircraft carrier turned trading post. Also Ibwould play Batman on it!
The Sigmar box is unusual in having Skaven as the elite force.
great show.
on the topic of the attack on the ship, not Dracula vs predator but Dracula vs alien. where Dracula is the hero saving the crew (food source)from the alien. we need more magic mushrooms for warren.
thanks for the show
@brennon the only true professional on the weekender 😉
I wonder how many levels of Candy Crush he got through on xlbs
I like the new vampire army and it is good to see two evil forces in the same box.
Happy weekender another brill show.
What kind of family show has this turned into? promoting to ding Warrens dong, win Justins pants so you literally can get into Justins pants, and Justin arranging a dungeon and who’s dragon??
Nah who I am I kidding. I love to ding the dong, and would be strangely nice bragging rights to get into Justins pants.
Also if need help with ideas for Justins dungeon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHAPcTx_FNc&list=WL&index=398&t=1s
Perfect let’s play @dignity 🙂
That cargo ship looks great. I have a lot of love for ships as places of adventure, since they obviously came from ‘somewhere else’ where you don’t know what happend there. The idea that somewhere within the ship’s holds lies a clue to defeating some horror, or brings the horror, is fantastic.
Great show as always. Love the prize. Gaming group is running a path to Glory campaign right now, lots of fun.
Open model rule sets can be very fun. Worth checking out. And those models in the boxset look great.
I didn’t get to see these shows for a while and have just got back on board in the last few weeks. Excellent stuff guys, really makes a Saturday morning.
fantastic to have you back mate 🙂
So excited for UKGE this year. Last year was my first time and I loved it. I would love to commit to the whole experience three days, hotels the lot but sadly finances probably won’t allow it. Definitely gonna be doing a day trip though.
I like the idea of Zone Raiders, always got time for games that allow you to use any models form your collection. Perfect games for you to simply just jump into and great to get people involved since they can use what they already have.
great show loving the new skaven, ive had to watch it twice as the first time I fell asleep courtesy of the after effects of an evening with a bottle of Kraken wrapped up in a blue version of justins blanket lol
needless to say sundays show will be enjoyed without such issues and for the record my blanket does not have copious amounts of DNA secreted upon it unlike Justins mine can bend lol
lol
wish i had the roman risk type learning when i was at school, would have learned a lot more. Absolutely brilliant teaching tool.
Lovely looking starter set !
That is one awesome box!
Awesome stuff! Would love to win that AoS set 🙂
So i have a tale of snag a normie.
My dad has always been dead set against anything that resembled a tabletop game, boardgame, card game etc. he is one of those odd types like @lloyd who just loves trains.
well they visited this weekend and whilst in some down time we visited the local games store where i explained some of the games to him etc. he seemed mildly interested by one game…
it involved trains! it was only ticket to ride!
we then went back home and me, the wife, and both my parents cracked open an bottle of wine and played T2R. over the course of the weekend we played 3 rounds of it and now my dad is sat trying to find a shop near him to pick it up from!
so there you go @warzan i bagged a normie. just need to get him to expand out of trains now
UK Games Expo was amazing last year. Hope to attend again this year, maybe even meet one or two of the gang this time? (passing a few blue t-shirts as you were test-driving the new OTT logos between aisles didn’t really count last time!)
man those skaven models are incredible!!! I would love to win it!
“Epic Roman Risk” I thought there was going to be potential danger of gigantic ancients!
But I though the call by @warzan on Zone Raiders was a bit harsh: where miniatures go to die?? I’m surprised no one pointed out that here’s your potential sci-fi version of Rangers of Shadow Deep. Sure you’ve got your agnostic miniatures ranges for one thing. For another: you might not put your Space Marines or stormtroopers I to a game like this, but it’s the perfect opportunity to go to town on conversions and kit bashes!
I’ve already Pre-Ordered my box, Ive never played Age of Sigmar or Fantasy but always loved the Skaven, I needed this the moment I saw it, its starting as a painting project and we’ll see where it takes me. A new game for me to “Roll Bruces” in.
Sadly Im not home this weekend but I have plans to take my friend Dave through a game of DropFleet Commander NEXT weeknd
Loving the skaven models, may finally pull the trigger on aos
Loving the Roman risk! Hats off to that teacher!
In terms of the huge cargo ship, two things sprang to mind. I think there’s an Avengers scene where Captain America and Black widow take on some terrorists on a boat but actually have different mission objectives. Sort of co-op with secret victory conditions?
Otherwise surely a “James bond” type thing, with the boat being the super villains base of operations with nukes, mini submarines, frogmen, etc would be cool!
AoS is intriguing as a system, i’m still very negative on the whole I go, You go, systems – as I just don’t think they offer enough deep gameplay interaction that the smaller reactive skirmish games now offer – however gimme gimme gimme 🙂
AOS is unit by unit (I activate then you activate) though and not the same as 40k – at least thats how I’ve been playing it! 🙂
New two-armies set for AoS is great. Nice to see rats geting new life here.
ROMAN RISK is something great! Wish I had such projects at school.
One year I must vist those UK Game Expo. Seems like tons of fun!
Those Truffles though!
So is this prize only being given away on Youtube, or will you be drawing from here as well?
Can’t wait to see which Battletomes are coming out this year for AoS. My hopes for a Freeguild one.
I didn’t become a nerd to have to actually talk to people! Thats against my religeon.
For the ship, I’d use Spectre rules, based around the Roger Moore film North Sea Hijack.
I always prefer my rules and miniatures separate. Running things “counts as”. Sculpting and kitbashing things, modifying the visual representation of the rules.
Those rats may have the best machines but the undead have frikkin vampires! I do love those ghoul models, i might just go and buid a Ghoulish army in warhammer total war two just to scratch that itch.
One day i might even go to the UK games XPO not like its far for me being in the midlands, just got to convince the wife, i guess it is recruit a gamer month.
@warzan @avernos, found him, the one the recruit a normie, it Stew down the Fountiain , he’s now cowering up a corner awaiting the big podgy finger of fate and Justin appearing in powered armour(and yellow blanket but minus underwear) from no where to give him his award!
@avernos When it was initially mentioned in weekender I had the above same thought.
Perhaps the best method for ‘recruit a normie’ is to hit them with a big wet Trout and give them a club membership card whilst they are stunned!
I think thats the first time I’ve actually heard everyone lean back, stretch and unbuckle their belts while Ben is having a long talk.
Games Workshop are upping their game with all these new releases, love the evil vs evil.
Never been to the expo. Maybe this is the year to check it out.
I absolutely love the new AOS 2-player box Carrion Empire; it’s finally a box where I want (and already play) both sides. I do like the idea of Sylvaneth vs. Kharadron Overlords, I would pick that up as well if it ever happened. The thing I am really happy about is no Stormcast Eternals; really dislike the range and have never been a fan of Khorne models either; the Night Haunts look great but not enough for me to get into that box set.
i need this box, yes yes! ?
I used to run a metal lathe when I was twelve years old. Ah….the good old days!
The Roman Risk is really just epic. I think Eagle games did a similar boxed game.
So I ran (as a volunteer) a Historical Miniature Gaming club in the Middle School on base in Germany for the kids and I used the tanks game as the mechanism for them to build/paint and then play battles with. The kids loved it and as I understand it the club is now being run by the history teacher that sponsored me. It’s the perfect way to get 5he young ones involved in mini wargaming!
I’m working on getting a co worker into WH40K, he came by the local gaming store once already and has reviewed all the Armies on line and likes Necrons and Tyranids. All I need to do know is to get him to pick up a starter force.
Happy Belated Weekend! Still catching up on these. Great show as ever. I have to agree with @warzan that I am not a big fan of Boba, or the bounty hunters in Star Wars in general, I’ve always loved the force users. However Mandalore as a general concept I think is pretty cool, and Sabine Wren is a very cool character, whose story is well worth getting into, and great to see her on the tabletop. I hope we might see some of her other comrades in the future.
I would point out that Sabine is not technically EU, so no dice I am afraid if Gerry is hoping that proves the EU is coming in. The EU as a concept was re-branded Legends when Disney took over, and they created a single central story team that replaced the old G-Canon, T-Canon etc.. system. So the old system essentially allowed for multiple continuities within the EU books, comics, games etc.. and you could work out what history was considered “valid” for a particular piece of content depending on how it fit-in. Disney wanted to get rid of this and have one total Canon that all fit together and had one single continuity, which means all stories are now reviewed and approved by that central group. So they made all the core-films Canon, and then started building a new canon throughout the rest of the media. They officially made all the Dave Filloni produce animations (Clone Wars, Rebels and Resistance) canon. In-fact Dave F, an ardent lifelong Star Wars and EU fan, has made a habit of sneaking old EU things into his shows in order to make them Canon again.
So in short, Sabine is as Canon as Luke, and her showing up isn’t in and of itself proof they will include EU/Legends content in the future. Though we shall have to wait and see. I would certainly love to see the rest of the Ghost crew. I assume her headswap is between her famously garish helmet, and without?