The Weekender: Arcworlde’s Realms Explored & Win A Battle Foam Backpack
December 9, 2017 by crew
Welcome to the December fueled Weekender. This week we've got a Century of articles from Oriskany and a well deserved look into ArcWorlde from Warploque Miniatures.
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Let's dive in!
The 3rd Annual Game Awards
Last week we had a spectacular live show with our very own community nominated Awards for the year of 2016, if you missed the live show, you can watch it here. We also had a fantastic behind the scenes look into what goes on during the run-up towards the show with our in-house documentary.
Competitions
Make sure to comment on this weeks episode of the Weekender to win yourself an amazing Battle Foam Privateer Press Back Pack. Plus we have a huge list of prizes to award later in the show; such as Aristeia! Week, Starfinder & SteamCon.
To be entered to win you need to let us know, which event in 2018 would you most like to take the Battle Foam Privateer Press Back Pack to.
We also have a few Competitions still running on the site, make sure to get your comments in with Core Space from Battle Systems and the Jesserai Terrain from 4Ground.
The Oriskany Century - 100 Articles on Beasts of War
Next up we have a personal interview with our very own community member @Oriskany to talk about the journey we've taken together, collaborating on various articles of historical, fantasy and a little bit of sci fi for the tabletop.
You can find the entire list of all Oriskany's articles at the bottom of this post.
What's been your favourite article?
In the News
This week we've had some amazing pieces come from Privateer Press and Middle Earth gets a little love, where's Ben when we need him?!
- Warcradle announces the Dystopian Age.
- GW Return to Middle-Earth with Battle Companies Expansion.
- Privateer Press bring some Northern Spirits in the Hearthgut Hooch Hauler.
- New stretch goals and add-ons appear for the Core Space Kickstarter.
Warploque Miniatures Realms of "ArcWorlde"
Az get's to sit down and talk with Alex from Warploque Miniatures about his early start to working with miniatures in his youth, rebuilding models from scratch and successfully growing his own company through a variety of great Kickstarter campaigns to create what we know today, ArcWorlde.
Wallets at the ready!
We take a look through two beautiful Kickstarters such as:
- Mouse Adventure by Cartoon Miniatures
- The Path of Osiris Extended: Egyptian Dungeon Game Tiles by Lunesdargent Workshop
The “Oriskany Century” Articles List
1. Four Levels of Wargaming: Wargaming at different levels of scale and command; Tactical, Command Tactical, Operational, Strategic
2. Wargaming in the Pacific: What makes World War II wargaming in the Pacific different than battlefields of Europe, Russia, Africa?
3. Making the Game Your Own: Star Wars Pocket Models: Turning the WizKids “Star Wars” Pcket Models TCG into a tactical miniatures game
4. Battle of the Bulge 70th Anniversary: A historical “deep dive” with a day-by-day, week-by-week, wargaming on the 70th Anniversary
5. World War 2.5: World War II “restarts” between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies in 1946. “Hard” alternate history. Includes free wargame download.
6. World Wide D-Day Challenge: Collaboration with Chris Goddard and BoW, replaying the Normandy campaign with a global series of wargames
7. Desert War: An overview of World War II wargaming in the deserts of Africa and the Middle East
8. War in the Ukraine 2014-15: A look at the Modern Wargaming in the Ukraine War, using Force-on-Force to examine modern asymmetrical warfare
9. Cruiser Actions, WW2: Collaboration with Simon Stokes and Robert Hutton on navak warfare, focusing on cruiser surface actions of World War II
10. Anatomy of an Air Compressor: Collaboration with Nakchak on air compressors for hobby airbrushes.
11. Force on Force: Collaboration with Darren Oliver on Force-on-Force, the wargame system for post-1945 (“modern”) conflicts
12. American Revolution: Collaboration with Chris Goddard on Wargaming in the American Revoltion (American War of Independence)
13. Oriskany 50: A retrospective on the first fifty articles
14. Battlegroup: A look at Battlegroup system for World War II miniatures by IronFist Publishing, photos by Piers Brand
15. Barbarossa 75th Anniversary: A wargaming look (Battlegroup and PanzerBlitz) at the German Invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941
16. BattleTech: Reviewing the FASA / Catalyst Game Labs “Battletech” sci fi wargame and universe, still one of the most successful sci-fi wargames in history
17. Operation Sea Lion: A “hard alternate history” look at the possibilities for a German invasion of England, 1940
18. Sands of El Alamein: Focus on the battles surrounding El Alamein in the Desert campaign in World War II, presented to support Flames of War 4th Edition and the Flames of War Bootcamp
19. Heroes of the Great War: Looking at a Kickstarter for an operational campaign game on the Eastern Front of World War I, “Heroes of Limanowa.”
20. Midway – 75th Anniversary: Collaboration with H.J. Seijmonsbergen, commemorating the anniversary for this pivatal naval battle in the Pacific War
21. Six Day War - 50th Anniversary: The 1967 Six-Day War between Israel, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan
22. Battlesystem – Exploring the Fantasy Genre: Collaboration with Craig Pauls, using TSR’s Battlesystem 1st Edition. A look at a new player exploring a new genre
23. Dunkirk Week: Collaboration with Warren and Gerry, a themed week about wargaming the operations surrounding the Allied evacuation from Dunkirk in the summer of 1940
24. The History of Team Yankee: Collaboration with Ben Collins and Dave Wheeler on the 1980s background of theoretical World War III scenarios between NATO and the Warsaw Pact
25. Saratoga Campaign: A focus on the 1777 Saratoga Campaign of the American Revolution, using 20mm Battlesystem 2nd Edition.
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Lots of cool stuff in this week ANNNNNNNNNDDDDDDD FIRST !!!!!!! YEAH 😛
Congratulations @oriskany 100 down here’s to the next 100 sláinte mhaith Jim.
I also wouldn’t count Dunkirk as a collaboration, Jim did the heavy lifting I just chimed in with a bit now and then.
Have to agree there, great work Jim, such a pleasure to read all the content you post
Thanks very much @avernos and @buggeroff ! Gerry, shortly after our interviews I happened to find a more detailed map with the EXACT location of 2nd Royal Ulster Rifles (part of 3rd Infantry Division at the time) along the eastern shoulder of the Dunkirk Perimeter.
Congrats to @beardragon14 on his “first” win!
Thanks @oriskany I owe it to desperate procrastination and a desire not to go out and do any mowing.
….. and all bs aside mate congrats on the 100 articles , it’s people like you who consistently make this an interesting place to be…. and if I can make a request that has little to do with the historic work you usually do ….. “Assault on the North Pole”?? It’s happening again this year??? Makes big puppy dog eyes.
@beardragon14 –
CONFIDENTIAL MILITARY INTELLIGENCE REPORT . . . EYES ONLY . . .
North Pole Defense Force (NPDF) intelligence operatives (you know . . . the people who compile the “naughty” and “nice” list every year) has confirmed that there are a number of threats gathering against Santa’s village. Military assault of some kind or another is characterized as CERTAIN and IMMINENT . . . NPDF units have been recalled off of leave and are now mobilizing to Readiness Condition ONE. 🙂 🙂 🙂
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS (hopefully this appears under @oriskany ‘s reply … If it doesn’t I am refering to it .. not to myself …. that would be awkward)
AAAAGGGHHHH!!!! Third place this week. I’m slipping. 😉 😉 😉
now we just look forward to the next 25 series @oriskany
Oy, @rasmus ! No rest, eh? Thanks very much for the comment. 😀
I would use the backpack at Fresno, California’s Zappcon in October of 2018.
Congrats @oriskany , happy to note that I read almost every article 😀 ! I’d definitely be up for some WW1 content in 2018 as I just finished up my FoW GW Germans! I’d be happy to help write up something (battle report, a small history,…) or go take pictures of some of the battlefields, museums, etc.
@warzan Some interesting historical content for 2018 would be the Battle of Kursk. There were literally millions of Soviet tanks driving onto and over German tanks (don’t quote me on that 😀 ).
Got to be Operation Michael and the Battle of Hamel for me. Hamel was in my knowledge the first true use of proper coordination between land and airforces and completely decimated the Germans facing it
Thanks, @neves1789 – indeed the Battle of Kursk is on the radar for the 75th Anniversary closer to the middle of the year (July 5, 2018).
Do you have any World War I armies to the tabletop? Or tried FoW / PSC’s game systems on the Great War? These are always the biggest challenges for article series. But if you’re interested in working on any kind of World War I themed content, drop a PM and we’ll start a discussion. 😀
For the Battle Foam backpack, I’ll be taking it to Adepticon 2018 in March. I have a badge, I have an agenda and now I shall have my backpack of holding! I’ll even let Dawn play with it!
Cancon in Canberra Australias capital for me been wanting to go back for a tournement for yonks now and transporting beloved miniatures for a 8 hour trip is a issue .
Thanks for the interview with Alex! I will have to look further into ArcWorlde. The art style is wonderful and so characterful as was intended.
The battle foam bag would be perfect to bring all my stuff to Adepticon! We usually buy one there every year anyway LoL
You can always tell who’s running the show before you press play just by looking at the length. At 1hr58, you know it’s going to be @warzan with a few tangents. 🙂
And when @oriskany got to his half century, I congratulated him but commented that in cricket, the batsman should take the applause but graft on to make his century. It’s at the century mark that the ground rises and offers their appreciation and the batsman removes his helmet and salutes the corners of the ground with his bat. Well done sir, an excellent century.
Thanks very much, @redvers – although I honestly had no idea of the cricket-themed connection to the “century” expression. I’m embarrassed to say I had to Google it (cricket’s not really big here in the US). I just thought it had a nice historical ring to it. Suffice it to say I’ve learned a lot about cricket lately, thanks very much! 😀
Any sport where you can ‘bowl a Googly’ or have fielding positions such as ‘silly point’ or ‘cow corner’ is surely worthy of anyone’s attention
Part of the Carribbean Premier League 20/20 competition is held in Florida
pfah! 20/20 – lucky man’s cricket. It’s Test match cricket for me. 🙂
But one day I do want to tour with England in the Caribbean. Need to start saving the pennies for that though.
No more new games!!! I wish these people stopped making such fantastic looking things. I have so many games that I don’t play
I would carry it to Adepticon.
Good work 🙂
I’d like to take the backpack to Gencon, but sadly don’t think my budget will allow that… so instead I’ll take it to UK Games Expo.
Alien was an original screenplay. Jaws was the first time I heard my granddad swear when the head floated out of that sunken boat.
Go to any bookstore you’ll see HBO’s next ten years of programming
Congratulations to Jim on his hard work and reaching the 100 articles milestone. Just 900 more to go until the next one 🙂
Interested to see how Dystopian Age begins to cross over their stories and fluff.
I think I would take the backpack to Salute which has a little more space when moving around. I think UKExpo being a little more channelled would see me bumping people while wearing it. Is this backpack compatible with the magna trays shown the other week?
Thanks very much, @noyjatat . Wow, 900 more? Well, if it took 3 years for the first 100, it follows that we’ll need 27 more years for the next 900. So that’s Article 1000 sometime near 2044 (when BoW is a massive multi-media goliath employing hundreds of people all around the world). Maybe Article 1000 would be the 100th Anniversary of the D-Day landings? 😀 😀 😀
I would take the backpack to the bolt action grand event.
Happy weekend everyone 🙂 Az
Great show, but what happened to the name a battle mat competition? Just want to hear who won and what it was in the end. If I won the battle foam competition I would go to my first ever tournament. There was a Saga Tournament held in the channel islands (Guernsey) last year in May and I wanted to go. It would be nice to go if it is being run again in 2018. I found out about it in my Saga Facebook group when one of the organisers (Peter Normal) advertised it there. If I went I would be… Read more »
Chill @dugthefug1644 it’s coming, we don’t want too much of the show to be just prize announcements 😛 We’ll have them on next week’s show 🙂 Az
I would take the bag to the first BoW bootcamp, gangs of Rome cough, cough
@buggeroff Smooth lol definitely a win for my favourite answer. Az
thanks Az 😉 😉
I’m right there with ya! For the glory of Rome!
Well done Oriskany on reaching a mile stone.
I liked your comment on the Awards night Twitch feed that there weren’t enough Historical game winners and that we need to improve on that. I agree and if and when I come up with something I think I can actually speak with confidence on I would love to contribute in some way. (My scrape pass A-Level in History only gets me so far.)
Congrats and looking forward to some centenary First World War stories in 2018.
I would bring this backpack to Games Day Budapest.
Congratulations to @oriskany on the milestone and also a personal thanks from me for making the Flames of War Bootcamp so good.
Thanks very much, @jamjarst – although the amount of work that so many people went into that FoW Boot Camp is amazing. On the “front stage,” yes we had me, but also @johnlyons and @dignity – Michael and Igor from the ETC . . . then of course all the backstage support from Lance, Tom, Ben, and so many others.
Honestly, though, those boot camps area only as good as the participants. That 24-foot table was amazing, and still one of the most memorable wargames I’ve ever been in.