Old-School 90’s Gaming Magic! Relive It Today With Urban War #OTTWeekender
October 27, 2023 by avernos
It's OTTWeekender Time! In this week's Weekender we have a chat about a 90s old-school gaming classic that could end up helping is relive the 90s and that epic wargaming magic. Could Urban War help us relive it today in the here and now? We also take a look at an immense range of miniatures from SolGood Creations over on Kickstarter that should be a collector's dream!
Did you play the original Urban War and if not, could you be tempted by these re-released miniatures to see if they can help you recapture that magic? Which of the epic dioramas from SolGood Creations would you go for if you got stuck into the Kickstarter.
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Tabletop Gaming News
Here is some of the wargaming, tabletop and miniatures news this week that caught our eye and made us go "ooooh!"
- Napoleonica: Steel And Magic From Signum Games - A great bringing together of the historical and the fantastical!
- New Scots Covenanters For Pike & Shotte Epic Battles - Some more awesome armies in plastic and Warlord Resin for the Pike & Shotte era of Epic Battles
- Awesome Elf Cavalry For Oathmark! - A great way to build up some elite cavalry for your Fantasy armies in Oathmark
- New November Releases For Dystopian Wars - Great new miniatures for the Alliance, Imperium and the Sultanate!
- Ace The Silver Bayonet Canada Miniatures - Will you be building a new Unit with these miniatures from North Star?
- Urban War Relaunched By Seb Games! - A classic Sci-Fi wargame returns with Seb Games ahead of a new edition next year
- New Battleforces For Warhammer 40,000 & Warhammer Age Of Sigmar - Could you be tempted by these new sets to either get started or build on an existing army?
Let us know if something from this week made you "oooh!" and if we missed anything!
Tabletop Gaming Kickstarters
We dive into two awesome Kickstarter which are offering up a great board game and an absolute treasure chest of digital miniatures.
- Battle Cries: Unleashed Fury by SolGood Creations - Some awesome Sci-Fi and Fantasy options to print at home!
- U-BOOT: Collector's Edition by PHALANX Games - Will you be getting into this cooperative submarine board game?
Could you be tempted by those ace dioramas or perhaps will you attempt to dive, dive, dive into U-BOOT?
Comment To Win! Sci-Fi City Ruins (YouTube) & Fantasy Elven Woods + Land Of The Giants (OTT)
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Evening folks – that Rampart terrain is quite tasy
Can I win some trees please? XD
Thanks for the reminder about the terrain projects. I haven’t posted an update yet!
It wasn’t floating around you Gerry! Make the editor do it all again!
Camping in the spooky elven woods is appealing.
Hi weekenders an COGz.
Bam
The Urban War really brought up some nice memories! Thank you!
Please tell me that so!good is three inch based.
I still would love to see Warlord games do 15mm fantasy.
Would be great to play huge fantasy armies with magic, wizards and heroes. I that think Warlord games would be able to write a Great rule system for it.
There’s a few companies that do smaller scale Fantasy if you don’t mind metal. Kallistra do 12mm. Alternative Armies has 15mm. Pendraken do various scales. There are more out there.
considering Kallistra’s 12mm match Warlords Epic 13.235675637347838367345634648848346345737mm that’s a good way to future proof in case Warlord ever release fantasy, but I think it’s unlikely.
@zaknafein5 you should have a look for Warmaster Revolution online, it’s written for 10mm but it makes no difference and it’s what Warlord based HC and BP off
great video guys
I’ve painted that ‘Land of the Giants’ box for my terrain project. Thanks for the reminder to update my entry in the project system.
good one chap’s.
Try to win elven terrain… yes please ?
Poor Gerry had to rinse the sick out of his mouth after Justin told him there was 4 people diving into Age of Sigmar.
Is anyone else regretting not putting “perfect for SAGA” in their terrainfest project titles?
I have been told a team will be on hand to forcibly make me open other projects.
Clockwork Orange style
Ok jerry backed The Moonstone just so you would reach 1000.
Had nothing to do with the fact I like the game system of the Mini’s……….nothing at all.
😀
Your sacrifice will not go unrecognised
LOL
LOl just what is to excepted and I continue to suffer in silence
Very nice terrain.
Ooh. Both cool terrain sets
That Slave to Darkness box has me interested.
Archon Studio’s have been really impressing me lately. Lovely stuff for Warcry.
Would love some Archon terrain!
That might be the first time I ever heard Gerry say “Moonstone” w/o the “Award Winning” adjective.
I was sick
I have so many terrain projects I need to get to.
Thanks for the show.
I’m not really a 40k player, but those battleforce boxes aren’t really inspiring. As more of a painter, nothing there really grabs me. Also, why do none of the Bonereapers or wet undead have reflections? I know its photoshopped, but that’s just lazy.
some of the wet undead are vampires.
happy weekender
Wait, what? U-Boot has more awards than Moonstone? Is that even possible?!
it’s had longer to harvest them like Moonstones in the Multi-Award Winning Moonstone game
Nice one !
Tempted with the U-boot, I it from have the original kickstarter but do I want the plastic sub?
Reminds me to check out kryomek from scotia. Had that in the 90s
Elf Cav looks ace.
generic entry to competition comment.
mind you i did re-look at uboot… such a class and hard as heck game you really have to be dedicated to play it
Those Solgood creations STLs look good
Thanks for a great Weekend show. A lot of lovely terrain and great discount code 🙂
Battleship is one of my guilty pleasures. Liam Neeson in fine form and a bit of AC-DC.
The Rampart terrain looks quite useful!!!
Really like the new Canadian units for silver bayonet!
Some of that terrain looks mighty tempting
I better get my terrain project updated. Just a couple of things to do and post some photos.
Rampart product is amazing. I’ve missed looking over their site for too long!
I absolute love the fact that La Dame Liberté is returning to Dystopian Wars! No longer the full statue on a hoverboard, but half the statue of liberty on half the Eiffel tower is madness! <3
I need to forget the dungeons and lasers website exists for the sake of my wallet.
That Archon stuff is amazing!
More terrain for Deadzone you say…
Final countdown Aircraft carrier back in time USS Nimitz
@avernos I think the time travelling film your thinking of is Final Countdown with Kirk Douglas I think. Which pretty much was a timey wimey storm sends an Aircraft carrier to the morning of the Pearl Harbour attack, and then after some morale againsing and leaving some crew behind, another timey wimey storm happens and they come back to the future having achieved FA as regards changing the past. Pretty much The End.
If you can find the 80s Timeslip and watch a Japanese Platoon fight a Samurai army.
and one of them falls in love and chooses to stay behind? Timeslip is a classic as well mind you
Super prizes. Would love the Elven terrain set.
That STL collection is so massive I am having trouble making sense of it all!
Those GW battleforces on the other hand are kinda underwhelming. Is the latest 40k lower model count?
The archon sets look really nice.I was looking at those for my city build but the tower was a bit too choas looking to fit in. I was curious about the tree set for doing outside the town at somepoint.
It’s weekender time starts to sound like a beer when opening…
Have a great weekender
The Urban War bimonthly magazine thing sounds really interesting — it would be a great way to move the game’s story forward and also handle rules updates and errata, and it would also keep the game at the top of the pile, so to speak, so that it doesn’t become one of those games that you play once or twice and then forget about. Seems like it would be easy to do something similar online, but I think a printed magazine would have more substance to it.
The Archon Studio terrain looks fun. I’ve been using cardboard river tiles for some time now, maybe it’s time to upgrade…
Scots covenanters are lovely models. Saw them today free with wargames illustrated.