The Future Of Star Wars Miniatures Games + Bot War; More Than Meets The Eye! #Weekender
November 20, 2020 by lloyd
This week on the OTT Weekender! Star Wars miniatures games change hands plus Bot War; a transformers-esque game which has got us very excited in Indie Of The Week!
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Indie Of The Week - Traders Galaxy & Bot War
Venture down under with this company called Traders Galaxy who have an excellent skirmish game called Bot War which takes a Transformers aesthetic and does something fun with it!
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Let us know if you like the look of these miniatures and tell us if you're going to be snapping these up for yourself to give the game a go.
Tabletop Gaming News
Here is some of the wargaming, tabletop and miniatures news this week which caught our eye and made us go "ooooh!"
- Warhammer 40,000 Battleforce Sets - Are you liking these new options for the grimdark future?
- Warhammer: Age Of Sigmar Battleforce Sets - Which of these do you prefer?
- Star Wars Miniatures Games Change Hands - Atomic Mass Games take over from Fantasy Flight Games
- Battlegroup Waffen-SS Set - New World War II 20mm miniatures in Ultracast
- Fogou Models Dark Age Fort - Some great new wargaming terrain from an ace company
- Black Site's Horror & Cyberpunk Miniatures - An ace Horror skirmish game PLUS Blade Runner inspired miniatures
- Courage In Contact Miniatures - Some new Modern Warfare miniatures
Let us know if something from this week made you "oooh!" and if we missed anything!
Tabletop Kickstarters
See what you make of this Kickstarter we've picked out from this week on the funding platform...
- Printable Scenery: Shadowfey - More amazing 3D Printable terrain for your Fantasy tabletop games
- 1745 Jacobite Rebellion - Last Hurray - Explore another era of history with Flags Of War
- Flags Of War Miniatures - Check out more of their miniatures range
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Thank goodness it’s the weekend! ?
Second, never got that early !just be the girls.
Right place… right time. I guess that’s my bit of luck used up for the rest of the year… downhill from now on! ???
If my luck continues and I actually win the Warcry set, please gift it to @sundancer for his daughter to build and paint .https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1261975/.. Given his forum topic https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/i-quit/ which hit home with me, I think he and his family need it more than anyone else I can think of during this stressful period in our global history. Stay safe. ?
I’m in agreement that Star Wars going to Atomic won’t change much other than the logo.
The lead designer who created the game being sacked might have an effect on the future of the game.
Might depend on how far out they have designed already.
If they have quite a bit planned out already it would give a buffer of time for the “changing of the guard” so to speak.
Hard to say. ?
For sure – at least at the moment
AMG said they had plans for a new SW minis game. “Will and I have talked a lot about how we can create cool new Star Wars miniatures games that will excite fans and immerse them in the stories they love so much.”
Other posters say that IA is ending, so mebbe this new game will replace it. :/
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/793956.page
Happy weekend everyone.
BOTWAR minis have awesome names. The Dinoborgs are my favorite. Without you I wouldn’t have seen that one. Yay Warcry!
It is quite the gem isn’t it!
And prices are comparable to other games. Was it a softer or real hard type resin? Do you know?
I’m afraid I’m not sure about that. Might be worth doing a search on YouTube to see if anyone has unboxed the miniatures.
They are a hard resin with very crisp clean details which are needed and welcomed given the number of flat surfaces on some of the bots.
Most of the original metal bots are being reworked as resin.
Appreciate the response.
Bot War looks very interesting, saw them being painted a few months ago and as the range increases it is adding some lovely stuff.
OK, I tried… this shows Guest name is “Free”? I really can’t make it out. But that’s not what I wanted to say… working in the digital marketing department but having the worst camera on set? Come on! Better cameras for everybody! 😉
Do I get myself a coffee now and watch the show or drop dead in the bed and watch tomorrow? Ich kann mich einfach nicht entscheiden…
Yep, Free is from Wayland and remember – everyone is working from home 😉
And there I was thinking, whatever Warren did to his camera, he should keep it that way?
Evening and happy weekend… would certainly love to get my hands on some more warcry.
More Star Wars? I thought we had talked this to death on Tuesday night
nope the Weekender isn’t on Tuesday, that’s how you know
All the days are just rolling into one now
Just need more Mandalorians, all the Mandalorians.
Very nice.
I hope Asmodee look after the Star Wars game and get X wing back to where it was. Still miss Star Wars Assault though…
No one can get Xwing back to what it was … unless Disney releases an awesome movie and the EA Star Wars Squadron game makes people want to play it on tabletops 😉
I kind of wonder if Xwing was a bit like the Nintendo Wii
Lots of people not into the hobby buying the core set and only a small dedicated bunch buying the rest of the models.
Great video guys and gal! Love listening to you guys.
Is it? It can’t be! Can it be true?
IT’S THE WEEKEND!
Let’s start with the OTT ritual video!
A shame about Legion but I have enough stuff to carry on playing casual games 🙂
I don’t think it’s going to make one bit of difference to the game
Yay weekender time.
6,10 or 15mm big Star Wars game is whats needed
15mm Star Wars (and the other scales) would be rather awesome. Could play out some of the bigger battles during the Clone Wars, for example, a lot easier.
this will save you from reading the books @lloyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXCcex1vtEA
Sweet
Yay for the weekender! Will try out a game of Rangers of Shadow Deep with the family this weekend (wife and kid), will post it as a part of lockdown leisure league if I manage that feat.
all the blackbirds leaked on the ground because if the made the joints too tight they would burst when they were going at mack3 guys.
All the figures are looking great i especially liked the robo raptor.
Well this week snuck up on me as well. At least now I’ve updated my hobby project log a bit.
The land shark was nice, as well as the t-rex. (I’ll have to watch the rest tomorrow.)
Bot War sounds like some sort of sumo contest, but with each opponent armed only with a backside.
Those Bot War minis look awesome. Love the old school transformers look of them.
Very Funny, you guys seem so nervous and the lovely young lady is sooo Essex…. I haven’t heard that accent for a while.