Weekender: Alien Horror, Designing With Devir & WIN Kill Team Elites
May 25, 2019 by dignity
Come and join us for another episode of The Weekender where we've got David Esbri of Devir Games with us and also community member Martin (aka laughingboy) today!
Weekender Podcast Download
We've got lots to get stuck into as well as giving away the Kill Team: Elites book AND one faction of your choice too.
Updates
We've got some Weekender updates for you firstly. Next weekend there will be no show as we're going to be at UK Games Expo covering the event across Friday, Saturday and Sunday. However, you can come and join us at the event and if it's your first time we also have a great video you can watch HERE.
The week after that we're also hosting the Flames Of War D-Day Boot Camp so there will be no Weekender then either! However, you can follow along with the Live Blogs and win some goodies so don't worry.
You can also check out our extensive VLOG series we've been working on as we pull the tabletops together for the event.
Warren Meets Mat
Warren takes a look at an older mat from the PWork Wargames series. If you like the look of this Woodland Mat you can check out the product on their webstore.
News
We're onto the news now from an epic week in tabletop gaming...
- The Elder Scrolls: Call To Arms - A new tabletop game on the horizon from Modiphius
- Warlord's SPQR - A new skirmish game set in the Ancient World awaits
- Railway Club Vandalism - The community rallies round to save a distraught club
- Alien RPG - Pre-orders are now available for the new Fria Ligan project
- Soulbound Starter Set - We get to learn more about the new Age Of Sigmar RPG by Cubicle 7
- Descent Into Avernus - A new storyline and Starter Sets await for D&D
- Devilish Foes - A vast array of new models are on the way from Gale Force Nine for use in D&D
What caught your eye from the news this week?
Designing Games With Devir
We got to chat with David Esbri about the newest games from Devir as well as publishing games and getting your ideas seen by publishers.
Kickstarter
We have three Kickstarters to check out...
- Icaion - Resource collecting and monstrous foes hit the tabletop in this board game
- Wood Elves - Atlantis Miniatures show off their amazing new Wood Elf range
- Left At The Bottom Of The Garden - No, not Poddington Peas.
Which of these new projects would you like to get involved in?
Prize - WIN Kill Team: Elites + Kill Team
With Kill Team: Elites coming out recently we're giving away the supplement and your choice of Kill Team from the Fractal Blades, Dolorous Strain or Toofrippa’s Krew. All you have to do is comment below.
Make sure to also Claim Your Prize if you were a previous winner!
Have a great weekend!
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The last weekender before the 2 week break!
Any other year and I would try to make it to Historicon to give a hand but this year will be mad
Already booked holiday before knee or likewise.
No-one’s claimed ‘First!’ yet so I will, W even though I’m third, so…
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First!
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Protocols must be followed. Good Work, Citizen!
Alien RPG – they should also let you play as the Xenomorphs for added fun; in fact you could split the group in two and have them in seperate rooms working against each other.
*edit – typed this as I was watching and after I finished typing it you came out with the same idea lol*
AoS RPG – playing the big snazzy heroes rather than the commoners sounds a bit so so to me. On the one hand it is a contrast, but on the other it’s not really anything new as it’s essentially what we already have with D&D and other RPGs.
Happy Weekend!!
Oh, and that’s me that sent you all friend requests 🙂 😀 🙂
Never been jealous of people in gaming before but …. Going to Historicon?. I am now
This year the theme is junglism. Which is nice
You should go via Sheffield and do the Joy of 6 show the weekend before Historicon
Nice to see a community member on the show, great job Martin 🙂
thanks bud hopefully I did the community justice 😀
You done great mate
The things at the bottom of the garden makes me wonder if there’s room for a Bagpuss RPG
as long as the pipkin’s don’t get some horror rpg I’d be all for a Bagpuss one
Hartley Hare was the ultimate horror
he really was… the horror……
the
horror
Be afraid of the pig with the brummy accent! He loves the cakes and buns???
Was it a he?..I know the voice was done by a women but unsure of pigs sexual orientation
I always found Bagpuss to be a bit creppy. Beasts of War is a bit like Bagpuss. Warren has a think, and gets lots of people running around fixing and mending things. I’ll let someone else decide who Professor Yaffle is 🙂
You mean ballbagpuss 😉
↑ Thats a username right there lol 😉
Talk like that will get you banned from using the Chocolate biscuit making machine
My idea for an achievement at the boot camp will be…
The first person to use opportunity fire wins everything or maybe The Poddington Peas dvd box set
No Weekender next week? 🙁
I’m excited for the new Thousand Sons elites, I’m all over all things pysker in 40k.
Really excited for SPQR too. I lean more on small model count games these days as my free time starts to dwindle.
Isn’t there a 40k primarch called Peaturabo?
probab-pea
Yes, he’s the one that always does a dramatic entrance in his drop pod.
Just when you think @averos couldn’t be any cooler, he knows the theme tune to the Poddington Peas!
Happy Weekend!
Gerry Yr not at expo???? Dammit!!!!! Was looking forward to a beer…..
Unfortunately we had to leave one responsible adult behind 😉
Are Andrea and Anna doing the show next week then?
LOL and risk never being allowed on the show again due to the quality they would bring to it … no fn chance 😉
So who you leaving?
The Weekender is here…….
One last time for the next two weeks…….
Oh Joy in a bucket, what the &*^% am I going to do for the next two weekends???????
Well, if I have to, I guess I can…..paint minis, build new minis, finish terrain, read rulebooks, and watch a plethora of old Weekender shows and some Hobby Lab shows as well…..
Ok, I think I’ll survive…….oh god, I just realized that it’ll be half a month till the show comes back!
don’t worry live blogging for the next two weeks instead, so if you miss our dulcet tones you can still get a fix 😉
Listen to the next SITREP podcast next week
That’s a given!
But there’s no moving pictures to look at and say, “Oh I like that do-hicky, I want one or more of those for my gaming table”.
But seriously, I have been enjoying SITREP & the OPS Center broadcasts. They are as much of my regular gaming habit as OTT/Beasts of War. (Is the Weekender a program of Beasts of War which is a subsidiary of OTT or is it a program of OTT outright now?) I’m still fuzzy on that.
Speaking of the OPS Center, Jim ( @oriskany ) really got me studying up on the Israeli Defence Force and buying a “metric crap ton” of Flames of War ‘Fate of a Nation’ minis and related stuff. I’m planning to gaming out all of the Israeli wars since their Independence was declaired. Also, I keep seeing the Flames of War ‘VetNam’ stuff (when shopping online). I’m about to pull the trigger on purchasing some of that as well. I’ll have a go at digging up the links to BoW’s Nam Week videos. That’ll give me more to watch for the next few weeks.
It’s the weekend! Another 3 dayer in the UK thanks to a Bank Holiday.
So with no Weekenders for the next couple of weeks the least you could have done is have three shows this weekend! This, an XLBS and an XXLRambler… just shove Warren in a studio with three dressed up mannequins, a can of (zero) Relentless and press record!
Another Beezer boys type episode with no running order would be good
That would work! ??
@avernos your 12,000 pt German FoW collection is probably just 1,200 now – aren’t LW finally moving to the new points system?
Hit the Beach starter set previewed here…
https://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=6485
Fortress Europe book and cards also now on pre-order (for those of us not making it to bootcamp).
yea don’t worry I won’t be doing that, it’s stupid and loses the granularity of list building
If I were ever to GM an Alien RPG in campaign mode I’d be tempted to play the first two sessions with no alien at all. Just the crew of a ship being woken up and going through their routines… Interspersed with some incidents that turn out to be nothing.
“You’re eating a meal together in the crew room. Bob, what are you going to drink with that?”
“I think my character will have a synthesised beer, and I’ll be moaning about…”
“Suddenly you hear a crash in the corridor outside! What are you going to do?”
After 10 minutes to-ing and fro-ing it turns out the cat knocked over a fire extinguisher…
or another way is not to tell them it’s an alien RPG, have them playing another game and start to introduce the stuff mid way through the campaign
Like this ?
First convince them they’re playing “My little pony” (with the book as cover and the correct character templates) … then bring on the aliens.
If they didn’t hate you before then they surely must do afterwards. *evil grin*
I did that way back when the movie came out, luckily all my players don’t do media so knew nothing about it.Still are apart from Kevin.
Stephen Colbert’s D&D adventure out on Youtube and Twitch:
https://youtu.be/3658C2y4LlA
They did it for the US version of Red Nose Day.
Something that comes up early in the setup, that ties in with what Justin raised, is Stephen questioning whether to be an X, don’t you first have to been a P and a Q? “In my day, you had to earn it!”
The orks set looks the best for me.
Good morning everyone. Don’t forget your towel! It’s towelday!
you’re a hoopy frood
I’m no jumpy fraud! oO (What’s a “hoopy frood”?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XG_Fkh1wFU
Ah, one of those things getting lost in translation (plus it’s been ages since I saw that series)
It’s available to read too and listen to. radio series was like the books… first two series were great… then slowly less great until the sixth book written by some other bloke that was probably a ‘less said about’ thing.
One of the greatest day in the Universe!
My daughter and I both carry a towel around all day long.
Then call each other and regale each other with our stories of people we encountered during the day that had no idea what we were doing. But also of the cool folks who understood, who we now call friend and keep in touch with!
Happy Towel Day!
Mate that is absolutely brilliant 🙂
Lucky Lady and very lucky Dad 🙂
now thats aprize i would like to win great stuff
Very interested to see more on the Elder scrolls game from Modiphius.
I’de have to disagree with Justin regarding the Elder scrolls games, theres loads of factions that could be in the skirmish game in Skyrim alone, obviously you have the two main factions, the storm cloaks and the Empire, then you’ve got all the guilds, thieves guild, mages guild, the companions, the Blades, the Nightingales, plus many more, not to mention you could potentially have a Draugr band led by an overlord, or maybe a necromancer, vampire covens, bandit bands etc.. Then you expand into the rest of Tamriel and the list of factions just grow and grow.
I can understand Justins point of view of wanting it to be a dungeon crawler, as thats what you pretty much do in the game, but i dont see this game as being a re-creation of the game, its more a game set in that world.
There’s too many dungeon crawlers anyway, if I wanted a skyrim dungeon crawl, I’d play the video game.
Agreed, I do love a dungeon crawl, and it would be cool to have elder scrolls themed minis, but i wouldnt want a whole new ruleset for a dungeon crawl, I already have dungeon saga and descent and i already rarely play those
No weekender next week 🙁
But UKGE coverage 🙂
Thanks for the show.
Ooooh Orkses with snazzy hats, how could I refuse!
I love the Atlantis Wood ELves – as good as the classic GW range in my opinion, very well done
PS – I want more Warren 🙂
great show !
Cool to see community members involved in content.
You’re a natural @laughingboy!
it was such a pleasure to spend time with him.
Would love other community members to come onto the show 🙂
Doesn’t the camera take your soul?
Oh forgot haven’t got one so safe!!
Thanks bud it was an awesome experience and @warzan and the entire team made me feel very welcome.
@laughingboy Latrine duty though next time mat I’m teaboy next week!!!
I know it’s just the prizes and largely unrelated to the episode, but KillTeam has been one of the best things for my gaming in years. I’ve always enjoyed 40K but could never keep attention on a single army long enough to build one of the size you need to play the normal 40k. A year or so into KillTeam and I’ve been painting like crazy and actually playing games! Now I’ve got 5 factions that I’ve actually played and another 2 or 3 that I’m working on. Elites has been a massive new wave of new content and I’m neck deep in models I need to get and paint. 🙂
Thanks for this insight mate!
Also: Toofrippa’s Krew ’cause Orcs are best! GIVE THEM TO ME! 😉
Great episode, guys. The highlights for me include the Elf minis, Mysthea for the gorgeous art, the news for the next D&D story with Descent into Avernus, and finally for the wrong reason this time, the Railway Club Vandalism. You have to be a horrible person to find any enjoyment in destroying someone else’s passion and hobby. These people deserve nothing good in their lives.
But let me close this on a positive note and wish you good time on the Historicon event and on the Flames Of War D-Day Boot Camp.
That vandalism was heart breaking. I hope the folk behind it can just pick themselves up and keep on enjoying it
OTT coming to Historicon!!! It will be a different experience from GenCon for sure.
I’m really looking forward to the coverage, and really considering throwing our lot in with cons like this in the future 🙂
Might be fun if you sent a couple of people to Oldhammer in August
where is that mate?
Newark
https://www.wargamesfoundry.com/pages/oldhammer
pretty sure Big Ben is planning on going there
I plan to grab the Elder Scrolls mini for use in Warcry.
How will we live without a weekender for two weeks? I am already going through withdrawal..
Great show! Wood Elves KS looks amazing.
who is the biggest pea brain?
Bertie Ahern
Absolutely awesome show once again gentlemen.
WEEKEND!!!!
Looking to get into WoE and these Elves could be just what i need. Along with that new mat. ALien RPG and SPQR sound quite interesting. Ones to look out for in the future. Good news about the model railway club. Such a great turnaround from the community and public. Also Chop-pea is best pea
@avernos gets best use of a newt award, apart from missuse of rope!
My favourite had to be Snoop-pea the Sherlock Holmes character of the piece!
Great episode guys, and well done Laughingboy, you fit right in mate ??
Grumpea all the way
Have done a lot of RPGing lately and would love to DM a session of aliens. Strict but fair(well mildly fair) would be have I describe my DM style.
TPK ( total party kill) is a target but not a necessity lol.????
The plethora of new RPG games coming out is mind boggling at the moment.
Will be embarking on a self written zero level 5e D&D soon,you can do anything you want and if you succeed an ability check/attack roll or saving throw you tally a mark against that skill. A randomly rolled background will be rolled before play so the PCs could start as a blacksmith or librarian or gutter snipe.HAPPY DAYS
For the first missing weekender I’ll be wandering around the NEC looking for stuff that I want, but can’t find… and buying stuff I don’t need…
Hope you lads have a great time at the expo next week
Great show as always!
hello guys!! nice show!!! love Pwork Games mats, they are so cool
great show guys!! i would love to win that prize!!!
happy weekend to you all!!
Hey guys, you need to pay a bit attention to your clothing, Thor Steinar is a known Nazi brand and actually watched by the German Secret service : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Steinar
Thanks for this, I cant believe they actually have a clothing brand! (well not since hugo boss)
There is several, some distanced themselves after noticed they turned into a brand used by Neo-nazis, but Tor Steinar was actually from the beginning one and embraced it very much.
Happy weekend!
The Woodland Mat looked really nice and a must have if you don’t already have something similar (wich i have), really better to have a green mat only…
Happy weekend.
Shame I won’t be going to UKGE this year, but I’ll be watching the coverage for sure. Really glad that they’re bringing more units into kill team as for the loyal factions it was a bit flat only using primaris and reavers. I know they’re not the only options but I think with 2 wounds they’re the only ones worth taking.
Cant wait to order Aliens I run a game long time ago with one of the old systems. Run for years I made the corp troops better equipped and the marines using like the generation of gear behind them. They only meet aliens once and they were as cocky as you can guess, in the fight they even blow there own team mates up grenades (as non of them had up’d the right skill, hehe) ended with the officer facing down the queen with a combat knife thinking he could hide in a corridor. Guess what that didn’t work whole team of 6 pc plus npc’s with them died.
Love the universe
happy weekender folks!
Just when you think you can’t like Gerry anymore he goes on a full rant and starts singing about the Poddington Peas. Never change Gerry, Never change
The one time I watch the Weekender on time and now I have to wait 2 weeks for another! 🙁
My Pea-ple creation would be Professor Pea-nelopy Pea-body… she’s a part-time gourd spelunker, part-time model.
Gerry, drunk and blabbering on about SAGA all day long……. That will be that con covered.
The “Make John cry by painting tanks pink” achievement.
brilliant show guys love the new kick-starter’s that’s coming out.
Hope to see you all at uk games expo next week,sorry gerry not going.
Don’t play kill team as much as I want, but I love the design. Looking forward to UKGE next week
Great show.
good thing gerry warns people before hand that he`ll be drunk and not operating electronic devices
Interesting conversation about getting your games in front of a publisher
I love the woodelves from Atlantis. They look great.
The more I see of Killteam the more I think it would be a cracking excuse to do a Blood Axes team….
Psykers in an elite squad! yes please. Really loving kill team and being able to get the 40k experience in a compact and fun game.
I’ll miss the weekenders, but definitely looking forward to the boot camp. I have to say I’m becoming more of a mat fan everyday and that woodland mat was amazing.
@brennon they all go elf in the end.
Oh yes…!
And then full elf, high elf, because they are the best???
@avernos If there are no bridges, one could always have an achievement for the first unit that can attack and hold a vital position between two dangerous locations???
I would pick Grumpea =)
and the freebootas also
Thirst!
@warzan as another who gets up early and watches random YouTube vids the next 2 Saturdays will be hell. (my guilty pleasure is The Major Wrestling Figures channel.).
@avernos singing Poddington Peas was the best thing since I found out the OnTabletop crew also don’t follow My Little Pony and certainly wouldn’t know the names of them like totally not my favourite Pinky Pie. The Funko Pop of her belongs to my cat, or dog.
Anyway, elite teams look brutal, I did initially wonder how you would get a whole squad of terminators but games are more like 250 points now.
Oh and if I was lucky enough to win I would like the Pea Green Death Guard peas. Diolch.
JUst started Kill team, but this really looks great.
Looking forward to the Skyrim game, but still need to buy into the Fallout one from them so guess i have a decision to make xD
I love the variety of content, thanks guys.
Hi would love to win just this time.
D&D:Descent into @avernos! 😮
How does Gerry feel about that?
Buy me dinner first and hold me afterwards
Stocking up on Weekender goodness before the break!
Another great show chaps, love the look of the Alien RPG and will definitely be able to use the models from the Prodos game with that
No weekender for the next two week
s, whats one to do with ones self. Well we could always get some extra hobby time in, or catch up on the unboxings or lets play shows. Better still we could sit and watch all the episodes of the Poddington Peas, and play whos witch pea. Im Grump-Pea as this is what my grandchildren call me, so ill nominate @dignity to be Captain Hop-Pea: Nautical captain pea with a wooden leg, who sometimes appears to be in charge.Liking the look of the Left At The Bottom Of The Garden mini
s, they do remind me of some other minis from a few years back who had stitching. Just can not remember who they where, or which company did them. I can not believe Ben would pick Elves, so this Ben must be an impostor. Give us our Ben back you gits, or else we`ll release the clipper man on you. You have been warned.Great show. Nice to see Laughboy on the show. The D-Day tables sound great. And if i had to make a choice… I would have to say… that my favurite would have to be… Dough-Pea. Mainly because i think it’s the best pun, he was daft and who doesn’t love a chef hat wearing animated pea? Also would like the Dolorous Strain box, because Death Guard and i love to paint gross and gory paint schemes.
Nice to see @laughingboy on the show, had a game of Wolsung with him at a boot camp. Good chap! Now to get that sodding pea song out of my head!
Don’t be grum-pea now
Creep pea
Hip pea
And non politically correct Dump pea
Haven’t thought this much about the Peas in about 30 years!
I love the pea-people kickstarter
Just getting started with Kill Team and 3d printing scenery pieces to dress up the tabletop. I’ve got my space marines, I’ve got things to hide behind – now I just need some Orkses to shoot at!
My favourite Poddingtonian? Gotta Pea? Herpea?
WOW Classic
Start by being killed in the starting area, CLASSIC.
Players will find EVERYTHING that is there, will attack and try to kill you CLASSIC.
Skyrim
the Elder Scrolls Figure lovely.
Another great weekender, but Elves… elves…. remember you cant trust an elf… Wise words i have always lived by ;D
Any who im looking forward to see more about Age of sigmar RPG. I love my old world, but there is a lot interesting stuff in AOS aswell.
The SPQR sound interesting, i always wanted to do some Romen, but the big moddel count have alway keept me away. But a little skirmish game would awesome 😀
Nice to see David Esbury going strong. He’s a really original creator. And a lovely guy to boot.
Oh Ben, it’s okay to love new things. It doesn’t mean you love the older things less. Besides, woodelves and dwarfs have a long running precarious relationship. I see them as very Yin and Yang, two sides of the same coin, and even have two armies of my own. Truth be told, the dwarf horde is larger than any other in my collection.
Gerry is right about Left at the Bottom of the Garden. It is the coolest thing this weekend that I’d start painting the minute the post arrived. You also correct about the Terminator and Alien films, there are only two of each of those.
So glad Martin is there to keep traditions alive.
Wonderful to see Warren’s latest miniature though I’m guessing the guy won’t stay little.
Gonna miss next weeks weekender,but look forward to seeing the footage when your back.
So as there is no show,ill be painting me Death Guard that ive just started collecting,so hopefully some new kill team Death Guard stomp there way to me :).
I was already contemplating starting a Thousand Sons force… 😉
Well then the Peas just makes sense now. So much good stuff on this Weekender but those wood elves look interesting.
Great show, as usual!
I’m still in the Dwarven camp, but those wood elves minis do look good.
I’ve been meaning to play more Kill Team. The Elites expansion has me thinking of different lists to build. The Flashgitz have always looked cool. Maybe this is a great time to jump back in!
It sure would be nice if those vandals were lobotomized and turned into servitors, then made to assist in rebuilding everything they destroyed.
I’ll pass on AoS RPG, but my entry into the world of Warhammer was WFRP 1st ed. That was back before the Old World started its downhill slide with WFB 4th. WFRP lent itself beautifully to playing Call of Cthulhu by warpstone glow, where lurking horrors and secret societies where the actual enemies. Epic, glorious heroing…pfft 🙂
The more I see of Para Bellum, the more hyped I get for the game. Is it June 20th yet ?