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!
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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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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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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 !