Weekender: Infinity Campaign Announced & Win A FoW German D-Day Bundle!
August 31, 2019 by warzan
Come and join us for another absolutely massive Weekender which is packed with chat about what has been going on in the world of tabletop gaming this week.
Weekender Podcast Download
We have a lot to get stuck into from Kickstarter, Games Workshop and more so as always make sure to let us know your thoughts on everything in the comments below.
Comment To Win - Flames Of War D-Day German Starter Bundle
If you comment here on OnTableTop (two entries) or on Youtube (one entry) you'll get the chance to win yourself a great German army to start playing Flames Of War. This includes an Army, D-Day German Book, Unit Cards and Command Cards. Keep an eye out for their Live Launch on September 7th too!
All you have to do is let us know what you'll be doing with this should you pick it up!
The Start Of WWII In Poland
oriskany and yavasa from the community have been working away on a great forum topic which charts the start of World War II. Come and remember the anniversary of the invasion of Poland by German in their forum topic HERE.
Updates - Spam & Hobby
We are just giving you an update on spam as we've had a lot of problems with weird accounts on the site. As well as that we are going to be moving the Hobby Hangout for now and talking about Community Spotlight on Sunday with the Cult Of Games/XLBS show instead.
Keep an eye out for our community chatter there and get stuck in with the comments of course too.
News
Make sure to check out some of the news we got excited about this week...
- Ossiarch Bonereapers - A new undead faction coming to Age Of Sigmar
- Sisters & Psychics - New stories unfold in Warhammer 40,000 plus a full Adepta Sororitas army!
- Aeronautica Imperialis - Introduce a new dogfighting game into the mix from the folks at Games Workshop
- War In Rohan - A new supplement and some cool miniatures are coming to support Middle-earth wargamers
- ZEN Terrain's Drowned Earth - Check out this awesome modular Shanty Town and our Let's Plays HERE
- Clank! Legacy - Delve into a new take on this deck builder from the folks at Dire Wolf & Renegade Game Studios
Make sure to drop all of your thoughts on this news into the comments and fill us in on something which we might have missed.
Plastic Alchemy Introduction
We take some time to chat with the team behind Plastic Alchemy who are looking to be some of the first people to create their first 3D printable board game, Kordran Conflict. You can sign up to follow all of the news about the game HERE.
Kickstarter
Here are two projects worth checking out and potentially backing...
- Cryptic Explorers - This is a dark and dangerous Sci-Fi dungeon crawler with an insanely good look to it!
- Future World Creator - GameStart Edizioni show off their stunningly colourful tiles, standees and more
Could you be tempted by either of these campaigns?
Have a great weekend!
Test, Test this is a weekender test. Do i win?
was that a WWF Test reference, which i make all the time and no one knows why I’m singing?
If not you still should win 😉
I have been eying 15mm ww2 for a while and just got the new d-day box that I am working on assembling. Def looking forward to building out my german and american forces, which is what I would do if I won this. OTT is def on of the contributing factors to getting into it from the beginning!
We welcome our new Bonecast overlord,
can they play Flames of War too?
From the Hit the Beach starter, the D-Day releases and the current support for Hobby leagues at FLGSs, Battlefront are doing a lot right to win new/returning FOW players.
That is a great prize.
Already jealous of the one that’s going to win it.
I have to get that German D-Day book. I think it will be more fun to put together a more historical army in stead of the more generic lists in Fortress Europe.
“As someone who always wanted a sisters of battle army, but never had the chance to do so. but now that they are in plastic …….” Sorry they have lost their feminists. They are transgender Guard.
My husband has been wanting to get back into FoW. Great giveaway!
2 points AND another upcoming Infinity campaign, you say?… very.. very interesting…
I really did appreciate the discussion of the ‘start’ of WW2 as that was all very new info to me and quite interesting to hear about and think about the ramifications of how things could have gone very differently… although there is quite a lot of “what if’s” about WW2 which I guess do help with gaming possibilities. Keep up the great chat.
In a slightly different vein… I’m kind of surprised you are taking the Golden Buttons and such to backstage. That seems like something that front stage only folks would be interested in and does this mean you’ll be limiting Golden Buttons to only Backstage members?
And finally.. one last thought about youtube… I get your issues with them, but perhaps referring to back-stagers as ‘cultists’ is not going to help your popularity with youtube’s bots… or is that the idea? lol
I want to put the catapult legs onto a Deathguard Plagueburst crawler and have it running around on lots of little legs, like the Nurgle Snail mount
@warzan Poland had about 1 million men under arms but only about 2/3rds of the army was mobilized. Germany had 1.5 million just for the invasion. That didn’t count other forces theoretically available.
Poland was hopelessly outclassed in the air and badly outnumbered from the start. Having the Soviets come in was largely irrelevant. What might have happened would have been to delay the invasion of France.
Nonetheless, the Polish army fought hard against overwhelming odds. If you want to watch a really good YouTube series, check out World War 2 Week by Week. They’re covering the entire war in one week increments.
@dignity Imperium Secundus was Guillimans attempt to preserve the Imperium. At the time warp storms cut off Terra and as far as they knew, the Emperor was dead. Guilliman organized it but Lyon el Johnson opposed him. Guilliman nominated Sanguinius as the regent to rule in the Emperors name. Since he didn’t want the job, both Guilliman and Lyon agreed.
The Lyon was loyal. So was Guilliman. And Sanguinius. But each approached problems from a different viewpoint and that’s why they were in conflict.
“Poland was hopelessly outclassed in the air and badly outnumbered from the start. Having the Soviets come in was largely irrelevant. What might have happened would have been to delay the invasion of France.
Nonetheless, the Polish army fought hard against overwhelming odds.”
^^^ This guy gets it, right here. 😀
With everyone there building FoW armies anyway, and you having players in the store too, have you considered replaying through the whole of WWII over a year or two and seeing how it turns out? If each of you heads a nation with a few players under you, and Orskeny runs the world map (as he’s good at that stuff and is trapped overseas) you could have a lot of fun and have regular interesting update videos.
I would love to do something like that
Me too. The problem would be that I’d never hold a group of people together long enough to get though any campaign that lasts longer than a weekend.
I’m impressed with Plastic Alchemy for taking up the charge for home 3d printed games, I hope they aren’t too “early”
With the release of the FoW’s D-day Germans, I have additional ammo (pun intended) to convince my FLGS to get involved in the Slow Grow league.
Also I am looking forward to reading Oriskany’s forum on Poland 1939.
For the benefit of Warren, this isn’t spam.
It may look like spam and taste like spam, but I assure you it isn’t spam.
Thanks very much for the segment on Poland 1939, guys! @avernos is on the money and @warzan asks great questions! (what would it have taken, and what would have been the result). Super appreciate the acknowledgement of this key moment in history.
always glad to shine a light on things like that, I’ve been enjoying the forum thread and games myself so hopefully others will pop by.
Thanks again, @avernos – So far we’ve done in Panzer Leader:
Battle of Borowa Góra
Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski
Battle of Jordanów
Two German victories, one Polish victory.
Although operationally and strategically the campaign is a foregone conclusion, tactically you can find good battles where the odds really are stacked and the Polish really did win some engagements. The Germans didn’t lose 16000+ dead and I don’t even know how many wounded, tanks, vehicles, etc … for no reason.
You guys can use Justins yellow blanket!
Im getting my brother into FoW!
great show. see you tomorrow for cult of games.
It’s Saturday! That means hitting the BoW/OTT website for a few hours, a trip out to get the ‘papers and a coffee, and a nice relaxing way to start the weekend. It’s almost become habit.
Oh yeah, the canal boat didn’t come off. So we got a campervan. Look out Beasties, just as soon as I can work out the ferry website to get a price from Holyhead to Dublin, we’ll be knocking on your door…
Awesome
There is also Liverpool to Belfast 🙂
We take that route quite a lot, the other may be cheaper though!
You have to pay extra to avoid Larne and North Wales!
Oy!
My family live just outside Denbigh, so pretty much on the way to Holyhead. It’s quite a trek from Brighton, so I’ll probably go that way – even if it’s just to get a homemade dinner on the way through (I’m sure everyone agrees that nobody beats their own mum’s cooking!)
Just got into this, but have had to wait weeks for my Hit the Beach starter from Battle front.
Need to start building and painting asap.
FoW continues to tempt. Any have any luck 3d printing 15mm scale vehicles to supplement the existing catalog?
In “Imperium Secundas” Bobby G thinks everything is lost. Due to the warp storms. He talks Sanguinias to become the new EMPEROR. Great book.
Infinity just gets better and better! Have a great weekender.
A friend of mine has just bought The flames of war ‘Hit the beach’ box, so now I have a good reason to sit down and enjoy painting some FOW tanks of my own. As a.typical British player, D-day is.my favourite WW2 setting, so the new late war sets are very tempting.
The spammers are a pain, but I guess that’s just part of the price we pay for having free access to the information on.the internet.
What best to do with a German D Day kit? Give it to a German. ME!
I would build it, play with it… and paint the Panthers all in PINK! Just like in my project 😉
Pink Panthers!
You’d have to play the theme music every time they entered the map and would there be a buff or a debuff for someone randomly attacking them from out of nowhere? 👍😎
Only when playing against Japanese forces with someone called Cato 😉