Weekender: Justin’s Wheel Of Misfortune & WIN Chaos Space Marines!
February 14, 2020 by crew
We're back with a new look Weekender where we're exploring a whole new format, new features and plenty more. Dive in and tell us what you think in the comments below.
Weekender Podcast Download
Make sure to tell us what you think of the News, Kickstarter projects and more that we featured today as you are the other half of this show!
Snag-A-Normie Month - 1:08
We're currently running Snag-A-Normie Month alongside the folks at Hobby Wearhouse. You can get yourself some new T-Shirt designs and Hoodies plus we're looking to see what you've been doing in the Projects too.
You can find out more about this endeavour HERE where you can also look at more ways that you can get involved.
Warren Meets Mat - 4:17
We're back with Warren and his mat obsession as we take a peek at the North Pass Mat from the folks at PWork Wargames.
We talk about how it would fit into your games and where you might want to go when it comes to adding some terrain into the mix too.
News - 7:50
Make sure to check out some news we picked out for this week...
- INDIE OF THE WEEK - We start off with a look at the amazing miniatures from Agema for your Ancient games
- Marvel Heroes - The mystics arts are uncovered as Atomic Mass show off Doctor Strange & Wong
- House Of Chains - We're taking a peek at more gang members dropping into Necromunda soon
- Skies Of Fire - Head into the skies with Aeronautica Imperialis and a new set on the way
- Muskets & Tomahawks - Gerry gives us the lowdown on some new goodies from Studio Tomahawk
- World War III - See what you make of the British releases coming soon from Battlefront
There is plenty of goodness in the mix here and we'd love to hear your thoughts
Wheel Of Misfortune! - 36:00
We've got a new segment for you as Justin has to face off against the Wheel Of Misfortune. Will he get an easy ride or will he end up having to do something incredibly silly but also exceptionally funny?
Make sure to join us for a rather slippery challenge this week!
Kickstarter - 49:00
See what you make of some new projects we've spied online...
- The Lost Worlds Of Josh Kirby - Take a peek at this board game featuring art from the talented Kirby
- Altered Carbon RPG - Face a world of Cyberpunk Noir awesomeness with Hunters Entertainment
- Marvel United - Like chibi miniatures and fun card-based gameplay? Check out the new CMON project
Which of these would you consider backing?
Competitions & Giveaways - Comment To Win!
We're diving in and offering up some awesomeness for you hobbyists this week. First up we're offering up a...
WIN A Chaos Space Marine Battle Force
...and if you get involved in the comments you might even get yourself something World War III related too.
3D Printing Giveaway - 57:30
We have also teamed up with the people behind the Necrossia 3rD Army Terrain Kickstarter at Kraken Industries as we're giving away a FREE file for you to print off at home.
Download The Necrossia Pillar Tomb For Free
Give this one a go and then show off your work in the projects too.
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Dont panic, we are testing a different time slot for publishing this 🙂
Feel free to watch it at 5am if that is your routine 😉
and it’s good to be back 🙂
Well to be fair to you, I suppose it is technically Saturday already in the Colonies. ?
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Former Colonies – yes.
It’s saturday somewhere on this planet.
And it’s definitely saturday somewhere in the multiverse 😉
colonies, guess brits will never get over they got beat by a bunch of farmers huh LOL
No showed up early Fri
So the publish time might still change in the future?
Not that it matters that much because I can watch it whenever I can but it would be nice to know.
I believe we’re keeping it at 9pm UK time for now
Bloody typical. You wait two weeks and then one comes along 8 hours early! What is this country coming to?
(Awesome to have you guys back!)
Brexit 😉
So we are blaming an early weekender on Brexit now? is there anything Brexit can’t do?
Warren, I still want to roll over and turn you on at 5am on a Saturday morning. It is my favourite time of the week, except Sunday when I get to do it all over again…
It’s a ‘necrosis tomb pillar’ …
Sounds like something that might require a visit to the doctor 😉
ps) stop reminding me that 3D printing is cool and affordable … my wallet doesn’t like it.
WW3 Started by Thatcher nuking the Falklands or Reagan, Ronny or Nancy no need to be exact. Influenced by their psychics or arms industry chums. Warren ya such a sensual dog you. The mat intro cracked me up.
oo a friday night treat!
I shall watch tomorrow
https://makeagif.com/i/eLvgto
I appreciate the time stamps.
Birmingham Studio? Is that new spelling of cupboard?
Snag-a-normie is a great idea and like a badge of honour, wearing one of those hoodies you can be proud to be a geek and if you see someone else wearing a snag-a-normie top you know it’s safe to ask them if they’d like to be your elven companion for that evening and play some games – all without embarrassment or misunderstanding or indeed innuendo. I give normies a painted miniature as a leaving present at work. It’s unique and personal and with some thought you can tailor the paint job to resemble the colleague and pose them in a heroic fashion. Great weekender (early on Friday night UK time).
love the new intro guys.
I have to say I did not enjoy the WoM segment, felt like a waste of a beautiful mini and it was also quite disgusting, but maybe that’s just me. Good to have you back. I really do like the Indie segment in the beginning, thumbs up!
I like getting these on Friday afternoon, US, as it gives me something to watch when it’s slow at work.
A few thoughts…
Team Yankee: Shouldn’t the new WW3 kit be identified as early war? I don’t claim to know a lot about this type of war-gaming, but It just seems that the models Team Yankee is using are modern-day. I would like to see something that is a nice mix of modern and future. Not like Warhammer or Infinity future, but something that is a logical next step or two from modern-day; just to differentiate rulebooks and theaters.
Wheel of Misfortune: Great stuff. My only thought was that I wish there a bit more foreboding in the theme. Maybe give a minor key or something. Just a thought. =)
Marvel United: I’m so tired of these massive CMON games, but I love the chibi style superheroes. Why can’t I just buy a selection of the minis. Might have bit on this had Corvus Belli not taken all my money late last year. =)
I imagine we might see some folks selling the chibi miniatures on eBay once the KS delivers.
Good choice to include timestamps.
Poor Justin, Is this what happen when there no weekended for 2 week lol. I like the Intro Lloyd
sweet, I can sleep longer tomorow !
It’s the return of the Weekender……
Glad to see the show back guys!
OMG a 3D model group print challenge. Fantastic!!! I’ll have some of that. ??
Now as to the changes of and to the studio…….I’ll have to study this video and see if I want to update my OTT/Gaming Room Studio or keep it old school!
lol you were on our minds the whole time we were reorganising 🙂
Don’t worry, 100% of the ‘new set’ is made up from bits and pieces of the ‘old set’ and bits we scavanged from other places around the visitor centre.
Mostly it’s just a bit tidier!
Like the new format. Ben seemed to be cut off a bit early.
Table looked a bit sparse, needs the coffee mugs back and a few models perhaps to negate the bareness.
Looking forward to seeing the new XLBS…
No changes to XLBS this week, it will get its spit and polish over the next few weeks 🙂
I’ve got the Northern Pass mat from P-Works and indeed it’s a fine mat as well (as Warren points out) a “core” mat for your collection. You could even use it for the new Studio Tomahawk game 🙂
I do like the mats that have 3D elements on them at ground level but DON’T have detail that’s best left to scatter terrain rather than being printed on them (like bridges, pipes etc) and also keep the mat scale agnostic. And I think P-Work perhaps are the manufacturer that best does this compared to some of the other offerings.
As to the Necromunda rules, yet ANOTHER book (and cards). It seems silly that GW release a box with two types of gangers, but to use them (Stimmers and Forge-born) you need to spend MORE money on the rules to use them than the cost of the minis themselves (which seems the wrong way around to me). Back in the day GW would have simply added the rules in an issue of White Dwarf (perhaps it would be better to still add the rules in WD, but then leave the book open for the collectors that want the fluff and new rules that “expand” things onwards). This means if you have Gangs of the Underhive you could still play with those rules plus the rules for Stimmers and Forge-Born in an issue with WD without having to buy a whole new book and cards to use them.
I presume after GW have released all six new “codex” books this will mean Gangs of the Underhive will be obsolete (not the first time GW have done this with Necromunda rulebooks, it looks like these days a Necromunda rulebook is doing well if it lasts for 18 months before GW makes it obsolete with another publication.
But Yeah, get the Northern Pass mat, it’s an excellent mat to add to your collection that can be used with just about any game and any period and scale 🙂
If I remember correctly back in the mid 80s the prime possible reasons for WW3 starting were:
Failure of grain harvest in Ukraine coupled with NATO/US sanctions causing famine/massive shortages in the Pact domestic market.
Escalation of possible conflict with Turkey (NATO Ally) in the middle east against neighbouring country.
Revolt in Pact member wanting to leave following up with NATO/US support
Afghanistan conflict came seriously near in Russia had attempted to expand beyond border of Afghanistan into Pakistan to create a “DMZ” and stop US supplies reaching the Taliban.
Other than that, just read most of the older Tom Clancy books (like Red Storm rising) to find other “likely” reasons why WW3 may have started 🙂
Who’d have thought a G.W. Painting Handle would ever get smeared in LUBE???
I’m sure there’s a ‘specialist’ website out there for you 😉
Looks rather like I’m on the right ‘Specialist Website’ already!
To be fair it does look like something that really ought to be smeared in lube.
Rule #34
@engineseer, I had to Google that one! As my Brother’s Godfather once said to me, ‘If you can think of it, someone is doing it to someone else in London!’
Love the time slot! It’s late Saturday morning in Eastern Oz.
Always liked the Red Alert idea of killing Hitler meant that the Soviet Union ended up in the middle of Europe even earlier. Bring on WWIII.
Whilst on WWIII is that in real-life there were many ‘proxy’ wars and ‘regime changes’ so it’s easy to imagine a regime change leading to former allies going hammer and tong at each other. Even a 2nd American civil war isn’t that hard to imagine in today’s political climate.
One thing I do like that GW does currently is the cross overs in the same setting. For example my Rogue Trader from Blackstone Fortress also being used in 40K and Kill Team with data cards. If they do a bit more of this with Necromunda and I’m going to be in heaven.
Enjoying the new format.
Team Yankee looks amazing. I’m a huge Flames of War fan, but haven’t dove into WW3.
If you are doing World war 3 alt, US starts it like in Dr. Strangelove. This could have a few of the standard US allies teaming up with Russia against the US/Canada/British. Have the war fought in the US like in Red Dawn.
Really like the Necron 3d prints. You can use a lot of parts for fantasy as well (Old Gods Temples).
Hate to say it, but those are not Mantas in the Aeronautic Imperialis. Those are Tau Tiger Sharks, which fills the role of bomber. The Manta is bigger.
Yes, way bigger.
Ao food to have you guys back. Currently watching while painting at 03:30 as my little one is awake. I’m working on him at a young age SAN long-standing. ????
Thanks for the kickstarter plug guys! And we hope your viewers enjoy the complementary file. As a note, the company is called ProtoKraken, originally we were called Kraken Industries but we weren’t able to secure the url, so we had to change our name. Sorry for the confusion everyone 🙁
I hadn’t made the connection. I loved your junkward terrain. Best of luck with this KS fellas!
Somehow the opening was a clever way for @warzan to include a mechano-fascinum in honor of Mutunus Tutunus for 3D printing.
Now about that opening… Justin has floating meeples but no Bob… I protest!
WWIII gaming in the gaps as a push from Yugoslavia, after the death of Josip Broz “Tito” to reclaim territory ceded in northern Italy in times past under the steady gaze of the Alps. Following the trail of Hannibal and pushing farther than the Ottoman Turks the government of Belgrade, in an attempt to reaffirm the identity and solidarity of the ‘Southern Slavs’ while catching the winds of change to the north, gears up military operations and state industry to take hold and strike at the underbelly of the continent. Via combined land and amphibious forces through a concentrated assault through Friuli-Venezia Giulia and a surprise feint on L’Marche the plan seems simple enough to try and draw Italian forces south for a westward bound blitz.
Justin with getting greasy head… Zappa with “Keep It Greasy” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFTLX4VxTc0
The new graphics and set look great.
I only have a couple of boxes of Agema plastics but they are really good. They are actual 28mm minis, which some people might complain about for being too small. Their facespace is worth a follow as they do point out the historical sources behind their sculpts and releases every now and again.
The WWIII stuff looks great – the area I would love to see is India v Pakistan fighting over Kashmir. Back in Europe, perhaps Neil Kinnock wins an election, the UK gives up its nuclear deterrent… Reegan thinks Kinnock is a commie and next thing you know the French and Dutch are invading from the south and the Americans land in Scotland.
I’m sure the Wheel of Fortune was enjoyed by many, not for me though.
Oh, a new weekender, or rather The new weekender!
I must get breakfast ready and start watching ?
I think @phaidknott got it right the other day about WW3 Team Yankee and disparity in size if armies going forward. 1/100 seems even more the wrong scale than it did before with the original TY
Agree with @robert and the Wheel of misfortune part
It’s the Weekend! Well the 5am slot is popular – here I am at 7:30 am GMT on page 2! Let’s see what you’ve done to my Weekender…
Nice mix of content, although not sure about the wisdom of the Justin’s wheel segment (just call me a Grognard).
My weekend will be mostly building a WW3 Soviet force of T64s, BMPs, a few Hinds and other accessories ready for Monday to get my first game in. Was considering waiting for the British, but in my group the Soviets were notable by their absence and look like they may be fun, especially when their new book releases.
Nice to have this back.
lol #sexyfurious… nice one OTT…man I missed you Ben
Bermingham Studio.Shouldn’t that be Ben’s House
Justin you better come back and show us a better version of that mini. I know you’re not big on painting at the moment,but man I agree..SACRILEGE
At some point I’ll sort out the backdrop to make things look even more packed with nerd goodies
Thanks for the show. See you all tomorrow.
Aaand the weekends are right again!
So the Weekender is on Friday now? I love it!! As for World War III I’d like to do a alternate history where France invades Germany as revenge for WWII.
Thank goodness the weekender is back!! Let’s do this boy’s!!!
If you want a ‘what if’ scenario for WW3, have a look at the film World War 3. It’s presented as a documentary (narrated by David McCallum) that starts from real world events in 1989 and then takes a turn into an alternative time line that turns the Cold War hot. It ends with a really chilling line of dialogue.
Edit: found a better link to the whole film
https://youtu.be/q1m7opOGSmQ
“Why didn’t they give Justin 69 seconds?” – My girlfriend.
We need this girl in our lives!!!! – Genius! lol
Haha couldn’t stop laughing when she blurted it out!
Thanks for the free 3D files by the way, got my 3DPrinter-friend on it right away! 😀
Missed you guys but loving the new and improved. That PWorks north pass mat was lush.
There’s a great book by Michael Palmer, The War that Never Was, that plays out a global World War 3 campaign based upon NATO war games. It begins with a Warsaw Pact strike through Norway that mirrors the Market Garden operation that’s a pretty good scenario. It’s a great read.
My 5th edition chaos marines could do with an update…
BTW I LOVE the new inclusion of the weekly “independent” news article. It allows the small companies to get some of the limelight usually dominated by the big companies. Hope to see more of these, perhaps OTTers can suggest some candidates for future articles (if so how would we do that?)
send it using the submit a story link in the top menu matey 🙂
WW3 will obviously break up because europe can’t cope without the UK to provide support…
And france will obviously be the first to surrender… they always do…
The discussion on Redcoats and Tomahawks was really interesting. I’ve always loved this period and this skirmish game really offers a great way for me to game this period. Thanks for highlighting the rules.
With WWIII being formalised and developed like this, with what appears to be a developing timeline going forwards, have you considered running a permenant online campaign for it? Have war declared between two sides with their own alliances and people can only take equipment avaiable from the initial period of Team Yankee and Oil War, but as real world time moves forward the game can unlock technological developments for the players. Split the world in to areas smaller than countries and have battles fought to control them, assigning full controll once a fortnight perhaps. Say people can only control areas within 2 areas of an industry hub, but developed supply lines (Railroad etc) can extend that by 2. Allow players to build or destroy them in areas they control. Have some areas generate Tech Points for their faction and this can help you unlock tech upgrades a ittle faster (or slower if you don’t have many) than the books (or real world) suggested. This gives people tactical reasons to assault specific areas. If they cut off a supply line the enemy may lose an area.
People don’t pick an alliance, they pick a country. Each country has its chat room and picks its leaders and its leaders can chose to stay in an alliance, drop out and do their own thing, or join another alliance. The war goes on as long as people are playing, or until there is only one alliance left with control of an Industry Hub. You could run this like your own MMORPG, kinda like EVE online. You could even impose random/narrative/seasonal events on the world (Storms in this area, disrupting supply lines). Let WWIII play itself out. Maybe go crazy and allow development of future tech if it goes on long enough.
Thanks guys, looking forward to the next one!
Nice weekender, thank you! I’d print that Necron terrain if I’d play 40k, it’s really beautiful.
Now I am a big fan of that mat. It really pops and fits with any genre that plays in that Nordic sort of setting be it fantasy, sci-fi or historical.
Poor Justin, it seems that he is just not used to having lube…….
I am a big fan of the newest British release and happy to see them flesh out the forces. Its definitely opening up a whole new range that I would like to get.
Hi,
Nice revamp guys.. World War III think id like to try something different and do a setting/game along the lines that not all countries/governments cant afford to run an whole army/unit so fall on mercenary companies are in play to hire to do your bidding. Even if you do have an army you may need something done under the table. Not knowing the system I guess its points! mission etc are paid in points to upgrading, new gear or repairing, paying bounties/fines etc.
Do something different other than nations fighting out think might open up a different scope..
I think if I was to win I would have to create my own Legion, and then paint them up as WW3 So ruts, and build in similarities from the Soviets to my Legion’s back story
An interesting take om Team Yankee would be to split the models up between the factions in 1984’a perpetual war: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. Naturally each game would begin with “Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” – or whichever two armies were scrapping that day.
PS Picasso? Jackson Pollocks more like.
Great show guys!
The Necrossia terrain looks fantastic!I really like the little OTT logo on top too 😀 would love to see a table set up like that in the visitors suite!
Really liked the North Pass mat too, always good to see a Warren Meets Mat segment!
Justin did a fine job on that Orc … considering the minor inconveniences 🙂
I love me some Team Yankee! For a full WWIII game I’ve want China and allies versus the US and allies, pulling in North & South Korea and expanding outwards. Give me full naval battles too, though don’t know what rule set you’d use for those. If you’re going to go big, go big! Great show as ever, love the new look. Have a great weekend guys!
Might have to start a WW3 army, love the Chieftain minis.
Loved every pat of the new show. Friday night is me time, so thank you for the early start (U.S. viewer). I sat back with a pint, got lost listening to Gerry talk about M&T and I don’t even play it. More Gerry explains it please. Took a sip every time Ben said “which is really nice” so by WoM I was blowing beer out of my nose, ROTFL!! Thanks to Loydsky for the table leg pattern that bends nicely with the back ground. Keep up the great work gents!
YES. The weekender is back
Liking the new show poor Justin getting the paint challenge at least he gets a free Ork out of it.
No more hole? the mole men have retreated
and as to WWIII isn’t that going to be kicked off by a rogue AI launching a bunch of nuclear warheads? I blame facebook (the bought out skynet for the functional face recognition tech but carried on the AI research too anyway)
Wheel of Misfortune. Sorry guys, I’m not feeling it. A few thoughts:
Why a wheel? Obviously ‘cos of the tv gameshow, but wouldn’t dice be more fitting? Is it always going to be Justin? Wouldn’t it be more fun if you all had a shot? You could randomise it with another wheel. Or better yet, with dice:) Or you could all compete at the same challenge at the same time.
Some of the challenges sound potentially interesting, you could have given a bit more info about some of them. You definitely shouldn’t have started with the lubeinator, that should have been kept for a surprise later on, to add a level of difficulty to an established challenge.
And the music was just awful.
Thank you for the terrain piece. Can never have enough terrain on a board.
Great to have you back,the British starter set from battlefront for ww3 is so tempting. The 3d terrain looks brilliant a 3d printer is defiantly on the wish list.
Warren is right with the aeronautical bases, they are a chunk of plastic that doesn’t look good at all with the models on them. I live the tomahawk range too ?
The Pillar Tomb looks great, thanks! I just got a 3d printer so this is great timing.
I’m really liking the British for Team Yankee, deffo going to grab a couple of boxes of M109’s to recreate my old unit Obty 2nd field regt.
I’m thinking of starting a campaign in the Far East, kicking off with a Soviet-Chinese boarder skirmish that goes full conflict and slowly drags the rest of Asian in to open conflict. For instance North Korea attacks China under instruction from the Soviets, then South Korea sees this as a opportunity to attack the Northern Korean peninsula.
I have been feeling the call of chaos. This might be the start of a new army…
New intro cracked me up. Enjoying the reformat so far
We all know warzan is a fan of a beautiful base. I concur the aeronautica bases aren’t the most aesthetically pleasing but some people in the community have painted them up to look real pretty!
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/358363-aeronautica-imperialis-bases/
https://youtu.be/WByq6hzl_rs
Could the OTT team (cough cough Justin) 3D print an improved base if you don’t think they pass muster with Warzan even when painted?
Oh and on the new “set” think you’ve missed a trick with the table base (sorry brother Lloyd!)
Could have painted it/covered it with the “OTT” colour scheme/logo……subliminal brand promotion for free!
Great to have the Weekender back!!!
Fun show – good to see you guys back!
I really like the look of the Northern Pass mat, although would be interested to see how it works with other scales (e.g. 6mm or 10mm). I agree the frosted and ‘green’ versions of the trees and buildings both work, but I don’t think they both work at the same time. Either looks good, but both together looks a bit odd.
I’ve liked most of what GW have done with Blackstone Fortress to date, but I think they’ve really dropped the ball with the Nurgle set. I don’t mind White Dwarf articles enabling you to use other (40K) models in the game, but I think the (pricey) supplements have in part been good to date because they’ve introduced nice, new miniatures. The ones that come in this ‘new’ set are old, have been churned out in vast quantities in all sorts of box sets (so anyone who wants them already has them) and they’re currently available in much cheaper formats. So not only are they recycling old miniatures rather than giving us new ones but the cardboard that comes with them comes in at an extortionate price when you look at the difference between purchasing the minis this way and via one of the other sets they come in.
Enjoyed today’s show, especially the new graphics & the table. As Battlefront did a Dr who on a chieftain tank mini for the first Uk open day it’d be interesting to have some Dalek and/or Cybermen influences on some other tanks or infantry models to add a bit of flavour for the WW3 setting. Probably no chance due to licencing etc but it’s nice to dream & think what if.
Chaos Space Marines were my first 40K army…would love to start them back up with some new models!
I know what you mean Warren. I can’t keep the rules in my head either. It is a running joke at my club that I don’t read the rules etc. But I do, I just can’t remember when I get to club. By the way welcome back to the weekender, missed you.
The cheesy factor is strong in this new weekender format, it will take a little while to get us to it.
Hmmm do i get the sniff of a WW3 based bootcamp in the future… having seen lots of genres being done I would love to see what BOW could do with modern table setups around the world.
Never played in this setting so I would love to give it a go, here is to hoping.
Glad you guys are back and I like what you have done with the show, both format and set changes are working. Jolly good show!
Has a significant Necron army and 2 3D Printers… I guess there is no way I cant back this project…. damn you BOW!
I love the new intro! Also, I really want the Chinese to come into Team Yankee. Since relations between China and USSR soured in the 60s, and Nixon getting China to trade with the West in the 70s, it would be interesting to see what kind of stance China would take in a World War III scenario. Would they ally with the USSR or NATO, stay neutral, or go on their own regional conquest?
I really like the new weekender format! Wonderful chaos with the Wheel of Misfortune, perhaps the tasks performed are more inspired by Sysyphos then Hercules. The ruinous powers are pleased.
World War 3 is rather fascinating, in the age of atomic warfare I have always thought of it as a quick and devastating affair. That version might not be so suitable for wargaming thou!
Yay it’s back 🙂
Loving the new format, on the ww3 front maybe some thing in Asia, Russia invading Japan from the island north or the china invading hong kong.
Necrossia pillar looks great and will be giving that a go.
I had no clue about an Altered Carbon RPG, that is something I could really get behind next time we are finishing one and starting something new..
Tomorrow we have “XL BS”? That’s some unfortunate acronyms. Glad to see you guys are back. Oh and i absolutely love those Timestamps. Thank you for doing them.
As cool WW3 would be, i would like to see battlefront do GI joe vs cobra game at 15 mm :).
Happy weekend!
Good mat choice @warzan i really like it.
The indie segment is a nice addition but, not so much the torture Justin segment…
See you on XLBS!
Argh! Change! Going to have to retune my brain to new theme music….
3D model looks really good
Great podcast! Super pumped to print the Necrossia Pillar Tomb! Might embed it in some 40k scenery soon.
Poor justin. We need to get him some Gamer Goo (hand drying material) to help him hold onto that brush. That wheel just seems like it is going to be a bunch of fun.
I enjoy that @avernos and @warzan promote historical games and small or independent companies. Just last week I ordered some of the Agema characters to spruce up my Republican Romans from Victrix hoping they fit a little better than Aventine’s lovely smaller sculpts. Good on you lads.
I will probably even order the excellent mat Warren was shilling, but it will forever be tainted in my memory from watching @warzan pleasuring himself with it…
I admit that I must be getting old, but I never have seen much humor in the humiliation or misfortune of others. I’m not perfect, and I won’t say I never visited misfortune on some well deserving souls, but I never took any enjoyment from it. I would suggest taking the wheel of misfortune out back and burning it.
Happy weekender guys!! I really hope to win that chaos box…
Hmmm… I guess I’m just settling into the changes. Clearly everything was a bit jarring to me because it was the first time seeing the new elements. But I can see how they might appeal more to the YouTube crowd and ease broadening the audience.
The WoM was a clear callback to the great @dignity tortures of old, but it’s interesting to hear everyone coming to his defense. Pro or Con everyone seems to talking about it more than any other feature. That is a success all its own. 😉
Loved the Indie Spotlight and its position at the beginning of the show. Great way to start off!
Gary Hunt Miniatures and Death Ray Designs are two companies that should really get more love!
https://www.garyhuntminiatures.com/
https://deathraydesigns.com/
Let’s see, what else…
For WWIII, what if after alienating all the developed countries and de-stabilizing the economies of all the developing countries that refuse to dance to its demands, the US is declared an international pariah. And the one single unifying thing every other country can agree on is destroying that de-stabilizing tyrant force.
The first campaign is The World vs. the U.S.
We have every type of terrain you could want to play on:
*Plains
*Tundra
*Swamp
*Mountains
*Heavy Forest
*Rural and Urban variations of all the above
Once the U.S. is defeated at the end of the first campaign, (we may be able to take on any two countries, but we couldn’t defeat the entire world allied against us) the second campaign follows the fracture of the alliance of convenience.
The power vacuum left by the US defeat causes the survivors to factionalize along old historical grievances and a bit more of a free-for-all ensues in the wreckage left behind.
oooooooo New intro is flash and Warren meets mat is back. Very professional lads and poor Justin , the bloke just can’t take a trick .
New format looks good. So I guess comment here for the chance to win…
Glad to have the weekender back, missed it. One thing I did find was the camera movement on the mats a little bit confusing – it kind of making me feel a little sea sick and felt my eyes were unable to focus on the details (I’ll try watching it again because I had just finished work for the day). I’m all for creativity but as you say there’s room for polishing over the next few weeks, apart from that good to see it back with the changes and looking forward to seeing more.
Had a good laugh at the wheel of misfortune segment.
Another Great Weekender and it showed up late Friday Night usually. The addition to the WWIII era is the new and awesome looking British units and if the Soviets are crossing frontier into Belgium and France things have seriously gone south quickly. For the love of god lose the Wheel of Misfortune segment that was way to creepy even for me. The Necron terrain and discussion was very interesting.
Gaslands is a great gateway game. also Fallout and the upcoming Skyrim game. Since I won a lot of different games in different settings, finding a theme that is of interest and then fitting the game to that is what worked best for me in the past.
I ordered clear 50mm bases so I can use them on my crimson skies flyers to make use of the same maps. Would be easy enough to use those as well with a drilled hole for the Aeronautica bases. however the dials are actually a very easy way to keep track per plane, so I would not do that, and once you paint the bases they look like a little radar and interface which actually looks nice 🙂
The pods back woo. I can drive you all to work now! Great stuff.
Hoorah! You’re back. Missed you guys.
Downloaded the Necrossia Pillar Tomb and order some crystal clear filament today. I will post the results when i cam make time :). Thanks
This was fun. Really appreciate the timestamps as it allows me to skip the bits I’m not interested in. Thanks for the 3D file 😉
I think what you should of said Warzan is,
“What did the Romans do for us”
apart from these hundred things,
the question still to be asked is, “What did the Romans do for us”.
Loving the new look and feel to the weekender. The time stamps are a great little tweak.
Got one of those North Pass mats in the mail now, it looked too good not to get and I’m rather into mats for the gaming table at the moment.
I don’t think your Hasslehoff idea for the alternate WW3 ideas, so I’m going to leave it at that. I’d be tempted to start a campaign that has it kick off just a few months after WW2 and having the newer tech become available over the course of the campaign.
just a nasty little fact a ww3 would last according to experts about 2-3 weeks before the highteck stuff would either be destroyed or needs replacing which spares would in all likely hood be used up so nukes would be the only option left short of surrender.
It’s my first weekender in a while since our 3rd child was born. I really enjoyed the fresh feeling of the weekender.
As far as world war three, I would like to explore how that would effect smaller conflicts. I’m not exactly sure of the timeline of battlefronts game, but how would the IRA conflicts in Ireland Be affected. Or what about the Bosnian genocide. Would the distraction of global conflict result in different outcomes for other historical moments?
late to the watching… it’s Monday moaning… and the intros are so full of colours….. it hurts my eyes XD
A good weekender. I would find an WW 3 Russian invasion of Turkey an interesting scenario.
I have me a Konrad Curze and a Sevatar – so if I was to start up a Chaos Space Marine force it would have to be Night Lords.
There does seem to be a few projects ongoing where people are already working on Night Lords however.
Hmm guess its a good time to start collecting files for when i’ll undoubtedly eventually purchase that printer.
I’m pretty integrated by this WW3 business. It ties in nicely with the cold war gone hot themed spec ops campaign I’ve just started organising. theirs probably room to do some 15mm bigger battles on the side.
Nice to see you guys back, it’s been to long.
Liking the look of the Altered Carbon KS, but i’ll have to give it a miss. I have backed one to many in the last two years, just can’t help myself.
Chaos 40k is one force I never got in to, think the nearest i got to them was the Dark Elder, but all is not a loss my oldest grandson has started collecting them. Can you have team yankee world war three chaos, interesting idea.
Loving the Necrossia terrain, but alas as i don’t have a 3D printer yet i’ll have to look on with affection.
Justin’s wheel, I don’t about everyone else, but i love it.
Really loved the new graphics and music.
In terms of WW3 there are lots of battlefields to explore both from WW2 but also new, how about a beach landing in the Baltic as a strike towards Moscow.
I look forward to hearing about Muskets & Tomahawks and the new format. I love catching the Weekender and will check out the new episode. Winning the Space Marines would be awesome, of course, as it would allow me to jump into the 40k universe easily. Keep up the great content.
Just adding… Loved the new look and WW3 stuff looks great. Trying to get my Dad nto it. He used to work on Cheiftans and other stuff at Hawker Siddeley.
While Dr Strange is a great sculpt, I really want Crisis Protocol to give me some X-men teases. And more spiders. Ghost Spider, Silk, Scarlet Spider, Spider-ham. Let’s get nuts.
Absolutely loving the new fomat and the studio looks awesome. Good job guys!!
On the ww 3 front there is a series of books by Ian Slater not the greatest but could be used for more
Outlandish scenarios
Am a BIG WW11 gaming fan and have Aussies/British, Yanks, and German/Italian factions all schemed around the Tunisia mid-war era. Am also collecting WW3 stuff also, so any minor additions would always be welcome. So want to print the Necrossia pillar but my mate’s printer is too small… sad, sad times. I will download the file anyway in case I can find someone else with a machine big enough. Love the shameless display of the OTT logo on the top of it too.