Weekender: Speed Freeks; The Next Big Winner For Games Workshop?
October 20, 2018 by dracs
Come and join us for The Weekender as we're going to be getting stuck into some Orkish nonsense today as we've been able to sit down and play the awesome Speed Freeks from Games Workshop.
Weekender Podcast Download
With that in mind make sure to fill the comments with some of your tips on how you make Nobz go fasta' and what kind of tunes these greenskin racers are going to be listening to!
Updates - SPIEL '18
We are going to be away next weekend at Essen SPIElL '18 with full Live Blogs from the event full of prizes and much more so watch this space to see what's new from the tabletop gaming world.
In the run-up to that make sure to check out Ben's article where he talked about ten games that he is looking forward to learning more about at the event.
Speed Freeks - MORE DAKKA!
Justin has had a chance to play the very cool Speed Freeks from Games Workshop this weekend and you'll be able to watch a Let's Play of that on the website very soon indeed.
We had a lot of fun with it and would love to hear what you think about it too so get your thoughts into the comments.
The Kill Team Cat was also back with your thoughts on last week's question concerning the new Commanders Expansion and we look over your findings.
Space Hulk Challenge & Community Spotlight
Sticking with the world of Warhammer 40,000 for a bit we're also looking over some of the awesome projects that you have been working on for the Space Hulk Tactics Hobby Challenge.
You can come and see what has been done by some of the community HERE whilst also thinking up just what you'd do to hopefully win yourself a prize...including an awesome diorama from Tomas Mennes!
We also take a look at the Community Spotlight from this week where we get seriously Oldhammer!
News
We've had some great news to look through this week...
- Reichbusters: Projekt Vril - The new Weird World War game from Mythic is coming to Kickstarter in November
- Black Powder Introduction - Get the lowdown on Black Powder 2nd Edition from Rick Priestley
- Battlestar Galactica - Try out a new spaceship battle game from Ares Games at SPIEL '18
- The Third Offensive - The story continues to unfold in Corvus Belli's Infinity with a new book!
What caught your eye?
The Future Of Sally 4th's Albedo
We talk with Sally 4th about their anthropomorphic Sc-Fi game, Albedo Combat Patrol which is currently up on Kickstarter, delving into what they have planned in the future for the game.
This is a very unique looking game with some great miniatures, a well planned narrative and some ace terrain too!
Kickstarter
It's time to take a little bit of a look at what's new on Kickstarter right now...
- 7TV Apocalypse - Check out where Crooked Dice are going next with their ace skirmish game
- Valhalla - Become a Viking Jarl and fight for glory in this new dice allocation card game
Will you be backing any of these projects?
Competitions - Win Speed Freeks!
We are going to be giving away a copy of Speed Freeks this week on the show so all you need to do is comment down below on something you liked about the show or one of our myriad topics.
You can also see the winners from last week's show who got themselves Kill Team Commander Expansions over on our Prize Centre!
IMPORTANT: If you see your name or a friend's name, let them know as there is a 30 Day Window to claim your prizes!
Have a great weekend!
Really looking forward to trying out all the new buggies!
Speed Freeks sounds like tons of fun.
As for ‘dinging the dong’. I redinged it. As Youtube adds frustration to everything it seems… sometimes deactivating the dongs I dinged in the past.
Now that was a mouthful!!!
Super awesome – Good Morning to all 🙂 fantastic prizes as always – and what a great show – luv the weekender #1 show
The Secret Weapon Junkyard Yard Tiles I got through Kickstarter will be perfect for Speed Freeks. Going faster? Nah, my Orks are all about looted vehicles, welding on lots of rusted armour, installing more dakka and attacking in force.
Big red Nobz is always da fastest! More speed! 😁
Speedfreak – did Motörhead know this game would come out in the future?
Ork boyz sold out online at GW. Are new boyz coming?
I converted a Forge world Grot Bomber into a single seater racing car. I did this before Speedfreeks was announced as I had an idea for Orc car racing game, though a Death Race version. I’ll get a pic of it uploaded and link it in a reply.
https://www.beastsofwar.com/members/warhammergrimace/photos/#PhotoSwipe1540031223851
I used to have that little bomb, I wonder what happened to it. Love the conversion you’ve done
Cheers
Love it!
Making Orcs go faster is either have him be chased by a giant squid or paint him red
As always great show guys. I truly love those new Ork Vehicles, I always wanted to do an Ork Army but didn’t have the courage to do One more Horde Army… Now with this… It’s harder to resist ! 🙂
For Speed freeks musik, anything thing from the Swedish War metal band, Sabaton
Start vid Primo Victoria
White Zombie – Black Sunshine, though Dragula at a pinch (off).
And now that I’ve thought of it for another minute, Ministry – Jesus Built My Hotrod.
Ding’a’ding dang my dang’a’long ling long!
Literally the best song in history. Gibby on vocals and I love it love it love it!
How to make a ork go fast, simple paint it red or scrap a Gobo to a catapult, fire the Gobo, which is now going faster that the ork, ork gets angry, put foot to the floor and wills, the vehicle fast, catches up and passes the no flatten as it has hit the floor and repeat the process again and again.
Best song of Speed Freaks, Pop Will Eat Itself, I live in Splendour, I die in Chaos
The best possible Speed Freaks theme song is Jesus Built My Hotrod by the Ministry w/ musical drunk ranting by Gibby Haynes maybe swapping out “Gork n’ Mork” for Jesus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRVMUOYTc3Y
Put an Ork in a warp rocket and set it of, just don’t know if he will survive but he will go fast.
Make em go faster by strappin’ a rokkit to dere bonce and play D’ya Wanna Go Faster by Terrorvision!
Speed Freeks… I keep thinking it’s like adult Mario Kart.
That Battlestar game has me interested.
Red nobs go faster, but sometimes slow and steady is better 😉
Don’t forget the song from convoy 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss
How to make an Ork go faster? Polish its shiny nob until its throbbing red, as we all know red ones go fasta!
And as for a soundtrack? I can think of nothing finer than “Highway Star” by Deep Purple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAKCR7kQMTQ
Dangerous driving song, Jesus Built my Hot Rod, by Ministry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXCh9OhDiCI
Albedo, We need some samurai rabbits, or space rabbits. ala usagi yojimbo from Stan sekai
So I had a real bad night with next to no sleep, and was lying restless when The Weekender aired. So decided I might as well watch it right away, now sleep was eluding me anyway. Guess who fell asleep while listening to you guys chat about smashing your nobz together! I’m not gonna go into details about what kind of dream resulted of that. I can only say, I am now wide awake…and i will never go to sleep again 😀
Fantastic weekender as always 🙂 Thanks for the laughs.
LOL
Keeping to the spirit of the weekender, I want to replace the Megatrakk Scrapjet Nob with Dick, the awesome, Dastardly.
Muttley too if I can squeeze him in. This is dependant on how much room Dick takes up once the Nob has been removed.