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!
Loved the Speed Freaks Lets Play, i can feel my old resistance to GW waning! I did think the WWX Heavy Vaquero buggy would make for an awesome conversion!
the Ork kit bashing just got a huge hand up.
I’d love to get speed freeks to play with my 11yo daughter. She is a huge orks fan and the more I can encourage her the better. Rather expensive Xmas pressie though…
i have always loved Orks, well grots really, but by extension orks, never run an army of them though. this box set is the perfect opportunity to start collecting!
Speed Freaks Play list:
Dragula – Rob Zombie
More Speed Freeks songs
Heading Out to the Highway – Judas Priest
Jesus Built My Hotrod – Ministry
Red hot chilli farts will make any ork go faster!
I would like to see winners for giveaways be announced on the Weekender like it used too. I understand that you won’t for larger giveaways like Salute, UK Games Expo etc. But for like 2 boxes of something, can we please have the announcement back on the Weekender?
Perhaps not quite what you expect. But since all the obvious songs were already mentioned I think this one quite fits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9WgtlgGAgs
A good soundtrack for “speed freeks” would in my choice be “st. anger” from Metallica! more precisely “Frantic” yeah! If I have to choise another genre maybe the soundtrack from Matrix 2, the highway scene. They build a highway just for that scene 😀
Looks like the orks are getting orky again. They have seemed rather boring lately, but now they’re back.
It soundz like you want us to hit the BIG RED BUTTON to make Beasts of War go Fasta.
Albedo Combat Patrol it could be fun, specially since it sounds like I could use quite a bit of models of what I already have to start playing it. Got to start slowing down, Horrible to say I know, on getting new models to jump in to games since I am running out of room. And bills don’t seem to be getting cheaper.
Have as much fun as you can at Essen everyone working!
Totally need this for my daughter. Ork codex next!
Great video as always, Speed Freeks sounds a lot of fun as a grand prix event xD