Weekender: DreadBall Season 5 & Gen Con Next Week!
July 25, 2015 by lloyd
A jam packed week in wargaming and plenty more to look forward to with the Weekender!
Journey: Wrath Of Demons Competition
First up a little reminder that you can check out a pair of articles by BoW Dawn on Journey: Wrath of Demons from Marrow Productions.
Both of these articles look at the game in great depth and if you comment on the Gameplay Article you will be in with a chance of winning a copy of the game for yourself. We think this looks superb and really good fun.
DreadBall Season 5
We're also talking about DreadBall Season 5 from Mantic Games which is in the studio. There are some really fun new ways to play the game including the ability to make your own robot and genetically modified players.
There are also some neat new teams with the Convicts and Asterians and MVPs too.
Gen Con Live Blog
Next week is Gen Con and both Dawn and Gianna are going to be there covering the event with a Live Blog.
We talk about some of the cool things we're hoping to see more of including Dark Age, Warsenal Infinity Terrain and some new models for Wild West Exodus.
Project VLOGs!
Last but not least make sure to check out the Project VLOGs that we've been running on the website for both Age of Sigmar and Warhammer 40,000's Astra Militarum.
Watch The Weekender XLBS Tomorrow With A Backstage Free Trial
What other things would you like us to cover with Live Blogs for both Backstage and Frontstage?
Let us know in the comments!
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Happy Saturday!
I just woke up to find that I’m out of coffee…this is a REALLY shitty saturday! 🙁
Well that sucks, unfortunately a “Happy [day goes here]!” wishes the reader a good experience, it does not guarantee one.
I’m really enjoying the Laketown VLOG, seriously cool stuff guys
Warren: the paint you want is Nihilakh Oxide.
forgot to say, happy weekend.
Spartan games Halo I’m hopping we see some 15mm figs and vehicle’s
That’s on our list to check out! ☺
Happy Weekend!
No – we don’t do ” Happy Saturday” but you may proclaim ” IT’S THE WEEKEND! “
Re GenCon. I’d like a focus on some of the small British studios that have made it over there, some post-KS. How are they faring and how are their products going in the big US market?
With the new Plogs format, how about presenting other series, like Romain’s pair berries in this way, continuity of comments etc is a big benefit of this format.
If you”re looking for a name (I like Plog BTW except spell checker keeps changing in to Plot although it’s learning quickly) how about Clogs (continuous logs); Slogs ( serial logs) or if Lloyd’s doing one… Llogs?
#%#¥ auto correct – how does ‘paint series’ become ‘pair berries’ ????
Yeah, not sure I’m that keen on a video of Roman’s pair berries…
Lol love the names. We’ll see what we can find out on the small companies. ☺
Do you know of any spefically? I’d appreciate any quick pointers.
Even if you took a boat across the Atlantic you’d still need to take a plane from what ever port you dock at to get to Gencon. Well I guess you could take a train but I think your looking at around 24+ hour train ride.
I totally get Warren when talking about the zenithal lighting. Recently I’ve been taking a step back from that technique (for certain projects at least) and been moving back towards the more classic foundry style (thank Frostgrave for that!).
The only bad thing about GenCon this year is that I’m not there. It’s good to see that GW have read my GenCon article from last year and are taking my advice on board….
As for what I’m looking forward to? The pre-release questing knights for Relic Knights, naturally.
Justin, I believe Marie Claude will be cosplaying as Betty. She’s been working on a Lug to go with it but I don’t think it’ll be ready for GenCon.
http://ninjadivision.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/RK-SPM141003-BettyLug-900×579.jpg
https://instagram.com/p/5Wm15WKaet/?taken-by=marieclaudebourbonnais
As for places for Dawn & Gianna to get to, see if Cool Mini have anything interesting to say about The Others and Wrath of Kings, and ask Japanime Games about all things Krosmaster.
You got it!
Ben you will definitely be missed this year. I guess we will see you at Salute next year.
I’ll definitely be at the show, but I’m not sure if I can stretch to the meet-up the night before. Especially if I want to get to GenCon in the next couple of years. Hope you have a great long weekend next week 🙂
Gotcha covered, Ben!
Please show Wyrd games
Most definitely! ☺
And happy weekend
New character for Warren’s Dreadball team – Zenith Lighting, Plinth of Darkness 🙂
Gen Con:
Dark Age miniatures game
Spartan Games – Halo
Fantasy Flight
Soda Pop minis – Marie-Claude and the huge robot she has been building.
Check, check, and check! ☺
Another enjoyable show.
I have a bit of dreadball and enjoy the game but I’ve been so switched off by the minis – awful to clean up, that I can’t bring myself to buy any more.
On the terrain, I have to say I love stuff painted that way, the style is exactly what I like for games. The only issue I have is that I know I can’t replicate it, so it’s almost off putting because it’s too good.
I really do think it’s just a personal preference thing.
Morning SuperfurryManiac – I have friends that are exactly in the same boat as you.. my view on it is that you are somewhat paying for what you get… the mantic stuff can have a lot of flash or be a bit too bendy… but it’s affordable… and for assembling 4-8 models, I’m okay spending the time cleaning them up… I also have found some of the MVPs to be really, really nice… for me, it’s been the Kalyshi, original Robots, and a few others that were a pain.. the other thing is there are lots of other sports games… Read more »
I’d agree with your view, I think the standard is absolutely fine for the price. My problem is I’m lazy and probably find cleanup and assembly the least enjoyable part of the hobby so anything that makes that worse does push me away. Still I’m sure I’ll get a couple more teams.
Also @spamelot thanks for the heads up, I remember seeing about it in the kickstarter but then with looking at other stuff and not staying close to dreadball at all completely forgot. I may go for newer teams if I decide to delve back into it then.
keep in mind the new season teams (funded with dbx) aren’t restic 🙂
Interestingly my Dreadball league has just agreed not to use the customisable teams in the next season. They just look too overpowered!
… but Season One teams are still vaild – our final round is tomorrow and the favourites to win are yer basic Corporation (yes my team, since you ask :))
gak gak AK ak ak akakakak GAAaak ak ak?
boo… learn to adapt, or go extinct I say =p lol..
I think the only issue with the customizable teams is going to be for new players remembering what each upgrade/stat change is.. and it isn’t like there aren’t already “better” basic teams or teams that can end up dominating a League due to some good rolls on the XP charts…
Please check out monoliths stand and find the gossip or any updates on the Conan board game please
Good call. We’re on it! 🙂
Would love to see live blogs for everyone’s personal projects kinda a hobby journal if you will not necessarily tutorials or anything in depth like that more a snapshot of project progress stuff like that
Great Weekender packed full with cool themes and new miniatures.
@warzan zenital lighting is not the right term to adress the point with those thechnique applied to those Warsenal terrain I believe. It’s called color modulation and is mostly used by military modelers to hyper accentuate their tanks. It can easily be overdone and then looks just not right. Btw. the Warsenal terrain by itself is just amazing.
I’d love to see more Infinity terrain looking little bit more Bladerunner 🙂
El string is the quick and easy way for a blade runner look and kids fiber optic torches.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=el+string&tag=mh0a9-21&index=electronics&hvadid=5100713608&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=m&ref=pd_sl_2qtzvfrnwk_e
If you want to go ott an arduino with a small LCD can make awesome looking billboards also works well if you want to build terrain like in arkham knight
Live for weekends in many ways, and Bow is one of them. Great show. I feel for Lloyd, looks like he’s herding cats…haha! Thanks for doing the hard work so I can just sit back with a proper cup of tea and listen to the world we all love.
Warren your right, look at it its a bloody Sentry Post, it’s supposed to be taken Tatically camoflaged.
As far as the terrain goes,the miniatures are what is supposed to pop not the terrain. Terrain is to be well painted while being the background not the center of attention.
@warzan Ahhhh you’re knocking my painting style. Super sad face going on here. It’s not really zenithal – that’s spraying from a specific angle to create a light based highlight. It’s more just individually shaded panels.
But like it or hate it, it sells models.
I like it … In moderation 🙂
Don’t forget, people like myself, Tom Schadle et al see terrain as much the artwork as the models on the board (I say this while spending 3 hours masking areas on the Zen Biker Bar) It’s really easy to put a colour on the model and just weather it. It takes a lot longer to paint them, certainly to Tom’s standard.
I guess it’s each to the own though
Agreed but the spamming of a technique is not art 🙂
Perhaps, but don’t forget, these are studio models that have to wow on an individual basis. All of the stuff I’ve been doing recently is exactly the same – it’s either a studio model designed to wow a potential customer into buying something, or a personal model for the blog to help wow my potential customers (the manufacturers) to allow me to paint stuff for them.
There are only a handful of terrain painters out there that take things that far, and it’s kinda what we have to do, otherwise anyone could paint the models for them 🙂
In regards to Gencon the Kingdom death booth!!! the game is being shipped Im hoping a demo game would be there or displays of models anything please… also talk to Wyrd about malifaux
Got em on this list, for sure! ☺
Only rule I think that was important that was missed by the guys going over Dreadball Season 5 Mutants & Robots (at least for Robots) is that any upgrade that doesn’t do anything for your model (doesn’t increase skill, stat, or something) is free.. so you can take a 2nd “arm” and if you are already Skill 3+, with a Safe Pair of Hands, and that 2nd arm is Skill 4+ or also “A Safe Pair of Hands” you don’t pay for it… same with bodies.. some of them don’t give you any better stat that the 4+ you already… Read more »