The Weekender: Dropzone Commander Special Part 1!
August 9, 2014 by dignity
Good morning and welcome to what is going to be a very special Weekender as we embark on an epic two part show delving into all things Dropzone Commander!
Warren and Justin are joined by Dave of Hawk Wargames to talk about the latest and greatest creations from his evil genius mind! What's in the newest Starter Boxes for the current factions? Well, first things first, they're all plastic!
Stay tuned for Sunday's show as the guys get to talk about all things Resistance and Dave reveals details on a new Campaign Book coming soon!
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Great Episode. Been wanting to try Dropzone Commander, but it’s hard to get where I live.
Just buy the minis online then?
First Infinity now Dropzone so many good games, so not enough money!
Yeah Resistance gimme gimme gimme.
Looking forward to the new plastics!
That would be awesome to get my club into the game
I got to add some scourge buildings to the city now!
OMG that prize is awesome! I already have a fairly large Shaltari army plus the two person starter set so this prize would be very welcome. Hawk Wargames is a great company to deal with. I ordered from them and my order was delayed while they waited for one of the components of my order and they sent me almost 45GBP worth of free stuff as an apology for being a couple of weeks late in shipping. Thought that went above and beyond, greatly appreciated the gesture.
Brilliant episode. Just started playing the game with scourge but can’t wait to try some other races. What an excellent prize!
Those new starters look amazing! I always liked the look of the PHR now they have a plastic starter I’m in!
What can I say…I wasn’t going to start playing Dropzone Commander…then you launch the Dropzone Commander weekend. With my fiancee away for the weekend, I start looking back on your previous covarage of Dropzone Commander. I always like the minis, but two things sold the game for me: 1) The possibility of EPIC moments (just like the ones you like Warren) and 2) How genuine and committed Dave is about his minis and his game. Now that is a games creator that I want to support. Now I find myself planning a trip to a games store in Copenhagen (I… Read more »
It’s a very very solid game, and the background is one of my favourites!
And dave will be reading this no doubt 😉
Honestly that is one of my favorite parts of this whole line. Dave is very involved with the community.
Dave totally is dedicated and involved in the universe of the game. Was great to hear what he had to say. 🙂
Did I hear you correctly at the beginning of the vid @warzan? Shaltari and PHR starter kit’s gonna be in plastic? 😀
Despite just being a 1 hour advert It was a great episode. But why it’s taking up a Weekender slot is beyond me.
Same comment every single time we do a special @tasker – and we give you the exact same response every single time… “We do specials as a way of breaking things up a bit, when we have an opportunity to look into something in depth with a guest (ie we get them to the studio). It runs via the weekender because we are only 3 people and we cant work miracles in the volume of content we can put out (and to be fair people only have a limited amount of time to even watch it) Tomorrow we have a… Read more »
Didn’t really mean it the way it reads but it’s to late now I guess. ( The beauty of written word – It doesn’t always come across how you want it to. And lack of an edit button and the fact that I forgot to add smilies also doesn’t help. 🙁 lol ) Saying that though – Yes, i’ve said it before, but what am I suposed to do – Just ignore that i’m not keen on what you’re doing and just sit idly by? If I did that it gives the impression i’m ok with things as they are… Read more »
A couple of little points 🙂 Yup sometimes it’s hard to read tone in text, sorry if I misjudged it! However we announced about the two part special on Thursday. It was a great opportunity to look in detail at each faction and how to approach them. It coincides with the launch of a new show drop tactics. Infinity spends nearly a week with us so we can craft something like a themed week. (We have Dave for 5 hours) so we have to work within the constraints we have 🙂 Your welcome to raise issues anytime, but when we’ve… Read more »
Fair enough then. 🙂 I tend to type stuff quickly and forget that the tone i’m thinking it in isn’t neccessarily the tone that it’s going to be read in. ( And forgetting smilies doesn’t help – i’m always getting myself into trouble for it. lol ) As i’ve said before – Under no curcumstances should you take anything I say or type as being meant in a mean or nasty way. Although sometimes frustration gets the better of me and I end up a bit more blunt than I would normally be. Believe it or not i’m actually not… Read more »
Thinking on it. Maybe it’s a matter of perception.
If you had announced that there wasn’t going to be an episode of Weekender this week for whatever reasons and then shown this as a special. Would I have minded so much..?
Hmmmm. That’s something I need to ponder over.
We did on Thursday 😉
Yeah my bad. I missed that announcement due to bloomin plummers ripping the house apart. lol
Those PHR look so cool!
u should put a droll warning on this eppisod this all looks so good great show as usual guys
IS this the future of weekenders? If you’re not into a game then your Saturday morning’s cleared…
I may get into this game eventually, but…
@coxjul see reply to @tasker above.
Let me put some perspective on this, we have put out around 100 episodes of ‘The Weekender’ and ‘The Weekender XLBS’
We have done a special on maybe 5 or 6 occasions.
If this were the ‘future’ of the weekender – it wouldn’t be called the weekender 😉
Firstly I should have read the earlier posts before posting, but often by the time I do so Saturday a.m. there’s pages of them. I hadn’t picked up the announcement on Thursday – been too busy to catch up with everything. I wanted to post as I’m always looking for an excuse to get into a new game & winning goodies is one way.so hope I’m not disqualified 😉 No criticism meant – I like the way you mix things up, but like @tasker I guess I miss the rambling roundup that is usually weekender, and maybe XLBS will make… Read more »
The Weekender will always be about the coolest thing we pick up that week and we spend a few hours (+ more hours when we come up with segments and find images etc in the following days) talking with each other and planning out what it’s going to be about. This week just happened to be Dropzone Commander because it was bloody exciting!
BoW Ben
I don’t play Dropzone and i loved this whole weekender. In fact, I don’t play Flames Of War either, but FoW FTW is currently my favourite show here. I have fond memories of Dreadball Academy, but i’ve never touched a Mantic mini in my life.
I get your point, my top game is Warmachine so if there was a FoW FTW style show here for Warmachine/Hordes I’d be all over it, but good content is good content whichever way you slice it.
And this weekender was good content! 🙂
That is a huge prize! I’ve always wanted to give this game a go but being a poor student, not ideal to start yet another game!
Can’t wait to see the resistance! I spent the whole of last month without internet so this is all news to me!
I have no intention of playing DZC, but I just love watching these videos. For some reason I have a lot of respect for the game.
If I ever get my Multiplicity machine working, the second copy of me is going to get into gaming and DZC in a big way.
The first copy would be getting sent to go to work, obviously…
Dream come true mate lol … dream come true!
Great episode. Just played a demo last Thursday. Enjoyed playing it and the models look really cool.
The new plastics are great. The buy in cost has always slightly put me off drop zone, as it is the PHR that I am interested in, this mostly solves that issue.
All the stuff in plastic? Blimey!
Liked the show as always guys. Good to see other stuff from Hawk coming out in plastic
Never played Dropzone before, but some of the guys in my area have a small army of them. Still need some convincing before I’m willing to commit myself into the game..
Loving the new Drop Zone Commander starters!
Can’t afford to get into Dropzone right now myself but must say I’m really impressed by it as a game. The background is really engaging, the detail on the miniatures are superb, moreso when you consider their size, and quite frankly I could listen to Dave ramble on about real scales and passive countermeasures for days! Really enjoying this themed weekend guys, great job!
The plastics, specially for the PHR, are just what we need to get DZC started in my neck of woods.
Nice. I have been hoping they would make plastic starter armies for a long time. I really like that they include different weapon options in the PHR box