Weekender: 40k Inquisitor Movie & Boot Camps Announced
September 3, 2016 by lancorz
Welcome to the Weekender, a weekly show where the guys sit down and review what's been happening in the past week in miniature gaming. This week has been packed with content including Re-Roll a Digital Digest for Backstagers, Bootcamp announcements and an in depth view on fan made films and the success of The Lord Inquisitor.
Announcements
Backstagers this week have been in for a treat with the announcement of dipping our toes with Re-Roll, a Digital Digest of the preceeding month, get your copy now and let us know in the comments what your thoughts for future development.
A Walking Dead and Dropzone Commander Bootcamps have been confirmed and tickets are now on sale. Our Painting and Hobby forum has been a hive of activitiy with Hobby Lab Open Challenge, we're astounded with the projects we've seen but now it's time to collect every topic and begin judging for the overall winners.
Bolt Action Competition Prize Winner & Rubicon Models Unboxed
Justin & John are in the studio to talk with Lloyd about their past Let's Plays with Terminator Genisys, featuring the giant of gaming himself, Alessio Cavatore. Congratulations to Jaze for winning the Bolt Action 2.0 Band of Brothers Starter Set for their comment about a favourite Bolt Action Moment.
"My favourite moments in bolt action were from my first game that I played. At 500pts I was running a veteran British force against my opponents horde of Russians.
The first dice of the first turn went to my opponent who swiftly obliterated my one tank, that pretty much defined turn 1 and all my future deployments “don’t deploy tank in the open”. Turn 2 we encountered flamers in heavy armour, this was where my veterans seemed to fall down as there were to many units to deal with and I didn’t have enough fire power to reliable beat through the heavy armour. By turn 3 we had learned that the flamers were slow and pinning markers kept them out the way. Turn 4 we met the wrath of artillery and not to stand still to long.Believe it or not I didn’t win that game, but every part of it was great fun trying to get off the back foot after a catastrophic loss at the start. Every mistake I made was a lesson in strategy that I carry with me still. I think the best part of losing is knowing that you tried, I was very happy my opponent didn’t let me win just because I was new."
Community Spotlight this Week
It's been a tough week for choosing who deserves a Golden Button Award in the Community Spotlight this week, the guys run through some amazing work including Infinity terrain pieces and a cherry blossom forest that would look amazing on a Gates of Antares scenario.
An indepth look at The Lord Inquisitor: Prologue
Additionally, the release of the Fan made Warhammer 40k movie, The Lord Inquisitor had us pumped six years ago, now that the prologue has been released, we're exstactic to see where this goes in it's final form. We discuss issues that can involve real time rendering and just how detailed the environments are too. If you haven't seen the prologue, go check it out!
A Terrain Update Round Up
We have some news that 4Ground are releasing new 15mm Cold War Gone Hot range, which we think would look particularly well for our upcoming Walking Dead Boot Camp.
Build your Dream Cityscapes with Neo Tyranni' The Phalanx Consortium, five 6-10mm scale city boards which would look great in any sci-fi space mission, perhaps perfect for our Dropfleet Boot Camp coming up also!
Plus, an amazing spotlight we've been sent from Tagewerk-Fabrikateure GmbH the Tabletop Gaming Accessories, featuring tokens for X-Wing, Infinity and Guild Ball.
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Happy Weekend to all.
as a replacement to the newsletter, Re-Roll is exactly what we needed.
It’s not a replacement for the newsletter, though, they all go out to front stage and backstagers, this is something exclusive to backstage members 🙂 (rather than another automated thing – something more handcrafted)
It’s the Weekend!
A weekend where I’d hoped to be completing a painting project, except I’ve been let down yet again by a supplier that claimed to have stock of something (bases this time) but has had to order them in.
This practice is starting to annoy me – there are multiple culprits out there in the retail industry that support our hobby!
I do sympathise with you mate, I have spent the rest of this morning trying to find somewhere who sells White dwarf – no luck 🙁
Our Sainsbury’s in Sprucefield had it. So maybe the Coleraine one might
Poll for Re-Roll, it gets my vote
@warzan http://store.steampowered.com/app/373920/
Ohh thanks for this!
Warcraft has been an interesting box office to watch. It’s been a John Carter-style bomb everywhere but China. It took just $47 million in the US, which is awful for a movie with that budget, but $386 million in total with over half of that taken in China, where outperformed The Force Awakens. It’s exceeded Pacific Rim’s box office, and that movie is getting a sequel, but Warcraft’s problem is that foreign movies only get around 25% net of the Chinese box office take, so the studio will be seeing very little of that take. It wouldn’t surprise me if it does get a sequel aimed squarely at the Chinese market on a much lower budget and produced in such a way that it is classed as a domestic movie in China, so the net will be about 50%. As for the movie, I found it inoffensively bad.
I didn’t find it bad at all, and I spent years playing Warcraft, so it had a lot to live up to. Compared to Age of Ultron, Batman vs Superman, Ghostbusters, and Jupiter Ascending, to name a few, it was stellar. OK, maybe not stellar, but it wasn’t bad imho. I even preferred it on some levels to the Force Awakens and I love (I really mean love!) Star Wars. 🙂
What would be the chance if getting every BoW member to use that pic of mystic Justin on re roll as their profile pic?
lol – you cruel man (I love it!)
What image?
Morning folks
I really liked Re-roll great idea, but I’m a big fan of fanzines and non mainstream magazines. As a teenager I use to get badly printed D&D fanzines, which was one of the reasons why I started Irregular Magazine, that and a drunken bet. Over the years I’ve contributed to a number of fanzines/webzines. They are a great part of our hobby, which have slowly disappeared due to the birth of blogs. I’m interested to see how Re-roll goes from this beginning. I’m also happy to contribute to its growing success and long term future. One of the hardest elements of running a web zine we’ve found on Irregular magazine has been getting material from contributors in the form of articles, the cover art has never been a chore to commission. Check us out, even if it’s just to look at our pretty cover art, http://www.irregular-magazine.com
Having finally managed to watch Lord Inquisitor, now that’s how you make a 40k movie. Using the Inquisiton as the driving force is a far better approach to explore and introduce the 40k universe than Smurf marines。
I was really impressed with the Rubicon kits, having built one myself, they’re a really nice kit to build and paint, highly reccomend them.
Let’s get a chat next week 🙂
ok, no problem
I’m glad to see Rubicon getting some love! Their kits are fantastic and the amount of choices you get particularly with their later releases is just phenomenal when considering there are never more than three sprues.
Naturally they are a bit in competition with Warlord but I think it’s brilliant to have both producing 1/56 plastics 😎
The 4Ground Cold War stuff in 28mm would be ace and also ideal for Zombie Apocalypse gaming. Not sure about those pylons tho, rural US screams wooden poles to me 😉
The 40k Inquisitor trailer looks fab and makes me want to start an Inqusitorial warband..
Good to see a cockatoo in the BoW news! *thumbs up*
Had to be done – this show is serious business. We’ll never let Ben off again!
I’m sure a lot of BoW subscribers love a cockatoo.
I read that completely the wrong way
I think that this first re-roll was really good but I think that perhaps the new one should have some re-roll exclusive content, it seems if your fairly active on the site you have see all of it before but that can be a good thing 😀
For the people who want it in a more digestible single item, rather than trailing through the site.
I also think the exclusive content provides more of an incentive to someone to sign up to Backstage to gain access to it. If almost all of it is stuff that was already accessible on the site, it’s unlikely to incentivise anyone to sign up. By contrast, The Weekender offers viewers to chance to double their content by signing up and accessing XLBS. So anyone who enjoys the frontstage show has an incentive so sign up.
The obvious answer is often ‘needs moar —-‘, but we do consider these things carefully for resource and to be able to produce consistently. And also by framing a potential problem we may be able to solve carefully.
No doubt it can and will evolve though
Now I have a moment I can expand a little. For any format (Video or other wise) we create we start with an idea, and then ask:
1) Is it repeatable, or does it have to have a lifespan
2) Can we reuse or upcycle resource that we already have or have expended
3) Can we limit the problem it tries to solve to some tight constraints to start there and see what happens after.
4) Can we limit the amount of management and hands involved – as that is a killer
Try it – and then decide if we push the trial out to get feedback – normally when we are relatively confident that we can repeat the process going forward.
Re-Roll even as it stands actually solves fills quite a number of ‘roles’ and has some internal benefits too I’m keen to explore a little more. 🙂
It’s less to do with original content as it is the time it takes to produce. Re-Roll recycles existent content and makes it available to current paying customers. If it’s time consuming to make then that doesn’t seem like a good use of time. If it can be done quickly then it is, or if it has original content then it can justify the time it takes. Obviously, I say all that without knowing the behind the scenes benefits you derive from it. Community-driven content would seem an efficient way to add original content.
Just curious, you watched the designers notes video in the re-roll post yes?
I did. IIRC you mentioned it was time consuming putting the first issue together, but were hoping you could cut back on that for future issues. You also mentioned that the intention was not to have (much original content). If you can cut down the time then great.
And it’s purpose (at least initially) is as a different browsing experience (offline, linear) so a particular segment of viewers may be impacted by that – so that’s what we’re testing just now 🙂
There is already some unique content in there, but that’s not what we’re testing right now.
We need to see if the actual format has value – because we already have a medium for delivering content – if we stick only unique content in this format – we are not testing the format 🙂
Yeah having a compact offline version of the site will be no doubt great for some people like I said 😀
happy almost weekend (midnight here in california) Just wanted to say I LOVED the Re-Roll! I dont have a tablet and dont really see myself using it as a magazine, Honestly it fills a different need for me. Its amazing how many cool things I skipped right past through the month. Not just catching up on things I missed because I was busy or it went by without me noticing but seeing all the cool things I INTENTIONALLY scrolled past. Tag lines that maybe didnt get me to click the link. Games I dont play or miniature companies Id never heard of. And shame on me theres alot of cool stuff I skip past and RE-Roll sort of forces me to take in everything in the hobby not just my own specific interests. Its a win in my book guys I hope to see many many more
We kinda hoped it would do this, interesting feedback thanks!
I found the same, Re-Roll definitely highlighted articles I missed and for that alone it was brilliant.
When you were showing @soapdogers thread I was just praying you’d get to Danny trejo, prayers answered 🙂
Is meme-bombing the correct term for that?
I did lol when it came up. Did need the push though. Cheers 🙂
Warran Is right about the 15mm sci-fi buildings from 4ground. I also thought they would be good for Halo ground command. I am definitely going to take a look at them.
Hello all 🙂
this was a show packed with awesome stuff 🙂 I cannot wait to see who has won the Scatter Terrain Competition. On a side note these Rubicon tanks look awesome!
you could get round the salt water issue by by doing a piece of coast line of a large fresh water lake 🙂
Poor Justin, not only did he miss out on the Lord Inquisitor chinwag, but he has no idea what cosplay the guys have in mind for him.
On the xwing tokens – is it just me or do the ones with the planet image on them look like if you lay them side-by-side in the right order they’d form a full picture (sort of like those part works that come with books where when the books are placed in order the spines form a picture).
On the pylons and poking your eye out – you also have to worry about garrotting yourself on the electric cable between pylons :p
So having recently picked up Halo, a bunch of us are looking into Team Yankee and terrain was a bit of a concern, think 4Ground have just solved that issue! 🙂
It’s the weekend!!!
And it’s miserable weather in Scotland, So lots of time to catch up on all of your content over the week!
The battle of Stirling bridge actually involved a bridge? You can’t mean that Mel Gibson got it wrong in Braveheart!!! Hahahaha!! Only way us Scots ever beat the English was tricking them!!
Loving the painting picks of the week and the idea of the re-roll! Definitely have to join backstage!!
Can’t wait for the fresh water hobby lab competition!! Have so many ideas!!
Have a good weekend everyone!!
Dive on in, the backstage water is nice and warm! 😉
everyone was on top form today.
I can’t believe anyone into table top not falling for the charm of the show.
“no body does it better
makes me feel sad for the rest
no body does it half as good as you
baby your the best”
and always always let the wookie win
I prefer a Butler Sink to the Belfast Sink, but to each his own. 🙂
Cracking Weekender lads 😀 . The 4 amigo’s tagging in and out on an episode is the best way to start the day.
Happy Weekend … loving that terrain for dropzone i have yet to decide on whether to back or not as my funds are elsewhere at the moment ..lol
Poke poke you know you need it @commodorerob
great show,
How about a complete unboxing on some of the Rubicon Models? Always on the look out for more tanks 🙂 I have been curious about their stuff for awhile.
I want 15mm mechs on the 1985 World War III battlefield. “Male” mechs with rising sun logos emblazoned on their backs, armed with Duran-Duran style key-tars. 😀 “Female” mechs with legwarmers and enormous hair (+1 damage for head hits, as all that hairspray is friggin’ flammable)!
FLY INTO THE DANGER ZOOOOOOOOONE!
It’s not like BoW hasn’t covered 15mm mechs before:
http://www.beastsofwar.com/brigade-models/15mm-kirin-mechs-coming-brigade-models/
Weekender! Yay!
It is always enjoyable to log on and be treated to a tour of the hobby scene with my ‘Hobby Concierge’. 🙂
I thought more about Re-Roll and the many great ideas backstagers came up with: Justin’s & Dragon’s series, readers letters, BoW team hobby time updates. I think Re-Roll has a future with Beasts of War as long as it can have a streamlined production format – got to let Lloyd game/sleep at some point! 🙂
I didn’t know John loved tanks? 😀 Those Rubicon models look nice. I like John’s choice to build the Crusader ‘AA’ Mk III variant – something about multi barrel AA mountings on AFV’s have that “cool” factor about them. Lovely stuff.
Congrats to the Golden Button recipients – those kiripods are psychadelic goodness! And the trees..oh the trees were magnificent. Kudos to you @soapdodger 🙂
Lord Inquisitor looks amazing! I am totally with you guys about the parade scene, the Imperial Fists look very much the hulking Super Soldiers they are supposed to be. Some people don’t give Lord Inquisitor its due credit, which is understandable I guess given we live in the Marvel CGI world, but it is an incredible project crafted with love and attention to detail.
Erasmus is a story teller and it shows in every pixel. I loved his vision of a militant, quasi-religious, dystopia – the dying heart of humanity – clutching to a fading dream of glory epitomized in the facade of the parade. This is the 40th Millenium. Absolutely beautiful.
Love the kickstarter with the X-wing movement markers and strangely I too am drawn to the matt black finish but I do also like the the printed planetary and space backdrops too. Alas the shipping kills me backing this, hopefully they will come to retail.
Another great Weekender, cheers team!
All hail Beast of War and happy weekend too.
Happy Weekend!
Dec 9th For the DFC Bootcamp? Drat I can’t get any time off in December. 🙁
Re-Roll was excellent keep it coming.
I must Have Konflikt47 on the brain, As soon as I saw those Rubicon models I started thinking how can we get these set up for a Weird World War.
Have been keeping an eye ob The Lord Inquisitor for a while now, and that Prologue, absolutely nails the tone of 40K for me.
great show BOW,
@warzan that’s heretical talk that the imperium is dead the emperor will rise to banish the chaos forces from the galaxy???
Great show guys!
I’m with @warzan on the Inquisitor movie for GW stay away! And indeed, i could see myself playing a Mass Effect style game with an Inquisitor building his band of hunters, it would be nice!
See you guys Sunday!
Sorry Warren that movie has got to be made ! Shame on you!
Hello chaps, just saw this. I’m away visiting relatives at the moment but will try and get some pics in situ for the Kuripots up when I get back. Thanks again for the button, lovely surprise given how good the work is around here.
Good to hear a more balanced viewpoint on The Lord Inquisitor. I missed watching the prologue earlier, so I corrected that oversight as it came up in this show. Then I scrolled down to place a comment, but was quickly dissuaded by the avalanche of infighting I saw down in the comments. It appears to me people got more volatile over this then they were over Star Wars, Terminator, or any other Hollywood film from the last few years.
Is that just the GW thing popping up again? I don’t get it.
Sure the fan film has its flaws, but like Warren I was taken in by the ambiance. To me the Imperium never felt this alive and tangible before.
My take on the Inquisitor film- I think it is a fantastic project, it looks to me to be made by someone who understands the language of cinema. The vibe is very noir and includes dutch angles and low shots.
I also feel like he has captured how I picture the imperium outside of the war zones (and sometimes in them too!) having read gaunts ghosts and Ravenor, this is how i pictured everything. He has nailed the vision, it’s just that it isn’t a side to the 40K universe we get to see visualised. Usually because everything visual from GW focuses on the warzones, this makes sense for the games and things but I don’t think they had the reason to visually flesh out the cities and places like that in the whole duration of the I.P.
I think to get this level of realisation of the more day to day or less war torn locations that the black library books write so beautifully about, you needed an outsider of GW to make it. Erasmus is that guy!
PS: who cares about lip sync, JOCK BOXES!!!!!!!!
I really like “The Lord Inquisitor – Prologue”. And I concurr with most of your analysis. I think too, that the Imperial Guards look a little “stiff” or “cloned”. But as I have taken a few steps in video animation myself, I get how hard this is. I hope that at the end of production they take a few weeks to iron out some of those kinks. I know this is asking a lot. But like this and due to the real time rendering it feels more like a video game to me.
But for a fan movie it exceeded my expectations by far. Not only from an animation standpoint. I think the voice acting is really well done. Nearly up to the standards of triple A video game titles in my opinion. The wimpering lord that gets assassinated. The smug inquisitor, who is so sure of himself and enjoys killing a little too much. This gives the figures a real character depth (in lack of a better word) and underlines the already quite good animations of gestures and countenance.
The Iron Fists are awesome. Real heavy stomping killing machines. And the moment you have that thought, the dreadnoughts walk into sight. Absolutely the way it should be. Menacing. Everything else is quite dark, which I like. It seems like humanity has come VERY far since the second millenium, but the spoils of technology and conquering of other world is not for everyone, but only a choosen few. Like the guy thats get murdered.
Really looking forward to it. And I’m ok to wait a little longer for it, so they can make an excellent piece out of an already really good one.
The Rubicon line of kits is just great . The Crusader gives you the options of 3 complete turrets , as well as 3 different guns for the tank plus the AA version . IRC , the M-10 gives you 3 turrets as well , the one for the M-36 can be made to fit Rubicon’s M4A3 to make a M-36B1. Lots of thought given by Rubicon on their kits , just picked up 2 SU-122/85 kits and if you’re careful you can swap out the upper body to give you a choice in the SPG used in the game . They are also going to produce one sprue detail kits to upgrade German halftracks with radios ,turrets , guns etc as well as crew figure blisters and artillery . Cool stuff if you are a kitbasher ! My one nit pick is the less than detailed track , but they are attempting to improve the molding process to fix this . And if you mud up your tanks , you wont see the lack of detail anyway . And who doesn’t like dirty tanks ?
Best 15mm mechs are from Mecha Front (http://www.mechafront.com/). Ground Zero Games of course has good ones as well.
I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned yet but Lord Inquisitor is rendered real time as it’s using the Crysis game engine as the main guy working on it works for Crytech as their head art director and several other people working on are or were employees for said company.
@dignity: Don’t search for the Kromlech models for too long… Because you guys sent them all to me! I’m just about to paint that big warboss in a mega-armour. In fact, I already started and you can head for my project log if you want to see how it turns out.
😉
Thanks again to the BoW team for sending me these wonderful models!
@lloyd I added some pics of the Kuripots in a terrain setting here:
http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/painting/forum/topic/half-baked-giraldez-seldon9%E2%80%99s-latest-hobby-shambles/
@warzan You need to watch this l for research purposes for your 15mm battle titans.