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VLOG – Studio Tour Meets XLBS
March 23, 2014 by lloyd
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Great vid, studio looks fantastic, you have definitely made good use of the fact you have limited space. Its good to see you getting enthusiastic about 40k again, it does still have its fans! Looks like you are going to have to do a worldeaters army now, although they are lacking abit in the synergy department considering everything just runs forward and gleefully hacks everything to death.
I’m still probably going to go Black Legion – but I don’t see why a world eater couldn’t be attached in a fluffy way 🙂 (until someone explains to me I can’t anyway!)
A Black Legion army can have an allied CSM detachment. Someone who understands the 40K rules can explain/correct this but I believe it requires that at least an HQ and Troop choice from the allied detachment be taken.
Yes and thus you may have 4 flying chickens in a 1999pts game.
Could just paint him up as Black Legion, over ten thousand years i don’t doubt various black legionnaires have turned to one of the four chaos gods.
Now that’s how to do a Weekender.
Who needs tie mics..? lol
Awesome stuff.
Skype Conferencing full screen and quality .. hmm how about Xbox One with Skype which gives you the hdmi out full screen metro Skpe with audio out as you need it.
I love the intro to the VLOG video… I wonder why…
Great episode guys, I remember that room… looks so different when moved around though.
The scale for WWX (as I have received my models now YAY) is amazing the detail on the faces (most of all the female ones) is really enhanced by the scale.
Either the Studio doubles as the residence of @dracs (its dark secret..?) or he is immensely faster on his feet than he looks to have snuck in right under your noses 😉
I’m living rent free in the Flames of War terrain
Heroic proportions were indeed introduced for production reasons, back when lead was used and it was not as firm as today’s metals, also mold making was not as advanced as it is today, also, a justification given for its continuous usage is that it makes features visible from a meter away, fear of things breaking is not something I would worry by today’s manufacturing standards.
Personally I prefer true proportion models, heroic proportions don’t look good anymore they also need really good sculptors these days to not look cartoony.
Out of scale buildings on the other hand is almost a given, true to scale buildings would be huge for gaming purposes.
I will have to admit though, I could not imagine Studio one could fit all these things in it, empty it looked quite smaller than it really is.
Really enjoyed the feel of the show guys, I’d happily watch it in that kind of format again.
Malifaux is 32mm and WWX is 35mm so using the same scenery shouldn’t be a problem.
When you said you were terrain guys you weren’t [beep-sorry-Justin] about! Blimey
Regarding uploading big volumes of information to Amazon ; they have a Disk Shipping feature where you courier them a Hard Disk and they import onsite with them.
great studio guys! I really like the different sets.
You should consider something like a Chaos Space Marine army that’s made a pact with a Daemonic Army.
BoW Ben
Also remember that later this year the rumours are that Games Workshop are switching out/adding in a new ‘Starter Set’ that contains Blood Angels Vs Orks as the main armies. No idea what the truth is to that, but might factor into your decisions.
that was a great show lads, love the format, more like that please!
cheers
AL
If you want to get *serious* about storage, check out http://blog.backblaze.com/category/storage-pod/ 🙂
Really enjoyed that “weekender”. It was less formal than the other ones, more relaxed looking forward to a few more like that.
I like the way you are going through the archives of videos. The most interesting ones for me are the painting and hobby tips. They never date like for example nid week, however you could always have a nostalgia section I guess.
I’d love to see the painting of the Ironclad war-jack again. 🙂 Just throwing it out there
http://www.beastsofwar.com/tag/armour/page/2/
Already Up, you can find it under ‘Armour’ in the Backstage Drop Down Menu
Cool, thanks
For painting the buildings, can I suggest the model mates sprays and shades, they’re really great for that stuff,
I believe it was Reaper Miniatures that introduced the term “Heroic 28mm” with their Dark Heaven line in the 1990s.
METAL HEAD WARREN!!!! lol Cheers from a metal head across the pond!
Great video thanks guys!
I don’t know why I can’t watch it, it says “no video with supported and MIME type found.” Can anyone help a brother out?
Sorry @lotan2012 we were testing an HTML 5 player. We’ve put it back to the original way until we find a smoother fix.
Awesome, thanks guys!
urrggghhh I seem not to be able to play this. Is the link a gonna?
Sorry @mattvsobow we were testing an HTML 5 player. We’ve put it back to the original way until we find a smoother fix.
I’m getting the same message as lotan2012…………what is wrong guys????
It played fine on google chrome; try that instead – unless you’re using it already. lol 😀
Sorry @phalanx58 we were testing an HTML 5 player. We’ve put it back to the original way until we find a smoother fix.
I think everyone watching this wants that much hobby space!
Great vid, this is why I support Backstage. Interesting look behind the scene and a nice chat.
That winter table looks great. We need to see a Dropzone game on that.
That was cool look around the studio. 🙂
@warzan Don’t forget that Rick Priestley’s Beyond the Gates of Antares is using the Bolt Action rules as the basis of it’s system. 😉
Surely Sam knew what a terabyte is, he’s not that younger than me, lol! Or has he been living in a Hobbit hole? 😀
I am 23 and I quite honestly did not know what a terabyte is. I am well known for being rather bad with computers. You should watch Justin’s face when he tried to explain the video editing process to me.
I’m 38 and believe that terabytes are a team in DreadBall….
Why don’t you guys do a Kickstarter campaign to raise some funds for equipment and operations? The pay back to supporters would be not just be better stuff going forward but perhaps some backer exclusive videos. Maybe some of your advertisers could kick in some goodies as well? Maybe some big pledge levels could include visits to the studio or dinner with some notables (Alessio, Perry’s, etc)? Considering Kickstarter was original conceived to help artists I’d say you guys fit the classic mold.
Well backer exclusive videos I guess would be a bit of a shame for the larger hobby so maybe backer exclusive for the first 60 days or something? Stretch goals could maybe be specific videos such as battle reports for x game or painting tutorial on x? One pledge level could include a year if Backstage maybe?
On a related note I recently re-watched both the Bolt Action game with Warren and Alessio as well as the DzC game with Warren and Dave. I find those types of videos not only very useful for learning the games when they are new but also very entertaining overall. The commentary by both Alessio and Dave is very interesting throughout. I would happily pay $25 to get a HD version of those as one long show (maybe with some of the extra related vids attached? Exclusive interview with owner/designer, etc?) as either a standalone download or even on CD/Blu-Ray. Maybe something like that could raise funds? Perhaps advertiser would pay to have a spot on such a product?
Looks like if I use IE11 I don’t even see that there is a video available. Firefox shows an invalid MIME type, but Chrome plays it.
Not sure how many people are experiencing the same thing.
Good stuff once you can see it 🙂
Ignore my earlier message guys, I’m using chrome as the browser and the vid plays fine, so thanks to majordutch for that.
The reason I changed from chrome (which is what I was using) to firefox is that chrome stlll does not support my password manager, whereas firefox does, but I get the error message when trying to play this vid on it?
BLOODY TECHNOLOGY!!!!
Great vid guys, look forward to more! more! more!
PS agree also with tanker, bet a kickstarter campaign going, you’ll get my support for sure.
Weird that. I actually had to use Chrome to see this vid properly even though Firefox is usually my solution. Safari mangled the audio, Firefox refused to play it but Chrome did the job. It’s not my favourite browser (I don’t like things hidden so much) but it did the job.
WTF!!! just paused the vid whilst I wrote the last message and when starting the vid again it now plays in Flowplayer!!!! commensurate with all the unwanted pauses and loss of audio synchronization.
I think I’m going to wait until Monday to watch this before I blow my bloody stack!!!!!
OK (Just for you we have made it an option in your profile) 😉
As an interim fix
If you want flash playback, do nothing and it will default to that.
If you prefer HTML 5 playback go into your profile, click edit profile, go to account settings, and choose HTML 5 as your choice of player.
Or go here as a short cut: http://www.beastsofwar.com/members/YOUR USERNAME HERE/profile/edit/group/3
Oh! Warren you are a STAR!!!!
It works I tell you, it bloody well works.
You have made a middle aged old fart very happy, simple pleasures I know, well it goes with the simple bloke lol ; )
PS I just noticed that you have stolen my mug! The meerkat one which my sister-in-law gave for xmas last year, when did you get it from here? Oh! it’s OK I have just checked and it’s still here. TTFN
Keep up the excellent work, I for one really appreciate what you guys do.
Best Wishes
Brian
Enjoyed the video. A few thoughts…
The directional microphones were really good. I mix sound for bands (also play – go rock’n’roll Warren!) and theatre and that sounded fine to me, good clarity do you really need all of those cables? Sound isolation obviously but Studio 1 was sounding pretty quiet.
The 40K stuff – I have never been involved in the 40K thing so no worries assuming I know nothing. I really don’t. Since I’ve heard so much about it I’m interested in seeing your coverage and would be really pleased to see it as a complete beginner series, don’t assume I know anything.
The archives are really important. All of that quality work needs to be safe and available. Some of the stuff I’m missing are the very good table construction vids that Warren and Lloyd have done. Really interesting but don’t seem to finish. Looking forward to you organising your bongobytes. (bongobytes = my term for so much storage it just doesn’t matter any more).
Not moaning, just feeding back. Like Studio 1 a lot, well done for all of your hard work.
Cheers!
Brian
Great seeing a “For the love of VLOG” it’s been ages since one was filmed; thought maybe you were no longer doing them.
Dark Angels and Imperial Guard work very well together. Which army do you plan on having as your main army, and which will be your allies?
If you are looking to Forge World as a possible source for some of your minis I would suggest looking at the Elysian drop troops or the Death world of Krieg. Both armies have excellent background/storylines associated with them and would work well with your “gaming in the gaps” concept of game play. They would also work well supporting the Dark Angels in their primary goal.
I think the Death Korps also make for great looking corrupted Guard.
Great job guys! Studio is totally awesome! Now Warren has me running off to crank up some Megadeath and White Zombie!! Yea baby! Cheers!
a good show, sound seemed fine to be honest.
Happy Sunday and I loved the format of the vid! No need for the hassle of lapel mics. For this kind of thing the room mic worked fine!
Great show guys. I’m gonna echo a few others and say that a Kickstarter isn’t a half bad idea for raising funds for cameras and such. I know you have some qualms about that as you “cover” kickstarter, but in my opinion you don’t cover kickstarter so much as you cover actual projects on kickstarter. It doesn’t seem like a conflict of interest, at least from the outside.
Enjoyed this episode, given me an idea or two as I have some Wild West Exodus stuff, and would like to be find multi uses for the terrain. Space is always a premium as is transporting it.
Hey guys. Enjoyed the vid. I agree with some of the above posts, sound was fine. I also enjoyed the relaxed feel of this one. Everyone seemed more at ease.
I have no idea what KS’s cut is if you use them, but why not just keep it on site? I have flip flopped on this one a bit. If a KS could actually help in advertising BoW as well as getting you the funds you need, I would whole heartedly say go for it. But if most, if not all support will be from current viewers, why have to pay them anything? If you set up a paypal donation, and did your own reward thing, not sure what your tax laws are over there, so don’t know if selling things would be good or bad, so a gift of money for a gift of a shirt or other item? And you get to keep all of the cash.
Take care guys, and thanks for the vids.
Love Star Trek Attack Wing. I did repaint the ships, but it just naturally plays more than 2 players much easier than X-Wing, and the number of scenario’s (and ships) is incredible. Wizkids also has a great Tourney system. Looking forward to Dragon-wing … would be very cool to play on a fantasy table.
Wow, lots of stuff…
You might want to check Rich Jones’s column in the latest WS&S magazine. He is not a proponent of the game engine approach… and it seems he hasn’t played a game of 40K in 20 years if ever.
As for the scales and proportions… here’s something to chew on:
Michelangelo’s David is not scale correct. Its hands for example are enlarged.
Now, was Mikey a total klutz who couldn’t even sculpt a statue, or is there something else at work here?
I consider gaming figures to be pieces of art, not scale models. As with all art, tastes vary. I generally prefer slightly “heroic” style of e.g. Mark Copplestone because a) they stand up to gaming use and b) I can actually paint their faces and fingers.
Thanks Warren, you saved me! Now I can tell my wife that my “size” problem is actually all a matter of proportion…;)
Ciao!
@warzan
Dragon air combat has been done before!
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6526/dragon-lords
@warzan Great video! Enjoying it a lot.
I do have some feedback for chaos in this DV venture you are talking about:
Dark Vengeance isn’t super-kind to chaos. You’ll end up with a lot of cultists, which is great, but hellbrutes are just worse imperial dreadnoughts (dataslate: helbrutes is worth a look though, because: helcult!). The space marines you get, are crimson slaughter marines, but they are chosen. Chosen are never taken, because it’s like throwing expensive troops with no delivery method at the enemy. They might be great, if you end up getting the claw. However, on the plus side, you can use them as aspiring champions 🙂
I’m situated in Australia, so times are a bit annoying, but if you do a segment on Night Lords, I can talk at great length on the topic, as long as you promise to tell me if I’m getting boring 😛
Black legion are a great choice. They are the largest cohesive group of chaos marines, and often they have other legions as part of them. So it’s not weird to see a world eaters lord in a black legion force, or even a squad of alpha legion, or any other combination. Codex: Chaos is basically Codex: Black Legion – you can take a bit of everything, but you aren’t super-great at anything. The supplement for black legion basically just gives you chosen as troops, and better terminators. Most chaos players are using the newly released crimson slaughter rules to represent anything chaos. It’s just better than the base codex, in terms of options, so I recommend if if you find chaos under performs vs the dark angels.
In all honesty, Chaos using the 6th ed codex is really weak, unless you include helldrakes, in which case it’s pretty tough for the dark angels. If you don’t want to take two helldrakes, then I’d use crimson slaughter rules, in which case you can get some cool stuff like relics that make your chaos lords tougher, and divination on one sorcerer, to make your chaos marines better.
Great replacement Weekender/XLBS. I don’t know if you had to put much effort into post-processing the sound, but the result was great. As far as I’m concerned you could make more of these informal shows.
As far as game engines are concerned, look at how many games use the Warmaster engine:
1. Warmaster
2. Warmaster Ancients
3. Black Powder
4. Hail Caesar
5. Blitzkrieg Commander
6. Cold War Commander