Weekender XLBS: Plans For 2015 & Happy New Year!
January 4, 2015 by warzan
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Happy SUNDAY!!!!
And happy new year to you mate 🙂
Welcome back chaps 🙂
Sam, glad to hear your getting stuck into Inquisition. As somewone who’s read damn near everything Dragon Age this game has sooooo many shout outs to the lore of Thedas.
Also, Warren, you don;t need to have played the other two as Biware have created Dragon Age Keep to allow you to set up the decisions from the first two games and establish your world. Once you’ve made your choices (and strap in, it could take a good hour just to do that) it’ll run through a mini tapestry with a voiceover telling you the story as you’ve set it, which you can then import into Inquisition. If nothing else I reccomend going there and having a play around….
https://dragonagekeep.com/en_US/
Happy new year ! Exciting things to come. Looking forward to this year.
Distributed denial of service.
Bunch of selfish divs thinking they’re clever. Apparently they’re going to be selling what they did as a service so anyone with some spare pocket money can ruin any online service. Well done. Do they not realise that one day someone could target something they enjoy with their own ddos attacks?
As a Corridor Horror RPG, maybe have a look at “Outbreak: Deep Space” by Hunters Books. It was Kickstarted last year. I don´t know if it´s any good (yet), but the claustrophobic vibe is very much a possibility I would say.
http://www.outbreakdeepspace.com
Happy Sunday and New Year!
Phew, happy sunday guys, was starting to get withdrawal from lack of xlbs!
And yeah, id probably be interested in joining you guys for the weekend! Depends on work though!
My gaming is so low-tech I sailed through the ddos like the Battlestar Galactica lol. One of our GenCon party picked up the DC deckbuilding game and we’ve played it a few times since. He got the Crisis expansion which is co-op. It’s good but takes too long to play. We got a game of it in on New Years Day and along with Arcadia Quest, Lords of Waterdeep, and Eldritch Horror it comprised my Christmas gaming.
The recent Hobbit movie got my Tolkien on as well. I re-read The Silmarillion between Christmas and New Year, and picked up the Escape from Goblin Town box and some LotR minis. Speaking of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I got the collected LoEG: Century for Christmas.
As Sam says, to do something like Space Hulk is more to do with how you run it than the system you use. Deprive the players of information, give them choices to make with little to guide them, make it clear that the characters can die (running it as a one-off helps in this respect), slowly escalate the challenges and conflicts, if the players split up, split them up in real life as well so they don’t know what’s going on in other locations, make them question each others motives (there’s always a Carter Burke).
Great to have you back guys and i would like to express my interest in joining you for St Patricks weekend.
Meant to say maybe GW should do a re-boot of the Lord of the rings game and get some of the classic models and books back in production and get the community re-interested in this game.
rpg alien type game “The void core”
Funds and time permitting, I would certainly be interested. My personal preference would be for a gaming weekend rather than a tournament.
Morning Chaps!!
would love to come over in March, but I canny escape the wife and brood! its the week after my birthday as well 🙁
I gave Space Hulk to my stepbrothers (9 & 11) for Christmas as they have been interested in my wargaming for a couple of years now. I couldn’t see how to get them into 40k easily any other way. Even the next step, getting them a starter paint set, is difficult to justify as the GW starter paint set is £45 these days.
The fact is that this will not be there first exposure to wargaming though. Their primary school has a history club that plays bolt action so that is the game all the “cool kids” want to play. By the time they become teenagers and stumble across a GW store by themselves they will already be into the hobby and probably have little interest in warhammer or 40k compared to all the other games they will know of.
Just too near to Salute for me to pop over in March but I will be watching eagerly for events later in the year.
Great to see you all back.
Waterloo is in June not may.
June 18th to be precise…:-)
Also, 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain and 50th anniversary of the American side of the Vietnamese War
Welcome back and Happy Sunday!
For me there are 2 things I’d like to see more of this year:
1. As a backstager I’d like to see weekly and maybe 2 a week vlogs to let us know what’s happening behind the scenes. Could be a Monday and Friday to let us the plan for the week and then a review of how it went. It helps the backstagers feel more of a team member/closer community member.
2. We usually see the genres split as scifi, pulp, etc but what about land, sea and air? I’d love to see more deep wars and dystopian wars for on the sea, dystopian legions for the land and then plane games and space games like xwing, Star Wars armada, firestorm armada.
Spartan especially cover the lot, they have one base system (essentially) that covers land, sea, air and space. You can have an amazingly joined up campaign where your sea and air units fight to get troops onto an island and then play at 28mm scale with the land forces to capture the island fully. You could even do it that the attacker when on the island only gets the troops from the ships that survived the sea/air battle and the defender gets free emplacements on the island, it would make for an epic campaign between many people each with their own island as to successfully get enough troops on to defeat the extra defences would be challenging.
I wan you to get back to showing more gaming. You do the news and views thing very well but I like to see the actual gaming going on as well. You mentioned a 40K naval campaign? You also had a couple of boardgaming sessions recorded live whilst over at Wayland. 4-5 people sat playing a game. Was great fun to watch.
+1 More gaming sessions with all the highs and lows and crazy moments that go into gaming history, please.
The sons of anarchy game that you did was very entertaining, I would like to see more things like that covered.
one – Happy Sunday everybody! glad to see you back,
two – I have Yes! from my misses 😀 so where when how much!! SO – fly from Bristol to Belfast landing in Belfast 8.55 am on 13th march. do we nee to book transport an hotel or hostel? what games we will play ( what I have to finish painting first this year) I will pass all GW games but any thing else I am happy with and probably have at least small forces.
tree – my suggestion to GW – why not to include one model – limited edition miniature for free, and/or special edition box set with 1/35 scale hero or burst – painted. in any new game they release – small introduction to what they really do – wargaming, moderheim is almost done, imagine this with re-release skirmish game – I’M NOT in to pc games that much any more (time) but I would buy that game if would include model and I know many of my friends would do same.
and Happy new year everybody!
Great vid again guys.
This year I’m hoping to get to grips with the Infinity RPG a little, they just sent out the early test rules and I like the idea behind it.
GW need to get back to 1 box = 1 squad and some way to play with fewer miniatures to get the cost of entry down.
I would say a complete rule rewrite too because 40K is many things, but a good game it is not, and hasnt been for a while. I’m hoping the rumours of whats going on with Fantasy in terms of scalability is a test for doing the same to 40K down the line, I think both games would see a resurgence if its done well.
I also got Alien Isolation for Christmas, not quite finished it yet but it is a great game, and very tense a lot of the time. Happy new year, and welcome back guys.
I wish I could come to the gaming weekend, sadly the trip from Australia would be far too costly at this point for me..
Otherwise loved the show as always, Happy New Year everyone
I’d be interested in the gaming weekend as it will also be my birthday on the 16th March, so I’d be up for it.
Alright guys… Would love to come up on the 13th for the weekend. Hope this gets sorted
Happy New Year.
Would be good to see more coverage of Dungeon Saga, when it is released and maybe provide some updates as it progresses to completion? Would there be FOW games in March as that would be good? Generally more Battle reports would be good to see.
Happy New Year guys!
Agincourt 600 anniversary this year as well 🙂
Oh and I think I maybe free in March to pop over for so beer and gaming:-)
Warren
25th April 100th Galliopli
18th June 200th Waterloo
25th October 600th Agincourt
Also 150 years of the end of the American Civil War
It’s also the 2100th anniversary of Sulla’s great victory in the First Mithridatic War!
Happy New Year guys!
There was a ‘space corridor’ game designed specifically for Alien, back in the day. I never played it, although friends had fun with it. A quick google reveals this: http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Aliens_Adventure_Game which is probably the one I’m thinking of.
On reboots for games – specifically GW, I think they really need to work out what they’re trying to achieve. Personally I think 40K – the rules system – needs a total reboot. But doing so would definitely upset a lot of their existing fans and there would be no point unless they were also going to change the way they structured their business plan. i.e. A modern (good) rules system is not conducive to them releasing odd bits and pieces in electronic-only versions, in limited edition hardback book versions, limited print run White Dwarf, etc. People need to be able to access all of the rules (even if they choose not to do so), they have to be released in a consistent way (e.g. every miniature you buy comes with a stat card) and (and this is a dealbreaker for GW) they need to be developed at the same time so that they are compatible with each other.
I am however going to defend GW’s ‘static’ settings. Although the Warmahordes figures don’t generally appeal to me, I like their living, evolving setting, from what I’ve seen. Dream Pod 9 had a brilliant science fiction setting for Heavy Gear (war game and RPG) that evolved over time.
But an evolving setting has to be designed this way from the first moment. I think there is huge potential to ruin the WFB and the 40K setting by moving the timeline forward. To be credible and interesting, certain factions would have to change radically (e.g. be wiped out or adapt and play very differently to the way they currently function), and that would damage player engagement. If you want to have an evolving setting, you need to be able to play how players of various factions are going to continue to interact with it as things change.
On a historical note October 25th 2015 will be the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt.
Happy Sunday guys! Just finished my hour or so of painting/XLBS for this weeked! I think I could make it over for the 13th! Very interested….
There was a Middle Earth RPG called MERP (and, yes, this stood for “Middle Earth role-playing”) in the 80s. I’ve not looked at it for well over 20 years, nor even played any RPG in a shade under 20 years. I’ve no idea how the mechanics would stand up today, but I loved it.
There were books of stats for EVERYONE, including Sauron (in many guises: the Numenor days, the Necromancer, the lord of Barad-dur, etc.), Gandalf (he was quite a bit harder as Gandalf the White) and so on. Even the odd little cameos like Tom Bombadil and Treebeard got a look in.
Slightly on topic I thought the LOTR films were good. I could tell pretty much the stuff they’d missed out and generally didn’t mind. Leaving this stuff out made a much better film (speaking as a massive Middle Earth anorak – Warren’s experience as someone who’d not read the books was clearly very different).
@somegeezer there was a Lord of the Rings RPG brought out to tie in officially with the films. I never played it, and only flicked through a couple of the rulebooks. It looked glossy and nice and with lots of photos from the film, but nothing jumped out at me and I didn’t hear much about it.
Cubicle 7 (I think they’re called), an Italian company, are currently producing a new game called ‘One Ring’ and it looks fabulous. I haven’t played it either, but I’ve bought several of the books – they are all beautiful. And although I haven’t played it, the rules seem very ‘Tolkein-esque’. It’s not a ‘re-skinning’ of a dungeon bash game. There’s song, poetry, fate, etc. The rules strongly encourage you to play according to the feel of the books. It is set between the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, and designed to give you room to campaign and have interesting adventures.
Even if you don’t intend to play, as a ‘massive Middle Earth anorak’ I strongly recommend you seek this out and take a look.
Happy Sunday and a happy new year! It’s good to have the weekender back. I just love this show.
First I would love to join you March. As I’m from Germany it would need a little more planing for me, but that should not be the problem.
Second, dates to remember:
Star Wars – Dezember or the likes
70th Anniversary of the end of World War II – 7th & 8th March in Europe and September 2nd in the Pacific
Games Workshop 40th Anniversary – I think February or something
An Event that can be done for 2015
This is the year Marty Mcfly time traveled to in Back to the future.
You can do a show about were you thought games would be when you played them as a child and how they have changed.
I know it has already been mentioned but as a Longbowman myself I feel justified to mention it again
Agincourt 600th anniversary October 25th it is also the theme for this years Salute
Happy sunday!
In regards to the “One game to rule them all…” thread, I don’t think you touched on two huge factors with our hobby.
Funds and time.
I would love to be able to collect and play all of the great miniature games out there. But my wallet can only be stretched so far. What I found when I was “taste testing” games back in 2013 is that I spent a rather stupid amount of money only to end up with a small collection for a dozen different games. I came to the realization that had I focused on only one or two game systems I would have had a very impressive collection for those games, the result of which would have trickled down into my actual gaming as it would have given me more variety of lists, playstyles, etc.
And it many ways time is even a more important factor. I work a 9 – 5 job five days a week and only have so much time to build, paint, etc. With a dozen or so armies waiting in the wings I am left with a whole lot of unfinished projects essentially and it drives me a little crazy. Then there’s the gaming side of it. Is it worth collecting and painting up a faction if I may only play that games once every two or three months? Why spend all that money and time on that when I could focus on a game I could get a game in every week or every other week in comparison?
I did a lot of reflection on this topic late last year actually and came to the conclusion that, for me anyway, it is better to focus on just one or two game systems than trying to branch out it everything out there. By focusing my hobby time I actually get the sense of completing projects and my money feels better well spent. I am only doing two game systems and for one of those, Dark Age, I am only going to do one faction. (Will see if that changes when they finally release Salt Flat Nomads). Couldn’t be happier to be honest.
Due to watching your videos on you tube i got into the game! so far i just collect and paint models. I would like to see more videos aimed at new people. Showing how to start playing and what sort of things we an get out of the game of warhammer or warhammer 40K
How about the first BOW Con in 2015?
Happy Random Earth Orbit Position!
What i really want is to see 30 mins or more game weekend for Kingdom Death : Monster, i’m sure this year will be out because almost everything is sculpted and being produce. Is a truly amazing game that took hugely long time and has tons of content, amazing miniatures and delicious art! So, game demos ( or game nights! ) and painting videos, there is almost none online and i’m waiting for Dizzy Angel Demon to make a few ( yep, i’m sure you’ll read this 😛 , check her videos on youtube, she is amazing! ), but i would love to see both Roman and Justin painting, display and tabletop level respectively.
This could well be a way of doing things for many amazing kickstarter that took very long in getting their stuff out and clearly deserve a theme week in order to get the attention for retailers to sell their stuff and people know amazing stuff just happen ( in my case, i really don’t want KD:M to die out with their Backers but rather keep on selling and expanding, i know is not for everyone but is just delicious for anyone that embrace insanity in its daily live… and we are legion! ).
Happy new year!
Things I’d like to stay:
Interviews and game play videos with the developers. With the help of the BoW staff I’ve been turned on to new games by this type of content. Hearing it from the horses mouth is always better and it makes you appreciate the work that goes into developing a games.
The vastness of the games you cover. Given that this is a “video magazine” you can never cover too many topics provided there are follow ups to those you cover.
Quality of content. BoW has the best quality of content from video/production quality to the loosly organized flow of each show.
Things I’d like changed:
Spacing between collective episodes. I find it annoying to have to wait weeks to see part 2 of a segment/tutorial, and I lose interest in whatever it is. Either release it as a full video or release all the parts at once.
I’d like to see member produced segments. One way to boost content is to let members have segments they produce provided they meet the BoW standards. Example: bat reps, hobby tutorials, interviews(maybe stateside with companies that can’t trek to the BoW studio).
More regular showings of certain content like painting and hobby. As a commission painter I love watching quality tutorial, or even just “watch me paint” videos from entertaining individuals. While I like Romain and Justin their videos are very infrequent. This could be solved by allowing members to have video segments.
Happy New Year!
I’d love to see a Bolt Action Show with @dignity and @johnlyons, and all the historical info that john can throw in aswell.
Happy Sunday guys. Great to have ya back. I would love to attend a gamer weekend in march. I would also prefer a non tournament event, so the atmosphere stays nice and chilled. I totally agree with Sam, lets break 40k out of its static funk rather then re-boot.
This year, I would like to see more coverage of Dust. Great game, and as the kickstarter deliveries (part two) roll out there will be a keen audience for any shows.
If there is a desire to broaden the appeal of the site, I would much prefer to see RPGs covered than video games. There is, I feel, more of a crossover with RPGs and wargames than there is with video games.
And, let’s see some X-Wing coverage, please.
Happy New Year!
Yes please on X-Wing Coverage!!???
I’d be interested in trying to get over, depending on work etc it could be a good laugh. What sort of things would people have in mind for playing?
Production idea: I feel BoW do a great job interacting with its members in both the posts and the forums. Also you have a great ability to react to story ideas sent in by your members and post them accordingly. I for one have had a few posted and was over the moon each time. I felt I was helping shape BoW.
So my idea is some sort of interactive show, perhaps along a similar vein to MwG sit and talk. It would not be a carbon copy as I think a panel tackling questions would work far better, as it is more then one persons view. Make it like war gaming Question Time, where we would answer the members gaming questions as well as maybe giving opinions on games, sculpts, etc that the members want you to tackle. Hopefully leaving room for debate and maybe even the occasional live show where you can answer questions on the fly through chat.
Let me know what you think
Games and beer sounds like fun
Happy new year
Annie and me ( as in Cosy Dice) would love to come over in March
Cheers
Gareth
I think Sam might have hit it on the head for the Corridor Horror RPG… G.U.R.P.S.
Happy new year every body,
Is (dead space) not a good corridor type RPG?
Many of the GW books would make a brilliant film or even better Gaunt’s ghosts / Gotrek & Felix trilogies now that would be good?
I’d Love to see a monthly or 2monthly recorded game, even if its a different system each time, just like what you have done on FOWFTW, Infinity n3 week and the bolt action demo game from back in the day.
You could even do it in the same sort of style as geek and sundries Tabletop.
Nooooooooooo! The first BoW event on my little uns 3rd birthday. I think I’d be murdered if I went to Ireland drinking!. Maybe next time!
good to see you back guys and Happy New Year! 2015 is going to be full of surprises hopefully.
I’d like to see more board game coverage. There seems to be more and more games like that coming out, but BoW doesn’t really cover much about this genre. Maybe a special Imperial Assault, Level 7 Omega Protocol, or Descent, etc…
Also it would be great to have a ‘rumor’ section, where we get to hear what’s up and coming. Could be called ‘Salt’n Pepper’. I find that keeping up with all those rumors can be quite diffcult sometimes, and having a hub like BoW to collect them for us and discuss them could be cool.
and finally, a better coverage of Gen Con if you can, last year wasn’t good.
Been a great year with you all here at BoW and Im really looking forward to what 2015 will bring. being from Sweden Im curious what’s the nearest airport you recommend? How do I travel to you guys because I would love to celebrate St patrics with you all.
Can someone post a link to the discussion about which one game you’d continue to play to the exclusion of all else? It sounds very interesting, but I can’t find it anywhere…
Thanks!
Outbreak Deep space or Fragged Empire can both fit the Alien Isolation RPG niche.
Welcome back guys! I know it is somewhat weird wargaming wise, but this year will be the 35th anniversary of the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980. SAS rules! I’d love to wargame that in 28mm but it’s too complicated. It was an exceptional event for those times so I thought it should be remembered somehow. In any case, happy 2015 and happy gaming!
Happy New Year to u all and it sounds like its going to be a good one.
Would really love to come over and celebrate St Patricks day and play a few games of something with you guys. I would need to know the details so I can book leave from work etc but the boss at home has given her blessing. Not that it matters if she hadn’t I would have sneaked out lol. Its ok she wont be reading this so im safe. Justin I have loads of flock and I would gladly green up with you!!!
I think anything you do is great as I always feel inspired to do something (gaming) after watching the weekenders. Its like a recharge.
Maybe a good format for the future would be a gaming news update every couple of days (not necessarily at 10) but in the same format as a news channel.
Anyway thank you for this great website and long may it continue 🙂
I would be interested in the weekend event, do you still have places?…
I’d like to see a new show taking the viewers through the basics of learning a new game, and then starting to form a collection or army, each of you in the studio could have your own little show about your army building and thoughts about it and stratagems your planning to use. add a little more each month and ask your viewers/subscribers to join you in the journey, set a reasonable amount of cash for each month and invite people to send in shots of their stuff with lists and points costs….
I would love to go for Paddys weekend and we were only talking at the club about such a thing…unfortunately for me my wife is going in for surgery that week. Ill pass this onto the club though and Ill get back to you. Were big into DzC and come from Ashbourne.
Great show, good to see you back Warren \m/
Happy New Year and welcome back guys. Really enjoy the enthusiasm in the XLBS shows, but probably value most the more in depth look at different rules when you run demos etc. it helps me to know whether the game is worth the investment.
Personally I’d like to see you widen your net a little on the historical gaming side which is my main interest.
If you are serious about doing something on the Battle of Britain then you really need to take a look at Too Fat Lardies “Bag the Hun” rules to get a real flavour of dogfights between Me109s and Hurricanes and Spitfires. A superb game system.
While you are about it TFL’s Dux Britanniarium system is a great introduction to Dark Age warfare. Elegant and evocative gameplay with a excellent campaign system. Warren could end up as High King of All Ireland.
Rich Clarke from TFL would also make an interesting guest for one of your game designer slots.
Looking forward to a great 2015 with the Beasts.
Cracking show and good luck with all the plans for the 2015. Wish I could join you in March but Adepticon calls 😀
Looks like the “15” has been a good year for England, historically:
1000th Anniversary of king Cnut’s invasion of England (I know this seems weird but generally speaking the net effect of this was very good for England – but it’s also a good excuse to be making a Dark Ages historic army)
800th anniversary of the Magna Carta
600th Anniversary of the battle of Agincourt
200th Anniversary of the battle of Waterloo
Just search the wiki articles for the 15th year of each century.
Great show, gents, and I wish I could make it to your gaming day from the States (not sure the missus would authorize the flight!). Looking forward to seeing how the new show(s) go.
this is the 100 year anniversary of gallipoli maby something with Flames of Wars great war range would be a go