Terminator Hangout With Alessio Cavatore [On Demand Here!]
January 30, 2015 by brennon
If you didn't know already River Horse, with Alessio Cavatore at the helm, are going to be kicking off a Terminator Genisys Miniatures Game this summer with Warlord Games doing the distribution. We had a Google Hangout chat with the man himself and got some of your questions answered.
As it stands we know it's going to be a skirmish game based around the new movie and the main box will be called War Against The Machines featuring the forces of Skynet and of course the Human Resistance.
Find out exactly what's in the box and what's coming in the future. You can now watch the video above where we talked about the miniatures, showed some of them off, discussed the rules and of course what Alessio would love to do with scenarios and more going forward!
Did you get your questions answered?
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To me the obvious first question would be the scale, although for a skirmish game I’d assume at least 28mm. Will the system be based in any way on Bolt Action, and it’s activation mechanics, or will it be designed from scratch. If it’s a new rules set can we get a rough idea of how it will work. With a ‘Summer 2015’ release have they started production already? Are they planning faction sets or a single boxed game, with both sides in? If so how many miniatures per side? Also, the big question really, do they have a rough… Read more »
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Congratulations on getting the license. Did you approach them or did they find you? How did it all come about basically?
Will Arnie impersonations be compulsory during the game or will you actually lose victory points every time you utter ” I’ll be back”.
Is the miniature are going to be plastic or metal? Also are they going to have a stat card with their special abilyties writen on it a little bit like Mercs miniature or if we are going to have to prepare our army on some kind of army builder a little bit like Infinity? And my last question is as a Skirmish game how many mini will be need to have a good challange is it going to be more or less than 5 per team ?
ho forgot to ask
What table size will be need to play a game ? Is it going to be more 3×3, or 4×4 or 4×6 or bigger ? And to finish are we going to play with Dice for the combat or cards like in Malifaux ?
Ps: if i think of something else i will ask here for sure
I was wondering if the setting will be future, present or past or can you choose?
Will you be able to play scenario’s like T1 and T2, 1 terminator vs a few humans?
How will time travel be represented in the game?
Will you be able to build your own characters?
In what form will the leader of the machines be in the terminators’ army? The humans have John Conner, so will there be a miniature of the leader of Skynet? Will there be the full range of terminator model types from all the movies or just Genisys and T1 and T2? The T1000 can shapeshift, will that ability be in the game? Apart from creating knives and stabbing weapons, will they be able to disappear as the surface of the floor or become molten and enter through barred areas and holes in defenses? Can you only play the game in… Read more »
*great great great etc…grandparents.
Can BoW create a text editor? 😀
This should be a fantastic product with the Terminator licence and Sr Cavatore behind at the helm.
I’m interested in hearing about the game style. Is it purely one off skirmishes or will there be scope for campaigns and roleplay/character progression to any degree?
Also really interested in expansion sets from the main game in terms of vehicles etc.
Will there be a terrain set available or one already made that would suit the game?
Will the game be infantry versus infantry with lots of close fighting?, like the scene in the 1st terminator film where Reese remembers a terminator attack on a bunker. Will it be large vehicles/machines based like scenes in the films where humans are using armed trucks to take on Hunter killers or will it be a mixture of both?
Will you be able to play in past and future?
who will be sculpting/manufacturing the minis?
is it on yet? why there is no link to hangouts?
Looking for it too?…
Sarah Connor?
It was up and running live..same on youtube. I paused it to watch later. And now its gone..!!! I`m shocked as I have been waiting all day for it..? sad day……
No link? Ok, I’ll be back.
Sorry guys this was a live one only.
Their contract with Paramount! (Not FOX) stipulates it can’t be viewable after because of imagery we were able to show live.
They will let us know when we can set it public again 🙂
So they’ll be back ?
The imagery may be off limits, but could you give us an overview of the main points from the hangout? 🙂
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Missed it 🙁
So Fox is now screwing with Terminator fans as well as AvP…………. not impressed Fox, not impressed
Little correction, Fox have nothing to do with this. It’s Paramount Pictures and Skydance studios that are doing Genisys.
To bad only live, missed it.
please write down in post ïts only live”, most google hangout thingie you can watch later, if i had know i logged on earlier.
Unfortunately we only found out a few mins before going on air, we’ll be sure to ask in future though!
Would you be able to put up a transcript or even simple summery of some of the main points? I missed the broadcast but would love to know more about the game.
Thanks
I support that request @warzan
Bugger…. now i need the black market to find a copy..!!!! just to find out what I may spend my money on to push around toy figures..!!! Not knowing it was a live only event really hurts. And may I say only hurts the game…. I know you was in the dark too Warzan…
Thats IP for you… look at the A vs P game ?
Ant it isn’t a good advert to be honest I sort of lost my interest a bit with treating us like that. quite disappointing.
Yup
Not the fault of Alessio and co either
We will have to perhaps get used to this, now the large corporates are starting to get involved.
Very true in the confines of the hobby GW are as bad as it gets when it comes to corporate bullying. They look more like your best mate when compared to some of the big boys out there.
Well that sucks! I’m a little pissed and not at BoW! This makes me very dubious of the game. Why even agree to do the hangout?
There are a lot of games and miniatures out there. They need to remember that.
I missed the show too but I’m sure a post-show report will get done. Not everything in this world can be on-demand. Missing a live hangout isn’t going to stop this from being a good game 🙂
@zeker, this is pretty common with film company owned IP, the images are everything to those guys and the control is uber tight. Similar thing happened with the AVP game. Having Alessio at the helm gives me a lot of confidence. I watched the stream, we learned a fair amount: -Skirmish/Wargame -Full set of polyhedral dice (old school) -16 marines in the starter with 10 walking termies and 5 with the bottom half removed (crawlers) -28mm with Termies ~32mm to the eye -Not kickstarter -‘time travel’ mechanic, basically a token that lets you re-wind a dice roll, this was not… Read more »