The Weekender: Godzilla, Wargames Illustrated Digital & Gloom
December 14, 2013 by dracs
This Weekender you get four times the Beasts of War as four of the crew sit down to discuss such critical issues as the latest Godzilla movie, the new crews for Empire of the Dead and the issue of the ever expanding gamer waistline.
We also get an insight into the new digital format of Wargames Illustrated and Warren brings out the cool card game Gloom to have a look at, the game which provides the perfect antidote to too much Christmas cheer.
Links:
Godzilla Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjKO10hKtYw
Empire of the Dead
http://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/catalog/empire_landing.php
Wargames Illustrated
http://www.wargamesillustrated.net/
Gloom
http://www.atlas-games.com/product_tables/AG1250.php
Gloom on TableTop
http://www.geekandsundry.com/shows/tabletop/gloom-amber-benson-michele-boyd-and-meghan-camarena-strawburry17-join-1/
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Shopping for your other half’s valentine at charity shops?!?!?! Romance isn’t dead! But is clearly not very well 😉
Great weekender guys. Really enjoyed it after getting in from DJing. By the way, the pizza guy from the Wanderers is the late great Erland Van Lith AKA Dynamo from The Running Man and Grossberger from Stir Crazy. He was also a wrestler and a barratone opera singer! His version of ‘The Birmingham Jail’ in Stir Crazy is just beautiful.
FYI if you plan to get healthy geek wise then why not get all the box game manufacturers to weigh what they think is their heaviest boxed game then see which one is the heaviest, buy it then develop a BOW work out routine using the box! 😉
Losing weight starts with diet guys. No unhealthy cabs, eliminate junk food and cut right down on beer (sorry, didn’t mean to swear at you all). My diet is 100% fruit, veg, chicken and fish AKA protein. I have a cheat day each week but the key is not to overdo it. I do 3 runs or walks of 30 minute plus a week. I also lift weights 2 or 3 times a week, even though I find it dull. Motiviation is the key of course but it all starts with diet so you need to get that right! RE:… Read more »
The best and laziest way to get healthy, is change your food diet and sit on an exercise bike infront of the tv for 30 – 40 mins 4-5 times a week at a cardio level. Job done and you don’t lose much time, trust me it works 😉
FIT CLUB Thread can be found here: http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/news-rumors/forum/topic/bow-fit-club/
I made the same noise Lloyd did when I first saw the SM centurions
lol
It was pitch perfect! If I do say so myself 🙂
On the subject of fit club … I look, er, less of a stereotypical gamer than I did 6 months ago. I started walking to and from work. It won’t work for everyone but I can walk it in 40 minutes vs ~30 minutes on the bus. So on a good day I get 1:40 exercise at the cost of 20 minutes of my day. I’ve no time to go to a gym (I used to but now I work full time and study for a degree part time) and my legs are too kanckered to play football. Walking to… Read more »
Been doing the same for years – and it is also a nice way to clear your head before and after work – and the joy of sitting drinking coffee for 8 hours which must be healthy right.
8 hours of coffee is definitely healthy. Science!
Desolation of Smaug was bloody awesome – but, I am biased as hell. Either way I really, really loved the film and I genuinely want to start playing the GW game more now.
BoW Ben
GODZILA ROCKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i don’t care what you say !!!!
For those that missed the Godzuki reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrQjr6KAJvU
Sigh. You guys have no clue what Godzilla is do you? You know the character but it’s as if you’ve never seen one of his movies. Okay, here you are: Godzilla is an amphibious radioactive mutant dinosaur from some unnamed Pacific Island that was subjected to an atomic bomb test in 1953-54. The giant fire-breathing monster is nature’s wrath against humans for messing with nuclear weaponry. He never ate anybody, he’s all about the stomping and collateral damage. He is there to destroy cities and soak up radiation from power plants. Godzilla is a force of nature -a walking disaster… Read more »
Oh, also, Godzilla’s roar is a rubber glove stroked across a violin.
Comment of the month!
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I would also like to chip in, having been a fan of the Godzilla films, what dais says is correct. Godzilla is natures wrath against humanity for using nuclear weapons. The Showa series was the only set of films where he was sort of friendly to humanity, the Heisei series revamped it and brought Godzilla back as a natures wrath and vengenace. It is all explained in the 2 following films, which i would urge you to watch to understand Godzilla, if you can get over the cheesy american voice dubbing they are ok. Hahah I challenge you to watch… Read more »
Came here to say this. I see dais beat me to it for the most part. 🙂
Godzilla was never really a “good guy” in any of the movies. He either showed up to beat up some monster who was pissing him off or was lured into the fight by humans. And even when he was fighting on behalf of the humans he was never really viewed as a hero…more like a rabid animal they had managed to trick into fighting the more dangerous rabid animal.
Mothera was the only “good guy” monster in those old films.
Oh man, I could hear the squealing rage in my head as they went on about Godzilla. I grew up with him, every movie, all the cartoons, and absolutely hate that abomination of a movie that came out in the late 90’s. This seems like a true reboot, and dais, thank you soooooo much for letting them know. I stopped the show and went strait to comments looking for some beacon of Gozilla knowledge other than I. Thumbs up from me for sure. The roar was a leather glove, coated in resin across a double bass, only odd fact I… Read more »
The Gaffer’s version of a diet plan: eat less, crap more.
I see where I have went wrong…
ate more, crapped more 😉
What Dias said. Also the creature in Rolland Emmerichs’ Godzilla film has been been retconned to be a separate entity known as Zilla. In the last Godzilla movie made, Godzilla Final Wars in 2004 (there were 6 films released by Toho between 1999 and 2004) they finally faced off against each other with Godzilla casually batting Zilla into Sydney Opera House before one shoting it with his atomic breath.
http://youtu.be/3DbW_D5CrG8
Ahh. THey don’t make ’em like that any more…
( Thank God! )
lol
Really enjoy Gloom. Did anybody else’s cards smell funny when they were new? Sort of flowery/perfumy (have smelt 2 sets).
I think that smell would be the new plastic and ink. I guess you can’t question someones taste in perfume. 😉
And Cthulhu Gloom makes the game even more fun. It’s a separate set, but can be mixed with the original game. More insane events, more ways to get family members back from the dead and Story cards as a secondary goal to claim more points.
Just picked up a pack fo the cthulhu gloom, seemed like the perfect christmas game!
Sam is as wise as fair of and face and hair.
You all would do well to listen to his words !
I totally agree that Gloom is the perfect Christmas game to play with the family, well at least with my family! We have played it many times, yet sadly I have never won. I can never seem to kill off enough of my family or at a high enough score. However, our oldest daughter seems to always win. Not sure if that says something about how she has been raised or not, but it does make me one happy gaming mom!
Today was my little girls Birthday party (turning 3)
I had my proud daddy moment, when she came back from face painting, with all the little friends all painted like princesses… Savanna was sporting the most Amazing Spider Man Face!!!
Proud Daddy lol 😉
Excellent! I find there is no better feeling than knowing you have passed the geek gene on to the next generation!
@Lloyd – I heard a great quote on American National Public Radio: Fiction is not about what happened, but about how it felt. Godzilla is about how Japanese citizens felt when two nuclear bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki…it was like a giant radioactive lizard emerging out of the ocean and flattening a city and killing tens of thousands of people, the military is helpless, and all you can do is watch in terror, then pick up and carry on after the monster leaves.
Gloom looks really fun! Thanks for that! I’m really enjoying the game of the week segment!
The 5-2 Diet is great, but it may take a while to drop 3 stone (~19kg). I’ve been on it since July and lost 12kg to date.
Don’t have time for the gym so this has worked great for me.
Pretty much everyone here has said what I was going to say about Godzilla…it may not be your cup of tea but there was far more meaning behind the older films than just “monster destroy city.” In regards to Pacific Rim…I enjoyed it enough but that is because I went in not caring about plot or art. I went in wanting to see giant robots fighting giant monsters. For the most part it delivered. A game would be interesting but I would agree it would be very difficult to make it enjoyable. The way I see it you would pretty… Read more »
Thanks for sharing an early Christmas present Justin.
I’d like to see some Empire of the dead content. It’s one of those games that I wanted to get into but somehow never did. So a bit of inspiration on here would be cool.
The WI App is an exciting development I’m looking forward to exploring that.
Natalie is an unhappy kitty! XD
@dignity: *attacks J with vicious claws* >:D… Soo getting payback for u calling me that.
@huscarle: He told me he was bringing it back for me so I knew :3 Still, his face in this when it was opened was hilarious.
The beauty being you can playback whenever you like. That and he’ll have to get you something else now as well.
I seem to remember some wager with Justin involving food when they were still in Essex…
Anyway, since this health and wellness carry-on seems to have taken hold, maybe the Saturday show will be renamed ‘The Wok-ender’.
And XLBS will be ‘The Second Helping’ 🙂
Are you guys all too young to have played OGRE? The new version only made a million bucks on Kickstarter…
I used to play OGRE on my breaks in high school. I hood to cook up a story sbout practicing chess so I could get a locker to store the game in (I had the deluxe version).
Actually, the new version should be in the mail waiting for me… There was even a miniatures version.
I haven’t played it, but it is the first thing that came to mind for a Giant Monster vs The Army game.
Diet Plan, agree an Army points system for eating well and exercising, this reward system should give you the focus needed to maintain discipline.
It takes 21 days to form a habit so for January be sure to eat breakfast before 8am and eat tea at 5pm, this new habit will help greatly.