XLBS: Dropzone Commander, A Warren Rant & Studio 3 Update!
February 16, 2014 by dignity
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Best. Rant. Ever. 😉
For studio three, concerning the lighting, are you going down the generator route, hooking up to an external supply or running it off the car (which if you don’t want to kill your battery means running the engine). Need any trailer advice pm me, illl get on to my old man, built quite alot of them. As for the infinity tournament, I reckon your home town, although that dungeon’s and doughnuts sounds fun.
We haven’t even got to the external lighting yet, but now that you mention it…
I vote for Castlerock.
I vote for the Castle Rock brewery in Nottingham 🙂
That would be Bushmills just up the road 🙂
Awlright! Now you’re talking! 😀
I think a trip to the distillery may well have to go down on the sheet lol
Looking forward to seeing some Dust Tactics, always been drawn to the minis but seen nothing of the game.
Really excited about BoW events in the future and always wanted an excuse to try out Infinity but so many game systems and so little cash.
Maybe we could run ‘Demo Weekends’ where we all learn or expand a new system over the weekend.
Great show
1 thing about the sky TV, I dont know about you guys but apart from the regular news I dont watch TV anymore, its either ‘on demand’ services or youtube, so having a show on TV might be counter productive. I am all for having videos of battle reports to watch (Privateer Press do commentary on their templecon fights) and some other youtube personalities do gome great battle reports (looking at you wargamer girl)
We’re just looking at it as an extension really, a form of recruitment for the ‘passing traffic’ of TV
Well millions watch tv, so as a recruitment tool, you’re bound to draw a few in.
Isn’t Castlerock the seat of the Lannisters :p. Dublin would be by far the easiest place for me to get to as I can get a flight to there. Castlerock would be the next easiest as I can fly to Belfast then would need to sort transport from there. Galway would be the hardest to get to. That reminds me, I forgot to answer the question about events from yesterday’s show. I will get to wherever I can though the easiest it is for me to drive there from Newcastle, the more likely it is I’ll be there. Nottingham is… Read more »
Yeah, I’m not shy of my hobby. Most of my friends and collegues know I play wargames. The conversation of ‘no, not World Of Warcraft’ or ‘games like Warhammer but not Warhammer’ are a little tedious.
I have one great advantage – my main gaming mate work in the same office – so we rant about it over coffee every day 😉
Hey Ben, we could fly to Belfast, meet up and rent a car to get to the boonies.
Maybe get 2 more Beasts to cover the costs?
Would be very happy to do that 🙂
Let’s see when and where the Meet of the Herd is and make plans then, ok?
We may well run lifts depending on how people arrive. So there should be options.
Warren, you’re not the only on who noticed something ‘interesting’ about the double Luge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=effb2JYiKXM
best super power is turning invisible when no-one is watching
The chances of me being able to travel are virtually nil given family commitments et al, but if I were to travel over, I think Castlerock would be the place I’d like to see most. Its also no doubt much cheaper for you guys to organise at home – and less time consuming. PS the luge are steered and braked, weight shifting steers, and you pinch your feet together to brake (in effect push the two runners in at the front). I think the idea of a TV show of people playing games has merit – Will Wheaton attracts big… Read more »
“Much worse than porn” should be the new BoW tagline. It’ll do wonders for your SEO 😉
TV battle reports get the thumbs up from me. I’d like to go to Casterly rock sorry Castlerock to play a BOW tournament. Unfortunately for me I don’t play infinity (Never got round to it). If there are other tournaments with other games (Deradball, Warmahordes, 40k 🙂 ) I would definetly show up for the week end.
Well considering its one of these games that you can get away with about five models, I was actually just going to buy some lol
@warzan: Hey Warren, as you did the Dreadball Academy together with James, I’d like to ask you to take a look at Slaughterball. It is just a one-man project and the creator is looking for funds right now on Kickstarter, but what he has shown so far looks amazing both in regards to the sculpts and rules-wise.
I’ll check it out today
Definitely interested in the Inifnity tournament. I have picked up the books, models and scenery but haven’t really had opportunity to play much, but the idea of following Warren’s example for Dropzone and improving as you go through with a bunch of friendly felllow BoW members is definitely appealing, If by the end of it I come out feeling I ok now the game and could introduce others confidently that would be a win for me. My vote went to the BoW homeland. Thinking I could potentially bring the family over to Ireland as well and potentially carry on touring… Read more »
Unfortunately I can’t cover the travel expenses at the moment, but my vote would be to go to Castlerock. A long weekend combining sightseeing at the BoW home and a game event just sound like a wonderful combination.
Great show guys,
I hate snow and the cold in general so meh,,, though the Ice Hockey is always fun.
I don’t know how I’m going to get there so what ever airport is closest will do for me 😀
I like the live show aspect, turn 8 was a smash up good time
I will throw some coin in that direction 🙂
Dublin as I did live there for half a decade – but then again it would mean that I need to get up to speed on Infinity …
Lloyd’s story at the end was brilliant. What a way to close the show! Seriously, great job guys.
Got to agree about the Winter Olympics. How does that grab prime time TV?
In defence of Dust Warfare, there are some mechanics that need tidying up, but I think a lot of that is down to this still being the first edition of the game. Teething issues, and all that.
I was a fan of Starship Troopers a decade back – another Andy Chambers game. This used a similar Reaction mechanic to Dust, and I have always thought it creates dynamic games ( back when there was lot more You Go, I Go).
They do the whole TV thing for Starcraft.. and that’s nuts in Korea they have national stsrs of nerds that click buttons.. Im sure I can be a Bolt Action superstar
Already on your way mate lol
Screaming female groupies camped outside your house Dave, wanting their chests autographed. Do you really want this lifestyle? 🙂
….
yes
He does it all for the nookie you know 😉
I call it, taking one for the team @warzan…lol
If its women we are talking about, Id take one two three… four might push it 😉
The double luge is a strange one indeed. I wonder who invented that as an idea for an Olympic game? It’s a shame to hear about Dust Warfare not being up to scratch due to too many writers, although I did still enjoy my demo game of it at Grumpy Con last year I was more keen to play that than the grid based Tactics game, as I preferred the look of a three dimensional terrain board, as opposed to a flat gaming mat with terrain printed on it. But I have since seen that there are pieces of terrain,… Read more »
You can play dust Tactics on a completely 3d board, with some sort of grid marked out on it. We’re looking into how we would do this at the moment 🙂
And who knows going forward the grid may not even be necessary 😉
That is a cryptic comment, Warren.
Without a grid, surely it becomes Warfare…(my preferred form of the game).
Warren, I tried to contact you several times regarding advertising on BoW website. We are going to do a Comic con next October in Malta and going a couple of good table top gaming companies on board.
Please submit me an email a quotation on [email protected].
For the time being we got Corvus Belli and Knight Models.
Beasts of War should consider the model that Blue Table Painting uses for gaming vacations (Valhalla). That would allow you to have your tournaments, with sponsors and coverage, but treat it more like a vacation getaway for three or four days.
2 great videos again guys, thanks for your hard work getting these out to us. Studio 1 looks fantastic and you seem to have quite a bit of space for filming.
I’m also looking forward to your Dust Tactics shows as I’ve been looking at it for a while now. I am also interested how you would go about it without a grid..
I agree with your thoughts on how Battlefront will take Dust forward and make it a stable gaming system.
A full on BoW weekender event would be swish, surrounded by like minded lunatics. As said 2 posts up a Blue Table type thing.