Weekender: Creative Space Hulk Hobbying & Win Blackstone Fortress!
November 10, 2018 by dignity
Come and join us for The Weekender as we get stuck into some of the great stuff that has been happening in our community and in the wider gaming world this week.
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Make sure to get commenting down below with all of your thoughts about what you've seen here today!
Armistice Centennial
The first thing we're going to be talking about is that tomorrow on the Weekender XLBS we're going to be talking with Jim, our Historical Editor about World War I as it's November 11th.
If you'd like to look deeper into the period and learn more about The Great War then you can read more on Jim's article series HERE.
Space Hulk Tactics Hobby Challenge - Your Projects!
We take a look through some of the amazing projects that you've been working on for our Space Hulk Challenge. We have some great projects that have been full of superb painting and crafting when it comes to terrain.
Show Us Your Projects Here
We've also seen lots of work going into stories and more! You can still enter the competition as it doesn't close until November 24th!
Also, make sure to check out that amazing diorama by Tomas Mennes in more detail as YOU could win that!
News
We're delving into the news and finding out what has caught our eye this week.
- Axis & Allies & Zombies - A Weird World War take on a classic board game
- Rangers Of Shadow Deep - This new solo and/or cooperative skirmish game has us very interested indeed!
- RelicBlade Factions - Two new factions are on the way from Metal King Studio with a Kickstarter soon
- Realm Of Chaos & More - Some big news for both Age Of Sigmar AND Necromunda from Games Workshop
What from the news made you have another look?
Kickstarter
Come and check out some of the fundraisers which we think deserve a closer look this week.
- Oak & Iron - Naval combat in 1/600th Scale from the folks at Firelock Games
- Skulk Hollow - Face off against mighty beasts or BE those Guardians in this awesome board game concept
- Claustrophobia 1643 - Will you be heading down into the depths of New Jerusalem?
Claustrophobia is certainly a new way of using the platform from Monolith and it will be interesting to see if it catches on.
Community - Show Us Your FIRST Miniatures!
We're also going to be taking a look at some of the work from our Community in the regular Weekly Spotlight.
As well as this we got chatting about our FIRST miniatures and how bad they were. ragnar08 did a sterling job on his but we all made a right hash of ours!
We'd love to see you showing off those first paint jobs in the comments and telling us about some of the pitfalls YOU have stumbled into.
Competitions - WIN Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress!
We have a winner from last week who get themselves a copy of Kill Team: Rogue Trader. You can find out who you are HERE on our Prize Claim Centre.
The competition this week is for a copy of Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress and we'd love to see what you think in the comments about today's show and the game itself.
Have a great weekend!
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Happy Weekend. Thanks very much for the mention guys and best of luck with all the projects.
@avernos If that 3D space hulk is by Mark. He lives up on the North coast somewhere
Hi – if you’re talking about the Competition Space Hulk that’s mine. Living in the North West (Londonderry) but travel to play. Playing the Tyranid ship at Beacon in Belfast next weekend – Lord Willing!!!
The last Warhammer Quest I picked up was the original box back in … ’97? I had the painted version on display in the local shop for a couple years.
This Blackstone Fortress is a great idea, taking Quest into 40K, brilliant 8^)
That Joseph McCullough game. If it’s solo play does it mean you always play the Lone Ranger?
From my understanding it’s your Kone Ranger plus a group of hired hero’s
It’s for 1-4 players. Each one has a Ranger (think Aragorn) with the number of companions varying based on the number of players.
Hope there will be even more heroes to choose from for blackstone fortress.
Blackstone Fortress looks like a lot of fun. I like that is is cooperative and you have to work together.
I wish this site had less clutter guys 🙂
Send me a PM please mate outlining a bit of detail on what you mean (which bits are clutter etc)
Always happy to see if we can streamline 🙂
Quite possibly me just being an old git. But will PM you with my whine…hope you have cheese
What flavour Vape would a Rogue Trader choose?
@tankkommander, Emperor’s Breath! All else is Heresy!
Happy Weekend, Blackstone Fortress had some awesome minis, but I don´t know about the game itself…
The weekender is a great way to end my week. Also GIVE ME BLACKSTONE ITS MINE, lol
Happy weekend! The hobby centre/shop idea is really interesting. Have you taken over another chunk of the building to fit things in?
Really looking forward to Blackstone fortress, I still need something to replace Space Crusade!
Happy Weekend. I’m curious how Blackstone Fortress will develop in the future, so far it looks quite good!
It’s the Weekend!
And what a big weekend. An interesting mix of celebration that the Great War ended and many men and women could return to daily lives (such as my grandfathers) whilst also remembering those lost along the way. Also an opportunity to recall how poor decisions in negotiations across Europe led to misery,death and even more war.
Time for some fantasy this weekend me-thinks.
Sorry – most genres are ruined by the addition of Zombies! Lazy product development, usually poorly implemented just to have an expansion/variant. Only excuse is a purpose designed game.
Exactly
Sorry @brennon, I disagree with you about feeling that Claustrophobia is somehow ‘safer’. OK, the games have been manufactured but you are still only a backer with strictly no guarantee of receiving a reward rather than a customer with distance selling safeguards. I can understand why they’ve done it, but it feels like another dagger in the back of what Kickstarter was meant to be (although the platform will be delighted with their cut).
weirdly someone on the youtube comments said the same thing about it being safer, but there is no recourse for this going south compared to a regular preorder where you can at least claim off your credit card or paypal.
Dang, I’m a grumpy old bu@@er this weekend!?!
Happy Weekender! Still watching it, but just had to comment on the Space Hulk project section. Fantastic ideas and wonderfully creative thinking by all the participants. The amazing multi level terrain tiles are the board maps from Advanced Space Crusade, I still have two boxes in the attic, but they will be coming out now! Also, Jerry’s brilliant ‘thinking outside the box’ approach to Space Hulk background, Thanks Jerry.
Super awesome video, keep them going – oh its that time yup yup – the weekender has arrived – amazing prize :-)
Blackstone Fortress looks so gorgeous! I’m very much looking forward to that.
My first minis were some lotr high elves. they were painted in shiny dark blue, white and horrible gold.. i would like to just bury them somewhere deep..
Freshly brewed coffee and Weekender. Another great Saturday morning. Also, those hobby projects look amazing.
I’m really looking forward to Blackstone fortress. Ideal game play for boxing day with a drink and cold cuts !
I sense Jerry is a bit bitter about Rowboats Codex Astartes? 😀
That’s okay my space marines are templars, and both flavours of fists so I’ve put the Legion back together, regardless of what rowboat “I can’t run a legion” girlyman thinks
Still waiting for an updated Codex Black Templars with Primaris Space Marines…
don’t bother with the primaris, fly by night new kids with less experience than a scout..pffft!
Shouldn’t that be Neophyte?
depends on the chapter, but yes it could be one of those as well
But they have better cookies!
Go faster stripes and everything!
Im definetly waiting for a new black templars codex but in the meantime I could live with some rules for using primaris as space marines so that they use the same equipment as the old troops. I want to use primaris instead of regular space marines and then say that they are “regular space marines” as they should been from the beginning.
Now they are run as their own squads instead of reinforcing the existing squads.
As someone who’s been collecting Wolves on and off since Rogue Trader, and who has Crimson Fists as his “vanilla” Marines list I can appreciate someone who’s all in on the sons of Dorn. Going for a “Last Wall” protocol force by anychance?
no I started this as a crusade force a long time ago, back when the fluff said it was rare to see full armies of marines in action together, instead campaign forces were raised from various places depending on what was needed.
When we played a lot of Epic we always thought the main army should have been Imperial Guard with a couple of small detachments of Space Marines allowed in the list
makes sense, throw the guard at the problem and use the marines as special forces
That’s my current goal – I’m in the progress of stripping my old (3rd ed) all-infantry Catachan army, rebasing my all-metal Cadian army (finished weeks prior to the announcement of the plastic Cadians >_< ), bulking out the Plastic Cadians and adding a dusting of Tanith, Steel Legion and enough Kasrkin to do someone a mischief. Add Space Wolves, Crimson Fists, Deathwatch, Grey Knights Custodes and Imperial Knights to flavour 🙂 And I may be trying to decide whether to use all the remaining Marines I have lying around to do a Crusade list with each squad drawn from a… Read more »
pick a nice campaign badge and you’re all set 🙂
Specially as most Guardsman never ever see a marine!
Bit like the WW2 German soldier asked what he thought the best tank of the war was, Sherman he replied, it wasxthe only bugger he ever saw!
I remember the first story about the grey knights, only 5 landed on the planet. Killed the Blood thirster and the cabal leaders and then the planetary governor killed his subordinates himself because they couldn’t know that such a valuable resource existed. Fast forward twenty years and there are armies of them with walkers and you can see them from space and and and and ffs GW stop retconning interesting facets of your universe to be a intergalactic crock of shite!
Those tables look fantastic, they indeed do me think of my old gaming store I went to.
Blackstone Fortress has me intrigued. It has much potential for expansion. I wish GW would follow the suit of some minis boardgames and include small plastic trays for safe storage.
Also…
AS I forgot to say my traditional line on Youtube…
WEEKENDER TIME!!!
Blackstone fortress does look like a great package. I like how they are bringing in the greater narrative into miniature form, rogue traders etc. Be even better if it were free 🙂
I think I’m a little too excited for the release of Blackstone fortress. You guys are just enabling me by looking at it more.
Happy Weekend, I would love the Blackstone fortress 🙂
Hasn’t Beast of war not done showing old painted models in the past? Because I remember posting them, I think about a year ago.