Weekender XLBS: Future Campaigns & The Market Grows
March 13, 2016 by warzan
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Happy Sunday!
Morning!
Next campaign? 40k, AoS if it’s popular enough. But if you want to go historical you could do the whole thing around the Battle of Hastings.
Warren, I don’t like ultrasmurfs as much as the next person but read the Horus Heresy novel “Betrayer” and you’ll probably see Guilliman in a different light, he’s not the mary sue GW makes him out to be in the Space Marines codex.
Looking forward to novels about Fulgrim, Perturabo and Horus, they were always the most interesting primarchs imo.
@toxicvex girlyman is a fartknocker fact!
Thanks to Logar and Angron 😉
Happy Sunday!
@toxicvex – Well said sir! 🙂
@warzan – The GW poster boys are definitely not the same marines you see in the Heresy. Definitely recommend reading Know No Fear and Betrayer, and you’ll the Ultras in a totally different light in my opinion (It was Know No Fear that made me build my 30k UM army). Plus, when you consider the “Smurf-hate” around 40k, the number of players who’ve jumped onto them in 30k since their release is immense.
A BIG HAPPY SUNDAY TO EVERYONE 🙂 I hope you all enjoy your hobby day
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday
The first law books are great, well worth a read is you like dark fantasy
What I’ve really enjoyed about Joe Abercrombies stuff is how his other fantasy books are all set around the same world that The First Law trilogy is based, but telling equally fascinating narratives.
Of the ones I’ve read Best Served Cold is phenomenal…
Great show guys! Whether WH40K is top selling miniatures game or not, doesn’t really matter, what DOES matter, is that there is a much wider choice for ever more people to take up, share and enjoy the hobby! Power to the People!
Yes, but it is a bit like Rome have fallen that GW is not owning that top spot.
Happy Sunday.
How about a Feudal Japan campaign, would scratch Lloyds samurai itch 🙂
When you guys start talking historical I turn off, it just doesn’t interest me.
However as a campaign next. Go with Dropzone! Especially with Dropfleet coming soon! Link them in together (Dave has said numerous times they can) and have the games in each system effect the scenarios in others!
Possibly start it of with a boot camp for dropfleet.
At the end of the boot camp play the first games of the campaign as the various planets are attacked.
I like the DzC DfC idea, but the link scenarios might be hard to do with 100s of players – short of when you generate the mission have the DfC state over the part of the planet dictate the supply on the ground in DzC.
Agreed. …. Definitely the next Campaign after the historical…. so we all have time to get the DFC rules and models sorted..
Like Eve Online and Dust 514…..ok not a successful example but what a concept !!
Will need good comms between the DzC and DFC teams….. Calling in aerial bombardments in real time? Oh yes ! Taking out dropships before deployment? I see sales of the Aegis ODL going thru’ the roof….!
Happy Sunday!
As I wander past my FLGWS on the way to my FLGS of a Saturday I notice that the FLGWS rarely has more than a couple of games going on – I can’t then move in my FLGS for the tournament tables of MTG, Infinity, X-wing or Malifaux players every weekend. Easier to organise (logistically and legally) when you have 20 adults in the store committed to the whole day than 20 teenagers…
The world (and many of the gamers GW caught but then discarded) has moved on!
In fairness to GW (and that’s not a sentence I thought I’d be writing) many of us adults in our 20s, 30s, 40s owe our introduction to wargaming because of GW. Example, my interest in starting with Dropfleet is based on my happy experiences with Battlefleet Gothic, thanks to GW. They were the only place ‘that I encountered’ which provided a game, with the minis, with the glues, with the paints and the tables to play on all under one roof. I think GW had a defining role in shaping and expanding wargaming to a point that we now reap… Read more »
American Revolution open campaign? Lets get our own back, but watch out for Yankees sailing up the Thames! (Tho Warlord does a counter historical campaign on Britain involved in the American Civil War too…) Just my pennies worth.
Stay tuned, @dethbidonut . . . that’s all I can say for the moment. Stay tuned, we might have something of interest for you on BoW quite soon. 😀
Sorry oriskany, in my excitement tapped the minus button with my big fat limey fingers…
Campaign theatre: Fulda Gap for Team Yankee!
Now there speaks reason. 😀
Cracking show. Love the “cover your bases” pun. No comeback to that!
@warzan read “Know No Fear” Guilliman is awesome
Happy Sunday!
Just to add a little context to the sales figures and X-Wing overtaking 40K, this is for Q4 2016, it is through North American hobby channels taken as a representative sample of manufacturers, distributors, and LGS’s, and ICv2 don’t state whether the rankings are based on units sold of total revenue generated. All of that said, this is a big market and one which 40K have traditionally dominated, so for X-Wing to be the #1, even if it’s just for a quarter, is noteworthy in and of itself.
*or total revenue generated.
@redben q4 2015 I hope unless you are from the future!
How much do you think force awakens has caused a buy it might be collectable phenomenon when it comes to any thing star wars related?
Erm… yes… that’s what I meant… I’m not from the future… move along, nothing to see here…
There’s no doubt that a new core set timed for the movie release would have boosted sales. I don’t think anyone would be surprised if 40K took over the top spot again. To be fair to X-Wing, it was the #2 game to begin with and that was with massive supply problems which meant many ships were out of stock for long periods.
The other win for X-wing that you “just” touch on was the change in distribution. You didn’t have to rely on finding the base box set at your FLGS. They had these at the front row of the Star Wars Aisle at Target, a major chain. I don’t think you can beat that and this was a major coup by FF to pick up this sales partner.
They did though those sales don’t figure into this survey. FFG actually released the new starter via mass channels before hobby channels, which hurt its sales for this survey. It was compensated to a degree by people entering hobby shops for the first time buy X-Wing expansions having first bought the starter in a mass channel store.
And as it is sales based no wonder AoS beat WHFB – as there would be no sales recorded for the later
It was a comparison of AoS since its release with WFB prior to that. My favourite line from the magazine came from a store owner in California – ““Customers who I don’t even know came in to yell at me about Age of Sigmar,””
Xwing is a great game, easy entry and really does get that collector gene excited.
Doesn’t surprise me it outperformed 40K in Q4, especially as a certain movie was released in that period.
Plenty of room for FFG and GW in the market.
Happy Sunday.
Justin’s objective is a M577 command vehicle (not the APC from Aliens).
Great show as always.
Vacation? Vacation? First time I’ve ever heard Norn Iron folk use that word…
M577 armored command centre 🙂
@warzan tell Justin a really good weekend smithing course is run in Devon by Dave Budd. The only difference is its an Iron Age Blacksmith course, plus added bonus he has an Iron Age roundhouse on site. You’ll make a knife as part of the course, well that what I made when I did it a few years back. You can camp in his woods whilst on the course as well.
Morning gents! Great show as ever 😎 As predominantly (but by no means exclusively) historical gamer I think having a different outcome from what actually happened is what makes the whole thing so interesting. Let Napoleon win at Waterloo, the Zulus take Rorke’s Drift and the French annihilate the Panzer columns in 1940! Historical campaigns I would like to see and/or participate in: • Peleponnesian War. Athens v Sparta, fantastic navy vs spectacular army. Who’s gonna win? Took them thirty years to find out.. •The Punic Wars (the Victrix plastics for this era are just a delight..!). Can Hannibal take… Read more »
Better get your Danish textbooks out 😉
I like the idea of 1066 what if the normans crossed first and got defeated/weakened and then the vikings landed in the north
Can’t wait for the alpharius book have to imagine it will focus on the alpharius omegon relationship
That vehicle is a M577 Command Vehicle (that’s what it was in Vietnam anyway)
Frostgrave sellsword. The captain doesn’t replace the wizard. Its an extra character
Yep