Weekender: New GF9 Tanks Game First Look & Hasbro My Little Pony RPG Interview
March 19, 2016 by dignity
Welcome to The Weekender where we've got some interesting and quirky stuff to talk about. That means Tanks and...wait for it, My Little Pony!
News Time
It's time for a round up of what's been on the website this week...
- Best Frostgrave Table Ever? - Could this be the best looking Frostgrave table yet. Check out this artwork too!
- Dungeon Saga Infernal Crypts - Will you be delving deeper into these fiery crypts?
- Kings Of War Centaurs - Some new Centaurs are riding out for the Forces of Nature soon.
- Mindwork's Mushrooms - A fantastic 54mm miniature for collectors.
- Figone's Moloch - ...and another which would be a real challenge!
- Star Wars: Armada Wave III - Some new flotilla ships are cruising into battle for Armada
...what did we miss?
Gale Force Nine's Tanks
Getting historical we take a look at what Gale Force Nine have coming soon for their skirmish game called Tanks. As you might imagine this is proper full on tank warfare but with simple kits and easy to learn mechanics.
We've been playing around with some of the components for the game (in printed form) and let you know how it feels to be a tank commander right now.
My Little Pony RPG
We had Alessio Cavatore in the studio this week and we had a surprise interview where we talked with him about My Little Pony, a new license that River Horse has picked up, and the RPG they have planned for it.
Could you see this being the neat role-playing game for kids to have a go at?
Kickstarter Time
It's time to get stuck into some Kickstarters worth checking out.
- Euphoria Bad Born - A peaceful world, clones, a TV show full of blood and now zombies. A good combination?
- Wartile - Could this be a neat step in the right direction for digital tabletop style RTS games?
...what Kickstarters are you backing right now?
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‘My Little Pony’ RPG!!!! Oh Dear!! Barrel Scraping comes to mind! Anything for a buck products Inc etc etc etc. Still………I suppose there has to be products to ‘lure’ in the next gaming generation…….and it may be preferable to ‘anti-social’ console/PC games…….So? Maybe? It won’t be quite my ‘cup of tea’
I’m not a Brony myself, but there’s a lot of them out there.
True that! My oldest son is a massive brony and, heck, there are far worse cartoons he could be watching. I have to admit that the MLP CCG was surprisingly good, so I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who will enjoy the RPG..
MY LITTLE PONY!!!! Yeaaahhhhhh!!!…………………….Ahem, I mean football, Vikings and and beer!
What a shite episode.
Oh hells no. You boys DID NOT just knock Beast Wars did you? Three points to bear in mind: *When Beast Wars hit the Transformers franchise was dead. I mean flatlined. If Beast Wars hadn’t come along it’d probably be in the same position GIJoe is now… *For a show that was made 20 years ago the CGI animation, by pioneers Mainframe (ReBoot, aww yeah), holds up remarkably well. Especailly compared to the early 2000’s TF shows. *Having to work with a small cast of characters due to the costs of the animation meant that Beast Wars could go all… Read more »
My little pony RPG, I might have to watch this show where my daughter can hear it, or I’ll find my self Pony-Mastering a campaign before I can blink my eyes
Tanks – I’m sold!
Especially as the starter box is only £18… I can see this being a big hit!
It’s the weekend!
My little pony? I’ll get my coat!
Tanks looks a nice lightweight game. As BF focus on Team Yankee this creates as new revenue stream for their existing ww2 models.
Question is, will they go the whole hog and do pre-assembled and pre-painted minis?
Just checked the calendar – nope it’s not April 1st… this is serious MLP!!!
Surprised you haven’t mentioned that the last day of the Widower’s Wood Kickstarter is today. Especially since you guys are normally all over good Kickstarters.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/privateerpress/widowers-wood-an-iron-kingdoms-adventure-board-gam
It been there before front or backstage I can’t recall
My little pony, first time I’ve fast forwarded through a BoW show.
I fast-forward often. In this episode it was the tank game, and the boring rules talk grinding away my sanity. Usually I fast forward through company interviews, which I think should be separate from the Weekender.
They can’t please all of the people all of the time. 😉
No they can’t, i agree. Lloyd’s back though,yay 😀 .
It would be great to get back to the 3 amigo’s (justin, lloyd and warren ), with many a tale from warren taking the show off on a comedy tangent ( just for a few minutes ) because ( for me ), the whole skype thing i find a big distraction from whatever the guys around the table are talking about.
As to MLP, no, just no, MLP marines were bad enough 🙁 .
Yeah, I have to agree that the 3 amigos are enjoyable to watch. The best Weekenders for me are when the guys kick back and chat, with nothing too in-depth in any one game system.
Yeah, those are definitely my favourite as well.
Just to try and clarify my earlier comment, I am not ( as it would appear ) an old fogey against change, its just that this particular one has ( for me ) spoilt the look and feel of the weekenders..
Just gone deaf from the “Pony-Glee” shout …..
Oh no. I thought Bronies were all gone by now but looks like they have been just gathering up.
Man the barricades!
Hello from Euphoria!, thanks a lot for the review!!, you are awesome!.
Actually we are funded, lets fight for the strechtgoals!
We have many surprises ready!
Check the updates of our Bad Born kickstarter campaign
Good Show… now whilst I am not now and never have been into My Little Pony ( I am a bit concerned about @Johnlyons level of knowledge although I my have missed the explanation) I actually think that Alessio has hit on a brillent idea for bringing kids into the hobby I think many of those on here who have kids will actually relate to this and it will be the unblessed that dont get it. I hope it does really well.
It might bring kids into the hobby, but I’m guessing its main audience will wind up being Bronies. You don’t see many kids playing the My Little Pony CCG, but lot of Bronies play it. The annual BronyCon gets a similar attendance to Salute.
As a father of 2 girls who have both discovered My little pony and role play a little part of me panicked when I saw Alessio’s new RPG today. May God have mercy on my soul if my daughters find out about it!
Wanna borrow @johnlyons? 😉
Happy to lone him out between dads lol
Sadly or not my 7yo son thinks MLP is for girls..lol
As I seem to have been forced to add it to the must buy list already – John would be more than welcome 😉
Anybody find it rather worrying that John knows more about little pony’s than he does about a new tank game? 🙂
I considered myself “fortunate” that my daughter never got into MLP, but maybe we missed something? Maybe not…
That wartile game looks as though it would be ideal for an Occulus-style 3D gaming system.
Well I can safely say My Little Pony won’t be on my list of games to buy lol, though I know some dads who will be persuaded in to getting a copy…Tanks on the other hand will be a purchase this year..
I said from the start that Tanks looked like WW2 X-Wing for armour. It also gives Battlefront another means of funding new plastic kits for Flames of War as there is no way in Hell most new gamers would want to futter about with resin and metal models.
I never anticipated seeing Alessio and My Little Pony on BOW… is this an atlernate reality?
I think Tanks will be great fun. I also think x-wing players will feel at home with tanks which is great (this includes me).
But this will have a higher hands on hobby aspect with making tanks and tables to play on :).
There is playmats for sale coming up too so similar to X-Wing in tables setup.
sorry to say it was not he british who killed witman But a canadian brigade. The british were on the right and just 1100 m away the canadian were on the right just under 700 m away and his tank was hit in the left rear blow the turret off .
Conratulaions to Riverhorse on the big chance, they’re playing with the big boys now.
Really hopes it will be a success, as it might open to other IPs.
But there is a market for My little pony related RPGs, Ponyfinder, the my little pony and Pathfinder mashup, have aready had several successful kickstarters.
Wartile seems to pretty much be what I never knew I always wanted.
I just hope they can keep it up since as of now it seems a bit bare boned.
Alessio the next RPG better be for Visionaries or me and you are going to have a falling out 😉
@frankle – what’s Visionaries about? I goggled it and looked at the images but don’t remember ever seeing it which is strange… it looks like the right period in time for me to be watching it on a Saturday morning.
I Havent seen it since i was a kid but Basically a modern day world lost all power, a wizard gave people the power to turn into different creatures and they all donned armour with an image of what they could turn into.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Di_XGcHYWPg
It was awesome and I reckon a great setting for an RPG!
oh my god … I remember that show.
It was the typical good vs evil toy show of that era (kind of like MASK except in a fantasy setting).
I think any of those shows would make for pretty nifty basic rpg games.
The toys had holograms on them way before holograms were popular!! They were awesome! Not as cool as GI Joe but pretty cool…. can you tell I was a child of the 80s? LOL
omg blast from the past…
actually i recall a perfect cartoon from my youth that would make an epic RPG. it was about some kids that went on a fairground ride and were transported to a magical universe. Each of the kids were given special charateristics…one became a barbarian, another a knight, one a ranger, one a wizard, one a thief, and there was this short bloke who helped guide them and they faced a evil dude and there was also a dragon called tiamat…now what was it called again…..;-)
that would be Dungeons and Dragons …
The little kid was a barbarian.
And they had a wimp as a palladin
The little old guy was the dungeon master who would give cryptic hints.
And as it was based on D&D the one thing that was missing was an official campaign setting.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085011/
Lloyd is back!!!
@soldaan, yeah! I’ve been busy ruling over Lloydoslavia but thought it was time to pop back into the the show 🙂
Tales of Equestria may well be an acquired taste (or a necessity if you’ve got interested kids),
so if you want minis to go with it check out Impact Miniatures
http://www.impactminiatures.com/index.php?option=chibipony
and SLAP miniatures
http://www.slapminis.com/pewter-ponies-24-c.asp
who also have, shudder, evil ponies
http://www.slapminis.com/the-evil-ponies-25-c.asp
I wonder if I could scale up the Tank game to use all those built 1/35 scale models I’ve got ? . And how big of a table would I need to field 18 1/35 scale T-34s ? MLP RPG , why not ? Anything to get kids away from the TV / computer / cell phone zombie lifestyle and back to interacting with parents and siblings . Next game up for Alessio to work , how about Battle Smurfs ? lol