Weekender: Shattered Void Prize, Awesome Infinity Vehicles & New 4Ground Buildings in the Studio
July 9, 2016 by lloyd
Welcome to The Weekender where we've got some great stuff lined up for you. Lloyd is back and he's raring to go and find out what's happening in the world of wargaming.
Catch Infinity Week & The Team Yankee: Leopard Launch Blog
First up we'd love to highlight two big things. Firstly we ran Infinity: Operation Red Veil Week which was brilliant and this Saturday and Sunday will feature the Team Yankee: Leopard Launch Blog from Battlefront.
There's some fantastic stuff to watch so get stuck in.
Competition Winners
Next up we're going to be getting stuck into the Competition Winners where we find out who won the Rory's Story Cube competition with their stories...
xaussienannh: In the land of amoeba I had been sent to deal with the evil crab in the ghastly cave of doom, only to find the rain had shorted out my laser pistol (its energy meter, zeroed, sigh), It was a bitter pill to swallow. My plans in ruins, I decided the best action was to rethink my endeavours over a nice boiled egg for afternoon tea need to break a door down sonny. love her)
fireblarney: His tablet shaped ship out of fuel and finding himself stranded on a rocky coastline the microscopic alien organism searched desperately for a host body to protect himself from the toxic atmosphere. As luck would have it he found protection in the hard shelled body of a nearby crab. As the rain came pouring down from the sky he steered his newly acquired and mutating body into a nearby cave, spinning himself a chitinous egg to complete the process. Emerging he began the construction of a simple beam pistol while chuckling to himself, “Let the humans’ come with their axes, I’ll be ready for them”
badula: Once upon a time a Protoplasmic traveller crashed in Antarctica he had to build an igloo to find shelter from the harsh environment then he tried to boil an egg with his microwave gun but the temperature was too low luckily he had an emergency morphing pill so he morphed into an antarctic king Crab and lived happily ever after
...and the grand winner of The Army Painter competition to name the new paint.
Camry - Voidshield Blue
Well done!
Shattered Void Competition
Next up we have a great competition for you this week where you can win a Flight Lieutenant Pledge from the Shattered Void game now on Kickstarter.
Comment on BoW, Facebook & Youtube to be in with a chance!
You get two squadrons of your choice as well as a Rules PDF, 165 Damage Card Deck, Plastic Move Template, Plastic Tokens, 10 Plastic Stat Trackers.
The game is fantastic and you should go and check it out. It's a very dynamic and cinematic dogfighting game with some great ships (which you can see the review for HERE!)
News
What's been in the news?
- Team Yankee Pre-Orders - Get stuck into the pre-orders for Leopard.
- Dark Age For July - Find out what's new for the synthetics and organics in this Sci-Fi game.
- Antenocitis' Workshop's Azure Dragon - Would you pick this up from Kickstarter?
- 4Ground Grimmstack Buildings - What Steampunk game would you use this for?
What was your favourite bit of news?
4Ground Gothic Buildings Reviewed
Keeping with 4Ground we have a look at some of their Gothic Buildings for 28mm games and plenty of 32mm and 35mm ones too. We loved checking these out and have some great ideas for them.
Join us as we put them under the camera and take a closer look at them.
What Games Are We Interested In?
We also delve into what games we're interested in right now and discuss what we're going to be playing over the next couple of weeks and months.
What is on your radar at this moment?
Kickstarters
What to pledge for this week?
- Dungeon Time - A quick and easy card game worth picking up for your collection!
Enjoy your weekend!
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Happy Weekend!
Happy Saturday! Any guesses how many times Ben will say “and stuff like that” in this episode?
What do you mean, kill him off like they did in Star Wars?!?
Are you thinking Art Deco?
Loving the new vehicles on show, shame my wallet has gone on holiday..lol or it would be overworked trying to afford all those minis.
I’ve played shattered void at Salute a couple of times, fantastic game.
It’s the Weekend!
4Ground keep pumping out great terrain don’t they?
With many games I tend to play with LoS into and out of the building to models on that side; but not through as there”d be internal walls and furniture. Unless you gave those in which case you can go true LoS!
Great start to the weekend guys!
The Tornado was a joint project with the UK, Germany and Italy. All three countries had the tornado. Seems Battlefront are making models they can multi theme across NATO. For example the leopard 1 was used bu Germany, Belgium, Denmark etc. The range could be expanded with new lists but use already produced models. Cooool
Loving weekender!!!
The Harrier is from the late 1960s, was an old bird at the time of team yankee 🙂
I second this @reiton, many people still believe the Harrier is a very modern aircraft because it was so revolutionary 🙂
@Lloyd Art Deco is the word you’re is looking for.
Yeah my mind failed me completely:)
Saw this kickstarter when it went live the sculpts look really nice, I am very tempted if i don’t win to pick up the kickstarter however free stuff is never bad!
The Harrier II – since Team Yankee was set in 1986 (or thereabouts) the RAF had not achieved operational status with these at the time – there were older Harrier 1’s still knocking around but they were pretty poor by comparison. The second generation Harriers were an American design, superficially similar to the original but sharine no components whatsoever. The AV-8B (the US version) made its maiden flight in November 1981 and entered service with the USMC in January 1985 so if Battlefront put the US Marines into the game at some point, the aircraft Arnie was flying is a… Read more »
@dorthonion I believe the Harrier GR3 covers this period?
Either way there’d have been some sort of Harrier in British service around this period…
That’s all I need to hear 😛
That Amarok interceptor instantly brings up the Battle squadron soundtrack 🙂 nice minis, just like the ground troops
total love the weekender show 🙂
very tempted with dungeon time, I did say no more kickstarters but it only a small one so it doesn’t really count?
Lloyd, you need to play the Brits in Team Yankee!
@harpoon71 but then I’d have to wait longer to start!
For once actually have no work today so I can properly get stuck into the weekender
Happy weekend
Im in love with al 4ground stuff when i get a primer Job One of my goals is to have a full western city with 15-20 buildings and some fabled for my Warmachine
@Lloyd @Dignity those buildings look amazing. Well on for Dust and Team Yankee!!!! Will bring both up. Looking forward to seeing the buildings in the ‘flesh’ sure we’ll have loads of time
@buggeroff Roger, will have both. But not sure we will have the latest Dust cards in time.
I have to agree that the Earth set for Shattered Void looks awesome, and would be my choice for sure unless something awesome is waiting in the wings to be revealed.
Spattered Void WAHEEEEEY! Goodonyer @lloyd! 😀
On a serious note: I like the look of this, I’m in and it’s just funded!
Hell, Shattered Void is looking better and better.
Diving into the Background a bit might have been a cool thing here. It is quite interesing. Especially “the third option” has a lot more to offer than just being alien or different.
The Vitruvians created them as a super weapon against the human forces by re-using human technology and bodies. But they defected and identified both of the warring parties as their enemies.
I just love that.