Beasts of War 2014 Gaming Awards: Finals Night
January 4, 2015 by dignity
So it all comes down to this! Welcome to the Finals Night where we're going to be running through each of the categories and their finalists then announcing the true winners of the Beasts of War Awards 2014!
This has been an awesome project for us to work on at Beasts of War and it literally would not have been possible without the help of you as a community. You answered the survey, you gave us the nominations, you narrowed down the finalists!
These are your choices as a community and we hope that you've enjoyed each of these shows working up to tonight. Hopefully YOUR choice made it all the way to winning the big prize!
Tune in on the days below at 18:00/6pm GMT to watch each of our nomination shows to find out the finalists and then the results show on Sunday 4th of January 2015...
1st January - Sculpt, Painting & Sci-Fi
2nd January - Fantasy & Accessory
3rd January - Pulp, Punk, Horror Or Weird & Historical
4th January - Finals Night!
Talk about the awesome nominations below!
Finals night!
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No Spoilers here please for a couple of hours so people can check out the show.
Congrats to all of the winners. Congrats to Warren, Lloyd, Justin, Sam, and John for a job well done.
Yep, definitely better than the Oscars!
Certainly more professional and entertaining. Well done all at BoW.
What was the piece of music you were using please?
It was “DUM-ta-te-ta-TA-te-tadeta… repeat etc” 😉
Most droll…………; )
Great show, great winners, great production. I get the feeling just by wearing tuxidos you guys aspired to another level professionalism. Don’t get me wrong I love all the shouting and banthering and giggling, which is normally around. Please don’t change that. But this showed how serious you guys can be and how dedicated you are to our hobby world.
Thank you and onward to an awesome 2015!
Only Fantasy did not really go as I called it
Superb.
Spoiler-laden comment, so be warned. Although why you would read comments before watching the show I’ll never understand… Sculpting – Didn’t think this was much of a competition to be honest. That Horus piece is just too good. Painting – Not to take anything away from Mr. Giraldez as he has more talent in his pinky than I do in my entire body but I can’t shake the feeling he won in part due to fanboyism. The Kum Riders are nice but there is just so much more love, care, and artistry in the Enchantress IMO. Maybe the scenic base… Read more »
excellent show guys.
Great show.
A great finish to a fantastic year for all of the companies, I can’t wait to see what the new year brings!
Big thanks to the Beasts of War team for putting this all together, you guys make our time in the hobby that bit more special so thank you guys & girls!
Awesome work guys. I’ve followed your progress this year with interest, while enjoying the great content at the same time.
I was tempted by the free 7 day trial you introduced and decided to stay on to give you guys something back in return.
Good luck in 2015, I hope you guys do just as well there as last, you have earned it in my book. So in the famous words of our hos.. “ROCK ON”. lol …. at least he didn’t say it was a ‘stunning’ year 😉
Good show. Be interesting to know how many votes there were.
Great series of videos, I think as a both a concept and level of production this is the best thing you have done so far.
Great show guys, Warren seems to be very happy about 40k not getting to finals.
Surprised yes
Happy no
Did leave me puzzled
I wasn’t surprised it was voted for by the community, GW don’t communicate with the community. In contrast the other finalists do. Most of them have been on the show at some point over the year.
Completely agree. Despite the insane release schedule and quite a lot of technically highly proficient kits, the rule sets aren’t all that well maintained and there is simply zero feedback or interaction with the community though.
I really expect hybrid games and small-mid level skirmish games to take the lead in the future, not in the least as they’re generally so much easier to get into and to get 1-2 buddies along and at a reasonable expense.
yes there is a real hunger to game in a lot of different genres these days so small games will do well, communications are paramount it doesn’t take long for the word to get round when there is something good out there sadly bad news travels faster. I’m sure there are people who have strong opinions about GW and have never had anything do with them.
WFB performed well in the fantasy section, so it can’t just be because of a lack of communication from GW. I think Justin is probably right, 40K lost out because the competition is strong. Infinity and X-Wing in particular are very strong right now and I suspect a lot of people who bear no ill will to 40K and possibly even play it, decided another game was more worthy of the award. There isn’t quite the same competition in the fantasy category, so even though WFB is a less popular game than 40K, it was still able to place highly.
Agreed. I think it has become rather clear that, at least in the foreseeable future, skirmish games are where our hobby is heading. It is all time and money. I think it is no coincidence that in both the sci-fi and fantasy genres GW lost to skirmish level games (even though Warmahordes is pushing the envelope with the term skirmish). GW’s business strategy still relies on people buying and collecting large armies, which worked 10 years ago when their dominance was virtually unopposed. But as Justin points out there is such diversity in the community now. Mass battle is a… Read more »
could also be that Warhammer has a more cosier image than 40K . Agreed the competition is strong for 40k and from from in my opinion at the moment better games. I read and hear so much about what’s wrong with the game of 40K and it would appear to fall on deaf ears.
I think, in my humble opinion, that 40k didn’t get into the final 4 because, well, it didn’t really deserve to be there. That’s not a dig at 40k because I love 40k and I’m not ashamed to admit it. But what did 40k really achieve in 2014 compared to 4 finalilsts? Dropzone Commander added a totally new faction, remade huge chunks of their existing range in hard plastic as well as starting to produce amazing artwork to really show off the game world. Lets also not forget the very strong hints of further expanding their universe with a sibling… Read more »
It’s a bit sad but I’m not surprised as a few weeks back I went into my local GW and noticed a lack of players from the last time I came by. The staff was rather blunt and straightforward with his response. “Well 40k has had a falling out with the gamers.” I asked please explain what you mean? “Ever since they came out with the new edition of the rules it smacked of money grab and bad rulemaking. That was the final straw for most player.” So Warren there you have it. GW killed the cow that fed them,… Read more »
I think that many 40k players consider other games superior in rules and balance and plays 40k because the availability in opponents and events is much better in many areas. So people play and love 40k but as a game the players find other games better in many ways. It is better to play a “poorer” game that still give you lots of fun but when you want and with people you like than play a “better” game more seldom but with greater joy.
Did that even make sense?
I see a lot of this ’40k as a seecong game, they still love it…’ etc. Also Warren talked about this. I’m sure there are some people who think like this but generalising this is wishful thinking. Some people hate 40k with passion as another edition of bad, money grabbing rules and new boring codices without balance put them off from a world they used to love. My whole 40k community just dropped it together at once, no slow death just ‘f*** this crap’. We enjoy some good games now and don’t lack of events or anything. I’m happy to… Read more »
If I had been in Vegas I would have bet a ton of money 40K would have won. Thankfully I wasn’t, big shocker.
Really enjoyed that guys well done, all the best for the new year.
I think the real winners are all of us, as we get to play with all this shiny goodness.
On that note also a big thank you to you guys at Beasts of War for a great show, a great year and for making my painting times a little more awesome with your content! I wish you a great 2015.
great show, great winners, great hosts time well spent roll on next? this years nominee’s
Long post. I promise no spoilers … I guess the big headline is the lack of Wh40k. I think this is tremendous news. Not from a GW-bashing sense, but from a health of the competition sense. I’m so not GW-bashing that I’m even thinking of getting into 40k for the first time in ages. Since getting more 40k info from Youtube and less from the US-based rumour sites, it’s looked a lot more fun. 40k aside … I’ve no quarrel with any of the winners – I’m surprised at how many were actually my choices. After checking what I’d painted… Read more »
Great show guys. Great content all year. Very emotional ending to the show. Blame the drink.
Thank you BOW for a great 2014 and this excellent Award Show!!!
Great shows guys.
It was hard to pick just one thing for each cartegorie. Sci-fi was and fantasy was a very hard choice, because i love all of the games 😉
Paintjobs and sculpt… That was a very hard, to only choose one.