Weekender: Chaos Space Marine & Grey Knight Codex Chatter With GW’s Jes Bickham
August 5, 2017 by brennon
We get stuck into another weekend of awesome content for you guys as we look ahead to a great themed week starting on Monday and much more.
Weekender Podcast Download
So, get ready for a fantastic show full of tabletop delights.
Hobby Night Live & Dunkirk Week!
First off we wanted to let you folks know that next Friday, August 11th, will be Hobby Night Live! We're going to be sitting down to paint some of our personal projects and see what you're all doing too!
We also have a week of awesome content for you focused around Dunkirk since the new movie has come out recently.
Dunkirk Week Teaser
With that in mind, we sat down with James (Oriskany) to talk about the plans for the week and what you can look forward to. We have some awesome plans for you to not only game around the event but also learn a bit more too.
We have some awesome plans for you to not only game around the event but also learn a bit more too.
News Time
It's time to get stuck into some news from this week...
- Japanese Space Marine Heroes & New Pre-Orders - What do you think of their new plans and new models?
- Medieval Battle Mat & Terrain By GameMat.eu - Will you be snapping up this terrain?
- Z-Man Games Announce Majesty: For The Realm - A great new game from the mind behind Splendor.
- Strange Torii & Kensei Beasts By Zenit Miniatures - Could you handle being harassed by a skeletal bird?
Let us know if some of these stories caught your eye.
Codex Discussion With Jes Bickham!
The guys got to chat with Jes Bickham of Games Workshop to discuss the new Codices that are hitting webstores this weekend for Warhammer 40,000. Both the Grey Knights and Chaos Space Marines are getting their chance to shine.
With that in mind, we ask him about what you expect from these books and a little more about bringing them to life.
Kickstarters
It's time to take a look at a couple of campaigns that you might want to check out on Kickstarter.
- Who Goes There? - Inspired by The Thing this has a great cooperative and hidden role element to gameplay.
- Station 111 MDF Terrain & Gaming Mat - Check out some pre-printed terrain for designing an interior battlefield in your Sci-Fi games.
Did either of these projects sound like they'd be something you'd check out in more detail?
Have a great weekend!
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nice show, Dunkirk week should be a lot of fun one of my favourite tidbits about it was Viscount Gort sent his personal belongings back while asking a plan be formulated for a retreat. At that point high command must’ve realised it was almost a certainty.
Never thought I’d see the day GW were on a weekender, pigs have taken to the skies lol.
Stranger things have happened.
That’s a new TV series, Stranger things, it’s pretty good.
Right?! They’ve really woken up 🙂
Ah @deaddave we just slipped it in like it was no big deal bud 😛 watch for that locust plague! Az
Happy Weekend!
I ain’t been shot mum by TFL might be a better system to use for some of the lead up battles to Dunkirk especially Areas
In the past we have done a few sci-fi games based on historical games like Arnhem and they work well although a few bits and pieces need to be changed to cater for different technology
I love the idea of a Theme week but necessarily for a particular game system.
Just as an FYI, many are coming out and saying that the Dunkirk movie was way to clean and it was much more ugly and they reference the original [1958] as being much closer to the events.
I have been trying to find the 1958 movie so I can watch it and will be going to the movies to see the modern version this weekend.
I heard they have remastered the 1958 film and might be going into the cinemas again for a short run
Okay, for some reason I thought there was also a 1940s “Dunkirk” themed movie, that came out DURING the war. Looks like I was wrong about that. Maybe I was thinking of “Mrs. Miniver.”
about the bline buy one of the way to get most of mini is o buy a carten of 24 … not the individual box
Mont St Eloi is another battle worth looking at as its deals with an action after Arras where the Germans feel it’s necessary to halt and deal with this story on its flank
Army not story
Thanks, @torros ! And great addition! This is exactly one of the points I was hoping to address in the series, how much French units like the 18th Dragoons (Somua-35 tanks, I believe) were part of these engagements. One can only imagine how Arras might have turned out if the original plan had actually been pulled off, British two-brigade armored attack from the north, a French DLM attacking from the south. As it turned out, of course, the French didn’t attack at all and the British “two-brigade” attack wound up reduced to basically a reinforced battalion (if memory serves). Of… Read more »
It’s the Weekend!
Who goes there ia looking a solid game with some interesting game mechanics and people dynamics. Certifiable Studios are just delivering their previous KS, Endangered Orphans of Condyle Cove, and are a studio to keep an eye on.
There’s only two things on my GenCon shopping list and they’re both at the FFG stand so should be easy for yous to pick up 😉
This day just gets better and better. Weekender time! Looking forward to see more around dunkirk, and how you can make evacuation games on the table top. Like Justin, i cant wait to see more death guard. Im looking forward to see the new codex for Chaos Space marines, the faction focus stuff GW have been showing of makes it seems like you can make a themed force that can still kick ass. Love the keyword way they are doing it. Im looking forward to the next hobby night live. I missed the last one.. but not this time. I… Read more »
A bit of clarification ref those GW Japan Space Marines: They are not sold gashapon-style from a vending machine, instead they are retailing from a countertop box – think how CCG starters are sold in cases – which come with 24 packs to a box. It’s a model that does well for very simple plastic kits in convenience stores and the like (although a lot of those come bundled with chewing gum of some sort – GW missing a trick for Inquisition-approved flavours there..). In theory one display box should get you 2 full squads of the base models and… Read more »
That’s some awesome insight thank you @dawfydd.
Yea this makes a lot of sense, very similar to how FFG handled rarity distribution for Star Wars Destiny booster boxes by guaranteeing a minimum number of the rarest cards in each box.
I kinda like the vending machine ball with a Space Marine idea though and you had me going with Terra Tangerine or Primaris Peach 😛 Az
Az, where did you get the shirt? The need is strong with that one! Amazing.
Big sign of changing times GW on the weekender.
@tonysilvey thank you kindly. it was just a wee Amazon pick up actually sir, not the fanciest or most artistic but I liked it 🙂 Az
Fantastic there will be Chain of Command content on BoW … Finally..
I wonder if after playing this it will kill the enthusiasm for BA or FoW…lol hopefully they do CoC in 15mm as it’s the perfect scale? 🙂
Thanks, @commodorerob –
“I wonder if after playing this it will kill the enthusiasm for BA or FoW”
I hope not and doubt it . . . considering how much Battlegroup content / articles we’ve had over the last two years that’s never slowed down enthusiasm for other World War II miniatures systems. 😀
When someone in your group has already pledged for Who Goes There? 8)
Also, is Hollywood calling on Justin to play Charlie Chaplain?…
I’ll get me coat.
Don’t think I’ll be watching this one.
My gast has been flabbered GW on the weekender engaging and sharing with the community and not a cease and desist in sight. i am so pleased with the new attitude i have turned about face and now after many years away from GW products have started collecting a space marine force. Long may this cooperation and improved communication with their customers continue
@commodorerob I am so excited to see that Chain of Command and TFL will be on the channel as well.
That is the rule set I use and I am setting up 15 mmFrance 1940 armies to play. I have two “Skirmish Campaign” books for scenarios. One of them “France ’40-The Ghost Division”, has Arras scenarios.
@cbrenner – the only reason I didn’t reply to this comment earlier is I don’t have direct knowledge of CoC or TFL being on the project. I know the BoW team leached out to quite a few gaming companies, and personally I wrote / interviewed about FoW, Battlegroup, and Bolt Action.
Of course, the more systems and people we have involve din the project, the better! 😀 I hope to see more content appear for Dunkirk Week (content I don’t even know about yet).
Whilst I cannot get into the Meta for 40k it is good to see GW making an effort to embrace their community again. It’s fab to see that they have realised that BoW are not the enemy, but a community that loves all forms of gaming.
Looking forward to the Dunkirk week, I am just about to watch the film so will probably get inspired.
Yay! Weekender
Another awesome show. Great having Ben in the studio for Hobby Night Live. I’m hoping he’ll be painting one more of those gorgeous badgers (or from that range of minies :)).
Dunkirk Week. Fantastic idea, really looking forward to this series.
I’ve been collecting 15mm stuff for the perimeter battles for a couple of years now, mainly PSC and a bit of Flames of War. There are some fantastic books out there on this subject, and my local regiment (Ox & Bucks Light Infantry) was heavily involved.
Take a look at Road to Dunkirk by Charles More, Cassel & Hazebrouck 1940 by Jerry Murland, and Dunkirk by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore. All available from Amazon, all with some great maps. I’m a sucker for good maps!
Thanks very much, @felixpike – We hope you like what we have coming out next week. 😀
And glad you’re keen on the perimeter battles, this is exactly where the articles and interviews are focused. I think a big thing to remember in these engagements is how much credit the French have not gotten in the time they won for the BEF’s evacuation in these perimeter battles. Definitely a point we expand upon in the series.
Great show. Really liking the ‘New Games Workshop’. Have bought into 40k for the first time on the back of 8th Edition. Should work great with my Battle Systems Sci-Fi Kickstarter which is due to arrive shortly. Really pleased to hear that Richard Clarke will be on BOW. My roots are in serious historical Wargaming and the Lardies systems are top notch.
Already have some of the XLC kit it’s great stuff and quick to put together, checkout their website or ebay for their buildings.
Thanks lads really enjoyed this one….. cheers
A good afternoon.
Thanks for another fun packed show and talking about great retreats there was one in Ancient Greece around 350BC called Anabase.
From what I can remember 10,000 Greek soldiers had to flee from Macedonia to the Black Sea taking the long way round through deserts fighting all the way.
Also a film called the Warriors from 1979 was loosely based on this but set in the very near future New York as a street gang has to retreat across NY city to Conney Island to safety.
It happened about fifty years earlier. They fought for Cyrus the Younger and after he and most of their leaders were killed they marched from modern Iraq to the Black Sea.
Are we talking about retreats or evacuations? Retreats are all over the place. Seaborne evacuations are a little more rare. If we’re talking retreats I would add the US/UN’s 8th Army Retreat from the Yalu River in Korea, 1950.
To answer @warzan question about successful large-scale evacuations by sea in the 20th century. The 3 big ones are – Gallipoli (1916), Dunkirk (1940) and Greece + Crete (1941). They are rare because these are the trickiest of operations to undertake. There are other instances like the Germans evacuating East Prussia which are a bit different. The British were able to do such operations essentially because of the Royal Navy.
Another great Weekender, I’m liking the setup of the past months.
I would have thought the evacuation of Prussia was just like dunkirk. In fact the military personnel was about the same numbers but adding to that 1 million civilians means it was a greater effort overall
Thanks, @captainventanus and @avernos –
Indeed, we touch on the subsequent evacuations carried out from France after Dunkirk (Operations Cycle and Ariel) – then Greece and Crete. I would also add the evacuation from British Somalia to Aden across the Red Sea after the Italian invasion of August-September 1940, if only because it’s Italy’s one successful invasion without German support in WW2.