Weekender: A Creepy Awful Orphanage & Kickin’ Ass In Rambo: The Board Game!
February 10, 2018 by warzan
We get stuck into another Weekender, the best couple of hours you'll spend learning about the tabletop gaming world!
Weekender Podcast Download
There are a few interviews for you to get stuck into today about some ace projects plus plenty more for you to sink your teeth into.
Warren Meets Mat - Battle Kiwi Terrain
First off we're checking out one of the mats from Deep Cut Studio which we've adorned with some of the amazing Battle Kiwi terrain which just so happens to be ace for some Star Wars gaming!
It would be wrong of us not to mention the awesome trees that you can get from 4Ground too which help add another layer of character to this table set-up.
Make sure to grab a Backstage Free Trial and check out John's Star Wars: Legion Table Build Series.
News
We get stuck into some of the news from this week...
- Chronicle X Renders - Check out what's new from the Archon Studio team.
- Stuffed Fables - We take a peek inside the box for the new Plaid Hat board game.
- 'Nam Rulebook Coming Soon - Battlefront takes us back into the jungle. Check out Oriskany's Article Series!
- Ream Beam's Funland - Some ace new MDF terrain which could be used in all manner of games.
- Awful Orphanage - We take a peek at one of the board layouts for this upcoming Kickstarter project.
What caught your eye from this week's selection?
Inside The Awful Orphanage
We talk with the team from Workhouse Games about their upcoming project, The Awful Orphanage. This game seems like it ticks all of the boxes for a great night in with friends...who you will promptly stab in the back.
Will you be keeping an eye out for more on this game?
Blackwater Gulch
We were lucky enough to get a look at some awesome new models for the 2nd Edition of Blackwater Gulch, now available over on their webstore...
...and this also gave way to a preview of a Kickstarter starting next week, Tuesday 13th 12:00 EST. This brings with it new monsters and creepy characters.
Kickstarter
We have two Kickstarters to look at today, the first of which is Rambo: The Board Game. We were lucky enough to get an interview with Everything Epic Games about the project which has a few days left.
Check out the Let's Play too!
As well as that we reckon you should check out Lighting & Bolt, a great asymmetrical board game for parents and their kids (and big kids of course) to get stuck into.
Competition - Win A Khador Colossal
We have the winners of the Mythos Competition to announce. So, if you hear your name make sure to Claim Your Prize!
You can also win yourself a Khador Colossal which makes either the Conquest or the Victor. All you have to do is Create Your Weirdest Steampunk Invention and drop it into the comments below.
Have a great weekend!
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Happy Weekend to All!
Happy weekend @longshotte
Happy weekend – at last feel like one of those weeks
Great news @rasmus hope it continues in that trajectory mate!
a star wars themed week sounds fantastic, can’t wait to see that. The Battle Kiwi terrain is absolutely lovely the sheer amount of modularity it gives looks really impressive I never backed it but it’s definitely on my wish list.
I had missed it too mate but it is lovely stuff.
I subscribed to beasts of war, saw the kickstarter this week, saw the endor items from battle kiwi and the rest is history. If it wasn’t fir beats of war, I’d have missed it. Morale of the story, subscribe to beasts backstage pass
Happy Weekend – My steampunk creation would be a paint rack. It would be a giant boiler and gear system, make a ton of noise and smoke just to shake all my paint pots at once for a few seconds. Id set it to a timing mechanism to do this twice day, just to keep my paints well mixed for eternity.
Ha ha fabulous as it’s actually useful!!!
Any contraption I would make would just have a primary use of striking fear into @dignity – which although good for my soul it has limited benefit for the rest of humanity 😉
“Star Wars is a state of mind” – @Warzan 2018
🙂
lol one for a TShirt or headstone eh? Lol
Try telling the psyciatrist that as the orderlies tie the jacket arms behind your back!
lol
Oh my jahjah! Thanks for the feature on my BK terrain guys! So stoked, sitting here watching while working away on another weekend and this makes it all worth while. I mean once you’ve been in a Warren meets mat segment, what’s left to achieve?! Right enough grinning like a nutter, back to the show 😀
Any hints on what you might create next?? 🙂
Just need to scroll through this ridiculously long list of ‘gotta make that!’ while blindfolded and point the finger! Special requests may be entertained ; )
Send me the list and I’ll have my chubby (I mean muscle-bound) finger at the perfect next step 😉
Sounds like a plan, get that Rambo finger flexing!
I just had to hit pause on the Star Wars intro song, I couldn’t stop laughing 😀
Really looking forward to Legion! ^^
Star Wars doesn’t do guard rails. Remember the Death Star.
If you’re not in a sense of danger at all times you’re not prepared for war.
I can verify this from my own experience from being deployed. But you can’t stay that wound up all the time,and have to find a way to go about your business normally. Which is why High School is such a good training experience for working in a Death Star. 😉 😉 😛
Or robot chicken doing star wars.
It’s the Weekend!! …and the film licenses keep coming. I’m not sayi g it about any particular games this week, but… Have you ever been given a present to unwrap, you open it in front of your family and inside there’s a box of … “You always keep going on about that film and how much you like it!” pipes up someone. You try not to show too much disappointment on your face as you begin to reply, “Yes, but…” Your voice trails off knowing that someone has really tried and you’re already thinking ‘do they have the receipt? Let’s… Read more »
That Endor table looks legionary… sorry… I mean legendary!
It’s awesome
Woo-hoo… Saga 2 books just arrived in Saturday Post. The weekend’s looking up!
(Separate Saga2 forum thread just opened for more thoughts and discussion)
No podcast link?
Should be fixed now @nekomata thanks for the heads up
I wonder if people dissected and over analysed the Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers serials back in the 30’s like they do today with films and TV shows?
Part of me thinks (or perhaps hopes) folks had more worthwhile things to do back then.
I’m not against the whole is it a worthwhile watch or not type critique but dear me some of the insane levels pieces of entertainment are being held to these days are mind boggling lol
Loved the show as ever, the site, and the community, but I have to disagree on this point. I wrote most of this on a backstage post before, but the sentiment applies here. I’m a bit uncomfortable with what appears to be, a tiny bit of malice against people just for engaging in a past time they enjoy. I do want to say I am a big fan of critique as fun, and as a thoughtful way to imagine how things might have been better and might be better in the future. I think it was an episode of Frasier… Read more »
Two minuets in and I’m excited for star wars week also haha 😀
I apologise for the noob question but what’s behind not saying the word ” Legion ” ? It’s been on pre-order for an age, it’s not like we don’t know it’s on it’s way.
I can neither confirm or deny anything mate.
(Cough Disney Cough)
Ahhh, i completely understand sir 😉 .
Stempunk invention: an extension onto the porch that requires visitors to enter before they pull the doorbell cord. This closes the entrance doors behind them, of course anyone with the correct token can use that to gain full entry. Anyone else you may now assess whether they are welcome or not, either through the talking tubes near where you tend to usually be disturbed from or through the hatch on the inner door. Welcome guests can then be granted remote entry to the vestibule, couriers have hatches to deposit their consignment safely and released… but door to door salespeople and… Read more »
Coal fired freezer.
Looking forward to Star Wars week.
As for the dissecting people, I don´t give a damn. Let them disect. Vivisect. I laugh at them. For instance, a few days ago I read The Walking Dead TV series wasn´t any more what it used to be, now it´s more like some sort of “Coronation Street” with zombies. 🙂
My steampunk device will be a semi-metallic mimetic schinkenbrotmaschine. That´ll be useful.
Thanks for the week-ender, great show as always.
Clockwork Gravedigger
(And part time henchman)
An building full of kids run by a sadist called Prendergast. Did one of the Awful Orphanage lads go to my primary school?
Also steampunk arse-kicking machine. There’s a lot of people in this world need one right now (and possibly my next conversion idea).
Ohh man that one appeals to me sooo much lol
I am literally losing the ability to form words these days for fear of inadvertently offending someone 🙁
The weirdest Steampunk machine actually existed and was used to treat female ‘hysteria’
https://mashable.com/2015/02/20/history-of-vibrators/
@dignity I think your look quite dignified using this device mate 😉
Steampunk invention. ‘Auto Bedtime Stair Climbing Slippers’, for when those 13 steps feel more like 130.
If you fit a steampunk satnav with directions home from the pub to the breezemount I reckon we can add it as an add-on to the bootcamps this year 😉
@warzan 25th of May is the big day for the UK release of Solo. George Lucas himself said in STAR WARS he did want to explain how the Falcon flew, he just wanted it to fly. all about the rule of cool in STAR WARS. i was a little worried when i first heard they were going to make Solo, but just stuck it on the back burner and concentrated on the films that were to come before it. got to say i’m genuinely getting excited now though. i think it’s going to be a super cool and stylish STAR… Read more »
25th of May is cool too! 🙂 Right around a day we celebrate as family day (it’s just the day Andrea and Myself met, but we call it family day and try to take the kids somewhere cool to celebrate us all being together)
How about combine the 2 things from the weekender? Steam Punk Star Wars? Steam powered AT-ATs, and lightsabers that vent occasionally and scald your hand if you aren’t careful (Cue lots of videos where every 3-4 swings, the Jedi whelps and blows on his fingers)? I’d watch a steampunk reskin of Star Wars.
Warren, while I can understand not wanting to put your kids on the internet, I think it could be interesting to build a show around your family playing Stuffed Fables and other family games.
That would be one I would have to talk over with Andrea (and the kids too lol) mate 🙂
Rodney’s “Watched it Played” YouTube channel worked well for many years with his Andrea and Luke (children) as his play mates. Not been the same since Andrea headed off to University.
I suspect Warren’s family might have a different… ‘charm’… compared to Rodney’s well brought up and well behaved offspring? 😉
You suspect right 😉 lol
Happy Weekend
Electromagnetic Strife Enhancomatic Network – why fight your enemies when you can make them fight themselves
An automated steampunk barbers chair with a cut throat razor built in. 100% guaranteed to give you a smile from ear to ear or your money back.
My Steampunk invention wold be
A Steam powered backpack with arm mounted power washer and te dispenser, that can also help with an impacted bowel