Weekender XLBS: More Boardgame Love From Games Workshop & Must See Imperial Assault Paint Jobs
March 20, 2016 by lloyd
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Love and GW in the same sentence!? Now I’m intrigued…
Happy Sunday! Now this is how to start a working Sunday. A sausage and cheese toasted sandwich, a large brew and BoW.
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday
happy sunday – coffee, bacon and sausage sarnie with HP sauce check now lets get going
Happy Sunday folks!! Had a thought regarding your comments on Lost Patrol and the possibility of GW releasing boosters: Back in the mists of time my first visit to GW was out of the desire to expand my Space Crusade options and a friend at school had lent me a copy of his White Dwarf with rules for Tactical Dreadnought Armour. One trip into town at the weekend and I came home with the old Metal Terminator boxset (with the Captain & Librarian), plus 2-pack blisters of the other options. And that was me hooked. I know it’d be trickier… Read more »
I think you mean @brennon though I’m happy to be confused with the axe master! lol 🙂
I played a demo of IA at GenCon a few months before it was released, and the guy running them mentioned that they weren’t allowed to create any new Jedi characters for it. It’s why all the Jedi are called Force Users instead, even Luke and Vader.
Sorry dude. The hazards of posting when still half asleep 🙂
Thanks dawfydd for putting this right.
😉
I actually wrote it as the 1st sentence on the website the BoW folks are showing:
“The following ships are all fan made designs based on the SWTOR RPG.”
😉 😉
Happy Sunday!
I’ve got another 30 mins until I get my bacon sandwich- and then off to play some Force on Force Vietnam this afternoon…
It’s been a busy year so far on the Kickstarter front for me- I’m actually backing both This is not a Test and Blood Reef- like Lloyd says, Deep Wars has always been a game that appealed to me visually and the KS seemed like a good point to jump in!
Happy Sunday! Great show again. Thanks to Justin for introducing “This is not a test”. This will definitely help to create a “The Division/Fallout”-themed RPG/Tabletop for our gaming-group.
I’ve been getting into the IA skirmish game as I descend into FFG’s OP scheme. I’ve been at tournaments the last two Saturdays. It seems to be coming together as a skirmish game with a broader range and the errata from a few months ago. The downside of it is the set-up time it takes. As it’s an adjunct to the boardgame you need to play it on the tiles, and FFG’s solution to this has been to create maps from the tiles, and have two missions for each map. At any given time three of the maps are tournament… Read more »
They ought to bring back the old WotC style poster maps for tournament play. It would be a lot more practical and if every player got a copy (subsidised by the entry fee) it would give everyone something physical and useful to take home even if they didn’t do very well on the day.
@brennon bondi is not from bondage, we are not talking feudal when we talk Vikings. Bondi have the same roots as the morden Danish bonde, farmer or a free man, they would sign on for a share of the profits.
And a free man would have his own device on the shield I would think
Thralls (the cheapest ones in Saga) on the other hand would be the bonded men.
Great job on them Justin by the way
What she doesn’t realise is that my keenness to make her breakfast in bed is actually an excuse to put on XLBS in the kitchen while cooking so I can watch without interruptions…
Deep wars KS looks fantastic, rather appropriate as I watched 20,000 leagues under the sea on Friday with junior Tresillian – I love me some James Mason.
I am tempted but went a bit stronger on Twisted than I had originally anticipated.
Aghhh Kickstarter why do you always tempt me with your shiny new games?
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday! Nice and simple Vikings Justin 🙂 you have managed to paint a whole starter army and I only 5 Bondi lol.88 Games Workshop games are quite interesting. I must say I love Space Hulk and had a go or two at Warhammer Quest which was fun. Should they produce more? Maybe. I must admit I have a few boxed games with miniatures, but I did not have a heart to paint them and I do believe I should have done this. Still, they are playable thou. I really think that these new GW games will get some people… Read more »
Its nice to see Agis get some coverage – his WotC stuff combined with his conversions were a great source of inspiration for me when I was sourcing models for my RPG and his success at adding variation to the IA sculpts also gives me hope that my own set need not look as samey as I first feared. As for the shapeways ships (which he also did a fantastic job with – particularly when it comes to the preparation of the printed surfaces), most have their own fan-created rules, dials and cards which gives them a very professional look.… Read more »
Thanks siygess!
There are indeed fanmade shipstats for all the SWTOR ships around.
Personally I just use them as stand-ins.
So the Mantis counts as Bobas Slave-1 and so on…
Happy Sunday……………………..
This is not a Test : will nip on to KS and have a look, but as i have a few KS`s from over the last few month`s so i may just see about getting just the “Rule Book” for now.
Deep Wars – Blood Reef : Nice concept for a game, loving the “Great White” figure a nicely done piece. Just wonder how long before other`s start to jump on the band wagon…………..
@Lloyd Might be just my experience, but if you’re considering getting any of the Avatars of War Witch Elf equivalents, you might either have to wait 6-8 months longer than they promise and you might find the figures much less awesome than their hero figs.
Your Vikings look great Justin. I prefer hand painted shields as well, they look more realistic to me. Painting a band of individuals can be hard work compared to units in uniforms. You want them to look different but also they should look like they belong together at the same time. To speed things up I limit my pallette to about five basic colours, So if the first figure has a dusky blue jerkin I paint the next one with dusky blue trousers. I then I just mix and match until they are all done and you end up with… Read more »
Happy sunday folks!
Happy Sunday Guy’s for the Warhammer 40 K stuff i have bought their 3 new board games and they are all great by them self and for me i think their DeathWatch overkill can become their new necromunda game only needs a new rule book and a few card and boom new necromunda wow also i would love to see GW making Warhammer quest again so it might introduce me in to age of sigmer but the game by it self can bring them a lot of money witch they like 😉 and for the new Dust stuff i think… Read more »
Well done on those vikings @dignity . Gone are the days of miniatures ER. I actually like the rough and ready freehand on the shields. As if the vikings have painted on their own heraldry before battle.
Great show. Just a note about GW board games …. Fantasy Flight is already doing new games based on the Warhammer Universe. Forbidden Stars has received great reviews since it was released last year, and the 40k Living Card Game is another one. FFG also had the disc wars which featured the fantasy side of things.. FFG also produces the RPGs for the Warhammer universe. The nice thing is that there is NEW Wahammer boardgames being made, not just a rehash of old ones, and FFG is already an established company known to boardgamers. Justin, I’m loving your Vikings, I… Read more »
I remember buying space crusade from toys r us, and the expansions. I hope they are going to start distributing like that again, it was a great way of getting their products in front of young ones.
Also, very nice Vikings @dignity, makes me want to start some myself 🙂
Nice work Justin! 🙂 Aww no, not another bloody set of Dust rules! I’ve already got the supposed “new rules” from the damn kickstarter, and the Allies cards pack. Right now I’m thinking of using the minis I got from that KS for Wasteman instead, as I feel less inclined to get into Dust fully after their messing about. I know it shouldn’t put me off playing but, the wait to get my Dust stuff had been so long, that I’d lost interest. New games have since come along, and kickstarters too, like Wasteman, come along and have been fulfilled… Read more »
For an intro board/skirmish game to 40K, it needs to bear some relation to the game play of 40K, in the way that Necromunda did. And since FW will be doing the specialist games, I’m sure Necromunda will be the intro game they need. The three recent board games are an intro into the 40K/30K worlds but not so much how 40K is played.