Weekender: Cracking Open Godtear Early Access Kit + Tabletop Giveaways Galore!
March 3, 2018 by brennon
We've got quite the packed show for you this week. If you're here in the UK then you'll want to be wrapped up warm in bed with us on the screen, sipping some tea we reckon.
Weekender Podcast Download
Make sure to get your comments in below and tell us your thoughts on everything we mention this week. We have plenty of announcements first off though...
Updates
What's coming over the next week or so and what can you look out for?
- Infinity Week - March 5th marks the start of another Infinity Week here on Beasts Of War.
- Firestorm: Stripes - Get stuck back into an ace Team Yankee campaign with Battlefront.
- Star Wars: Legion Livestream - Catch Justin & Gerry battling it out on our AT-AT tabletop 5pm GMT Sunday!
- The Elf King - Get the lowdown on this awesome new Fantasy game coming out from Lucid Eye by Rick Priestley!
...and of course make sure to catch up with us at Salute 2018 this year which is running on Saturday, April 14th.
Daughters Of Khaine + Win The Melusai & Battletome
We take a look at the new Daughters Of Khaine models from Games Workshop for Age Of Sigmar and offer up a chance for you to get your hands on them. All you have to do is...
Tell Us Your Best Age Of Sigmar Watercooler Moment
...and we will make sure to pick a winner at random from those comments on a future show.
News
Some great little snippets of news for you today...
- Chaosium's Cthulhu Masters - An awesome sounding role-playing event at UK Games Expo this year.
- Nyctophobia - Get blindfolded and stumble through the woods in this upcoming board game.
- Solomon Kane Miniatures - We get a look at Seb Lavigne's work on these awesome new models by Mythic.
- Victrix Gallic Infantry - Get the clippers out! Some wild warriors are now available.
What caught your eye from the news this week?
Godtear Early Access Kit Unboxing
We crack open the Godtear Early Access Kit from Steamforged Games and give you a rundown of what you get inside.
Would you like to see us a do a Let's Play to show off how the game works at this early stage?
Kickstarters
We have two awesome Kickstarter projects to share with you this week...
- Batman: Gotham City Chronicles - This is a HUGE project from Monolith which is exclusive to the fundraising platform.
- Robin Hood & The Merry Men - A nice looking Euro game with Ameritrash rules thrown in for good measure + some awesome looking components!
Make sure to check out both of these projects running right now.
Competitions - Claim Your Prizes!
As well as the giveaway of the Daughters Of Khaine we have some winners to announce. So, if you hear your name in the show make sure to Claim Your Prize and we'll get them shipped out to you.
We have the Kitbash Competition Winner, Fabled Realms Terrain Voucher, European Theatre Prize, and a MASS of Battle Foam to send your way + one lucky winner gets themselves a Star Wars: Legion Core Set too.
Have a great weekend!
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The weekend starts here
Mostly
Damn right @avernos! 😉
TGIW
Happy Weekend!!
Why are you all even awake before 5:30 AM? o_0
Or up after 1am, it is all relative. 🙂
Staying up until 5:30 am is so much easier, than ever waking up before 5:30. The very thought… *shudder*
Getting a dose of early morning warzan keeps the doctor away 😉 (•potential lovers too but hey, it’s worth the sacrifice!)
How about doing a game of Star Wars: LEGiOn
Good idea @thunderchildobs
5PM GMT Sunday – Be here as we’re hosting one live 🙂
How did I get the rebel scum? That changes my choice of t-shirt you know. ; )
Yeah I’m heart broken too mate lol 😉
Why do I get the feeling that Gerry has just found out that he is playing in this game when he started watching this weeks show
And I’m only now getting the pun how many hours later lol
Yeah to do it in LEGO is gonna take some time lol
Happy Weekend!
Ahem, rosebud.
The Godtear miniatures are very well done. Steamforged does an amazing job on their products.
They are brilliant, looking forward to getting them pulled together and trying it out!
Happy weekend! Great show, congratulations to all the winners!
It’s the Weekend!!
Time to forget the Beast and Emma for a few minutes and consider some Hobby!
Too darned right many of us have pre-ordered the SW Legion starter set… the foam is most welcome!
Too late for a jami-dance, but ‘fleshed-out’ dance should be good enough…
@lancorz That Jonah HIll meme just cracked me up 😀
Hehe. Blasted updates!
I think I saw an AT-AT walk up my street at one point on Thursday.
Congrats to all of the winners of the fabled realms challenge 😀
I am glad I wasn’t the only person posting in the end it was looking a bit hexy at the start of the challenge when I was the only guy who had posted for a week ha ha ha 😛
The Godtear early access Miniatures are gorgeous, I just started painting Shayles Golem. Unfortunately the ‘beast form the east’ snowed me in so no games this week.
Its an enjoyable watch while I sit here snuggled up in a blankie on the frozen wastes of Hoth. Come to think of it, this is not so much a blankie as rancid Tauntaun hide… er…
In regards to the Victrix figures did Justin say he would never feel or field them himself? I ask as I wasn’t sure what he said as the audio for some reason broke up at that point
Happy Saturday – I really like a lot of the Lucid Eye miniatures – i have quite a few Simians… some are even painted.
Lego wargaming sounds ace. Forgeworld would seem cheap by comparison though 😮
Best AoS moment was when a chaos fateweaver was killed by my last ork squad but the following turn they where wiped out. Which ment I lost as I had no units left but it felt like we had disrupted tzeench’s plans.
Oh, I so wish the Solomon Kane game *did* let you play as parts of his body, not his personality. I know who’d play his arsehole!
lol I think my talent for hot air would put me first in line for that role 😉
$3 million SG, play as left cheek….
lol prepare for largest Kickstarter ever @redben 😉
@warzan and @dignity – taking the idea of the At-At being rare and the scaffolding being put up by rebel affiliates… Even if the rebellion have stuff like this that they’ve looted from past battles, scavangers would not. There would be plenty of scavenger groups who will have never seen one and they would be interested in stripping this thing for the local market. Even if the At-At itself is not particularly rare in the eyes of the Rebellion, they would perhaps still want to protect their local ally. Could be that the scavengers are suppliers of other weapons to… Read more »
Agreed mate
I am having a real blast digging through the Canon (and legends) of the star wars universe at the moment.
Spent last night watching phantom menace with the kids, watching out for any cool environment we could recreate lol
I have some books I shall be dropping off tomorrow for you to peruse
I think my best watercooler moment for Age of Sigmar is my Chaos Warriors completely failing to inflict any damage for 2-3 consecutive turns due to appalling dice rolling. And by Chaos Warriors I mean Chaos Warrior army, not unit…
If you wanna try lego and wargaming combined together then check out Mechabrick by Ben Jarvis
https://www.mechabrick.com
There is also the very cool mecha lego game MF0 – http://mobileframezero.com/
In one of the Star Wars Battlefront 2 multiplayer scenarios, the Rebels hijack an AT-AT on Endor to attack an Imperial bastion.
Cool 😀
There is a scenario just ready for the tabletop, do you know if anything similar is detailed before anywhere?
Unfortunately not – I am not that deep into Star Wars lore, outside of the movies. There is a bit of a run-through of the scenario here:
https://starwarsgaming.net/battlefront-101-attacking-endor-galactic-assault-red-wolf/
Three control points need to be taken for the AT-AT to be activated, then it’s about defending it on its way through the forest, attacked by Imperial AT-STs and missile launchers, which it is vulnerable against.
Never hate to bring up the prequels @dracs – it was a great time period and the movies established a lot of very important lore, 90% of which was solid gold and even the story arc was solid, even if the delivery was sometimes flawed. Luckily, for every minute of running time Lucas spent focusing on the wrong thing, there is an EU book that explores or expands on something far more interesting.. such as those Republic Commando books behind you 😉
Just have to comment on that, bear with me, please… ^^ Yes, the “prequels” had their benefits. I was in that time, too, and had a blast of some years with e.g. the collectible booster prepainted miniatures game (which would probably not have come out without the Star Wars renewal buff) and went to the see the films in the cinema and stuff. Buuut, these films did something to the Star Wars feeling that’s bleeding in there until today. I’m pretty sure it’s connected to all the streamlining they did. And this: “the delivery was sometimes flawed” To this day… Read more »
Oh yeah, I completely agree. The role of Dooku and how well orchestrated Palpetine’s plan really was.. was massively undersold so that younger audiences could understand (or didn’t need to understand) what was going on and the Republic Commando books do a much better job of selling how clever old Palps was. But the prequel era is.. well, it is a bit like being friends with a DM who has spent years creating this really fantastic setting for his campaign and due to your friendship with him you get a lot of insight into lore he has built up.. but… Read more »
@siygess Suspected it, and yes, we’re seeing this very similar. Also, I like to congratulate on a geat analogy!
Although, it seems as if you were referring to people well versed in the Expanded Universe. For judging over the prequels I try to detach myself from that perspective and take only the films themselves into consideration (i.e. the original trilogy, not the ones they messed with and retconned). And I still come to a rather unpleasent conclusion. 😉
Right, although for me, the lore of the period was established by the often excellent Star Wars Clone Wars series, which IMHO is an essential companion to the prequel films. As far as what most people would consider the EU – the books – I must confess to ONLY having read the Republic Commando books, and while two very important aspects of the books are subsequently retconned during the Clone Wars animated series (perhaps just one of them – I guess you could say the control chips are not mutually exclusive with the “In Plain Sight” approach from the books)… Read more »