Weekender: GW’s Community Commitment & What’s Inside The Terrain Crate?
April 15, 2017 by lloyd
Come and join us for a packed show as we delve into what's been happening this week in the world of tabletop gaming.
Weekender Podcast Download
We've got a great chat with Mantic Games coming up plus a great competition prize too!
What's Happening At BoW?
First up we delve into what's on the horizon at Beasts Of War...
- Guild Ball Week Coming - Watch out for Guild Ball Week coming 24th April!
- BoW Heading To Salute 2017 - Justin, Lance & Ben plus Peachey will be hitting up Salute next weekend.
- BoW Gaming Awards Open - Have you put forth your nominations yet?
We hope you follow along and get stuck into what we've got planned!
Competitions
We have some goodies to give away and some winners to announce too.
- Win Yourself A FAITH Character Set - Comment to win below and let us know which of the FAITH characters is your favourite and we'll pick a winner!
- AdeptiCon Swag Bag Winner - The winner has been sorted and it's @crazycabo!
Make sure to check out more about FAITH later on in the show.
Games Workshop Interview
Dawn got to sit down with Andy Smillie at AdeptiCon and talked about Games Workshop and their plans for community involvement in projects going forward.
Hopefully, we'll have some time to sit down with Games Workshop soon in the studio!
News Time
What caught our eye in the world of gaming this week?
- RuneWars Latari Elves & Essentials Pack - Will you be choosing the Latari Elves?
- Locus Released & Guild Ball Salute Specials - New players and special releases are coming soon...
- PlastCraft's Malifaux Ghost Town - A perfect ghost town that's quick and easy to build!
- Cryx & Khador Releases Coming This April - Are you liking the new releases for Khador and Cryx?
- 4Ground's Fabled Realms Previews - We can't wait to see what's coming to Salute this year in resin form.
...what caught your eye from this week?
Mantic Talk Terrain Crate + Win A Terrain Crate Set!
We talked with Rob from Mantic Games and discussed their new Kickstarter, launching soon, all about Terrain Crate which is going to provide you with epic plastic pieces for a dungeon.
Mantic are also adding in a special prize for one of our comments on BoW. Come up with a suggestion of a piece of larger resin terrain you'd like to see in the Battefield, Town or Dungeon and get it down below.
If they like the ideas they'll make that terrain piece AND you'll get to choose one of the Crates from the Kickstarter to win!
Is this something you're going to be getting behind?
Rock, Paper, Wizard!
We got to check out some great Dungeons & Dragons goodies. First off we have Rock, Paper, Wizard to 'play' live on camera. They are yet to understand quite how Ben has such Wizarding powers but this looks fun to play when travelling.
We also break out some of their D&D Unpainted miniatures range which would be fantastic for adding to games like this and of course on the tabletop as part of your adventures.
Kickstarter Time
We then stop off for an awesome look at fundraisers!
- FAITH: The Sci-Fi RPG - Check out this amazing Kickstarter packed with wonderful artwork and brilliant miniatures that you could win!
- The Third Law - Robot battling comes to the tabletop in this neat looking game from Primogenesis.
Some great stuff to check out from the world of tabletop gaming this week...
Happy Gaming!
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Morning! Time to pop the kettle on eh? 😉
Terrain Crate ideas? A number of different Market stalls.
Terrain Ideas form me would be:
Dungeon Crawler:
Wizards Hat stand with a few different hats.
Vault-style door with riveted surrounds and a round handle
Skeleton -themed alter, bookcase, organ (like a church organ), doorway and a portal mirror.
Doorways that lead downwards, I.e. a stairway to a cellar, a well or wishing well without water, a trapdoor in the floor, a hatch door that leads to a cellar, pipe way entrance leading down 🙂
For a market place:
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Individual or racked olive oil amphora (
stalls as suggested earlier Arabic or roman design, Tents would be good too.
A note to anyone considering terrain crate: mantic still haven’t fulfilled all the rewards for Dungeon Saga.
I’m so pumped as always for Salute coverage!
Really?
Is it a case that there are a few items that haven’t been done that were listed in the KS, or is it that some people still haven’t got their stuff?
Just wondering if I’ve missed anything; I ended up with sooooo much stuff that I don’t have a clue as to whether anything didn’t turn up. Furniture sets? Yeah, I seem to have three of those…
A novel and a second gamebook were promised to all backers and never arrived. Not essential items for me, though I was really excited about the gamebooks. I just think that if something was promised it should be delivered.
Oh yeah. I vaguely remember something about them.
Think that I filed that under “Stuff That I Don’t Care About” and promptly forgot that it was ever mentioned!
And… boom!
Just got an email saying that the DS novel is available for download.
Ever get the feeling that you’re being watched? Because, I kind of need to go to the toilet at the moment and this is a bit disturbing….
I know! I’ve read the first part to the first chapter and it looks OK. Couldn’t say that about the KoW kickstarter novel. Just one more gamebook to go!
For terrain crate I’d love to see some actual crates like those for in warehouses. Good for fantasy and sci fi! Also some fallen trees for difficult terrain in KoW would be nice.
For the MANTIC competition:
A pile of skulls of mixed races with a rat rampant on top.
Optional and awesome: The rat is holding an eyeball with a nerve tendril into the topmost skull eye socket.
Is this the right place to post this ???
Hey, why am I wizard Pink; wizard Pink sounds like wizard P#ssy
Why can’t we pick our own colours?
Cause it always ends that two of you will want to be Wizard Black…..
The VASH’UH mini is awesome. I love the masked face and of course the sniper rifle! What an interesting character.
Weekender time!
Warren ragnar isnt the be all end all of viking leaders. Theres many MANY interesting men in that show (and future shows) who are famous vikings in their own right! I dunno how far into the show you are so i wont mention names as it could ruin story archs…but theres more than just ragnar out there.
Plus there can only be one ragnar lothbrok haha
Does he know the HighLander ? as I am sure Colin McCloud would have something to say over that.
Yup as I get through the series there are a ton of brilliant characters
And I’m far enough on now to start venturing on to Wikipedia to learn about them lol
Have you decided if Ragnar was a real person yet or just an amalgamation of different people?
…tut-tut!
@warzan I have to thank you for turning me on onto Vikings, it’s on Amazon prime and this week the Mrs. and I have been having a proper binge watch in the in the evenings, already done season 1. We’re completely hooked. Cheers!
@warzan you should really have a look at Egill Skallagrimson my favourite out of the Sagas.
Warrior, Scald and a Chieftain who did manage to live to a ripe old age of 80.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egill_Skallagrímsson
“At the age of seven, Egill was cheated in a game with local boys. Enraged, he went home and procured an axe, and returning to the boys, split the skull to the teeth of the boy who cheated him. “
I like how Björn is growing in the series and wandering how he will be evolving further in the future.
PS. I haven’t looked up anything about the real historical background of this character.
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Happy weekender!
Regarding a slightly larger piece for the terrain crate, I would suggest The Throne.
No, not a pointy one made of rare swords that seems to be the rage these days. Nor a small one out of boring materials such as wood, stone or skulls.
The Throne, is a Beast. Quite literally. The head of slain Fenris, avatar of the Wild Gods, the Giant Wolf. Within its gaping maws, the Ruler sits on a seat carved out from the tongue of the monster. The Throne only recognizes one authority: Power, absolute, undiluted and corrupting.
“such as wood, stone or skulls*”
* a never-ending amount of humanoid skulls that is, not an awsome giant wolf skull 😉
3 laws of robotics- bicentennial man really– Really— REALLY as an example of Asimov’s laws –DUDE come on: I Robot is the goto ;-p
For terrain ideas how about just some inexpensive fences,walls and hedges?. I think gamers can never have enough of these
Third law is awesome. the whole thing is on print and play. rules, tokens, dice customization squares to stick on die, tokens, cards, and standees, even strategy guides. Awesome
When at Salute if you could have a quick look at the Baccus stall for their new ECW range and the WW1 Turkish range that would be great.There is also going to be a demo game if the 1706 Battle of Kalisz which is being done by the people that did 6mm SAGA which would be nice to see
It’s the Weekend 😀 . @dignity check out Gripping Beasts Swordpoint Participation Game, they have a Classical Armies Book releasing at Salute as well for a historical gaming hit.
For Mantic, for a larger piece, integrated dice towers. Perhaps a hollow tree trunk with an exit amount the lower roots that can double as an objective or a egress point for a board of underground beasties. Other shapes could include a village water fountain with the dice ending up in the well area, a crystal shard jutting from the ground, cracked and jagged. While the crystal and tree are fairly universal for genre, you could also do sci-fi specific shapes like a partially destroyed Juggernaut automaton or a power station tower. These could be multi part items, not pre… Read more »
Guild ball week, yeah!
I really want them to also do Scifi and Modern Terrain for Mars Attacks, The Walking Dead, Deadzone, and Warpath and such, not just fantasy type terrain.
I went to school with Andy the butch GW guy. We started in the hobby together.
What went wrong in my life…?
Happy Easter
Looking forward to the hobby live thing!
Might do some 30k as well on Thursday as I’m running out of Victrix Romans and will have to wait till after Salute before I can continue with my legion.
Good to see Rob again, the Mantic KS sounds really interesting!
Wait..it’s gonna be the 27th which is after Salute!!!
So I WILL pester you with Romans mwahahha!
Really good to see GW interacting with the community again. Although I have drifted away from their games now GW kicked me, and i’m sure many of us, off in this hobby. Long may they continue to bring new blood!
For Mantics terrain: perhaps a weapons rack holding some VERY familiar weapons from fantasy film, art & fiction?
Happy weekend… Terrain well i was thinking of a Gallows… But the @dignity went and scuppered that one…Git . Sticking to a theme…How about one that will get @warzan interested…
An Iron Maiden… Complete with body or Skellie to get @lloyd interested…lol
For Terrain Crate: A large Astrolab like the one from the “Dark Crystal” Movie in Augras great observatory.
Or a huge Dwarven or Viking Horn, like the horn in “Erik the Viking”… this is stuff which is realy rare to find for miniature gaming.