Weekender: Hobby Lab Challenge Ideas & Getting Groovy With The Evil Dead 2 Board Game
July 16, 2016 by dignity
Welcome to The Weekender this week as we get stuck into giving away a whole bunch of goodies to competition winners and having a massive chat about the upcoming Scatter Terrain Challenge for Hobby Lab.
Competition Winners
First up, some goodies to give away for...
- Shattered Void - A Flight Lieutenant Pledge
- Infinity Red Veil Week - Operation Icestorm & Two Player Bundles
Follow the video above to find out if you won. If you hear your name then use the Prize Contact Form and we'll get these goodies out to you.
Updates
We also have some neat things for you to check out.
- Leopard Launch Blog/Week - Battlefront ran a Launch Blog and the big themed week is coming!
- Battle For Xilos Campaign - The campaign for Beyond The Gates Of Antares is hotting up.
- New Parts To Painted VLOG! - John takes the Gigantic Golem from Wolsung from Parts To Painted in style.
Will you be tuning in on Monday?
News Time
What's been in the news?
- Warmachine & Hordes Renders - Fancy new renders have popped up for Privateer Press' epic games.
- Malifaux Wild Ones Nightmare Box - The Guild get a great new set available at Gen Con.
- 4Ground Artwork At Gen Con - 4Ground will be giving away some awesome artwork at Gen Con too!
- DreadBall 2nd Edition Art - DreadBall 2nd Edition comes to Kickstarter soon.
- Letters Home WWII Terrain - Check out some awesome terrain from the folks at Knights Of Dice.
- Great Wargaming Survey 2016 - Take part and let us know the mood in gaming this year.
If you want to check out the PDF from the Great Wargaming Survey 2015 then click HERE.
What did you pick up from this week?
Hobby Lab Open Competition - Scatter Terrain Ideas
We're running the Hobby Lab Open Competition from now until August 31st 2016 and we're looking for your best Scatter Terrain.
- Hobby Lab - Flat Pack Sponge Rocks
Here are some of the ideas floating around in the community right now.
- Techno-Barbarian Junk Structures
- Fountain & Town Square Scatter
- Stalingrad Ruins
- Simple Marsh/Bog/Swamps
With that in mind we talk about the ideas we have rattling around inside our heads and look ahead towards the competition and what goodies might be on offer from the community.
Kickstarters
We sneak in a groovy Kickstarter...
- Evil Dead 2: The Official Board Game - See what we think of this neat game from the minds behind the comic book series.
What are your thoughts on the world of tabletop gaming this week?
Cover artwork Dead by Dawn by Rahzzah.
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Happy Weekend!
Happy weekend – wow Lloyd, I need a pint of what you’re on buddy…lol
Lloyd, if you get into Malifaux you’ll appreciate the need to enter buildings.
Duly noted!
Happy Saturday..! 🙂
Being a huge fan of Evil Dead I jumped all over the Lickstarter… That was, untill I saw how ineptly it was being run. I’ve been burnt too many times with Kickstarters for me to back this one.
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Hi too you @minty45 🙂
I will have to re-watch Evil Dead 2, but I think the book is called the “Necronomicon Ex Mortis”, not just “Ex Mortis”. I wonder if the word “Necronomicon” is trademarked or copyrighted.
Also, I don’t really like the comic book art style for the game.
Necronomicon was in the H P Lovecraft books so would be surprised if it was still under copyright. Though Chaosium might I suppose
It won’t be copyrighted, but it could easily be trademarked for gaming by Chaosium. I took a look on their site earlier but couldn’t find a list of their trademarks, just the obvious one (Call of Cthulhu).
It’s the weekend! A weekend where tanks have rolled out onto the streets of a state surrounding the Baltic Sea in an attempted coup. Nevermind – Boris will sort it out!?!
Think you mean the Black Sea, but yeah, how ‘lucky’ we are to have Boris represent us…
please define what ‘gribbleiness’ means as I have no idea whenever anyone says it!
Gribbly means all covered in tentacles or spiky and weird – anything demonic is usually ‘gribbly’ or a monster for example from a dungeon like a Beholder.
Wasn’t there a C64 or Spectrum game called Gribbly ‘s day out or something?
West Germany is looking badass in Team Yankee!
I think it’s much more likely to be the case that sci-fi overtook WW2 last year because the survey had a wider audience than the year before than because people are migrating from WW2 to sci-fi as their preferred genre.
Yes could be, as I suspect the magazine demographic is usually more wwii orientated.
I think it would be interesting to see part of the survey that asks where the person heard about the survey and websites they visit.
There are two types of people in the world. Those who have seen/desperately want to correct that they haven’t seen Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 (Army of Darkness can be taken or left), and those who deserve to be dead by dawn! There were five young ‘uns in the first movie, but it was Ash and his girlfriend in Evil Dead 2. The second movie came out in 1987, the first in 1981. As Lloyd says, Evil Dead was one of the 72 ‘video nasties’ of the early 80s, the first moral panic I can remember. Our rpg group… Read more »
And then there’s the new “Ash vs Evil Dead” Which personaly I thought was freaking brilliant.
I enjoyed it but wouldn’t put it at the level of the first two movies, more around Army of Darkness.
I think that’s probably just where it needs to be to have a wider appeal.
I agree with you there Mr Lloyd. 🙂
I loved it but then I love Army of Darkness. (Not as much as Evil Dead 2 but then that film is pretty much perfect. 🙂 )
I’ve never seen the evil dead movies..
The Evil Dead Kickstarter… warning bells all around. Could end up a real disappointment for backers. Project seemed unprepared from the start, and definitely not ready for a huge success with almost 4000 backers… and delivery date Nov 2016…
I really like the Evil Dead movies, but I’m not brave enough to back this project.
@dignity Shame on you for not having seen the Evil Dead movies, they’re classic cult horror films. PS. The special effects might not have stood the test of time. 😉
Fine balance on this KS:
— Their first KS
— Ambitious timeline, likely to have a stretch goal feeding frenzy if the numbers go up meaning; multiple global backers and lots of extra items to design, approve and manufacture – given how little ‘finished product’ is on show so far that’s a lot of work
++ Established license, — but still need licensee’s approval
— game development not their core business
++ Got PandaGM onboard as manufacturer with a slot (I presume) to deliver November.
— No EU friendly P&P at the moment (unless I’ve missed something) so >$30 on top ?!?
Maybe not…
But the special effects adds to the charm. And don’t forget the first two were made for a stupidly small amout of money. 🙂
woohoo did i get a mention:-)
Yes, indeed. When someone mentions naval warfare, I think rob.
Awesome… Although I am not a one trick pony, I do 6mm too with a huge dollop of DzC..;-)
Only Warren could find some potty humour in an instant.
Like Justin’s idea of going from one table to another.
If your winning hands down or have won on your table you could send reinforcements to another table to help someone on your team.
@laager50 Sounds good on the surface but I think it would be kinda slow to play in practice. What sort of game do you think it could work for?
@laager50 , @llody and @dignity – I think a multi-table portal game could work. A 40K Apocalypse type game would be great, where players could send troops from one battlefield to another. The first example that jumps to my mind would be to have a massive Horus Heresy game set at the climax of the war in the Siege of the Emperor’s Palce. Several different boards representing the gate, the dungeon, the throne room, etc. And one board representing the webway with the Emperor’s mechanical stuff inside along with a whole hoard of daemons who can leak out and infect… Read more »
@lloyd not Llody… Oops!
OMG is Justin going to just disagree and correct everything anyone says. Come on guys. Love the weekly show anyway. 🙂
The Team Yankee prizes next week are incredible. 2 starter armies and both core rulebook and upgrade book!
I think Justin’s beard is going to become Sentient soon…
Those sculpts are really nice! A shame I don’t play.
Justin, thanks for the shout out, now I feel obligated to do these porta-loos! …. I will see what I can come up with. Also, evil dead is the pinnacle of of cabin horror. Doesn’t get any better!
Can wait to see em and is cabin horror a sub-genre all of its own? 🙂
as always what a brilliant show you are all hilarious what a way start you Saturday mornings
Justin you need to catch up on classic movies, it give you something to do while painting Khador; )
@rasmus – We as a community should put together a list form him 🙂
Happy saturday every one.
I cant believe that you all missed the not so very subtle rockstar references in the Malifaux-kit. That was what sold me in, too cool to miss out on. You need Warren to keep the metal flag waving high 🙂
Lovely show as usual though.
…Just realised Lucas Macabe from the WILD ONES BOx is a Homage to The Most Loved Son And Genocide of Czarnia LOBO…..\m/\m/