Weekender: Big Kickstarters & Battlefleet Gothic Returns
September 12, 2015 by lloyd
Welcome to The Weekender which is chock-a-block full of all the awesome stuff that's been going on during the week concerning tabletop gaming. We're talking about Games Workshop's digital presence and some cool Kickstarters too...
Battlefoam
Kicking things off we get to have a look at one of the new 352 PACK Molle which is designed for you to take away with you on a plane and can hold up to 352 Space Marines (hence the name).
Battlefoam have also been working a new hard case which will also be suitable for flying so keep an eye out for that.
News Round Up
We also find some time to talk about some of the news stories that have sparked our imaginations this week
- The Siberias Lions are looking awesome thanks to Shieldwolf Miniatures
- River Horse gave us a preview of the model for Hoggle in their Labyrinth board game
- PlastCraft's Post-Apocalyptic Terrain was showed off exclusively this week too!
- Micro Art Studio's Infinity Hab Station & Tower are perfect for creating city-scapes
- Ristul's Farm Terrain gives you a Fable-esque rural idyll for the tabletop
Dogs Of War Board Game Review
Justin has got his hands on Dogs Of War which is a euro-style board game by CoolMiniOrNot and Spaghetti Western Games by Palo Mori.
We get this game under the close cam and show off the components as well as going through the rules.
Games Workshop Going Digital
Games Workshop have quite a few interesting digital projects in the pipeline including the awesome Battlefleet Gothic: Armada which we saw a new trailer for this week.
Also on the cards is Blood Bowl II which launches soon as well as Total War: Warhammer which recently got a new trailer too.
Do you think Games Workshop might draw people into the hobby as a whole thanks to these games?
Kickstarters
Kickstarters are back in force this month and we talk about two of them in particular which caught our eye.
- The Dark Age Outpost by Idyllwild Games is looking to create a fantastic plastic Fort for your Dark Age gaming
- The Icarus Project Sci-Fi Skirmish Game is also looking for funding to get their two main factions, the Nexus and Alliance ready for battle.
The Icarus Project also has a place to download their rules for free so if they have caught your attention with the models see if the rules match up well.
Competition Winners
Of course it wouldn't be a Weekender without some prize announcements and we have two for you.
Both the winners of the Paranormal Exterminators and Dawn's Jezebel Miniature are announced so listen out for your name.
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Have a great weekend of gaming!
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@Warren I heard what you said about GW letting the video games make use of some of their IPs, but why not make a few quid on IPs that are just sitting there collecting dust. Cause GW doesn’t have to come up with revampted rules or mini’s, cause that may cost them more money than what they would make off the release of those IPs. Would you turn away someone who found out that you have a board game you haven’t played in a few years, ie: offering you 2 pounds per week to you for letting them play a… Read more »
Making a few quid does not a strategy make 🙂
A company that size should be beyond the thinking of ‘making a few quid’
True making a few quid doesn’t a strategy make, but it does cause one to smile. Of all those IPs going to digital I’ll take a wait & read reviews approach, except for Total War Warhammer. That is cause I’m a Total War fan.
Oh look I just found 10p, I’m rich, I’m rich I tell ya. 😉
I would 100% agree with you here. So why does it seem like they are just leaving money on the table? They wouldn’t necessarily need to make new models for a lot of their IPs, surely they still have the masters, they could spin up new moulds with the existing models and bring back the specialist ranges. There has surely been enough time now that demand has built up for these ‘dead’ products. Hell, a small industry has sprung up supplying proxies just for these dead games. The problem for GW is probably that the time and expense necessary for… Read more »
I don’t know if it was mentioned but there’s also a Morheim game on steam.
I may be wrong but in the US at least I thought you needed to ” exercise” an IP periodically so it does not become de facto public access. Maybe this is an easy way for them to do this without spending their own money.
There is a rumor on Faeit 212 on an October release of a new Blood Bowl by GW.
Another KIckstarter out there is, Car Combat Miniatures and Road Kill game system. It has reached it funding many times over and still has 33 days to go. This may fulfill your car combat game needs. Inexpensive and looks to start delivering by November 2015. I jumped in not necessarily for the the game, but to add some cool vehicles to my Dropzone Commander table.
a drowning man will grab anything he can reach?
Haha I am not the only one typing @warren 😀 <runs of with a devilish laughter of a madman) 😉
It’s a habit I picked up in kickstarter, where there is no reply button. 😉
Warren, for never ending story he’s not a dog. Falcor is a luck dragon and is styled on the eastern wurm dragon except covered with fur instead 😉
But but … He’s soooooo cute!!!!
Damnit @dignity may have been right all along! Ohh the shame!!! 😉
Don’t beat yourself up over it, Dignity had to get something right at sometime!
Infinite monkeys on typewriters with infinite time eh? 😉
Happy Weekend!!
The ‘Utility Backpack’ idea has one overwhelming flaw: you’ll be mistaken for a terrorist and SHOT! Doh!
With great coolness (and flexibility) (and comfort) (and style) (ohh and load carting capacity) does come some small risk of death…
…but you guys are so worth it! 😉
When you describe a vest with vents down the side aren’t you describing a ‘holey molle’?
… I’ll get my coat! 😉
That Chaos Battleship is Tzeentch-the symbol is on top
Cant wait for the gothic game!
I’m looking at all that MOLLE kit and thinking, “I can just get pouches at the army surplus store.”
Yup I believe it’s compatible so you can add whatever you need 🙂
My oh my, ’tis the weekend already?
I’ll delay the unbending of several score plastic Rise of the Kage miniatures a while to browse my weekly pastime gazette!
Warren, unfortunately your new business idea is not that new – military and police webbing and ‘tactical gear’ suppliers from all over the world have been churning out modular and customisable gear for decades. I could point you at scores of suppliers but here’s just one example: http://www.uscav.com/field-equipment/load-bearing/
My idea is completely different 😉
It’s for gamers!
Just buy a fishing vest, Warren. Save yourself the hassle.
@Lloyd,
The Icarus Project has a Social Stretch Goal & that is if they get 250 backers (at this time 164 backers), they will make available the artwork in PDF to those who have pledged 50 pounds or more.
Wow. I got excited about that Infinity tower block but didn’t realise it was part MDF. That is so incredibly impressive!
@warzan I hate to say it but you are not right about Naval ships not ramming each other … it happened a lot in naval history and was often done during World War II especially by escort frigates against U-Boats, although the damage caused to the ramming ships led to the Royal Navy officially discouraging it.
Hence why I said ‘today’s 21st century battles’
I can’t imagine ‘ramming’ being part of any Naval doctrine when ships cost about $500,000,000 to design build and launch 🙂
There hasn’t been a ‘proper’ naval battle in decades. Aircraft and modern weapons-systems have largely rendered that style of warfare obsolete. To be fair to BFG, the 40K setting typically projects historical warfare into the future, usually a mix of WW2 and Dark Ages, rather than attempts to present a realistic form of future warfare. Dave Lewis is probably the guy to see about that.
Ramming was mostly a legitimate tactic back before the invention of cannons, because at that time, there were no really effective ranged weapons capable of damaging a large warship. Basically ramming or setting a ship on fire were the only options to sink/destroy a vessel. It did see small resurgences at points in history. In WW2 destroyers would often attempt to ram small torpedo boats, as they were made of plywood and thus were little risk to the ramming destroyer. Technically, given 40k fluff, 41st century naval warfare would probably resemble 18th century naval warfare. The goal was often to… Read more »
Manning an enemy vessel would be in conflict with the Imperium’s ideology. Anyone found trying to pilot such a vessel would be executed on sight, or their vessel sunk. Any chaos or xenos ships are lost to the void already, sinking them would simply be a formality.
@warzan the imperial ships are reinforced to withstand space debris & ramming.
I can’t get my head around GW’s strategy any longer (not that I ever could). All great looking video games (did you mention ‘Man’o’War’?). But what’s the point? And why not an AoS video game instead? Oh well..
Great Kickstarters, all very tempting but I will have to resist and save up for Halo 😎
Easy, for anyone who likes the AoS aesthetic, an AoS video game would create a competing product for their tabletop game. Why create competition for your own product?
If people haven’t noticed, GW are going digital with licenses which they’ve decided are not profitable in a tabletop game format. Mordheim, Blood Bowl, BFG, and now Warhammer Fantasy. At least recently, 40k digital games have been mostly small tablet and phone apps that are closer to an appetizer to get people a taste of the 40k universe, acting as a gateway game.
Icarus project is well worth it quality wise, their first miniature is awesome quality. Nice to see them get a shout out, it helps the game is fun and the fluff is very compelling.
Hey ladies and gents hope you manage to get some good quality hobby in done this Saturday..or a be a game or two.
Let’s all remember that GW are the reason why we are all here, so give them a break. They made this hobby.
I have to agree with you here, well said.
That is not true at all. I have never played a Games Workshop game. I suppose you could argue that without GW popularizing miniature gaming we wouldn’t be here, but I would disagree. I think even without the Warhammers, tabletop gamers would have arrived where we are today anyways. I come from a PnP rpg background, and I like using minis in my games which I think developed parallel to GWs games not because of them. I also think that developments in technology, crowd funding, and board games becoming popular again has allowed more miniature games to be created completely… Read more »
I think some of your hubs are mixed up. For one the audio was for dropzone commander and the video was wild west exodus. The GW computer games does come across as them just throwing out IPs. I know from a podcast interview that the Warhammer Quest App was some old fans of the game approaching GW and asking if they could turn it into a computer game. I guess with Total Warhammer game was started well before GW decided to drop Warhammer and switch to AoS, by which time it was too late to change the computer game. GW… Read more »
I would disagree with this origin of WQ app. The Rodeo Games CEO was sitting on a plane next to Andy Jones, who loved Rodeo’s Hunters game. He thought Rodeo could make a great Quest app and they reached an agreement. It wasserendipitous, but also reflects a blaise attitude with liscensing, and not a strategy. WQ and Blood Bowl turned out to be grrat liscensed games. But other stuff has been rubbish and probably hasn’t endeared any interest in the hobby from outsiders.
I meant Andy Chambers…
happy saturday ……at 1.18.30 of the show when your showing the artwork ….is this guy not already wearing warrens gamer vest ?
A bag with a MOLLE system? 😀 I could attach it to my military backpack 😀
Hi, just to let you know the Dark age outpost has more stretch goals and add-ons available including the round walls and more stuff for your outpost if you want to of course.
Just a note on the molle and the battle foam pack. I have a Pack and love it, but I’d think twice about putting anything valuable in the pouches as they’ve only half “molled” it. A properly secure pack has webbing on the pouch that double secures it to the bag. I’ve put enough of the stuff together to know it’s damn good but only sliding the strap through the webbing on the bag is easy to undo; it needs to interlace between the two.
Labyrinth never did anything for me. I was more of a Dark Crystal person. Speaking of which, World of Twilight has a definite Dark Crystal-vibe.
I watched the Apple iPhone 6S launch the other day and prominently featured was Pixel Toy’s upcoming release which is featuring the 3-D touch of the new display – the Game none other than the Warhammer 40k Freeblade Knights game
http://www.pixeltoys.com/games/
It looked pretty good as these things go, but I have to say I was surprised to see a GW product featured so prominently in a major Apple launch event.
Shieldwolf are making a Mammoth.
When Mark Wells took over he streamlined the product lines to the core minis game and licensed out boardgames and card games (mainly to FFG) so they could keep making a bit of money out of them. The recent rash of computer games seems to be a continuation of that.