Weekender: Team Yankee Air Support, X-Wing Lands On Endor & More
October 17, 2015 by lloyd
Welcome to another Weekender. We've had a packed week of filming over the past few days but now we get to relax with you lovely folks!
What Did You Miss?
In the news this week we had a few choice morsels of awesomeness and we've picked out some of the best...
- Air Support For Team Yankee - The A-10 Warthog and HIND are coming to Team Yankee and we've got our thoughts on both of them plus some news on the Boot Camp sets folks will be getting.
- Crescent Root's Industrial Terrain - Awesome terrain by Crescent Root has popped up which would be great for a Victorian adventure or modern scuffle.
- 15mm Sci-Fi From White Dragon - White Dragon have finalised the whole resin 15mm Sci-Fi range that came out of their MTU Kickstarter and it's looking stunning.
- Gale Force Nine Work On Doctor Who Board Game - Gale Force Nine have teamed up with the BBC to bring out a series of Doctor Who themed board games. Will you be joining him in the Big Blue Box?
Kickstarter Focus
We've also delved into the world of Kickstarter to bring you the low down on a few projects we thought were well worth your attention.
- Infinity RPG - This Kickstarter is coming to a close over the weekend so make sure to check out their Quick Start Rules and pledge for a massive amount of awesome add-ons.
- World's Fair 1893 - Ever wanted to participate in the World's Fair? Well, go back in time to 1893 and see what you think of this new board game.
- Scythe - Combining some fantastic artwork and a brilliant theme of alternative history see if you can control land around the mysterious Factory using mighty mechs and more.
X-Wing Strikes At Endor
You might have noticed that we went a little overboard this week on Star Wars. Well, the team got together in the studio and thought up a fantastic tabletop and rules for playing games of X-Wing in the forests of Endor.
X-Wing On Endor
You can go and follow along with everything we did to bring this to life, from terrain making to rules pondering, over on the Live Blog.
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We hope you have a wonderful weekend of tabletop gaming.
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Happy Saturday! I’m on a train to the midlands for a Relic Knights tournament and will be watching the show as and when internet connection allows.
@redben please give us some news on that tournament and pics if you have some!
I’ll post a thread in the sci-if forum either tonight or tomorrow 🙂
Here’s a report, duster – http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/sci-fi-gamer-town-square/forum/topic/relic-knights-midlands-regional-tournament/#post-135846
@duster
That link seems to take you to the last comment, here’s the one for the thread – http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/sci-fi-gamer-town-square/forum/topic/relic-knights-midlands-regional-tournament/
Happy Weekend!
Happy weekend!!
Yay for weekend goodness! Trying to see if I can get time to watch this within next 24hrs for once 😛
Is the show too long these days? (we do struggle to pack it all in to what was supposed to be a 5min show)
I wouldn’t say it’s too long. It’s rare that I don’t skip a segment in the show, but I’d rather the variety was there rather than fewer segments that run the risk of offering me very little that I want to watch.
I put on this show every Saturday and Sunday (XLBS is pure heaven) and start painting and assemble my models, then I have a rule that I have to go outside for an hour. So if the show gets shorter I might have less progress on my projects, and currently I’m doing loads of goblins for KOW so I need all the time I can get – Keep the good content flowing 🙂
Not too long at all! The longer the better for me! I too have it on while I paint and your enthusiasm helps feed my hobby. Thank you! !
No I like the long shows. I very rarely watch it all in one go though. Sometimes it’s Monday night before I have watched both shows completely. I find the breaks for a word about the hubs are useful bookmarks.
You were talking about the 40k Mechanicus week. is there going to be any 30k Mech coverage? Or any 30k coverage at all?
Sorry @Warzan;
List of Doctors
1. William Hartnell
2. Patrick Troughton
3. Jon Pertwee
4. Tom Baker
5. Peter Davison
6. Colin Baker
7. Sylvester McCoy
8. Paul McGann
9. Christopher Eccleston
10. David Tennant
11. Matt Smith
12. Peter Capaldi
Sorry, you missed one…
John Hurt (the War Doctor) between 8 and 9.
Warren, Warren…….Dr Who really isn’t your forte. Sylvestor McCoy was 3 Doctors after Tom Baker. For future Reference:
1: William Hartnell
2: Patrick Troughton
3: Jon Pertwee
4: Tom Baker
5: Peter Davison
6: Colin Baker
7: Sylvestor McCoy
8: Paul McGann
9: Christopher Eccleston
10: David Tennant
11: Peter Capaldi
??: John Hurt
Movie Doctor: Peter Cushing
Other than that another blinding show!! Happy weekend, guys!
Ooops missed Matt Smith at 11 and Peter Capaldi’s 12. Really should have had my coffee before writing. Plus I was ninja’d. Not looking to be a good day!
Awesome stuff, I wonder why Tom Baker and. McCoy stick in my mind much more vividly than Davidson and C Baker.
Weird… is it like that for anyone else on here?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5UaNX7-cBqc
And this is why it was scary back then lol
and for scary I introduced some friends who like Doctor Who, but have only seen the current run, to the Slyvester McCoy story arc called the curse of fenric.
Viking vampires in world war two england, what’s not to love.
I think the fact that the old Dr Who series had story arcs that ran 3,4 or even 5 episodes, rather than the current one story one episode, meant that they could add cliff hangers and as a kid not knowing how things were going to resolve for a week added to the danger.
McCoy was the last before it got shelved so I suppose he is more prominent than some of the others, and Tom Baker is the Sean Connery of Doctors, he *is* the Doctor to most.
I did like Davidson, but Baker hated the role so much, he didn’t even come back to do the regeneration scene with McCoy.
Actually it was because they only wanted him to come back for less than one scene; fairly sure he’s stated that he wanted to come back and have at least the first episode of the serial but the execs refused and only wanted him to do a glorified cameo so he turned it down.
Colin Baker LOVED the role. He was fired from the role by the bias Controller at the time. If he hated it, he wouldn’t of been having lots of fun working for Big Finish for the past decade or so doing audio-dramas.
C Baker, didn’t hate the role, he was angry about being sacked which is why he refused to do a regeneration scene, he first played the part again on stage in 1989 and has done various audio plays, and is a active part of Doctor Who fandom. Interviews I’ve seen, seem rather more regretful, he didn’t get the chance to play the role as he would have liked, and tried to do the best under the circumstances. Head of BBC didn’t like Doctor Who and the Producer John Nathan Turner tried experimenting with the character and the show with Baker… Read more »
John Hurt was 8.5 as he came between McGann and Eccleson but for convenience is titled the War Doctor. It’s mainly so they don’t have to have the hassle of renumbering Eccleson to 10, Tennant to 11 and Smith to 12 (and when you factor in the meta-crisis/aborted regen, Tennant would technically be 11 *and* 12, Smith 13 and Capaldi 14).
BRRRRRRRRt.
[stumbles out of Hind wreckage]
Are there rules for the White Dragon 15mm Sci-fi models?
I find the mechs to be very evocative of the impact of mechanised war on Europe. They aren’t the focus of the paintings, and the rural scenes in the foreground carry on oblivious to them, but they loom over everything as a symbol of the constant warfare of the time. As for the game, it’s very reminiscent of Terra Mystica, which I believe is name-checked in the campaign as an influence, and is an excellent game. The company has a track of delivering quality boardgames to the boardgaming market, which combined with the amazing art is I think the reason… Read more »
And just to finish the thought, if the mechs were smaller that impact would be lost. They wouldn’t loom over anything. If they remained in the background they’d get lost in the painting, and if they were brought to the foreground they’d become the focus of the paintings, which would now be about mechs fighting each other, rather than the impact of mechanised war on Poland.
agreed, It Is very provoking and for me the balance Is just right 🙂
@lloyd on the other hand needs to go back to titan appreciation class lol
I like my fantasy to be as grounded as possible, so I also would have preferred it to stick to the historical context. I can understand why from a design and marketing point of view that an alt setting would give you a lot more freedom, and I doubt this will be the only game we see set in this world, so I understand why it was done like this. Still would have been more involving if it was straight up alt history, though.
Oh no, a chink in john’s armour, ERA stands for explosive reactive armour it ain’t nowt like chobham mate. Don’t worry @benc will tell you all about it, he is our head rivet counter coming to the boot camp.
HU HA!!!! @johnlyons
At least you didn’t let me guess that it was “election repulsive armour” for bulldozing buildings 🙂
That’s a thing right??!??!
I see auto correlation is trying to save me from myself (bless the boffins!) 🙂
l GIVE UP ! LOL
probably for the best Warren, before the kids get up. =)
For all I know BDD could well stand bull dozing destroyer armour!
I might be showing my age but I remember “School Daze”
not at all mate we’re still young, played it and loved it myself finding stuff in the school and hunting through desks and lockers to grab stink bombs and ammo for the catapult.
ERA is Explosive Reactive Armour, nothing at all like Chobham Armour.
ERA is all those little boxes you see plastered all over Soviet/Russian and Israeli armour – as someone already said – Explosive Reactive Armour. Send John on a modern weaponry acronym course..
NOT good for tank riders or nearby supporting infantry!
I am trying to remember when A10’s started carrying Sidewinders… it was before the Gulf War. But the Hinds were also carrying AAM’s and the later versions packed fixed heavier cannons to deal with NATO and other opposing light armour and aircraft.
When I first saw that array of boxes on the sides of Russian tanks I thought they were some kind of high-tech ceramic bricks used as additional armor. As individual bricks were damaged they could be replaced cheaper than a whole armored panel. Again my first thoughts based only on pictures not research.
I remember reading it was the mid-90’s when the Avenger minigun on the A-10 got an upgrade to it’s targeting software, allowing it to engage fighter jets (consider that, being in a comparatively flimsy fighter, being targeted by a gun that fires rounds the size of milk-bottles designed to takeout tanks…) but I think it always had the capacity to carry air-to-air missiles in some form due to the huge amount of pylon space on the wings….
It’s the Weekend! Need my BoW fix…
A group of us tried out the Infinity RPG Quickstart last Monday – worked very nicely!
Just cracked £275k – Roll onto the Ships and Mercs books on Stretchgoals.
All this content will take some time to put together – it won;t be coming all at once! Getting pdfs makes a lot of sense,
Aaaaagh!
Our galaxy is over 100000 light years across! The next galaxy (Andromeda) is over 1000000 light years away. Do the research….
I’ve just been watching and had to open a second tab to comment mid-vid on this! With pretty much the same “Aaaaargh!!” going round in my mind! Though it could just of been the Who wrongness getting me nice and “Aaaarghed” up before hand!!
I was just impressed that @johnlyons managed to keep it together on camera with all those “brown star” references, he looked fit to burst!
I’ve had to do the same. Plus I believe the commentary that I read was likening this to a Dyson Sphere, which I’m afraid comes from Star Trek not Star Wars.
Yup. Frothing about science is great, but to the extent they nonsense is spouted, is just annoying. Especially when the news article with all the actual distances is readily available.
The scale of civilisation you were talking about is the Kardashev scale named after Nikolai Kardashev a Russian physicist, interesting guy and was involved quite heavily in the soviet SETI project. Think it was 1964 or 65 he introduced the scale. Interesting side note on the Dyson Sphere, Freeman Dyson did not come up with the idea – he popularised it. The idea of the Dyson Sphere actually came from a 1937 book by Olaf Stapledon which I cannot remember the name of for some reason (not enough coffee yet i suspect lol)
I’m wondering if they will cover The 7th Continent tomorrow. It is based on Fighting Fantasy/Choose Your Own Adventure style books, only as a board game.
@Brucelea, High praise indeed! @warzan, @johnlyons Sorry for the late reply but I had a bit of a lay in. As mentioned above ERA is Explosive Reactive Armour. It’s the slab ‘house brick’ looking add on armour that is seen covering Soviet/Russian armour and is not to be confused with applique ‘bolt on’ armour such as Stillbrew that was added to British Chieftains. It is designed to defeat HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) warheads by basically exploding outwards as the HEAT warhead explodes inwards thus lessening the effect of HEAT warhead. ERA does nothing against a kinetic penetrator such as a… Read more »
And he’s back, woo woo Thomas! But beware the thing that we are not to speak of?????
Hello @warzan, team, and fellow Team Yankee bootcampers 🙂 – Helo vs. A-10 mismatch is even worse than it may seem. Those AT-6 Spirals are antitank missiles only. I don’t think the Mi-24D has any antiair capability. It’s a ground attack platform. The A-10 has other things to worry about, like the SA-6 Gainful, SA-8 Gecko, and ZSU-23-4 “Shilka” . . . these are ground-based SAM and AAA systems that really (or in the game, at least SHOULD) pose a threat against the Warthog. The A-10 should / might have mix-and-match ordinance loads, I guess different “versions” at different point… Read more »
I’ve often idly wondered if ther blocks of ERA armor could be triggered by hits from large caliber MG, such as .50 or 12.7mm. As someone else has already commented, the ERA blocks detonating do no favors to riders or nearby infantry, but peppering advancing ERA-equipped tanks with a HMG could be devastating to accompanying infantry.
Morning! :3
15 mm Sci-fi
http://www.15mm.co.uk/collections/laserburn-15mm-science-fiction
http://theionage.com/
,A nice resource blog for all 15mm Scifi
http://dropshiphorizon.blogspot.co.uk
Ground Zero Games have been producing 15mm SciFi for years now and has troops and vehicles as well as there own set of free downloadable rules names Stargrunt II. I did some of the artwork for it too.
http://www.groundzerogames.co.uk/
Great game
@torros it is a great game and they have a great range to go with it. I think the rules mechanics are clever, realists and very playable. Couple Stargrunts with their Dirtside rules and you have the complete ground attack sci fi game
Happy Saturday! I think the show is getting a little long these days, and hour tops would be my suggestion. Really its because by the time I’ve got up grabbed a coffee and started up my ancient PC I’ve only got an hour before I have to go shopping (I hate shopping so have to go before the hordes wake up and get in my way!), and I hate having to watch the show in 2 parts! XLBS is perfect for my lazy Sunday morning though 🙂
Ok where is the bug in the house. Last night went absolutely great guns, (Stop that!!!!! thought right there.LOL) discussing first the art work of scythe and then the how the mech’s in the background screamed build me, scratch build me! We spent around an hour just discussing the art work. Then this morning over coffee and toast before watching the show, we got into an engineering discussion on gravity and its effects which expanded into how planets make stars wobble to show the presence of X type planets. And I recalled the event of the first two A10’s ever… Read more »
Being a long term Whovian I got very excited about the Gale Force Nine news, but from frantically googling over the last couple of weeks since @Warzan mentioned the GF9 board game I also stumbled across Warlord Games miniatures game…. http://doctorwhominiaturesgame.com/ Does BoW have any more news on this? Regarding the length of weekenders and the XLBS, I love them both and there is so much content to get in, however it is a rare Saturday or Sunday I get a chance to watch them both and I spend the next week trying to watch them on my mobile on… Read more »
I think they are looking into that download, but something to do with price or something there were a couple of service guy’s looking into that request a couple of weeks or so back. So with luck you never know.
Hello,
so I really like the Warthog stats. I wonder if they are going to make the mini with a small button making a farting sound when you push it 😉
As for the Scythe KS like wow. Did you know @warzan and @johnlyons that one of the figures in the Anna & Wojtek duo is based on a real life Soldier Bear? Check out this video and find out more if you wish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFdEUEJcfO0
just seen the starwars clip…why didn’t the Monty Python music start when the at-at’s foot squashed luke ?