Weekender: Warmachine Team Championships & Andy Chambers Talks Dropfleet
September 26, 2015 by dignity
We've got a packed show for you this week after a mammoth few days of filming. The big news is that Andy Chambers, the mind behind Dropfleet Commander was in the studio!
News
Kicking things off we do our run down of some of the coolest news stories from the week...
- Antenocitis Workshop's Hot Rides - The guys at Antenocitis Workshop have put together some awesome vehicles designed to make the streets of Infinity look a lot classier
- The King Is Dead - Osprey Games' first board game has now been released. Will you control Britain?
- Frostgrave Nickstarter Begins - Thaw of the Lich Lord is now up and running from North Star and Osprey building on the world of Frostgrave
- Stormtroopers Hit Their Target - Star Wars: Imperial Assault gets a new Villain Pack filled with Stormtroopers who have been upgraded quite a bit
- Danger Close - Check out our thoughts on this small but intense skirmish rules set from Empress Miniatures for modern era warfare
Dropfleet Commander
As we mentioned above we had the fantastic Andy Chambers in the studio of Games Workshop fame and quizzed him on his new project with Hawk Wargames, Dropfleet Commander.
We've got more coming from Andy so keep an eye out for additional content in the pipeline.
Warmachine Team Championships
Someone you'll be seeing of more over the next few months is our friend Tomas Mennes. He has just come back from the Warmachine Team Championship and stopped by to talk about the event and how it runs.
Have you given this format a go?
Kickstarter Madness
Just as with the news we've been slammed by Kickstarters as September comes to a close. Here are just a few of our picks...
- Warpath Begins - Mantic have charged off through multiple stretch goals already for their Warpath Kickstarter and it shows no signs of slowing down
- Urban Apocalypse - Battle Systems have begun to create tabletops straight from the end of days. They have had some successful campaigns in the past for both Fantasy and Sci-Fi so this was the logical next step
- Infinity RPG - Modiphius get you settled into the deep and rich background of Infinity RPG which is also doing extremely well on Kickstarter
- Burrows & Badgers - Oathsworn continue their success with small but effective fundraisers. Burrows & Badgers: Freelances adds new heroes and villains to their Redwall-esque world
- The Others: 7 Sins - Conquering Kickstarter once again CoolMiniOrNot have been blasting through additional models and expansions for this horror filled board game
Don't forget that we have a whole other show tomorrow morning so check back on Sunday...
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Happy Weekend!!
Happy Saturday all, we missed you last week
Morning everyone
Happy Sunday! I’m off to the national batman tournament at wollaton hall (Wayne manor) as it worldwide batman day and my birthday!!!
Saturday not Sunday lol
Hello Folks, missed you’ll last week hope all is well at gamer central. Hawkgames WoW cool can’t weight for it. John there is the plague with the virus infected zombies and all. You could try it go for it you know you want to. Loved the show see you all tomorrow.
You had me at the words “silent running”. Dropfleet looks a stone cold winner!
And there are the models. Oh my good gosh!
I’m not alone then lol
Soooo looking forward to this 🙂
Yeah. I’ve still to get round to the original DZC (I have the old rulebook and love the fluff), but this looks fantastic!
I’ve got to admit, i wasen’t looking forward to DFC. wasen’t really digging the design aesthetic for the UCM fleet and then came the discussion of the rules and i think i’m hooked.
The whole “range is signal + Scan” is intriguing especially when you consider special actions like silent running and e-war ships being able to ping ships they can see for others to target.
I’m really interested to see where this goes (and assuming the Shaltari and PHR are as nice as the scourge i’ll likely be backing the kickstarter)
Bye bye Halo, bye bye Armada, hello drop fleet this games going to be awesome.
And having seen those Scourge ships in the display cabinet last weekend – they are so detailed it hurts.
So excited about Dropfleet! Going to heavily back this on kickstarter!
Oathsworn minis are really good. Michael and Joe run a great Kickstarter and the quality is excellent.
Holy moley!
Those Dropfleet ships? Never seen anything like them – I just stared at the screen making an odd “pfffffffffffffff” noise…
The rules sound very clever as well; I was wondering, whilst listening to Dave and Andy whether they’d read The Lost Fleet books, because the space combat makes sense to me in a similar way to Dropfleet’s combat.
Dropfleet Commander droooooool.
Oh God…. my poor wallet. Dropfleet looks and sounds like a winner. I love the consequences of the spikes – this is exactly like how modern warfare occurs. Which raises the question – will there be jammer vessels/decoys/minefields etcetera? Mess with your enemy’s head…
Loving the idea of the spare parts as well, and wondering if Dave & Andy have much heavier anti-ship artillery in mind for planetary defence platforms and ground-based systems, given that the DZ ODL is such a peewee.
check brother vinnie miniatures for some fallout minis 🙂
@warzan – the movie title you are after is Zootopia.
Good morning everyone. Every time I see DZC and, after following the tournament stuff last week (nice one guys) I see that starter box ‘wink’ at me when I pass my local game store!
You know you have to give in in the end, brilliant game
And mine and the rest of my fellow gamers across the globe’s wallets cried out at the dropfleet minis….Yes yes yes and yes…love the sound of it, have played other more recent space fleet games and the spike/scan mechanic sounds like an absolute winner to me bringing some much needed extra tactical decisions plus atmosphere and oh yes UCM ships for me…
Love the way the KS isn’t going to fund everything for the factions as this then leaves us with something to look forward to over a few years and makes your painting list more manageable and cheaper on the pocket when you don’t get hit for everything in one lump.
And they don’t leave you normal plast/rescin/metal crack dealer dead in the water – by you getting everything you need from a Kickstarter
For John there is always the 5th or 6th fraction -when your buck standard corporations get in on the game
Well John, the kickstarter for Warpath has just unlocked the plague faction, maybe you could try them?
Also, YES FALLOUT minatures game, YESSS!!! But how about a fallout 4 game instead? It’s coming out soon.
Would love to see @johnlyons command a Plague army!
There is something interesting and deeply disturbing about John commanding plague zombies, hellhounds, Plague Teratons and 1st Gen behemoths…….
That dropfleet game is really looking good. Very very impressed.
Great show, im really looking forward to dropfleet. those ships look fantastic
Burrows & Badgers: Freelancers is looking good & it’s Oathsworn Mini’s second set of mini’s to hit kick starter. The first set was Burrows & Badgers & the mini’s in that set was awesome. One got the ambush the camp terrain add on with that one & as far as I know every one loved the mouse tomb from Burrows & Badgers. They even put out free to download rules. So Warren, I would say take a look at Burrows & Badgers: Freelancers. http://burrowsandbadgers.com/downloads/downloads.html Rules download. The Others: 7 Sins, I know people were waiting for it to hit kick… Read more »
So who brought their shopping into the studio and left some of the ingredients for dinner on the shelf behind Warren/Justin in the single chair spot?
Ace Weekender, thanks guys! Drop Fleet looks set to be an awesome game! So good to see Andy ‘legend’ Chambers on the show, and especially so paired up with the brilliance and dedication of Hawk. Really, really, reeeeeeeally good to see some Warmachine/Hordes content on the site!!! (Unboxings don’t count). I recently made the decision to invest my time in only one tabletop system in order to reach a point where I can play with fully painted armies on modelled terrain, and Warmachine (for whatever reason) is the game I’ve settled on, so I look forward to any upcoming content.… Read more »