Weekender: 20,000 Miniatures On The Tabletop & WIN Escape The Dark Castle
June 15, 2019 by dignity
Come and dive into our Weekender as we make a triumphant return after many weeks in hiatus.
Weekender Podcast Download
We've got Thomas Pike from Themeborne in the studio this week talking about his new campaign for Escape The Dark Sector.
Updates - Boot Camps, Prizes & More
We've got lots for you to catch up on from over the last few weeks. The UK Games Expo ran over FOUR days of Live Blogs and Livestreams and that means we've got lots of prizes to give away. Make sure to get involved and comment in order to be in with a chance of winning these goodies.
As well as UK Games Expo last weekend saw the Flames Of War D-Day Boot Camp. You can still get involved and comment on the various Live Blogs in order to win yourself some World War II goodies.
Super Fantasy Brawl Facebook Contest
We also had Mythic Games in the studio this week and both Leo and Az decided that they were going to give away a Core Pledge from their upcoming Kickstarter.
You need to LIKE the post on our Facebook Page and then FOLLOW the Super Fantasy Brawl Page in order to be in with a chance of winning. Good luck!
News
We crack on with some of the big news from this week...
- SPQR Pre-Orders - Warlord Games begin diving into their Ancient skirmish game
- Glasgow's Take On Waterloo - A massive game is being played out this weekend. Will you be watching it?
- Aftermath - Jerry Hawthorne brings animals to the tabletop once more with this new Plaid Hat game
- Spy Game - Will you be James Bond or Jason Bourne?
- Liminal - Skirt the edge of reality with this new urban fantasy game from Modiphius
What caught your eye?
Para Bellum Talk Conquest
The team from Para Bellum Wargames are with Justin this week talking about their game, Conquest, which is going to be launching very soon.
This means we're going to be exploring the Starter Set and some of the expansions they have planned as well as a little bit more about the world.
Kickstarters
We're looking at two awesome projects this week...
- Escape The Dark Sector - Thomas gives us his elevator pitch on why you should be backing this game
- Mighty Lords - Fancy barbarians and demons as your tabletop army?
Which of these projects are you likely to be backing?
Competitions - WIN Conquest Miniatures AND Escape The Dark Castle!
We have two massive competitions for you this week.
WIN - Conquest Mystery Sprue Bundle
WIN - Escape The Dark Castle + All Adventure Expansions
So, all you need to do is get involved in the comments below and you could be in with a chance of winning yourself some epic goodies.
Remember to tell us exactly how you ended up getting trapped in the Dark Castle!
As always you can check out our Prize Centre to see if you've won our previous competitions.
Have a great weekend!
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It’s the Weekender back with a vengeance! errr or just the Weekender?
Happy Weekender everyone!
It would be cool if we had one of our Backstagers in the Glasgow area to snap some shots of the event! If this epic event has a good turn out the BoW team should interview the organizer of the event to find out what it takes to put on this kind of grand scale gathering.
Who knows, it might encurage others to take on such a happening.
Wish i could go to glasgow, that sounds amazing!
When I hear Glasgow I think Rab C. Nesbitt and his associates… scary place.
This escape the dark sector looks really good.
Lots of interesting stuff happening. Would have loved to have braved an evening or two in Glasgow to watch lots of tiny fighty men in action, and I could also have visited the university to watch the Waterloo reenactment 🙂 SPQR. Warlord put up pictures of the heroes and troopers you get with the set on the preorder page. The heroes are very nice sculpts. The 40 Celtics are definitely just their very nice plastics they released many moons ago, but I’m not sure if the archers are new sculpts or if the Romans are as well. Will be interesting… Read more »
It’s the weekend! Finally with a Weekender to kick it off again.
I assume the Caesarian Roman guards all leave their fort via the postern gate rather than by the main gate? …
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… I’ll get my coat!
I got chucked in the Dark Castle’s even darker dungeon for telling un-funny jokes such as the one above; once referred to as “Dead jokes”, but due to certain regional accents have become called “Dad jokes”.
I’m confident however that given the imminent annual festival of fatherhood I’ll either have the company of many others who’ve committed the same offence or I’ll be granted the traditional pardon that is usually given on said day.
If not then I will of course need the means to Escape the dark Castle!
Happy Weekender everyone. Wonder what the mystery sprue might be?
I like how the guys from Para Bellum have scaled the game up slightly to achieve a better miniature done in plastic. Whilst this will likely get some people scratching their heads in the community I have no problems with it as in recent times we have seen so many games with great 3d renders that just cannot be achieved in the final product.
Outlaw Country!
Great show. Thanks guys 🙂
No need to rub it in that Gerry didn’t get to go to UKGE :p
I really liked the 100 kingdoms look, can’t wait for the characters to be released to give a more unique feel to each battle host too.
Hmmmmm as the dark castle is kinda old school medieval looking, i think id have been thrown in jail for failing to practice my longbow skills and gambling nine mens morris instead.
In case anyone is interested in the Waterloo game – @WaterlooReplay is the official Twitter Account.
@Digwaterloo – twitter for the charity that @avernos mentioned
@ProfTonyPollard – I think is the brains behind it
@WatRepAllied – Is the official Twitter account of the Allies
@WatRepFrench - official Twitter account of the French army
As far as I can tell there will be live Twitter streams all weekend.
Wargames soldiers and strategy are covering the game live I believe
Plenty of pictures of the reenactors at the event on the Facespace.
they were showing how to strip down a Brown Bess. My guess is they’re probably almost finished setting up by now ^^
I’m really liking the look of the Conquest stuff. Going to go do some looking around for more info on the Waterloo re-creation.
Also I end up in the Dark Castle for poaching in the king’s forest, he prefers his eggs fried on a hunt.
Oi! I do the dad-jokes in this thread… 😉
yes the weekender is here!
Would you please take a look at the company of heroes kickstarter next week? I was hoping you would have featured it this week already 😉
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/223137030/company-of-heroes-board-game/description
Will have a look at it 🙂
thanks! 🙂
Conquest: the Last Argument of the Kings is the most anticipated game by me since many years. I am really excited to see the Army Builder and more factions, and more units for ones already shown. As how I got stuck in the Dark Castle: romantic dinner with a lovely dame that I met just a day before in a library, who accidentaly happened to like the same books…A glass of wine later and I woke up strapped to a metal table in something like a mad scientist lab. The same, now not so lovely lady looking at me menacily.… Read more »
I think you just described marriage 🙂
I’m not stuck in the Dark Castle. I like it here
You won’t be wanting to escape then!
Neverwhere was great
Favorite food burgers
Shame Liminal is sold out, I am very interested in this one
Still got options for PDF if you like the digital side of things.
You can get a physical copy through DriveThruRPGs print-on-demand service. I’m not sure how it will compare to the “proper” physical copies, of course, but its an option.
Ended up in the Dark Castle after selling some bad seafood to the Lords Cook!
Happy saturday!
Hey Garry I have neverwhere ion CD all 4 episodes.
The reason I ended up in the dark castle is whilst a little drunk in the local Inn I told the local sherriff that his wife was fat and hairy, oopps
I got locked up for poking the Kings Badger with a spoon. Its an original sin, dontchaknow.
Rank and Flank isn’t high on my list of games to get in to, but some of those Conquest minis are amazing and very tempting for painting projects.
I was hoping for a little more chat about the upcomming hobby boot camp, but perhaps we will get that tomorrow?
Happy saturday!! I’m glad to see the show is back, even with the other content I always miss the weekender when its not there. SPQR looks interesting and I’m well into ancients now with mortal gods, can I handle another game system for that period ? always ? I’m so jealous of the guys up in Scotland playing that massive game of waterloo. I can only imagine there will be some confusion with that many players but I think the fun had will cancel that out. Very cool indeed. I saw the post about aftermath the other day and my… Read more »
Cheers, great show as usual.
How I got stuck in the Dark Castle: I was invited to romantic romantic date to lovely castle, but I woke in horrific dungeon with some others poor fellows.
Some nice board games this week