Weekender: Win Ace PSC Games & End Is Nigh Challenge Winners Announced
September 8, 2018 by dignity
Join us for a great episode of The Weekender today as we're going to be announcing the winners of The End Is Nigh Terrain Challenge AND chatting with PSC Games about some of their wargames.
Make sure to comment down below as we love hearing from you about the games we feature here on the show.
Updates
We have a few near updates for you today on what's happening over the next week or so...
- General's Table Livestream - Join Oriskany next Friday for a Q&A on all things Desert War
- Monsterpocalypse - Justin clashes with Ryan at 6pm BST on Tuesday in Privateer's new game
- Kill Team: Rogue Trader - Watch out for the Unboxing of this later today at 11am!
Will you be joining us for more of these livestreams and have you been enjoying them?
PSC Games; What's New?
We sit down with PSC Games' Katie about some of their new games that we've been looking at this week including Lincoln & Quartermaster General: The Cold War.
There's also a chance to look ahead too at Battle Ravens & Blitzkrieg! which are also coming down the pipeline from these board game creators.
News
We look towards some news that has caught our eye from the week.
- Dropfleet Dreadnoughts - Check out the new ships and designs from TTCombat
- Walking Dead Wave Five - A whole cast of new characters and more arrive for Mantic's Walking Dead
- Terraforming Mars - Take a peek at a new expansion for this epic board game
- Bolt Action Brits & Germans - Which of the two sides are you going to be picking up?
- Things From The Flood - Will you be heading to the 90s and exploring this world from Fria Ligan?
What caught your eye from the news this week?
The End Is Nigh Terrain Challenge Winners
We go through the winners of The End Is Nigh Terrain Challenge. There were some great entries from all involved and we can't wait to see what you do next time as well.
Here are the winners...
- Best Idea - Wilco92 Apartment Street - https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1220536
- Best Skill - Tomd Crashed Vertibird - https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1235844/
- Best Tutoring - Hammerhead Deadlands - https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1228698
- Junior - Holly’s Ranch - https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1243379/
If you were one of the winners then make sure to CLAIM YOUR PRIZE as those £50 Vouchers are just waiting to be snapped up for the 4Ground store.
Kickstarter
Make sure to check out these campaigns this week too...
- Black Hallows Townsfolk - Check out these massive miniatures we were sent and their campaign too!
- Nanty Narking - The campaign is now live as you wander around Victorian London
- Starcadia Quest - Head into space with CMOn's latest massive Kickstarter campaign
Which of these will you be checking out?
Competitions
As well as the PSC Games competition where YOU could win Lincoln & Quartermaster General: The Cold War simply by commenting below we also remind folks of the Nanty Narkings Competition from last week's show where you could get yourself a Pledge Upgrade.
Have a great weekend!
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Happy Weekend!!
Happy weekend to you too @engineer!
Anything by Dan Mersey is always worth a look
Not sure if it’s my tablet but found it quite hard to hear what Justin and Sam then Lance and Justin were saying . Volume seemed very low
we shall look into that!
I did turn up the volume but then Ben was almost deafening. You @warzan were perfect as always ?
Dan Mersey has also mentioned on his blog that a HYW game called Arrowstorm will be coming soon as well
HYW?
Hundred Years War
Happy Weekend … By the way what happened with the Mire Marsh competition, was the winner ever announced for that?
Or the GenCon winners!
As far as I am aware winners were picked for these competitions but Justin might not have been able to follow through on the announcements yet – will check this week.
Everytime I read Tales from the loop my head converts it to Tales of the floating vagabond. No idea why
Love those Dreadnoughts.
Hello
Logan Paul vs KSI – who are these people? I assume a couple of Z list ‘celebs’.
Not enough letters in our alphabet to rate them mate 😉
The somewhat unfortunate future of Youtube…
Bad backs is evidence of our alien dna past…[insert Picard facepalm here].
Morning folks – Happy saturday to us all 😀 Getting used to seeing the weekender at a differnt time. In SK it went live about 1pm. Got up this morning around 6am ish and there it was!!! WIN!!!! Have a great weekend all
nice to see you fixed your pc problem
It’s the Weekend!!
Tell you what, after all the kerfuffle, this had better sound bloody good!
Always love the live streams but when is the next hobby night live!
@warzan I think we need to train Justin or Sam to take on the winner on the youtubers. Could be a good way to get a boost of funding for On Table Top.
Agreed mate!
I use to be an amateur boxer, grew up in a boxing family. My dad was a navy boxing coach, so I boxed from a very early age…..lol
Happy weekend.
Congrats on the end is nigh winners. Lovely stuff.
Unfortunalty life got in the way of my project, but I’m sure to pick it up at some point.
On the subject of bad backs, one factor might be having massive “2-ups” like those “3-ups”, as it were.
Happy Saturday! Loads of great entries in the End is Nigh competition – congratulations to all, not just the winners. How do you feel that the scoring by voting worked? Is there a sense that if you start your project late that you’ll be too late to accumulate votes? or that your project needs lots of posts so that the same people can vote for you multiple times? I suppose every solution has advantages and disadvantages, but I’d be interested to know what you – and the entrants – felt about the scoring system. (Although I appreciate that for most… Read more »
I am away on a work thing this weekend so have not watched the weekender (yet). I didn’t know this was the voting system. Oh well I don’t know how many votes I gave to all the entrants but you all deserved them!
I feel that the scoring system was more of a popularity contest than anything else.
I may not exactly get your point here, but every voting system is exactly a popularity contest, ie which projects were most popular among its peers.
The whole project system has even been design to reward and support the concepts of ideas, skills and tutoring 🙂
So ofcourse we could just go exclusively back to a panel of judges but do you not prefer your peers and the community as a whole getting involved? 🙂
If you could perhaps give me a little more detail on what the drawback is you are seeing we can take that on board 🙂
I don’t think it should have been only based on that system. There are ways to easily cheat this system, I’m not accusing anyone of doing so nor do I think anyone has done so, but you can. You can just make some accounts or get a couple of friends to just vote on everything so you can get your ratings up. So I believe it should be part of it, but not the whole system. I’m more thinking of something in line with the Celestial painting competition that ran earlier. Part of it be done by the community and… Read more »
ok leave that with me 🙂
One thing that I think would be interesting would be to look at average Idea / Skill / Tutoring per post. Not that I want to encourage people to post less for fear of dropping their average, but it seems that if someone posts 1 post that gets nominated by a 100 people, vs someone who posts a 100 posts all nominated by one person, the former was clearly more popular in the community. Maybe all in all those things average out and it doesn’t matter, I guess the guys are already studying the analytics behind this and might have… Read more »
Listening to your community as always Warzan. It’s what makes BoW such a great site. Keep it up.
Once again, a brilliant show. And a mind-melter snuck in there as well. Go on @dignity you keep arguing and fighting @warzan back. Keep your mind in tact. I would love to see a PSC game based around one of the theatres of WW2…. boring I know because there are already a number of them out there… but wait!!! The board game can then be linked to their miniatures range. You use pieces as tokens so a soldier represents a company or battalion of infantry, a tank piece represents a squadron or platoon of tanks. So, you move your tokens… Read more »
Must not suggest Waterloo must not suggest Waterloo.. You know what? A dambusters one would be fun, with little plastic plane pieces. Co-operative Vs ai deck. Totally not copied for a death Star run version. Any games creators looking for a designer you know where to find me ?. Great Weekender as always @warzan. John standing on Justin’s foot is a series highlight not just a show’s. I’m very excited for The Walking Dead wave 5. Can’t wait to see the rules for Gabriel. Very interested to see what he brings to the table. And nuclear power fallout in space… Read more »
I’m sad, not that I didn’t win, but that the first two that did win where 3D printed stuff. It feels like a pay to win thing where when you just throw more money at it and you’ll win. I know the Fallout one extracted the files from the game which includes some work, but the apartment ones where just bought as far as I could recall. I feel like next time I might not participate as others will just throw money at it and I’ll be doing 2 months of work. I know there is some painting work and… Read more »
Try not to feel too disheartened 🙂 I can maybe add a little outside perspective from my own experience. When terrain making we often buy bits and Bob’s to convert or build into the project (trees and foliage or skulls etc) My own experience of 3d printing is that it is far from simple, it takes alot of work and a huge amount of time. Infact bar the printer itself (say £300) the cost is the easiest bit to take as the pla is very very cheap. The time, the cleaning, the organisation are huge undertakings. So personally I have… Read more »
I have no experience with 3D printing myself and do not understand all the work involved, so that might be why it feels kind of cheaty to me. It just feels like you buy a printer, you buy the files and then put them in the printer and done. Yes, you need clean-up and then paint it, but so do you with resin stuff. It just feels bad with the apartment project that it is just build out of 3d printed stuff, painted and then put on a matt. You have an impressive table quite easily. It feels like you’re… Read more »
MDF would be 20 times easier and quicker.
In my experience the 3d printing is not an easy hobby process at all. 🙂
It’s just difficult in a different way, but lots of things in our hobby are like that 🙂
It’s just how it feels to me. Like I said, I have no experience with 3D printing.
i can see where your coming from @amachan but have to agree with @warzan on the level of work required and the fact that its not an easy part of the hobby process. For every successful print there are many failures, its not a case of get the file send to printer and tadah! its done, i wish it were. ive been printing a while now and many good print file company’s like for example “printable scenery” are continuously improving and updating the source files as they get feedback on errors or make improvements to make it print easier. Then… Read more »
I apologize to @warzan and any other 3D printing people I may have offended. I was frustrated yesterday and mental health issues and frustrations don’t always give me a clear view of the situation. I understand that a lot of work is required for the 3D printing, but I still feel that 3D printing and terrain building are two very different hobbies. I do believe that one can supplement the other, but should not replace each other.
Do not worry about it for a second 🙂
Just doing my bit to remind folk that the hobby is a very broad church and keep things inclusive as possible 🙂
However I have also taken your feedback onboard for future 😀
If you haven’t checked out PSC Games The Great War do so. Great system, and plastic soldiers.
Good morning, everyone, and Happy Weekend! First up, thanks so much for the mention of the upcoming At The General’s Table live stream. I hope to see lots of people on the stream, I think we’re aiming at 12 Noon Friday … We’ll be covering pretty much anything relating to the Desert War, focusing on the Boot Camp, small unit infantry tactics, and especially on the larger scale background of the Desert War in order to fill in all the narrative and “fluff” before we actually get to the boot camp for the up-close skirmish tabletop action! Most of all,… Read more »
Go Team @dignity for Monster Apocalypse!
Great interview with Katie. I’ve purchased many 15mm vehicles and infantry from PSC, and never really been disappointed. And the Battlegroup WW2 minis system is still, well … I mean, come on. You all know me by now. 😐 😐 😐
Interesting conversation with Katie and Justin regarding historical wargaming. This conversation’s come up a lot lately, and honestly I think the situation / debate /conversation that keeps happening over and over is really a lot more simple than people sometimes make it out to be. Historical wargames, especially those played on a board (i.e., without the flaws / constraints / restrictions imposed by the scale miniature format) are there to START OUT as historically realistic as possible. The only real debate here is how much detail and rules you want in your system. Once the game starts, though, players are… Read more »