Weekender: Reichbusters Late Pledges & Recruit A Gamer Month!
February 2, 2019 by brennon
Join us for another dose of tabletop goodness with The Weekender today where we have Mythic Games in the studio talking about Reichbusters: Projekt Vril and what's available through the Pledge Manager.
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Make sure to comment down below on the topics raised in the show as we're going to be picking a lucky person to win a Painted Sarge from Reichbusters thanks to the awesome Seb Lavigne.
Recruit A Gamer Month!
February is the month where we like to see folks widen the scope of the hobby to include more of your friends. So, with that in mind, we're asking you to tell us who you're going to try and recruit as a gamer and how you'd do it, whatever area of the tabletop world you're interested in.
SITREP Ops Centre Episode One
Jim (Oriskany) has been working away on a new project for the SITREP Podcast. The first episode of his Ops Centre has gone live this weekend focusing in on The Sinai War Of 1956.
Make sure to give it a listen and a watch if you're interested in modern warfare on the tabletop and want an in-depth exploration of the topic!
News
We've got some news from across the spectrum for you today.
- Genestealer Cults - A new set of vehicles, characters and other surprises are dropping this weekend
- Sanguinius; Love Or Hate - What do you make of the newest Primarch to join the range?
- Ghost Archipelago Expansion - Gods Of Fire is currently up for pre-order from the folks at North Star and Osprey
- Masterful Minotaurs - Are these the best Minotaurs ever created by Zealot?
- Stoessi's Heroes - A new pair of World War II heroes that were larger than life get added to the line-up
What caught your eye from the news this week?
Reichbusters: Projekt Vril Pledge Manager Opens
Leo and Az talk with Justin about the opening of the Pledge Manager for Reichbusters: Projekt Vril, giving you another chance to get involved with the game if you missed out on Kickstarter.
They talk about new characters, new sculpts, improved gameplay and more. Make sure to check out our Let's Play of the game from this week HERE.
Kickstarter
We've got two neat projects for you to check out this week...
- Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game - Play as awesome superheroes thanks to Greater Than Games
- Munchkin Dungeon: A new board game take on the classic backstabbing card game
Here is our chat about the Starter Set for Sentinel Comics and the Livestream from UK Games Expo.
Which of these two projects would you back?
Competition - Win A Pro Painted Sarge From Reichbusters!
You could win yourself a copy of Sarge from Reichbusters painted by the talented Seb Lavigne. That would be quite the piece to brag about!
Also, if you entered the competition to win Urban Conquest last week, make sure to check out the Prize Claim Centre and Claim Your Prize!
Have a great weekend!
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Best first 17 minutes of any Weekender I have ever seen. And Im going to get my future Son in law to play his first Bolt Action game this weekend.I back Reich Busters as soon as it came out,roll on November and delivery. It looks so cool and the possibilitys as to where this game could go are never ending.
Aughh, you beat me to it, @higgy ! 🙂 Happy Weekend, everyone! We have a live game of Darkstar: Tactical Starship Combat on the web later today between two community members (damon and rasmus – 18:00 GMT) if anyone is interested in checking it out. Just ping me a PM and I will send you the link to the web conference. Japanese and British ground troops are locked in combat beneath the glacial ice of a frontier world about 35 light-years deep into the Libra constellation, now both sides are trying to get troop ships to the planet, escorted by… Read more »
Awesome, can’t wait for Reich busters. I have already gotten one into boardgaming through the game Nemesis, it’s my partner’s first step and from there I’ve convinced her to get into painting and moving forward. Just need more space for a painting set up. It’s my partner, myself and our 2yo daughter in a small 2 bedroom flat. So anything prepainted is awesome atm, until I can afford a larger place. (Just got to add the shake of the head at Warrens “Riding Termagaunts” joke at 14:35 is great…no one else seemed to cotton on, Warren ya dirty boy, you… Read more »
Munchkin Dungeon looks real interesting.
For the sanguinius ( I have no idea how to spell it) person do you think the FW sculptor was rushed for time and searched the workshop and found a set of cavalry man’s legs and stuck them on
Earlier FW put up a pic of him on his limited edition scenic base and the pose makes more sense there as it has a large daemon grappling with his legs as he makes a killing thrust.
Daftly the base is limited edition so most of the time the pose isn’t going to make much sense.
Happy Weekender! SITREP Ops Centre Episode One was great and well done! Reichbusters reminds me so much of Dust and Tanhauser the boardgame mixed together. Having both of the previous I don’t know if I can justify the new game. Maybe if I can get the minis separately. The ‘Sentinel Comics: The Roleplaying Game’ does have my attention. I’m looking into that one a bit more. Recruit A Gamer Month! It’s a great challenge but one very difficult for me. I live in a small town, in Midwest America, were most folks believe the only way for an adult to… Read more »
Thanks very much, @templar007 .
I should mention that the Sitrep team is:
Gianna, myself, Ralph ( @grimwolfuk ) and Chris .
Okay i will be one hundred percent honest. I did not need to see these Reich Buster minis… i just cant aford another game in my life right now, and noe i want this….thanks guys.
That’s the problem with this site … it makes you want stuff you didn’t know you wanted 😉
I think there isn’t a single beastie who isn’t addicted to the plastic/metal/resin crack they show.
Happy weekend!
I’ll be converting my brother this month. He is still a bit of an athlete and former tank commander. Two weeks ago I ran him through his first D&D game. This month I’m going to get him to play Star Wars Legion.
Happy Weekend…
As a german I would be happy If Sarge comes over here again and save us from the evil Vril…
Hmm.. like I threw out before a good idea for the Snag-a-normie month the idea regarding sports could work. As Warren and Lloyd pointed out there is interest in ‘football’ that they could use. I’ll say Guild Ball is an excellent idea as it is fast paced and easily understood for dice mechanics.
Thinking about laughingboy’s minotaur and seeing how well it came out I might just sneak mine along and say ‘Yeah I painted one too’ before shuffling on
Star Wars games. Star Wars games are single handedly responsible for me having a gaming group at all. I used to sit in my hobby corner and paint, read and theorycraft but wasn’t sociable enough to go and find a gaming group. However a box of X-Wing one Christmas got me, my brother and our dad playing regularly and my brother’s mate joined in after a while too. Now we regularly play X-Wing, Legion and occasionally Imperial Assault. And my brother has rediscovered 40k and we now also play Fallout Wasteland Warfare. A tip would be to find an IP… Read more »
“This is what I think they were going for” “Well they failed” Dammit @avernos you spilled my drink with that one. His legs look like anyone repelling/falling/flying in an 80’s action movie where they had to hide the harness in the crotch area and it made their legs go all weird. A Friend of mine is coming over tomorrow maybe I can tempt him into a quick game of something. Getting new people into a game is just another reason to collect multiple sides for every game. I like that in the sneak peak of tomorrow it looks like Justin… Read more »
in my defense I am a grumpy old bugger.
I went in for Reichbusters and the more I see, the happier I am that I did. I have already started getting my daughter into games, had to start her easy with uno and mousetrap (she is 5 though) but she keeps asking now to play with the blood rage and rising sun miniatures I’m painting so give it another 8-10 years I may be able to play her! ? In all seriousness though it has sparked a little interest in my wife so she is actively asking what other games we can do together. 10 years of marriage and… Read more »
It’s the Weekend!
It’s been the week from hell… take me somewhere… anywhere!
Just looking at the Zealot site… They’ve got a brilliant sleeping Minotaur – perfect for a dungeon crawler scenario which if you wake it while creeping past turns into the beserk model you previewed! I’m leaving Leroy Warzan at home for that run…
Eric Lang’s involvement SHOULD be a seal of quality on a game. With copies of CMON’s HATE KS landing elsewhere in the world there have been comments about rules quality; not something I’d associate with Eric Lang but he can’t be brilliant at everything can he?
Tobe honest I’ve had to start to be really disciplined about KSs. First level of discipline – is this a game I will actually get to play multiple times and is it good value? Second level of discipline – if I do get to play it will we ever get beyond the core game? I’ve got far too many games where I went all in or got tempted to grab a few expansions which in hindsight have berely been out of the box. Exceptions to this have been KD:M and MB:P. In both cases I’ve not gone mad up front,… Read more »
Good morning all. So nice to waken up to another scintillating discussion with Leo and Az (I am all-in on Reichbusters). The sneak peek of Season 2 artwork is most appealing and has a bit of the Iron Sky vibe going on too.
The painted Sarge is fantastic, as are all the other pieces Seb worked on. Hurry up and paint Sally!
Love the show guys.
I’d get a new gamer into the hobby by playing either the Grimoire Quest card game or Everdell. Both from last year, and both brilliant games.
That sarge model is insanely good and might have to check out the pledge manager
Till tomorrow morning guys…
Well, I am a Blood Angel player,but yeah from that picture Sanguinius looks.. off.
For my Recruiting scheme, I’m going to try to get a friend of mines Kid into Kill Team, I have 2 kill teams so I can just let him borrow one of them, and my friend is interested as well so maybe 2 new gamers. Board gamers now hopefully Mini players soon.
So nice to see AZ again! His enthusiasm for Reich Busters is truly infectious. I’m gonna head over and watch the Let’s Play now..
And maybe to the Pledge Manager. Doh..I’m so easily seduced by you guys ?
Btw, Seb’s paint jobs are out of this world ?
Looking forward to Reichbusters.
Great show, as usual! A minor ‘anal’ moment though, the constant description of ‘panzerfaust’ for Hans’ ‘weapon!’ It is a panzerschreck!!!
Surely Ben is clearly in his dwarven treasurehold? ? Justin can’t use chains and whips? So that’s anything Slaanesh out then. ? @warzan – for your brother-in-law what about BloodBowl, Guildball, etc? If needs be reskin it to remove the fantasy aspects and use Sebuteo minis. Recruit a gamer – I’m in the same boat as Gerry, I don’t know anyone that’d be into gaming that isn’t already. I think Warren was aiming for a different definition of ‘riding’ when he was on about riding gaunts. @warzan if you want to know about Genestealer implantation go watch a little flick… Read more »
Expanding on the Reichbusters ideas I gave: obviously there’s a copyright issue with using photocopies of the ones I listed, but in the Indiana Jones one at least, he’s based on the pulp heroes of 30s movie serials, so it should be easy to come up with something in that vein without infringing on the Indiana Jones copyright. I’m thinking some sort of barechested British brawler. And to go with him maybe another Gurkha or Maori, or maybe an Indian or Australian Aboriginal to be his sidekick (although pains would have to be taken to make said character a capable… Read more »
Good morning everyone. I have found introducing people to gaming comes in degrees. Factors include rules difficulty, subject matter and willingness / interest. For example, it’s easier to get someone into x-wing the bigger the Star Wars fan they are. I’ve had great success getting people into cards against humanity, joking hazard etc especially after a drink. Those games to me represent the “lowest hanging fruit” of the gaming industry. Hopefully soon I will be introducing my Brother in law and his son into the next steps which is board games with a strong theme that they find enjoyable. In… Read more »
Hey, Dave! Glad to see you back on the site! I hope you like the Arab Isreali Wars content! I remember that was a period you were interested in.
I’m loving the Reichbusters coverage, keep it coming! I’m dinging my dong for all I’m worth.
For recruiting a non-gamer, I’ll continue my campaign to convert my girlfriend to the good cause. Rhino Hero is a great game for getting people into the hobby, it’s super simple to understand and always good fun. Top tip…remember to keep your pet cat out of the room though if you don’t want your 8 floor hive attacked by your furry kaiju…*cry*
Every month is Recruit a Gamer Month! Don’t stop until all the world is gaming!
Sanguinius looks like Heat Miser’s skinny brother who joined the military. And those legs, from that angle, make it look like he’s squeezing out a fart…and trying to keep it from turning into something more. Real majestic.
Like Warren, I’m typically against foot-on-rock posing, but I think they maybe should’ve gone for a both-feet-on-rock pose and given him more of a Legalos sliding down the oliphaunt’s trunk vibe. Would’ve made him look agile and graceful.
Re: Sanguinius – of course he is; how do you think he actually flies? Those wings aren’t nearly big enough to do the job alone!
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And here I always thought he was able to fly because of ‘space magic.’ I was so envious. Turns out, I had that same magic inside of me all along, especially on Fajita Fridays.
SARGE! SARGE! Over here join my team vs the vrilmiesters !
Have a pledge in for the game and the mini painted by SEB would have pride of place.. He is such a talented individual,saw his work first hand at Warboar in Bromley when I attended the Solomon Kaine day there.
I agree with Justin it is a supportive I HATE YOU.