Weekender: Warhammer 40K TV Show Announced!
July 20, 2019 by dignity
Come and join us for another dive into the tabletop awesomeness that we've seen popping up this week.
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Updates
We start things off talking about what you need to keep an eye on from us...
- Catch Up On Historicon - Watch Part One & Part Two of the live blogs from last week
- Flames Of War Hobby League - Get involved in the projects and show off the build of your armies
- 40K Weekend Prep - You can follow us as we build epic tabletops for use in Warhammer 40,000
We've been enjoying lots of hobby for sure!
Warlord Games' Organized Play System
We got a chat with Charlie from Warlord Games about what is planned for their expanding Organized Play format. They have offered up cool options for those who like playing games in a casual manner and also those who want a more competitive format.
With that in mind, watch out for their first organised play experience which is centred around the Korean War.
News
Catch up on what is new from the world of wargaming...
- Age Of Sigmar Warcry - Make sure to snap up the Core Set for the game!
- Eisenhorn The TV Star - What do you make of this TV show news this week?
- Harry Potter Core Set - The reissue of the core set is available for you to pre-order
- Barons' War Miniatures - Keep a look at some models from the team of Hobday & Hick
Let us know what caught your eye from the news this week as well in the comments below.
Kickstarter
Make sure to come and dive in to check out a range of very different Kickstarter campaigns.
- Conan: Savage Legends - Shinobi7 delve into some arena-style combat
- Dwarves: Kings & Legends - Which of these new characters is your favourite?
- Magical Kitties Save The World - A wonderful new roleplaying game for younger adventurers
Which of the three will you be supporting?
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Happy Weekend!!!
Happy Weekender fellow gamers!
I really enjoyed the Historicon coverage. It was fantastic. Lots of games there that piqued my interest. Thanks for all the hard work!
The ‘Flames Of War Hobby League’ has been a lot of fun to get involved with. I’m glad that OTT is promoting this on the site.
My 40K Weekend Prep is marching forward. Hoping to interact in some way with the folks in the studio when the weekend kicks off for this event.
Happy hobby’n everyone!
Looking forward to seeing your army come to life!
It’s the Weekend!
The prospect of a 40k TV show? Appeals to me as much as a “Love Island STDs under the microscope” show.
Alas, but this does seem like it could be a good choice to get people introduced.
People don’t need introducing to 40K. It’s so pervasive that it has pretty much entered the common vernacular. If the network of GW stores, tie-in games (including Monopoly, of all things), books in mainstream bookshops, and semi-regular partnerships with publisher like Hachette haven’t brought players to the table, a TV show isn’t going to make any difference.
I think you overestimate what the average joe knows. There are plenty of people who could be into a show like this who have never heard of 40K before.
Geeks who are into SciFi wargames that aren’t Star Wars need no introduction to 40k as a setting.
Everyone else does.
Heck … I know what 40k is, but I hadn’t even heard about this Eisenhorn character until this was announced.
I’m pretty sure there’s plenty of people like me out there.
I’d never heard of him
Funny thing is I’ve had conversations with random non-gamers who knew what 40K was. Not to the degree that they could name teh Chaos Gods or anything, but enough to know that its a tabletop wargame sold by Games Workshop. And they haven’t been isolated cases. If these people had any interest in learning more they knew to go to a Games Workshop store (as was). A TV show wouldn’t make any difference to them.
A tv show might be the one thing that triggers them to go visit though.
It all depends on how good the show is and if GW is smart enough to create some sort of link with their games. Maybe a killteam with IronHorn as the commander ?
This could see me doing another visit in October for the Korea open days hehe
@warzan will OTT be stocking any Korea Bolt Action and if so from when?
Yes mate, Korea will be our first steps towards fully supporting Bolt Action as one of our ‘Core Pillars’. We Hope to have the products start going up on the store for today.
We will have all the Korea specific products and we have worked with Charlie at Warlord to also have a range of the late war products that work well for Korea. 🙂
@warzan great to hear buddy, be good to also get a little bit of guidance if possible on what to buy and what will be good to grab for the weekend event in October
Watching The Weekender on the train – going to Berlin Con 2019 – Today is the first full day of this mainly boardgame and card game Convention. Looking forward to playing Demos and Wingspan, Legends of Andor, King of Tokyo and Netrunner…
Sounds brilliant. Woild be great to see pictures of it in the forums!
@brennon Though I did not take any useful photos at the Berlin Brettspiel Con 2019 on Saturday (Brettspiel = Boardgame, by the way), I thought I could send you some impressions of the day. This was the 6th year of this convention, which has grown dramatically over the last few years: – in 2016 it was in what was basically two or three large rooms, hidden away in a courtyard behind some office buildings, very fan-based and organized (by the YouTubers “Hunter und Cron”) – in 2017 and 2018 it moved to a much larger location near the center of… Read more »
@brennon @cassn Just read in the news: Wingspan / “Flügelschlag” is the winner of the 2019 “Kennerspiel des Jahres” award (the “Experienced Gamer’s Game of the Year” award). Congratulations to Elizabeth Hargrave, Feuerland Spiele and Jamey Stegmaier at Stonemaier Games!
Happy weekend folks, I’ve been looking forward to watching. Thanks.
OTT Bolt Action Korea event?!?
I just got to make it possible to come!!! ❤️❤️❤️
A good excuse for me to blast my girlfriend’s BTS albums to echo the DMZ atmosphere
I do love those Baron Wars figures. I did have an unread book on the Magna Carta, but can’t find it. Fairly typical, buy a book, don’t read it, sits on the shelf for years, but when you want it, can’t find it.
Always the case…happens with rulebook for me
Magical Kitties game, finally something to complete the crazy cat ladies wish list??
Something to get everyone involved!
Don’t forget men can be crazy cat ladies too ?
Happy weekend!!!
Really looking forward to the Korean theatre campaigns and organised support from Warlord. Also looking forward to the Flames of war stuff too.
Kudos to the video subtexts XD
I’m a proud Ravenclaw
What’s more dangerous than a cat? A on that can fly? If they ever develop opposable thumbs we’re doomed! When they can operate the can opener all will be lost!
Also, cats are proof that the world isn’t flat. If it were, cat’s would have pushed everything over the edge by now.
Things to do this morning, place an order for Warcry goodness and check out the slow grow league for FOW. Happy hobby weekend everyone.
Great episode. A couple of weeks must have gone by because GW produced yet another skirmish game! I really like the look of some of the factions of Warcry, it’s just that I’m just getting rule fatigue from learning so many skirmish game rule sets. Shadeshire, Killteam, Necromunda, AoS Skirmish, Path to glory and all the pervious versions etc there of. I can only hope they come with Killteam style data sheet/cards so you can use a gang in an AoS Chaos army. I really hope they don’t bollock-up Eisenhorn. He’s a personal favourite from the 40K universe The Conan… Read more »
Happy Weekend one and all.
As far as Harry Potter goes,i would choose House Gryffindor.I am excited to hear about the Eisenhorn movie,but i’m concerned it will either get stuck in development hell or it’ll get made and they’ll lose all the grimdark stuff that helps make that trilogy great.The Arnie renders are great,but they are not an SG,they are a $40 add-on,just so people are aware before they go looking to back it.I have backed it myself,but i’m a little concerned it won’t make the £64k ( or thereabouts ) funding target,which would be a shame ( imho ).
cool stuff
i do love organised play, particularly an interesting subject such as korea
Witcher Series (trailer available on YouTube) > 40K Show
A big fan of the books, the comics and then the VGs. IMHO, the Netflix Witcher Series will be more popular and to a larger audience.
That is not to say I will not be watching the 40K shows too
In regards to Conan: Savage Legends
1) No released rules
2) No game play videos
3) No public game play testing
4) A first time KS developer
This is why it has not funded.
Korea open days you say?
Korea for Bolt Action, very interesting. Hope they´ll do a plastic set for winter Americans. I also hope the winners will get the special miniature.
What people say about the probable availability of Warcry, I agree that thanks to the terrain in the box it will sell tremendously well. I hesitated for Kill Team just a bit too long, and … gone.
I was really glad to see you guys go and cover Historicon this year. I was hoping to make it myself but due to things popping up I didn’t. Have you guys considered covering it again next year? I really like what Warlord is doing with their organized play.
Wow what a great show. Very happy to say hello at Historicon. Next year you need to give yourself time to visit Gettysburg which is only an hour away from Lancaster.
You know portions are big when someone like Gerry has to order a ‘small’ one.
I think that I will have to go for the kiddy portion if I ever am allowed into the USA (I surely must be on a watchlist of some sort, right ?) … 😀
I ordered the small and couldn’t finish it
oh glorius Weekender