Weekender: Win A GW Starter Box! Which Games Workshop Game Is Best?
September 15, 2018 by dracs
This week, we're mixing things up a bit as we kick the show off with a look at Games Workshop's currant range of games and try to decide which one reigns supreme!
The Greatest Games Workshop Game
Comment below with your thoughts for your chance to win Warhammer 40,000: Tooth & Claw (or an available GW starter set of your choice).
Check out our Adeptus Titanicus Interview with manager of Games Workshop's Specialist Games team, Andy Hoare.
Updates
Ben may be not be with us this week, but there is still plenty happening on the site for you to check out.
- Monsterpocalypse: Round 2! - Justin and Ryan swap armies for their second Monsterpocalypse Live Stream on Tuesday 18th, 18:00 BST.
- Watch the first Monsterpocalypse Live Stream here.
What did you think of the last Monsterpocalypse fight? Do you support Team Justin, or Team Ryan?
News
There's always loads of new happening in the gaming world and here are a few of the pieces from the past week that caught our eye.
- Claustrophobia 1643 - This week we featured an article taking a detailed look at Monolith's upcoming game of exploring the depths of Hell.
- Pandemic: Fall of Rome - Z-Man announced a new version of their classic game Pandemic, heading back to ancient Rome to deal with the collapse of an empire.
- Frostgrave: The Wizard's Conclave - Next year will see the release of a new supplement for Frostgrave, featuring scenarios from some of the biggest names in the industry.
Which news piece grabbed your attention?
Explore The Depths of Rampage Dungeon
Mathew Barker from Architects of Destruction joins us over Skype to tell us about the Kickstarter they are currently running for their modular dungeon terrain set, Rampage Dungeon.
What do you think is the best way to create a dungeon for the tabletop?
Kickstarter
Just time for one Kickstarter this week, but it's a biggy.
- Horizon Zero Dawn by Steamforged Games - Steamforged are currently on Kickstarter with their latest board game adaptation, this time of the superb video game Horizon Zero Dawn.
Do you like the idea of hunting those robot monsters?
Community Spotlight
An XLBS staple has made its way to the Frontstage show. We finish off with the Community Spotlight, taking a look at which community members have earned themselves coveted Golden Buttons for their amazing work in the Projects.
Competitions
Remember to comment below for your chance to win an awesome Games Workshop starter set!
There is also still time to enter the contest run for GenCon, Nanty Narking, and PSC Games, so go back and check those out.
Have a great weekend!
"What's your favourite GW Game?"
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ah the weekend 🙂
You’re up early!! Lol
well you know how it is *-**** isn’t going to paint itself, neither is the *** so I have to be proactive 😉
He was up so early he remembers the Renaissance, which (for Sam’s benefit) was several hundred years long from the 13th Century and the likes of Dante’s Inferno, through the Black Death in the 14th, artists like Hieronymus Bosch and continues to the 17th Century which had some epic events like the Great Plague (1665-1666) and the Fire of London (1666 -so @Warzan may be onto something, and there have been conspiracy theories in the past). So 1643 is getting to the end of this period when the reformation had started to shift attitudes to the church and peoples beliefs… Read more »
Middle Earth SBG. Got me started into wargaming over a decade ago. Simple, elegant design that gives tons of fun and complexity.
Totally agree!
Same for me with those De Agostini magazines.
So my vote is also Middle Earth SGB.
It was a gateway game for me too. Couldn’t be happier with the hobby just started getting into historical gaming as well!
Great show!
Love the new starter, but Adeptus Titanicus is amazing.
Who does not like the big mechs?
Someone they’re about to step on?
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Everything Lord of the Ring!
Absolutely!
I have always liked Warhammer 40k. I wish I had tried the Epic Armageddon game.
Lord of the Rings for me.
Good morning and happy weekend one and all. Sick wife and sneaky hound mean I don’t seem to get to sleep these days!!!! Best GW Game for me ……. Necromunda without a doubt 🙂
Happy Saturday
I have more or less give up on GW. But I would lean towards LotR
Crikey where all up early…:by uk time standards , those bolt action tables look tasty, my favourite is probably assault on black reach as it was first one I owned.
The lord of the rings game is great. Still have my minis amd play whenever I get the chance.
It is the best rules system GW ever made and I played Fantasy, 40k, gothic and inquisitor.
As a brand new player, I played my first demo game today, it’s Dark Imperium for me. All the rule books and codexes I’ll need for both armies, enough models for myself and a friend to play and an immense value. $60 rule book and $70 start collecting box, but I also get a 2nd army and both mini codexes? For $130-$160 depending on where you get it, it’s an awesome value for brand spanking new players.
i really miss Warhammer Fantasy 🙁
we all do, at least people with taste do 🙂
I’ve pretty much swapped to KoW for all my rank and flank needs
Also a good chance to go to 10mm or 15mm as @warzan said they look better for rank and file games. When you go to the higher level of command
true but I have 16 28mm fantasy armies, so I’m not about to replace them, but I do have 6 20mm historical armies that I’m planning on doing for KoW:H for that reason
@avernos Are they plastic via HaT etc or metal
plastics
Lot of us do miss WHFB as system and it’s rich lore.
I don’t really mind not having to add another shelving unit every 4 years for any new edition. Warhammer Fantasy battles has been my hobby since 3rd and I have everything I need to keep playing – and most importantly painting. There is still enough in GW’s current range and through third parties and the second hand market to expand as well when desired. More importantly than the rules though, there is a rich world akin to LOTR, Elric etc. that can be played in and explored forever, with any rules system that fits. For example, now playing Frostgrave in… Read more »
Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire is my current favourite. I think it’s a great entry point for the board game community into miniature gaming. It has the boardgame/cardgame feel, doesn’t require painting because of the different coloured plastics, but they’re amazing miniatures if you do want to paint them up. It’s just so easy to get into. I’d love to get a copy of the new Battle of Pelennor Fields. The Middle Earth SBG system looks great and I’d love to try it out.
Killteam is godly levels of good. It’s pretty spectacular how well it’s balanced and just how enjoyable it is.
I can’t wait to play it, the expansion looks really good as well.
The Kill Team big box is amazing: you get all you need for the game and is still fully usable in regular 40k. I’m seriously considering it, even if I’m manly a Space Marine player.
Morning all. I have not played Anything from GW for the past 10yrs+, but Kill Team looks to be the one that could get me back into it again. Minis look good and you could build up your own narrative to keep this game going on for yrs.
Dark imperium for this new guy to the hobby.
Necromunda…
I NEED that tooth and claw box! I JUST started a Space Wolves army this week. lol
Necromunda
Shadespire
Killteam
Battlefleet Gothic
Epic40k
In this order.
I like the way that GW put the hard backed book in the starter sets now
Glad the wolves are getting some love, but would love the dark imperium set!
I’m just getting back into GW after a fling with it as a child, with 40k Conquest. Painted my first Ultramarines and I’m really happy with them, so I suppose I’d love to get my hands on the dark imperium set. It’s definitely on my Christmas bonus purchase list.
Well I have to say of all the games GW have ever made it would be a toss up between:
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay – by far my favourite RPG I have many happy memories of playing it.
Bloodbowl – awesomely fun game, but since I have played Guildball it’s lost its appeal.
Spacehulk – this is the only game that got me into the 40k universe, I never delved deeper.
I don’t tend to play any GW games these days but have to say the game that would be of interest because of the scale is smaller and that is Adeptus Titaninicus.
I had similar with Dreadball. It’s such a better game I just can’t see myself picking up Blood Bowl however splendid the minis are (and they are).
I was always a Skaven player and picked up the new Skaven team, but really did not like the models at all. so they are sat half painted in a box.
Games workshop is on fire. Hope they don’t burn their customers with the hectic release schedule
Yeah that has me worried as well.
They launched two games in August … Two … in one month??
The August White Dwarf only had about 10 pages, not counting adverts for one of them – Kill Team – and that was in the New Releases section. But had heaps of coverage on Adeptus Titanicus, being the more expensive game.
The local Warhammer store, and I’m not sure how we qualify for one in Dunedin New Zealand, told us that Adeptus Titanicus would be by order only – it’s really expensive over here guys.
The September White Dwarf is a little better.
Killteam. Because with the way I paint it’s the only way I’d play inside this millennium.