Weekender: Wrath Of Kings Week Coming & Huge Mythic Battles Giveaway
January 28, 2017 by brennon
We've got a packed show for you today with loads of awesomeness including giving away some brilliant prizes AND giving you a look ahead to more too!
Don't forget to drop your comments below and we might pick it out for XLBS next week.
Podcast Download
Before we get into it make sure to check out the Podcast Download of this show we trialed yesterday and let us know what you think!
- Weekender: Wrath Of Kings Week Coming & Huge Mythic Battles Giveaway - Podcast Download
As always we love reading your comments to please, get stuck in!
Wrath Of Kings Week Ahead
Coming next week we have Wrath Of Kings looking at all of the factions, playing demo games and more. Commenting on THIS episode of the weekend and the videos next week means you can win some great prizes.
- 4x Wrath Of Kings Honour & Treachery Two Player Starter Set + Rising Conflicts Book + Book One Unit Cards Deck & Objective + Markers Set
- 1x Wrath Of Kings: Honour & Treachery Two Player Starter Set + Rising Conflicts Book + Book One Unit Cards Deck & Objective + Marker Set PLUS a Nasier Faction Starter Box AND Goritsi Faction Starter Box
Commenting here on Beasts of War, on Youtube or Facebook will qualify you for the prize giveaway.
Hobby Weekend & Competition Prizes
Make sure to be up bright and early tomorrow morning (Sunday) at 6am as we are going to be putting up the Hobby Weekend tickets for Backstagers.
This is a joint venture between The Army Painter, Fantasy Flight Games and ourselves to bring you an awesome weekend of painting armies and battles.
Additionally, we have announced not only the winners of Shadow Games BUT also those who won during Relic Knights Week.
Make sure to listen out for your names and use the Claim Your Prize link to get them whisked your way.
News
We take a look at what's been happening in the news.
- Warhammer Quest Returns - A new adventure awaits in the realm of Age of Sigmar.
- Kings Of War Organised Play - Fancy setting up a club league or tournament?
- Shael Han Creatures For Wrath Of Kings - Some superb Celestials take shape.
- Fracture Of Bie-Tan - What does the future hold for Warhammer 40,000?
What caught your eye?
Chatting Mythic Battles: Pantheon & Win Mystery Miniatures
We sit down with Leo from Mythic Games to talk about where things are going with Mythic Battles: Pantheon now that the Kickstarter is over. We're giving away as part of a competition...
- 1x Atlas The Titan (Pro-Painted Or Unpainted)
- 15x Mystery Miniatures!
The game is looking fantastic and we can't wait to play more games.
Kickstarter Time
What might take your fancy on Kickstarter this week?
- Vanguard Of War - Running into its last few days you can still back this project (Our Let's Play)
- Medioevo Universalis - Fancy playing an epic 4X experience on the tabletop in Medieval Europe?
- Delve - Evolve the tile laying genre into an adventuring experience.
Some great projects worth your time and attention.
Enjoy yourself this weekend!
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It’s the Weekend!
And I’m awake at an absurd hour like a child on Christmas morning who’s too bleeding excited to get back to sleep…. just because I collect my new car in a few hours time. How ridiculous at my age!!
Anyway – how to distract myself for a couple of hours? I know…
Good on you mate, congratulations. 🙂
Thanks!
Red Dawn rules? Here’s a whacky suggestion… Write yourself some Infinity unit and weapon profiles! Love the d20 with AROs for skirmish!
Now for the thorny issue of late pledges on Kickstarters. In principle I’m not against the idea (I’d be a hypocrite if I was) BUT,.. make sure that there’s a benefit to those that back the original project; whether that be discriminatory pricing or exclusive rewards/SGs for original backers only. How to handle add-ons when the PM comes out – I.e. the ability to boost a pledge – needs to be carefully considered also. True backers are doing two things that deserve this different treatment: 1. They’re getting the project off the ground and smashing those SG targets. 2. More… Read more »
Surely the fact the game is being made is reward enough. It certainly is for me.
Worth pointing out that most Kickstarters allow people to upgrade from $1 to a full pledge in the PM, so hard to say those people deserve something extra whilst late backers don’t. Also many allow refunds of some form, even all the way until the point of delivery, so again it is hard to see what the additional risk is for the original backers. However, there is the problem that if everyone waits to late pledge then SGs will not be hit and/or the project even fund. There is also the problem that if there are a large number of… Read more »
And for me too, plus the fact more people will be getting the game giving me more potential opponents and the company more chance of success. There’s no evidence that allowing late pledges without penalty hurts future campaigns. CMON do it on all their campaigns, everyone knows they do it, and they raise massive totals anyway. Conversely, the worse you make the deal the more risk people not backing on a late pledge, which is just counter-productive for everyone. Speaking as a backer of MB:P, it in no way benefits me for late pledgers to get a worse deal than… Read more »
Indeed, I am a late backer upping a pound pledge on Moonstone. Simply because at time of original kickstarter I could not back more. Not ideal but toy soldiers get the money left over. When the question was asked in the development facebook page about opening up the late pledge and ks only rewards the response was I believe unanimosely yes to both, on the basis that it meant more people playing the game. Now obviously there is the question does this mean some campaigns are limited in what they achieve because of late backing I would say no, as… Read more »
I have mixed feelings on late pledges. I think that whilst obviously it’s great so many people want to get involved in the game, I feel those who pledge during the campaign should receive some benefit for their faith the in creators, hence why the KS exclusive minis often are so attractive to backers and I think those exclusives should remain that for the live campaign backers. That said I have no problem with the idea that if you back the core game during the campaign you can then expand your pledge during the pledge manager to get the add… Read more »
I have a few comments about this. Yes it is very important that you have the need of your initial backers or there would be no game extra SG/content aside. These people are the initial live blood to get things rolling. I have no problem with late backers. They should be able to get the same deal as an initial backer because they will add extra funding for the project and future projects and give a better view to the company of the interest there is in the game. Secondly there will be more people playing and supporting the game… Read more »
I’d be more worried about the creators being able to fullfill all those additional late pledges and keep the original deadline.
There’s a very real risk of them running out of budget in order to produce all the content.
As such the only reason the late pledge shouldn’t get the ‘exclusive’ content is because there is a limited production capability and/or warehouse storage space.
It shouldn’t to be about ‘rewarding’ early backers, because kickstarting shouldn’t be about who got there first but about getting the game in production.
Why would late backers create a risk of running out of budget? They’re paying the same as they would have had they backed during the campaign, so how are the sums different if they back two months later?
Pushing fulfilment back is a potential risk, though it’s not a late backer thing unless the creator was going to rule the campaign off at a certain point. The one argument I am sympathetic to is if allowing late backers will mean pushing back fulfilment, then late backers should be fulfilled last.
I think the only real danger of late pledges is that the production schedule becomes bloated. Perhaps a company has to restructure their planning or look for other suppliers to meet the demand.
But that may just as well happen during the campaign as well. Just look at the succes of Kingdom Death: Monster. I’m eagerly waiting to see what happens with the already quite stretched out planning for delivery of that game and its supplements.
Surely this is no different to an unexpectedly successful kickstarter? Some limit them, most I’ve seen don’t. They’re happy to take our money. Late pledge away, I say!
Agreed to a point, but I think that the “additional benefit” is reasonably restricted to priority in receiving the goodies.
Not entirely sure that there is more risk anyway, since you can pull out of the kickstarter right until it finishes anyway. Further, I assume the companies make more money off the late pledges since kickstarter wouldn’t get their cut?
I’ve never felt cheated by late pledgers for a KS I backed. Honestly, a lot of measures to make early backers feel special just feels like punishing late backers arbitrarily. Sometimes, it is more detrimental to the company to do this (homogenizing orders is a lot less work when shipping time comes around). Also- late backers are a very small minority of backers (the vast majority of extra funds in a KS are due to current backers grabbing more add ons). I’ve several KS that tracked late backers- and it is never a large number. If backing for projects was… Read more »
Nice!
Happy weekend!
Gortisi and Teknes are best but Shael Han is growing on me. Nasier…I kind of use them for a demon cult in D&D.
I don’t have any Hadross.
Happy Weekend!
Happy Weekend and Happy Chinese New Year to all.
Happy weekend everyone!
The paint job on the mythic stuff LOVE IT!!!
@Warzan here’s a couple of 28mm modern lines for you.
http://eurekaminusa.com/collections/modern
http://www.empressminiatures.com/page10.htm
Enjoy!
Mythic can’t get here soon enough. Good show, looking forward to next week.
After seeing the minis in this weeks video and hearing about the ABS weapons… the wait for Mythic Battles is becoming even worse!
Gung hay fat choy! Love the textured roller, John and Justin. Great way to make one off base patterns.
These would be good for your table your looking for for Red Dawn.
http://eurekaminusa.com/collections/modern-soviets-28mm
That wrath of kings stuff looks amazing :O
After going through the whole thing I have to say I was pretty interested by the Eldar stuff they have been floating around the net for a little while the first shots were of them in a cabinet… Anyway what I am most interested about is the background around them, the way they are advancing the story without letting it all go. I also think it is a really interesting direction for the Eldar to go, rather than going here are the exodite models, and reinforcing them as space Elves they chose to do something different, a combination of the… Read more »
Excellent, more Mythic Battles! Is the given picture the actual painted Atlas? If so I desire it greatly. 😀
Great show guys, as always. And thank you for your coveragr of Mythic Battles, it’s gonna be a great game. The Atlas is personally my favourite of all the titans! And Justin – you really rocks!:-)
Always been interested in Wrath of Kings, so this looks promising
Happy weekend!
That Titan from Mythic Battles… wow! Massive and captures the feel of a Titan on the tabletop. Will get the plastic one from the KS, but well, you can never have enough Titans 🙂
Looking forward to the WoK-week!.
@warzan – Bloody hell, you look so young when you shave and comb your hair! 😀
Chrome cast has paid for itself thanks to being able to watch the weekender on a big screen instead of squinting on my phone. Makes my Saturday mornings. Thanks guys.
I love the idea of the upcoming boot camp. @warzan I do wish you would give us a little more lead time between date announcement and ticket availability. I would love to attend but will not be able to see if I have the dates free until Monday when I am back at work. Fingers crossed there are tickets left and once I know what’s on the horizon.
Wasn’t the date announced on XLBS last week?
My bad, sorry guys seems I missed the first couple of minutes last week. Don’t I feel a di…….
Happy weekend lots of shiny stuff. Am all over hobby BOWW (beasts of war weekend)
The mythic battles figures are looking great, I’m glad I pledged on it. I really like the mix of plastics for the weapons to avoid spear droop!
I backed Mythic Battles: Pantheon, initially on the strength of the superb demo game you guys did with Leo all those months ago but even more so on the basis of Leo and Jake’s constant detailed communication, the glorious minis, the team’s willingness to think about feedback and explanations of what and how things were going to happen. The KS Live sessions with Leo were stupendous and I know some of us loonies out here still want them to consider releasing a few of the minis in the BIG POSEIDON scale as display pieces. I also backed Conan and again,… Read more »
For Red Dawn I have to suggest that you have a look at FiveCore from Nordic Weasel Games.
Happy weekend! Never got too much into the WoK world or game but always been awarded of the game so really interested in this week coming up
Always great to Leo, can’t wait for my Kickstarter pledge 😀
I also love how they keep this alive throughout the year, it’s so refreshing to see that and even better that they are doing through BoW too 🙂 🙂
Warren meets mat – now you’ve said I love the idea of a curved game mat. Even thought if you made 2 half pipes (haven’t skated in years I’m sure that’s what they were called :-D) so you have flat in the middle then curves up either side but then… if you were to put a magnetic mat (made of the stuff like fridge magenta) ontop of those boards before you laid the mat down then put something that would stick to the magnetic strip under the base of the mini then you could get quite a harsh angle and… Read more »