Beasts of War Website Updates
January 7, 2015 by warzan
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Looking forward to seeing how the crew enjoys Gen Con.
I’m looking forward to seeing vlog videos of @Warzan on the flight to the US.
I’m guessing they’ll dose him with a tranquilizer and ship him in a crate marked Beast.
or spike the milk?
“I ain’t gettin on no plane”.
Love these little Vlogs, hoping these becoming a regular part of the schedule.
seconded
Hard work this 21st century media.
Happy New Year and live long and prosper.
Now what was more painful Warren steeling your sweets or Lloyd scrapping all your video Justin?
the sweets, i can always re-film stuff, but when my sweets are eaten im hardly gona break out the tools to reclaim them 🙂
yes that could end badly for every one.
Thank you so much!
In front of me are three Thunderwolves I primed yesterday and I wanted to start painting them. No I can watch some tutorials 😀
i do like the vlogs
Ok, so where do I turn off ads?
I found this
http://www.beastsofwar.com/backstage-promo/disable-banner-ads/
Basically go to profile,edit profile then account settings.
cheers
Good luck with the fit club @Warzan
Hope the update goes well for you gents!
Whoa, what’s this about @warzan coming over to the US for GenCon? Was this mentioned in a previous video or are some of the guys having a little fun with me?
Hey Warzan, I cought on what you said about fit club. From what works for me, don’t have carbs after lunch. Just some lean meat and veggies (pref salad). These days I try to not have any carbs after breakfast, as I only go to gym in the mornings.
Oh, something I was going to add to the XLBS thread but I might as well do it here.. the next Pathfinder Adventure Card game from Paizo is due out in May, so you may want to do something with (and give away) the first two sets before then.. otherwise they will be old hat 😉
Speaking of GenCon, Warren, how’s the costume coming along? 😉
C’mon Warren, make yourself some trashcan Beskar’gam. You know you want to 😉
Once again a great vlog, I can see that you guys are going to make 2015 even better than 2014, which was fantastic!!
@warzan Happy New Year! Two things I’ve thought of I’d like to see you do. Firstly, I’d like you to organise archived content somehow… I guess you do this by tags? It would be great if you could simply publish a list of what tags you use. If we know what exists, we’re more likely to be able to find old content of interest. Secondly, I’d like to have a regular (doesn’t have to be very often, but would ideally be pretty regular) feature on international gaming events. You could say that an events calendar is something that some wargames… Read more »
I rather enjoy the ads, they pertain to what i’m into. I would love to see you guys make it so you can post comments on the videos with out them starting over. (maybe it only happens to me?)
Happy to hear about the bolt action content coming up!
Me too! I’ve often started to write something while watching a weekender, and then either reloaded the video by accident, or decided to wait until the end.
Urgh, likewise.. I do that just about every weekender 😀
I tend to have it on in two tabs. One to watch and the other to comment.
Exactly. Same here.
I watch through my tv and comment using my phone.
Thanks for the vlog. Always interesting to see what you guys are up to. I am still hoping to hit Gen-con this year. I was thinking of new content ideas and don’t know if mine was mentioned already, there were a ton of posts by the time I got to sit down and watch xlbs and didn’t scroll them all, so here it is. How about a couple times a year, maybe once a quarter, you did a retro-game. Show some of the newer generations where their games evolved from. There was a lot of talk about the Heroquest reboot,… Read more »
That’s a great idea! It would be cool to have an edited video highlights of a game of the original Heroquest, another of a modern incarnation, and then get the thoughts of the players and the GM on the two. Get them to compare the mechanics, the setting, the miniatures… and the games themselves, saying which bits were the most fun of both of them.
Another idea I’d be interested in seeing done is comparing two different systems’ take on a subject. So, get someone who knows the rules to run battle based on Monte Casino, for example in Bolt Action, and then someone who knows Chain Of Command to run a similar battle using the other rules. Sort of like two Games Mastered games, with the same players but different GMs. The idea wouldn’t be to run 2 identical games with different rules, but to invite the 2 GMs to showcase the rules. So that the players can give their thoughts on both, and… Read more »
One thing that will be great to see someday is async loading of the page using some frontend framework, browsing the site will be way more faster and since we will have the tags i’m sure people will like to change between sections. The main reason for it is that i tend to want to comment inmediatly when we heard something or while the video is running, is annoying that the submit button produce a full reload of the page just for sending the comment. I suggest you trying Angular.js just for the comments section, that will allow async loading… Read more »
When you only order bubble wrap, what does it arrive packed in? 🙂
I didn’t know you could turn off the adverts, you learn something new everyday.
Bolt Action mini-series = music to my ears!
Bolt Action series sounds nice. I’m still not completely sold on the game after a few introduction sessions. Maybe I missed something.
Nice tip about the ads, didn’t know that.
German language fun fact number 3003: Pomegranate in German is “Granatapfel”, which would translate back (word for word) to “Grenade-Apple”. Always cracks me up.
Pomegranate in French _is_ “Grenade”.
Awesome!
Good news on the packaging for the prizes. Can’t wait to get that Open Fire set.
Why doesn’t your Servitor ever speak?
I wondered what all the white spaces were about; I thought it had to be some maintenance going on, that or BoW has gone crazy. 😀