VLOG: Gearing Up For The Battle Of Hoth At Salute 2015!
February 18, 2015 by warzan
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It’s going to be legen, I hope you’re not lactose intolerant because the second part of that word is dairy! Seriously I think this will look awesome once it’s all done
lol
What’s behind the main hall screens?
Unless you’re 100% sure that you can fit all three games in, I wouldn’t take bookings for the final one and would just leave it first come, first served.
That my dear sir is a very very good point!
I really like the vlog. nice one guys! looking fwd Salute
PEW PEW!! Like my application said 😉
GENERAL VEERS! Prepare your men!
The First Transport is away, the first transport is away!!!
I approve of all the Star Wars goodness! I didn’t want to commit to the game designer challenge since this is my first Salute and I didn’t want to ‘miss it’ as it were, but it seems like the game will be in good hands!
@Warzan I don’t have any ‘spare’ Star Wars stuff but if you let me know what you need, I will see if I can source some of it for you. More Star Wars content for the win!
Hmm.. on that topic I was going to look into writing some Imperial Assault scenarios..
Mate send me an email as me and you definitely need to talk. 🙂
@warzan – @siygess is definitely your man here. We were talking back during my Star Wars articles and not only does he have an intense knowledge of the ‘verse, but he’s run (and I think designed) lots of Star Wars themed tactical wargames as well. 🙂
Hey I will be at Salute (my fist one! Yeaha!) but I won’t have the time to join a full game because I and some friends will run our own table (Look for some Battle Star Galactic action 😉 ). But I definitely pay you a visit or two! The Idea with the 3 different but interlinked game systems sounds just awesome! And by the way… we had dinosaurs in an earlier vlog that “we should not have seen” and now they are standing right next to some WW2 minis… Reminds me of this trailer for that one sequel of… Read more »
Not a big fan of Star wars games but will probably check it out at Salute. In terms of parti games, definitely do first come first served booking does not work too well…gamers totally unreliable lot…hahs
Cracking vlog gents, good luck with the Hoth table, I’ll look forward to seeing it at Salute 🙂
I’ll be at my first Salute with my boy (age 5). Would love to play the Hoth game with him. If it’s anything like my old Star wars toys though I fear the empire would not survive his attentions 🙂
I think it’s a great idea to glue them up and paint them, I’ll do that with mine once he finishes with them.
the 501st were Darth Vaders own personal regiment of stormtroopers, not sure if they were the regiment that attacked hoth or not, possibly
the table looks as if it will be good, @warzan if you cant get Fury (Kelly’s hero’s) as a plan B I don’t think you will get any complaints.
cheers guys I would do sigh up for fiirst game and see how long this takes, then or sign ups or first serve.
Okay, I finally got a chance to watch this all the way through. Laugh-out-loud moment, literally dabbing a tear from my eye (7:40):
“Tom-tom is a satellite navigation system. A Tauntaun is a weird kind of . . . camel-chicken . . .”
Epic. 😀 😀 😀
CAMEL CHIKENSSSS…..RIIIIIIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still reckon the best ATAT scene ever, is the one from robot chicken…
@warzan google “ice boulder fields” it’s something we have on earth, so not hard to think they would have them on hoth.
Certainly more interesting than a flat board.
Also @Warzan there has been mention of tundras on Hoth, however one has never been depicted. Everything we have ever seen is icy plains with no vegetation whatsoever. Tundras would be interesting as they have many varieties of low vegetation such as grasses.
that is more a ocean thing with two plates bracking over each other? @deaddave
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=sea+ice+ridges&qpvt=sea+ice+ridges&FORM=IGRE#view=detail&id=3B2ABA88388B8787D1A579348DEC077301DE6E0C&selectedIndex=2
I just picked the first image that came up on ice boulder fields, was big, icey and blue lol
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ice+boulder+field&prmd=ivns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=–zmVMzMBaKv7Aa-hoC4Bg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#
Lol I think I know what you were thinking of the rock that glaciers drop as they retreat (Erratic boulders)?
http://www.oceanlight.com/stock-photo/glacial-erratic-boulder-photo-23264-700194.jpg
http://tedmuller.us/Outdoor/Hiking/2009/2009img/Sep16/Boulders.jpg
Like these pictures? Yes / no @deaddave
You could have General Veers mounted in the cockpit like in the movie and have Vader with his storm troopers in the troop carrier part.
Also, Paint the Emperor Class AT-AT black, just do it, it would look awesome to have a huge black AT-AT towering over the rest. I don’t even care if it is canon or not but it will look awesome!
I quite like the idea of painting it black
Mmmmmm
There is a black variant of the ATAT, its called the Veteran ATAT.
Correction, the Elite AT-AT
http://www.star-wars-commander.com/en/h/Elite-AT-AT
@deaddave @warzan Well there you have it! Paint it black!
It should also make a great center piece for the Imperials instead of everything being white and grey.
Will be at Salute this year so looking forward to seeing (maybe playing?), this….
If your poly carving that landscape get yourselves some soft wire brushes to use after the hot wire/before the sand paper, they’re like sculpting tools for poly!
Thinking about that central area, you want to keep it flat for the AT AT’s but have some intrest. How about a snow covered crater field? You could either use existing crater models painted and textured or make them out of poly sheets with a heat gun!
I can see the cameraman reflection in the window 😛
Really looking forward to the Wild West Exodus Week. I will have to pop around and take a look at the Star Wars table at Salute as it should be very impressive. Myself and a few other from Chesterfield Realms Of War will be running demo games of Wild West Exodus at Salute. It’s our first time there and we are all very excited for a great day.
how about some very ligth blue to break up the white?
Personally, I don’t think there’d be anything wrong with leaving the third board plain white. You’re going to have the the models to draw the eye. Perhaps you could do some frozen corpses, bits of broken speeder / AT-AT, etc. Some little vignettes? Anyway, the main point I wanted to make is that if you take bookings, you should leave some empty spaces for people to just turn up. Especially kids. It probably isn’t the vibe you’re going for to have what could turn out to be a BoW private game (thanks to members having booked all the slots) rather… Read more »