Weekender: Ranking Up For Battle In The 9th Age!
December 15, 2018 by dracs
Welcome to The Weekender where we're getting stuck into some discussion on the future of Warhammer 40,000 and Age Of Sigmar plus learning all about The 9th Age and its ranked mass battle rules.
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In addition to that, we've also got Cad from 4Ground with us for this show so say hi!
4Ground Tease
We've had 4Ground with us all week filming some new content and we give you a teaser of some of the work they've been doing including World War 0 and their smaller scale terrain too!
Of course, they've also got Fabled Realms in the works and things are progressing well on that front.
The Future Of Warhammer 40,000 & Age Of Sigmar
We take a moment to suggest some cool ideas that we'd love to see explored in Warhammer 40,000 and Age Of Sigmar.
This includes the next step for the Imperium, potential invasions from Xenos forces and of course where things might go when it comes to the Mortal Realms and the potential for more adventures with the Stormcast Eternals.
News
We've got some cool news to discuss from this week...
- Harry Potter Characters - The Crouch family come to the range from Knight Models
- Star Wars: Destiny Convergence - A new booster box and starter sets are coming from Fantasy Flight Games
- Blackstone Fortress In Kill Team - Rules were released to use these miniatures in GW's skirmish game
What did you pick up from the news this week?
An Introduction To The 9th Age
We got to sit down with Artur from TMS to talk about The 9th Age, their plans, what they've been doing over the past few years and of course their Kickstarter project that looks to get you started with this community-led rule set.
Kickstarter
We have one Kickstarter for you today. Justin takes us through you might want to back the awesome Tainted Grail project from Awaken Realms.
Make sure to check out our Let's Play of the game that we popped out this week!
Competitions - Win A 6x4 Table Of 4Ground Dark Age Terrain + The 9th Age Pledges!
We've got an awesome competition for you this week alongside the folks from 4Ground which would be a perfect Christmas present for someone.
Also, the winner from last week has been announced over on our Prize Claim Centre. The winner was from Youtube and they got their hands on the Vigilus Defiant Campaign Book.
Have a great weekend!
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weekender time \o/
Another great giveaway from guys at 4ground, armies for 9th age also look interesting.
It’s the Weekend!
It’s going to be a cold one…
It would help if OTT didn’t keep bumping me out so I have to repeatedly log-in.
I ran in to the login issue as well … So I did go to bed
Happy Weekend! “Deus ex Eldar”, wonderful phrase 🙂 It is a question of when Slaanesh makes his/her/its return, which ought to be fiendishly great! Besides a buttload of cool new demons, I wish to see more Slaaneshi-influenced eldar/aelves.
the General Kenobi comes courtesy of Genndy’s Clone Wars cartoon and I for one am very happy about that. There were some stunning characters introduced in those series, shame they ended after 2 seasons.
I am missing the community spotlights though #sadpanda
Sorry Gerry, but it was 5 seasons, plus the Lost Missions which the producers seem to count as season 6.
There is another season to come on the Disney+ streaming app, I believe. Not sure where these will be available outside the US.
nope Genndy did 2, they were released between episode 2 and 3 and told the Clone Wars story, the last episodes story was the capture of Palaptine by Grevious and the last shot of the cartoon was the opening shot of Revenge of the Sith. They did put out a different series with the same name as the Clone Wars years later, but it wasn’t done by Genndy, or even in his style, and tragically wasn’t as good. But that’s life for you.
Thanks for the correction.
I presume that the Genndy series is no longer canon?
I imagine it still is, he introduced Ventress and linked the two prequel films. There’s nothing in it that wasn’t okayed by Lucas film. But then these days it’s almost impossible to keep a track on what’s canon and what isn’t. If you want to know what it was like someone has cut them all together into a 2 hour film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXmdfbjhxqw I can’t recommend it enough, beautifully done and his style from Samurai Jack really works for the action.
I’m checking that out today!
Weekender time……. didn’t realise that the 9th age was a thing… perhaps the Orcs need to come out of storage
come check out the-ninth-age.com !
all for the low cost of free.
What I would like to see in 40k? Imperial Guard needs new troops, as do Orks and Eldar. Leman Russ comes back and slaps his boys across the face for obsessing with wolves like mad. Vulkan comes back for some mad final battle with Chaos. Lion El’Johnson sleeps though the apocalypse, wonders why there’s no galaxy left and goes to nuke AoS from orbit. Twice. That’s about it, I guess. Oh, and an Inquisition codex.
and when Russ returns he better be the old bald Russ, with a respirator looking like Vader at the end of Jedi and not some long haired shit towering three times the size of Marines for no good reason.
I prefer the long haired version of Russ, the original Rogue Trader image was produced long before any of the chapters evolved their own unique trappings. However a Leman Russ coming back who looked older, more grizzled and perhaps sporting a slightly different hair style like something off the Vikings TV series would be pretty cool. I’m thinking Ragnar Lodbrok in Power Armour…
as long as he has his respirator, he did after all suffer massive damage in that acid rain storm on Susa, and to be fair his bionic eye and bald head…. nope I’m sticking with it, if they’re going to bring him back he needs to look like he did when he left. Just for once it would be nice if GW didn’t take a sky high dump on their own back story
Do you think at GW actually know what the back story is themselves?
these days I doubt it. But I can dream
Sanguinus shouldn’t return, Dante should be elevated to the New Primarch and he takes the name Sanguinus that would make it more interesting; 2nd edition lore about dante is he being commanding the chapter for 10k years
From discussion s elsewhere WW0 looks interesting. Do the bases indicate something similar to Blucher and Grand Armed where a base equals a brigade?.I am presuming the bases are saboted to allow for sliding scales to allow for smaller actions in the FIW or maybe the Jacobite rebellion to be run
3 videos coming for it, which will hopefully show it off a bit better, but it’s still a work in progress. Feedback from Tony, Garry and the others on Wednesday night meant that the game I played on friday had changes from the one on Tuesday. But here’s what I know right now, no saboting, each base represents 100 men, so for the Plains of Abraham I had 44 stands to account for the 4400 men. Unit sizes are based on the approximate numbers, so 3 stands of grenadiers but 6 for the Fraser highlanders. There will be a points… Read more »
Thanks Gerry
I was presuming on the sabots due to the 40*20 being on the bigger bases
I am guessing given the number of men represented per base that the European SYW battles are not the main focus of the ruleset as you would certainly need a lot of bases
It will certainly be interesting to see the videos though
no larger bases just the 20×30 that the minis are on.
I don’t see any reason not to play larger battles on the face of it. The system works well, it would just mean picking a different scale per base in the regiments, since it’s already an abstraction it wouldn’t make much of a difference.
True.Be interesting to see anyway
I agree looks interesting I will be interesting in getting my hands on the rules to see if they work well with my 6nn armies… As it seems a base is a 100 men then it should be easy to sort out a conversation.
Saturday is weekender time!!!
I would like to see 40K go back to some of the original lore and have a more story driven mission to the games, sort of a bridge between miniatures battle game and an rpg.
What would I like to see? OTT revisit the previous topics as the discussions have turned into us listening to you guys without mentioning community comments. In 40K – The Primarchs are coming, but what I really want is the lost Primarchs to return In AoS – The realms to be shown as areas on the Olde World map. As Sigmar conquers them, they return to ‘reality’. On 9th Age, I loved WHFB. but it’s gone. Dead. There’s better games and even better figures. If they ever rank up AoS then 9th Age is as dead as disco too. Possibly… Read more »
You aren’t tied to use models from one company with the 9th age and all rules are completely free.
Finding models what to use in the game is one of the best parts for me.
You can use AOS models too if you like. I have lots of sigmarines converted to warriors of the dark gods for example. 🙂
4Ground products are brilliant so getting a full table of it would be awesome
Tainted Grail looks ok but Justin needs to check out the fact that there seems to be a LOT of people saying they won’t back this as AR are two games behind on delivering pledges to them and they won’t give AR more money whilst that is still the case
In my opinion AR’s promises on delivery are not good enough for me to give them my money, and I cancelled my Edge pledge because of the repeated delays during the project
Yay for more 9th Age!
Thanks for the show guys!
That 4ground prize is just amazing!
Cheers!
“A Sam-shaped Gremlin”? Who got Sam wet then fed him after midnight?
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@dignity – so you want to see Johan from ‘Roll Models’ reforged into a Stormcast? ? Plot progression for AoS? Hmm, how about Archaon wakes up back in the Old World and all of AoS is just a dream? ? /joke Plot progression for 40k: exploring more Xenos sounds like a nice idea, maybe not a full blown codex, but rather a mini-dex of xenos mercenaries and the like highlighting the various lesser races mentioned in the fluff in passing. Other than that how about the return of the Squats? They’ve been brought back in the fluff and with Necromunda,… Read more »
I’d love to see a new Hive Fleet appear in the fluff, somewhere relevant and inconsiderate to the Imperium. Vigilus book two, for example? And maybe with a new plastic lord of war, like a Dominatrix at last?
Amazing prize, too. 4Ground are brilliant.
I don’t really know 40K that well but its always been in the background and I’ve absorbed some stuff, and researched other. Since your last weekender on 40k when Warren drummed home that the Imperium cannot survive (Which I already knew) I’ve been thinking about how that story ends, about what happens at midnight, and whats left of the universe and game at 12.02am? So the Imperium cannot survive. Does this mean that every last human is Chaos or dead? What about the Xenos? Are they all dead or Chaos too? Would Chaos rule the galaxy, row ould there end… Read more »
Great episode lads. I really enjoyed Artur’s pride and pleasure in his 9th Age minis. Having tried to start Bretonnians TWICE, the Knights of Aquitaine are definitely my favourites.
Weekender time again! Well age of sigmar lore… the have been something close to fallen stormcast, but not to chaos. In the novel Soul Wars (which is an awesome book) Nagash corrupts and play around with a soul from a stormcast, and ending up turning him to one of his servants. Its a really good read, and you will get some hints to some heroes from the world that was, who know is storm cast. So some of the stormcast souls being turned into a new unit or army for death could be cool. But destruction would be awesome with… Read more »
TMS is one of many making minis for 9th age – Artur is a big supporter but fireforge, Lost Kingdom, and Last Sword are all other mini companies that support the 9th age project in some form!
Rule of cool!
40k: Lion El Jonson comes back and has a huge ruckus with Gulliman, winning the final fight because Cypher distracts him with a cheeky stab in the jacksy. Russ returns, the Emperor wakes up and tells him he’s adopted.
AoS: Emperor Karl Franz is in the shower. The End Times and AoS was all a bad dream. Everyone returns to their square bases and units of 50 models 😀
Well done Cad, you came across really well in this episode – you were definitely in your comfort zone for these subjects! Your idea with the Tau-ionised Space Marine is a great idea and worth exploring.
I agree that the Guard need some new sculpts, perhaps the Vigilus regiments will be introduced as the new base set, given that Cadia is no more. As a Dark Angels player, although more in line with the Fallen, I would like to see Lion back with an apology. I’ve always seen this, since reading the referenced story, as both side being manipulated by the forces of chaos but both being resistant enough to not fall fully, but too proud to admit to each other that they were wrong. As for where Lion is better ask Cypher after all he… Read more »
those terrain look awesome
Happy Weekend 🙂