Weekender: WIN Two-Player Battlegroup Bundle + The Drowned Earth; New Game Coming Soon!
May 1, 2020 by crew
Today on The Weekender! We dive into a NEW game set within the world of The Drowned Earth, check out some sterling Oldhammer-style models from Diehard Miniatures and talk more tabletop news!
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As always, make sure to dive into the comments and tell us all of your thoughts about the show this week and what we chat about!
Updates - 2:27
First off, a few bits of news to round-up from the week which you might want to go and check out
UK Games Expo 2020 Cancelled
NORTHAG & Mortem et Gloriam Weekend
Make sure to drop in over the weekend and watch a bunch of new content for both of these games which span thousands of years of history.
Indie Of The Week - 11:37
This time around we're looking at some work by Tim Prow and Diehard Miniatures.
Diehard Miniatures Webstore
Make sure to head on over and dive into their library of awesome models as we did. We nearly got lost!
News - 23:49
Here is some of the news this week which caught our eye and made us go "ooooh!"
- GW Opening Their Webstore - What do you think of their new lockdown switch-up?
- Brutal Cities Terrain - A great new range of Sci-Fi terrain available this weekend
- Asterian Spectra - A pretty fantastic looking new model from Mantic Games
- Brother Vinni Dark Age - Will these warriors be leading the way?
- Raging Heroes Patreon - Some new spiderific additions to their Patreon in May
- Raging Heroes Q&A - Come and get the lowdown on what's coming soon
- Alien RPG Starter Set - In space, no-one can hear you scream!
Let us know if something from this week made you "oooh!" and if we missed anything!
The Drowned Earth - New Game; Ulaya Chronicles - 51:18
We also got to sit down and chat with the mind behind The Drowned Earth about what's coming next including the new game which is Ulaya Chronicles.
Ulaya Chronicles Kickstarter
Set in the same world, this is a new board game which can be played solo or with up to four players. Make sure to keep an eye out next week for lots more The Drowned Earth content.
Kickstarter - 1:18:46
Time to check out what's new in the Kickstarter world right now
- Instant Colours - A new range of awesome looking colours for painters?
- Barons' War II - Some excellent new Medieval figures for you to battle with on the tabletop
Make sure to check out these new projects and tell us what you make of them.
3D Printing Is The S**T - 1:37:32
As well as the updates there, we also have a special download from the team at Printable Scenery
Download The 3D Printable Billboard Kit
You can give this a download and then check out their new Kickstarter too.
Brave New Worlds
Make sure to check out all of this tabletop goodness and have a great weekend of gaming fun.
Have a great weekend and stay safe!
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Hi all, please measure the size of the 15 mm figures and if Warzan is not pulling your string you might test one figure to distruction. We like destruction and also evaluate metal v plastic.
Happy weekender !! Those Drowned Earth minis look sweet
happy weekender peoples.
Very excited for NORTHAG!
Another great show. Looking forward to seeing how MEG plays out on the table – if I do think 15mm ancients are the way forward, any army I decide to buy will be based on how simple they are to paint.
I do think that small scale Historical battles work very nicely indeed – good for that epic scale.
So nothing with tartan then @robert
Celts are definitely out, and Persians!
It will just be like painting 10mm
Great episode as usual,
Great timing for waking up early down under.
I love those Diehard minis, the sci-fi range have that 80s tv show feel to them. And maybe the best skellie range available (assuming you want something ‘normal’).
The skeletons do look rather epic!
3d laser printing is sweet!!!
I was wondering if their is any Mac, Blain, Billy, Hawkins, an Poncho. to get the full squad?
Alas no.
But a few weeks ago we saw them in studio miniatures range
Shame but no doubt a long tinternet search could have some close substitute figures?
not in the GW scale and proportions, closest would be Hasslefree and they still look very tiny. If it’s a full squad you are after I would skip the GW and just get Studio Miniatures https://www.studiominiatures.com/shop/turf-war-z/us-spec-ops-kill-team-487.html
Nice easy option.
may be fun scratch building some but?
Happy Weekender Everyone!
I’ve been fighting through a massive toothache all day and one of the things that helped me get through the workday was remembering that there is a Hobby Show of Goodness coming out this afternoon. Yah…..I made it!
I’m very much looking forward to NORTHAG!
Diehard Miniatures has some minis that remind me of an old comic that I used to collect, “Alien Legion”, pretty kicka$$.
A very happy Friday to you all and to all a very happy Weekender, I hope this finds you all Grand and all staying safe. Another cracking show. Joined my very first Patreon yesterday to help support the very talented Alex and his continuing expansion of Arcworlde. Anyone looking to get into this game should check it out https://www.patreon.com/warploqueminiatures There’s some cracking 3D prints on offer, including 10% off orders.
Great to see Alex has launched his Patreon too – some great stuff on there.
I would really love to get into 3d printing. My uncle has done some really awesome stuff with his for his DND campaign.
Ben’s looking a wee bit gangsta today
Helps to tame the unruly hair from lockdown haha
That was a hat?
I thought it was your hair!
the new paints are looking good ill see what John and or Romain does a video on them first never used paints like that before.
love the show.
I’m sure we’ll have a video on them when they come out. Need to find out what works best!
They do look good but so do the other set from various companies and seeing what professional painters think about them will help individuals and myself decide what paints to go for.
Ben looks like a nun
A nun?!?
Brilliant show guys.
Just an idea for Indy of the Week, can you put all these on a separate page or section so it builds up each week into a library of those Indy’s chosen with links to the website for them and a brief outline of what they do etc.
I shall suggest it to the brothers that be, or the powers that control us…whichever 😉
That sounds like a pretty good plan!
Looking foward to this weekend
So excited for Northag!! 😀
I swear that first pic of the brutal cities could be a screen shot straight from X-COM. The more important thing….Does the Northag starter have suitable Vinnie Jones commander figure ????
Looking forward to Northag and your weekend feature to the rules and minis.
Sorry I’m late – just realised it’s the Weekend… it is isn’t it? Please tell me it is! You’re not messing with us by posting even earlier like on a Thursday or anything?
I posted on a wintergatan video that it helped me realise when we hit Wednesday.. someone told me they’d posted it on Tuesday as a bonus. My week was wankered
Got an email yesterday. That Brutal Cities terrain is up, and it’s looking very tempting even with shipping all the way from Oz!
https://brutalcities.com/collections/all
As for Brother Vinni’s Saga offering… a fully Lagertha led Maiden army complete with berserkers is now possible… just don’t let your shield down as their ‘ninnies’ bear down on you!
Must admit looking forwards to see how NORTHAG pans out. I’ve been disappointed with Team Yankee, not because of the game, but because “how” the playerbase ended up playing (ie no infantry, and walls of top tier tanks, and to an extent the same thing happened with Flames of War. Again not Battlefront at fault, but the playerbase).
Hopefully we will not see the same happen with NORTHAG, and we actually see reasonable ToEs and ORBATS being used 🙂
I would say the scenarios need to be set so ONLY infantry can take objectives and too many tanks cause a negative effect for the player over using them.
Of course, we all know that Tanks sell and most folks want hardware on the table. So i guess it’ll come down to pick your opponent carefully. If someone is playing in a fashion you don’t care for, just decline the match. I know that that won’t work for a tournament but I don’t play tournaments much.
Yup, I think it’s as Gerry would say “People are the worst”. Problem with Team Yankee/Flames of War is the organisational charts allow players to field an all tank army. Is it unhistorical? You betcha….and that’s why lots of players do it I think (are Wargamers mostly contractarians?). I actually got a Dutch Army for Team Yankee (went with Leo 1s and M113s plus support elements), and was basically laughed of the table by the “tourney” players for fielding “ineffective infantry”. Couldn’t believe it when I heard that one. Alas it seems to be a thing went a manufacturer “pushes”… Read more »
Interview with the writer tomorrow at 10 you will be very happy I think…and maybe shocked
Since Flames of War v4 came out Infantry have come into their own and you see more of it on the table, not just dug-in around objectives but also leading assaults. I’m hoping the latest WW3:TY version (previously TY:WW3) has the same effect.
Still interested to see what NORTHAG has to offer though gamewise at both 10mm and 15mm.
I think 10mm modern is a great scale and really look forward to playing Northag. The new starter sets look very nice.
happy weekender!