The Weekender: 40k Campaign Final Preparations & Demigods Review!
August 23, 2014 by lloyd
It's Saturday and that means it's time for The Weekender! As the title suggests we're going to be running through the ideas for our Warhammer 40,000 Campaign which featured in a Vlog for Backstagers earlier in the week.
As well as that we're talking Gen Con Highlights, the awesome Sons of Anarchy board game and also giving you our review of the Demigods Rising game that's currently entering it's final few days on Kickstarter.
We also have some neat news about Hasbro and how they're now embracing the world of 3D printing. All very exciting!
Have a great weekend of gaming!
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So cool many thanks a great start to my weekend
Oh sorry forgot to say ….gone a bit dungeon mad this week with Mantic and Battlesystem on Kickstarter but shush don’t tell her indoors :)))
Damn she saw me typing and now she has demanded the equivalent cost in shoes !!!!!!!
Lol Busted! 😉
Woo, 40k!
@warzan your “technology finds a way” quote reminded me of Jurassic Park lol
@deaddave I think it’s time to talk about Nano Technology on the show again 😉
Great episode. With 40k, the group I played with only did narrative games. We had house rules to advance our groups, almost like Necromunda. I had 1 marine that lived through 14 years worth of games. Looking forward to see tomorrows episode.
Heavy Gear Blitz had a nice mission system where each unit type would have objectives pulled from different lists. You could do something similar with your 40k mission cards. For example Fast Attack units might get scouting objectives. Elite units would get harder objectives while Troops would get easier objectives. Basically you come up with slightly different objectives for Fast Attack, Elite, Troop, and Heavy. Not only does this add some variety based on your army list choices but it helps balance games between different army types. Small elite armies would have fewer and harder missions but worth more VPs… Read more »
Saturday Morning – bring it on!
5~6 years ago I ws asking GW…
– “Where’s your online forums?”
– “Where’s your online store forum / table booker / campaign manager?”
– “Where’s your online army list builder?”
– “Where’s your ‘click to buy’ from your army list builder?”
– “Where’s your whole f*$king digital strategy???”
So they eventually got around to setting up facebook pages for each store…
Re Mission/Battle objectives: How about “first to 5/7 VP wins!”… sod the “how many turns (yawn) have we had?”
Love the ASDF shirt Lloyd;)
@davoid001, thanks, I have the other half to thank for it. I thought it was cool to 🙂
@warzan You mentioned that having different tactical objective for each race would be a good idea, GW have released race specific tactical objectives with the new 7th ed codexes that really fit with that races/armies style and background.
I think the quote Warren was looking for goes ‘Confucius says, man with hands in pockets and smile on face feeling cocky all day long’.
“Tom Kirby! Your talking out your arse! !!!”
Classic.
I may have missed it but for your 40k campaign are you running bound or unbound armies?
Games workshop seem to have their fingers in their ears going “la la la”. Haven’t touched their stuff in years.
And the band played on.
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Loyd is correct. No way we will see a Deathstar…
The scales are already way off in X-Wing between the large and small ships. I don’t see any reason why FFG wouldn’t do a Death Star for Armada.
Well the way we have it figured if they do a Death Start it will be like a Hemisphere. Since this is a battle of capital ships.
I’d just buy the Lego version….
“Narrative in a Box” by the team at Beasts of War. 🙂 Sounds like a great product. Get going!
I didn’t feel like no kung fu master by the Saturday evening. That said, I’m tempted to sack off the PhD and apply for the BoW apprenticeship just so I can get out there again next year lol
*by the Saturday evening 🙂
Great show guys. I guess we need to send a package of American food to Justin ( @dignity ) so he can experience it and prepare before coming over.
Shapeways is a great place to get part’s to customize your Transformers with things like fully poseable hands for various size classes of the toys. You can find weapons, vehicles and even miniature parts for your favorite games. You yourself if you have any 3d training can make anything you want and get it printed out and sent to you.
Right now there are a ton of Transformers customizers that are using Shapeways to 3d print parts they just couldn’t get out any other way.
By the way, you were talking about Hero Forge for printing out custom designed miniatures from a program. They partnered up with Shapeways I do believe to produce those miniatures.
Hey Justin ( @dignity ), thanks for the mention at 15:15! 🙂 From the looks of it (I’d have to see the demo game first), you’d be exactly correct, where game pieces (at least for fighters) now represent a pair or 2, a four-plane element, squadron of 12, or what have you . . . instead of a single craft like they obviously do in X-Wing. This allows the game to expand outward to include the larger capital ships and resolve larger battles such as . . . ** the Imperial assault on Hoth in Episode V? ** the Rebel… Read more »
Great show as usual fellas. Warren, I think you’re absolutely right, game companies are gonna hit some rough waters unless they embrace new tech as it comes and try to channel folks rather than block them outright.
Great show guys, I def agree on the whole Kirby in denial thing. The maelstrom missions are great and you don’t need the cards there is a table in book, also there is six ways to play them you can actually roll to see which way. Also you talked about how you could do them yourself for the different factions, which you could do but GW has done it already for the codexes that have come out in 7th, if you noticed that each one has been released with a set of psychic power cards well theres also maelstrom mission… Read more »
hi guys I have really got into the beast of wars stuff lately.so much so that I have know become a backstage member looking forward to following you through this great journey lol
@trojan, great to here it, thanks for the support 🙂
Great video. I like the looks of demigods rising, although i don’t do kickstarter, but I will keep an eye out for it at my local shop if its ever released to general sale. The mission cards are one of the few things I thought were good about 7th, although the whole unbound business kind of outweighed any positives as far as I can see. I havent bought it simply because another £80 or so – rules and codex for at least one army- less than 2 years after i spent that much on rules for the same game, is… Read more »
I would have posted earlier but the doctor was in.
That game looks good best of luck to the winner.
That’s the I P GW should have?
The 3D lathes are still used to make the small blades inside jet engines because that’s the only way to make them from a single mettle alloy grown crystal.
Looks good the way GW are going with 40K now next the price reductions LOL.