The Weekender: Dungeon Saga, Icestorm and Our Kickstarter Picks!
August 2, 2014 by dignity
Welcome to your weekly dose of Weekender fun! In this show, the guys are having a chinwag about the new Dungeon Saga game coming out of Mantic.
The fantastic Four Levels of Wargaming series has came to an end, and we find out what's happening next. Then, the crew pick out a few of the kick ass Kickstarters that are running at the moment, before Warren rounds out the show chatting with two veteran Infinity players about what they have thought of the new Operation: Icestorm box.
Also, be sure to stay tuned as we have one last little surprise vid that should be coming out later today!
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Welcome back @warzan !
An-tip-oh-dees. It’s Greek and has a long “e” sound at the end.
Just to (probably unnecessarily) clarify, the long “e” sound is in the English pronunciation, not the Greek.
Thanks @redben – as usual you send me heading for google!
For anyone interested.
“antipodes” – two points on the surface of the earth diametrically opposite each other.
What a brilliant word to be applied to a lycanthrope!
In Greek it literally means “opposite feet” 🙂
In infinity it literally means “bite your face off”, but over the years meanings can change. 😛
Poor @warzan and his tireless and cheerful struggles with pronunciation. Kudos for nailing “Oriskany” this week, though! 🙂
Preordered my copy of Operation Icestorm!
More infinity, all the time please
Nice show guys Not really interested in infinity so skipped that bit Nice to see a copy of Campaign, still have it in the loft somewhere used to play it with my brother when I was about 10 Looking foward to the articles on the Pacific, again as Warren says much ignored,even during the War the forces regarded themselves as the forgotten army. I think it ignored a bit here in the UK as the British screwed the whole theatre up so badly I am sure our Australian friends here will be glad to see it get a mention ,… Read more »
screwed up is a tad harsh, if it wasn’t for the oil embargo there’s every chance Japan might have contained themselves to China Easy to forget that Britain and Japan had pretty cordial relations for much of the early 20th century, we were allies in the first world war (Japanese navy provided escorts for Australian convoys to Egypt, they single handedly wiped out the German pacific fleet, took all Germany’s far eastern colonies) even if Versailles didn’t recognise their contributions it wasn’t until the coup and the increasing economic conflict with the US in China that really soured relations Half… Read more »
I was refering to the British and the Dutch and FRench underestimating the Japanese forces in the area especially the naval aspect
Great irony is that the European powers were actually sympathetic to Japan’s need to build up the navy as a counter balance to the growing American threat in the pacific… Same old balance of power politics… Interesting thing to note however, after the fall of France and the Netherlands, the Vichy and the NSB collaborators allied with the Japanese so a lot of joint administration in the colonies that fell, only in Thailand and the British colonies where Japanese military rule was absolute, Vietnam for example, still had French colonial troops suppressing the Vietnamese communists whilst Saigon was being used… Read more »
A friend of mines dad was working at Harland and Wolff at the time and in1939 had Japanese shipbuilders over looking at British methods of building ships. The day was was declared on Germany they disappeared taking a lot of blueprints with them
Sounds like a good plan 😉
Well said. Battle of Java Sea, anyone? 🙂
Regarding Campaign: “Ancient battered box” almost always = “Awesome Wargame.” 🙂
Augh . . . that was supposed to appear beneath @torros ‘ comment regarding British, Dutch, and French underestimation of Japanese naval capabilities at the outset of the Pacific War.
Yep, glad it is getting a mention. The pacific theatre had some classic battles, like Kokoda where a small group of poorly trained men with bugger all supplies and support needed to delay the Japanese long enough to allow preparation and reinforcement. The fact they did better and ground the Japanese to a halt was a miracle. the Battles of the pacific were not the grand face-offs of Europe but far more strategic in nature. I have a little family history in these theatres, and many of the troops did feel truly forgotten. An uncle after surviving the pacific war… Read more »
Oh and why is Justin wearing a tin foil nipple on his head?
Lol, great episode, love the hats, makes justs head look like a milk chocolate hersheys kiss!
Dammit! *Justins!!!!!!!
Thanks for O:I Week, I’ve really enjoyed the content. An irregular series of game reports would be great, though. Until now I failed to grasp anything beyond the basic concepts, because the amount of rules IS intimidating if you have to start on your own (and I’ll have to recruit new players myself). Added to that, actually I’m drawn to Infinity more by its aesthetics rather than the gameplay. This is where the game shines – or it should be. Therefore, as much as I like the ‘functional’ terrain that’s already around, tips on creating your own Infinity-ready table would… Read more »
What are the Models made of in Dungeon Saga?
The cool plastic sprue to build them on your one or the cheap china plastic?
I suspect they’ll be either one-piece or pre-assembled.
Nice weekender as always. But why does infinity week has to end, we need more info coming to do waiting for the Operation storm box easier.
So much going on… need to retire to do it all!
A trip down memory lane. I had friend who bought that campaign game when it came out. I’ve played it a few times and completely forgotten all about it.
I guess he means Firestorm Market Garden 🙂
Didn’t take those Republic Commando books with you? For shame, Warren 😉
As for the Pacific theater I think it would lend itself really well to campaign play because there are very distinct territories to fight over (i.e. islands) and there is greater scope for all-aspect warfare on both sides.
Northern China, massed tank and cavalry formations (no comparison to Europe but still there) fighting over the steppe, island hopping, the estuaries of the Mekong Delta, the mountains of Burma, Thailand and northern Vietnam, street fighting in Bangkok, Manilla, Saigon, Hue – alternate history, you could do the Invasion of the Japanese Home Islands (all planned for but never enacted, make for an awesome campaign…) Much maligned theatre @siyess , not that it should be so!
Man, this discussion is getting started already! Great comments from @biddave , @siygess , @torros , and @rickoshea . (Apologies, I can’t seem to get the right replies appearing beneath the right posts up above). Not to give too much away, but YES . . . the first thing I realized writing these articles is that we’d have to divide it up into a series of “areas.” Between the Manchurian battles between the Soviets and Japanese (1938, 39, and 45 . . . 45 was pretty huge), the China-Burma-India theater, the Southwest Pacific theater, the Central Pacific, the naval operations… Read more »
Thanks for the Operation Icestorm week. Id only glanced at Infinity before and the huge amount of models and stories of many rules and sniper domination put me off. Seeing the game play and the new models has really changed my opinion Starter set pre-ordered.
Thanks
hi warren glad your back ,finally signed up to beast of war this week loving the tutorials sent in daily emails .like the infinity week but will you be doing something similar for avp has that really is looking awesome cheers daz
A great Weekender, brilliant to have two Infinity veterans on board to hear their first thoughts on the starter – definitely need them back after they have given 3.0 a thrashing! 🙂
remember 4th Aug is the centenary of the start of WW1 and for a game in the Pacific, the Kokoda track is one campaign I would love to see a game representation of.
http://kokoda.commemoration.gov.au
Love the hats
great to see Warren back at the helm…can’t wait for dungeon saga thou
I’ve managed to pick up one of the 50 Gates of Antares alpha rules. Nice booklet, I even managed to get Rick to sign it at the Warlord open day.
Liked the infinity bit very much.
Can we have not only more Infinity battle reps but also more discussion vids. I’m a newbie to infinity and learn a lot from both types of vid.
Also how about some ‘know you enemy’ type vids, were your tell us how best to use different models and attributes and how best to take them out.
I’m actually backing Armymals! I like the kind of humour involved and the simplicity of the rules. I think it might be a great entry way into wargaming actually (partly because of the fluffyness). 😉 Oh! And I really enjoyed Operation: Icestorm Week! I can’t wait to see the third edition rulebook “in the flesh”! One of my friend plays a preta list… It IS a one hit wonder. Most of the time, when this walking time bomb has been taken care of, there’s not much left in his list causing me trouble… But yeah… I can’t do any error… Read more »
Armymals is looking better and better. Loved the promo video.
“Hexy is Sexy!”
Never forget it!
Keep up the good works fellas ;0)
On the fence with Dungeon Saga. Right now I can get Descent 2 which is an amazing dungeon crawl with expansions coming out all the time from Fantasy Flight Games. You have one person controlling the monsters, and the other players are the heroes. Or .. I could play any of the Wizards of the Coasts games: Castle Ravencroft, Wrath of Ashardalon, or the Legend of Drizzt … set in the D&D universe and everyone is playing against the Dungeon, and the Dungeon’s ‘AI’ brings on the battle Then there’s Mice and Mystics .. mice .. great story .. great… Read more »
My clicky finger is really twitching for Demigods! Seems an awesome amount lf great quality items for just $110!!! :O
@Warzan
I feel we need more Killian, as he sums everything up so elegantly. Will he be involved in other gamesmor is Killian a sole Infinity player?
Have to agree, Killian has been a revelation.
Agreed! 🙂
There isn’t ever enough infinity content, right?