The Weekender: Superheroes, Kings Of War & Memoir ’44
November 9, 2013 by brennon
Video Sponsors: Battle Foam - Warmachine
We're back with another Weekender and it's been very busy with Kings of War Week 2013 and plenty of other goings on over the past two weeks. It's also time to chat superheroes from X-Men and Avengers as well as Knight Models and their expanding range into Middle-Earth and maybe more.
As well as that we have a big thank you for all the support, prizes are on the way and adding to the team slowly but surely. It also wouldn't be a Weekender without a game of the weekend and this time it's Memoir '44!
On top of that you can also win yourself a Plastik Krak Companion Skull! If you're a Backstager you can win one in there too!
Links:-
Kings of War
//www.beastsofwar.com/kings-of-war/kings-of-war-week-2013/
X-Men: Days of Future Past
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_Days_of_Future_Past
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK2zYHWDZKo
Avengers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bFZJ-3zNFg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLWsK1ZFunA
Knight Models
http://www.knightmodels.com/nueva/
Ex illis Returns to Kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/672225583/ex-illis
Memoir '44
http://www.daysofwonder.com/memoir44/en/
Happy weekend!
Swish, a weekender. All I need now is my cherry pepsi max and skittles and I’m sorted. Cheers guys.
I’ve been playing a lot of xcom lately and was wondering if you could modify it to play a kind of xcom board game using Deadzone. You have a grid based game, uber soldiers, a lot of cover, objectives, character progression, and if you chuck in some mars attacks stuff you got aliens.
Deadzone could be a great engine to run it on the tabletop. mmmmm I might have to give that a go!
Reading the rules of deadzone. Looking pretty nice.
I love the Plastikkrak Skull. I can hang that over my painting table.
Skulls for my Skull Queen!
I could be wrong but is it the Ghostbusters phone number???
BINGO! 😉
Pulp City is not grid based, it is a proper miniature game. I’m not that interested in superheroes, but I have read the rules and they are quite good.
pulp city is great but they are just working on revamping the rules and they are planning a Kickstarter. the batman game is quite good but the rules are hard to read.
secong the deadzone ruleset it would work with a hero game.
I almost thought you were having an early chistmas episode, the setting just have that feel. Then again fall is also a great season for sitting indoors, enjoying a good boardgame, while listening to the wind and rain outside. My first thought, when I saw the Infinity marine officer, was Bridge Bunny. It is quite nice to see models and missions with non-combatants . As much as I like Knight models and their Batman game, I really hope they will release something besides that very narrow view of the universe, Gotham have quite a lot of heroes come in and… Read more »
Oh, and as a quick note.
There should be no problem in making rules for the Watchmen and using them with the batman game rules, sure they don’t fit with the other models, (they’re DC but not in the sane universe, so to speak) but you could easily make them fight the police or common thugs from the existing range
Welcome back fellas.
Love the look of the Memoir ’44. I need to get some games that don’t require months of painting time.
you have to watch Gravity in 3D
Ordered Deadzone from my local shop yesterday as it happens, hoping it arrives for christmas.
Great vid guys, thanks a lot.
I’m collecting mine from the open day. Can’t wait to see the size of the box, let alone its contents.
ahhh ’44 I just went to steam and downloaded it 😀
I think Ive been to that beach before…..
Great weekender guys, I might have to come over and do one with you 😉
There is a space on the sofa waiting for you mate 🙂
Supersystem is a good (and cheap) rules set for superhero skirmishes and there are (community created, I think) stats out there for the Marvel and DC roster. But I’m hoping that the new version of Pulp City will re-establish itself as THE super hero minis game once the new edition comes along. You guys should totally have a chat with them once their KS goes live 😉
lemme win that scull please
You should make a weekly competition out of that comment of the week I reckon there could be some really good ones 🙂
Also I would love to paint up that skull it looks awesome.
I absolutely loved the way Warren got fired up by Pegasus Bridge! History is ff’in awesome!
Great episode as always guys 😉
Games that draw non gamers into the hobby perhaps we should start up a directory ?
X Wing certainly should be included.
Memoir 44 is the World War 2 version of the fantasy board game of Battle Lore, or so it seems.
Another great show thanks gents 😀
Keep up the good work guys:)
Sweet show. Weekends are ****ends without a Weekender in ‘um. I’m N.Ireland based, do you know where I can find out more about local games clubs? I’m a bit too old to even think about a GW store. My friends are absolutely non-gamers, though the Knight Models Batman or maybe X-Wing are probably my best chance of getting them involved.
Cheers
Congrats guys, imo you’re back on track. This was the first time I felt like getting a cuppa, best atmosphere there for listening to some chat about gaming ‘n movies and other stuff.
Now I’m looking foreward to the next weekender again wondering where you will be chatting next time.
Loved the original XCom back in the 90s, and loved playing the reboot last year, so really looking forward to the expansion, and as for a tabletop version…..well……. I’m in!! 😀
Memoir ’44 is such an awesome game 😀
Warren get and old psone and buy x-com enemy unknown. Its the best version it came out back in the day and in my opinion is better than the new one which has been abit dumbed down, its not as shiny as the new one tho. They also did another one which i think was terror from the deep ! But don’t quote me, but was’nt as good as first as it had too many levels i.e. Four up and four down but i digress please please please check it out warren your’ll love it
why not just get it on steam and run it on a PC 😀
It is a benchmark game it came out on the Amiga as UFO enemy unknown (I think it is still listed as that in the UK)… reminded me of the AMAZING Gerry Anderson show.