Weekender: 4Ground’s Epic Shopping Mall & Zombie Survival Prep Talk
October 1, 2016 by brennon
Welcome to a packed show where we're talking with UK Games Expo about their plans for next year, Cosy Dice about their new bags and...because we're totally the people to ask, some apocalypse survival tips!
If you want to find out more follow along and watch above.
BoW Updates
What's been going on this weekend?
- Re-Roll Weekend - We're launching Issue #2 of the magazine this week!
- Team Yankee Live Blog Next Weekend - Watch out for an intercontinental Live Blog happening next weekend.
- Drop Tactics Returns - Our tactics series returns looking at some new tricks you can use in game.
- Epic Wrath Of Kings Terrain Building VLOG - See how we built an utterly stunning Wrath of Kings table for filming this week.
...quite a bit wouldn't you say?
Hobbyween Entries
With October now on us it's time to get spooky!
- Frankenher by caladors
- Deathwatch Vs Paramour by abstractalien
- Monster Bottle by martincraddy
- Scary Bear by laughingboy
- Spooky Dungeon Saga by soapdodger
- Specimen 18 by isomerase
What do you think of these projects so far?
Walking Dead Malls & The End Of The World
We take a sneaky peek at what lies ahead for 4Ground as they showed us some shots of their Shopping Mall.
This brings us on to real life survival tactics and whether or not we could hack it. Maybe The End Of The World series of role-playing games by Fantasy Flight Games would test us enough?
Let us know what other tabletop games you think test your survival skills.
UK Games Expo Interview
One of the biggest events in the UK, this event continued to grow again this year. We talk with Richard and Tony about what they are hoping to see from it next year.
Hobby Lab Open Challenges
Not only are we focusing in on the new Fresh Water Challenge that we launched this week but remember to take some time and check out the Finalists of the Scatter Terrain Challenge too.
Cosy Dice Interview
It was a joy to sit down with Annie of Cosy Dice to talk about their new Gamer Bag which has a familiar badge adorning it!
Grab A Backstage Free Trial & Watch Weekender XLBS Tomorrow
Have a great weekend!
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We’re drowning in pumpkins here in the US. We need to send you a truck load to play with!
reroll is looking great
Glad to hear it 🙂
Be sure to leave some feedback on its post when you get time to digest it!
@warzan Check out ‘All Flesh Must Be Eaten’ RPG book and it’s supplement, ‘One of the Living: Player’s Handbook’ (zombie apocalypse survival stuff; scrounging, jerry-rigging, including the psychological and technological effects of society’s collapse).
http://www.allflesh.com/8020.html
http://www.allflesh.com/8007.html
http://www.allflesh.com/orderinfo.html
This looks fab! Really cool stuff 🙂
Best thing about the series is the DIY approach to zombies.
So you can make them exactly like your favourite movie.
It’s from how they spread the infection to how fast they move and if they’re intelligent at all.
Damn you all. Now I want a beer for breakfast!
lol once in a blue moon you get a chance to do things your own way… A simple beer breakfast has gotta be damn near the top of our lists lol
Lol. You’re right. I think I will do things my own way for once. I’m gonna have myself a beer breakfast now for 2 simple reasons. 1: I’ve worked hard all week, I deserve a treat. And mainly 2 : because my wife is away to work 😉
It”s the weekend! Time to pass time with a bit of hobby while also preparing the house for autumn/winter.
Ha ha we’re going through that prep here as well, it’s strangely satisfying getting stuff turned around for the change in season 🙂
Poor Doug the thug @ 1:40:55 – your Frostgrave scatter seems to be in the middle of a whiteout blizzard 🙂
Make that @1:21:37 – the previous timecheck’s the length of the video (otherwise known as when Warzan runs out of adreneline/Relentless) 😉
Lol 🙂
Blast one image escaped me :c
You can find his forum topic here anyhoo: http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/painting/forum/topic/hobby-lab-open-challenge-frostgrave-scatter/?topic_page=1&num=15
I got a game in of Mythic Battles during the week. Highly recommended.
Happy Saturday, I now feel inspired to have a brew before turning in.
Kid been going on about the pumpkins, so there might be some Knife work there soon. Speaking of pumpkin, I might have to bring some pumpkin spice soda for you if I can.
Like the bag, because its universal and not tailored to one specific game and you can still customize it when you order.
One question @johnlyons, the templates look a bit dark or is this just because it’s seen in video?
They are transparent. They may look darker on the video but they are pretty easy to see through 🙂 As Annie said, they are looking for feedback on them to see how they can be improved 🙂
Thanks 🙂
Feedback is greatly appreciated.
Annie
Oooo my scary bear made it into the show, first time I have been on the program. Thats made my morning.
Twilight:2000 by GDW has survival at its essence, and deals with it pretty well and in detail. Disease, radiation, food, medicine… Granted, the players have a slight advantage with the amount of weapons floating about – but so do all the enemies. 🙂
Weekend. TIme to paint up a few Frostgrave chaps before heading out for some mediocre football later.
For zombie survival games try Plaid Hat Games – Dead of Winter. A great co-op survival game.
RoG laptop, awesome bit of kit, love mine to bits.
@warzan, try and track down an Australian movie called Undead. You’ll pick up lots of tips for surviving a zombie apocalypse and it has some cool weapon mods for John to try out. Just don’t watch with your kids, strong language warning.
Love the bag idea, especially how customizable it is. Maybe the option of a laser line pointer could be added if the demand is high enough.
UKGE – highly recommended, whether you are a gamer or a trader. We were trading there last year; Friday was slow, Sunday was fairly busy, but Saturday was just mental! It was easily the best show we did. We sold more minis there than we did at Salute…
It would be great to see more minis games and traders next year!
Ah Project Zomboid. That is one mean game but very atmospheric! We used to play it regularly but the fog of war combined with a lack of in game map meant that we would always spend the first harrowing hour trying to link up and usually only two or three of us would manage it.. then we would spend the next hour trying to find the other missing players who would invariably end up trapped in some rusty old caravan with nothing to keep the zombies out but some drawn curtains! ..or we’d leave those stray players to their fate… Read more »
@siygess I would love to see the lads playing STAR WARS
Amazing experiences with project zomboid. One of my favourite survival games but I agree with the difficulty of finding friends on the worlds. My protocol was to run a direction until you found something of notice and camp until my friends found it also.
great show again guys! aaah beer breakfast a good old bavarian tradition! 😀 I would recommend the WW-Z book, its basically a collection of short stories. I think its Brad Pitts character from the movie who made interviews with survivors of the zombie apocalypse. Hiding on an island wouldn’t be an option, because the ocean is littered with zombies roaming the sea bed and of course they fall in the ocean on one side and come out on the other. There is even a story about commercial divers who went down and cleared the ocean from roaming zombies. I think… Read more »
FYI: in the walking dead universe there will be no end to it as long as there are humans and no cure there will be zombies. Why? Read the books and you find out. 😉
uk games expo sounds like fun. any chance of a live beasts of war show ?
Great show guys 🙂
I have always wondered how I would behave in a situation when I would actually see a monster in this context a zombie. I would probably froze to death and not be hacking and slashing, yet I do not know. It’s all fun to watch in TV but in reality? Who knows how our brains would react?
Annie of Cosy Dice 🙂 you have a great idea. The get the bag and then add stuff you want in it is a great idea. Customization is the way to go 🙂
Thank you,
I have put them on http://www.cosydice.com now, but I am taking all hints and tips as to what people would like in there.
Annie x
Myself and friends had the discussion about zombie apocalypse, it was decided that I’d do alright at surviving. I’ve served in the military, done combat survival courses, one of my hobbies use to be bushcraft and wild food foraging but what gave me the added edge were the 10 swords, 3 daggers and two axes, along with a longbow. Everyone was in agreement that they’d all head over to my gaff
Happy saturday…..great show beer always helps…lol
I have to say I’m not 100% convinced by the Shopping Mall. Having spent an inordinate amount to time in US malls traipsing after my bargain hunting wife during sales I just don’t feel the look is right. If anything to me it resembles a garden centre. Obviously this is just a first look and I’ll reserve judgement until seeing the final product, but I was hoping it would be a sprawling low rise type structure with “Anchors” on either end.
I think perhaps a Dawn of the Dead VLOG project is in order?
A good afternoon another fun show guys. Warren if you are worried about a zombie apocalypse and then don’t watch the excellent film “Stakeland.” This is a vampire Apocalypse and these aren’t your pretty boys vamps; these are something else.