Weekender XLBS: Kicking Off DreadBall Season 4!
January 18, 2015 by warzan
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Happy Sunday guys!
Damn, I want Curis’s fisty glue man tshirt!
Happy Sunday!
Happy Sunday! Great to see Jaime again, awsome guy!
The 3D printing revolution will change miniature and terrain industry in the exact same way RPGNow and the like changed RPGs. You could write your own RPGs but its easier to download a PDF. RPGs are bigger now than ever! Don’t worry about the future… It’ll work itself out!
True, just look at normal printing! People have home printers but for one reason or another if you want a top end print you go to a professional printer. They can do it to a higher standard than most home ones. I think it’s going to have a huge impact – I for one would love to make my own stuff in 3ds max and print it off but I’d also love to get the latest models from Corvus Belli, Warlord or GW too.
Happy Sunday!
Curis looks different.
We really miss you, could you please do “Safety Regulations for Codex Handling, By Warren & James” ? Hopes GW will let you come back to BoW someday. Cheers!
Happy Sunday!
When it comes to 3D printing, look for Barnacules Nerdgasm on YouTube, not as weird as the name sounds, but an ex Microsoft software engineer who does a lot of work with 3D printers, including experimental materials(even stuff that’s partly metal), and has some great guides on how it all works.
Happy Sunday! ^_^
Another enthusiastic professional, fills me with confidence for the Conan KS. Plus what a nice bloke.Good show guys!
News, previews, opinion, and show & tell. This was about as perfect as a Weekender can be. Don’t let Jamie off so easily next time. Give us the Rackham gossip!
Though the comments on the financial report thread were a little unfair. Especially to @osbad who put in some research to see where GW’s six-monthly revenue ranked with their previous ones.
Just to be clear I wasn’t referring to @osbad‘s analysis 🙂 The themes were a ‘general’ set from around the inter webs. Now specifically on Osbad’s chart I was looking at that earlier in the week, but I’m still struggling to really gauge what it’s significance is… (I basically understand it, but am not sure it actually means anything) Perhaps if we were able to put into context of similar company positions it would be more clear if it means anything, but there again I’ve been hard pressed to think of even a single company who A provides corresponding data… Read more »
I wrote a couple of the comments that were read out so it seemed liked the thread is where the discussion was coming from.
Sorry mate I read them direct from the running order (one of the other chaps dropped them in there) I thought they were sanitised ‘impressions’ just to set a tone to start talking from.
But again it was meant just to set a tone of a ‘typical’ style response before throwing in some unasked for opinion on the matter 🙂
Rackham gossip would be great give my retro gaming playing Hybrid, and I am soon to branch out into Confrontation, Dogs of War, and Rag’narok
Re the discussion around 23 mins.
Probably the best tactical game of all time plays out on the same map – not only that it always uses the same armies. Yet in the hands of skilled players can vary so much game to game. I am of course referring to Chess.
Now Chess with objective cards… there’s a thought!
@cavatore has already beat you to it mate 😉
There is, or was, a great addition to Chess called Knightmare Chess. I’ve no idea if it is still in production, but it radically changed the game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightmare_Chess
To clarify on the Myth cards. There’s a community building on both Megacon and BoardGameGeek forums especially. Megacon have released 3 Fireborne patches containing PDFs etc of updated cards and various community members have set up ‘print projects’ at printer studio.com with the correct card fronts/backs all organised so you can just drop the project in your basket and check it out. All with the legal IP blessing of Megacon providing it’s not someone else making money out of it. The standard size cards are straightforward – the smaller item cards more of an issue. Printerstudio have fulfilment centres in… Read more »
I had to stop the video to post this! I agree totally with Lloyd about the impact cheap 3D printing could have on the gaming industry, and I have to say Warren that you are looking at things through rose tinted spectacles. DRM will always be circumvented, and as soon as that is done once for an item that file will spread like wildfire. The other problem is people buying the file (or getting a cracked version), and then selling loads of physically printed copies to mates and on Ebay dirt cheap. The only way DRM would be able to… Read more »
Although a lot of what you are saying in your post is true, it’s not the whole story. 3D printing is going to change the miniature industry just as the digital age has changed so many others. You can’t however get hung up on singular aspects or control issues, that is where companies will fail. The industry will need to be ready to adapt to the changing circumstances I agree with Lloyd’s concerns as history has shown that some companies/manufacters simply won’t accept this. They will think they can stand their ground and win. They won’t, a large part of… Read more »
just re-read the end of my last post and to clarify when I say new product range I am referring to a new game as opposed to just a new army or new models for existing armies.
Wow. Nearly speechless! What a FANTASTIC show! I spent it painting at the same time of course, but what an absolutely amazing 100 minutes well spent! Having Jamie in was brilliant and I loved listening to him make his points. Best part is I finished the show fully energized! Warhammer Fantasy is my favorite GW flavor, and to hear so many positive comments just makes me feel good. End Times has been amazing, and I know that you guys probably don’t track this but … ET: Thanquol sales apparently crashed the servers, the demand was so high. ET: Khaine I… Read more »
I’m glad to hear WHFB is doing well too, I hope GW do recover from the bad rep they’ve had because they do have amazing miniatures. The rules systems could do with updating I think though. I play 40k and Bolt Action regularly and 40k feels like a grind compared to BA’s random turn activation or even Infinity’s choice of order expenditure (use all your orders on one bloke who then goes on to bash everyone’s head in like Rambo OR spread them out like a normal person).
@tigerdave, servers did go down, but the book did not sell out for a week, in the UK at least. So much slower than previous. In addition when it came up it was behind a filter to prevent DDOs according to my browser. I agree the end time books to date are fantastic. However, I believe 9th ed is shaping upto be a poor product, because of design decisions being made. I fully intend to look at the game on release and judge it on it merits but @warzan‘s enthusiasm is coming from someone who does not like current fantasy,… Read more »
Two things struck me as I watched this week’s XLBS:
1) If you don’t look directly at Lloyd, it looks as though he’s wearing a huge flowery tie.
2) Lloyd and Warren are two sides of a coin: Warren is a Google designer (“blue-sky” thinking), and Lloyd is a Google engineer (seeing how that translates into reality). 😀
Great to hear somebody being really positive about GW
Happy Sunday…
very interesting show… that 3d printing was impressive
oh no , no more bean tin buildings, you can now print your desired design Lloyd. and that will make she who must be obeyed happy too….no more junk clogging up the place..lol
One concern I had reading some of the WHFB rumours was that GW were going down the route of limited edition models, because that also held the danger of rules-creep to sell those models. While watching the XLBX it occurred to me that they could still run limited editions without rules-creep, by having limited editions of the same characters: no rules-creep, and people wanting their cookie-cut heroes to look different to their mate’s version. Probably something more in line with Forgeworld though, than standard GW product. I say “concern”, although I haven’t played WHFB in many editions. Since they started… Read more »
Hobby Lab ideas:
– Terrain build, layout, and objective cards for a “map” used in a wargame. Even better if they can be used for multiple systems.
– How to design objective cards for maps and game systems.
– How to design AI decks for single play, and/or random AI factions in a multi-player game (such as spawn pool effects on the Tyranid map you’ve created).
The way I see it, fixed maps are just another way to bash newbies.
I used to play hardcore tournament paintball (and I have the trophies to prove it). There was NEVER EVER the same field layout at a tournament. For practice, we set up a new field layout for every single week.
I can see the appeal, though. It appeals to the eliminate all randomness, practice til perfection mindset. Personally I prefer a more adaptive play style and environment.
Because doing the same thing over and over again is just boring — even if you win.
I see the potential of “fixed maps” as eliminating the typical practice of getting a load of scenery and dumping it down in a semi-random fashion. A set of well designed maps, printed out for set-up reference, can only lead to more enjoyable games in my opinion. Add in a set of objective cards, and you have huge scope for diversity. Playing on the same map, week in week out, would not be good though. As for tournament play, you could even incorporate fixed maps into that: everyone play on the same map on round one, which then changes into… Read more »
Get Jamie Johnson on the show more often guys. He makes for an excellent guest – talkative, passionate and knowledgable.
As for the content, I’m really excited to see you guys explore 3d printing. And even though i’d given up on WHFB long ago I gotta say, these rumours are actually getting me quite pumped up for the new version…
I meant to leave this thought in the VLOG on your map idea but I guess here is just as good. I really like the idea of preset known maps like this, its what makes competitive games like Starcraft work so well, some maps are known to slightly favour certain races or tactics and thus in a best of three set up the loser can pick a map that favours his race or playstyle offsetting the disadvantage he finds himself in. I also think it’s exciting to consider how these maps may actually create their on meta for the game… Read more »
This was a great XBLS! loved hearing from the two guests – always great to hear from people who are passionate about what they do I think. i’d love a 3D printer to make copies of master models, but I doubt I can afford one – my Father might get one in a year or two though as he is a technophille so I might get access to one in time (I can just pay him for the printouts!) – do the printers come with scanners or do you have to buy those seperately? Does anyone know? All in all,… Read more »
Just guessing hear but you will need a PC with a CAD program, or bye
& download what you want to make?
@warzan – so glad you guys enjoyed my little prize! 😀 A couple of points. I used photoshop to create the custom cards. Along with the custom cards, there were a couple of MegaCon cards from Patch 1.1. The neat thing is you can’t tell them apart. The BGG community created Photoshop card templates for all the MegaCon cards (with permissions from MegaCon). While I didn’t create the templates, I did USE them to create the additional content from scratch. All the custom artwork was sourced publicly. I tried to find art that matched Keith’s style. I think I did… Read more »
I didn’t have time to look too closely at the video to spot the custom cards . What do your custom cards do?
Link to BGG for that answer – http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/179813/mistermanns-collection-myth-customizations