Tau: Video Update and Imperial Guard Army

Thought I'd do a video blog about the new Tau, show off a couple of the models I'm painting and have a look at the Codex too. Its a beauty!

Also featured is this Imperial Guard army that one of my clubs members painted... for his brother! Lucky sibling methinks.

This is such a huge force, looks incredible! They both had an apocalypse game down in Firestorm games in Cardiff and Jacobs huge Tyranids took the win, the Imperial Guard unable to stand upto the tide of aliens. Needed some Space Marines methinks ha.

Also a wee plug for another of the Tredegar Reavers members Adam. He's embarked on a business idea and has opened his own internet store where you can buy lots of gaming supplies and miniatures! He often brings his shop to club nights and its proven a hit. You can visit his website here at Putrid Painting. He also does commissions so if you want some mini's painted give him a shout!

Talisman Preview

I saw this rumoured about many moons ago, and then a teaser for it not so long back on the GW website. Well now we actually have some gameplay footage!

It seems very much a straight adaptation of the board game, which will please most people no end, me being one of them. I never got to play the board game, so this is something that really intrigues me. 

I've always considered myself as a wee bit of a videogames fanatic, as I co-host a videogames radio show at our local station BRfm where we have a two hour show every fortnight. As we know, GW have lisenced their games out before, with varying degress of success. Space Marine I felt was a great game, which borrowed from Gears of War as much as Gears borrowed from the 40k universe. I still own Final Liberation, a turn based stragey game based on epic, which I had immense fun on even though it not being that good. There was Shadow of the Horned Rat, Fire Warrior, Warhamer Online, Blood Bowl, Kill-Team and probably several more. It seems surprising in some ways that GW games haven't caught on more.... I look at the background for the games and its so rich and detailed I'm just waiting for a developer to come along and lap it up into what I've been waiting for. A pure triple A game. 

Will it happen? Maybe one day... but then again I've never been happier saving on batteries and rolling my bright orange dice.

Hammered in the Head. Tau.

Video number two is up! Heres the latest in my Tau army, the Hammerhead with the dreaded Railgun. 

Any feedback would be appreciated, whether its the video itself or the Hammerhead!

Librarian? Vidarian More Like!

Ladies and Elven folk, oh wait, same thing.... Gentlemen, here is my first ever videoblog! It won't take over this, although I shall post updates here. But it is another way of expressing, communicating and being part of a hobby I love. The plans are to get the club involved, battle reports, discussions etc... hopefully we shall entertain and delight you, but thats high ambitions=] 

Hope you enjoy.

Boundaries of Wargaming

 

With all the changes going on at the club, its made me think about changes elsewhere in the hobby. The club, which has now been renamed to The Tredegar Reavers (much better I hope you agree!) will hopefully be joining the GCN within the next month or so, we're rebranding the website, and generally getting inspired. With all this, Dark Vengeance, and Games Day approaching theres a lot to look forward too. But it does make me wonder about other aspects of the hobby that could be expanded.

Games Workshop are starting to produce small clips that accompany new releases, which I'll be honest I find pretty cool. Hearing about inspiration for new rules and models coming straight from the cold one's snout. It really helps convey the thought process they go through to get to where they are, but I feel its something they may, and perhaps should, take a lot further. Why not produce a once a month 30 minute video where they all talk about the new releases, perhaps tease things that have been teased in White Dwarf, have interviews etc... With HD being readily available online its an ideal way to show off some models. They could even do this. When I was a teen, there was a videogames programme called Bad Influence. At the end of every show they used to show a few pages of text which included cheats, reviews etc in as many seconds. The idea was to record it, then pause it to read. Didn't work to be fair, but its something that could now be used. Just an idea!

Something I'm hoping to do soon is to get my videoblog underway. With how things are busy at the club, its been on the backburner but I did last monday capture some footage to put towards making us a promo film. As our hobby is incredibly visual and social, sometimes writing about it isn't the best way to represent... hence why the video which we can post about to entice new members. I'm also hoping that perhaps some members may be intrigued with doing a little talk every now and then, about new releases, rules, just a little topical debate I guess. After thinking about how GW could move forward doing video, its made me wonder if I can do the same.

Its been a while since I've felt so inspired about something, but being part of the club has done just that and I'm willing to put my heart and soul into it and the hobby. Why settle for the same old method when you could try something new and exciting? I'v ebeen watching some great v-bloggers on youtube, and I think its time to join them. Its time to be ambitious, its time to make an entity.