What Happened to Warcry and The Future of 3D Printing! - This Week in Wargaming

[@grimskald]

Thanks for featuring Torch & Shield! We cant wait to deliver vertically challenged combat to the world!

[@BlackJackLegacy]

They game sounds amazing - can’t wait to hear more about it!

[@craigbrown04]

You had me dwarves…..

[@mordecaitoth6703]

The color 3D printed models still blow my mind! Thanks for sharing!

[@ramblingbadger]

Nice one Andy :-) Torch and Shield looks fricking awesome!

[@Colorcrayons]

Warcry is still great. While the setting lacks the distinct flavor it had while in the eightpoints, the design is possibly even better now with the simple addition of reactions. It has given it a lot more depth without weighing it down beneath a mountain of new rules. I also recommend checking out the divine blessing rules. They are particularly handy for those warbands who have awkward point models that make it difficult to fill a list all the way to 1k. Not game changing, but really handy to have. It really is one of GW's best designs.

[@Gladstruk]

Loving this format Andy. You've landed on a blinder and such a brilliant piece of work by you.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Glad you enjoyed it mate

[@CrazyOcelot76]

Loving this format. It's great to have a weekly news show.

[@MaxoOGarden]

A video talking about the two best miniature game systems there are? Yes, please. I just love Warcry and OPR! They are so great. I'd wish to see more coverage for these two games :) Skirmish games are the way to go for me!

[@JoeDaly983]

Such Satisfying edits. Cheers Andy!

[@Guru_Swami]

Another great update. I had no idea the Firefight rule book had sold out it’s first run!

[@speeddemonpainting7050]

The Covid days opened up a lot of eyes to how GW did business here... They kept releasing books for their games that people weren't really able to play. After the whole Covid mess, people were able to go out and play again and all their old books they spend a great deal of money on, were already out of date and you needed to spend that money all over again.... And that got a lot of folks thinking here about how much GW tries to take their customers for a ride.

[@petehill7465]

Another great Vid Andy, love seeing some games from smaller developers. Will keep my eye on Torch and Shield! Looks awesome. Void Scar could be interesting too. Thanks for doing the leg work to find us some good games :)

[@NewSquallor]

Torch & Shield looks up my alley. Thanks for this. And as I may have said, that opening is comic gold.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

I aim to please! 😉

[@michaelmiguelsanchez]

What happened to Warcry is GW trying to hide a price increase by splitting the terrain and the models into two different packages.

[@screamingaddabs]

Loving these short update vids, a great format done really well! P.S. the firefight slow-grow was ace!

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Glad to hear you enjoyed the slow grow mate.

[@joakimgustafsson500]

Back to Warcry! Woohoo!!! 😄Great summary of the wargaming happenings too.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Thanks mate 👍🏼

[@Frantik33]

Nice round up Andy. Really enjoying these. According to the guy from only games in the latest interview at painting phase where he showed one of these colour 3D printed minis, we 're still very far off plug'n'play in general when it comes to printers. We 're like how the paper printers were in the 80's so there is still way to go.

[@AltheSpiderlord]

Another fantastic video Andy. You really are knocking these out of the park!

[@crippledfoxgaming]

GOOD GAWDAWMIGHTY. Torch and Shield looks great and Only Games Pre-colored printed minis?! *swoon*

[@grimskald]

🙂

[@MarcusLSchneider]

WarCry is the only reason I even touch GW fantasy stuff anymore

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Such a good game.

[@lordnovas]

Nice updates. Void Scar looks awesome. Trust me painting 15mm - 8mm is fun. I scale my 6mm minis to 8mm.

[@SciFiPorkChop28]

Void Scar Miniatures stuff looks great!! Wow... and the Black Site Studios Micro Game looks sweet...

[@marchenplay]

SUPER excited about pit lord! Have you already seen BTW ignition core? small game, big mechs, solid rules!

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Not yet! One to check out.

[@georgeadsett-knutsen829]

Great vid 👍 Those pre-coloured minis look great, not that they’re for me, but, wow!

[@marcolai9735]

Thanks Andy for the update - another great news video. Loved the selection and style of games.. I also stopped with Warcry after the released of those faction books and, despite buying them, I struggled to keep up with the various catacombs releases first and the new season now. My last game was with the catacombs rules which was great. I think the fragmentation of rules and the multiple places where to find rules etc. affected me negatively.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

I love the game but it felt like it just grew exponentially at a time I couldn’t play so never felt the need to keep up. Maybe it’s time to revisit it!

[@jamiemoresco3885]

Well done. These little updates are a good idea. Nice to see a bunch of different. It was also nice not to have a bash on gw on the end, not that they don't need it once in a while.

[@noctilithe1008]

Excellent News video !

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Thanks for watching!

[@ortega5064]

Had no idea about from Ashes but would have to keep my eye on it :)

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Definitely worth a look!

[@ortega5064]

@@BlackJackLegacy could we see a how to play vid down the line?

[@BlackJackLegacy]

🤷🏼‍♂️ maybe if Void Scar are interested.

[@barnabynewton9992]

Yeah I think we could look into that Andy!

[@NotTheStinkyCheese]

I've noticed that the WarCry sets are getting smaller ... with less terrain (only a single piece ...). Not sure if that has affected the price as much as it should. I wanted to like WarCry, even got the 2 player starter sets ... but as per usual I *squirrel* got distracted. The one thing I learned to love about Mantic is that their games are finished. Sure, Firefight got a new book and Kings of War will get the 'clash of kings' updates, but I don't feel I have to buy them. It's all there ... in the rules. WarCry was brilliant in its initial release (chaos vs chaos) and IMHO should have stuck to that theme while opening up the game by letting players build their own gangs from scratch (a 'Realms of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness' book focused on WarCry/Necromunda like the original was for WHFB & 40k would have been brilliant). Adding an Ork-only variant would have made sense too ('OrkCry'...or maybe just 'Waaaghh!' :D) , but that never happened. Instead we were getting wave after wave of gangs/warbands and I felt like it wasn't worth to make it into a hobby.

[@majortom7186]

I think Firefight has a bigger up-hill struggle than KoW. 40K is still in print unlike WFB, and Legion & Grimdark Future seem to eat up the rest of the Sci-Fi wargame space between them.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

I don't disagree its an uphill struggle but the rules are solid so its starting in a good place.

[@peterdickinson4599]

Good stuff.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Thanks!

[@peterdickinson4599]

@@BlackJackLegacy This 10min weekly news roundup is a great idea. It has legs.

[@CesarIsaacPerez]

Didn't get to Warcry until 8 mins in... Cool to find out about the other stuff though but I was itching for the Warcry bit. Warcry was my main pandemic game! It was the only game my sister would play with me during lockdown. I haven't played Warcry 2.0 either. I have bought a few of the new minis and these look like must buys for my collection, except for the terrain, I've been skipping those since I have more than enough terrain already.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

You know this is a weekly round up of gaming news right? Warcry was just one of the things discussed so not everything will be first up.

[@CesarIsaacPerez]

@@BlackJackLegacy Nope, found out as it went on. But, I loved it, keep up the great work.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

@CesarIsaacPerez the video starts with “welcome to this week in Wargaming, the show that keeps you up to speed with what’s happening in the tabletop world”. I was hoping I’d made it clear enough for everyone.

[@goresk8869]

love Warcry it's my favourite GW ruleset

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Mine too. I think it’s the perfect mix of fun, quick and easy to play.

[@SamOnMaui]

The pandemic really messed with my war gaming in general. I'm having a hard time getting back into it!

[@BlackJackLegacy]

I really know that feeling too mate.

[@johnbinham9777]

Great video thanks andy

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Thanks for watching mate.

[@argy8141]

Nice one Andy, I can't get the thought of you painting 15mm given some of your recent comments out of head 😆. Do you know if there are any gameplay videos of Pit Lord? I've stayed away from BSS just because of the cost of shipping, then VATand potential customs fees, alongside courier tax collection fees. It makes it an expensive punt. A more in depth review from you post Christmas?

[@SuperDuperHappyTime]

Good stuff Andy Warcry has had such up and down releases. Starter and first warbands were great, Catacombs was okay but off target with the one off board, Red Harvest had great terrain and a too generic warband, and then they made a mistake. Too long without a new product, then compendium books, then a new edition that outdated those books after three months, which they then took too long to mention they were going to pdf all the models, and the online excitement just kinda died.

[@BlackJackLegacy]

Thanks mate - I didnt keep up to speed after Catacombs so much but it does seem like its not getting the same treatment that Kill Team gets thats for sure.

[@majortom7186]

Warcry died when GW changed the rules to v2 and gutted all depth in favour of a mindless dice fest.

[@speeddemonpainting7050]

yeah, the new rules really aren't all that great anymore.