Tabletop Weltweit: April, April!

Gestern war wieder einmal dieser Tag und natürlich wurde auch in der Tabletopwelt fröhlich gescherzt…

Die meisten haben es sich vermutlich gedacht: Der Brückenkopf-Club ist zumindest in dieser Form nicht so wirklich ernst gemeint und auch unsere Zusammenarbeit mit Army Painter und einer dänischen Brauerei ist irgendwie noch nicht so wirklich ausgereift. 😉

Da die Idee aber anscheinend durchaus solide ankam, werden wir in den kommenden Wochen etwas konkreter über Brückenkopf-Merch nachdenken und Ideen sammeln. Vielleicht gibt es dann schon bald Neuigkeiten!

Wir waren aber nicht die einzigen, die gestern witzig sein wollten, und deshalb haben wir ein paar Aprilscherze für Euch gesammelt:

Das Phantasos-Studio stellte dieses Turotial vor:

Games Workshop: Berlin 2 stellte eine ziemlich besondere Farbreihe vor:

Seit heute haben wir eine neue Farbreihe im Sortiment – CITADEL PAINT FLAVOR! Nach den beliebten SHADES und Technicals, jetzt also FLAVOR. Was sie so besonders macht?! Die Farben der Reihe sind mit Aromastoffen versetzt, durch die das bei Bemalern weit verbreitete Pinselablecken zur Ausformung der Pinselspitze und zum Entfernen letzter Farbreste deutlich angenehmer wird. Jede Farbe hat dabei eine dem Farbton entsprechende Geschmacksnote erhalten. Geübte Bemaler werden schon bald die Farben auch am Geschmack erkennen können.

Wie jeder weiß, sind die Citadel-Farben vollkommen ungiftig – nur vorsichtshalber weisen wir darauf hin, dass es sich trotz dieser Neuerung um kein Nahrungsersatzmittel handelt.

Otherworld Miniatures stellten ein neues Monster vor:

Monster of the month is back. Our earlier call for sculptors certainly paid dividends and we have turned their talents to a classic monster. A denizen of the Elemental Plane of Air the Invisible Stalker resembles a completely see-through, completely silent, and highly undetectable humanoid made of a wispy, shimmering essence. Sculpted by Olaf Pirlo the figure measures 32mm from ground to eye and is supplied with a 40mm round base.

Bei Board Game Arena wurde ein besonderer Kickstarter vorgestellt!

We are proud and happy to announce that the very first game published by Board Game Arena is coming to Kickstarter: Conan: Exploding Zombies.

To be 100% clear, at BGA we know nothing about game publishing. Absolutely nothing. So when we go to our bank and tell them about the project they didn’t feel excited about it. But then, we got this great, fantastic idea: we could just get 8 millions $ from Kickstarter!

By chance, we met Reiner X. Krathalauza, a very talented game designer who created an explosive figurine game absolutely explosive. We were very surprised to learn that in the past 10 years, not a SINGLE publisher understood the potential of this incredible prototype. Reiner told us than they are always afraid of stupid details like „do you know how it costs to produce a game with 3.500 miniatures?“ or „do you really intend to sell figurines with TNT inside?“. It even happened once that a game publisher refused to play the prototype until the end just because he lost an eye after an explosion…

This was so unfair that we decided to publish this game ourselves, and make it The Biggest Best Selling Game Ever. Yes. So we worked very hard to produce the most original and fun game ever: „Conan: Exploding Zombies“.

Bored of Canada Dry Zombie game where everyone is ALWAYS safe at the end of the game? With „Conan: Exploding Zombies“ („CEZ“), you can live a REAL zombie experience, an incredible adventure where you can die… for REAL!
With „Conan: Exploding Zombies“, you get more figurines than in Zombicide, you got a box much larger than Hyperborea, with rules as simple as Explosive Kittens one.

For 10$ or less: please accept our gratitude to help us to make this game happened. And no, you don’t get any royalties.

11$: receive 1 „Kickstarter limited edition“ zombie figurine. All these „limited editions“ figurines have a unique special feature: they are going to explode when our Kickstarter will reach 10M$! Note that associate warranty will expires few seconds before the explosion.

120$: receive 1 copy of „Conan: Exploding Zombies“. If everything is okay you’ll receive it in 2017. In case of Acts of God like: real world zombie attack, nuclear war or if the BGA team has the flu, we will delay the release of the game by several years. But don’t worry: in the meantime we will send you some goodies to keep you waiting.

200$: receive 1 copy of „Conan: Exploding Zombies“ with the game designer autograph. In addition, if (and this is HIGHLY improbable) we are some years late, we will realize a pre-series just for you so you can mock the cheapskate who only pay 120$.

1.000$: this looks more interesting. At this level we integrated you directly in the game development team. There are 2-3 missing elements that still need to be created (including game rules), so you will live a great first experience in the game industry!

10.000$: a figurine based on your face is integrated inside the game! Pay attention: a zombie MUST be ugly. If you look good, we suggest you to put your head inside a wasps‘ nest during few minutes before pledging. Then, you’ll look like an almost acceptable zombie (and by the way: it wakes you up).

100.000$: we put your name on the game box. Yes, on the box front. Just next to the game designer name, who – by the way – didn’t invest a single penny on the game (and pretend that he wants to earn money with it). This is justice.

1.000.000$: we replace the game designer name by yours. We know that there may be some legal issues here, but… we’re speaking of 1M$ here, so you can trust us: we got your back.

Bei Freebooter’s Fate wurde eine neue Einheitenserie vorgestellt: Kavallerie!

Ahoi ihr Großwildjäger,

immer dann, wenn wir euch ein Bild vom Modellierplatz des Käpt’ns gezeigt haben, entbrannte die Diskussion von neuem: Wofür ist diese 50mm Zinn-Basis im Hintergrund gut?

Heute geben wir es zu: die Aussage, es wäre ein vergrößerter Master unserer 25mm Basis, war dreist und unverschämt gelogen, um die wahre Natur der Basis zu verschleiern!

Tatsächlich planen wir seit geraumer Zeit die Einführung eines neuen Modelltyps: Kavallerie!

Was auf den ersten Blick etwas unseemännisch erscheint, wird auf den zweiten Blick zur logischen Fortführung unserer Miniaturenreihe. Denn wie es sich herausgestellt hat, findet der überwiegende Teil der Freebooter’s Fate Spiele an Land statt. Warum sollten also nicht Pferde, Riesenkrabben und andere reitbare Geschöpfe den Weg nach Longfall finden?

Das erste der neuen Kavalleriemodelle wird Mazatl sein, eine Amazone, die auf einem Dschungelhirsch reitet.

Den fertig modellierten Hirsch könnt ihr bereits jetzt bestaunen und mit etwas Glück wird der Charakter bereits auf der RPC erhältlich sein.

Euer Freebooter Team

Radaddel hatte ebenfalls etwas mit Freebooter auf Lager:

Die Abenteuer des Käpt’n Gront

Eine tolle Nachricht erreichte uns von Freebooter. Werner Klocke hat die Rechte für einen Film im Freebooter Fate Universum vergeben.
„Die Abenteuer des Käpt’n Gront“ soll Episoden aus dem bewegten Leben des berühmten Piratenkapitäns erzählen.
Der Film soll Kinolänge erreichen. Ob direkt eine Interessengruppe/Geldgeber hinter dem Projekt stehen oder die Finazierung über ein Crowdfunding erfolgt, ist nicht bekannt.
Im Hause Freebooter rechnet man mit der Fertigstellung des Films Mitte 2016.

Bei Warsenal wurden gleich zwei April-Neuheiten angekündigt: Camo-Marker und Bacon Marker!

Und dann gab es noch ein paar Nicht-Tabletop-Scherze, die uns ebenfalls gefallen haben:

Das neue Trendgetränk von Jever:

Und die spektakuläre Entdeckung des CERN:

Alle Bilder von Max Brice und Daniel Dominguez/CERN

CERN researchers confirm existence of the Force

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider just recently started testing the accelerator for running at the higher energy of 13 TeV, and already they have found new insights into the fundamental structure of the universe. Though four fundamental forces  – the strong force, the weak force, the electromagnetic force and gravity – have been well documented and confirmed in experiments over the years, CERN announced today the first unequivocal evidence for the Force. “Very impressive, this result is,” said a diminutive green spokesperson for the laboratory.

“The Force is what gives a particle physicist his powers,” said CERN theorist Ben Kenobi of the University of Mos Eisley, Tatooine. “It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us; and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together.”

Though researchers are as yet unsure what exactly causes the Force, students and professors at the laboratory have already started to harness its power. Practical applications so far include long-distance communication, influencing minds, and lifting heavy things out of swamps.

Kenobi says he first started teaching the ways of the Force to a young lady who was having trouble revising for her particle-physics exams. „She said that I was her only hope,“ says Kenobi. „So I just kinda took it from there. I designed an experiment to detect the Force, and passed on my knowledge.“

Kenobi’s seminal paper „May the Force be with EU“ – a strong argument that his experiment should be built in Europe – persuaded the CERN Council to finance the installation of dozens of new R2 units for the CERN data centre*. These plucky little droids are helping physicists to cope with the flood of data from the laboratory’s latest experiment, the Thermodynamic Injection Energy (TIE) detector, recently installed at the LHC.

„We’re very pleased with this new addition to CERN’s accelerator complex,“ said data analyst Luke Daniels of human-cyborg relations. „The TIE detector has provided us with plenty of action, and what’s more it makes a really cool sound when the beams shoot out of it.“

But the research community is divided over the discovery. Dark-matter researcher Dave Vader was unimpressed, breathing heavily in disgust throughout the press conference announcing the results, and dismissing the cosmological implications of the Force with the quip „Asteroids do not concern me“.

Rumours are growing that this rogue researcher hopes to delve into the Dark Side of the Standard Model, and could even build his own research station some day. With the academic community split, many are tempted by Vader’s invitations to study the Dark Side, especially researchers working with red lasers, and anyone really with an evil streak who looks good in dark robes.

„We hope to continue to study the Force, and perhaps use it to open doors with our minds and fly around and stuff,“ said TIE experimentalist Fan Buoi. „Right now, to be honest, I don’t really care how it works. The theory department have some crackpot idea about life forms called midi-chlorians, but frankly I think that poorly thought out explanations like that just detract from how cool the Force really is.“

With the research ongoing, many at CERN are already predicting that the Force will awaken later this year.