Wed, 26 November 2008  In Episode 20 Raef and Russ chat with the owner of Doghouse Systems about their PC's, and about what they look for in a gaming PC. Later, the team discusses what makes a hobby gaming magazine worth buying. This episode's largest segment is dedicated to Uncharted Seas, the new hobby war game about fantasy combat on the high seas by Spartan Games. All that and our usual 'not too horrible' humor, with features such as: Advertisers this episode: Links Mentioned this episode: Comments[8] |
Hry gents, Great episode. Uncharted seas sounds interesting gunna have to spread the word. I enjoyed the segment on gaming PCS. I am a techno-file of sorts i guess. I build computers and built the one i am currently typing with now. It is interesting how many companies are in the business but overall the review and discussion was great. You guys have coll PCs but i think i may have you beat (heh. I don't have a pic but here is my case. http://www.antec.com/images/400/Skeleton_quarter_400.jpg It is the first open air case and it is very cool. Gl with ur gaming PCS. Maybe if you guys start playing some other games besides WAR i will hit you up. Also on another random note, craig your serenity RPG sounds really cool. It remind me of a game a teacher at my school made in 1991 and brought to gencon. It was called realms of the unknown and some of the books are still floating around on the internet. It is essentially a pen & paper game where the RC (Realm Controller) in the game manipulates the environment. The players control a civilization and are pretty much trying to survive and create a civil structure and tech up. Your people are stupid and you need to give the RC diagrams of certain weapons or w/e so your people can make them. Maybe you guys could look into it. there are some books floating around but it is somewhat rare. Anyways great episode. I was interested in every aspect of the show. Anyways i need to sleep now since it is in the wee hours of Thursday on thanksgiving and half of this post probably have bad grammar. Sorry.
Hey guys,
I have a question for you. When you were talking about magazines, you brought up that there are other magazines that take more of a shotgun approach to gaming coverage. Because I'm not a monotheistic gamer, I think that I'd like this kind of magazine. Especially when White Dwarf is coming in at $8 a pop, I'd like to see some alternatives.
Thanks for a great podcast,
-Crispy
I have a question for you. When you were talking about magazines, you brought up that there are other magazines that take more of a shotgun approach to gaming coverage. Because I'm not a monotheistic gamer, I think that I'd like this kind of magazine. Especially when White Dwarf is coming in at $8 a pop, I'd like to see some alternatives.
Thanks for a great podcast,
-Crispy
I can't wait to see pictures of Craig's super sea board. The rules for Uncharted Sea's sound very, very, very similar to Mongooses Victory at Sea (without wind). You could probably nick the aircraft carrier and plane rules for your fancy dragons until something official comes out. Sir, thats not a Zero, it's a Dragon.
A good listen. I skipped over the computer stuff at the start as I'm really not interested in online gaming, but that's fair does, I'm sure enough that there are many out there who are interested, so that's fine.
WWA as always was masterly. I've got a couple of questions for The Wives (I note the capitalisation!) so I'll be emailing them soon. Marriage guidance counselling via gamer podcast is too good to miss!
Liked the Uncharted Seas review. Thanks for the effort. It has really helped me make my mind up on this one and avoid splurging on yet more models that would have likely ended up being played with once and then dumped unloved and unwanted at the back of the cupboard. I wish Spartan Games well, with a good quality product, but with minimal fluff and being a "gamers game" of interest to those who dig naval combat, I think this is something that I'm happy to pass on. I had been considering because of the general "positive buzz" around the game, but your in depth review explaining what you liked and disliked was a great service to me.
Like Raef, I feel I may be more interested in the Space Ship game they have coming out soon. If they have developed a basically good ruleset, added some fluff that can get me "into" the game universe, and taken it into space, then I am likely sold. I love BFG and also Full Thrust, but never enjoyed Man O' War, or War At Sea amd other historical naval games I have tried over the years, so that may well be the opening into Spartan Games' offerings that is for me.
In the same vein, your general discussions about Cutthroat Caverns is getting me frothing and I have desperately been searching (so far unsuccessfully - it seems to be sold out everywhere over here) for a UK source for the game as a Christmas present for my wife to buy me...
One other coment to close, and that relates to Russ and Craig's comments re: LotR content in WD. Your dislike of the coverage I understand, as you are somewhat bored with the background and game now. That's fair enough. And to be fair you tried your best to be general in your comments about the weakness being GW's attempt to cover 3 games in the magazine which makes it less likely that any individual gamer will get full value from the magazine.
However, as someone who has played LotR for years, but has not liked WFB since I gave it up back in 2nd edition, nor really enjoyed playing 40k until 5th edition came out, I find it hard to understand the resentment LotR's coverage generates in non-LotR players as I have tolerated and even enjoyed coverage of those games that I didn't participate in myself based on the quality of the articles and the elements I could transpose into games I did play.
For a start - LotR did not rob WD of any non-LotR coverage - the page count went up when LotR was first included back in 2001, and in reality LotR gets a lot less coverage than 40k, and marginally less that WFB. Many months LotR gets a single sparse article, if that. Only in months of a major new release (such as the recent Mordor supplement) does it even get near to splash coverage, and even then it is not the TOTAL magazine - as has been the case for major releases for 40k and WFB.
So why do non-LotR players insist on treating LotR as the unwanted red-headed stepchild of the core games? As you have acknowledged in your podcast, it is a good game, and it surely has some of the best "fluff" out there! It also has a large worldwide following (Aussi based Worlds End Radio acknowledges that the tournament scene is strong and the game is fun and covers it in its turn). So please, please D6G, give the game its due, even if you've got bored with it yourself!
WWA as always was masterly. I've got a couple of questions for The Wives (I note the capitalisation!) so I'll be emailing them soon. Marriage guidance counselling via gamer podcast is too good to miss!
Liked the Uncharted Seas review. Thanks for the effort. It has really helped me make my mind up on this one and avoid splurging on yet more models that would have likely ended up being played with once and then dumped unloved and unwanted at the back of the cupboard. I wish Spartan Games well, with a good quality product, but with minimal fluff and being a "gamers game" of interest to those who dig naval combat, I think this is something that I'm happy to pass on. I had been considering because of the general "positive buzz" around the game, but your in depth review explaining what you liked and disliked was a great service to me.
Like Raef, I feel I may be more interested in the Space Ship game they have coming out soon. If they have developed a basically good ruleset, added some fluff that can get me "into" the game universe, and taken it into space, then I am likely sold. I love BFG and also Full Thrust, but never enjoyed Man O' War, or War At Sea amd other historical naval games I have tried over the years, so that may well be the opening into Spartan Games' offerings that is for me.
In the same vein, your general discussions about Cutthroat Caverns is getting me frothing and I have desperately been searching (so far unsuccessfully - it seems to be sold out everywhere over here) for a UK source for the game as a Christmas present for my wife to buy me...
One other coment to close, and that relates to Russ and Craig's comments re: LotR content in WD. Your dislike of the coverage I understand, as you are somewhat bored with the background and game now. That's fair enough. And to be fair you tried your best to be general in your comments about the weakness being GW's attempt to cover 3 games in the magazine which makes it less likely that any individual gamer will get full value from the magazine.
However, as someone who has played LotR for years, but has not liked WFB since I gave it up back in 2nd edition, nor really enjoyed playing 40k until 5th edition came out, I find it hard to understand the resentment LotR's coverage generates in non-LotR players as I have tolerated and even enjoyed coverage of those games that I didn't participate in myself based on the quality of the articles and the elements I could transpose into games I did play.
For a start - LotR did not rob WD of any non-LotR coverage - the page count went up when LotR was first included back in 2001, and in reality LotR gets a lot less coverage than 40k, and marginally less that WFB. Many months LotR gets a single sparse article, if that. Only in months of a major new release (such as the recent Mordor supplement) does it even get near to splash coverage, and even then it is not the TOTAL magazine - as has been the case for major releases for 40k and WFB.
So why do non-LotR players insist on treating LotR as the unwanted red-headed stepchild of the core games? As you have acknowledged in your podcast, it is a good game, and it surely has some of the best "fluff" out there! It also has a large worldwide following (Aussi based Worlds End Radio acknowledges that the tournament scene is strong and the game is fun and covers it in its turn). So please, please D6G, give the game its due, even if you've got bored with it yourself!
Man.. you guys in the states don't know how fortuitous you are as far as prices for magazines and books go.
A Dan Abnet novel goes for about 16 bucks here in Oz,the official Xbox 360 magazine is 14.95,a white dwarf yearly subscription is 110 smackers..I could go on..
A Dan Abnet novel goes for about 16 bucks here in Oz,the official Xbox 360 magazine is 14.95,a white dwarf yearly subscription is 110 smackers..I could go on..
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