Dead Wargamers Society – Details, episodes & analysis

Owen and Chris talk have resorted to the lowest levels of shillery and talk about Owen's new game, Sunshard:Embren, which is running a Kickstarter starting on November 19th. In all seriousness, if you liked Dark Age, it's worth giving this game a look.

Useful Links:

Sunshard:Embren Kickstarter

Immanetize Games Website

Immanetize Games Discord

Dead Wargamers Society Discord

Riot Quest. Riot Quest. Riiiioootttttt Queeeesssstttt.

What more needs to be said?

Oh, I guess a little bit more! We're back, with a seasonal set of releases rather than appearing in pog form. Why? Beyond not having Privateer Press licensing off the majority of their IPs to Steamforged Games on our Keno cards, because we felt like it. Look forward to some episodes released in clusters as our time allows.

And remember, you can kill a wargame. You can't kill a podcast about dead wargames!

Bryan CP Steele racks up his third appearance on DWS to talk about the Kickstarter for Warzone Eternal.

Note: On Friday May 27th, Res Nova announced that they were pulling down the Warzone Eternal Kickstarter to refocus their efforts.  Res Nova owner Alex talks about the decision here.  We wish them the best of luck with the project and look forward to backing it once it returns to Kickstarter.

Useful Links:

Warzone Eternal Kickstarter: See what we were talking about.

Tales From a Professional Nerd: Come watch Bryan nerd out about various topics, professionally.

Dead Wargamers Society Discord Link

Dead Wargamer Gazette: Join our Substack newsletter

We're back!

Our intrepid hosts return after 9 months of solitude. Hear about Chris' visceral hatred of Chicago cuisine because a deep dish pizza went all Al Capone on his finger. Owen's pretty much the same. We're pretty sure that's not in the "pro" column of things.

Useful Links:

Dead Wargamers Society Community Discord (now with permalink!)

Dead Wargamer Gazette - Our Substack Newsletter.  Updated weekly!

Owen needs to go out and get some smokes.  He'll be right back...

Just kidding and in  all seriousness, we're sorry to do this, but Chris and I have a lot of "life" stuff going on right now and need to press pause on the podcast for a few months so we can, collectively, get married, sell a house, and potentially move.  We're planning on being back around Thanksgiving.  In the mean time, come hang out with us at ArmourCon and CaptainCon, post pics of minis from your favorite dead game on our Facebook page, and/or come chat in our Discord.  Thanks to all of you who have been listening thus far; we hope to be back on the digital airwaves soon!

Useful Links:

Link to Our Discord

In the grim past of Games Workshop's intellectual property, there is only (narrative) war(gaming).

Avid narrative wargamer and hobby legend Dave Taylor joins us again to talk about the Games Workshop game Inquisitor and the fan movement it sparked called "Inq28".  If you've seen that term around wondered where it came from, this episode is for you.

Also, we talk about seafood.  If you're Australian, prepare to get mad.

Useful Links:

Inquisitor Rules PDFs on the The-Conclave.net - The freely available rules to the original Inquisitor, made available by the game's fans over on The-Conclave.net.  If you're looking to talk to enthusiasts of the original game, this is the place to go!

Inq28 Subreddit - A great place to talk Inq28

Inquisimunda Fan Ruleset - A fan-made modification of the Necromunda rules to enable play with the kind of forces you'd find in Inquisitor

Dave Taylor Miniatures dot com - Home to the venerable Dave Taylor and, as the name would imply, his miniatures.  Check out his "The Art of..." series, linked to here!

Spiky Rat Pack - Great Inq28 blog

Iron Sleet - Another great Inq28 blog

Example of a Gelida: the Frozen Expanse Inq28 Project - Google "Inq28 Gelida" to find many more great examples

What the heck's a Kryomek?  Venerable wargamer David Moffit helps us answer this question, and more like "Was Kryomek a good game?" and "Do Kryomek's taste like chicken?" on this week's episode.   Also, Mr. Moffit discusses his Dark Age Immortals community event.   Come for aliens, stay for the dead games!

Useful Links

Scotia Grendel Website: Current owners of Kryomek, with the rules as free PDFs available for download.

Kryomek Space Time Interstice: Small, but passionate, Facebook group for Kryomek players.

Community Events

Dark Age After Dark @ DragonFall 2021: October 23rd in Lake Geneva, WI

"We can get this game picked back up; Blood Bowl did it!" is a refrain most players of dead games have heard before.  But what did the Blood Bowl community do to get GW to pick the up after 7 years of no support?  Nate Beem, president of the NAF (Blood Bowl tournament organization and very large Blood Bowl community) joins us to tell the story of how Blood Bowl became the most famous "resurrected" dead wargame and shares some tips on how other communities can move towards that.

Useful Links:

The NAF: International Blood Bowl tournament community, of which Nate is the president of.

4 Diamonds Cup Blood Bowl tournament: Large Blood Bowl tournament for charity coming up on the East Coast.  The rules pack can be found here.

Dead Wargamers Society Discord: Come join our community and talk about your favorite dead wargames!

Did you know that AEG made a miniature wargame to go with the Legends of the Five Rings collective card game and RPG?  Well, keep it on the down-low. We can't promote this episode too hard or we'll get sued by the Olympics.

Come learn about one of Chris' favorite games and an interesting bit of wargaming history.

Useful Links:

AEG L5R Clan War Facebook Group: Group with all the game's rules as free PDFs.

Dead Games Society's Unboxing of the Clan War Starter: What's in the box?  WHAT'S IN THE BOX?  Great Youtube channel unrelated to us, but swimming in the waters.  Definitely check out his other videos!

The summer of Rackham continues with a discussion on one of our all-time favorite games, Confrontation.  Kyle Gibson, moderator of the Confrontation 3.5 Fanatics Facebook group page and owner of Temple of the West studios, came by to help us give players unfamiliar with Confrontation a quick overview of the game.  He also had some great insights into the potential future for Confrontation!

We'll probably talk about Conf more in the future, but we wanted to give listeners the basics of the game so they can decide if something they'd be interested in checking out.

Useful Links:

Temple of the West - Kyle's studio, which is putting out some great models (the Legends line) for Relic Blade.  They'll also be dropping some inspired-by Confrontation models soon!

Confrontation Pils - A great resource for Confrontation cards and rules

Under the Mountain - A blog with some excellent studio shots of all of the Rackham miniatures

Confrontation 3.5 Fanatics Facebook Group - A great place to go and talk Confrontation!

Dead Wargamers Society Discord - Come chat with us on Discord!