Kickstarter: The Gift that Keeps On Giving... Disappointment

By CaulynDarr

Except for this, this was awesome.

Consider me off the Kickstarter train.  Two bits of news dropped pre-Gencon this week that pretty much invalidated all the little remaining value I still had out of two of my largest Kickstarter investments.

Dust Dramas Part XXVI

By CaulynDarr

And like sands of the hour glass, these are the days of our lives.

Dead game is dead at this point.  Last week Paolo sent out a message saying Dust Studios relationship status went from "It's Complicated" to "Single".  Battlefront took their time, but responded with a full salvo using American arty rules.

It looks like both sides are so far in the weeds they don't see their way out anymore.

First Stand Alone Star Wars Movie is Titled Rogue One

By CaulynDarr

Sorry to be flooding the blog with AWSOME today, but this could not be overlooked.  The first standalone Star Wars movie to come after Episode VII is a called Rogue One.  Given that everyone who's gone by Rogue 1 in the Star Wars universe has been a total bad-ass, I'm geeking out. Some actress named Felicity Jones has been cast in the lead role. I'm not familiar with her work, but I guess she's the future Rogue Leader.

Paul Allen Finds the Musashi with his Super Yacht

by CaulynDarr




The former MS co-founder and probably current super villain found one of the last great missing WWII wrecks,  Ya'know, if I had his money, that's most likely what I'd be doing.  In addition to launching rockets into space or something.  Oh, wait, he does that too... So cheers for him for living the dream.

Edit: There will be a live stream of the exploration tonight at 9 PM Eastern

Edit 2: Looks like the ship is in pretty bad shape.  Worse than the Yamato.  The bow and stern are intact, but most everything else in between has been disintegrated by magazine explosions.  They found the bridge tower mostly intact, so there's that.  Still a significant find.

Flames of War: Modern Combat?!

By CaulynDarr

Let's do this...

Battlefront just put out their state of the union update.  And it looks like they are finally doing a Cold War era NATO vs Warsaw Pact game.  In plastic!  It will be a full release with multiple books and is coming this October.

Scum and Villainy Shipping To Your LGS

by CaulynDarr

Scum and Villainy faction is shipping to retailers.  As a nice bonus, it looks like the Armada starter is on the boat, so we can look forward to that in a few weeks too.

And if you missed the last wave, you have a few hours to to get in on this deal from the miniature market.

Rankings HQ Is Shutting Down

by SandWyrm

Just got the news via email that Rankings HQ is calling it quits due to funding issues.

Gencon: Malifaux, Dust, Flames, Wargames Factory, & Games Workshop

by SandWyrm

Now that I'm back from 4 exhausting days at Gencon, I thought I'd start off by sharing some of the minis that each vendor was showing off.

Uberdark: the man, the mystery, the awesome(-ishness?)

by uberdark and farmpunk in white

Some of you folks will recall a sweet-looking orky army that's made it's way onto theBack40k via SandWyrm and Anonymous Foodie. We've refer to him by many names at the shop, but have referred to him as JB here on the back40k.

You've seen his work: I think I have some local painting competition

and in SandWyrm's Battle Report here: A fine Looking Battle

Milking the Rumor Mill

 by SandWyrm

It amazes me that people still fall for this crap.

New Recruit

by: farmpunk

I'm glad to announce the addition of another local Indy 40K blogger to the Back40K's fold:

Spankyourlatrine!.... errr Spunkguavataurine?!

Upcoming Rogue Trader Tourneys in Fort Wayne

by SandWyrm

   This is Eric Bemus from the 'Ard Boyz up in Kendalville.  I just wanted to pass along the word that there are a couple RTTs up here in Fort Wayne, and thought you could pass the word along to the gamers in your area.