The Hub Systems Episode 16 - Firestorm stats for Taskforce ships

A very belated episode, recorded on time but issues with editing, quitting my job, work on the new house etc have all added to the delays here. Apologies to co-hosts Matt, Josh & Fred who joined Oscar and I to talk for a long time about a lot of things!

The Hub Systems Episode 15 - Firestorm Armada v3.0?

So after a sneak preview into the future, Spartan Neil mentioned the working of v3 of our beloved space combat game, Firestorm Armada. Here we speculate about what we'd want to change and preserve....

The Hub Systems Episode 12 - The Firestorm Metagame North America

After a break for Christmas and the New Year, we bring you our pre-Christmas recording of the Hub Systems Podcast which deals with the FA Metagame. We invite Phil Johnson of Firebase Delta, Josh Linde of The Waygate and Nathan Pullan of Jaded Gamercast in to give us a perspective from over "The Pond" and contrast with the UK.

Enjoy!

The Hub Systems Podcast Episode 11 - Systems Wars Part 2

So after a week off due to illness, we return with the second and concluding part of our System Wars roundup, plus the second instalment of our new regular feature "Hit or Miss" - enjoy!

The Hub Systems Podcast Episode 8 - Reading Warfare

Episode 8 is now live...

Holding Pattern

Hi All,

Just to let you know that The Hub Systems will be a little delayed this week due to our ISP not providing us with broadband until today...apologies and we'll be speaking to you all soon!

The Hub Systems Episode 6 - Playing Cthulhu Wars

Moving house has been disruptive, but we recorded in advance...unfortunately our ISP still hasn't sorted out our fibre broadband, so hence the late Blog post...

The Hub Systems Episode 5 - Planetfall

A little later than intended due to some technical issues and the fact we're in the middle of packing, here's Episode 5 where Dan Bird of Slayer games joins us for a discussion of Spartan Games Planetfall.

The Hub Systems Episode 4 - Strange Aeons & Cthulhu Wars

Well it's quite a picture-heavy post today, first up are some of the minis we've painted for Strange Aeons v2. First up is a Werewolf I put up on Facebook a week or so back;

I also starter this skeleton dude who I've played as an Ancient Warrior...basework done, all the shading and detail to go!

Next is Oscars newest Threshold agent...he's not done a bad job at all!

Plus his rather flamboyant character....

For me next is the Shapeless Thing...though this was actually the last thing I painted...first up meeting Oscar's new Agent!

And then I've a large worm where I wanted to illustrate how easy it is to create a decent looking mini for SAv2. Here's a reaper worm that cost less than £2, primed in auto primer;

Next a basecoat - normally I'd spray this but as the weather has been crappy and it doesn't really make a difference, I brushed this one;

Then it's a coat of Army Painter Strong Tone;

And then drybrushing;

A drybrush around the mouth with pink, then red for the inside and detail painting the teeth...took about 20 minutes excluding the drying time for the Strong Tone.

The we come to the nerdfest that is Cthulhu Wars...

Note the HUGE box...6.3kg (14lbs)! You can see my Threshold character dwarfed by it...

You get lots inside, but I'll lay examples out here in the order we did the unboxing in;

The Great Old Ones...(and some Dark Young!)

Cthulhu...."Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"

Nyarlathotep - love this guy...damned if I can say his name though!

Sub-Niggurath

Dark Young...it's behind you!

Hastur

Night Gaunt

 The King in Yellow....Have you seen the Yellow Sign?

Hunting Horror

Flying Polyp

Fungi from Yuggoth (but suspiciously like a Mi-Go to us!) 

Byakhee

Shoggoth

Star Spawn

Undead

Cultist

Ghoul (not a Ghast as we thought on the podcast!)

Deep One

Some little marker things!

I'll put another post up with more pictures

The Hub Systems Podcast Episode 3

Yes, Episode 3 is upon us!

The Hub Systems Episode 2 - Firestorm Armada Part 2

A quick lunchbreak update to broadcast Episode 2 of The Hub Systems, will update later with some of the links and images we mention on the show....


Here's the link to Reading Warfare

http://www.wargamesassociationreading.co.uk/

One to Soma;

http://somagame.com/

Prometheus;

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446714/

The Leftovers;

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2699128/

Strange Aeons;

http://strange-aeons.ca/sa/

Her are my Threshold characters...mid-painting (don't judge me!)...this taken shortly before they got their asses handed to them...

And here's Oscars crew...

This taken after I ripped them to shreds. The Indiana Jones dude on the left now has a chest wound, is a basket case and has a fear of being touched after a rather nasty encounter with a Leng Spider....

The Hub Systems Episode 1 - Firestorm Armada

Well The Hub Systems Episode 0 seems to have gone down well - thank you all for your supportive messages and positive comments, it's really nice to see! This time we're talking about Firestorm Armada, why we enjoy it, it's background and play style, models and races.

The Hub Systems Episode 0

I've toyed with the idea of a podcast for a while now, and today we finally took the plunge...here is Episode 0 of The Hub Systems podcast, put out there for you perusal and critique...

Enjoy!