Cast Dice Podcast

This week I am joined by the authors to discuss Warlord's awesome new tank game, Achtung Panzer!

This week I am joined by Rob, the mad genius behind the recent, massive Stalingrad Bolt Action game held down here in Victoria. We are also joined by the heads of the two opposing sides. Even if you are not a fan of big multiple participant games, this episode is a great listen because it is great to hear about what you can accomplish on the tabletop with a little research and some very clever thinking.

With Melbourne's next big Bolt Action event, Small Unit Tactics, around the corner, it is time to think about what army I am going to take as a player. This week I am joined by my old, and incredibly talented, friend Ben Llewellyn to unpack how the player pack for this event affected our listing choices and to discuss the lists we are planning to take on the day.

This week I am joined by the prolific and talented game designer Patrick Todoroff, the author of Zona Alfa, to discuss his newest Osprey Blue Book offering. When Nightmares Come is a solo/cooperative skirmish game where players investigate and battle supernatural mysteries and horrors in the modern world.

This week I am joined by the incredibly prolific and talented game designer, James Hewitt, to discuss Modiphius Entertainment's newest hottest game, Fallout Factions Nuka-World. Longtime listeners of the show will know how much Fallout means to me as a game and a universe and I am really excited to talk with James about how this new head to head skirmish game brings that rich and wild universe to life on the tabletop.

There have been a lot of people asking a lot of questions about Warlord's upcoming tank battle game, Achtung Panzer! We have heard you! Today we start a series of episodes to tell you all about this awesomely fun new game.

We have a bit of a treat for you on this episode of the Warlord Games Official Podcast. People often discuss a game's "meta" and what the hot units in a game are and they often discuss how that "meta" changes between countries and regions. Today I am joined by the Tournament Organiser and the winner of Australia's biggest Bolt Action event, Cancon, to closely examine the actual numbers and percentages of units taken and what this indicates for the Australian Meta as a whole. We also discuss what makes Bolt Action events special and why you, yes you, should be thinking about playing in them.

The Ghost Army guys are back to discuss how they went at Australia's biggest Bolt Action event, Cancon. We are also joined by Adam the winner of this year's Best Themed army and we discuss the event, our games and our big takeaways from this year's big show.

Fans of the cyberpunk genre and skirmish games rejoice! There is the perfect game for you on your local game store's shelves right now - Cyberpunk Red Combat Zone. This week I am joined by Mack Martin, the game's manager and author of its upcoming scenarios and expansions, to discuss the game and its future.

This week I am joined by author of Don't Look Back and Violent Dark to discuss his newest game by Black Site Studios, Breacher. An exciting new game of modern combat in the near future.

With the impending return of Warhammer Fantasy Battle with The Old World, I thought it would be interesting to look back to the start of it all with one of the people who created Warhammer, Rick Priestley. Please join us as we look at the history of Warhammer and Games Workshop.

WARHAMMER IS BACK!!!! As a long time fantasy battle player, I am very excited that one of my favourite games is back from the "dead." Joining me today is the one and only DaveOwaR to unpack what we like most, about what we have seen, about the newest version of our favourite rank and flank game.

The Ghost Army Podcast is BACK! AND we are going to Cancon in a few weeks to play Bolt Action together again too! In this episode Patch and Old Man Morin get together to discuss how they are preparing for Australia's biggest event.

It's a Christmas Miracle! CAST DICE IS BACK!!! For the grand return, I am joined by our old friend Peter West to address the topic "Is Bolt Action Stale?" that has been discussed on recent episodes of the HMG and Tabletop Tommies podcasts. We also dig into this year's Cancon Bolt Action event and how to prepare for it.

Episode 51 of the Warlord Games Official Podcast is out! Brad sits down with Andy Chambers and Gav Thorpe to talk about our newest 2000AD release, The ABC Warriors!

We love to talk about minor power forces in Bolt Action on this podcast and this we are talking about one of the least talked about armies in the game, the Dutch. This week we speak with Sander from May 40 miniatures about his upcoming range of great KNIL miniatures, and about the Dutch as a fighting force in WW2.

Cast Dice is back! This week we review the player pack for the upcoming Operation Bear 2023 event, discuss mission design and brainstorm some tips to help players improve their Bolt Action game play.

In this exciting, 50th episode of the Official Warlord Games podcast we are joined by the author of the Bolt Action's newest supplement. Together we explore why Campaign: Case Blue is the perfect accompaniment to the popular Stalingrad book and how it is a must have for Bolt Action players everywhere.

This week we discuss one of Bolt Action's truly international events, the World Open War event. Joining me on this episode is the Tournament organiser Russ, from the Southend on Sea Wargames Group and Marcus Vine from The Warlord Games Events team. It is a special event indeed for Warlord Games to partner with the organisers and we dig into why this event is such a big deal.

By popular request we are revisiting Hail Caesar on this episode of the Warlord Games Podcast and who better to speak with than the author of the game's newest expansion, Caesar's Gallic Wars. This new expansion of the game includes numerous army lists and over 40 new scenarios for you to play out on the tabletop. A tome worthy of Caesar indeed!

Welcome to the 200th episode of Cast Dice! In this very special episode, I discuss one of the game expansions that I have been looking forward to more than almost any other, maybe ever, the 80's Feature Pack expansion for 7TV! Joining me are the creative/design team behind this massive pack to talk about its many parts and the journey to its completion.

This week I am joined by experienced Finland player, Jonny, from The Tabletop Tommies Podcast. Together we discuss the Warlord Games Open Day before Jonny helps me to build a Finn list for an event that has unfortunately been cancelled. Although the event is not longer running, the insights and conversation are still valid so we decided to release this episode anyway. We hope that you enjoy it.

This week I am joined by our old friend Alistair Unicomb to discuss his epic gaming event/weekend The Megatron Cup. Megatron 3000 is an established and growing Bolt Action event that had an additional day of Blood Bowl added to its weekend this year. So many great take aways from this innovative and fun event that we can use in future events in other places. Well worth a listen!

In this episode I am joined by long-time Bolt Action Event Organiser, Peter West, to discuss what we, as gamers, really like about the Campaign Italy: Tough Gut book.

This week I am joined by Anthony from Traders Galaxy to discuss his hit indie game Bot War and his upcoming tabletop homage to 80's side-scrolling fighting video games, Beat Em Up!

This week I am joined by Tory from the Broheim website to discuss Mordheim and the longevity of GW's classic Specialist Games.

This week I am joined by Victoria from Victoria Miniatures to discuss Project Warhorse, The Rough Rider Miniatures project. Along the way we discuss miniature design and how it has evolved over time and Victoria's journey as a hobbyist and as a sculptor.

This week I am joined by Alex Van Allen, the author of Dead by Lead which is featured in issue five of the Blaster gaming publication. We discuss Blaster's new direction, trends in gaming and Dead by Lead's really fun, interesting and innovative rules.

This week I am joined by former White Dwarf Editor and manager of the Games Workshop Studio, Robin Dews, and former Citadel/Games Workshop Sales Director, John Stallard, to discuss their upcoming book Talking Miniatures. This two volume, 500 page labour of love tells the stories of close to twenty people from Games Workshop's "Golden Age." It tells the story of how GW changed the gaming industry from the ground up by the people who did it. In this episode, Robin and John share a few truly entertaining stories from the book and tell us what we can expect from this must-have tome.

Cast Dice is BACK!!! In this episode I am joined by Jordan Wiebe from Scale History SLC. We both ran "Megatron" Format Bolt Action events recently using the format created by our friend Alistair Unicomb for his event Megatron 3000. In this episode, Jordan and I discuss our events and how we found using this interesting and original event format.

On this episode of the The Official Warlord Games Podcast I am joined by Andy Chambers, the author of Blood Red Skies, to discuss the next expansion for the game, the Blood Red Skies Wing Commander Compendium. We discuss the history behind this style of book before diving in and talking about just some of the myriad of subjects covered in this epic tome.

This week I am joined by my good friend Jomane to "catch up." We talk about games that we are excited about, discuss some of the projects that we are working on and an event we both played in... all before getting to our main topic of conversation. Is it a good time to give Star Wars Legion another look?

Welcome back to The Warlord Games Official Podcast. Steve Morgan, the author of Pike & Shotte Epic Battles, joins us this week to explore this exciting shift in scale for this mainstay, long standing game in Warlord's stable. We discuss the refocussing of the game, time wise, and dig into the what makes this new version a must have for collectors and game enthusiasts alike.

This week I am joined by Jon Savage, the author of the newest Lardy game, and Richard from Too Fat Lardies to discuss What A Cowboy!

I am joined this week by one of our favourite guests on the show, Karl from Crooked Dice, to discuss the new 7TV Rulebook. We talk about the game itself, what you can expect from the book and what that means for the future of the game. We hit a lot of topics over this lengthy episode that will give fans of the game a lot to look forward to.

This week I am joined by one of my favourite game designers, Mike Hutchinson. You would know Mike as the author of Gaslands and A Billion Suns. Together we talk through Mike's passion game project, Hobgoblin. It is a miniatures agnostic, rank and flank game that is designed to be fast, fun and deadly... what else would you expect from the man who wrote "the rule of carnage!"

We are back after a much needed break with a general discussion around how you can play the British in Bolt Action both historically and competitively in Bolt Action. And while we do spend a lot of time talking about the British, we also spend a lot of time talking about Bolt Action in general. We have not had an analysis episode of the show in a while and I think this is an interesting one. We hope you like it!

Matt Sprange, the author of the exciting new expansion to the Judge Dredd game, joins us this week to dig into all things BLOCK WAR! We discuss how Block War takes the established 2000AD mechanics of the Judge Dredd game and takes them to a new level by allowing players to go beyond gang skirmishes. Instead, using this expansion, you can build entire block hab units and battle it out against your neighbours using new technological upgrades and the full might of residential blocks gone mad.

This week, Dave Hunsdale and I discuss our experiences at the successful Combat Patrol event. We discuss small scale Bolt Action, our lists, games and take aways. We also talk about the upcoming Conquest Bolt Action event run by the same team.

This week I am joined by the man behind a pile of fantastic games and the head of Footsore Miniatures, Andy Hobday, to discuss the Kickstarter for, and rules of Gangs Of Rome 2. This Kickstarter just went live and it is FLYING! Check it out!

By listener request, this week I work through the list writing process from start to finish with our old friend Alistair Unicomb. We start by examining the player pack for the upcoming Combat Patrol event. We then choose a nationality and work through the process until we had come up with two possible army lists for the event. Both of the lists written in this episode were submitted to the event and one is being used in next weekend's event.

This week I am joined by the TO of Frozen In Chosin to revisit a game that we have not talked about in years, Bolt Action Korea.

In this episode we are joined by one of the greats of game design, Rick Priestley, to discuss the new edition of Hail Caesar and dig into the new additions to the second edition book.

This week I am joined by Alex from the Australian Armour And Artillery Museum to discuss the Allied invasion of Sicily and how you can build a themed event to match a particular battle or series of battles from WW2.

In this episode I am joined by the organisers of the world's largest Grimdark Future event to discuss this exciting game by One Page Rules. No, this isn't 40K this is something different that I REALLY enjoy! As a panel, we talk about the game and the recent Warpling event where I was a player.

This week I am joined by an all star panel of tabletop gamers to discuss our favourite types of other, more accessible games... the traditional board game. Join us as we recommend twelve board games that you might enjoy and explain why you might like them!

By popular request, I am dividing deep into the top Bolt Action Lists at the biggest event in Australia, Cancon. I am joined by the players who played them, Aaron Russell and Jason Drane.

Having just come back from Australia's largest gaming convention, it was only natural to have our old friend Pete West on to debrief each other about our experiences. We talk about all the great games that we are looking forward to playing in 2023, we discuss Cancon as a whole and what we saw there and we dig into the respective gaming events that we played in, Bolt Action and Marvel Crisis Protocol.

This week I am joined by the author of Scouts Out, an exciting new WW1 Trench Fighting skirmish game.

Happy New Year! This week I am speaking with the organizers of this year's Codswallop and MOAB Bolt Action events to dig into how to effectively scale down Bolt Action for smaller point games so that it is still fun and fair to play. We also chat about the events and what the organizers learned that they can apply when running events going into the future.